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Research in Bethlehem

Science Explorer records 16 research institutions in Bethlehem, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Lehigh University, St. Luke's University Health Network and Moravian University.

Research institutions
16
5 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
33k
▲ 4% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
16.4%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Bethlehem?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Lehigh UniversityUniversity 26,240 #1,334
2Northampton Community CollegeUniversity 2,177 #16,382
3St. Luke's University Health NetworkHospital / health system 1,454 #12,883
4Moravian UniversityUniversity 834 #14,942
5Bethlehem Area School DistrictUniversity 597 #24,586
6St. Luke's HospitalHospital / health system 523 #26,013 all time
7Digestive Care (United States)Company 310 #24,515 all time
8Wavefront Research (United States)Company 98 not ranked
9IQE (United States)Company 80 not ranked
10B. Braun (United States)Company 73 not ranked
11Lehigh Valley Hospital MuhlenbergHospital / health system 59 not ranked
12International Institute for Restorative PracticesUniversity 50 not ranked
13Orasure Technologies (United States)Company 48 not ranked
14Saladax Biomedical (United States)Company 27 not ranked
15Azevan Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 7 not ranked
16Third Eye Diagnostics (United States)Company 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.

Lehigh University: 80.5%Northampton Community College: 6.7%St. Luke's University Health Network: 4.5%Moravian University: 2.6%12 others listed: 5.7%81%largest
Lehigh University26k · 80.5%Northampton Community College2,177 · 6.7%St. Luke's University Health Network1,454 · 4.5%Moravian University834 · 2.6%12 others listed1,873 · 5.7%

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

What is Bethlehem strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Bethlehem is most concentrated in Developmental and Educational Psychology (2.7× the world share in Developmental and Educational Psychology).

  1. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 43.8 works2.7×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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Which keywords describe research in Bethlehem?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Mental Health, Convex Optimization, Climate Change, Molecular Dynamics and Neural Networks.

▲ 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. Epidemiology146◆ 1.05×118 topics
  2. Machine Learning127◆ 1.10×70 topics
  3. Deep Learning123◆ 1.02×69 topics
  4. Climate Change81▼ 0.86×73 topics
  5. Mental Health74▲ 1.44×36 topics
  6. Neural Networks63▲ 1.16×35 topics
  7. Globalization61◆ 0.89×74 topics
  8. Sustainability58▼ 0.68×72 topics
  9. Quality of Life50◆ 1.00×47 topics
  10. Nanoparticles48◆ 1.09×34 topics
  11. Treatment46◆ 1.09×44 topics
  12. Social Media46◆ 0.92×27 topics
  13. Public Health44◆ 0.87×51 topics
  14. Gender41▲ 2.1×40 topics
  15. Mechanical Properties40▲ 1.19×31 topics
  16. Diagnosis40▲ 1.24×36 topics
  17. Innovation40◆ 1.07×28 topics
  18. Economic Growth38▲ 1.28×19 topics
  19. Religion34▲ 2.0×26 topics
  20. Catalysis33▲ 1.43×22 topics
  21. Optimization33▲ 2.0×20 topics
  22. Complications29▲ 1.68×16 topics
  23. Microstructure29▲ 1.61×16 topics
  24. Molecular Dynamics28▲ 4.9×6 topics
  25. Convex Optimization28▲ 10.0×5 topics
  26. Motivation27▲ 1.81×10 topics
  27. Emotion Regulation26▲ 2.4×9 topics
  28. Self-Regulation22▲ 3.6×6 topics
  29. Emotion22▲ 3.0×11 topics
  30. Children22▲ 2.7×7 topics
  31. Academic Achievement19▲ 3.2×9 topics
  32. Membrane Proteins17▲ 6.8×3 topics
  33. Decentralized Control17▲ 4.0×2 topics
  34. Race17▲ 4.3×15 topics
  35. Quantum Mechanics15▲ 5.4×4 topics
  36. Lipid Rafts15▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Special Education15▲ 7.4×4 topics
  38. Cell Membranes13▲ 13×1 topic
  39. Membrane Lipids13▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Semidefinite Programming12▲ 15×2 topics

What research is done in Bethlehem?

  1. 1 Microgrid Control and OptimizationControl and Systems Engineering 13 works
  2. 2 Lipid Membrane Structure and BehaviorMolecular Biology 13 works
  3. 3 Advanced Optimization Algorithms ResearchNumerical Analysis 12 works
  4. 4 Economic Theory and PolicyGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 works
  5. 5 Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMaterials Chemistry 11 works
  6. 6 Misinformation and Its ImpactsSociology and Political Science 11 works
  7. 7 Magnetic confinement fusion researchNuclear and High Energy Physics 10 works
  8. 8 Machine Learning in Materials ScienceMaterials Chemistry 10 works
  9. 9 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Informatics 10 works
  10. 10 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentClinical Psychology 10 works

Research output over time

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