Research in Bethesda
Science Explorer records 111 research institutions in Bethesda, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are National Institutes of Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and ORCID.
- Research institutions
- 111 13 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 296k ▼ 15% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 18.1M 61.1 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.4% 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 Bethesda?
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 Bethesda work in?
In 2022-now, 47% of research in Bethesda is in Health Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (42%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Neuroscience (5%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Life 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 Sciences13k47.0%
- Medicine12k42.4%
- Health Professions1,0043.5%
- Nursing1750.6%
- Dentistry720.3%
- Veterinary450.2%
- Life Sciences8,31229.2%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5,04717.8%
- Neuroscience1,4044.9%
- Immunology and Microbiology1,3474.7%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences4141.5%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1010.4%
- Physical Sciences3,50912.3%
- Engineering1,0913.8%
- Computer Science6632.3%
- Environmental Science6262.2%
- Physics and Astronomy3221.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2120.7%
- Chemistry2000.7%
- Mathematics1950.7%
- Materials Science1660.6%
- Energy230.1%
- Chemical Engineering100.0%
- Social Sciences3,24811.4%
- Social Sciences1,3704.8%
- Psychology9333.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3031.1%
- Arts and Humanities2490.9%
- Decision Sciences2040.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting1900.7%
What is Bethesda strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Bethesda is most concentrated in Virology, Immunology and Immunology and Microbiology (7.5× the world share in Virology).
- VirologySubfield · 109.1 works7.5×
- ImmunologySubfield · 967.0 works5.6×
- Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 1,211.4 works4.8×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 362.6 works4.6×
- Issues, ethics and legal aspectsSubfield · 23.9 works4.6×
- GeneticsSubfield · 287.0 works4.2×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 41.1 works4.2×
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, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology4.79×1,211 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.31×4,428 works
- Neuroscience3.01×1,229 works
- Medicine2.22×11k works
- Health Professions1.38×911 works
- Nursing1.29×159 works
- Veterinary1.11×38 works
- Psychology1.07×817 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.97×86 works
- Decision Sciences0.72×174 works
- Mathematics0.56×165 works
- Dentistry0.52×63 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.52×279 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.49×193 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.47×261 works
- Chemistry0.46×180 works
- Environmental Science0.45×565 works
- Social Sciences0.38×1,194 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.32×377 works
- Computer Science0.28×554 works
- Arts and Humanities0.27×196 works
- Engineering0.26×986 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.21×167 works
- Materials Science0.17×147 works
- Chemical Engineering0.09×8 works
- Energy0.09×20 works
Which keywords describe research in Bethesda?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cancer, Immunotherapy, Genetic Mutations, Oxidative Stress, Public Health and Immune Response.
- Leukemia
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Targeted Therapy
- Vaccine Development
- SARS-CoV-2
- Prognostic Factors
- Pathogenesis
- Obesity
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Diagnosis
- Chemotherapy
- Vaccine
- Neurological Disorders
- Biomarkers
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Immune Response
- Immunotherapy
- Oxidative Stress
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Cancer
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Genetic Mutations
- Quality of Life
- Immunity
- Risk Factors
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Cancer Therapy
- Gene Expression
- Genetics
- Innate Immunity
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Precision Medicine
- Cancer Risk
- Lymphoma
- Genomic Instability
- Tumor Regression
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
- Epidemiology2,549▲ 2.2×139 topics
- Inflammation1,419▲ 2.4×83 topics
- Cancer1,048▲ 2.7×58 topics
- Oxidative Stress923▲ 1.97×63 topics
- Public Health859▲ 2.1×74 topics
- Immunotherapy824▲ 4.0×19 topics
- Treatment673▲ 1.95×52 topics
- Immune Response596▲ 3.7×23 topics
- Genetic Mutations581▲ 4.7×23 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease568▲ 1.75×39 topics
- Quality of Life561▲ 1.37×58 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome545▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Immunity523▲ 4.5×11 topics
- Biomarkers516▲ 2.6×18 topics
- Risk Factors516▲ 1.65×37 topics
- Neurological Disorders513▲ 3.2×20 topics
- Clinical Trials500▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Vaccine499▲ 4.4×11 topics
- Depression496▲ 1.99×26 topics
- Chemotherapy481▲ 2.4×25 topics
- Cancer Therapy475▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Diagnosis459▲ 1.73×41 topics
- Gene Expression452▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment433▲ 3.4×8 topics
- Genetics424▲ 2.1×27 topics
- Obesity419▲ 1.91×28 topics
- Innate Immunity411▲ 4.5×11 topics
- Pathogenesis396▲ 2.7×24 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy368▲ 8.5×3 topics
- Prognostic Factors363▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Precision Medicine359▲ 2.5×8 topics
- SARS-CoV-2306▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Cancer Risk301▲ 4.8×10 topics
- Vaccine Development287▲ 3.9×11 topics
- Lymphoma284▲ 6.2×4 topics
- Targeted Therapy271▲ 4.3×5 topics
- Genomic Instability251▲ 7.9×3 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy248▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Tumor Regression246▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Leukemia207▲ 8.7×2 topics
What research is done in Bethesda?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 174 works
- 2 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 158 works
- 3 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 142 works
- 4 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 134 works
- 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 129 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 123 works
- 7 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 123 works
- 8 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 111 works
- 9 RNA Research and Splicing Molecular Biology 105 works
- 10 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 99 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 34.0% in 2016.
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