Research in Houston
Science Explorer records 256 research institutions in Houston, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine.
- Research institutions
- 256 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 376k ▲ 7% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.2% 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 Houston?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 75,169 | #137 | |
| 2 | Baylor College of MedicineUniversity | 65,225 | #337 | |
| 3 | University of HoustonUniversity | 54,970 | #424 | |
| 4 | Rice UniversityUniversity | 39,827 | #275 | |
| 5 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUniversity | 32,227 | #521 | |
| 6 | Johnson Space CenterResearch facility | 13,229 | #7,790 | |
| 7 | Texas Children's HospitalFunder | 8,291 | #2,651 | |
| 8 | Houston MethodistHospital / health system | 8,140 | #1,936 | |
| 9 | Saudi Aramco (United States)Company | 6,559 | #7,723 | |
| 10 | Texas Medical CenterHospital / health system | 4,944 | #9,386 | |
| 11 | Baker Hughes (United States)Company | 4,633 | #7,461 | |
| 12 | Shell (United States)Company | 3,172 | #12,278 | |
| 13 | Schlumberger (United States)Company | 3,113 | #24,700 | |
| 14 | University of Houston - Clear LakeUniversity | 3,006 | #11,880 | |
| 15 | ConocoPhillips (United States)Company | 2,840 | #20,467 | |
| 16 | Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 2,743 | #4,309 | |
| 17 | Texas Southern UniversityUniversity | 2,289 | #10,236 | |
| 18 | University of Houston - DowntownUniversity | 2,070 | #11,808 | |
| 19 | Fusion (United States)Company | 2,004 | #8,145 | |
| 20 | Memorial HermannHospital / health system | 1,937 | #12,065 | |
| 21 | Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of MedicineGovernment institution | 1,741 | #13,642 | |
| 22 | Marathon Oil (United States)Company | 1,633 | #26,836 | |
| 23 | Lunar and Planetary InstituteResearch facility | 1,457 | #16,891 | |
| 24 | Harris Health SystemHospital / health system | 1,267 | #19,687 | |
| 25 | St. John's SchoolUniversity | 1,187 | #17,325 | |
| 26 | Center for Theoretical Biological PhysicsResearch facility | 1,092 | #6,146 | |
| 27 | Core Laboratories (United States)Company | 1,042 | #11,644 | |
| 28 | Phillips 66 (United States)Company | 1,014 | #8,366 all time | |
| 29 | ABS Consulting (United States)Company | 957 | #8,523 | |
| 30 | Baylor GeneticsResearch facility | 950 | #6,893 | |
| 31 | Welch FoundationNonprofit | 896 | #12,701 | |
| 32 | Occidental Petroleum (United States)Company | 843 | #20,356 | |
| 33 | Menninger ClinicHospital / health system | 825 | #13,934 all time | |
| 34 | Arnold VenturesInstitution | 779 | #17,356 all time | |
| 35 | NACE InternationalNonprofit | 738 | #31,865 all time | |
| 36 | BP (United States)Company | 694 | #20,627 | |
| 37 | Marcus (United States)Company | 668 | #16,759 all time | |
| 38 | Halliburton (United States)Company | 665 | #23,736 | |
| 39 | University of St. Thomas - TexasUniversity | 658 | #22,297 | |
| 40 | Ben Taub HospitalHospital / health system | 588 | #20,097 all time | |
| 41 | Brown FoundationInstitution | 573 | #7,490 | |
| 42 | Houston Museum of Natural ScienceArchive | 572 | #17,299 all time | |
| 43 | South Texas College of LawUniversity | 546 | #35,057 all time | |
| 44 | KBR (United States)Company | 496 | #10,773 | |
| 45 | Center for Clinical StudiesNonprofit | 489 | #18,362 | |
| 46 | Houston Christian UniversityUniversity | 487 | #21,104 all time | |
| 47 | Houston Independent School DistrictUniversity | 478 | #12,819 | |
| 48 | Oceaneering International (United States)Company | 471 | #22,838 | |
| 49 | Engie (United States)Company | 453 | #25,533 | |
| 50 | American Bureau of ShippingNonprofit | 452 | #29,552 all time | |
| 51 | Weatherford (United States)Company | 445 | #21,722 all time | |
| 52 | Houston Fertility InstituteHospital / health system | 434 | #25,082 | |
| 53 | Stress Engineering Services (United States)Company | 429 | #29,116 all time | |
| 54 | Tenaris (United States)Company | 415 | #25,220 | |
| 55 | Kidney AssociatesInstitution | 415 | #16,267 | |
| 56 | Golder Associates (United States)Company | 374 | #28,438 all time | |
| 57 | HOPE ClinicHospital / health system | 373 | #18,274 | |
| 58 | McDermott International (United States)Company | 337 | #14,234 all time | |
| 59 | Houston Institute for Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 336 | #12,870 | |
| 60 | Colorectal Surgical AssociatesInstitution | 322 | #34,714 all time |
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 Houston strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Houston is most concentrated in Hematology, Genetics and Ocean Engineering (5.6× the world share in Hematology).
- HematologySubfield · 858.7 works5.6×
- GeneticsSubfield · 676.2 works4.9×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 1,221.1 works4.6×
- OncologySubfield · 2,503.5 works4.4×
- Cancer ResearchSubfield · 760.2 works3.5×
- TransplantationSubfield · 75.4 works3.3×
- AgingSubfield · 38.5 works3.1×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 89.2 works2.9×
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 Houston?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Prognostic Factors, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, Inflammation, Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment and Radiotherapy.
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor
- Shale Gas Reservoirs
- Well Integrity
- Genomic Instability
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- CO2 Sequestration
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Breast Cancer
- Targeted Therapy
- Cancer Therapy
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Diagnosis
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Prognostic Factors
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Radiotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Gene Expression
- Lymphoma
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Tumor Regression
- Rituximab
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells
- Leukemia
- Drilling Fluids
- Fracture Propagation
- CAR T Cells
- AML
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
- Epidemiology3,226▲ 1.61×140 topics
- Inflammation1,698▲ 1.61×83 topics
- Immunotherapy1,579▲ 4.4×19 topics
- Machine Learning1,466◆ 0.88×94 topics
- Chemotherapy1,437▲ 4.0×25 topics
- Prognostic Factors1,376▲ 6.2×14 topics
- Cancer1,351▲ 1.99×58 topics
- Quality of Life1,158▲ 1.59×57 topics
- Treatment1,114▲ 1.81×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,089▲ 1.32×62 topics
- Risk Factors1,062▲ 1.91×37 topics
- Diagnosis900▲ 1.91×41 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment868▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines828▲ 3.0×14 topics
- Radiotherapy818▲ 4.2×13 topics
- Clinical Trials797▲ 2.4×19 topics
- Biomarkers740▲ 2.1×18 topics
- Genetic Mutations690▲ 3.1×23 topics
- Gene Expression670▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Cancer Therapy652▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Lymphoma600▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Targeted Therapy597▲ 5.3×5 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy555▲ 7.1×3 topics
- Breast Cancer479▲ 4.0×11 topics
- Tumor Regression472▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy467▲ 3.9×5 topics
- Rituximab466▲ 6.1×4 topics
- CO2 Sequestration458▲ 4.7×4 topics
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells451▲ 10×3 topics
- Hydraulic Fracturing397▲ 7.1×2 topics
- Leukemia374▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Genomic Instability372▲ 6.6×3 topics
- Drilling Fluids369▲ 13×1 topic
- Well Integrity369▲ 13×1 topic
- Fracture Propagation360▲ 12×1 topic
- Shale Gas Reservoirs360▲ 12×1 topic
- CAR T Cells360▲ 9.7×1 topic
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor360▲ 9.7×1 topic
- AML356▲ 14×1 topic
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia356▲ 14×1 topic
What research is done in Houston?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 369 works
- 2 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 360 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 360 works
- 4 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 356 works
- 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 354 works
- 6 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 301 works
- 7 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 285 works
- 8 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 234 works
- 9 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Genetics 220 works
- 10 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 212 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.