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Research in Basel

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Basel, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Friedrich Miescher Institute.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.4k
▼ 32% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
35.1%
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 Basel?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Friedrich Miescher InstituteResearch facility 2,371 #5,976

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.

What is Basel strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Basel is most concentrated in Molecular Biology (10.9× the world share in Molecular Biology).

  1. Molecular BiologySubfield · 29.3 works11×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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 Basel?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gene Expression, Neuronal Oscillations, Synchronization, Working Memory, Neurological Disorders, Cortical Networks, Gamma Rhythms and Synaptic Plasticity.

▲ 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. Gene Expression6▲ 11×11 topics
  2. Neuronal Oscillations5▲ 74×2 topics
  3. Synchronization5▲ 45×2 topics
  4. Working Memory5▲ 58×2 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress5▲ 3.2×12 topics
  6. Cancer4▲ 3.7×22 topics
  7. Neurological Disorders4▲ 8.8×8 topics
  8. Cortical Networks4▲ 84×1 topic
  9. Gamma Rhythms4▲ 84×1 topic
  10. Synaptic Plasticity4▲ 22×3 topics
  11. Cancer Therapy4▲ 8.1×10 topics
  12. Neuronal Circuits4▲ 60×2 topics
  13. Dendritic Spines4▲ 56×2 topics
  14. Gene Regulation4▲ 46×4 topics
  15. GABAergic3▲ 71×1 topic
  16. Neurotransmission3▲ 71×1 topic
  17. Transcription Factors3▲ 30×3 topics
  18. Bioinformatics3▲ 31×3 topics
  19. Stem Cells3▲ 13×9 topics
  20. Chromatin3▲ 71×2 topics
  21. Transcriptional Regulation3▲ 20×5 topics
  22. Alternative Splicing3▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Data Analysis3▲ 11×4 topics
  24. Epigenetics3▲ 72×2 topics
  25. RNA-Binding Proteins3▲ 59×1 topic
  26. Histone Modifications3▲ 120×1 topic
  27. Transcription3▲ 120×1 topic
  28. Translation3▲ 17×2 topics
  29. Epigenetic Regulation2▲ 13×6 topics
  30. Prefrontal Cortex2▲ 35×3 topics
  31. RNA Structure2▲ 53×1 topic
  32. Ribosome2▲ 53×1 topic
  33. Feature Selection2▲ 12×2 topics
  34. Clustering2▲ 28×3 topics
  35. Neuroscience2▲ 8.9×3 topics
  36. Brain Development2▲ 14×4 topics
  37. Differential Expression2▲ 105×1 topic
  38. Microarray2▲ 105×1 topic
  39. Neurobiology2▲ 9.7×2 topics
  40. Normalization2▲ 50×2 topics

What research is done in Basel?

  1. 1 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 4 works
  2. 2 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 3 works
  3. 3 RNA Research and Splicing Molecular Biology 3 works
  4. 4 Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Molecular Biology 3 works
  5. 5 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 2 works
  6. 6 Gene expression and cancer classification Molecular Biology 2 works
  7. 7 Memory and Neural Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  8. 8 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 2 works
  9. 9 Protein Degradation and Inhibitors Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 2 works

Research output over time

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