Research in Riyadh
Science Explorer records 54 research institutions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are King Saud University, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University.
- Research institutions
- 54 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 143k ▲ 91% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.4% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Riyadh?
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 Riyadh strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Riyadh is most concentrated in General Dentistry, Orthodontics and Dentistry (6.2× the world share in General Dentistry).
- General DentistrySubfield · 145.1 works6.2×
- OrthodonticsSubfield · 341.6 works5.7×
- DentistryField · 1,224.3 works4.7×
- Research and TheorySubfield · 63.3 works4.5×
- Oral SurgerySubfield · 469.0 works4.5×
- Modeling and SimulationSubfield · 321.1 works4.3×
- PeriodonticsSubfield · 268.5 works3.7×
- Medical Laboratory TechnologySubfield · 52.6 works3.2×
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 Riyadh?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Nanomaterials, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Inflammation, Nanoparticles, Quality of Life and Oxidative Stress.
- Silver
- Anticancer Agents
- Cytotoxicity
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Green Synthesis
- Water Splitting
- Synthesis
- Tissue Engineering
- Clinical Trials
- Toxicity
- Nanocomposites
- Depression
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Environmental Impact
- Healthcare
- Nanoparticles
- Oxidative Stress
- Nanomaterials
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Inflammation
- Quality of Life
- COVID-19
- Biomedical Applications
- Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Graphene
- Antioxidant
- Diagnosis
- Heat Transfer
- Antioxidant Activity
- Diabetes
- Antimicrobial
- Nanostructures
- IoT Security
- Nonlinear Equations
- Experimental Investigation
- Biological Synthesis
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
- Epidemiology3,154▲ 1.48×138 topics
- Machine Learning2,408▲ 1.37×96 topics
- Deep Learning2,244▲ 1.22×84 topics
- Nanomaterials1,584▲ 2.8×20 topics
- Inflammation1,578▲ 1.41×83 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,238▲ 1.41×63 topics
- Quality of Life1,207▲ 1.56×55 topics
- Nanoparticles1,159▲ 1.71×44 topics
- COVID-191,034▲ 1.41×33 topics
- Healthcare1,009▲ 1.66×34 topics
- Biomedical Applications990▲ 1.55×36 topics
- Environmental Impact988◆ 1.08×67 topics
- Treatment898▲ 1.38×52 topics
- Cancer875▲ 1.21×59 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease827▲ 1.38×39 topics
- Risk Factors824▲ 1.40×37 topics
- Graphene802▲ 2.2×12 topics
- Depression795▲ 1.68×24 topics
- Antioxidant777▲ 2.1×51 topics
- Nanocomposites732▲ 1.69×22 topics
- Diagnosis693▲ 1.39×41 topics
- Toxicity667▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Heat Transfer644▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Clinical Trials623▲ 1.73×19 topics
- Antioxidant Activity604▲ 1.77×32 topics
- Tissue Engineering592▲ 1.80×13 topics
- Diabetes570▲ 2.1×22 topics
- Synthesis543▲ 2.7×35 topics
- Antimicrobial528▲ 3.5×14 topics
- Water Splitting516▲ 2.6×4 topics
- Nanostructures498▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Green Synthesis495▲ 4.8×5 topics
- IoT Security458▲ 2.7×3 topics
- Medicinal Chemistry428▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Nonlinear Equations397▲ 5.7×6 topics
- Cytotoxicity373▲ 5.1×11 topics
- Experimental Investigation366▲ 6.5×5 topics
- Anticancer Agents349▲ 4.3×12 topics
- Biological Synthesis282▲ 7.0×1 topic
- Silver282▲ 7.0×1 topic
What research is done in Riyadh?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 294 works
- 2 Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsMaterials Chemistry 282 works
- 3 Fractional Differential Equations SolutionsModeling and Simulation 231 works
- 4 Nanofluid Flow and Heat TransferBiomedical Engineering 224 works
- 5 Dental materials and restorationsOrthodontics 202 works
- 6 Socioeconomic Development in MENASociology and Political Science 186 works
- 7 COVID-19 and Mental HealthClinical Psychology 184 works
- 8 Network Security and Intrusion DetectionComputer Networks and Communications 174 works
- 9 Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputational Theory and Mathematics 174 works
- 10 Conducting polymers and applicationsPolymers and Plastics 170 works
Research output over time
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