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Stony Brook University

In research, Stony Brook University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#272 of 12,888 worldwide), Social Sciences (#450 of 10,521 worldwide) and Physics and Astronomy (#71 of 1,646 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geometry and Topology and Astronomy and Astrophysics — Nuclear and High Energy Physics is 9.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#336
of 28,054 · #163 all time
Rank in United States
#68
of 4,192
Research works
52k
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
2M
38.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

What is Stony Brook University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #272 of 12,888 22.2%3,056 #158
Social SciencesDomain #450 of 10,521 21.9%1,141 #203
Physics and AstronomyField #71 of 1,646 33.8%556 #81
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield #12 of 263 52.3%185 #22
Computer ScienceField #228 of 4,667 22.2%779 #73
Health SciencesDomain #728 of 11,982 17.6%1,124 #336
MedicineField #637 of 10,443 17.0%979 #337
Social SciencesField #439 of 6,365 23.3%483 #163
Life SciencesDomain #636 of 7,800 19.2%692 #185
PsychologyField #254 of 2,181 25.3%283 #128

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Stony Brook University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#158 #272
  2. Social Sciences#203 #450
  3. Physics and Astronomy#81 #71
  4. Nuclear and High Energy Physics#22 #12
  5. Computer Science#73 #228
  6. Health Sciences#336 #728
  7. Medicine#337 #637
  8. Social Sciences#163 #439
  9. Life Sciences#185 #636
  10. Psychology#128 #254
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Stony Brook University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 9.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 185.5 works9.8×
  2. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 61.1 works6.2×
  3. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 140.3 works4.5×
  4. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 58.3 works4.4×
  5. Physics and AstronomyField · 556.4 works4.2×
  6. OceanographySubfield · 59.2 works3.5×
← 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: 0.21× its world share, 60 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.23× its world share, 393 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.89× its world share, 54 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.80× its world share, 175 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.06× its world share, 22 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.69× its world share, 65 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.67× its world share, 779 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.29× its world share, 216 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.47× its world share, 26 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.80× its world share, 724 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.07× its world share, 321 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.88× its world share, 185 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.28× its world share, 162 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 4.16× its world share, 556 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.83× its world share, 24 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 101 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.85× its world share, 979 worksMedicineNursing: 0.62× its world share, 18 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.06× its world share, 184 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 56 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 55 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.63× its world share, 80 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.54× its world share, 283 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 483 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Stony Brook University?

Ranked on the composite score, Lewis A. Coser, Robert R. Sokal and S. M. McLennan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Stony Brook University.

  1. 1 Lewis A. Coser · #2,541 worldwide 763 citations · 87 works
  2. 2 Robert R. Sokal · #2,817 worldwide 3k citations · 69 works
  3. 3 S. M. McLennan · #3,665 worldwide 1.6k citations · 121 works
  4. 4 Evelyn J. Bromet · #4,496 worldwide 1.4k citations · 85 works
  5. 5 M. C. González-García · #5,069 worldwide 2.2k citations · 63 works
  6. 6 Arthur A. Stone · #9,619 worldwide 1.3k citations · 50 works
  7. 7 Michael S. Kimmel · #9,971 worldwide 516 citations · 60 works
  8. 8 George C. Williams · #10,071 worldwide 716 citations · 66 works
  9. 9 Don Ihde · #10,555 worldwide 316 citations · 60 works
  10. 10 George Sterman · #12,162 worldwide 1.3k citations · 65 works
All ranked researchers at Stony Brook University

Which keywords describe research at Stony Brook University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Lattice QCD, Neural Networks, Climate Change, Dark Matter, Quantum Information and Particle Physics.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Learning329▲ 1.60×77 topics
  2. Machine Learning256▲ 1.30×78 topics
  3. Epidemiology195▼ 0.82×128 topics
  4. Climate Change188▲ 1.16×86 topics
  5. Neural Networks162▲ 1.75×37 topics
  6. Inflammation105▼ 0.84×81 topics
  7. Mental Health95◆ 1.08×37 topics
  8. Cancer85◆ 1.06×51 topics
  9. Depression78▲ 1.48×22 topics
  10. Lattice QCD76▲ 21×2 topics
  11. Convolutional Neural Networks73▲ 1.66×14 topics
  12. Security69▲ 1.76×22 topics
  13. Dark Matter64▲ 9.3×4 topics
  14. Entanglement58▲ 6.5×4 topics
  15. Emotion Regulation56▲ 3.0×9 topics
  16. Quantum Information56▲ 8.0×3 topics
  17. Particle Physics56▲ 12×2 topics
  18. Microbial Communities55▲ 2.1×9 topics
  19. Renormalization Group51▲ 15×2 topics
  20. Tomography45▲ 4.2×5 topics
  21. Electron Acceleration45▲ 11×2 topics
  22. Higgs Boson45▲ 14×1 topic
  23. High-Energy Collider45▲ 14×1 topic
  24. Anaerobic43▲ 10×1 topic
  25. Methane Oxidation43▲ 8.7×1 topic
  26. Solar Wind42▲ 7.5×2 topics
  27. Ionosphere41▲ 12×1 topic
  28. Magnetosphere41▲ 12×1 topic
  29. Psychopathology40▲ 3.7×4 topics
  30. Hydrodynamics40▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Molecular Dynamics39▲ 3.9×6 topics
  32. QCD39▲ 19×1 topic
  33. charmonium39▲ 19×1 topic
  34. Quantum Simulation39▲ 8.1×2 topics
  35. Black Holes38▲ 6.6×3 topics
  36. Heavy-Ion Collisions37▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Quark-Gluon Plasma37▲ 25×1 topic
  38. Quantum Gravity33▲ 6.8×4 topics
  39. Quantum Algorithms28▲ 8.7×1 topic
  40. Quantum Computation28▲ 8.7×1 topic

Which research topics does Stony Brook University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions.

Particle physics theoret…45Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 45 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Rel…43Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 43 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosp…41Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 41 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics a…39Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 39 fractional worksHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 37 fractional worksQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture: 28 fractional worksQuantum Information and …26Quantum Information and Cryptography: 26 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoreti…24Black Holes and Theoretical Physics: 24 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis24Seismic Waves and Analysis: 24 fractional worksSilicon Carbide Semicond…22Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies: 22 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsEnvironmental ChemistryAstronomy and AstrophysicsArtificial Intelligence2 others

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

  1. 1 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesNuclear and High Energy Physics 45 works
  2. 2 Methane Hydrates and Related PhenomenaEnvironmental Chemistry 43 works
  3. 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 41 works
  4. 4 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsNuclear and High Energy Physics 39 works
  5. 5 High-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchNuclear and High Energy Physics 37 works
  6. 6 Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence 28 works
  7. 7 Quantum Information and CryptographyArtificial Intelligence 26 works
  8. 8 Black Holes and Theoretical PhysicsNuclear and High Energy Physics 24 works
  9. 9 Seismic Waves and AnalysisGeophysics 24 works
  10. 10 Silicon Carbide Semiconductor TechnologiesElectrical and Electronic Engineering 22 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 available33.7%not open66.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.5%domestic only84.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Stony Brook University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.