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Research in Asheville

Science Explorer records 35 research institutions in Asheville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of North Carolina at Asheville, Southern Research Station and Mission Health.

Research institutions
35
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
7.5k
▲ 14% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
17.0%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Asheville?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Southern Research StationGovernment institution 2,509 #12,279
2University of North Carolina at AshevilleUniversity 1,746 #10,662
3Mission HealthHospital / health system 629 #20,473
4NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFunder 565 #2,743 all time
5Cooperative Institute for Climate and SatellitesResearch facility 332 #5,913 all time
6Mountain Area Health Education CenterHospital / health system 269 #26,694
7Warren Wilson CollegeUniversity 249 #36,038 all time
8Blue Ridge Research and Consulting (United States)Company 206 #8,605 all time
9Asheville Cardiology AssociatesInstitution 151 #41,574 all time
10Montreat CollegeUniversity 141 #37,615 all time
11Pediatric Brain Tumor FoundationNonprofit 128 #17,226 all time
12Orelena Hawks Puckett InstituteNonprofit 96 not ranked
13Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture ProjectNonprofit 81 not ranked
14Charles George VA Medical CenterHospital / health system 72 not ranked
15Asheville–Buncombe Technical Community CollegeUniversity 41 not ranked
16The Association of Boarding SchoolsUniversity 40 not ranked
17Cancer Care of Western North CarolinaHospital / health system 40 not ranked
18National Paideia CenterUniversity 39 not ranked
19Mission Children's HospitalHospital / health system 23 not ranked
20Buncombe County SchoolsUniversity 19 not ranked
21The American Chestnut FoundationNonprofit 16 not ranked
22Carolinas Center for Advanced Management of PainHospital / health system 16 not ranked
23Evergreen Community Charter SchoolUniversity 15 not ranked
24Mountain Diabetes and Endocrine CenterHospital / health system 15 not ranked
25Asheville Hematology & OncologyHospital / health system 12 not ranked
26Clinical Study Center of AshevilleResearch facility 10 not ranked
27Hope Women's Cancer CentersHospital / health system 9 not ranked
28Cielo InstituteResearch facility 7 not ranked
29LightForm (United States)Company 5 not ranked
30Bent Creek InstituteNonprofit 4 not ranked
31Arts For LifeNonprofit 3 not ranked
32Rural Support PartnersInstitution 2 not ranked
33Buncombe County Early CollegeUniversity 2 not ranked
34Southern Appalachian Highlands ConservancyNonprofit 2 not ranked
35Wild for LifeNonprofit 0 not ranked

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.

Southern Research Station: 33.5%University of North Carolina at Asheville: 23.3%Mission Health: 8.4%NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information: 7.5%30 others listed: 27.3%33%largest
Southern Research Station2,509 · 33.5%University of North Carolina at Asheville1,746 · 23.3%Mission Health629 · 8.4%NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information565 · 7.5%30 others listed2,045 · 27.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Asheville strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Asheville is most concentrated in Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change (12.7× the world share in Insect Science).

  1. Insect ScienceSubfield · 37.5 works13×
  2. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 30.6 works12×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 79.5 works10×
  4. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 32.4 works7.0×
  5. EcologySubfield · 51.1 works6.2×
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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 Asheville?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Global Warming, Biodiversity, Conservation, Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Resilience and Biodiversity Conservation.

▲ 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
  1. Climate Change155▲ 5.5×77 topics
  2. Invasive Species51▲ 11×18 topics
  3. Remote Sensing48▲ 3.7×25 topics
  4. Biodiversity44▲ 5.6×28 topics
  5. Global Warming42▲ 9.8×11 topics
  6. Conservation35▲ 7.8×18 topics
  7. Ecosystem Resilience34▲ 22×5 topics
  8. Biodiversity Conservation32▲ 8.2×13 topics
  9. Public Health28▲ 1.81×27 topics
  10. Biological Invasions25▲ 27×3 topics
  11. Habitat Fragmentation25▲ 11×5 topics
  12. Global Change25▲ 9.0×7 topics
  13. Biological Control24▲ 15×10 topics
  14. Soil Properties24▲ 13×6 topics
  15. Forest Fires22▲ 47×1 topic
  16. Wildfire Activity22▲ 47×1 topic
  17. Biomass Estimation20▲ 13×3 topics
  18. Ecosystem20▲ 18×4 topics
  19. Ecosystem Services19▲ 4.7×10 topics
  20. Aboveground Biomass18▲ 19×2 topics
  21. Ocean Circulation18▲ 13×3 topics
  22. Population Dynamics17▲ 6.5×11 topics
  23. Tomography17▲ 9.0×3 topics
  24. Seismic Noise17▲ 33×1 topic
  25. Surface Wave17▲ 33×1 topic
  26. Climate Change Impact17▲ 7.1×3 topics
  27. Land Use Change16▲ 5.0×6 topics
  28. Solar Wind16▲ 16×2 topics
  29. Climate Change Impacts15▲ 12×6 topics
  30. Extreme Events14▲ 15×2 topics
  31. Hydrological Cycle13▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Economic Impacts13▲ 18×2 topics
  33. Data Assimilation13▲ 8.0×4 topics
  34. Citizen Science13▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Drought13▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Model Evaluation13▲ 9.9×2 topics
  37. Species Richness13▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Bark Beetles13▲ 61×1 topic
  39. Evapotranspiration13▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Forest Pests13▲ 61×1 topic

What research is done in Asheville?

  1. 1 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 22 works
  2. 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 17 works
  3. 3 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 13 works
  4. 4 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  5. 5 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 12 works
  6. 6 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 12 works
  7. 7 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 12 works
  8. 8 Insect and Pesticide Research Insect Science 12 works
  9. 9 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 10 works
  10. 10 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 10 works

Research output over time

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