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Salesforce (United States)

In research, Salesforce (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#543 of 4,417 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#461 of 1,862 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#2,908 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems (Management Information Systems is 18.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,927
of 22,385 · #10,075 all time
Rank in United States
#931
of 3,332
Research works
555
▲ 149% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
18.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
65%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Salesforce (United States)

What is Salesforce (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 #543 of 4,417 16.3%189 #905
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #461 of 1,862 19.2%85 #718
Physical SciencesDomain #2,908 of 10,670 15.4%216 #4577
Social SciencesDomain #7,946 of 9,585 9.6%79 #11888

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Salesforce (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#905 #543
  2. Artificial Intelligence#718 #461
  3. Physical Sciences#4,577 #2,908
  4. Social Sciences#11,888 #7,946
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 Salesforce (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Salesforce (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (62%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 251 fractional works · 69.7% of its workComputer Science: 222 fractional works · 61.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 98 fractional works · 27.3% of its workInformation Systems: 52 fractional works · 14.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 28 fractional works · 7.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 25 fractional works · 7.1% of its workSignal Processing: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 24 fractional works · 6.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 93 fractional works · 25.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 41 fractional works · 11.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 27 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 20 fractional works · 5.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 13 fractional works · 3.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSalesforce(United States)361fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences26%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science22261.5%
    2. Engineering246.5%
    3. Environmental Science20.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    5. Materials Science10.2%
    6. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting4111.4%
    2. Social Sciences246.8%
    3. Decision Sciences205.4%
    4. Psychology41.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    1. Medicine71.9%
    2. Health Professions61.8%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.5%
    2. Neuroscience10.2%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Salesforce (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Information Systems takes 18.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 27.0 works18×
  2. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 98.4 works11×
  3. Information SystemsSubfield · 52.1 works8.2×
  4. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 25.5 works7.9×
  5. Computer ScienceField · 221.8 works7.9×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 7.91× its world share, 222 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.44× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 7 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.54× its world share, 41 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.60× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 24 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science7.91×222 works
  2. Decision Sciences5.60×20 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting3.54×41 works
  4. Health Professions0.67×6 works
  5. Social Sciences0.54×24 works
  6. Engineering0.44×24 works
  7. Chemical Engineering0.40×0 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.39×3 works
  9. Psychology0.33×4 works
  10. Dentistry0.29×0 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.13×2 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.12×1 works
  14. Energy0.11×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.11×1 works
  16. Neuroscience0.10×1 works
  17. Medicine0.10×7 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×2 works
  19. Chemistry0.08×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.05×1 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.01×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong and Ali Madani lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Salesforce (United States).

  1. 1 Richard Socher United States · #8,747 worldwide 140k citations · 222 works
  2. 2 Caiming Xiong United States · #55,568 worldwide 26k citations · 603 works
  3. 3 Ali Madani United States · #141,371 worldwide 5.6k citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Chien-Sheng Wu United States · #163,100 worldwide 3.2k citations · 157 works
  5. 5 Philippe Laban United States · #298,911 worldwide 888 citations · 74 works
  6. 6 Jesse Vig United States · #304,258 worldwide 1.6k citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Wojciech Kryściński United States · #514,091 worldwide 738 citations · 37 works
  8. 8 Nazneen Fatema Rajani United States · #565,058 worldwide 2.6k citations · 83 works
  9. 9 Ran Xu United States · #597,132 worldwide 2.4k citations · 116 works
  10. 10 Yingbo Zhou United States · #630,062 worldwide 5.8k citations · 177 works
All ranked researchers at Salesforce (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Salesforce (United States) is "Knowing When to Look: Adaptive Attention via a Visual Sentinel for Image Captioning" (Jiasen Lu, Caiming Xiong, Devi Parikh et al., 2017), with 1,742 citations. Next come "Deep learning-enabled medical computer vision" (1,400) and "CodeT5: Identifier-aware Unified Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Models for Code Understanding and Generation" (1,396).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Knowing When to Look: Adaptive Attention via a Visual Sentinel for Image Captioning Jiasen Lu, Caiming Xiong, Devi Parikh et al. Conference paper Jul 2017 1,742
2 Deep learning-enabled medical computer vision Andre Esteva, Katherine Chou, Serena Y. Yeung et al. · npj Digital Medicine Open access 8 Jan 2021 1,400
3 CodeT5: Identifier-aware Unified Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Models for Code Understanding and Generation Yue Wang, Weishi Wang, Shafiq Joty et al. · Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference paperOpen access 2021 1,396
4 Reporting guidelines for clinical trial reports for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the CONSORT-AI extension Xiaoxuan Liu et al. · Nature Medicine Open access Sep 2020 1,301
5 Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families Ali Madani, Ben Krause, Eric R. Greene et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 26 Jan 2023 1,151
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Salesforce (United States)?

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

▲ 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. Neural Networks62▲ 11×26 topics
  2. Deep Learning62▲ 5.0×56 topics
  3. Big Data57▲ 16×18 topics
  4. Machine Learning56▲ 4.7×49 topics
  5. Supply Chain Management33▲ 10×8 topics
  6. Sustainability27▲ 3.0×9 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence26▲ 5.1×19 topics
  8. Information Retrieval26▲ 34×5 topics
  9. Topic Modeling25▲ 46×3 topics
  10. Text Classification25▲ 42×2 topics
  11. Distributed Systems24▲ 39×6 topics
  12. Machine Translation23▲ 38×1 topic
  13. Word Representation23▲ 51×1 topic
  14. Security22▲ 9.3×13 topics
  15. Cloud Computing21▲ 20×7 topics
  16. Predictive Analytics20▲ 52×2 topics
  17. Healthcare19▲ 4.6×11 topics
  18. Analytics19▲ 59×1 topic
  19. Business Intelligence19▲ 59×1 topic
  20. Internet of Things18▲ 6.0×11 topics
  21. Data Mining16▲ 6.2×12 topics
  22. Anomaly Detection16▲ 15×3 topics
  23. Neural Machine Translation13▲ 41×1 topic
  24. Statistical Machine Translation13▲ 41×1 topic
  25. Energy Efficiency13▲ 4.0×7 topics
  26. Representation Learning13▲ 22×3 topics
  27. Resource Management12▲ 20×2 topics
  28. Cybersecurity12▲ 13×5 topics
  29. Virtualization12▲ 39×2 topics
  30. Privacy11▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Semi-Supervised Learning11▲ 24×3 topics
  32. Data Centers10▲ 49×1 topic
  33. MapReduce10▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Semantic Reasoning10▲ 31×2 topics
  35. Visual Question Answering10▲ 31×2 topics
  36. Image Captioning10▲ 49×1 topic
  37. Multimodal Fusion10▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Log Analysis10▲ 61×1 topic
  39. Performance Prediction10▲ 38×1 topic
  40. IoT Security9▲ 8.2×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Natural Language Processing Techniques and Cloud Computing and Resource Management.

Topic Modeling23Topic Modeling: 23 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 19 fractional worksNatural Language Process…13Natural Language Processing Techniques: 13 fractional worksCloud Computing and Reso…10Cloud Computing and Resource Management: 10 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 10 fractional worksSoftware System Performance and Reliability: 10 fractional worksRecommender Systems and …8Recommender Systems and Techniques: 8 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 6 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 6 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 6 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceManagement Information SystemsInformation SystemsComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 23 works
  2. 2 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 19 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 13 works
  4. 4 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 10 works
  5. 5 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10 works
  6. 6 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 10 works
  7. 7 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 8 works
  8. 8 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
  9. 9 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 6 works
  10. 10 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 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 available65.2%not open34.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.1%domestic only80.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 149% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
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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 Salesforce (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Salesforce (United States)0.0019% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Salesforce (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 2025Salesforce (United States)8.7% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.7% in 2020.

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