Research in Atlanta
Science Explorer records 218 research institutions in Atlanta, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University.
- Research institutions
- 218 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 331k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 12.7M 38.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 19.2% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 | Emory UniversityUniversity | 107,033 | #108 | |
| 2 | Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 105,220 | #157 | |
| 3 | Georgia State UniversityUniversity | 34,166 | #928 | |
| 4 | AID AtlantaNonprofit | 6,351 | #4,546 | |
| 5 | Emory HealthcareHospital / health system | 3,500 | #1,643 | |
| 6 | Morehouse School of MedicineUniversity | 3,476 | #6,854 | |
| 7 | American Cancer SocietyNonprofit | 2,713 | #1,156 | |
| 8 | Southerners on New GroundNonprofit | 2,258 | #27,641 all time | |
| 9 | Clark Atlanta UniversityUniversity | 2,250 | #14,137 | |
| 10 | Delta Air Lines (United States)Company | 2,128 | #4,229 | |
| 11 | Carter CenterNonprofit | 1,276 | #2,761 | |
| 12 | Spelman CollegeUniversity | 940 | #11,434 | |
| 13 | Atlanta Medical CenterHospital / health system | 859 | #19,570 | |
| 14 | Georgia Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 830 | #10,551 | |
| 15 | Northside HospitalHospital / health system | 788 | #17,941 | |
| 16 | CDC FoundationNonprofit | 750 | #11,019 | |
| 17 | Morehouse CollegeUniversity | 741 | #16,437 | |
| 18 | Geosyntec Consultants (United States)Company | 669 | #16,803 | |
| 19 | Southern Company (United States)Company | 624 | #17,521 | |
| 20 | Ian's Friends FoundationNonprofit | 543 | #13,004 | |
| 21 | Coca Cola (United States)Company | 538 | #11,083 all time | |
| 22 | CARE USANonprofit | 528 | #15,923 | |
| 23 | Arthritis FoundationNonprofit | 517 | #13,159 all time | |
| 24 | King CenterNonprofit | 493 | #1,636 | |
| 25 | Atlanta Technical CollegeUniversity | 475 | #16,885 | |
| 26 | American Academy of ReligionNonprofit | 471 | #22,092 all time | |
| 27 | Shepherd CenterHospital / health system | 443 | #19,263 | |
| 28 | Piedmont Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 422 | #17,351 | |
| 29 | Atlanta University CenterUniversity | 411 | #3,900 all time | |
| 30 | Oglethorpe UniversityUniversity | 407 | #21,402 all time | |
| 31 | Peachtree Orthopaedic ClinicHospital / health system | 402 | #13,512 all time | |
| 32 | Atlanta Gastroenterology AssociatesInstitution | 395 | #14,514 all time | |
| 33 | Grady Health SystemHospital / health system | 388 | #16,057 | |
| 34 | Reproductive Biology AssociatesHospital / health system | 383 | #20,703 all time | |
| 35 | Georgia Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 350 | #17,846 all time | |
| 36 | Georgia Department of EducationGovernment institution | 334 | #16,497 all time | |
| 37 | Daimler (United States)Company | 313 | #16,990 all time | |
| 38 | Ionic Systems (United States)Company | 255 | #25,671 all time | |
| 39 | Scottish Rite HospitalHospital / health system | 252 | #25,131 all time | |
| 40 | Child Neurology AssociatesHospital / health system | 222 | #24,090 all time | |
| 41 | Multiple Sclerosis Center of AtlantaNonprofit | 222 | #22,126 all time | |
| 42 | Zoo AtlantaArchive | 194 | #27,963 all time | |
| 43 | University System of GeorgiaUniversity | 193 | #22,334 all time | |
| 44 | UCB Pharma (United States)Company | 179 | #22,238 all time | |
| 45 | Fulton County Medical Examiner's OfficeGovernment institution | 174 | #30,774 all time | |
| 46 | Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions NetworkNonprofit | 171 | #24,394 all time | |
| 47 | EnerTech (United States)Company | 166 | #25,703 all time | |
| 48 | Georgia Power (United States)Company | 152 | #33,010 all time | |
| 49 | King & SpaldingInstitution | 150 | #28,943 all time | |
| 50 | Georgia Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 135 | #28,936 all time | |
| 51 | Atlanta Research and Education FoundationNonprofit | 134 | #23,948 all time | |
| 52 | Atlanta Metropolitan State CollegeUniversity | 113 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Home Depot (United States)Company | 113 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Neural Signals (United States)Company | 112 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Council of State and Territorial EpidemiologistsInstitution | 105 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Carver Bible CollegeUniversity | 105 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Georgia Christian UniversityUniversity | 96 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Johnson Research & Development (United States)Company | 91 | not ranked | |
| 59 | American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning EngineersInstitution | 85 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Atlanta Diabetes AssociatesHospital / health system | 81 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Atlanta work in?
In 2022-now, 35% of research in Atlanta is in Health Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (31%), Engineering (12%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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 city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences18k35.4%
- Medicine16k30.9%
- Health Professions1,9733.8%
- Nursing2700.5%
- Dentistry600.1%
- Veterinary500.1%
- Physical Sciences16k30.1%
- Engineering6,15511.9%
- Computer Science4,0147.7%
- Environmental Science1,5222.9%
- Physics and Astronomy1,0402.0%
- Materials Science9691.9%
- Mathematics7071.4%
- Chemistry4710.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences4210.8%
- Energy1980.4%
- Chemical Engineering1370.3%
- Social Sciences11k21.1%
- Social Sciences5,1209.9%
- Psychology2,3494.5%
- Arts and Humanities1,1742.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance9041.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting8391.6%
- Decision Sciences5611.1%
- Life Sciences6,95413.4%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3,4016.5%
- Neuroscience1,6323.1%
- Immunology and Microbiology1,0892.1%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences7021.4%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1290.2%
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×
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.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 2.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology2.09×964 works
- Neuroscience1.90×1,414 works
- Medicine1.60×14k works
- Psychology1.50×2,098 works
- Health Professions1.48×1,790 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.19×2,908 works
- Mathematics1.14×616 works
- Decision Sciences1.10×487 works
- Nursing1.03×230 works
- Computer Science0.97×3,463 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.89×905 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.85×834 works
- Arts and Humanities0.81×1,068 works
- Engineering0.80×5,492 works
- Social Sciences0.80×4,622 works
- Chemical Engineering0.77×123 works
- Veterinary0.70×44 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.67×107 works
- Chemistry0.58×414 works
- Environmental Science0.58×1,326 works
- Materials Science0.53×844 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.52×765 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.50×362 works
- Energy0.40×168 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×628 works
- Dentistry0.22×49 works
Which keywords describe research in Atlanta?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Mental Health, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Risk Factors, Vaccine and Pathogenesis.
- Stigma and Discrimination
- HIV
- HIV Transmission
- Mortality Risk
- Vaccine Development
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Social Support
- Global Burden
- Mortality
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Pandemic
- Cancer
- Depression
- COVID-19
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Inflammation
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Neural Networks
- Oxidative Stress
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine
- Immune Response
- Diagnosis
- Neurological Disorders
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- SARS-CoV-2
- Infectious Diseases
- Health Disparities
- Global Burden of Disease
- Mortality Rates
- Viral Load
- Preexposure Prophylaxis
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology4,185▲ 2.0×139 topics
- Deep Learning1,776◆ 0.99×84 topics
- Machine Learning1,738◆ 1.01×94 topics
- Public Health1,546▲ 2.0×71 topics
- Mental Health1,298▲ 1.75×47 topics
- Inflammation1,286▲ 1.16×83 topics
- Risk Factors1,096▲ 1.92×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease921▲ 1.56×39 topics
- Neural Networks907◆ 1.13×41 topics
- Quality of Life875▲ 1.17×59 topics
- Oxidative Stress873◆ 1.02×62 topics
- Treatment859▲ 1.36×52 topics
- Pathogenesis746▲ 2.8×24 topics
- COVID-19744◆ 1.10×32 topics
- Vaccine738▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Depression734▲ 1.61×25 topics
- Immune Response714▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Cancer708◆ 1.01×59 topics
- Diagnosis672▲ 1.39×41 topics
- Pandemic656▲ 1.27×14 topics
- Neurological Disorders590▲ 1.99×20 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome575▲ 1.37×24 topics
- Immunotherapy558▲ 1.49×19 topics
- Mortality544▲ 1.84×13 topics
- Biomarkers535▲ 1.48×18 topics
- Global Burden510▲ 1.80×12 topics
- SARS-CoV-2486▲ 3.1×6 topics
- Social Support477▲ 1.71×20 topics
- Infectious Diseases460▲ 2.7×10 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy452▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Health Disparities445▲ 3.3×9 topics
- Vaccine Development422▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Global Burden of Disease376▲ 2.9×4 topics
- Mortality Risk361▲ 2.9×6 topics
- Mortality Rates320▲ 6.5×2 topics
- HIV Transmission281▲ 7.1×2 topics
- Viral Load279▲ 6.9×2 topics
- HIV250▲ 5.8×4 topics
- Preexposure Prophylaxis208▲ 8.2×1 topic
- Stigma and Discrimination208▲ 8.2×1 topic
What research is done in Atlanta?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 191 works
- 2 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 174 works
- 3 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 173 works
- 4 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 160 works
- 5 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 143 works
- 6 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 136 works
- 7 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 128 works
- 8 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 111 works
- 9 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 109 works
- 10 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 104 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.3% in 2008.
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