Question 1

What is Microsoft (United States) known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Microsoft (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#18 of 4,417 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#13 of 1,862 worldwide) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (#16 of 963 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Hardware and Architecture and Signal Processing (Software is 14.8× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Microsoft (United States) rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft (United States) ranks #293 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#161 all time), and #83 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Richard Szeliski, C. Lawrence Zitnick and Zhe Gan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Microsoft (United States).

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Microsoft (United States) is "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition" (Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren et al., 2016), with 229,585 citations. Next come "Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks" (55,999) and "Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context" (43,802).

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Microsoft (United States)?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, 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 Convolutional Neural Networks.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Microsoft (United States) work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Microsoft (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (58%), Engineering (10%), Social Sciences (6%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Microsoft (United States)'s?

Accepted Answer

Alphabet (United States) has the research profile closest to Microsoft (United States)'s (similarity 0.89 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Computer Science, followed by University of Luxembourg and Carnegie Mellon University.

Question 9

Is Microsoft (United States)'s research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021.