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Netflix (United States)

In research, Netflix (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#2,748 of 4,417 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#8,884 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Science (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 14.7× its share of world research).

netflix.comROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#15,926
of 22,385 · #18,113 all time
Rank in United States
#2,296
of 3,332
Research works
362
▲ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.4k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
38%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Netflix (United States)

What is Netflix (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 #2,748 of 4,417 9.7%65 #2414
Physical SciencesDomain #8,884 of 10,670 9.1%86 #11592

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Netflix (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 fields of science does Netflix (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 73% of research at Netflix (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (56%), Engineering (11%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 95 fractional works · 73.4% of its workComputer Science: 73 fractional works · 56.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 24 fractional works · 18.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 14 fractional works · 10.7% of its workInformation Systems: 13 fractional works · 9.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 8 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSignal Processing: 7 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 11.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputational Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 23.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 11.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 4.1% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNetflix (UnitedStates)129fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences73%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences24%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science7356.3%
    2. Engineering1411.2%
    3. Mathematics43.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy21.4%
    5. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    6. Environmental Science10.5%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1411.0%
    2. Decision Sciences64.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting43.2%
    4. Psychology43.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities21.6%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.2%
    2. Neuroscience10.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine10.4%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Netflix (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 14.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 23.8 works15×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 72.6 works7.2×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 7.24× its world share, 73 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.75× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 2.65× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.56× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.99× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.57× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science7.24×73 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.57×6 works
  3. Mathematics2.65×4 works
  4. Chemical Engineering1.48×1 works
  5. Psychology1.02×4 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.99×4 works
  7. Social Sciences0.87×14 works
  8. Engineering0.75×14 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.64×2 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.56×2 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.31×1 works
  12. Neuroscience0.30×1 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×2 works
  14. Chemistry0.16×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.10×1 works
  16. Energy0.09×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works
  18. Health Professions0.07×0 works
  19. Medicine0.02×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Harald Steck, Anne Aaron and Lorin Hochstein lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Netflix (United States).

  1. 1 Harald Steck United States · #191,833 worldwide 3.9k citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Anne Aaron United States · #340,167 worldwide 1.9k citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Lorin Hochstein United States · #895,854 worldwide 1.5k citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Simon Ejdemyr United States · #1,265,251 worldwide 1.7k citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Justin Basilico United States · #1,468,164 worldwide 917 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Brendan Gregg United States · #1,577,981 worldwide 452 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Aurélien Bibaut United States · #2,084,233 worldwide 553 citations · 47 works
  8. 8 Andrey Norkin United States · #2,150,637 worldwide 1.2k citations · 48 works
  9. 9 Joel Solé United States · #2,606,773 worldwide 794 citations · 59 works
  10. 10 Sudeep Das United States · #2,974,375 worldwide 44 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Netflix (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Netflix (United States) is "The Netflix Recommender System" (Carlos Alberto Gomez-Uribe, Neil T. Hunt, 2015), with 1,400 citations. Next come "Variational Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering" (1,345) and "A buffer-based approach to rate adaptation" (1,015).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Netflix Recommender System Carlos Alberto Gomez-Uribe, Neil T. Hunt · ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 28 Dec 2015 1,400
2 Variational Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering Dawen Liang, Rahul G. Krishnan, Matthew D. Hoffman et al. Conference paperOpen access 2018 1,345
3 A buffer-based approach to rate adaptation Te-Yuan Huang, Ramesh Johari, Nick McKeown et al. Conference paperOpen access 12 Aug 2014 1,015
4 MLlib: Machine Learning in Apache Spark Xiangrui Meng, Joseph K. Bradley, Burak Yavuz et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 26 May 2015 960
5 Session-based Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks Balázs Hidasi, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Linas Baltrunas et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 21 Nov 2015 558
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Netflix (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Networks, Image Quality Assessment, Perceptual Quality, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems and Collaborative Filtering.

▲ 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 Learning34▲ 7.7×37 topics
  2. Neural Networks16▲ 8.2×19 topics
  3. Machine Learning10▲ 2.3×26 topics
  4. Convolutional Networks6▲ 35×3 topics
  5. Image Quality Assessment6▲ 264×1 topic
  6. Perceptual Quality6▲ 264×1 topic
  7. Distributed Systems5▲ 23×5 topics
  8. Collaborative Filtering5▲ 105×1 topic
  9. Matrix Factorization5▲ 105×1 topic
  10. Sparse Representation5▲ 20×5 topics
  11. Big Data4▲ 3.7×9 topics
  12. Online Learning4▲ 4.2×8 topics
  13. Generative Adversarial Networks4▲ 38×2 topics
  14. Convolutional Neural Networks4▲ 4.4×7 topics
  15. Video Coding4▲ 146×2 topics
  16. Medical Imaging4▲ 5.7×3 topics
  17. Visualization4▲ 51×2 topics
  18. Information Retrieval4▲ 13×3 topics
  19. Convex Optimization4▲ 32×3 topics
  20. Image4▲ 69×1 topic
  21. Simulation4▲ 11×4 topics
  22. Super-Resolution4▲ 69×1 topic
  23. Virtual Reality3▲ 5.3×4 topics
  24. Hyperparameter Optimization3▲ 60×2 topics
  25. H.264/AVC3▲ 316×1 topic
  26. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)3▲ 316×1 topic
  27. Unsupervised Learning3▲ 15×2 topics
  28. Hyperspectral Imaging3▲ 7.7×2 topics
  29. Machine Vision3▲ 9.8×2 topics
  30. Requirements Engineering3▲ 46×3 topics
  31. Social Interaction3▲ 5.4×5 topics
  32. Statistical Modeling3▲ 49×2 topics
  33. Bayesian Optimization3▲ 24×2 topics
  34. Depth Estimation3▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Bandit Optimization2▲ 164×1 topic
  36. Contextual Bandits2▲ 164×1 topic
  37. Texture Analysis2▲ 8.9×3 topics
  38. Computer Graphics2▲ 71×1 topic
  39. Rendering2▲ 71×1 topic
  40. User Interaction2▲ 62×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Image and Video Quality Assessment, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Advanced Image Processing Techniques and Video Coding and Compression Technologies.

Image and Video Quality Assessment: 6 fractional worksRecommender Systems and Techniques: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Image Processin…4Advanced Image Processing Techniques: 4 fractional worksVideo Coding and Compres…3Video Coding and Compression Technologies: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Bandit Algorithms Research: 2 fractional worksComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 2 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Tec…2Software Engineering Techniques and Practices: 2 fractional worksIndustrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 2 fractional worksVirtual Reality Applications and Impacts: 2 fractional worksImage Enhancement Techni…2Image Enhancement Techniques: 2 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionInformation SystemsSignal ProcessingManagement Science and Operations Research3 others

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

  1. 1 Image and Video Quality Assessment Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 works
  2. 2 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 5 works
  3. 3 Advanced Image Processing Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  4. 4 Video Coding and Compression Technologies Signal Processing 3 works
  5. 5 Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research Management Science and Operations Research 2 works
  6. 6 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 2 works
  7. 7 Software Engineering Techniques and Practices Information Systems 2 works
  8. 8 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 2 works
  10. 10 Image Enhancement Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 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 available38.2%not open61.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.6%domestic only78.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher 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 Netflix (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Netflix (United States)0.00062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Netflix (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%Netflix (United States)11.7% 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 32.8% in 2016.

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