Research in Houston
Science Explorer records 240 research institutions in Houston, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Houston.
- Research institutions
- 240 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 376k ▼ 3% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 12.4M 32.8 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 17.2% 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 Houston?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baylor College of MedicineUniversity | 78,420 | #219 | |
| 2 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 75,758 | #362 | |
| 3 | University of HoustonUniversity | 54,970 | #361 | |
| 4 | Rice UniversityUniversity | 39,827 | #163 | |
| 5 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUniversity | 32,422 | #532 | |
| 6 | Houston MethodistHospital / health system | 8,140 | #1,507 | |
| 7 | Texas Medical CenterHospital / health system | 4,944 | #4,797 | |
| 8 | Baker Hughes (United States)Company | 4,633 | #6,827 | |
| 9 | Shell (United States)Company | 3,172 | #11,621 | |
| 10 | Schlumberger (United States)Company | 3,113 | #13,696 | |
| 11 | University of Houston - Clear LakeUniversity | 3,006 | #4,539 | |
| 12 | ConocoPhillips (United States)Company | 2,840 | #7,826 | |
| 13 | Texas Southern UniversityUniversity | 2,289 | #7,755 | |
| 14 | Memorial HermannHospital / health system | 2,272 | #4,071 | |
| 15 | University of Houston - DowntownUniversity | 2,070 | #8,827 | |
| 16 | Fusion (United States)Company | 2,004 | #16,112 | |
| 17 | Marathon Oil (United States)Company | 1,633 | #14,708 | |
| 18 | Harris Health SystemHospital / health system | 1,267 | #15,569 | |
| 19 | St. John's SchoolUniversity | 1,187 | #12,397 | |
| 20 | Core Laboratories (United States)Company | 1,042 | #6,549 | |
| 21 | Phillips 66 (United States)Company | 1,014 | #22,718 all time | |
| 22 | ABS Consulting (United States)Company | 957 | #7,445 | |
| 23 | Baylor GeneticsResearch facility | 950 | #6,797 | |
| 24 | Welch FoundationNonprofit | 896 | #10,806 | |
| 25 | Occidental Petroleum (United States)Company | 843 | #17,130 | |
| 26 | Menninger ClinicHospital / health system | 825 | #10,181 all time | |
| 27 | Arnold VenturesInstitution | 779 | #13,690 all time | |
| 28 | NACE InternationalNonprofit | 738 | #25,299 all time | |
| 29 | Marcus (United States)Company | 668 | #8,808 all time | |
| 30 | Halliburton (United States)Company | 665 | #16,347 | |
| 31 | University of St. Thomas - TexasUniversity | 658 | #12,975 | |
| 32 | KBR (United States)Company | 609 | #10,308 | |
| 33 | Brown FoundationInstitution | 573 | #8,116 | |
| 34 | Houston Museum of Natural ScienceArchive | 572 | #10,980 all time | |
| 35 | South Texas College of LawUniversity | 546 | #25,656 all time | |
| 36 | Center for Clinical StudiesNonprofit | 489 | #17,735 | |
| 37 | Houston Christian UniversityUniversity | 487 | #15,992 all time | |
| 38 | Houston Independent School DistrictUniversity | 478 | #10,316 | |
| 39 | Oceaneering International (United States)Company | 471 | #13,870 | |
| 40 | Engie (United States)Company | 453 | #18,930 | |
| 41 | American Bureau of ShippingNonprofit | 452 | #25,161 all time | |
| 42 | Weatherford (United States)Company | 445 | #11,573 all time | |
| 43 | Houston Fertility InstituteHospital / health system | 434 | #19,868 | |
| 44 | Stress Engineering Services (United States)Company | 429 | #24,693 all time | |
| 45 | Tenaris (United States)Company | 415 | #16,032 | |
| 46 | Kidney AssociatesInstitution | 415 | #20,419 | |
| 47 | Golder Associates (United States)Company | 374 | #23,866 all time | |
| 48 | HOPE ClinicHospital / health system | 373 | #9,871 | |
| 49 | McDermott International (United States)Company | 337 | #8,914 all time | |
| 50 | Houston Institute for Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 336 | #13,526 | |
| 51 | Colorectal Surgical AssociatesInstitution | 322 | #22,689 all time | |
| 52 | Fugro (United States)Company | 313 | #29,004 all time | |
| 53 | United Space Alliance (USA)Company | 306 | #25,106 all time | |
| 54 | North American UniversityUniversity | 304 | #23,102 all time | |
| 55 | Montrose CenterInstitution | 302 | #17,401 all time | |
| 56 | Texas Orthopedic HospitalHospital / health system | 298 | #17,170 all time | |
| 57 | Lone Star CollegeUniversity | 286 | #19,542 | |
| 58 | Retina Consultants of TexasHospital / health system | 284 | #20,679 | |
| 59 | Essa Pharma (United States)Company | 270 | #22,093 all time | |
| 60 | Retina Research FoundationNonprofit | 268 | #17,087 all time |
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 Houston work in?
In 2022-now, 47% of research in Houston is in Health Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (43%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Engineering (11%). 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 Sciences27k46.8%
- Medicine25k43.3%
- Health Professions1,6172.8%
- Nursing2040.4%
- Dentistry1700.3%
- Veterinary450.1%
- Physical Sciences14k23.7%
- Engineering6,17110.7%
- Computer Science2,0573.6%
- Environmental Science1,1282.0%
- Physics and Astronomy1,1031.9%
- Materials Science9901.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences8671.5%
- Chemistry4990.9%
- Mathematics4310.7%
- Energy2530.4%
- Chemical Engineering1350.2%
- Life Sciences9,54716.6%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6,18710.7%
- Neuroscience1,5122.6%
- Immunology and Microbiology1,2082.1%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences4950.9%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1450.3%
- Social Sciences7,46613.0%
- Social Sciences3,1425.5%
- Psychology1,8663.2%
- Arts and Humanities7421.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance7191.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting6631.2%
- Decision Sciences3330.6%
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.
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, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine2.24×22k works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.04×1,038 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.98×5,354 works
- Neuroscience1.59×1,308 works
- Health Professions1.07×1,427 works
- Psychology1.07×1,650 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.98×780 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.85×963 works
- Engineering0.73×5,538 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.71×127 works
- Nursing0.70×175 works
- Chemical Engineering0.66×118 works
- Mathematics0.63×378 works
- Dentistry0.61×151 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×664 works
- Decision Sciences0.59×287 works
- Chemistry0.56×442 works
- Veterinary0.54×37 works
- Materials Science0.50×876 works
- Energy0.48×223 works
- Computer Science0.45×1,781 works
- Arts and Humanities0.45×659 works
- Social Sciences0.44×2,828 works
- Environmental Science0.39×984 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.37×599 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×438 works
Which keywords describe research in Houston?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Prognostic Factors, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, Inflammation, Cancer, Radiotherapy and Tumor Microenvironment.
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor
- Shale Gas Reservoirs
- Well Integrity
- Leukemia
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells
- Tumor Regression
- Breast Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Cancer Therapy
- Gene Expression
- Clinical Trials
- Radiotherapy
- Diagnosis
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Cancer
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Prognostic Factors
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Biomarkers
- Genetic Mutations
- Targeted Therapy
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- CO2 Sequestration
- Rituximab
- Genomic Instability
- Drilling Fluids
- Fracture Propagation
- CAR T Cells
- AML
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
- Epidemiology3,672▲ 1.60×140 topics
- Inflammation1,954▲ 1.59×83 topics
- Immunotherapy1,803▲ 4.3×19 topics
- Machine Learning1,679◆ 0.87×94 topics
- Chemotherapy1,676▲ 4.1×25 topics
- Cancer1,570▲ 2.0×58 topics
- Prognostic Factors1,548▲ 6.2×14 topics
- Quality of Life1,308▲ 1.57×58 topics
- Treatment1,267▲ 1.81×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,261▲ 1.33×63 topics
- Risk Factors1,212▲ 1.91×37 topics
- Diagnosis1,020▲ 1.90×41 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment1,001▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Radiotherapy963▲ 4.2×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines952▲ 3.0×14 topics
- Clinical Trials896▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Biomarkers855▲ 2.1×18 topics
- Gene Expression807▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Genetic Mutations793▲ 3.1×23 topics
- Cancer Therapy742▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Targeted Therapy676▲ 5.3×5 topics
- Lymphoma671▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy619▲ 7.0×3 topics
- Breast Cancer607▲ 4.2×11 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy547▲ 4.0×5 topics
- Tumor Regression527▲ 8.2×2 topics
- CO2 Sequestration514▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells507▲ 10×3 topics
- Rituximab506▲ 6.1×4 topics
- Hydraulic Fracturing442▲ 7.2×2 topics
- Genomic Instability430▲ 6.6×3 topics
- Leukemia416▲ 8.7×2 topics
- Drilling Fluids407▲ 13×1 topic
- Well Integrity407▲ 13×1 topic
- Fracture Propagation401▲ 12×1 topic
- Shale Gas Reservoirs401▲ 12×1 topic
- CAR T Cells398▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor398▲ 9.5×1 topic
- AML393▲ 14×1 topic
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia393▲ 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.
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 27.3% in 2008.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in Houston for research?
Science Explorer records 240 research institutions in Houston, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Houston.
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