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Yahoo (United States)

In research, Yahoo (United States) stands highest in Computer Science (#614 of 6,336 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,558 of 17,446 worldwide) and Information Systems (#412 of 2,566 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science (Computer Science is 7.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#3,744
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#859
of 7,310
Research works
1.5k
▼ 57% vs 2018-21
Citations
104k
68.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.55×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Yahoo (United States)

What is Yahoo (United States) 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
Computer ScienceField #614 of 6,336 28.1%902
Physical SciencesDomain #2,558 of 17,446 27.6%1,039
Information SystemsSubfield #412 of 2,566 29.8%240
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #637 of 2,786 26.4%258
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #526 of 1,718 31.3%121
Social SciencesDomain #4,625 of 14,833 16.7%374
Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield #571 of 1,775 29.1%128
Social SciencesField #6,161 of 9,330 19.0%121

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Yahoo (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 fields of science does Yahoo (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Yahoo (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (55%), Social Sciences (8%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 31 fractional works · 65.2% of its workComputer Science: 26 fractional works · 54.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 11 fractional works · 22.8% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 12.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 26.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 7.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKYahoo (UnitedStates)48fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences27%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2654.9%
    2. Mathematics24.8%
    3. Physics and Astronomy12.7%
    4. Engineering12.2%
    5. Chemistry00.4%
    6. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Social Sciences48.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting47.9%
    3. Decision Sciences35.5%
    4. Psychology12.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities11.7%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
    1. Medicine25.1%
    2. Nursing00.4%
    1. Neuroscience11.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Yahoo (United States) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 7.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 26.2 works7.1×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.72× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 7.06× its world share, 26 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 4.09× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.23× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.44× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.74× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science7.06×26 works
  2. Decision Sciences5.74×3 works
  3. Mathematics4.09×2 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting2.44×4 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.23×1 works
  6. Nursing0.81×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.72×1 works
  8. Psychology0.65×1 works
  9. Social Sciences0.65×4 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.60×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.54×1 works
  12. Medicine0.27×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.22×0 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×0 works
  15. Engineering0.15×1 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.07×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, R. Preston McAfee and Ravi Kumar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Yahoo (United States).

  1. 1 Evgeniy Gabrilovich United States · #45,794 worldwide 14k citations · 123 works
  2. 2 R. Preston McAfee United States · #126,312 worldwide 13k citations · 224 works
  3. 3 Ravi Kumar United States · #161,046 worldwide 7.5k citations · 68 works
  4. 4 Andrei Broder United States · #175,554 worldwide 17k citations · 163 works
  5. 5 Belle L. Tseng United States · #184,625 worldwide 7k citations · 78 works
  6. 6 Malcolm Slaney United States · #186,108 worldwide 20k citations · 182 works
  7. 7 Marcus Fontoura United States · #201,694 worldwide 3.3k citations · 71 works
  8. 8 Vanja Josifovski United States · #206,787 worldwide 5.9k citations · 116 works
  9. 9 Philip Bohannon United States · #311,067 worldwide 4.2k citations · 67 works
  10. 10 Rosie Jones United States · #364,624 worldwide 4.7k citations · 108 works
All ranked researchers at Yahoo (United States)

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

The most cited paper from Yahoo (United States) is "Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems" (Yehuda Koren, Robert Bell, Chris T. Volinsky, 2009), with 11,958 citations. Next come "A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists" (6,768) and "Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis" (6,349).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems Yehuda Koren, Robert Bell, Chris T. Volinsky · Computer Aug 2009 11,958
2 A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists Jane Elith, Steven J. Phillips, Trevor Hastie et al. · Diversity and Distributions Open access 25 Nov 2010 6,768
3 Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis Bo Pang, Lillian Lee · Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval 7 Jul 2008 6,349
4 Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations Ranjay Krishna, Yuke Zhu, Oliver Groth et al. · International Journal of Computer Vision Open access 6 Feb 2017 5,329
5 The Hadoop Distributed File System Konstantin V. Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia et al. Conference paper May 2010 4,891
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Which keywords describe research at Yahoo (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neural Networks, Big Data, Deep Learning, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Automatic, Extraction and Information Retrieval.

▲ 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 37 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 37 words, with their numbers
  1. Neural Networks6▲ 7.9×8 topics
  2. Deep Learning5▲ 3.3×16 topics
  3. Machine Learning5▲ 3.0×15 topics
  4. Big Data4▲ 8.6×7 topics
  5. Distributed Systems3▲ 37×4 topics
  6. Automatic3▲ 153×1 topic
  7. Extraction3▲ 44×1 topic
  8. Information Retrieval3▲ 26×3 topics
  9. Social Media2▲ 3.3×5 topics
  10. Energy Efficiency2▲ 4.8×4 topics
  11. Cloud Computing2▲ 14×3 topics
  12. Online Learning2▲ 4.7×3 topics
  13. Text Classification2▲ 24×2 topics
  14. Resource Management2▲ 19×2 topics
  15. Firm Performance2▲ 18×2 topics
  16. Supply Chain Management2▲ 3.5×2 topics
  17. Anomaly Detection1▲ 11×2 topics
  18. Feature Selection1▲ 14×3 topics
  19. MapReduce1▲ 51×1 topic
  20. Virtualization1▲ 37×1 topic
  21. Log Analysis1▲ 62×1 topic
  22. Performance Prediction1▲ 39×1 topic
  23. Security1▲ 4.0×5 topics
  24. Analytics1▲ 28×1 topic
  25. Business Intelligence1▲ 28×1 topic
  26. Consumer Behavior1▲ 4.0×3 topics
  27. Collaborative Filtering1▲ 64×1 topic
  28. Convex Optimization1▲ 27×3 topics
  29. Hyperparameter Optimization1▲ 56×2 topics
  30. Machine Translation1▲ 13×1 topic
  31. Matrix Factorization1▲ 64×1 topic
  32. Word Representation1▲ 18×1 topic
  33. E-commerce1▲ 3.7×2 topics
  34. Opinion Mining1▲ 38×1 topic
  35. Sentiment Analysis1▲ 19×1 topic
  36. Sign Language1▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Social Networks1▲ 7.7×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Text Analysis Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Software System Performance and Reliability and Big Data and Business Intelligence.

Advanced Text Analysis T…3Advanced Text Analysis Techniques: 3 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 1 fractional worksSoftware System Performance and Reliability: 1 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 1 fractional worksTopic Modeling1Topic Modeling: 1 fractional worksRecommender Systems and Techniques: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Bandit Algorith…1Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research: 1 fractional worksSentiment Analysis and O…1Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining: 1 fractional worksConsumer Market Behavior…1Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing: 1 fractional worksData Stream Mining Techn…1Data Stream Mining Techniques: 1 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsComputer Networks and CommunicationsManagement Information Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Text Analysis Techniques Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  2. 2 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 1 works
  3. 3 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  4. 4 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 1 works
  5. 5 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  6. 6 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 1 works
  7. 7 Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  8. 8 Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  9. 9 Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing Marketing 1 works
  10. 10 Data Stream Mining Techniques Artificial Intelligence 1 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 available21.7%not open78.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.1%domestic only69.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Yahoo (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Yahoo (United States)0.000086% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Yahoo (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.

20%40%Yahoo (United States)13.3% in 2021all institutions10.0% in 202120102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.6% in 2007.

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