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Carnegie Mellon University

In research, Carnegie Mellon University stands highest in Computer Science (#7 of 4,417 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#11 of 1,862 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#67 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Human-Computer Interaction and Hardware and Architecture (Software is 9.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#115
of 22,385 · #91 all time
Rank in United States
#37
of 3,332
Research works
83k
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.2M
50.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.37×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Carnegie Mellon University

What is Carnegie Mellon University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #7 of 4,417 16.0%2,815 #4
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #11 of 1,862 15.0%1,077 #8
Physical SciencesDomain #67 of 10,670 14.9%5,854 #62
Social SciencesDomain #102 of 9,585 15.9%1,677 #72
Information SystemsSubfield #17 of 1,321 17.1%259 #7
EngineeringField #79 of 5,901 14.0%1,747 #50
Human-Computer InteractionSubfield #1 of 72 22.1%131 #3
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #19 of 963 18.0%480 #9
Social SciencesField #158 of 5,988 17.5%693 #137
Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield #26 of 804 15.6%237 #24

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Carnegie Mellon University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Computer Science#4 #7
  2. Artificial Intelligence#8 #11
  3. Physical Sciences#62 #67
  4. Social Sciences#72 #102
  5. Information Systems#7 #17
  6. Engineering#50 #79
  7. Human-Computer Interaction#3 #1
  8. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#9 #19
  9. Social Sciences#137 #158
  10. Control and Systems Engineering#24 #26
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Carnegie Mellon University work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at Carnegie Mellon University is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (33%), Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6,593 fractional works · 67.0% of its workComputer Science: 3,207 fractional works · 32.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1,255 fractional works · 12.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 538 fractional works · 5.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 309 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 295 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 217 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 149 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSignal Processing: 144 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 106 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHardware and Architecture: 81 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoftware: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 53 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 1,917 fractional works · 19.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 338 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 286 fractional works · 2.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 257 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 237 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 132 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 131 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 113 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 99 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 78 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 60 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 48 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 42 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 352 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 96 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 77 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 74 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 49 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 322 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 213 fractional works · 2.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 44 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 21 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 45 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 277 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 110 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Mathematics: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNumerical Analysis: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 212 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 42 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 41 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 39 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 90 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 117 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 66 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 51 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 85 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 38 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 76 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 63 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 28 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,913 fractional works · 19.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 782 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 294 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSafety Research: 117 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 76 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 68 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 45 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 124 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychology: 372 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 130 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 91 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 90 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 248 fractional works · 2.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 145 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 66 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 202 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 64 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 155 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 115 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 154 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 41 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 65 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 801 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 387 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 265 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGenetics: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 28 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 21 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 330 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 252 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 48 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 57 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 536 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMedicine: 433 fractional works · 4.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 49 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 48 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 34 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 158 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 92 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 43 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCarnegie MellonUniversity9,843fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences19%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science3,20732.6%
    2. Engineering1,91719.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy3523.6%
    4. Materials Science3223.3%
    5. Mathematics2772.8%
    6. Environmental Science2122.2%
    7. Chemistry1171.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences850.9%
    9. Energy760.8%
    10. Chemical Engineering280.3%
  2. Social Sciences1,91319.4%
    1. Social Sciences7827.9%
    2. Psychology3723.8%
    3. Decision Sciences2482.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2022.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1551.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities1541.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3873.9%
    2. Neuroscience3303.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences570.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology200.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.1%
    1. Medicine4334.4%
    2. Health Professions920.9%
    3. Nursing70.1%
    4. Dentistry30.0%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Carnegie Mellon University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Software takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 58.6 works9.3×
  2. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 149.3 works7.3×
  3. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 81.1 works7.3×
  4. Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 53.4 works6.6×
  5. Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 22.3 works5.7×
  6. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 1,255.4 works5.3×
  7. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 110.3 works5.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 57 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 387 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.07× its world share, 330 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.80× its world share, 28 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.76× its world share, 117 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.19× its world share, 3,207 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 85 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.84× its world share, 76 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.30× its world share, 1,917 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.43× its world share, 212 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.94× its world share, 322 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.39× its world share, 277 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.61× its world share, 352 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.35× its world share, 92 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 433 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 154 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.64× its world share, 202 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.60× its world share, 248 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.74× its world share, 155 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.24× its world share, 372 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 782 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.19×3,207 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.60×248 works
  3. Mathematics2.39×277 works
  4. Neuroscience2.07×330 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.61×352 works
  6. Engineering1.30×1,917 works
  7. Psychology1.24×372 works
  8. Materials Science0.94×322 works
  9. Energy0.84×76 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.80×28 works
  11. Chemistry0.76×117 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.74×387 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.74×155 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.64×202 works
  15. Social Sciences0.63×782 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.55×85 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.54×154 works
  18. Environmental Science0.43×212 works
  19. Health Professions0.35×92 works
  20. Medicine0.23×433 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×7 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×20 works
  23. Nursing0.15×7 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×57 works
  25. Veterinary0.08×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.07×3 works

Who are the top researchers at Carnegie Mellon University?

Ranked on the quality score, George F. Loewenstein, Ignacio E. Grossmann and Rongchao Jin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Carnegie Mellon University.

  1. 1 George F. Loewenstein United States · #1,548 worldwide 105k citations · 698 works
  2. 2 Ignacio E. Grossmann United States · #1,649 worldwide 55k citations · 943 works
  3. 3 Rongchao Jin United States · #1,743 worldwide 69k citations · 520 works
  4. 4 John Anthony Pople United States · #2,847 worldwide 202k citations · 611 works
  5. 5 Deva Ramanan United States · #3,063 worldwide 86k citations · 336 works
  6. 6 Daniel S. Nagin United States · #3,912 worldwide 55k citations · 334 works
  7. 7 Abhinav Gupta United States · #5,563 worldwide 39k citations · 222 works
  8. 8 Onur Mutlu United States · #5,670 worldwide 44k citations · 835 works
  9. 9 Michael F. Scheier United States · #6,066 worldwide 89k citations · 262 works
  10. 10 Gregory Victor Lowry United States · #6,363 worldwide 40k citations · 368 works
All ranked researchers at Carnegie Mellon University

What are the most cited papers from Carnegie Mellon University?

The most cited paper from Carnegie Mellon University is "Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation" (Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal, 1990), with 35,497 citations. Next come "A Global Measure of Perceived Stress" (33,209) and "Learning representations by back-propagating errors" (32,003).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal · Administrative Science Quarterly Mar 1990 35,497
2 A Global Measure of Perceived Stress Sheldon Cohen, Tom Kamarck, Robin J. Mermelstein · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Dec 1983 33,209
3 Learning representations by back-propagating errors David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ronald J. Williams · Nature Oct 1986 32,003
4 Self-consistent molecular orbital methods. XX. A basis set for correlated wave functions Raghavachari Krishnan, J. Stephen Binkley, Rolf Seeger et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics 1980 17,828
5 Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. Sheldon Cohen, Thomas A. Wills · Psychological Bulletin Sep 1985 17,584
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Carnegie Mellon University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Big Data, Multi-Agent Systems, Information Retrieval, Text Classification and Topic Modeling.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning1,138▲ 3.4×82 topics
  2. Machine Learning886▲ 2.7×86 topics
  3. Neural Networks634▲ 4.2×38 topics
  4. Big Data276▲ 2.9×27 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence270▲ 1.93×47 topics
  6. Convolutional Neural Networks208▲ 2.9×14 topics
  7. Data Mining166▲ 2.3×20 topics
  8. Information Retrieval156▲ 7.3×5 topics
  9. Surveillance156▲ 5.7×6 topics
  10. Multi-Agent Systems151▲ 8.0×6 topics
  11. Text Classification147▲ 9.2×3 topics
  12. Topic Modeling145▲ 9.6×3 topics
  13. Security141▲ 2.1×24 topics
  14. Machine Translation138▲ 8.4×2 topics
  15. Semantic Similarity137▲ 11×1 topic
  16. Word Representation137▲ 11×1 topic
  17. Autonomous Vehicles135▲ 6.6×5 topics
  18. Deep Neural Networks130▲ 11×3 topics
  19. Robotics125▲ 5.2×9 topics
  20. Corpus Linguistics118▲ 5.7×4 topics
  21. Distributed Systems110▲ 6.5×6 topics
  22. Approximation Algorithms106▲ 15×5 topics
  23. Reinforcement Learning106▲ 9.4×4 topics
  24. Collision Avoidance103▲ 5.8×4 topics
  25. Neural Machine Translation102▲ 11×1 topic
  26. Statistical Machine Translation102▲ 11×1 topic
  27. Unsupervised Learning102▲ 6.8×3 topics
  28. Fairness100▲ 9.8×2 topics
  29. Anomaly Detection98▲ 3.5×5 topics
  30. Discrimination93▲ 4.5×7 topics
  31. Representation Learning92▲ 5.9×3 topics
  32. Accountability90▲ 7.2×4 topics
  33. Transparency89▲ 6.3×3 topics
  34. Algorithmic Bias87▲ 10×1 topic
  35. Semi-Supervised Learning84▲ 7.0×3 topics
  36. Model Checking83▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Convolutional Networks78▲ 5.8×3 topics
  38. Convex Optimization77▲ 9.3×5 topics
  39. Mobile Robots77▲ 8.1×3 topics
  40. Gesture Recognition73▲ 9.9×3 topics

Which research topics does Carnegie Mellon University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications.

Topic Modeling137Topic Modeling: 137 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 102 fractional worksEthics and Social Impact…87Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 87 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…65Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 65 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 64 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and Learning: 58 fractional worksReinforcement Learning i…56Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: 56 fractional worksExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 54 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 54 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Res…52Software Engineering Research: 52 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceSafety ResearchComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionControl and Systems Engineering1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 137 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 102 works
  3. 3 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 87 works
  4. 4 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 65 works
  5. 5 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 64 works
  6. 6 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 58 works
  7. 7 Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Artificial Intelligence 56 works
  8. 8 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 54 works
  9. 9 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 54 works
  10. 10 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 52 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available32.9%not open67.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Carnegie Mellon University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Carnegie Mellon University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.038% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Carnegie Mellon University0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Carnegie Mellon University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Carnegie Mellon University13.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 23.0% in 2007.

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Which institutions have research most like Carnegie Mellon University's?

Among the world's leading institutions, The University of Texas at Dallas has the research profile closest to Carnegie Mellon University's, with both strong in Computer Science.

  1. 1 The University of Texas at DallasUnited States · Both strong in Computer Science, Neuroscience, Decision Sciences 0.92 Compare
  2. 2 Northeastern UniversityUnited States · Both strong in Computer Science, Neuroscience, Decision Sciences 0.90 Compare
  3. 3 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Both strong in Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Engineering 0.89 Compare
  4. 4 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Both strong in Computer Science, Decision Sciences, Mathematics 0.89 Compare
  5. 5 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands · Both strong in Computer Science, Decision Sciences, Physics and Astronomy 0.88 Compare

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