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Research in Bedford

Science Explorer records 26 research institutions in Bedford, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Mitre (United States), VA New England Healthcare System and AspenTech (United States).

Research institutions
26
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
14k
▲ 6% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.2%
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 Bedford?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Mitre (United States)Company 6,622 #10,139
2Hanscom Air Force BaseGovernment institution 3,229 #1,579 all time
3Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans HospitalHospital / health system 660 #12,401 all time
4Spire Corporation (United States)Company 420 #10,868 all time
5Bedford Research FoundationNonprofit 357 #15,877 all time
6Applied Science Laboratories (United States)Company 347 #19,525 all time
7VA New England Healthcare SystemHospital / health system 304 #14,262
8Bedford VA Research CorporationNonprofit 301 #15,229 all time
9AspenTech (United States)Company 292 #25,306
10Diversified Technologies (United States)Company 278 #26,910 all time
11iRobot (United States)Company 229 #21,230 all time
12Aware (United States)Company 127 #36,417 all time
13Q-Peak (United States)Company 110 not ranked
14Mayflower Communications (United States)Company 90 not ranked
151366 Technologies (United States)Company 87 not ranked
16Middlesex Community CollegeUniversity 73 not ranked
17Toxikon (United States)Company 58 not ranked
18N2 Biomedical (United States)Company 32 not ranked
19First Light Diagnostics (United States)Company 15 not ranked
20Conagen (United States)Company 11 not ranked
21InnerSea Technology (United States)Company 7 not ranked
22Vivonics (United States)Company 5 not ranked
23wTe Corporation (United States)Company 5 not ranked
24Consortium For Mathematics & Its ApplicationsNonprofit 4 not ranked
25NinePoint Medical (United States)Company 3 not ranked
26STAR Analytical ServicesCompany 1 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.

Mitre (United States): 48.5%Hanscom Air Force Base: 23.6%Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital: 4.8%Spire Corporation (United States): 3.1%22 others listed: 20.0%48%largest
Mitre (United States)6,622 · 48.5%Hanscom Air Force Base3,229 · 23.6%Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital660 · 4.8%Spire Corporation (United States)420 · 3.1%22 others listed2,736 · 20.0%

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

What is Bedford strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Bedford is most concentrated in Ocean Engineering (4.3× the world share in Ocean Engineering).

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 21.0 works4.3×
← 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 Bedford?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Chronic Disease Management, Big Data, Digital Divide, Collision Avoidance, Complex Adaptive Systems and Patient Satisfaction.

▲ 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. Machine Learning65▲ 2.1×63 topics
  2. Deep Learning64▲ 1.97×65 topics
  3. Epidemiology32◆ 0.87×71 topics
  4. Big Data27▲ 3.2×17 topics
  5. Neural Networks25▲ 1.74×24 topics
  6. Chronic Disease Management23▲ 13×5 topics
  7. Risk Assessment21▲ 3.3×16 topics
  8. Security18▲ 3.0×14 topics
  9. Digital Divide18▲ 7.3×7 topics
  10. Aging17▲ 3.3×12 topics
  11. Patient Satisfaction16▲ 5.5×8 topics
  12. Social Support16▲ 3.0×12 topics
  13. Optimization15▲ 3.5×11 topics
  14. Primary Care15▲ 4.2×9 topics
  15. Collision Avoidance15▲ 8.7×4 topics
  16. Complex Adaptive Systems15▲ 54×2 topics
  17. IoT Security14▲ 4.7×3 topics
  18. Anomaly Detection13▲ 4.6×3 topics
  19. Cybersecurity13▲ 5.6×4 topics
  20. Trust13▲ 4.9×5 topics
  21. Autonomous Vehicles12▲ 6.3×3 topics
  22. Driver Behavior12▲ 17×2 topics
  23. Healthcare Access12▲ 4.6×4 topics
  24. Telemedicine12▲ 10.0×5 topics
  25. Air Traffic Management12▲ 68×1 topic
  26. Conflict Resolution12▲ 34×1 topic
  27. Telehealth12▲ 29×1 topic
  28. Virtual Care12▲ 29×1 topic
  29. COVID-19 Impact11▲ 6.9×2 topics
  30. Quality Improvement11▲ 6.0×8 topics
  31. Human Factors11▲ 15×3 topics
  32. Agent-Based Modeling10▲ 8.2×7 topics
  33. Cognitive Load10▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Automation10▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Behavior Change10▲ 7.3×4 topics
  36. Mental Workload10▲ 21×2 topics
  37. Driver Distraction10▲ 28×1 topic
  38. Situation Awareness10▲ 28×1 topic
  39. Long-Term Care10▲ 14×2 topics
  40. Quality of Care9▲ 12×4 topics

What research is done in Bedford?

  1. 1 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 12 works
  2. 2 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 12 works
  3. 3 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 10 works
  4. 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 8 works
  5. 5 Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications Control and Systems Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 8 works
  7. 7 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 8 works
  8. 8 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 7 works
  9. 9 Simulation Techniques and Applications Management Science and Operations Research 6 works
  10. 10 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 6 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.