Question 1

What is Cornell University known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Cornell University stands highest in Health Sciences (#8 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#8 of 8,541 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#10 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Equine, Structural Biology and Developmental Biology (Equine is 9.9× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Cornell University rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Cornell University ranks #12 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#8 all time), and #4 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Cornell University?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, P. Kumar, Edward S. Buckler and Michael Boyle lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cornell University.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Cornell University?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Cornell University is "“Mini-mental state”" (Marshal F. Folstein, Susan E. Folstein, Paul R. McHugh, 1975), with 87,598 citations. Next come "A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation" (50,676) and "Densely Connected Convolutional Networks" (45,976).

Question 5

Which research topics does Cornell University publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, CAR-T cell therapy research and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Cornell University?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Climate Change, Diagnosis, Treatment, Oxidative Stress and Cancer.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Cornell University work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 38% of research at Cornell University is in Health Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (34%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Cornell University's?

Accepted Answer

University of California, Davis has the research profile closest to Cornell University's (similarity 0.86 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Veterinary, followed by University of Wisconsin–Madison and University College Dublin.

Question 9

Is Cornell University's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021.