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Research in Durham

Science Explorer records 172 research institutions in Durham, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Duke University, Duke Medical Center and Duke University Hospital.

Research institutions
172
15 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
222k
▲ 5% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
20.4%
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 Durham?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Duke UniversityUniversity 102,895 #98
2Duke Medical CenterHospital / health system 39,324 #971
3Duke University HospitalHospital / health system 18,207 #1,919
4Research Triangle Park FoundationNonprofit 11,782 #4,152
5National Institute of Environmental Health SciencesResearch facility 10,172 #2,992
6RTI InternationalFunder 7,737 #4,040
7North Carolina Central UniversityUniversity 2,426 #10,069
8Durham VA Medical CenterHospital / health system 2,378 #9,544
9Durham Technical Community CollegeUniversity 2,333 #23,563
10IQVIA (United States)Company 2,064 #9,752
11Burroughs Wellcome FundNonprofit 1,980 #3,261 all time
12Southern Research InstituteNonprofit 1,785 #6,974 all time
13Duke University Health SystemUniversity 1,462 #7,179
14Family Health International 360Nonprofit 1,284 #15,371
15International Union of Pure and Applied ChemistryNonprofit 1,001 #7,840 all time
16RTI Health SolutionsNonprofit 964 #11,739
17Duke Institute for Health InnovationInstitution 948 #8,548
18Nickel InstituteFunder 791 #10,094 all time
19Institute for Medical ResearchNonprofit 724 #4,847 all time
20United States Army Research OfficeGovernment institution 621 #7,303 all time
21Durham VA Health Care SystemHospital / health system 605 #11,891
22Triangle Universities Nuclear LaboratoryUniversity 562 #5,570 all time
23Premier Research GroupResearch facility 519 #19,866
24Center for Child and Family HealthNonprofit 490 #6,988 all time
25Integrated Oncology (United States)Company 448 #10,483
26ECSI Fibrotools (United States)Company 434 #14,028
27American Journal Experts (United States)Company 420 #27,136
28Wolfspeed, Inc. (United States)Company 401 #6,491 all time
29Health Decisions (United States)Company 396 #18,979 all time
30Research Square (United States)Company 367 #23,453
31MCNC Research and Development InstituteResearch facility 326 #13,819 all time
32Semiconductor Research CorporationNonprofit 316 #20,470 all time
33Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc.Research facility 315 #24,189 all time
34North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsUniversity 287 #21,913
35Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences InstituteResearch facility 248 #21,378 all time
36North Carolina Biotechnology CenterNonprofit 226 #14,295 all time
37Physical Devices (United States)Company 218 #22,928 all time
38Dryad Digital RepositoryNonprofit 211 #41,642 all time
39Duke Children's Hospital & Health CenterHospital / health system 204 #26,874 all time
40The Hamner Institutes for Health SciencesNonprofit 203 #21,263 all time
41Duke Regional HospitalHospital / health system 199 #17,705 all time
42Momentum ResearchHospital / health system 172 #32,107 all time
43BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 172 #30,423 all time
44bioMérieux (United States)Company 164 #20,954 all time
45BD Technologie (United States)Company 162 #24,868 all time
46National Evolutionary Synthesis CenterNonprofit 157 #15,665 all time
47Mi Corporation (United States)Company 153 #23,439 all time
48Apex School of TheologyUniversity 148 #41,140 all time
49MetaMetrics (United States)Company 147 #35,442 all time
50Global Vaccines (United States)Company 136 #17,942 all time
51Velocity Clinical Research (United States)Company 134 #25,865 all time
52National Humanities CenterNonprofit 124 #38,122 all time
53American Sexual Health AssociationNonprofit 109 not ranked
54Organization For Tropical StudiesInstitution 94 not ranked
55Brown Computer Company (United States)Company 91 not ranked
56Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina FoundationNonprofit 87 not ranked
57Heart Imaging Technologies (United States)Company 87 not ranked
58Innovation Research and TrainingCompany 85 not ranked
59Chimerix (United States)Company 83 not ranked
60G1 Therapeutics (United States)Company 81 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.

Duke University: 46.6%Duke Medical Center: 17.8%Duke University Hospital: 8.3%Research Triangle Park Foundation: 5.3%56 others listed: 22.0%47%largest
Duke University103k · 46.6%Duke Medical Center39k · 17.8%Duke University Hospital18k · 8.3%Research Triangle Park Foundation12k · 5.3%56 others listed48k · 22.0%

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

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).

  1. TransplantationSubfield · 55.3 works5.0×
  2. Family PracticeSubfield · 49.4 works4.2×
  3. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 190.9 works3.6×
  4. VirologySubfield · 47.5 works3.3×
  5. GeneticsSubfield · 209.7 works3.1×
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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 Durham?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Epidemiology1,957▲ 2.0×139 topics
  2. Inflammation852▲ 1.65×83 topics
  3. Quality of Life695▲ 1.94×58 topics
  4. Public Health626▲ 1.74×69 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress597▲ 1.47×61 topics
  6. Mental Health596▲ 1.64×46 topics
  7. Machine Learning593▼ 0.73×89 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease549▲ 1.99×39 topics
  9. Risk Factors541▲ 1.99×37 topics
  10. Treatment528▲ 1.76×52 topics
  11. Cancer495▲ 1.49×56 topics
  12. Immunotherapy485▲ 2.8×19 topics
  13. Depression437▲ 2.0×26 topics
  14. Diagnosis433▲ 1.88×41 topics
  15. Biomarkers421▲ 2.5×18 topics
  16. Clinical Trials387▲ 2.3×19 topics
  17. Mortality358▲ 2.5×13 topics
  18. Chemotherapy348▲ 2.0×25 topics
  19. Heart Failure345▲ 3.2×14 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome337▲ 1.67×24 topics
  21. Guidelines333▲ 2.9×13 topics
  22. Management329▲ 1.69×34 topics
  23. Complications300▲ 2.4×17 topics
  24. Primary Care281▲ 3.0×15 topics
  25. Radiotherapy278▲ 2.9×13 topics
  26. Clinical Practice Guidelines274▲ 2.0×14 topics
  27. Neurological Disorders273▲ 1.94×20 topics
  28. Aging270▲ 2.0×19 topics
  29. Precision Medicine262▲ 2.3×8 topics
  30. Genetic Mutations256▲ 2.4×23 topics
  31. Anxiety255▲ 2.2×12 topics
  32. Rehabilitation236▲ 2.4×13 topics
  33. Health-related Quality of Life228▲ 3.9×6 topics
  34. Patient Satisfaction228▲ 2.9×10 topics
  35. Ethical Considerations226▲ 2.7×20 topics
  36. Mortality Risk218▲ 3.7×6 topics
  37. Health Disparities212▲ 3.3×9 topics
  38. Medical Education207▲ 3.2×13 topics
  39. Chronic Disease Management184▲ 3.9×6 topics
  40. Antiretroviral Therapy180▲ 4.5×6 topics

What research is done in Durham?

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 128 works
  2. 2 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 80 works
  3. 3 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 79 works
  4. 4 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 79 works
  5. 5 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 77 works
  6. 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 74 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 74 works
  8. 8 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 71 works
  9. 9 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 70 works
  10. 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 69 works

Research output over time

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