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Research in Milford

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Milford, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Waters (United States).

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.1k
▼ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
79k
37.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Milford

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 Milford?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Waters (United States)Company 2,450 #3,107
2SeraCare Life Sciences (United States)Company 59 not ranked
3Prothelia (United States)Company 3 not ranked
4TechEn (United States)Company 2 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.

Waters (United States): 97.5%SeraCare Life Sciences (United States): 2.3%Prothelia (United States): 0.1%TechEn (United States): 0.1%97%largest
Waters (United States)2,450 · 97.5%SeraCare Life Sciences (United States)59 · 2.3%Prothelia (United States)3 · 0.1%TechEn (United States)2 · 0.1%

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

Which fields of science does Milford work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research in Milford is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Chemistry (18%), Environmental Science (18%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 148 fractional works · 56.8% of its workChemistry: 48 fractional works · 18.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 38 fractional works · 14.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 47 fractional works · 18.1% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 3.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 31 fractional works · 11.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 17 fractional works · 6.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 63 fractional works · 24.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 42 fractional works · 16.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 37 fractional works · 14.1% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 28 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 8.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKMilford261fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences57%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences8%

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. Chemistry4818.4%
    2. Environmental Science4718.1%
    3. Engineering3111.8%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences145.4%
    5. Materials Science31.1%
    6. Computer Science31.0%
    7. Chemical Engineering20.6%
    8. Energy10.4%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4216.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences166.0%
    3. Neuroscience20.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.7%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology20.7%
    1. Medicine249.2%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing20.6%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences114.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.6%
    3. Psychology31.0%
    4. Decision Sciences20.7%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting20.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Milford strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Milford is most concentrated in Spectroscopy and Chemistry (66.8× the world share in Spectroscopy).

  1. SpectroscopySubfield · 33.9 works67×
  2. ChemistryField · 42.8 works12×
← 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: 1.33× its world share, 14 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.91× its world share, 36 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.18× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.05× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 11.83× its world share, 43 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.79× its world share, 10 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.80× its world share, 28 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.46× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.52× its world share, 23 worksMedicineNursing: 1.22× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.85× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 11.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry11.83×43 works
  2. Environmental Science3.46×40 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.91×36 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.79×10 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.18×2 works
  6. Chemical Engineering2.05×2 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.33×14 works
  8. Nursing1.22×1 works
  9. Veterinary1.06×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.85×4 works
  11. Engineering0.80×28 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.79×2 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.75×2 works
  14. Neuroscience0.55×2 works
  15. Medicine0.52×23 works
  16. Energy0.39×1 works
  17. Psychology0.38×3 works
  18. Social Sciences0.34×10 works
  19. Health Professions0.29×2 works
  20. Materials Science0.27×2 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×2 works
  22. Dentistry0.15×0 works
  23. Computer Science0.12×2 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.12×1 works
  25. Mathematics0.02×0 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Milford?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Liquid Chromatography, Chiral Separation, Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Climate Change, Monoclonal Antibodies, Therapeutic Antibodies and Proteomics.

▲ 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. Climate Change30▲ 4.2×54 topics
  2. Liquid Chromatography24▲ 156×2 topics
  3. Chiral Separation23▲ 210×1 topic
  4. Gas Chromatography23▲ 210×1 topic
  5. Mass Spectrometry23▲ 56×5 topics
  6. Monoclonal Antibodies16▲ 67×3 topics
  7. Therapeutic Antibodies16▲ 85×2 topics
  8. Proteomics15▲ 91×2 topics
  9. Biopharmaceuticals13▲ 100×2 topics
  10. Immunogenicity13▲ 119×2 topics
  11. Protein Aggregation13▲ 95×1 topic
  12. Recombinant Proteins13▲ 161×1 topic
  13. 3D Printing13▲ 22×3 topics
  14. Biomedical Research12▲ 98×1 topic
  15. Lab-on-a-Chip12▲ 40×2 topics
  16. Point-of-Care Diagnostics12▲ 58×2 topics
  17. Poly(dimethylsiloxane)12▲ 200×1 topic
  18. Ambient Conditions10▲ 50×2 topics
  19. Imaging10▲ 16×2 topics
  20. Electrospray10▲ 122×1 topic
  21. Ionization10▲ 122×1 topic
  22. Sediment Transport10▲ 24×5 topics
  23. Remote Sensing9▲ 2.8×15 topics
  24. Biomarkers9▲ 4.9×10 topics
  25. Hydrological Modeling7▲ 12×5 topics
  26. Data Analysis7▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Water Resources7▲ 11×8 topics
  28. Genomics7▲ 8.9×5 topics
  29. Water Quality7▲ 6.5×11 topics
  30. Precision Medicine7▲ 5.1×3 topics
  31. Human Metabolome Database6▲ 42×1 topic
  32. Metabolomics6▲ 42×1 topic
  33. Glycosylation5▲ 18×3 topics
  34. Sea-Level Rise5▲ 17×4 topics
  35. Bioactive Compounds5▲ 7.6×4 topics
  36. Tandem Mass Spectrometry5▲ 37×2 topics
  37. Counter-Current Chromatography5▲ 202×1 topic
  38. Natural Product Isolation5▲ 202×1 topic
  39. Protein Identification5▲ 103×1 topic
  40. Quantitative Analysis5▲ 8.7×1 topic

What research is done in Milford?

Analytical Chemistry and…22Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography: 22 fractional worksMicrofluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications: 12 fractional worksProtein purification and stability: 12 fractional worksMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications: 8 fractional worksMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies: 5 fractional worksChromatography in Natura…4Chromatography in Natural Products: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications: 3 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 3 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 2 fractional worksWater Governance and Infrastructure: 2 fractional works
SpectroscopyBiomedical EngineeringMolecular BiologyAnalytical Chemistry3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography Spectroscopy 22 works
  2. 2 Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications Biomedical Engineering 12 works
  3. 3 Protein purification and stability Molecular Biology 12 works
  4. 4 Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 8 works
  5. 5 Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies Molecular Biology 5 works
  6. 6 Chromatography in Natural Products Analytical Chemistry 4 works
  7. 7 Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 3 works
  8. 8 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 3 works
  9. 9 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  10. 10 Water Governance and Infrastructure Political Science and International Relations 2 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 counting20%40%60%Milford19.9% 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 45.1% in 2005.

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