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Meta (United States)

In research, Meta (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#324 of 4,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,141 of 10,670 worldwide) and Artificial Intelligence (#374 of 1,862 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Computer Networks and Communications is 7.0× its share of world research).

meta.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#1,665
of 22,385 · #1,130 all time
Rank in United States
#331
of 3,332
Research works
2.8k
▼ 57% vs 2018-21
Citations
226k
81.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.33×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
55%
world 40%
International
44%
world 18%
Meta (United States)

What is Meta (United States) 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 #324 of 4,417 17.3%257 #216
Physical SciencesDomain #1,141 of 10,670 16.6%379 #874
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #374 of 1,862 22.9%83 #214
EngineeringField #1,276 of 5,901 15.9%90 #1242
Social SciencesDomain #3,221 of 9,585 12.0%121 #1830

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Meta (United States) 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#216 #324
  2. Physical Sciences#874 #1,141
  3. Artificial Intelligence#214 #374
  4. Engineering#1,242 #1,276
  5. Social Sciences#1,830 #3,221
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 Meta (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at Meta (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 21% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (45%), Engineering (15%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 424 fractional works · 66.7% of its workComputer Science: 289 fractional works · 45.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 96 fractional works · 15.1% of its workInformation Systems: 53 fractional works · 8.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 47 fractional works · 7.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 40 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSignal Processing: 16 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSoftware: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHardware and Architecture: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 98 fractional works · 15.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 44 fractional works · 6.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedia Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 131 fractional works · 20.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 54 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 20 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 24 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 22 fractional works · 3.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 15 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 54 fractional works · 8.5% of its workMedicine: 43 fractional works · 6.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 26 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMeta (UnitedStates)636fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences21%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science28945.4%
    2. Engineering9815.4%
    3. Environmental Science101.6%
    4. Mathematics91.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy81.2%
    6. Materials Science61.0%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.3%
    8. Energy10.2%
    9. Chemistry10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences548.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting243.8%
    3. Decision Sciences223.5%
    4. Psychology121.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance111.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities81.3%
    1. Medicine436.8%
    2. Health Professions101.6%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology121.9%
    2. Neuroscience101.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Meta (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Networks and Communications takes 7.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 39.5 works7.0×
  2. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 96.3 works6.3×
  3. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 47.0 works5.9×
  4. Computer ScienceField · 288.8 works5.8×
← 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: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.36× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.01× its world share, 10 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.84× its world share, 289 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.03× its world share, 98 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.21× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.54× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.60× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.35× its world share, 43 worksMedicineNursing: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.45× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.18× its world share, 24 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.64× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.79× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.64× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 54 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.84×289 works
  2. Decision Sciences3.64×22 works
  3. Mathematics1.21×9 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.18×24 works
  5. Engineering1.03×98 works
  6. Neuroscience1.01×10 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.79×11 works
  8. Social Sciences0.67×54 works
  9. Psychology0.64×12 works
  10. Health Professions0.60×10 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.54×8 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.45×8 works
  13. Veterinary0.39×0 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.36×12 works
  15. Medicine0.35×43 works
  16. Environmental Science0.33×10 works
  17. Materials Science0.28×6 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.20×2 works
  19. Energy0.20×1 works
  20. Nursing0.20×1 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×1 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.09×3 works
  24. Chemistry0.08×1 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Meta (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Dhruba Borthakur, Cameron Marlow and Satish Chandra lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Meta (United States).

  1. 1 Dhruba Borthakur United States · #129,139 worldwide 5.6k citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Cameron Marlow United States · #137,745 worldwide 11k citations · 43 works
  3. 3 Satish Chandra United States · #164,158 worldwide 3.1k citations · 93 works
  4. 4 Adam D. I. Kramer United States · #231,776 worldwide 8.7k citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Mark Tygert United States · #355,657 worldwide 3.5k citations · 85 works
  6. 6 Farshad Kooti United States · #528,083 worldwide 1.2k citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Ali Israr United States · #626,737 worldwide 4.2k citations · 102 works
  8. 8 Nils Wernerfelt United States · #631,864 worldwide 1.5k citations · 54 works
  9. 9 Shangchen Han United States · #638,202 worldwide 663 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Sriram Sankar United States · #778,880 worldwide 410 citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at Meta (United States)

What are the most cited papers from Meta (United States)?

The most cited paper from Meta (United States) is "Deep learning" (Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey E. Hinton, 2015), with 84,939 citations. Next come "Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks" (55,999) and "Densely Connected Convolutional Networks" (45,976).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Deep learning Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey E. Hinton · Nature Open access 26 May 2015 84,939
2 Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 6 Jun 2016 55,999
3 Densely Connected Convolutional Networks Gao Ming Huang, Zhuang Liu, Laurens van der Maaten et al. Conference paper Jul 2017 45,976
4 Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection Tsung-Yi Lin, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick et al. Conference paper Jul 2017 29,985
5 Mask R-CNN Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari, Piotr Dollár et al. Conference paperOpen access Oct 2017 29,752
All 56 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Meta (United States)?

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

▲ 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 Learning113▲ 5.1×69 topics
  2. Neural Networks68▲ 6.9×30 topics
  3. Machine Learning60▲ 2.8×61 topics
  4. Big Data28▲ 4.5×21 topics
  5. Distributed Systems21▲ 20×6 topics
  6. Convolutional Neural Networks20▲ 4.4×11 topics
  7. Information Retrieval18▲ 13×5 topics
  8. Social Media17▲ 1.89×23 topics
  9. Energy Efficiency17▲ 2.8×18 topics
  10. Text Classification16▲ 15×3 topics
  11. Topic Modeling15▲ 15×3 topics
  12. Representation Learning15▲ 15×3 topics
  13. Data Mining14▲ 3.1×11 topics
  14. Machine Translation14▲ 14×2 topics
  15. Semantic Similarity14▲ 18×1 topic
  16. Word Representation14▲ 18×1 topic
  17. Collaborative Filtering14▲ 61×1 topic
  18. Matrix Factorization14▲ 61×1 topic
  19. Cloud Computing14▲ 7.6×8 topics
  20. Security13▲ 3.1×16 topics
  21. Semi-Supervised Learning13▲ 16×3 topics
  22. Deep Neural Networks12▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Anomaly Detection12▲ 6.7×4 topics
  24. Resource Management12▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Parallel Computing11▲ 15×4 topics
  26. Virtualization11▲ 21×2 topics
  27. Unsupervised Learning10▲ 10×3 topics
  28. Convex Optimization10▲ 18×4 topics
  29. High-Performance Computing9▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Surveillance9▲ 5.1×5 topics
  31. Hyperparameter Optimization9▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Wireless Networks8▲ 8.9×9 topics
  33. Data Centers8▲ 21×1 topic
  34. Heterogeneous Networks8▲ 12×2 topics
  35. MapReduce8▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Graph Convolutional Networks8▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Meta-Learning8▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Convolutional Networks8▲ 9.1×3 topics
  39. Neural Machine Translation8▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Statistical Machine Translation8▲ 13×1 topic

Which research topics does Meta (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Topic Modeling14Topic Modeling: 14 fractional worksRecommender Systems and Techniques: 14 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 8 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 8 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 7 fractional worksSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques: 7 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…7Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Networks: 6 fractional worksSoftware System Performance and Reliability: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …6Advanced Neural Network Applications: 6 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsSoftwareComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition1 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 14 works
  2. 2 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 14 works
  3. 3 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 8 works
  4. 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  5. 5 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 7 works
  6. 6 Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software 7 works
  7. 7 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  8. 8 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  9. 9 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 6 works
  10. 10 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 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 available54.8%not open45.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.5%domestic only55.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Meta (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Meta (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Meta (United States)0.0022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Meta (United States) 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 counting20%40%60%Meta (United States)12.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 42.0% in 2010.

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What does Meta AI publish research on?

In research, Meta (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#324 of 4,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,141 of 10,670 worldwide) and Artificial Intelligence (#374 of 1,862 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Computer Networks and Communications is 7.0× its share of world research).

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