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Research in Atlanta
Science Explorer records 250 research institutions in Atlanta, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and Georgia State University.
- Research institutions
- 250 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 331k ▲ 7% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 19.2% 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 Atlanta?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 103,911 | #138 | |
| 2 | Emory UniversityUniversity | 93,245 | #152 | |
| 3 | Georgia State UniversityUniversity | 34,166 | #1,012 | |
| 4 | Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFunder | 24,805 | #1,024 | |
| 5 | AID AtlantaNonprofit | 6,351 | #5,015 | |
| 6 | Morehouse School of MedicineUniversity | 3,476 | #4,305 | |
| 7 | Children's Healthcare of AtlantaHospital / health system | 3,448 | #2,936 | |
| 8 | Emory University HospitalHospital / health system | 3,088 | #6,725 | |
| 9 | American Cancer SocietyNonprofit | 2,713 | #6,790 | |
| 10 | Office of Infectious DiseasesGovernment institution | 2,445 | #10,271 | |
| 11 | Southerners on New GroundNonprofit | 2,258 | #20,759 all time | |
| 12 | Clark Atlanta UniversityUniversity | 2,250 | #8,515 | |
| 13 | National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health PromotionResearch facility | 2,248 | #5,022 | |
| 14 | Center for Global HealthGovernment institution | 2,248 | #4,289 | |
| 15 | National Center for Infectious DiseasesResearch facility | 2,205 | #11,102 | |
| 16 | Delta Air Lines (United States)Company | 2,128 | #11,411 | |
| 17 | Emory HealthcareHospital / health system | 1,914 | #4,691 | |
| 18 | The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity | 1,852 | #2,346 | |
| 19 | Grady Memorial HospitalHospital / health system | 1,546 | #12,133 | |
| 20 | National Center for Immunization and Respiratory DiseasesResearch facility | 1,535 | #4,403 | |
| 21 | National Center for Environmental HealthResearch facility | 1,478 | #13,357 | |
| 22 | National Center for HIV/AIDS Viral Hepatitis STD and TB PreventionResearch facility | 1,287 | #8,581 | |
| 23 | Carter CenterNonprofit | 1,276 | #7,206 | |
| 24 | National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesResearch facility | 1,099 | #4,687 | |
| 25 | National Center for Injury Prevention and ControlInstitution | 1,094 | #5,720 | |
| 26 | Spelman CollegeUniversity | 940 | #11,888 | |
| 27 | Epidemic Intelligence ServiceGovernment institution | 908 | #8,193 | |
| 28 | Atlanta Medical CenterHospital / health system | 859 | #20,160 | |
| 29 | Georgia Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 830 | #17,254 | |
| 30 | Northside HospitalHospital / health system | 788 | #17,012 | |
| 31 | National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental DisabilitiesResearch facility | 753 | #15,876 | |
| 32 | CDC FoundationNonprofit | 750 | #16,293 | |
| 33 | Morehouse CollegeUniversity | 741 | #24,060 | |
| 34 | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease RegistryHospital / health system | 708 | #22,715 | |
| 35 | Geosyntec Consultants (United States)Company | 669 | #22,382 | |
| 36 | Piedmont Atlanta HospitalHospital / health system | 650 | #18,896 | |
| 37 | Southern Company (United States)Company | 624 | #26,264 | |
| 38 | Ian's Friends FoundationNonprofit | 543 | #25,035 | |
| 39 | Coca Cola (United States)Company | 538 | #24,862 all time | |
| 40 | CARE USANonprofit | 528 | #22,970 | |
| 41 | Arthritis FoundationNonprofit | 517 | #9,064 all time | |
| 42 | Woodruff Health Sciences CenterHospital / health system | 515 | #10,203 | |
| 43 | King CenterNonprofit | 493 | #3,294 | |
| 44 | Division of Parasitic Diseases and MalariaResearch facility | 492 | #18,816 | |
| 45 | Atlanta Technical CollegeUniversity | 475 | #17,259 | |
| 46 | American Academy of ReligionNonprofit | 471 | #32,574 all time | |
| 47 | Emory ClinicHospital / health system | 467 | #14,822 all time | |
| 48 | Emory University Hospital MidtownHospital / health system | 462 | #20,353 | |
| 49 | Emory Eye CenterHospital / health system | 450 | #25,394 all time | |
| 50 | Shepherd CenterHospital / health system | 443 | #26,645 | |
| 51 | Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory ServicesResearch facility | 442 | #7,210 all time | |
| 52 | Piedmont Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 422 | #12,923 | |
| 53 | Atlanta University CenterUniversity | 411 | #3,835 all time | |
| 54 | Oglethorpe UniversityUniversity | 407 | #32,460 all time | |
| 55 | Peachtree Orthopaedic ClinicHospital / health system | 402 | #27,180 all time | |
| 56 | Atlanta Gastroenterology AssociatesInstitution | 395 | #16,974 all time | |
| 57 | Grady Health SystemHospital / health system | 388 | #10,860 | |
| 58 | Reproductive Biology AssociatesHospital / health system | 383 | #25,329 all time | |
| 59 | Georgia Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 350 | #27,141 all time | |
| 60 | Office of Readiness and ResponseHospital / health system | 337 | #18,972 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.
Georgia Institute of Technology104k · 32.1%Emory University93k · 28.8%Georgia State University34k · 10.6%Centers for Disease Control and Prevention25k · 7.7%56 others listed67k · 20.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Atlanta strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Atlanta is most concentrated in Virology, Infectious Diseases and Behavioral Neuroscience (5.3× the world share in Virology).
- VirologySubfield · 140.2 works5.3×
- Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 1,103.9 works3.5×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 60.3 works3.4×
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 27.9 works3.2×
- HealthSubfield · 429.3 works3.2×
- TransplantationSubfield · 59.3 works2.9×
- MicrobiologySubfield · 130.7 works2.7×
← 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 Atlanta?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Vaccine and Pathogenesis.
- Stigma and Discrimination
- HIV
- HIV Transmission
- Mortality Risk
- Vaccine Development
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Social Support
- Global Burden
- Immunotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Diagnosis
- Cancer
- Depression
- Pathogenesis
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Inflammation
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Neural Networks
- Oxidative Stress
- COVID-19
- Vaccine
- Immune Response
- Pandemic
- Neurological Disorders
- Mortality
- Biomarkers
- SARS-CoV-2
- Health Disparities
- Infectious Diseases
- Global Burden of Disease
- Mortality Rates
- Viral Load
- Preexposure Prophylaxis
▲ 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
- Epidemiology3,732▲ 2.1×139 topics
- Deep Learning1,542◆ 0.98×84 topics
- Machine Learning1,480◆ 0.99×93 topics
- Public Health1,396▲ 2.1×70 topics
- Mental Health1,195▲ 1.78×47 topics
- Inflammation1,121▲ 1.18×83 topics
- Risk Factors988▲ 1.96×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease799▲ 1.57×39 topics
- Neural Networks780◆ 1.10×40 topics
- Quality of Life776▲ 1.18×59 topics
- Oxidative Stress767◆ 1.02×61 topics
- Treatment755▲ 1.36×52 topics
- COVID-19682◆ 1.09×32 topics
- Pathogenesis672▲ 2.9×24 topics
- Vaccine665▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Depression651▲ 1.62×25 topics
- Immune Response631▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Cancer616◆ 1.00×58 topics
- Pandemic607▲ 1.24×14 topics
- Diagnosis590▲ 1.39×41 topics
- Neurological Disorders518▲ 1.99×20 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome511▲ 1.37×24 topics
- Mortality494▲ 1.87×13 topics
- Immunotherapy484▲ 1.48×19 topics
- Biomarkers461▲ 1.47×18 topics
- Global Burden456▲ 1.85×12 topics
- SARS-CoV-2451▲ 3.0×6 topics
- Social Support443▲ 1.74×20 topics
- Health Disparities408▲ 3.4×9 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy404▲ 5.4×6 topics
- Infectious Diseases402▲ 2.7×10 topics
- Vaccine Development371▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Global Burden of Disease336▲ 3.0×4 topics
- Mortality Risk330▲ 3.0×6 topics
- Mortality Rates291▲ 6.7×2 topics
- HIV Transmission255▲ 7.5×2 topics
- Viral Load254▲ 7.0×2 topics
- HIV228▲ 6.0×4 topics
- Preexposure Prophylaxis191▲ 8.6×1 topic
- Stigma and Discrimination191▲ 8.6×1 topic
What research is done in Atlanta?
Infectious DiseasesCognitive NeuroscienceHealthEpidemiology3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsInfectious Diseases 191 works
- 2 Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesCognitive Neuroscience 174 works
- 3 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchInfectious Diseases 173 works
- 4 Vaccine Coverage and HesitancyHealth 160 works
- 5 Respiratory viral infections researchEpidemiology 143 works
- 6 Food Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsGeneral Health Professions 136 works
- 7 COVID-19 epidemiological studiesModeling and Simulation 128 works
- 8 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskEpidemiology 111 works
- 9 Influenza Virus Research StudiesEpidemiology 109 works
- 10 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 104 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.