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Robotics Research (United States)

In research, Robotics Research (United States) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,075 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#657 of 5,901 worldwide) and Computer Science (#865 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Control and Systems Engineering is 9.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,803
of 22,385 · #1,663 all time
Rank in United States
#357
of 3,332
Research works
3k
▲ 212% vs 2018-21
Citations
72k
23.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
43%
world 18%
Robotics Research (United States)

What is Robotics Research (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
Physical SciencesDomain #1,075 of 10,670 8.2%708 #972
EngineeringField #657 of 5,901 8.1%430 #667
Computer ScienceField #865 of 4,417 8.2%206 #603
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #280 of 963 9.4%84 #253
Biomedical EngineeringSubfield #460 of 1,539 9.7%87 #603
Health SciencesDomain #3,337 of 9,902 6.0%72 #4072
Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield #276 of 804 7.2%95 #215
Social SciencesDomain #6,904 of 9,585 4.8%71 #6143

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Robotics Research (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. Physical Sciences#972 #1,075
  2. Engineering#667 #657
  3. Computer Science#603 #865
  4. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#253 #280
  5. Biomedical Engineering#603 #460
  6. Health Sciences#4,072 #3,337
  7. Control and Systems Engineering#215 #276
  8. Social Sciences#6,143 #6,904
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 Robotics Research (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Robotics Research (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (48%), Computer Science (22%), Medicine (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 951 fractional works · 78.8% of its workEngineering: 579 fractional works · 47.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 121 fractional works · 10.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 119 fractional works · 9.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 71 fractional works · 5.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 70 fractional works · 5.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 63 fractional works · 5.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 37 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 19 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 268 fractional works · 22.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 107 fractional works · 8.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 81 fractional works · 6.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 24 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems: 16 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 34 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 25 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 95 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPsychology: 38 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 28 fractional works · 2.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 87 fractional works · 7.2% of its workMedicine: 71 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSurgery: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRehabilitation: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 74 fractional works · 6.2% of its workNeuroscience: 40 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 30 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 19 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPlant Science: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRobotics Research(United States)1,208fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences8%

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. Engineering57947.9%
    2. Computer Science26822.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy342.8%
    4. Materials Science252.1%
    5. Environmental Science211.8%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences80.7%
    7. Mathematics50.4%
    8. Energy50.4%
    9. Chemistry40.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Psychology383.2%
    2. Social Sciences262.1%
    3. Decision Sciences110.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting110.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance70.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.2%
    1. Medicine715.9%
    2. Health Professions141.2%
    3. Dentistry20.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Neuroscience403.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences191.5%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology151.2%
    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 Robotics Research (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Control and Systems Engineering takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 121.0 works9.3×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 107.1 works7.0×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 36.6 works5.9×
  4. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 69.5 works4.9×
  5. Biomedical EngineeringSubfield · 119.5 works4.7×
← 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: 0.33× its world share, 19 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.04× its world share, 40 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.85× its world share, 268 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.44× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.19× its world share, 579 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.36× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.60× its world share, 25 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.37× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.27× its world share, 34 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 71 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 11 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.04× its world share, 38 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 26 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.19×579 works
  2. Computer Science2.85×268 works
  3. Neuroscience2.04×40 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.27×34 works
  5. Psychology1.04×38 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.98×12 works
  7. Materials Science0.60×25 works
  8. Energy0.44×5 works
  9. Health Professions0.44×14 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.43×8 works
  11. Mathematics0.37×5 works
  12. Environmental Science0.36×21 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.34×1 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.33×19 works
  15. Dentistry0.31×2 works
  16. Medicine0.31×71 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.28×11 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×7 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×15 works
  20. Chemistry0.19×4 works
  21. Social Sciences0.17×26 works
  22. Veterinary0.13×0 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.08×1 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.06×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.06×2 works

Who are the top researchers at Robotics Research (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Murad Abu-Khalaf, P. Krishnamurthy and Farshad Khorrami lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Robotics Research (United States).

  1. 1 Murad Abu-Khalaf United States · #296,273 worldwide 5.4k citations · 43 works
  2. 2 P. Krishnamurthy United States · #821,302 worldwide 8.4k citations · 464 works
  3. 3 Farshad Khorrami United States · #1,156,301 worldwide 5.9k citations · 494 works
  4. 4 Naman Patel United States · #2,040,219 worldwide 379 citations · 37 works
  5. 5 K. Liu United States · #2,184,785 worldwide 758 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Aydın Yeşildirek United States · #2,263,036 worldwide 2.7k citations · 44 works
  7. 7 Juliana Andrade Campos United States · #2,280,176 worldwide 440 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Prasanna Mohan Ballal United States · #2,639,400 worldwide 390 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Ahmet Volkan Gurel United States · #2,650,084 worldwide 291 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Sandeep Kumar Jain United States · #2,681,964 worldwide 1.2k citations · 90 works
All ranked researchers at Robotics Research (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Robotics Research (United States) is "Stereo Processing by Semiglobal Matching and Mutual Information" (Heiko Hirschmüller, 2007), with 4,328 citations. Next come "Design and use paradigms for gazebo, an open-source multi-robot simulator" (3,557) and "Region competition: unifying snakes, region growing, and Bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation" (1,922).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stereo Processing by Semiglobal Matching and Mutual Information Heiko Hirschmüller · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 20 Dec 2007 4,328
2 Design and use paradigms for gazebo, an open-source multi-robot simulator Nathan Koenig, A. Howard Conference paper Apr 2005 3,557
3 Region competition: unifying snakes, region growing, and Bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation Song Chun Zhu, Alan Yuille · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 1996 1,922
4 Online actor–critic algorithm to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problem Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Frank L. Lewis · Automatica 18 Mar 2010 1,703
5 Reinforcement learning and adaptive dynamic programming for feedback control Frank L. Lewis, Draguna Vrabie · IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine 2009 1,574
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Robotics Research (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Robotics, Multi-Agent Systems, Robotic Manipulators, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning and Collision Avoidance.

▲ 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 Learning202▲ 4.8×76 topics
  2. Neural Networks96▲ 5.1×37 topics
  3. Machine Learning87▲ 2.1×77 topics
  4. Robotics70▲ 24×10 topics
  5. Multi-Agent Systems51▲ 22×5 topics
  6. Robotic Manipulators46▲ 38×3 topics
  7. Autonomous Vehicles46▲ 18×5 topics
  8. Biomedical Applications45▲ 3.2×26 topics
  9. Collision Avoidance43▲ 19×4 topics
  10. Path Planning40▲ 26×3 topics
  11. Soft Robotics40▲ 43×2 topics
  12. Grasping38▲ 83×1 topic
  13. Robot Learning38▲ 83×1 topic
  14. Artificial Intelligence37▲ 2.1×36 topics
  15. Actuators36▲ 18×5 topics
  16. Mobile Robots35▲ 30×3 topics
  17. Convolutional Neural Networks33▲ 3.8×14 topics
  18. Localization32▲ 22×3 topics
  19. 3D Mapping32▲ 38×1 topic
  20. SLAM32▲ 38×1 topic
  21. Distributed Control31▲ 23×3 topics
  22. Optimal Motion Planning30▲ 33×1 topic
  23. Sampling-Based Algorithms30▲ 33×1 topic
  24. Adaptive Control29▲ 18×6 topics
  25. Human-Robot Interaction29▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Minimally Invasive Surgery28▲ 39×2 topics
  27. Nonlinear Systems28▲ 11×8 topics
  28. Bioinspired Robotics28▲ 63×1 topic
  29. Continuum Robots28▲ 63×1 topic
  30. Feedback Control25▲ 12×8 topics
  31. Self-Assembly23▲ 5.9×8 topics
  32. Control23▲ 14×5 topics
  33. Biomechanics21▲ 5.8×12 topics
  34. Modular Robots21▲ 46×1 topic
  35. Self-Reconfiguration21▲ 46×1 topic
  36. Computer Vision21▲ 6.2×4 topics
  37. Reinforcement Learning20▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Haptic Interfaces19▲ 28×2 topics
  39. Convolutional Networks18▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Exoskeletons18▲ 45×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Robot Manipulation and Learning, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms and Soft Robotics and Applications.

Robot Manipulation and L…38Robot Manipulation and Learning: 38 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Base…32Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 32 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Al…30Robotic Path Planning Algorithms: 30 fractional worksSoft Robotics and Applic…28Soft Robotics and Applications: 28 fractional worksModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence: 21 fractional worksProsthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics: 18 fractional worksSocial Robot Interaction…16Social Robot Interaction and HRI: 16 fractional worksReinforcement Learning in Robotics: 15 fractional worksRobotic Locomotion and Control: 15 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 14 fractional works
Control and Systems EngineeringAerospace EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionBiomedical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 38 works
  2. 2 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 32 works
  3. 3 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 30 works
  4. 4 Soft Robotics and Applications Biomedical Engineering 28 works
  5. 5 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 21 works
  6. 6 Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics Biomedical Engineering 18 works
  7. 7 Social Robot Interaction and HRI Social Psychology 16 works
  8. 8 Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Artificial Intelligence 15 works
  9. 9 Robotic Locomotion and Control Biomedical Engineering 15 works
  10. 10 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 14 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.8%domestic only57.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 212% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Robotics Research (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Robotics Research (United States)0.0086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Robotics Research (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 counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Robotics Research (United States)7.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.4% in 2000.

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