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Research in Rockville

Science Explorer records 143 research institutions in Rockville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Biomedical Research Institute, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and Research Applications (United States).

Research institutions
143
15 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
32k
▲ 13% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
15.3%
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 Rockville?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1United States Nuclear Regulatory CommissionGovernment institution 3,030 #11,006
2Signal Processing (United States)Company 2,532 #19,053
3Center for Devices and Radiological HealthHospital / health system 1,992 #9,459
4Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityGovernment institution 1,745 #16,213
5Orthopaedic CenterHospital / health system 1,267 #23,961
6Biomedical Research InstituteNonprofit 1,179 #5,203
7Westat (United States)Company 1,144 #17,123
8Research Applications (United States)Company 1,106 #8,917
9Kai Research (United States)Company 1,001 #18,314
10Health Resources and Services AdministrationGovernment institution 913 #19,788
11Micro Focus (United States)Company 902 #22,658
12Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationGovernment institution 786 #10,271 all time
13N&N Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 741 #27,646
14National Center for Advancing Translational SciencesGovernment institution 698 #8,161
15Applied Research (United States)Company 663 #27,137
16Advanced Bioscience Laboratories (United States)Company 603 #12,668
17Human Genome Sciences (United States)Company 560 #4,252 all time
18Montgomery CollegeUniversity 538 #23,172
19Intelligent Automation (United States)Company 535 #22,123 all time
20Office of Minority HealthInstitution 523 #21,598
21Office of Adolescent HealthGovernment institution 508 #22,632
22Emmes (United States)Company 501 #6,819 all time
23United States Pharmacopeial ConventionNonprofit 488 #19,273 all time
24Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences InstituteNonprofit 388 #11,684
25Institute of Global Environment and SocietyNonprofit 365 #8,489 all time
26Office of Technology TransferGovernment institution 347 #24,369 all time
27Synthetic Biologics (United States)Company 340 #23,088 all time
28Natural Philosophy InstituteInstitution 335 #9,055 all time
29American Society of Plant BiologistsInstitution 299 #22,823
30Ariadne Diagnostics (United States)Company 291 #13,103 all time
31MacroGenics (United States)Company 267 #14,791 all time
32Montgomery County Public SchoolsUniversity 260 #29,299 all time
33Shady Grove Fertility CenterHospital / health system 258 #23,335
34American Speech Language Hearing AssociationInstitution 253 #35,175 all time
35Computer Technology Associates (United States)Company 242 #24,382 all time
36International Epidemiology InstituteResearch facility 237 #26,846 all time
37Allied Technology (United States)Company 225 #12,731 all time
38BioReliance (United States)Company 218 #27,789 all time
39IQ SolutionsCompany 195 #23,613
40Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease 2020Nonprofit 177 #33,644 all time
41Montgomery County Department of Health and Human ServicesGovernment institution 163 #39,076 all time
42Automated Precision (United States)Company 158 #37,370 all time
43Meso Scale Discovery (United States)Company 146 #25,567 all time
44Oceanography SocietyNonprofit 144 #13,591 all time
45BioqualCompany 134 #10,752 all time
46CASI Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 117 not ranked
47Cygnus (United States)Company 112 not ranked
48Caelum Research Corporation (United States)Company 111 not ranked
49Tissue Gene (United States)Company 111 not ranked
50BioSciCon (United States)Company 103 not ranked
51Hebrew Home of Greater WashingtonNonprofit 96 not ranked
52IM Systems (United States)Company 94 not ranked
53AerasNonprofit 92 not ranked
54Association of Community Cancer CentersHospital / health system 89 not ranked
55Office of Disease Prevention and Health PromotionHospital / health system 89 not ranked
56Supernus Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 86 not ranked
57SanariaCompany 80 not ranked
58Universities at Shady GroveUniversity 75 not ranked
59Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain ManagementHospital / health system 73 not ranked
60United States Preventive Services Task ForceNonprofit 70 not ranked

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.

United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission: 9.8%Signal Processing (United States): 8.2%Center for Devices and Radiological Health: 6.5%Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 5.7%56 others listed: 69.8%10%largest
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission3,030 · 9.8%Signal Processing (United States)2,532 · 8.2%Center for Devices and Radiological Health1,992 · 6.5%Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality1,745 · 5.7%56 others listed21k · 69.8%

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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).

  1. Reproductive MedicineSubfield · 46.1 works4.8×
  2. DemographySubfield · 138.9 works4.7×
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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 Rockville?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Labor Market, Regional Development, Migration, Epidemiology, Spatial Patterns, Demographic Dynamics, Rural Transformation and Agriculture.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Epidemiology284▲ 1.66×133 topics
  2. Machine Learning137◆ 0.97×86 topics
  3. Food Security132▲ 5.5×17 topics
  4. Labor Market129▲ 10×12 topics
  5. Regional Development129▲ 8.3×14 topics
  6. Migration128▲ 8.8×13 topics
  7. Agriculture126▲ 7.3×13 topics
  8. Spatial Patterns124▲ 30×3 topics
  9. Demographic Dynamics123▲ 76×1 topic
  10. Rural Transformation123▲ 76×1 topic
  11. Deep Learning115▼ 0.78×75 topics
  12. Public Health108▲ 1.72×61 topics
  13. Quality of Life104▲ 1.67×55 topics
  14. Inflammation104◆ 1.15×79 topics
  15. Oxidative Stress103▲ 1.45×61 topics
  16. Social Media103▲ 1.66×31 topics
  17. Mental Health96▲ 1.51×47 topics
  18. Identity77▲ 2.5×33 topics
  19. Cancer76▲ 1.31×54 topics
  20. Ethnicity75▲ 4.6×16 topics
  21. Nationalism75▲ 3.8×18 topics
  22. Youth71▲ 12×6 topics
  23. Clinical Trials70▲ 2.4×19 topics
  24. Politics69▲ 5.9×9 topics
  25. Cardiovascular Disease68▲ 1.41×37 topics
  26. Civic Participation67▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Primary Care67▲ 4.1×15 topics
  28. Depression66▲ 1.73×25 topics
  29. Digital Generation66▲ 47×1 topic
  30. Sociological Research66▲ 47×1 topic
  31. Biomarkers64▲ 2.2×17 topics
  32. Gene Expression61▲ 2.3×20 topics
  33. Stress46▲ 2.9×10 topics
  34. SARS-CoV-244▲ 3.2×6 topics
  35. Chronic Disease Management40▲ 4.8×5 topics
  36. Psychiatric Disorders39▲ 6.8×4 topics
  37. Assisted Reproductive Technology38▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Infertility37▲ 6.0×4 topics
  39. Substance Use Disorders30▲ 9.4×2 topics
  40. Global Trends29▲ 8.4×2 topics

What research is done in Rockville?

  1. 1 Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends Demography 123 works
  2. 2 Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia Sociology and Political Science 66 works
  3. 3 Reproductive Health and Technologies Reproductive Medicine 25 works
  4. 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 22 works
  5. 5 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 22 works
  6. 6 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 19 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 19 works
  8. 8 Reproductive Biology and Fertility Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 17 works
  9. 9 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 16 works
  10. 10 Plant Molecular Biology Research Plant Science 16 works

Research output over time

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