Research in Durham
Science Explorer records 163 research institutions in Durham, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Duke University, Duke Medical Center and RTI International.
- Research institutions
- 163 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 222k ▼ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 9.6M 43.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.4% 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 Durham?
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 Durham work in?
In 2022-now, 46% of research in Durham is in Health Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 2.0× 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
- Health Sciences13k46.2%
- Medicine12k41.1%
- Health Professions1,2054.3%
- Nursing1780.6%
- Veterinary400.1%
- Dentistry350.1%
- Physical Sciences5,36919.0%
- Engineering1,5935.6%
- Computer Science1,1604.1%
- Environmental Science9973.5%
- Physics and Astronomy4781.7%
- Mathematics3891.4%
- Materials Science3101.1%
- Chemistry1790.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1720.6%
- Energy630.2%
- Chemical Engineering290.1%
- Social Sciences5,27718.7%
- Social Sciences2,2528.0%
- Psychology1,1414.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance7002.5%
- Arts and Humanities5702.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting3571.3%
- Decision Sciences2580.9%
- Life Sciences4,51616.0%
What is Durham strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Durham is most concentrated in Transplantation, Family Practice and Statistics and Probability (5.0× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 55.3 works5.0×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 49.4 works4.2×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 190.9 works3.6×
- VirologySubfield · 47.5 works3.3×
- GeneticsSubfield · 209.7 works3.1×
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: Medicine, 2.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine2.13×10k works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.01×502 works
- Neuroscience1.89×762 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.70×2,240 works
- Health Professions1.66×1,086 works
- Psychology1.32×995 works
- Nursing1.25×152 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.24×657 works
- Mathematics1.17×340 works
- Veterinary1.00×34 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.95×83 works
- Decision Sciences0.94×225 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.75×412 works
- Environmental Science0.72×884 works
- Arts and Humanities0.72×513 works
- Social Sciences0.64×2,019 works
- Computer Science0.51×986 works
- Chemistry0.41×159 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.40×316 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.38×149 works
- Engineering0.38×1,424 works
- Materials Science0.30×262 works
- Chemical Engineering0.29×25 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.27×314 works
- Dentistry0.24×29 works
- Energy0.23×53 works
Which keywords describe research in Durham?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Public Health, Cardiovascular Disease, Risk Factors and Mental Health.
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Health Disparities
- Medical Education
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Rehabilitation
- Genetic Mutations
- Aging
- Neurological Disorders
- Radiotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Immunotherapy
- Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Diagnosis
- Biomarkers
- Heart Failure
- Mortality
- Guidelines
- Complications
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Primary Care
- Precision Medicine
- Anxiety
- Ethical Considerations
- Patient Satisfaction
- Mortality Risk
- Chronic Disease Management
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
- Epidemiology2,227▲ 1.98×139 topics
- Inflammation977▲ 1.63×83 topics
- Quality of Life784▲ 1.93×58 topics
- Public Health705▲ 1.72×70 topics
- Machine Learning700▼ 0.75×89 topics
- Oxidative Stress675▲ 1.45×62 topics
- Mental Health659▲ 1.63×46 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease632▲ 1.96×39 topics
- Risk Factors613▲ 1.98×37 topics
- Treatment604▲ 1.76×52 topics
- Cancer561▲ 1.48×57 topics
- Immunotherapy548▲ 2.7×19 topics
- Diagnosis499▲ 1.90×41 topics
- Depression491▲ 1.98×26 topics
- Biomarkers480▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Clinical Trials429▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Heart Failure400▲ 3.2×14 topics
- Chemotherapy396▲ 1.98×25 topics
- Mortality390▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Management380▲ 1.69×35 topics
- Guidelines375▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome372▲ 1.63×24 topics
- Complications335▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Radiotherapy317▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines310▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Neurological Disorders310▲ 1.92×20 topics
- Primary Care310▲ 3.0×15 topics
- Aging308▲ 2.0×19 topics
- Precision Medicine299▲ 2.1×8 topics
- Genetic Mutations296▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Anxiety286▲ 2.1×12 topics
- Rehabilitation269▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Ethical Considerations257▲ 2.6×20 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life255▲ 3.8×6 topics
- Patient Satisfaction252▲ 2.9×10 topics
- Medical Education245▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Mortality Risk244▲ 3.6×6 topics
- Health Disparities234▲ 3.2×9 topics
- Chronic Disease Management204▲ 3.7×6 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy195▲ 4.2×6 topics
What research is done in Durham?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 128 works
- 2 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 80 works
- 3 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 79 works
- 4 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 79 works
- 5 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 77 works
- 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 74 works
- 7 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 74 works
- 8 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 71 works
- 9 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 70 works
- 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 69 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 34.0% in 2008.
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