Walmart (United States)

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

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

1. Computer Science#4,389 #2,711
2. Physical Sciences#15,386 #8,433
3. Social Sciences#10,079 #8,381

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

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Information Systems takes 14.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 20.9 works14×
2. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 24.2 works7.5×
3. Information SystemsSubfield · 40.3 works6.2×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

• Computer Science 5.0×
• Business, Management and Accounting 4.1×
• Decision Sciences 3.8×
• Health Professions 1.2×
• Social Sciences 0.8×
• Engineering 0.8×
• Mathematics 0.7×
• Arts and Humanities 0.7×
• Psychology 0.7×
• Dentistry 0.5×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.5×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.4×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.4×
• Nursing 0.3×
• Environmental Science 0.3×
• Medicine 0.3×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.3×
• Energy 0.2×
• Neuroscience 0.2×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.2×
• Immunology and Microbiology 0.2×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
• Materials Science 0.1×
• Chemical Engineering 0.1×
• Chemistry 0.1×

Ranked on the composite score, Kannan Achan and Margaret Benner Smidt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Walmart (United States).

1. 1 🇺🇸 Kannan Achan United States · #1,111,912 worldwide 48 citations · 30 works
2. 2 🇺🇸 Margaret Benner Smidt United States · #1,583,614 worldwide 0 citations · 27 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Supply Chain Management, Machine Learning, Sustainability, Internet of Things and Distributed Systems.

By volume in 2022–2025: Big Data and Business Intelligence, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management and Topic Modeling.

1. 1 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 14 works
2. 2 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 8 works
3. 3 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 8 works
4. 4 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 7 works
5. 5 Consumer Retail Behavior Studies Marketing 7 works
6. 6 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 7 works
7. 7 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 6 works
8. 8 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 5 works
9. 9 Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing Marketing 5 works
10. 10 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 4 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 98% higher than in 2013–2017.

• Northwest Arkansas Community College
• Walton Family Foundation
• Whole Health Institute