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Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

In research, Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) stands highest in Computer Science (#62 of 4,667 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#992 of 12,888 worldwide) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (#76 of 941 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing — Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 10.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,475
of 28,054 · #828 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#61
of 1,094
Research works
6.8k
▼ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
683k
100.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
35.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) 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
Computer ScienceField #62 of 4,667 37.6%443 #23
Physical SciencesDomain #992 of 12,888 35.6%573 #604
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #76 of 941 46.2%96 #23
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #214 of 1,884 35.7%184 #43
EngineeringField #2,042 of 6,636 27.2%92 #1140
Social SciencesDomain #3,376 of 10,521 38.1%104 #1355

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) 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. Computer Science#23 #62
  2. Physical Sciences#604 #992
  3. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#23 #76
  4. Artificial Intelligence#43 #214
  5. Engineering#1,140 #2,042
  6. Social Sciences#1,355 #3,376
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 Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 10.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 96.3 works10×
  2. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 183.8 works10×
  3. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 21.8 works9.8×
  4. Computer ScienceField · 442.8 works7.7×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.44× its world share, 17 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 9 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 7.74× its world share, 443 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.83× its world share, 92 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.30× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.75× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.65× its world share, 11 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.70× its world share, 17 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.15× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.48× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.61× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 38 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)?

Ranked on the composite score, Pushmeet Kohli, Luca Cardelli and Jianfeng Gao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Microsoft Research (United Kingdom).

  1. 1 Pushmeet Kohli · #1,147 worldwide 3.5k citations · 99 works
  2. 2 Luca Cardelli · #2,467 worldwide 1.6k citations · 88 works
  3. 3 Jianfeng Gao · #4,161 worldwide 2k citations · 66 works
  4. 4 Antonio Criminisi · #5,542 worldwide 1.9k citations · 60 works
  5. 5 Chris Bishop · #6,491 worldwide 1.1k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Thore Graepel · #6,727 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
  7. 7 Stephen Robertson · #7,677 worldwide 1.9k citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Tim Harris · #11,068 worldwide 1.2k citations · 92 works
  9. 9 Kenton O’Hara · #11,278 worldwide 839 citations · 51 works
  10. 10 Andrew Fitzgibbon · #16,271 worldwide 811 citations · 60 works
All ranked researchers at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

Which keywords describe research at Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Big Data, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Topic Modeling and Machine Translation.

▲ 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. Deep Learning155▲ 6.2×68 topics
  2. Neural Networks99▲ 8.8×30 topics
  3. Machine Learning90▲ 3.7×66 topics
  4. Big Data43▲ 6.5×17 topics
  5. Information Retrieval33▲ 21×4 topics
  6. Convolutional Neural Networks32▲ 6.0×13 topics
  7. Text Classification31▲ 27×3 topics
  8. Topic Modeling31▲ 28×2 topics
  9. Machine Translation30▲ 24×2 topics
  10. Semantic Similarity29▲ 33×1 topic
  11. Word Representation29▲ 33×1 topic
  12. Artificial Intelligence27▲ 2.6×23 topics
  13. Distributed Systems26▲ 21×6 topics
  14. Corpus Linguistics26▲ 16×2 topics
  15. Neural Machine Translation26▲ 36×1 topic
  16. Statistical Machine Translation26▲ 36×1 topic
  17. Unsupervised Learning26▲ 25×3 topics
  18. Representation Learning22▲ 22×3 topics
  19. Security22▲ 4.6×16 topics
  20. Cloud Computing20▲ 9.7×6 topics
  21. Data Mining19▲ 3.5×11 topics
  22. Energy Efficiency19▲ 2.7×13 topics
  23. Convolutional Networks19▲ 18×3 topics
  24. Semi-Supervised Learning18▲ 23×3 topics
  25. Deep Neural Networks18▲ 22×3 topics
  26. Meta-Learning17▲ 29×2 topics
  27. Image Captioning17▲ 47×1 topic
  28. Visual Question Answering17▲ 29×1 topic
  29. Virtualization16▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Anomaly Detection16▲ 7.3×3 topics
  31. Transfer Learning15▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Resource Management14▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Surveillance14▲ 7.3×5 topics
  34. Parallel Computing13▲ 15×3 topics
  35. Pose Estimation13▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Domain Adaptation12▲ 33×1 topic
  37. Few-Shot Learning12▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Image Classification11▲ 8.8×2 topics
  39. Data Centers11▲ 25×1 topic
  40. MapReduce11▲ 25×1 topic

Which research topics does Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning.

Topic Modeling29Topic Modeling: 29 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 26 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 17 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 12 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 11 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Re…9Human Pose and Action Recognition: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 8 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 8 fractional worksAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques: 7 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 7 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionInformation SystemsSafety Research

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 29 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 26 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 17 works
  4. 4 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 12 works
  5. 5 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 11 works
  6. 6 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 9 works
  7. 7 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 8 works
  8. 8 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 8 works
  9. 9 Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  10. 10 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 7 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 available35.7%not open64.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.6%domestic only46.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% lower than in 2013–2017.

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