Research in Buffalo
Science Explorer records 56 research institutions in Buffalo, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Jacobs Institute.
- Research institutions
- 56 11 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 112k ◆ 0% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.0% 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 Buffalo?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkUniversity | 75,411 | #464 | |
| 2 | Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer CenterResearch facility | 15,402 | #2,213 | |
| 3 | Buffalo State UniversityUniversity | 5,746 | #6,883 | |
| 4 | Canisius CollegeUniversity | 2,909 | #19,195 | |
| 5 | Women & Children's Hospital of BuffaloHospital / health system | 2,153 | #18,651 | |
| 6 | Center for InquiryNonprofit | 1,353 | #11,833 all time | |
| 7 | Jacobs InstituteNonprofit | 1,181 | #6,824 | |
| 8 | Buffalo General Medical CenterHospital / health system | 834 | #13,708 all time | |
| 9 | D'Youville CollegeUniversity | 698 | #22,960 | |
| 10 | Erie County Medical CenterHospital / health system | 650 | #18,490 | |
| 11 | VA Western New York Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 639 | #19,093 | |
| 12 | Kaleida HealthHospital / health system | 609 | #24,528 | |
| 13 | Calspan-University of Buffalo Research CenterUniversity | 469 | #15,904 all time | |
| 14 | Millard Fillmore Suburban HospitalHospital / health system | 419 | #13,317 all time | |
| 15 | Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research InstituteNonprofit | 417 | #11,765 all time | |
| 16 | Sisters of Charity HospitalHospital / health system | 311 | #24,091 all time | |
| 17 | Buffalo VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 298 | #25,858 all time | |
| 18 | Sentient Science (United States)Company | 298 | #24,411 | |
| 19 | Buffalo Psychiatric CenterResearch facility | 272 | #29,769 all time | |
| 20 | Buffalo BioLabsCompany | 222 | #16,777 all time | |
| 21 | Buffalo Society of Natural SciencesArchive | 202 | #31,221 all time | |
| 22 | ZeptoMetrix (United States)Company | 142 | #23,869 all time | |
| 23 | Medaille CollegeUniversity | 133 | #40,037 all time | |
| 24 | Buffalo Medical GroupHospital / health system | 129 | #33,446 all time | |
| 25 | Buffalo History MuseumArchive | 105 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Athenex (United States)Company | 77 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Bryant & Stratton CollegeUniversity | 73 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Villa Maria CollegeUniversity | 50 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Cleveland BioLabs (United States)Company | 46 | not ranked | |
| 30 | IMMCO Diagnostics (United States)Company | 43 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Starks AssociatesCompany | 43 | not ranked | |
| 32 | M&T Bank (United States)Company | 43 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Incept (United States)Company | 40 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Trocaire CollegeUniversity | 28 | not ranked | |
| 35 | King Center Charter SchoolUniversity | 17 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Abcombi Biosciences (United States)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 37 | HealthNow New YorkHospital / health system | 12 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Canget BioTekpharma (United States)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Grassroots Gardens WNYNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Neighborhood Legal ServicesNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Western New York Independent LivingNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Helios-NRG (United States)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Tartis (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 44 | American Crystallographic AssociationNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 45 | BioXFEL Science and Technology CenterResearch facility | 3 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Empire Genomics (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Therapyx (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Imagination Software Corporation (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Buffalo and Erie County Public LibraryArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Tapecon (United States)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 51 | John R. Oishei FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Health Foundation for Western & Central New YorkInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Association for Canadian Studies in the United StatesNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 55 | James H. Cummings FoundationNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Veritay Technology (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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Buffalo strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Buffalo is most concentrated in Library and Information Sciences, Oncology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (10.2× the world share in Library and Information Sciences).
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 21.5 works10×
- OncologySubfield · 351.2 works2.8×
- Physical and Theoretical ChemistrySubfield · 22.8 works2.6×
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 Buffalo?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, Mental Health, Deep Learning, Inflammation, Cancer and Risk Factors.
- Tumor Regression
- Cognitive Impairment
- Lymphoma
- Cancer Risk
- Breast Cancer
- Adolescents
- Radiotherapy
- Genetics
- Meta-Analysis
- Neurological Disorders
- Prognostic Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diagnosis
- Globalization
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Cancer
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Depression
- Clinical Trials
- Biomarkers
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Obesity
- Cancer Therapy
- Genetic Mutations
- Neuroprotection
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Health Disparities
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Targeted Therapy
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
- Epidemiology595▲ 1.36×131 topics
- Deep Learning349◆ 0.92×79 topics
- Machine Learning294▼ 0.81×83 topics
- Inflammation278▲ 1.21×81 topics
- Mental Health251▲ 1.54×44 topics
- Cancer224▲ 1.51×51 topics
- Immunotherapy223▲ 2.8×19 topics
- Quality of Life210▲ 1.32×52 topics
- Chemotherapy206▲ 2.7×25 topics
- Oxidative Stress205◆ 1.13×60 topics
- Risk Factors203▲ 1.67×37 topics
- Treatment197▲ 1.47×50 topics
- Public Health191▲ 1.19×61 topics
- Globalization189◆ 0.87×111 topics
- Depression148▲ 1.53×24 topics
- Diagnosis145▲ 1.41×40 topics
- Clinical Trials140▲ 1.89×19 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease134◆ 1.09×38 topics
- Biomarkers132▲ 1.75×17 topics
- Prognostic Factors132▲ 2.7×14 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment125▲ 2.5×8 topics
- Neurological Disorders121▲ 1.93×20 topics
- Obesity111▲ 1.32×23 topics
- Meta-Analysis110▲ 1.69×18 topics
- Cancer Therapy109▲ 1.72×19 topics
- Genetics108▲ 1.40×23 topics
- Genetic Mutations103▲ 2.1×23 topics
- Radiotherapy101▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Neuroprotection92▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Adolescents90▲ 2.2×9 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging85▲ 3.0×8 topics
- Breast Cancer82▲ 3.1×10 topics
- Health Disparities82▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Cancer Risk81▲ 3.3×9 topics
- Psychiatric Disorders79▲ 5.4×4 topics
- Lymphoma75▲ 4.2×4 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy74▲ 4.3×3 topics
- Cognitive Impairment72▲ 2.6×11 topics
- Targeted Therapy71▲ 2.9×5 topics
- Tumor Regression56▲ 4.6×2 topics
What research is done in Buffalo?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 51 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 42 works
- 3 Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies Pathology and Forensic Medicine 36 works
- 4 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 33 works
- 5 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 31 works
- 6 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 27 works
- 7 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 27 works
- 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 27 works
- 9 Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications Neurology 27 works
- 10 Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 26 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.