Research in Charlotte
Science Explorer records 68 research institutions in Charlotte, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of North Carolina at Charlotte, King's College - North Carolina and Levine Cancer Institute.
- Research institutions
- 68 14 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 53k ▲ 6% 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 Charlotte?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of North Carolina at CharlotteUniversity | 23,242 | #1,322 | |
| 2 | Honeywell (United States)Company | 7,644 | #9,025 | |
| 3 | Carolinas Medical CenterHospital / health system | 4,218 | #10,172 | |
| 4 | King's College - North CarolinaUniversity | 3,136 | #6,904 | |
| 5 | The Neurological InstituteHospital / health system | 1,964 | #11,741 | |
| 6 | Carrier (United States)Company | 1,750 | #21,669 | |
| 7 | Queens University of CharlotteUniversity | 1,587 | #17,315 | |
| 8 | University DermatologyUniversity | 1,171 | #21,174 | |
| 9 | Levine Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 1,068 | #6,979 | |
| 10 | Duke Energy (United States)Company | 864 | #19,933 | |
| 11 | Carolinas Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 842 | #13,912 all time | |
| 12 | Curtiss-Wright (United States)Company | 830 | #8,139 all time | |
| 13 | Carolina Veterinary SpecialistsHospital / health system | 736 | #19,957 | |
| 14 | Bank of AmericaInstitution | 568 | #25,873 | |
| 15 | OrthoCarolinaHospital / health system | 505 | #16,572 | |
| 16 | Center for Prevention ServicesNonprofit | 405 | #10,498 all time | |
| 17 | Levine Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 277 | #24,289 | |
| 18 | Johnson C. Smith UniversityUniversity | 275 | #34,550 all time | |
| 19 | Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine AssociatesHospital / health system | 254 | #29,638 all time | |
| 20 | SPX Corporation (United States)Company | 190 | #34,147 all time | |
| 21 | Asthma and Allergy SpecialistsHospital / health system | 151 | #22,124 all time | |
| 22 | Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat AssociatesInstitution | 140 | #34,489 all time | |
| 23 | MS Technology (United States)Company | 132 | #31,836 all time | |
| 24 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg SchoolsUniversity | 93 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Central Piedmont Community CollegeUniversity | 92 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Charlotte School of LawUniversity | 80 | not ranked | |
| 27 | OrthoCarolina Research InstituteNonprofit | 79 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Discovery PlaceArchive | 77 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Mecklenburg County GovernmentGovernment institution | 76 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Novant Health Presbyterian Medical CenterHospital / health system | 71 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Oncology Specialists of CharlotteHospital / health system | 69 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Swim Across AmericaNonprofit | 67 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Sealed Air (United States)Company | 65 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Global Medical ImagingHospital / health system | 53 | not ranked | |
| 35 | First Baptist Church-WestArchive | 34 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Dermatology, Laser & Vein Specialists of the CarolinasHospital / health system | 32 | not ranked | |
| 37 | InSituTec (United States)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Blumenthal FoundationNonprofit | 22 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Charlotte Sports Medicine InstituteHospital / health system | 21 | not ranked | |
| 40 | PREtest Consult (United States)Company | 21 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Imaging the WorldNonprofit | 14 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Novant Health Charlotte Orthopedic HospitalHospital / health system | 13 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Duke EndowmentNonprofit | 13 | not ranked | |
| 44 | PMG ResearchResearch facility | 11 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Dornier (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Dot Metrics Technologies (United States)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Charlotte Christian College and Theological SeminaryUniversity | 9 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Sandbox Learning (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 49 | SonaCare Medical (United States)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Joint Muscle Medical Care and Research InstituteHospital / health system | 6 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Arts & Science CouncilInstitution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 52 | OncoTab (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Pfeiffer University at CharlotteUniversity | 4 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks CommissionGovernment institution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Levine Museum of the New SouthArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Carolinas HealthCare FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Mint MuseumArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Roc Institute for Arts and SciencesUniversity | 2 | not ranked | |
| 59 | North Carolina Humanities CouncilFunder | 2 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Flying Bridge Technologies (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 Charlotte strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Charlotte is most concentrated in Safety Research, Hematology and Small Animals (3.7× the world share in Safety Research).
- Safety ResearchSubfield · 71.1 works3.7×
- HematologySubfield · 59.5 works2.8×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 22.8 works2.7×
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 Charlotte?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Complications, Big Data and Risk Factors.
- Laparoscopic Repair
- Distributed Systems
- Reflective Practice
- Discrimination
- Surgery
- Smart Grid
- Risk Management
- Surgical Management
- Gender
- Chemotherapy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Immunotherapy
- Renewable Energy
- Treatment
- Public Health
- Big Data
- Neural Networks
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Risk Factors
- Globalization
- Complications
- Healthcare
- Education
- Social Media
- Diagnosis
- Resilience
- Prognostic Factors
- Student Engagement
- Gender Differences
- Patient Satisfaction
- Chronic Pain
- Surveillance
- Clinical Outcomes
- Special Education
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
- Epidemiology360▲ 1.31×130 topics
- Machine Learning293▲ 1.29×87 topics
- Deep Learning260◆ 1.10×81 topics
- Mental Health158▲ 1.56×40 topics
- Quality of Life154▲ 1.53×53 topics
- Sustainability128▼ 0.75×84 topics
- Inflammation124▼ 0.86×78 topics
- Neural Networks119◆ 1.11×39 topics
- Risk Factors119▲ 1.55×36 topics
- Big Data117▲ 1.86×25 topics
- Globalization116▼ 0.85×101 topics
- Public Health105◆ 1.04×60 topics
- Complications103▲ 3.0×17 topics
- Treatment102▲ 1.21×49 topics
- Healthcare98▲ 1.25×35 topics
- Renewable Energy98◆ 0.98×45 topics
- Education94▼ 0.78×72 topics
- Immunotherapy92▲ 1.85×19 topics
- Social Media90◆ 0.91×32 topics
- Artificial Intelligence89◆ 0.94×40 topics
- Diagnosis82▲ 1.27×39 topics
- Chemotherapy77▲ 1.59×25 topics
- Resilience71▲ 2.1×16 topics
- Gender68▲ 1.80×46 topics
- Prognostic Factors62▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Surgical Management60▲ 2.1×20 topics
- Student Engagement57▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Risk Management56▲ 1.67×15 topics
- Gender Differences53▲ 2.0×16 topics
- Smart Grid52▲ 1.99×10 topics
- Patient Satisfaction50▲ 2.3×9 topics
- Surgery49▲ 2.0×12 topics
- Chronic Pain46▲ 3.0×5 topics
- Discrimination44▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Surveillance44▲ 2.4×6 topics
- Reflective Practice42▲ 3.3×7 topics
- Clinical Outcomes42▲ 2.8×6 topics
- Distributed Systems40▲ 3.4×6 topics
- Special Education30▲ 7.6×4 topics
- Laparoscopic Repair27▲ 9.9×2 topics
What research is done in Charlotte?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Hernia repair and management Surgery 24 works
- 2 Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments Hematology 22 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 21 works
- 4 Microgrid Control and Optimization Control and Systems Engineering 20 works
- 5 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 20 works
- 6 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 20 works
- 7 Disability Education and Employment Safety Research 19 works
- 8 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 19 works
- 9 Optimal Power Flow Distribution Electrical and Electronic Engineering 18 works
- 10 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 18 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.