Research in Birmingham
Science Explorer records 54 research institutions in Birmingham, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham VA Medical Center and University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.
- Research institutions
- 54 6 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 86k ▲ 13% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 16.0% 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 Birmingham?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Alabama at BirminghamUniversity | 72,048 | #401 | |
| 2 | Birmingham VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 2,375 | #7,100 | |
| 3 | Samford UniversityUniversity | 2,088 | #10,629 | |
| 4 | University of Alabama at Birmingham HospitalHospital / health system | 1,934 | #7,416 | |
| 5 | Children's of AlabamaFunder | 1,666 | #18,485 | |
| 6 | Pediatric Nephrology of AlabamaHospital / health system | 1,201 | #18,486 | |
| 7 | Addiction Research FoundationInstitution | 793 | #10,590 all time | |
| 8 | American Sports Medicine InstituteNonprofit | 438 | #32,502 all time | |
| 9 | Virginia CollegeUniversity | 363 | #31,056 all time | |
| 10 | Birmingham–Southern CollegeUniversity | 348 | #23,993 all time | |
| 11 | American Society for Reproductive MedicineNonprofit | 284 | #11,968 all time | |
| 12 | EBSCO Industries (United States)Company | 268 | #28,832 all time | |
| 13 | Cooper Green Mercy HospitalHospital / health system | 249 | #30,190 all time | |
| 14 | Civitan InternationalNonprofit | 228 | #11,405 all time | |
| 15 | Alabama Power (United States)Company | 187 | #36,687 all time | |
| 16 | Mitochondria Research and Medicine SocietyNonprofit | 178 | #31,977 all time | |
| 17 | Princeton Baptist Medical CenterHospital / health system | 169 | #35,034 all time | |
| 18 | Jefferson County Department of HealthGovernment institution | 159 | #36,552 all time | |
| 19 | Brookwood Baptist HealthHospital / health system | 150 | #41,344 all time | |
| 20 | Carraway Methodist Medical CenterHospital / health system | 139 | #41,591 all time | |
| 21 | Lakeshore FoundationNonprofit | 114 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Behavioral Health SystemsHospital / health system | 97 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Chadwick UniversityUniversity | 97 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Kirklin ClinicHospital / health system | 88 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Helen Keller Eye Research FoundationNonprofit | 83 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Remtech (United States)Company | 63 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Jefferson State Community CollegeUniversity | 51 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Altec (United States)Company | 48 | not ranked | |
| 29 | DiscoveryBioMed (United States)Company | 34 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Alabama School of Fine ArtsUniversity | 30 | not ranked | |
| 31 | McWane Science CenterArchive | 24 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Vivo Biosciences (United States)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Southeastern Bible CollegeUniversity | 20 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Lawson State Community CollegeUniversity | 18 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Brightwood CollegeUniversity | 15 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Birmingham Public LibraryArchive | 10 | not ranked | |
| 37 | O'Neal Steel (United States)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Clayton College of Natural HealthUniversity | 7 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Birmingham Museum of ArtArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Alabama Humanities FoundationNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 41 | EyeSight Foundation of AlabamaNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Gem Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Endomimetics (United States)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Southern Biotechnology AssociatesCompany | 5 | not ranked | |
| 45 | American Health Research InstituteResearch facility | 4 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Southern Medical AssociationNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Agenta Biotechnologies (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Progressive Agriculture FoundationNonprofit | 3 | not ranked | |
| 49 | International Retinal Research FoundationInstitution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Aletheia HouseHospital / health system | 3 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Telerehabilitation InternationalNonprofit | 3 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Alabama Clincal TherapeuticsHospital / health system | 2 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Birmingham Civil Rights InstituteArchive | 1 | not ranked | |
| 54 | United States Quad Rugby AssociationNonprofit | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Birmingham strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Birmingham is most concentrated in Nephrology, Emergency Medicine and Hematology (5.4× the world share in Nephrology).
- NephrologySubfield · 132.6 works5.4×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 123.0 works4.4×
- HematologySubfield · 146.1 works4.2×
- Endocrine and Autonomic SystemsSubfield · 39.3 works4.1×
- GeneticsSubfield · 121.0 works3.9×
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 Birmingham?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Disease, Quality of Life, Oxidative Stress, Metabolic Syndrome and Treatment.
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Health Disparities
- Medical Education
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Prognostic Factors
- Anxiety
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Genetic Mutations
- Heart Failure
- Obesity
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Trials
- Aging
- Depression
- Mental Health
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Public Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Oxidative Stress
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Treatment
- Diagnosis
- Immunotherapy
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Global Burden
- Mortality
- Neurological Disorders
- Genetics
- Complications
- Primary Care
- Guidelines
- Rehabilitation
- Prognosis
- Mortality Risk
- Pulmonary Hypertension
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
- Epidemiology1,055▲ 2.3×132 topics
- Inflammation689▲ 2.9×83 topics
- Oxidative Stress397▲ 2.1×60 topics
- Quality of Life382▲ 2.3×55 topics
- Risk Factors360▲ 2.9×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease357▲ 2.8×38 topics
- Cancer323▲ 2.1×56 topics
- Public Health323▲ 1.95×59 topics
- Treatment313▲ 2.3×51 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome277▲ 3.0×22 topics
- Diagnosis269▲ 2.5×40 topics
- Mental Health250▲ 1.50×43 topics
- Immunotherapy237▲ 2.9×19 topics
- Depression221▲ 2.2×23 topics
- Management218▲ 2.4×33 topics
- Aging212▲ 3.5×18 topics
- Chemotherapy202▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Clinical Trials200▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Global Burden194▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Biomarkers194▲ 2.5×17 topics
- Mortality190▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Obesity189▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Neurological Disorders177▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Heart Failure166▲ 3.4×13 topics
- Genetics161▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Genetic Mutations161▲ 3.3×23 topics
- Complications154▲ 2.7×17 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines148▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Primary Care146▲ 3.4×14 topics
- Anxiety145▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Guidelines144▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors137▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Rehabilitation137▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Chronic Kidney Disease126▲ 4.6×9 topics
- Prognosis123▲ 3.3×9 topics
- Medical Education122▲ 4.2×12 topics
- Mortality Risk120▲ 4.4×6 topics
- Health Disparities114▲ 3.8×9 topics
- Pulmonary Hypertension102▲ 6.4×3 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy101▲ 5.5×6 topics
What research is done in Birmingham?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 58 works
- 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 52 works
- 3 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 49 works
- 4 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 49 works
- 5 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 46 works
- 6 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 46 works
- 7 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 39 works
- 8 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 38 works
- 9 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 38 works
- 10 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 37 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.