Research in Cambridge
Science Explorer records 19 research institutions in Cambridge. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Foundation Medicine (United States).
- Research institutions
- 19 1 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 822 ▲ 36% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 15.9% 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 Cambridge?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foundation Medicine (United States)Company | 613 | #16,329 | |
| 2 | GE Vernova (United States)Company | 42 | not ranked | |
| 3 | Communicating Diet and Activity ResearchResearch facility | 32 | not ranked | |
| 4 | Thoth Open MetadataNonprofit | 29 | not ranked | |
| 5 | Immuneering (United States)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 6 | Cancer Imaging CentreResearch facility | 17 | not ranked | |
| 7 | Stanley Center for Psychiatric ResearchResearch facility | 14 | not ranked | |
| 8 | eLife Sciences PublicationsNonprofit | 10 | not ranked | |
| 9 | Real Colegio ComplutenseUniversity | 10 | not ranked | |
| 10 | Cullinan Oncology (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 11 | Global Health 50/50Nonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 12 | Ninja Theory (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 13 | GV20 Therapeutics (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 14 | MRC Metabolic Diseases UnitResearch facility | 3 | not ranked | |
| 15 | FogPharma (United States)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Modern Humanities Research AssociationFunder | 1 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Tamr (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Cambridge IVFHospital / health system | 1 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Quantinuum (United Kingdom)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 Cambridge strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Cambridge is most concentrated in Cancer Research, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (24.0× the world share in Cancer Research).
- Cancer ResearchSubfield · 28.3 works24×
- OncologySubfield · 34.4 works11×
- Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 29.3 works7.0×
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 Cambridge?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Targeted Therapy, Chemotherapy, Genomic Instability, Cancer Genomics, Mutational Signatures, Immunotherapy, Clinical Trials and Prognostic Factors.
- Cell Death
- Digital Repositories
- Homologous Recombination
- Ovarian Cancer
- Hereditary Syndromes
- Research Dissemination
- Open Access
- Peer Review
- Metastasis
- Breast Cancer
- Cancer Therapy
- EGFR Mutations
- Genetic Testing
- Cancer
- Biomarkers
- Molecular Characterization
- Prognostic Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer Genomics
- Chemotherapy
- Targeted Therapy
- Genomic Instability
- Mutational Signatures
- Clinical Trials
- Genomic Profiling
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Precision Medicine
- Cancer Risk
- ALK Inhibitors
- Treatment Guidelines
- Gene Expression
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Genetic Mutations
- Immune Checkpoint Blockade
- PD-1 and PD-L1
- Adjuvant Chemotherapy
- Microsatellite Instability
- Survival Analysis
- Radiotherapy
- Molecular Subtypes
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
- Targeted Therapy39▲ 65×4 topics
- Chemotherapy27▲ 14×17 topics
- Genomic Instability26▲ 87×2 topics
- Cancer Genomics24▲ 123×1 topic
- Mutational Signatures24▲ 123×1 topic
- Immunotherapy24▲ 12×15 topics
- Clinical Trials21▲ 12×8 topics
- Prognostic Factors15▲ 13×12 topics
- Genomic Profiling15▲ 53×2 topics
- Molecular Characterization14▲ 29×5 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment13▲ 11×6 topics
- Biomarkers12▲ 6.6×9 topics
- Precision Medicine12▲ 9.1×7 topics
- Cancer11▲ 3.1×24 topics
- Cancer Risk11▲ 19×2 topics
- Genetic Testing11▲ 36×2 topics
- ALK Inhibitors11▲ 64×1 topic
- EGFR Mutations11▲ 64×1 topic
- Treatment Guidelines11▲ 18×2 topics
- Cancer Therapy10▲ 6.2×9 topics
- Gene Expression10▲ 5.8×9 topics
- Breast Cancer10▲ 15×9 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy10▲ 15×5 topics
- Metastasis9▲ 9.4×9 topics
- Genetic Mutations8▲ 6.8×9 topics
- Peer Review8▲ 95×3 topics
- Immune Checkpoint Blockade7▲ 24×1 topic
- Open Access7▲ 27×2 topics
- PD-1 and PD-L17▲ 24×1 topic
- Research Dissemination7▲ 145×2 topics
- Adjuvant Chemotherapy7▲ 38×2 topics
- Hereditary Syndromes7▲ 84×1 topic
- Microsatellite Instability7▲ 84×1 topic
- Ovarian Cancer7▲ 29×2 topics
- Survival Analysis6▲ 8.8×6 topics
- Homologous Recombination6▲ 50×2 topics
- Radiotherapy6▲ 5.9×8 topics
- Digital Repositories6▲ 80×2 topics
- Molecular Subtypes6▲ 26×3 topics
- Cell Death6▲ 8.9×3 topics
What research is done in Cambridge?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 24 works
- 2 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 11 works
- 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 7 works
- 4 Genetic factors in colorectal cancer Pathology and Forensic Medicine 7 works
- 5 Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies Oncology 4 works
- 6 PARP inhibition in cancer therapy Oncology 4 works
- 7 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 4 works
- 8 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 4 works
- 9 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 4 works
- 10 Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications Molecular Biology 4 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.