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Simons Foundation

In research, Simons Foundation stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#72 of 1,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#623 of 10,670 worldwide) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (#27 of 400 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics and Astronomy (Instrumentation is 76.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,053
of 22,385 · #646 all time
Rank in United States
#231
of 3,332
Research works
1.3k
▲ 51% vs 2018-21
Citations
43k
33.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.45×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
65%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Simons Foundation

What is Simons Foundation 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
Physics and AstronomyField #72 of 1,417 25.0%222 #98
Physical SciencesDomain #623 of 10,670 22.5%377 #490
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #27 of 400 24.9%126 #33
Life SciencesDomain #810 of 6,403 14.9%75 #477

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Simons Foundation 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. Physics and Astronomy#98 #72
  2. Physical Sciences#490 #623
  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics#33 #27
  4. Life Sciences#477 #810
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 Simons Foundation work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Simons Foundation is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (45%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Computer Science (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 438 fractional works · 75.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 263 fractional works · 45.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 146 fractional works · 25.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 46 fractional works · 7.8% of its workInstrumentation: 22 fractional works · 3.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 18 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 16 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRadiation: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 60 fractional works · 10.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 32 fractional works · 5.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 11 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 43 fractional works · 7.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 27 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 18 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 20 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNumerical Analysis: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 88 fractional works · 15.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 10.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 37 fractional works · 6.3% of its workCell Biology: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStructural Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 22 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 15 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 33 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMedicine: 29 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 25 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSimons Foundation584fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences4%

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. Physics and Astronomy26345.0%
    2. Computer Science6010.3%
    3. Engineering437.4%
    4. Materials Science274.6%
    5. Mathematics203.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences101.7%
    7. Chemistry71.2%
    8. Environmental Science50.9%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    10. Energy10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6010.3%
    2. Neuroscience223.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Medicine295.0%
    2. Health Professions30.5%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Psychology71.3%
    2. Social Sciences71.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.7%
    4. Decision Sciences40.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting30.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Simons Foundation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Instrumentation takes 76.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. InstrumentationSubfield · 22.4 works77×
  2. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 146.0 works48×
  3. Physics and AstronomyField · 262.9 works20×
  4. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 45.5 works11×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.93× its world share, 60 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.33× its world share, 22 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.80× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.32× its world share, 60 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.49× its world share, 43 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.33× its world share, 27 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.87× its world share, 20 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 20.24× its world share, 263 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 29 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 20.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy20.24×263 works
  2. Mathematics2.87×20 works
  3. Neuroscience2.33×22 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.93×60 works
  5. Materials Science1.33×27 works
  6. Computer Science1.32×60 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.11×10 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.92×2 works
  9. Chemistry0.80×7 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.62×4 works
  11. Engineering0.49×43 works
  12. Psychology0.41×7 works
  13. Veterinary0.33×0 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×4 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.27×2 works
  16. Medicine0.26×29 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.25×0 works
  18. Health Professions0.19×3 works
  19. Environmental Science0.17×5 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×4 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×3 works
  22. Energy0.12×1 works
  23. Nursing0.09×0 works
  24. Social Sciences0.09×7 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.04×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Simons Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, LeeAnne Green Snyder, John E. Spiro and Julia Koehler Leman lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Simons Foundation.

  1. 1 LeeAnne Green Snyder United States · #201,538 worldwide 3.8k citations · 54 works
  2. 2 John E. Spiro United States · #353,579 worldwide 2.9k citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Julia Koehler Leman United States · #458,678 worldwide 3.2k citations · 50 works
  4. 4 Irina Astrovskaya United States · #569,211 worldwide 2.9k citations · 50 works
  5. 5 Alan I. Packer United States · #631,008 worldwide 4k citations · 60 works
  6. 6 Pamela Feliciano United States · #898,019 worldwide 2.5k citations · 85 works
  7. 7 Jacob B. Hall United States · #1,187,712 worldwide 1.2k citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Arjan Cornelissen United States · #2,199,592 worldwide 135 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Xi Chen United States · #3,371,794 worldwide 90 citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Simons Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Simons Foundation?

The most cited paper from Simons Foundation is "Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria" (Chris H. Polman, Stephen C. Reingold, Brenda Banwell et al., 2011), with 9,914 citations. Next come "The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *" (7,690) and "The Astropy Project : Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*" (5,044).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria Chris H. Polman, Stephen C. Reingold, Brenda Banwell et al. · Annals of Neurology Open access 11 Jan 2011 9,914
2 The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package * Adrian M. Price-Whelan et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access140 authors 23 Aug 2018 7,690
3 The Astropy Project : Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package* The Astropy Collaboration et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Open access136 authors 2022 5,044
4 Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access 18 Jun 2018 3,746
5 Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model Jian Zhou, Olga G. Troyanskaya · Nature Methods Open access 24 Aug 2015 2,687
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Simons Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Black Holes, Magnetic Fields, Accretion Disks, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

▲ 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. Star Formation48▲ 145×2 topics
  2. Black Holes41▲ 72×3 topics
  3. Magnetic Fields36▲ 92×3 topics
  4. Accretion Disks35▲ 122×2 topics
  5. Dark Matter31▲ 45×4 topics
  6. Machine Learning31▲ 1.57×40 topics
  7. Cosmology29▲ 74×3 topics
  8. Exoplanets29▲ 124×1 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics29▲ 124×1 topic
  10. Gravitational Waves28▲ 83×2 topics
  11. Galaxies26▲ 149×1 topic
  12. Stellar Populations26▲ 149×1 topic
  13. Supernovae25▲ 53×2 topics
  14. Turbulence23▲ 44×4 topics
  15. Astronomical Instrumentation22▲ 118×1 topic
  16. Spectrograph22▲ 118×1 topic
  17. Molecular Clouds22▲ 139×1 topic
  18. Protoplanetary Disks22▲ 139×1 topic
  19. Galactic Center17▲ 64×2 topics
  20. Nucleosynthesis17▲ 59×3 topics
  21. Gamma-Ray Bursts16▲ 105×1 topic
  22. Neutron Stars16▲ 105×1 topic
  23. X-Ray Spectroscopy14▲ 56×2 topics
  24. Event Horizon Telescope13▲ 101×1 topic
  25. X-Ray Astronomy13▲ 101×1 topic
  26. Entanglement13▲ 15×4 topics
  27. Molecular Dynamics12▲ 12×6 topics
  28. Cosmic Rays12▲ 42×2 topics
  29. Neutrinos12▲ 42×2 topics
  30. Equation of State12▲ 37×2 topics
  31. Binary Black Hole11▲ 64×1 topic
  32. Neutron Star11▲ 64×1 topic
  33. Superconductivity11▲ 11×9 topics
  34. Topological Order10▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Quantum Information10▲ 14×3 topics
  36. Quantum Computing9▲ 16×3 topics
  37. Dark Energy9▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Quantum Simulation9▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Electronic Structure Calculations9▲ 23×2 topics
  40. Cosmic Microwave Background9▲ 27×1 topic

Which research topics does Simons Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 29 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 26 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysi…22Astronomy and Astrophysical Research: 22 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Fo…22Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 22 fractional worksGamma-ray bursts and supernovae: 16 fractional worksAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations: 13 fractional worksPulsars and Gravitationa…11Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research: 11 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 9 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 8 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 8 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentationNuclear and High Energy Physics

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

  1. 1 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 29 works
  2. 2 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 26 works
  3. 3 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 22 works
  4. 4 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 22 works
  5. 5 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 16 works
  6. 6 Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Astronomy and Astrophysics 13 works
  7. 7 Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Astronomy and Astrophysics 11 works
  8. 8 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 9 works
  9. 9 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 8 works
  10. 10 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 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 available65.0%not open35.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.5%domestic only60.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Simons Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Simons Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Simons Foundation0.0023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Simons Foundation 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%Simons Foundation21.5% 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 31.3% in 2015.

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