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Cornell University

In research, Cornell University stands highest in Life Sciences (#15 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#26 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#23 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Equine, General Decision Sciences and Developmental Biology — Equine is 8.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#31
of 28,054 · #9 all time
Rank in United States
#5
of 4,192
Research works
200k
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
9.1M
45.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is Cornell University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #15 of 7,800 27.9%4,017 #13
Health SciencesDomain #26 of 11,982 21.1%5,888 #22
MedicineField #23 of 10,443 20.9%5,208 #27
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #9 of 3,579 26.3%1,939 #8
Social SciencesDomain #34 of 10,521 23.7%4,501 #14
Physical SciencesDomain #75 of 12,888 23.1%6,021 #11
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #18 of 2,578 28.0%726 #17
Molecular BiologySubfield #17 of 2,175 26.5%1,070 #17
PsychologyField #21 of 2,181 25.5%728 #17
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #33 of 3,409 31.7%1,215 #3

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Cornell 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#13 #15
  2. Health Sciences#22 #26
  3. Medicine#27 #23
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#8 #9
  5. Social Sciences#14 #34
  6. Physical Sciences#11 #75
  7. Sociology and Political Science#17 #18
  8. Molecular Biology#17 #17
  9. Psychology#17 #21
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#3 #33
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Cornell University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Equine takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EquineSubfield · 23.2 works8.8×
  2. General Decision SciencesSubfield · 23.2 works6.0×
  3. Developmental BiologySubfield · 26.0 works5.7×
  4. VeterinaryField · 99.3 works3.6×
  5. TransplantationSubfield · 28.7 works3.1×
  6. Small AnimalsSubfield · 76.0 works3.0×
← 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: 1.25× its world share, 1,215 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.78× its world share, 1,938 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.81× its world share, 372 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.36× its world share, 452 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.53× its world share, 38 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.54× its world share, 39 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.82× its world share, 262 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.77× its world share, 1,229 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 313 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 90 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.55× its world share, 1,682 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.89× its world share, 908 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.67× its world share, 478 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.14× its world share, 273 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.65× its world share, 748 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 22 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.84× its world share, 450 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.33× its world share, 5,208 worksMedicineNursing: 1.08× its world share, 108 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.58× its world share, 99 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.97× its world share, 571 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 401 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.36× its world share, 269 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.20× its world share, 523 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.17× its world share, 728 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 2,008 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Cornell University?

Ranked on the composite score, Serge Belongie, Hans A. Bethe and Saul A. Teukolsky lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cornell University.

  1. 1 Serge Belongie United States · #143 worldwide 14k citations · 117 works
  2. 2 Hans A. Bethe United States · #371 worldwide 3.1k citations · 120 works
  3. 3 Saul A. Teukolsky United States · #446 worldwide 8.4k citations · 102 works
  4. 4 Thomas J. Walsh United States · #721 worldwide 2.3k citations · 119 works
  5. 5 Jon Kleinberg United States · #951 worldwide 3.1k citations · 119 works
  6. 6 N. David Mermin United States · #1,111 worldwide 2.1k citations · 120 works
  7. 7 Richard Swedberg United States · #1,394 worldwide 1.4k citations · 107 works
  8. 8 Ronald G. Crystal United States · #1,621 worldwide 1.7k citations · 163 works
  9. 9 Michael E. Fisher United States · #1,720 worldwide 2.5k citations · 105 works
  10. 10 Thorsten Joachims United States · #1,964 worldwide 4.2k citations · 78 works
All ranked researchers at Cornell University

Which keywords describe research at Cornell University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Machine Learning, Oxidative Stress, Globalization and Cancer.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology954▲ 1.18×135 topics
  2. Climate Change687▲ 1.25×110 topics
  3. Machine Learning530▼ 0.79×88 topics
  4. Inflammation489◆ 1.15×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning469▼ 0.67×81 topics
  6. Globalization410◆ 1.02×135 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress395▲ 1.18×62 topics
  8. Sustainability357▼ 0.72×108 topics
  9. Cancer343▲ 1.25×57 topics
  10. Immunotherapy309▲ 2.1×19 topics
  11. Quality of Life302◆ 1.02×54 topics
  12. Public Health295◆ 0.99×60 topics
  13. Treatment277◆ 1.12×51 topics
  14. Mental Health265◆ 0.88×44 topics
  15. Risk Factors248◆ 1.10×36 topics
  16. Diagnosis236▲ 1.24×41 topics
  17. Chemotherapy234▲ 1.64×25 topics
  18. Clinical Trials225▲ 1.64×19 topics
  19. Biodiversity221▲ 1.45×33 topics
  20. Cardiovascular Disease219◆ 0.97×38 topics
  21. Biomarkers210▲ 1.50×18 topics
  22. Depression198◆ 1.11×26 topics
  23. Obesity181▲ 1.17×26 topics
  24. Gene Expression181▲ 1.46×20 topics
  25. Invasive Species180▲ 2.1×21 topics
  26. Immune Response175▲ 1.51×23 topics
  27. Genetics173▲ 1.21×27 topics
  28. Regulation173▲ 1.57×26 topics
  29. Neurological Disorders172▲ 1.48×20 topics
  30. Prognostic Factors170▲ 1.91×14 topics
  31. Tumor Microenvironment162▲ 1.79×8 topics
  32. Colonialism154▲ 1.59×41 topics
  33. Precision Medicine148▲ 1.55×8 topics
  34. Genetic Mutations148▲ 1.67×23 topics
  35. Targeted Therapy130▲ 2.9×5 topics
  36. Genomics126▲ 2.1×13 topics
  37. Habitat Fragmentation120▲ 2.7×5 topics
  38. Global Change117▲ 2.2×7 topics
  39. Emotion116▲ 2.7×12 topics
  40. Cancer Immunotherapy101▲ 3.2×3 topics

Which research topics does Cornell University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Plant and animal studies, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…66Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 66 fractional worksPlant and animal studies63Plant and animal studies: 63 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 56 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 55 fractional worksReproductive Biology and Fertility: 47 fractional worksCRISPR and Genetic Engineering: 46 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 45 fractional worksEthics and Social Impact…41Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 41 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 40 fractional worksRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms: 40 fractional works
OncologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsCancer ResearchPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 66 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 63 works
  3. 3 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 56 works
  4. 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 55 works
  5. 5 Reproductive Biology and Fertility Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 47 works
  6. 6 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 46 works
  7. 7 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 45 works
  8. 8 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 41 works
  9. 9 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 40 works
  10. 10 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 40 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 available34.6%not open65.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.6%domestic only85.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Cornell University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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