City · United States
Research in Arlington
Science Explorer records 196 research institutions in Arlington, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are The Nature Conservancy, Division of Chemistry and United States Army.
- Research institutions
- 196 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 108k ▲ 35% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 7.8% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Arlington?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marymount UniversityUniversity | 19,575 | #6,763 | |
| 2 | United States ArmyGovernment institution | 11,050 | #6,453 | |
| 3 | The Nature ConservancyNonprofit | 9,870 | #2,437 | |
| 4 | United States Department of the ArmyGovernment institution | 8,093 | #15,324 | |
| 5 | RTX (United States)Company | 7,644 | #8,651 | |
| 6 | In-Q-TelNonprofit | 6,885 | #16,851 | |
| 7 | United States Department of the NavyGovernment institution | 5,066 | #16,806 | |
| 8 | United States Air ForceGovernment institution | 4,755 | #13,096 | |
| 9 | Industrial Research InstituteNonprofit | 3,917 | #5,859 all time | |
| 10 | NatureServeNonprofit | 2,153 | #8,270 | |
| 11 | Division of Human Resource ManagementGovernment institution | 1,975 | #17,281 | |
| 12 | Office of Naval ResearchGovernment institution | 1,908 | #4,293 all time | |
| 13 | Division of ChemistryGovernment institution | 1,776 | #5,923 | |
| 14 | Division of Undergraduate EducationGovernment institution | 1,727 | #14,910 | |
| 15 | Millennium Engineering and Integration (United States)Company | 1,718 | #10,788 | |
| 16 | BAE Systems (United States)Company | 1,200 | #18,644 | |
| 17 | Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyGovernment institution | 1,072 | #18,279 | |
| 18 | International Foundation for Electoral SystemsNonprofit | 1,015 | #22,973 | |
| 19 | ENVIRON (United States)Company | 790 | #10,474 all time | |
| 20 | Conservation InternationalNonprofit | 789 | #18,084 | |
| 21 | United States Marine CorpsGovernment institution | 601 | #26,608 | |
| 22 | Insurance Institute for Highway SafetyNonprofit | 564 | #23,740 | |
| 23 | Office of the DirectorFunder | 554 | #22,293 | |
| 24 | Research Experiences for UndergraduatesGovernment institution | 546 | #25,208 | |
| 25 | Fu Associates (United States)Company | 528 | #39,444 all time | |
| 26 | United States Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchGovernment institution | 495 | #9,220 all time | |
| 27 | Leonardo (United States)Company | 455 | #17,713 all time | |
| 28 | The Fertilizer InstituteNonprofit | 442 | #24,303 | |
| 29 | Institute for Global Environmental StrategiesNonprofit | 440 | #26,380 | |
| 30 | Arlington Free ClinicHospital / health system | 416 | #32,313 all time | |
| 31 | American Psychiatric AssociationNonprofit | 410 | #18,530 all time | |
| 32 | Office of Multidisciplinary ActivitiesGovernment institution | 406 | #13,270 | |
| 33 | Schafer Corporation (United States)Company | 401 | #17,814 all time | |
| 34 | Center for Naval AnalysesNonprofit | 391 | #14,944 all time | |
| 35 | University of Management and TechnologyUniversity | 373 | #23,824 | |
| 36 | Trout UnlimitedNonprofit | 362 | #25,233 | |
| 37 | Scope Group (United States)Company | 361 | #22,723 | |
| 38 | System Planning Corporation (United States)Company | 333 | #25,345 all time | |
| 39 | Alliant Techsystems (United States)Company | 331 | #21,256 all time | |
| 40 | CACI International (United States)Company | 299 | #26,805 all time | |
| 41 | Virginia Hospital CenterHospital / health system | 277 | #32,201 all time | |
| 42 | Foreign Service InstituteGovernment institution | 270 | #35,121 all time | |
| 43 | Strategic Analysis (United States)Company | 242 | #16,562 all time | |
| 44 | Rosetta Stone (United States)Company | 220 | #10,446 all time | |
| 45 | Anderson Orthopaedic ClinicHospital / health system | 210 | #35,966 all time | |
| 46 | International Space UniversityUniversity | 204 | #40,419 all time | |
| 47 | American Diabetes AssociationNonprofit | 201 | #20,466 all time | |
| 48 | Advanced Resources International (United States)Company | 182 | #34,169 all time | |
| 49 | National Council on AgingNonprofit | 180 | #33,015 all time | |
| 50 | American Anthropological AssociationInstitution | 179 | #23,517 all time | |
| 51 | Division of Ocean SciencesFunder | 179 | #12,865 all time | |
| 52 | Committee for Economic DevelopmentInstitution | 177 | #39,805 all time | |
| 53 | Pediatric Infectious Diseases SocietyNonprofit | 176 | #26,827 all time | |
| 54 | Visiting Nurse Associations of AmericaInstitution | 166 | #32,678 all time | |
| 55 | Association of State and Territorial Health OfficialsNonprofit | 164 | #31,709 all time | |
| 56 | Division of Materials ResearchGovernment institution | 163 | #17,251 all time | |
| 57 | Division of Biological InfrastructureGovernment institution | 145 | #40,827 all time | |
| 58 | American Society for Radiation OncologyNonprofit | 142 | #23,572 all time | |
| 59 | The Conservation FundNonprofit | 141 | #21,025 all time | |
| 60 | International Science and Technology InstituteInstitution | 127 | #41,012 all time |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Marymount University20k · 18.6%United States Army11k · 10.5%The Nature Conservancy9,870 · 9.4%United States Department of the Army8,093 · 7.7%56 others listed57k · 53.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Arlington strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Arlington is most concentrated in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Immunology and Ecological Modeling (2.8× the world share in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems).
- Endocrine and Autonomic SystemsSubfield · 32.3 works2.8×
- ImmunologySubfield · 249.9 works2.7×
- Ecological ModelingSubfield · 25.4 works2.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Arlington?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Public Health, Machine Learning, Sustainability, Globalization and Cancer.
- Capacity Building
- Ethical Considerations
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction
- Leadership
- Aging
- Genetics
- Depression
- Obesity
- Risk Factors
- Clinical Trials
- COVID-19
- Treatment
- Environmental Impact
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Quality of Life
- Education
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Healthcare
- Innovation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- Biodiversity
- Immunotherapy
- Neurological Disorders
- Risk Management
- Insulin Resistance
- Immunity
- Innate Immunity
- Cytokines
▲ 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 city'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
- Epidemiology620▲ 1.16×140 topics
- Climate Change521▲ 1.44×115 topics
- Machine Learning425◆ 0.97×95 topics
- Inflammation417▲ 1.49×82 topics
- Sustainability369◆ 1.13×123 topics
- Public Health328▲ 1.68×70 topics
- Deep Learning302▼ 0.66×83 topics
- Globalization292◆ 1.11×148 topics
- Oxidative Stress254▲ 1.16×61 topics
- Education253◆ 1.10×127 topics
- Cancer244▲ 1.35×58 topics
- Quality of Life229▲ 1.18×59 topics
- Mental Health220◆ 1.11×47 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease206▲ 1.38×38 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome195▲ 1.78×24 topics
- Environmental Impact191▼ 0.84×66 topics
- Healthcare187▲ 1.23×41 topics
- Treatment181◆ 1.11×50 topics
- Innovation180▲ 1.28×75 topics
- COVID-19172◆ 0.93×33 topics
- Artificial Intelligence170◆ 0.92×57 topics
- Clinical Trials167▲ 1.85×19 topics
- Big Data165▲ 1.35×31 topics
- Risk Factors158◆ 1.07×37 topics
- Biodiversity147▲ 1.47×38 topics
- Obesity143▲ 1.41×28 topics
- Immunotherapy141▲ 1.48×19 topics
- Depression139▲ 1.17×26 topics
- Neurological Disorders129▲ 1.69×20 topics
- Genetics123▲ 1.31×27 topics
- Risk Management111▲ 1.71×16 topics
- Aging110▲ 1.53×19 topics
- Insulin Resistance105▲ 1.72×10 topics
- Leadership105▲ 1.63×38 topics
- Immunity98▲ 1.80×11 topics
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction97▲ 2.5×11 topics
- Innate Immunity97▲ 2.3×11 topics
- Ethical Considerations97▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Cytokines85▲ 2.2×8 topics
- Capacity Building70▲ 8.5×5 topics
What research is done in Arlington?
ImmunologyPhysiologyOncologyMolecular Biology3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 47 works
- 2 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 43 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 36 works
- 4 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 35 works
- 5 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 35 works
- 6 Biotechnology and Related Fields Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 33 works
- 7 Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research Molecular Biology 33 works
- 8 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 31 works
- 9 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 31 works
- 10 Education and Islamic Studies Education 30 works
Research output over time
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