Research in Rockville
Science Explorer records 133 research institutions in Rockville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Biomedical Research Institute, Research Applications (United States) and Westat (United States).
- Research institutions
- 133 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 32k ▼ 2% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 885k 27.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 15.3% 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 Rockville?
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 Rockville work in?
In 2022-now, 36% of research in Rockville is in Health Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (30%), Social Sciences (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%). It does 1.6× 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 Sciences1,79136.1%
- Medicine1,50630.3%
- Health Professions2414.9%
- Nursing220.4%
- Dentistry150.3%
- Veterinary80.2%
- Physical Sciences1,12522.7%
- Engineering4148.3%
- Computer Science2895.8%
- Environmental Science1483.0%
- Materials Science651.3%
- Chemistry611.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences470.9%
- Physics and Astronomy400.8%
- Mathematics390.8%
- Energy160.3%
- Chemical Engineering70.1%
- Social Sciences1,07921.7%
- Social Sciences55811.2%
- Psychology1893.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1242.5%
- Business, Management and Accounting941.9%
- Arts and Humanities611.2%
- Decision Sciences531.1%
- Life Sciences96919.5%
What is Rockville strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Rockville is most concentrated in Reproductive Medicine and Demography (4.8× the world share in Reproductive Medicine).
- Reproductive MedicineSubfield · 46.1 works4.8×
- DemographySubfield · 138.9 works4.7×
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: Health Professions, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Professions1.96×223 works
- Neuroscience1.83×128 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.79×412 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.65×25 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.62×70 works
- Medicine1.61×1,337 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.26×117 works
- Psychology1.23×162 works
- Decision Sciences1.14×48 works
- Veterinary1.04×6 works
- Social Sciences0.94×513 works
- Nursing0.90×19 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.88×181 works
- Chemistry0.74×50 works
- Mathematics0.69×35 works
- Computer Science0.66×223 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.62×42 works
- Dentistry0.62×13 works
- Environmental Science0.60×128 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.57×80 works
- Engineering0.55×355 works
- Chemical Engineering0.39×6 works
- Arts and Humanities0.39×49 works
- Energy0.35×14 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.34×33 works
- Materials Science0.33×50 works
Which keywords describe research in Rockville?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Labor Market, Migration, Regional Development, Spatial Patterns, Demographic Dynamics, Rural Transformation and Agriculture.
- Substance Use Disorders
- Infertility
- Chronic Disease Management
- SARS-CoV-2
- Sociological Research
- Civic Participation
- Youth
- Biomarkers
- Nationalism
- Gene Expression
- Ethnicity
- Cancer
- Social Media
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Demographic Dynamics
- Agriculture
- Labor Market
- Food Security
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Migration
- Regional Development
- Spatial Patterns
- Rural Transformation
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Mental Health
- Identity
- Healthcare
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Primary Care
- Politics
- Digital Generation
- Stress
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Cancer Risk
- Assisted Reproductive Technology
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
- Epidemiology320▲ 1.62×136 topics
- Machine Learning171◆ 1.03×88 topics
- Deep Learning146▼ 0.85×78 topics
- Food Security134▲ 5.0×18 topics
- Migration131▲ 7.7×15 topics
- Labor Market129▲ 9.2×12 topics
- Regional Development129▲ 7.6×14 topics
- Agriculture127▲ 6.7×15 topics
- Spatial Patterns124▲ 27×3 topics
- Demographic Dynamics123▲ 73×1 topic
- Rural Transformation123▲ 73×1 topic
- Inflammation121◆ 1.14×80 topics
- Oxidative Stress121▲ 1.48×61 topics
- Public Health116▲ 1.61×62 topics
- Quality of Life113▲ 1.58×56 topics
- Social Media108▲ 1.57×32 topics
- Mental Health104▲ 1.47×47 topics
- Cancer86▲ 1.29×57 topics
- Identity80▲ 2.2×36 topics
- Ethnicity79▲ 4.3×17 topics
- Healthcare78▲ 1.38×32 topics
- Gene Expression77▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Clinical Trials76▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Nationalism76▲ 3.4×19 topics
- Depression74▲ 1.71×25 topics
- Biomarkers72▲ 2.1×18 topics
- Primary Care72▲ 3.9×15 topics
- Youth71▲ 10×6 topics
- Politics69▲ 5.3×10 topics
- Civic Participation67▲ 28×2 topics
- Digital Generation66▲ 44×1 topic
- Sociological Research66▲ 44×1 topic
- Stress50▲ 2.8×10 topics
- SARS-CoV-247▲ 3.1×6 topics
- Psychiatric Disorders44▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Chronic Disease Management43▲ 4.4×5 topics
- Cancer Risk42▲ 3.8×10 topics
- Infertility38▲ 5.4×4 topics
- Assisted Reproductive Technology38▲ 13×2 topics
- Substance Use Disorders34▲ 9.0×2 topics
What research is done in Rockville?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends Demography 123 works
- 2 Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia Sociology and Political Science 66 works
- 3 Reproductive Health and Technologies Reproductive Medicine 25 works
- 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 22 works
- 5 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 22 works
- 6 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 19 works
- 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 19 works
- 8 Reproductive Biology and Fertility Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 17 works
- 9 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 16 works
- 10 Plant Molecular Biology Research Plant Science 16 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 2000.
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