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In research, Sunnyvale Public Library stands highest in Physical Sciences (#10,587 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Science (Computer Networks and Communications is 24.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#19,033
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#3,951
of 7,310
Research works
282
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.8k
9.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Sunnyvale Public Library

What is Sunnyvale Public Library known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #10,587 of 17,446 4.1%180

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sunnyvale Public Library 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 Sunnyvale Public Library work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at Sunnyvale Public Library is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (50%), Engineering (20%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 72 fractional works · 77.0% of its workComputer Science: 46 fractional works · 49.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 20 fractional works · 21.6% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 10.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 19 fractional works · 20.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 fractional works · 9.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFuel Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 18.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 7.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 7.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSunnyvale PublicLibrary93fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences18%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science4649.7%
    2. Engineering1920.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy33.4%
    4. Materials Science21.9%
    5. Energy11.1%
    6. Environmental Science10.9%
    1. Social Sciences77.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting77.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.4%
    4. Psychology11.1%
    5. Decision Sciences10.6%
    1. Medicine33.1%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.5%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sunnyvale Public Library specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Networks and Communications takes 24.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 20.1 works24×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 46.3 works6.4×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 6.39× its world share, 46 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 1.17× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.34× its world share, 19 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 1.53× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.28× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.60× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science6.39×46 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.28×7 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.53×3 works
  4. Engineering1.34×19 works
  5. Energy1.17×1 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.66×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.60×7 works
  8. Materials Science0.55×2 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.53×0 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.49×1 works
  11. Psychology0.37×1 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.20×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.18×1 works
  14. Medicine0.16×3 works
  15. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  16. Health Professions0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sunnyvale Public Library?

Ranked on the quality score, Nitika Malhotra, Het Mehta and Kerry Koitzsch lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sunnyvale Public Library.

  1. 1 Nitika Malhotra United States · #2,325,882 worldwide 49 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Het Mehta United States · #2,622,068 worldwide 1 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Kerry Koitzsch United States · #2,812,580 worldwide 12 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Joshua M Willman United States · #2,843,308 worldwide 14 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Frederik M. Fowler United States · #2,903,697 worldwide 49 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 Ananya Pareek United States · #3,058,081 worldwide 70 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Edmund F. Kal United States · #4,757,988 worldwide 42 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Sunnyvale Public Library

What are the most cited papers from Sunnyvale Public Library?

The most cited paper from Sunnyvale Public Library is "Community Structure in Large Networks: Natural Cluster Sizes and the Absence of Large Well-Defined Clusters" (Jure Leskovec, Kevin Lang, Anirban Dasgupta et al., 2009), with 1,904 citations. Next come "Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Ibrutinib (PCI-32765) Has Significant Activity in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Malignancies" (1,129) and "Globally convergent edge-preserving regularized reconstruction: an application to limited-angle tomography" (308).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Community Structure in Large Networks: Natural Cluster Sizes and the Absence of Large Well-Defined Clusters Jure Leskovec, Kevin Lang, Anirban Dasgupta et al. · Internet Mathematics 2009 1,904
2 Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Ibrutinib (PCI-32765) Has Significant Activity in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Malignancies Ranjana H. Advani, Joseph J. Buggy, Jeff Porter Sharman et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology Open access 9 Oct 2012 1,129
3 Globally convergent edge-preserving regularized reconstruction: an application to limited-angle tomography A.H. Delaney, Yoram Bresler · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 1998 308
4 High plasma cellular fibronectin levels correlate with biochemical and clinical features of preeclampsia but cannot be attributed to hypertension alone Robert N. Taylor, William R. Crombleholme, Steven Arthur Friedman et al. · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Oct 1991 188
5 Machine learning for heat transfer correlations Beomjin Kwon, Faizan Ejaz, Leslie K. Hwang · International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 25 Jun 2020 183
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sunnyvale Public Library?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: 5G Networks, Network Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking, Machine Learning, Security, Distributed Systems, Data Mining and Deep Learning.

▲ 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. Machine Learning10▲ 3.1×22 topics
  2. 5G Networks9▲ 50×2 topics
  3. Network Virtualization8▲ 229×1 topic
  4. Software-Defined Networking8▲ 229×1 topic
  5. Deep Learning7▲ 2.2×21 topics
  6. Security6▲ 9.6×11 topics
  7. Distributed Systems6▲ 37×5 topics
  8. Data Mining5▲ 6.9×6 topics
  9. Big Data4▲ 4.7×8 topics
  10. Internet of Things4▲ 5.1×8 topics
  11. Energy Efficiency4▲ 4.2×8 topics
  12. Performance Evaluation4▲ 115×2 topics
  13. Intrusion Detection3▲ 26×2 topics
  14. Wireless Networks3▲ 23×3 topics
  15. IoT Security3▲ 11×3 topics
  16. Smart Cities3▲ 12×3 topics
  17. Anomaly Detection3▲ 11×3 topics
  18. Cybersecurity3▲ 13×3 topics
  19. Cross-Platform Development3▲ 312×1 topic
  20. Fault Tolerance3▲ 20×3 topics
  21. Mobile Application Development3▲ 312×1 topic
  22. Leadership3▲ 5.9×4 topics
  23. Strategic Management3▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Cloud Computing3▲ 9.9×5 topics
  25. Resource Management2▲ 16×3 topics
  26. Interactive Television2▲ 270×1 topic
  27. Social TV2▲ 270×1 topic
  28. Change Management2▲ 115×3 topics
  29. Semantic Web2▲ 26×3 topics
  30. Software Development2▲ 47×3 topics
  31. Analytics2▲ 25×1 topic
  32. Atom Probe Tomography2▲ 255×1 topic
  33. Business Intelligence2▲ 25×1 topic
  34. Deep Packet Inspection2▲ 285×1 topic
  35. Packet Classification2▲ 285×1 topic
  36. Three-Dimensional Analysis2▲ 255×1 topic
  37. Employee Engagement2▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Mobile Agents2▲ 215×1 topic
  39. Network Management2▲ 66×1 topic
  40. Performance Improvement2▲ 82×2 topics

Which research topics does Sunnyvale Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Software-Defined Networks and 5G, Mobile and Web Applications, Multimedia Communication and Technology and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques.

Software-Defined Network…8Software-Defined Networks and 5G: 8 fractional worksMobile and Web Applications: 3 fractional worksMultimedia Communication and Technology: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Materials Characterization Techniques: 2 fractional worksNetwork Packet Processing and Optimization: 2 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksMobile Agent-Based Network Management: 2 fractional worksCaching and Content Delivery: 2 fractional worksLeadership and Management in Organizations: 2 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 2 fractional works
Computer Networks and CommunicationsInformation SystemsSociology and Political ScienceBiomedical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Software-Defined Networks and 5G Computer Networks and Communications 8 works
  2. 2 Mobile and Web Applications Information Systems 3 works
  3. 3 Multimedia Communication and Technology Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  4. 4 Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Network Packet Processing and Optimization Hardware and Architecture 2 works
  6. 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  7. 7 Mobile Agent-Based Network Management Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  8. 8 Caching and Content Delivery Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Leadership and Management in Organizations Strategy and Management 2 works
  10. 10 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 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 available22.5%not open77.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.7%domestic only92.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sunnyvale Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% 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 Sunnyvale Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00013% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Sunnyvale Public Library0.00014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sunnyvale Public Library over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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