Research in Birmingham
Science Explorer records 107 research institutions in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Birmingham, Aston University and Birmingham City University.
- Research institutions
- 107 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 169k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.4M 26.2 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.5% 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 Birmingham?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of BirminghamUniversity | 117,663 | #114 | |
| 2 | Aston UniversityUniversity | 18,987 | #1,165 | |
| 3 | Birmingham City UniversityUniversity | 7,228 | #1,345 | |
| 4 | Heart of England NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 3,785 | #13,235 | |
| 5 | University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 2,988 | #2,822 | |
| 6 | Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 2,597 | #7,422 | |
| 7 | NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research CentreResearch facility | 1,396 | #7,694 | |
| 8 | Royal Orthopaedic HospitalHospital / health system | 1,353 | #12,853 | |
| 9 | The Edgbaston HospitalHospital / health system | 1,295 | #13,659 | |
| 10 | Birmingham General HospitalHospital / health system | 1,269 | #14,543 all time | |
| 11 | Perinatal InstituteNonprofit | 1,251 | #7,039 | |
| 12 | Birmingham and Midland Eye CentreHospital / health system | 925 | #17,338 all time | |
| 13 | University College BirminghamUniversity | 902 | #3,458 | |
| 14 | Birmingham Research ParkArchive | 737 | #11,465 all time | |
| 15 | West Midlands DeaneryHospital / health system | 721 | #20,770 | |
| 16 | The Priory HospitalHospital / health system | 687 | #15,854 | |
| 17 | Bournville CollegeUniversity | 674 | #17,524 all time | |
| 18 | Goodyear (United Kingdom)Company | 638 | #9,291 | |
| 19 | Birmingham Accident HospitalHospital / health system | 636 | #15,464 all time | |
| 20 | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 573 | #18,973 | |
| 21 | Newman UniversityUniversity | 552 | #16,099 | |
| 22 | PAREXEL International (United Kingdom)Company | 538 | #16,523 | |
| 23 | NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research CentreResearch facility | 451 | #5,248 | |
| 24 | Air Liquide (United Kingdom)Company | 436 | #12,923 all time | |
| 25 | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS TrustHospital / health system | 362 | #19,258 | |
| 26 | The Queen's FoundationUniversity | 358 | #31,891 all time | |
| 27 | West Midlands PoliceGovernment institution | 297 | #19,058 all time | |
| 28 | West Heath HospitalHospital / health system | 293 | #20,203 all time | |
| 29 | British Dietetic AssociationNonprofit | 215 | #26,944 all time | |
| 30 | Centre for Research in Early ChildhoodNonprofit | 204 | #31,252 all time | |
| 31 | Titanium Metals Corporation (United Kingdom)Company | 194 | #30,583 all time | |
| 32 | Moseley Hall HospitalHospital / health system | 153 | #30,464 all time | |
| 33 | Birmingham City CouncilGovernment institution | 134 | #30,854 all time | |
| 34 | Institute of Materials FinishingUniversity | 121 | #32,587 all time | |
| 35 | SAIC Motor (United Kingdom)Company | 114 | not ranked | |
| 36 | PPG Industries (United Kingdom)Company | 83 | not ranked | |
| 37 | British Society for Antimicrobial ChemotherapyInstitution | 82 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Birmingham Repertory TheatreInstitution | 73 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Brooklands HospitalHospital / health system | 62 | not ranked | |
| 40 | The McMinn CentreHospital / health system | 40 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Salts Healthcare (United Kingdom)Company | 37 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Birmingham Metropolitan CollegeUniversity | 36 | not ranked | |
| 43 | WoodbrookeUniversity | 34 | not ranked | |
| 44 | South and City College BirminghamUniversity | 26 | not ranked | |
| 45 | British Association of Social WorkersInstitution | 25 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Westbourne CentreHospital / health system | 24 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Alcoa (United Kingdom)Company | 21 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Nolan Associates (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Phil Jones Associates (United Kingdom)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Adelan (United Kingdom)Company | 18 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Ecorys (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Birmingham Museums TrustNonprofit | 15 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Applied Functional Materials (United Kingdom)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 54 | SGH Martineau (United Kingdom)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Energy Systems CatapultNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Daden (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Indestructible Paint (United Kingdom)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Delcam (United Kingdom)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 59 | SampadInstitution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Barber Institute of Fine ArtsArchive | 11 | 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 Birmingham work in?
In 2022-now, 33% of research in Birmingham is in Health Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (27%), Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (12%). It does 1.4× 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 Sciences8,07133.0%
- Medicine6,72027.5%
- Health Professions1,0444.3%
- Dentistry1540.6%
- Nursing1330.5%
- Veterinary200.1%
- Social Sciences7,19129.4%
- Social Sciences3,31413.6%
- Psychology1,1304.6%
- Arts and Humanities1,0894.5%
- Business, Management and Accounting7783.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance6202.5%
- Decision Sciences2621.1%
- Physical Sciences6,88628.2%
- Engineering2,93012.0%
- Computer Science1,2955.3%
- Environmental Science8133.3%
- Physics and Astronomy4922.0%
- Materials Science4761.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2331.0%
- Mathematics2100.9%
- Chemistry1990.8%
- Energy1680.7%
- Chemical Engineering720.3%
- Life Sciences2,3099.4%
What is Birmingham strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Birmingham is most concentrated in Pharmacy, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Classics (4.6× the world share in Pharmacy).
- PharmacySubfield · 87.0 works4.6×
- Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 24.7 works2.9×
- ClassicsSubfield · 36.1 works2.8×
- MusicSubfield · 48.5 works2.8×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 30.8 works2.7×
- HistorySubfield · 165.9 works2.4×
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: Health Professions, 1.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Professions1.65×929 works
- Arts and Humanities1.56×960 works
- Psychology1.51×982 works
- Medicine1.42×5,831 works
- Dentistry1.32×137 works
- Neuroscience1.28×445 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.23×563 works
- Decision Sciences1.09×225 works
- Nursing1.08×112 works
- Social Sciences1.08×2,909 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.01×693 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.94×203 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.91×433 works
- Chemical Engineering0.86×64 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.84×953 works
- Engineering0.81×2,610 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.77×58 works
- Energy0.75×148 works
- Mathematics0.72×180 works
- Computer Science0.68×1,127 works
- Environmental Science0.65×686 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.60×201 works
- Materials Science0.54×404 works
- Veterinary0.54×16 works
- Chemistry0.50×167 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×315 works
Which keywords describe research in Birmingham?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Quality of Life, Inflammation, Mental Health, Public Health, Treatment and Machine Learning.
- Feminism
- Ethical Considerations
- Prevalence
- Global Burden
- Religion
- Meta-Analysis
- Neoliberalism
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Chemotherapy
- Genetics
- Human Rights
- Management
- Gender
- Healthcare
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Mental Health
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Climate Change
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diagnosis
- Identity
- Mortality
- Primary Care
- History
- Clinical Trials
- Colonialism
- Complications
- Literature
- Nationalism
- Ethics
- Surgical Management
- Clinical Guidelines
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
- Epidemiology1,369▲ 1.40×137 topics
- Globalization673▲ 1.40×149 topics
- Machine Learning650▼ 0.80×91 topics
- Deep Learning619▼ 0.73×83 topics
- Inflammation610▲ 1.17×83 topics
- Sustainability538◆ 0.90×115 topics
- Quality of Life524▲ 1.48×57 topics
- Mental Health484▲ 1.38×46 topics
- Public Health472▲ 1.32×68 topics
- Treatment430▲ 1.45×52 topics
- Climate Change404▼ 0.61×112 topics
- Risk Factors373▲ 1.39×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease356▲ 1.27×39 topics
- Healthcare345▲ 1.24×38 topics
- Diagnosis321▲ 1.41×41 topics
- Gender310▲ 2.4×52 topics
- Identity305▲ 1.72×68 topics
- Management298▲ 1.53×37 topics
- Mortality294▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Human Rights293▲ 1.17×73 topics
- Primary Care274▲ 3.0×15 topics
- Genetics268▲ 1.55×27 topics
- History247▲ 1.46×55 topics
- Chemotherapy240▲ 1.38×25 topics
- Clinical Trials237▲ 1.45×19 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines225▲ 1.67×14 topics
- Colonialism221▲ 1.90×47 topics
- Neoliberalism218▲ 2.5×26 topics
- Complications215▲ 1.77×17 topics
- Meta-Analysis213▲ 1.48×21 topics
- Literature212▲ 1.59×55 topics
- Religion204▲ 1.80×38 topics
- Nationalism203▲ 1.85×31 topics
- Global Burden203▲ 1.52×12 topics
- Ethics198▲ 1.60×50 topics
- Prevalence191▲ 1.91×15 topics
- Surgical Management183▲ 1.83×20 topics
- Ethical Considerations182▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Clinical Guidelines172▲ 2.4×9 topics
- Feminism165▲ 2.3×25 topics
What research is done in Birmingham?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 64 works
- 2 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 63 works
- 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 48 works
- 4 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 42 works
- 5 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 42 works
- 6 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 41 works
- 7 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 40 works
- 8 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 39 works
- 9 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 39 works
- 10 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 38 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 29.2% in 2016.
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