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Research in Dayton

Science Explorer records 51 research institutions in Dayton, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Wright State University, Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County and University of Dayton.

Research institutions
51
7 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
52k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
896k
17.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
11.5%
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 Dayton?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Wright State UniversityUniversity 21,560 #2,830
2University of DaytonUniversity 14,221 #5,259
3Public Health Dayton & Montgomery CountyHospital / health system 2,371 #3,442
4Matrix Research (United States)Company 983 #10,936
5Spectra Research (United States)Company 741 #13,625 all time
6UES (United States)Company 712 #21,680
7Innovative Scientific Solutions (United States)Company 601 #13,316 all time
8Miami Valley HospitalHospital / health system 596 #21,327
9Dayton Clinical Oncology ProgramNonprofit 486 #16,243 all time
10Kettering FoundationNonprofit 455 #25,527 all time
11Applied Optimization (United States)Company 367 #17,418
12United Theological SeminaryUniversity 357 #33,277 all time
13Sinclair Community CollegeUniversity 344 #17,225 all time
14Spectral Energies (United States)Company 265 #23,393 all time
15Grandview Medical CenterHospital / health system 200 #27,184 all time
16Engineering Research & Analysis (United States)Company 177 #26,457 all time
17RNET Technologies (United States)Company 151 #23,730 all time
18Materials Resources (United States)Company 136 #20,229 all time
19Universal Technology Corporation (United States)Company 133 #33,054 all time
20Dayton Metro LibraryArchive 119 not ranked
21IAP Research (United States)Company 113 not ranked
22Cornerstone Research Group (United States)Company 107 not ranked
23MacAulay-Brown (United States)Company 94 not ranked
24Hipple Cancer Research CenterResearch facility 76 not ranked
25Dayton Interventional RadiologyHospital / health system 69 not ranked
26GoHypersonic (United States)Company 57 not ranked
27Ohio Pediatric Research AssociationResearch facility 54 not ranked
28Sytronics (United States)Company 45 not ranked
29Washington Township Fire DepartmentGovernment institution 43 not ranked
30APS Materials (United States)Company 38 not ranked
31Optonicus (United States)Company 32 not ranked
32Edaptive Computing (United States)Company 21 not ranked
33Midmark (United States)Company 20 not ranked
34Ohio's Hospice of DaytonNonprofit 17 not ranked
35Nanotek Instruments (United States)Company 15 not ranked
36RHAMM Technologies (United States)Company 15 not ranked
37Ahmic Aerospace (United States)Company 14 not ranked
38Mathile Institute For The Advancement of Human NutritionNonprofit 11 not ranked
39FoodbankNonprofit 10 not ranked
40Premier Community HealthInstitution 9 not ranked
41BerrieHill Research (United States)Company 7 not ranked
42Angstron Materials (United States)University 7 not ranked
43Dayton Art InstituteNonprofit 7 not ranked
44Tenet 3 (United States)Company 4 not ranked
45Materials Research Institute (United States)Company 3 not ranked
46Boonshoft Museum of DiscoveryArchive 3 not ranked
47Advratech (United States)Company 3 not ranked
48First Dayton CyberKnifeHospital / health system 2 not ranked
49Kalos Technologies (United States)Company 2 not ranked
50Kettering Family FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
51Dayton FoundationNonprofit 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.

Wright State University: 47.0%University of Dayton: 31.0%Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County: 5.2%Matrix Research (United States): 2.1%47 others listed: 14.7%47%largest
Wright State University22k · 47.0%University of Dayton14k · 31.0%Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County2,371 · 5.2%Matrix Research (United States)983 · 2.1%47 others listed6,740 · 14.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Dayton work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research in Dayton is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (17%), Medicine (16%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,860 fractional works · 42.6% of its workEngineering: 1,299 fractional works · 19.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 336 fractional works · 5.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 220 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 138 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 136 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 97 fractional works · 1.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 66 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 56 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 707 fractional works · 10.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 241 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems: 126 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 101 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 96 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 33 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 221 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 189 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 84 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 46 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 175 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 88 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 84 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 74 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 61 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,093 fractional works · 31.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,116 fractional works · 16.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 374 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEducation: 216 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 160 fractional works · 2.4% of its workTransportation: 137 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSafety Research: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 259 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPhilosophy: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 239 fractional works · 3.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 87 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 75 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 203 fractional works · 3.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 55 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 166 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 118 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 109 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 57 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,278 fractional works · 19.0% of its workMedicine: 1,073 fractional works · 16.0% of its workSurgery: 157 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 94 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 80 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 73 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 66 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 46 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 33 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 33 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 145 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Professions: 168 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 93 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 486 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 226 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 128 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGenetics: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 121 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 94 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKDayton6,718fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences31%

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
    1. Engineering1,29919.3%
    2. Computer Science70710.5%
    3. Environmental Science2213.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy1892.8%
    5. Materials Science1752.6%
    6. Mathematics841.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences741.1%
    8. Chemistry610.9%
    9. Energy310.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering200.3%
  1. Social Sciences2,09331.2%
    1. Social Sciences1,11616.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities2593.9%
    3. Psychology2393.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2033.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1662.5%
    6. Decision Sciences1091.6%
  2. Health Sciences1,27819.0%
    1. Medicine1,07316.0%
    2. Health Professions1682.5%
    3. Nursing230.3%
    4. Dentistry70.1%
    5. Veterinary60.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2263.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1211.8%
    3. Neuroscience941.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology280.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics180.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Dayton strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Dayton is most concentrated in Transportation, Aerospace Engineering and Religious studies (5.9× the world share in Transportation).

  1. TransportationSubfield · 112.0 works5.9×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 283.5 works4.2×
  3. Religious studiesSubfield · 24.7 works2.6×
← 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.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 105 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.64× its world share, 196 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.41× its world share, 24 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.87× its world share, 80 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 16 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.85× its world share, 17 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.59× its world share, 52 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.21× its world share, 539 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.69× its world share, 62 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.52× its world share, 27 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.33× its world share, 1,138 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.69× its world share, 196 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.76× its world share, 151 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.09× its world share, 73 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.29× its world share, 164 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.00× its world share, 151 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.86× its world share, 941 worksMedicineNursing: 0.76× its world share, 21 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.68× its world share, 5 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.33× its world share, 219 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.91× its world share, 168 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.61× its world share, 89 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.13× its world share, 138 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.19× its world share, 207 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.28× its world share, 928 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 1.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences1.61×89 works
  2. Engineering1.33×1,138 works
  3. Arts and Humanities1.33×219 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.29×164 works
  5. Social Sciences1.28×928 works
  6. Computer Science1.21×539 works
  7. Psychology1.19×207 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.13×138 works
  9. Mathematics1.09×73 works
  10. Health Professions1.00×151 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.91×168 works
  12. Neuroscience0.87×80 works
  13. Medicine0.86×941 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.85×17 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.79×16 works
  16. Materials Science0.76×151 works
  17. Nursing0.76×21 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.69×62 works
  19. Environmental Science0.69×196 works
  20. Veterinary0.68×5 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.64×196 works
  22. Chemistry0.59×52 works
  23. Energy0.52×27 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.41×24 works
  25. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.39×105 works
  26. Dentistry0.23×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Dayton?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Legal Regulation, Economic Security, Science, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Philosophy, Islam, Social Influence and Modernization.

▲ 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-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
  1. Deep Learning281▲ 1.21×79 topics
  2. Machine Learning264▲ 1.18×91 topics
  3. Epidemiology212▼ 0.79×130 topics
  4. Globalization194▲ 1.47×108 topics
  5. History172▲ 3.7×40 topics
  6. Legal Regulation162▲ 11×8 topics
  7. Literature161▲ 4.4×37 topics
  8. Sustainability161◆ 0.98×90 topics
  9. Philosophy160▲ 5.4×26 topics
  10. Culture158▲ 4.5×28 topics
  11. Ethnicity146▲ 5.8×19 topics
  12. Economic Security145▲ 10×7 topics
  13. Science144▲ 8.7×9 topics
  14. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles136▲ 11×4 topics
  15. Islam134▲ 9.7×5 topics
  16. Social Influence132▲ 9.3×3 topics
  17. Modernization130▲ 11×4 topics
  18. International Trade Law130▲ 15×2 topics
  19. Public Oversight130▲ 16×1 topic
  20. Transport Policy130▲ 16×1 topic
  21. Sharia Law129▲ 13×2 topics
  22. Foresight129▲ 15×2 topics
  23. Malay Language129▲ 14×1 topic
  24. Design128▲ 12×5 topics
  25. Strategic Planning127▲ 13×4 topics
  26. Air Force126▲ 16×1 topic
  27. Warfare126▲ 16×1 topic
  28. Mental Health115▲ 1.20×42 topics
  29. Heat Transfer94▲ 2.9×19 topics
  30. Pedagogy92▲ 2.7×19 topics
  31. Large-Eddy Simulation59▲ 4.7×5 topics
  32. Teaching Methods58▲ 5.4×8 topics
  33. Critical Thinking56▲ 7.1×5 topics
  34. Digital Economy55▲ 4.1×17 topics
  35. Digital Education54▲ 5.4×6 topics
  36. Tourism Development52▲ 5.7×2 topics
  37. Formative Assessment50▲ 9.0×2 topics
  38. Educational Technologies50▲ 8.1×2 topics
  39. Artistic Education48▲ 11×1 topic
  40. Student Competencies48▲ 11×1 topic

What research is done in Dayton?

  1. 1 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 106 works
  2. 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 105 works
  3. 3 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 103 works
  4. 4 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 32 works
  5. 5 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 20 works
  6. 6 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 19 works
  7. 7 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 17 works
  8. 8 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 16 works
  9. 9 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies Automotive Engineering 14 works
  10. 10 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 14 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

still counting10%20%30%Dayton11.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.0% in 2004.

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