Research in Cambridge
Science Explorer records 254 research institutions in Cambridge, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute.
- Research institutions
- 254 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 477k ▲ 4% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 26.7% 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?
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 Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Aging (9.2× the world share in Instrumentation).
- InstrumentationSubfield · 238.6 works9.2×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 1,352.0 works5.0×
- AgingSubfield · 47.3 works3.8×
- Structural BiologySubfield · 29.4 works3.5×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 32.5 works3.3×
- BiophysicsSubfield · 182.2 works3.1×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 318.8 works2.9×
- Physics and AstronomyField · 3,281.1 works2.8×
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: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Machine Learning, Public Health, Cardiovascular Disease, Oxidative Stress, Supernovae and Cancer.
- Spectrograph
- Accretion Disks
- Position-Sensitive Detector
- Laser Scanning
- Neutron Stars
- Nucleosynthesis
- Gravitational Waves
- Primary Care
- Aging
- Mortality
- Clinical Trials
- Biomarkers
- Neurological Disorders
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Cancer
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Depression
- Immunotherapy
- Gene Expression
- Genetics
- Diagnosis
- Precision Medicine
- Immunity
- Supernovae
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Optical 3D Laser Measurement
- Star Formation
- Astronomical Instrumentation
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
- Epidemiology2,934▲ 1.43×139 topics
- Machine Learning1,644◆ 0.97×94 topics
- Inflammation1,643▲ 1.52×83 topics
- Deep Learning1,385▼ 0.78×83 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,108▲ 1.30×63 topics
- Public Health1,076▲ 1.42×73 topics
- Quality of Life979▲ 1.31×59 topics
- Cancer971▲ 1.39×58 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease962▲ 1.66×39 topics
- Mental Health904▲ 1.19×47 topics
- Treatment827▲ 1.31×52 topics
- Risk Factors809▲ 1.42×37 topics
- Depression734▲ 1.61×26 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome718▲ 1.70×24 topics
- Immunotherapy694▲ 1.87×19 topics
- Neurological Disorders644▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Gene Expression636▲ 2.0×20 topics
- Biomarkers630▲ 1.77×18 topics
- Genetics596▲ 1.64×27 topics
- Clinical Trials591▲ 1.69×19 topics
- Diagnosis588▲ 1.22×41 topics
- Mortality569▲ 1.89×13 topics
- Precision Medicine490▲ 2.0×8 topics
- Aging475▲ 1.70×19 topics
- Immunity445▲ 2.1×11 topics
- Primary Care416▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Supernovae390▲ 9.1×2 topics
- Gravitational Waves367▲ 13×2 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy327▲ 4.1×3 topics
- Nucleosynthesis326▲ 13×3 topics
- Gamma-Ray Bursts318▲ 23×1 topic
- Neutron Stars318▲ 23×1 topic
- Structural Health Monitoring289▲ 7.2×4 topics
- Laser Scanning278▲ 29×2 topics
- Optical 3D Laser Measurement278▲ 47×1 topic
- Position-Sensitive Detector278▲ 47×1 topic
- Star Formation225▲ 8.2×2 topics
- Accretion Disks222▲ 9.1×2 topics
- Astronomical Instrumentation220▲ 17×1 topic
- Spectrograph220▲ 17×1 topic
What research is done in Cambridge?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 318 works
- 2 Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation Computational Mechanics 278 works
- 3 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 220 works
- 4 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 204 works
- 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 198 works
- 6 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 176 works
- 7 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 175 works
- 8 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 160 works
- 9 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 157 works
- 10 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 157 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.