Research in Charlotte
Science Explorer records 65 research institutions in Charlotte, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of North Carolina at Charlotte, King's College - North Carolina and Honeywell (United States).
- Research institutions
- 65 13 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 53k ▼ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.1M 20.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 16.0% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 | #956 | |
| 2 | Honeywell (United States)Company | 7,644 | #7,480 | |
| 3 | King's College - North CarolinaUniversity | 3,136 | #3,042 | |
| 4 | The Neurological InstituteHospital / health system | 1,964 | #8,434 | |
| 5 | Carrier (United States)Company | 1,750 | #7,729 | |
| 6 | Queens University of CharlotteUniversity | 1,587 | #15,886 | |
| 7 | University DermatologyUniversity | 1,171 | #19,148 | |
| 8 | Levine Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 1,068 | #14,458 | |
| 9 | Duke Energy (United States)Company | 864 | #9,136 | |
| 10 | Carolinas Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 842 | #8,788 all time | |
| 11 | Curtiss-Wright (United States)Company | 830 | #12,854 all time | |
| 12 | Carolina Veterinary SpecialistsHospital / health system | 736 | #16,997 | |
| 13 | Bank of AmericaInstitution | 568 | #17,550 | |
| 14 | OrthoCarolinaHospital / health system | 505 | #16,127 | |
| 15 | Center for Prevention ServicesNonprofit | 405 | #12,651 all time | |
| 16 | Levine Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 277 | #20,929 | |
| 17 | Johnson C. Smith UniversityUniversity | 275 | #22,356 all time | |
| 18 | Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine AssociatesHospital / health system | 254 | #27,379 all time | |
| 19 | SPX Corporation (United States)Company | 190 | #23,090 all time | |
| 20 | Asthma and Allergy SpecialistsHospital / health system | 151 | #33,813 all time | |
| 21 | Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat AssociatesInstitution | 140 | #32,087 all time | |
| 22 | MS Technology (United States)Company | 132 | #31,499 all time | |
| 23 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg SchoolsUniversity | 93 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Central Piedmont Community CollegeUniversity | 92 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Charlotte School of LawUniversity | 80 | not ranked | |
| 26 | OrthoCarolina Research InstituteNonprofit | 79 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Discovery PlaceArchive | 77 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Mecklenburg County GovernmentGovernment institution | 76 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Oncology Specialists of CharlotteHospital / health system | 69 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Swim Across AmericaNonprofit | 67 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Sealed Air (United States)Company | 65 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Global Medical ImagingHospital / health system | 53 | not ranked | |
| 33 | First Baptist Church-WestArchive | 34 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Dermatology, Laser & Vein Specialists of the CarolinasHospital / health system | 32 | not ranked | |
| 35 | InSituTec (United States)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Blumenthal FoundationNonprofit | 22 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Charlotte Sports Medicine InstituteHospital / health system | 21 | not ranked | |
| 38 | PREtest Consult (United States)Company | 21 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Imaging the WorldNonprofit | 14 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Duke EndowmentNonprofit | 13 | not ranked | |
| 41 | PMG ResearchResearch facility | 11 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Dornier (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Dot Metrics Technologies (United States)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Charlotte Christian College and Theological SeminaryUniversity | 9 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Sandbox Learning (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 46 | SonaCare Medical (United States)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Joint Muscle Medical Care and Research InstituteHospital / health system | 6 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Arts & Science CouncilInstitution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 49 | OncoTab (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Pfeiffer University at CharlotteUniversity | 4 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks CommissionGovernment institution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Levine Museum of the New SouthArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Carolinas HealthCare FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Mint MuseumArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Roc Institute for Arts and SciencesUniversity | 2 | not ranked | |
| 56 | North Carolina Humanities CouncilFunder | 2 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Flying Bridge Technologies (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 58 | NLA Diagnostics (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Countervail Corporation (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 60 | EntoGenetics (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.
Which fields of science does Charlotte work in?
In 2022-now, 32% of research in Charlotte is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (26%), Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (14%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences2,59832.2%
- Engineering1,10313.7%
- Computer Science7389.1%
- Environmental Science2022.5%
- Physics and Astronomy1511.9%
- Materials Science1341.7%
- Mathematics1231.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences680.8%
- Energy360.5%
- Chemistry310.4%
- Chemical Engineering100.1%
- Health Sciences2,48630.8%
- Medicine2,12226.3%
- Health Professions2673.3%
- Dentistry370.5%
- Veterinary330.4%
- Nursing270.3%
- Social Sciences2,28628.3%
- Social Sciences1,11513.8%
- Psychology4235.2%
- Arts and Humanities2282.8%
- Business, Management and Accounting2032.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1902.3%
- Decision Sciences1291.6%
- Life Sciences6968.6%
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.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary2.66×25 works
- Psychology1.73×366 works
- Decision Sciences1.71×115 works
- Medicine1.37×1,825 works
- Health Professions1.29×236 works
- Mathematics1.28×105 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.17×174 works
- Computer Science1.14×617 works
- Social Sciences1.10×969 works
- Dentistry1.00×34 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.96×67 works
- Engineering0.95×994 works
- Neuroscience0.86×97 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.85×316 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.83×129 works
- Arts and Humanities0.83×167 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.80×180 works
- Nursing0.69×23 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.65×16 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.56×61 works
- Energy0.53×34 works
- Environmental Science0.51×176 works
- Materials Science0.47×115 works
- Chemical Engineering0.35×9 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×74 works
- Chemistry0.23×25 works
Which keywords describe research in Charlotte?
By fractional works in 2022-now, 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.
- Special Education
- Reflective Practice
- Chronic Pain
- Surveillance
- Surgery
- Risk Management
- Gender Differences
- Ethics
- Resilience
- Security
- Diagnosis
- Renewable Energy
- Complications
- Artificial Intelligence
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Neural Networks
- Inflammation
- Mental Health
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Big Data
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Healthcare
- Immunotherapy
- Social Media
- Chemotherapy
- Depression
- Gender
- Prognostic Factors
- Surgical Management
- Student Engagement
- Patient Satisfaction
- Discrimination
- Clinical Outcomes
- Distributed Systems
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology423▲ 1.31×130 topics
- Machine Learning359▲ 1.34×88 topics
- Deep Learning306◆ 1.10×81 topics
- Mental Health177▲ 1.53×40 topics
- Quality of Life173▲ 1.49×53 topics
- Inflammation153◆ 0.89×81 topics
- Big Data141▲ 1.83×26 topics
- Neural Networks140◆ 1.12×40 topics
- Sustainability139▼ 0.70×87 topics
- Risk Factors137▲ 1.55×36 topics
- Globalization130▼ 0.82×108 topics
- Treatment122▲ 1.24×50 topics
- Public Health120◆ 1.02×60 topics
- Artificial Intelligence113◆ 0.98×43 topics
- Healthcare112▲ 1.22×36 topics
- Complications111▲ 2.8×17 topics
- Immunotherapy110▲ 1.88×19 topics
- Renewable Energy105◆ 0.90×47 topics
- Social Media103◆ 0.93×32 topics
- Diagnosis95▲ 1.26×40 topics
- Chemotherapy90▲ 1.57×25 topics
- Security88▲ 1.63×25 topics
- Depression84▲ 1.18×22 topics
- Resilience79▲ 1.99×16 topics
- Gender79▲ 1.82×48 topics
- Ethics74▲ 1.81×40 topics
- Prognostic Factors68▲ 1.96×14 topics
- Gender Differences68▲ 2.3×16 topics
- Surgical Management64▲ 1.96×20 topics
- Risk Management64▲ 1.68×15 topics
- Student Engagement63▲ 1.97×14 topics
- Surgery59▲ 2.1×12 topics
- Patient Satisfaction54▲ 2.2×9 topics
- Surveillance53▲ 2.4×6 topics
- Discrimination53▲ 3.1×8 topics
- Chronic Pain49▲ 2.8×5 topics
- Clinical Outcomes48▲ 2.7×6 topics
- Reflective Practice46▲ 3.0×7 topics
- Distributed Systems46▲ 3.3×6 topics
- Special Education33▲ 6.9×4 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.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.8% in 2016.
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