City · United Kingdom
Research in Cambridge
Science Explorer records 243 research institutions in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Wellcome Sanger Institute.
- Research institutions
- 243 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 285k ▲ 4% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 24.9% 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 | University of CambridgeUniversity | 185,949 | #22 | |
| 2 | Addenbrooke's HospitalHospital / health system | 14,047 | #3,533 | |
| 3 | MRC Laboratory of Molecular BiologyResearch facility | 7,789 | #1,075 | |
| 4 | Anglia Ruskin UniversityUniversity | 7,297 | #1,801 | |
| 5 | AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)Company | 7,262 | #1,949 | |
| 6 | Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)Company | 6,783 | #1,475 | |
| 7 | British Antarctic SurveyGovernment institution | 4,417 | #1,568 | |
| 8 | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustFunder | 3,824 | #2,913 | |
| 9 | Central Research Laboratories (United Kingdom)Company | 3,585 | #4,163 all time | |
| 10 | Wellcome Sanger InstituteNonprofit | 3,497 | #1,096 | |
| 11 | Babraham InstituteResearch facility | 2,874 | #4,383 | |
| 12 | Papworth HospitalHospital / health system | 2,589 | #10,810 | |
| 13 | MRC Toxicology UnitResearch facility | 2,508 | #3,231 all time | |
| 14 | European Bioinformatics InstituteResearch facility | 2,356 | #1,274 | |
| 15 | MRC Epidemiology UnitResearch facility | 2,194 | #5,098 | |
| 16 | MRC Biostatistics UnitResearch facility | 2,122 | #8,415 | |
| 17 | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences UnitResearch facility | 1,530 | #9,108 | |
| 18 | Cambridge University PressCompany | 1,479 | #12,127 | |
| 19 | The Welding InstituteResearch facility | 1,151 | #21,645 | |
| 20 | GeoInformation (United Kingdom)Company | 931 | #13,175 | |
| 21 | MRC Human Nutrition ResearchResearch facility | 924 | #6,911 all time | |
| 22 | MRC Cancer UnitResearch facility | 905 | #5,668 all time | |
| 23 | The Gurdon InstituteResearch facility | 850 | #9,073 | |
| 24 | Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell InstituteResearch facility | 683 | #3,285 | |
| 25 | Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 658 | #15,383 | |
| 26 | Cambridge Crystallographic Data CentreCompany | 648 | #1,945 all time | |
| 27 | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 611 | #12,071 | |
| 28 | Granta Design (United Kingdom)Company | 591 | #9,032 all time | |
| 29 | Upsher-Smith Laboratories (United Kingdom)Company | 565 | #12,016 all time | |
| 30 | Cancer Research UK Cambridge CenterResearch facility | 544 | #7,694 | |
| 31 | MRC Mitochondrial Biology UnitResearch facility | 544 | #4,272 | |
| 32 | National Institute of Agricultural BotanyResearch facility | 473 | #18,288 | |
| 33 | Hutchison/MRC Research CentreResearch facility | 431 | #7,477 all time | |
| 34 | Wellcome/MRC Institute of Metabolic ScienceResearch facility | 418 | #8,978 | |
| 35 | Laser Scan Engineering (United Kingdom)Company | 391 | #16,644 | |
| 36 | ARM (United Kingdom)Company | 381 | #13,138 all time | |
| 37 | Open Knowledge (United Kingdom)Company | 379 | #25,695 all time | |
| 38 | LS Plant Breeding (United Kingdom)Company | 371 | #24,008 all time | |
| 39 | Fulbourn HospitalHospital / health system | 369 | #20,123 all time | |
| 40 | Cambridge Consultants (United Kingdom)Company | 342 | #17,327 all time | |
| 41 | Ida Darwin hospitalHospital / health system | 325 | #34,298 all time | |
| 42 | Rosie HospitalHospital / health system | 322 | #18,453 all time | |
| 43 | Sedgwick Museum of Earth SciencesArchive | 319 | #8,497 all time | |
| 44 | Wildlife Conservation Society United KingdomNonprofit | 304 | #25,971 all time | |
| 45 | RAND EuropeNonprofit | 302 | #24,013 | |
| 46 | Costello Medical Consulting (United Kingdom)Company | 295 | #23,579 | |
| 47 | Conservation Leadership ProgrammeInstitution | 289 | #11,686 | |
| 48 | Scientific Committee on Antarctic ResearchInstitution | 286 | #8,195 all time | |
| 49 | GW Pharmaceuticals (United Kingdom)Company | 280 | #9,644 all time | |
| 50 | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical SciencesResearch facility | 268 | #8,536 all time | |
| 51 | BirdLife internationalNonprofit | 250 | #24,364 all time | |
| 52 | Cambridgeshire County CouncilGovernment institution | 248 | #32,442 all time | |
| 53 | UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring CentreInstitution | 242 | #16,882 all time | |
| 54 | Cambridge Econometrics (United Kingdom)Company | 238 | #21,973 | |
| 55 | Cambridge Cognition (United Kingdom)Company | 230 | #22,965 | |
| 56 | Amgen (United Kingdom)Company | 213 | #19,534 all time | |
| 57 | Mundipharma (United Kingdom)Company | 209 | #24,849 all time | |
| 58 | Company of BiologistsNonprofit | 206 | #26,256 | |
| 59 | National Cancer Registration ServiceInstitution | 194 | #30,356 all time | |
| 60 | International Union for Conservation of Nature (United Kingdom)Nonprofit | 169 | #29,514 all time |
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.
University of Cambridge186k · 66.3%Addenbrooke's Hospital14k · 5.0%MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology7,789 · 2.8%Anglia Ruskin University7,297 · 2.6%56 others listed65k · 23.3%
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 Theoretical Computer Science, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science (6.2× the world share in Theoretical Computer Science).
- Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 35.8 works6.2×
- ClassicsSubfield · 110.8 works5.5×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 255.1 works4.9×
- Structural BiologySubfield · 25.7 works4.8×
- AnthropologySubfield · 386.8 works4.1×
- HistorySubfield · 402.0 works3.7×
- Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 22.6 works3.3×
- Religious studiesSubfield · 174.2 works3.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
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: Globalization, Epidemiology, Climate Change, Colonialism, Machine Learning, History, Gender and Deep Learning.
- Greek Literature
- Demography
- Medicine
- Holocene
- Economic Evaluation
- Feminism
- International Law
- Neoliberalism
- Genetics
- Ethics
- Religion
- Literature
- Gender
- Mental Health
- Colonialism
- Public Health
- Human Rights
- Inflammation
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Sustainability
- Oxidative Stress
- History
- Identity
- Neural Networks
- Quality of Life
- Nationalism
- Big Data
- Culture
- Gene Expression
- Philosophy
- Society
- Monetary Policy
- Theology
- Late Antiquity
- Cultural Transmission
- Ancient Rome
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,299◆ 0.97×137 topics
- Climate Change1,061▲ 1.16×120 topics
- Machine Learning1,019◆ 0.92×91 topics
- Globalization991▲ 1.49×146 topics
- Deep Learning896▼ 0.77×82 topics
- Inflammation625◆ 0.89×82 topics
- Sustainability617▼ 0.75×123 topics
- Human Rights540▲ 1.55×78 topics
- Oxidative Stress538◆ 0.97×59 topics
- Public Health524◆ 1.07×71 topics
- History509▲ 2.1×59 topics
- Colonialism486▲ 3.0×46 topics
- Identity465▲ 1.89×71 topics
- Mental Health456◆ 0.92×46 topics
- Neural Networks450▼ 0.86×40 topics
- Gender446▲ 2.4×51 topics
- Quality of Life419▼ 0.86×58 topics
- Literature389▲ 2.1×58 topics
- Nationalism389▲ 2.5×33 topics
- Religion384▲ 2.4×42 topics
- Big Data366▲ 1.19×30 topics
- Ethics366▲ 2.2×56 topics
- Culture349▲ 1.95×35 topics
- Genetics329▲ 1.39×27 topics
- Gene Expression321▲ 1.56×20 topics
- Neoliberalism315▲ 2.6×28 topics
- Philosophy291▲ 1.95×43 topics
- International Law265▲ 2.5×27 topics
- Society260▲ 4.0×24 topics
- Feminism223▲ 2.3×24 topics
- Monetary Policy218▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Economic Evaluation196▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Theology193▲ 5.9×6 topics
- Holocene158▲ 4.0×3 topics
- Late Antiquity149▲ 8.3×3 topics
- Medicine145▲ 5.2×11 topics
- Cultural Transmission141▲ 5.2×5 topics
- Demography128▲ 8.1×3 topics
- Ancient Rome119▲ 11×1 topic
- Greek Literature119▲ 11×1 topic
What research is done in Cambridge?
AnthropologyEconomics and EconometricsReligious studiesCancer Research3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 119 works
- 2 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 103 works
- 3 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 97 works
- 4 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 94 works
- 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 90 works
- 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 88 works
- 7 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 86 works
- 8 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 86 works
- 9 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 79 works
- 10 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 78 works
Research output over time
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