Research in Salt Lake City
Science Explorer records 128 research institutions in Salt Lake City, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Utah, Intermountain Healthcare and Utah Department of Health.
- Research institutions
- 128 12 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 127k ◆ 0% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.3M 33.6 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 17.0% 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 Salt Lake City?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of UtahUniversity | 109,445 | #152 | |
| 2 | Intermountain HealthcareHospital / health system | 5,644 | #2,634 | |
| 3 | Rocky Mountain Research (United States)Company | 1,358 | #13,048 | |
| 4 | St. Mark's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,112 | #20,785 | |
| 5 | Utah Department of HealthGovernment institution | 997 | #7,430 | |
| 6 | Technology Holding (United States)Company | 971 | #9,758 | |
| 7 | Motion Control (United States)Company | 753 | #9,003 | |
| 8 | Utah AIDS FoundationInstitution | 619 | #19,730 | |
| 9 | Myriad GeneticsCompany | 437 | #19,627 all time | |
| 10 | HealthInsightNonprofit | 433 | #15,517 | |
| 11 | Salt Lake Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 433 | #3,176 all time | |
| 12 | Western Governors UniversityUniversity | 385 | #14,405 | |
| 13 | Utah Geological SurveyGovernment institution | 373 | #20,559 | |
| 14 | Westminster UniversityUniversity | 359 | #14,495 all time | |
| 15 | Institute for Research and EvaluationNonprofit | 331 | #17,083 all time | |
| 16 | Eye Institute of UtahResearch facility | 319 | #10,854 all time | |
| 17 | nView Medical (United States)Company | 304 | #19,682 | |
| 18 | Dermatology Research CenterResearch facility | 240 | #23,247 all time | |
| 19 | Salt Lake Community CollegeUniversity | 216 | #23,814 all time | |
| 20 | Natural History Museum of UtahArchive | 191 | #24,586 all time | |
| 21 | Process Instruments (United States)Company | 153 | #29,735 all time | |
| 22 | Wasatch Molecular (United States)Company | 152 | #24,459 all time | |
| 23 | Deseret Laboratories (United States)Company | 141 | #24,815 all time | |
| 24 | Vesta Sciences (United States)Company | 138 | #27,018 all time | |
| 25 | Independence UniversityUniversity | 127 | #31,730 all time | |
| 26 | FamilySearchNonprofit | 116 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Q Therapeutics (United States)Company | 116 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Leavitt Partners (United States)Company | 111 | not ranked | |
| 29 | NewPath ResearchInstitution | 105 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Ripple (United States)Company | 101 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Utah Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 100 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Utah State Historical SocietyGovernment institution | 94 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Midwives College of UtahUniversity | 90 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Diversified Maintenance Systems (United States)Company | 86 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Arrien Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 77 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Materials and Systems Research (United States)Company | 64 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Salt Lake City Public LibraryArchive | 63 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Jean Brown ResearchResearch facility | 62 | not ranked | |
| 39 | SINTX Technologies (United States)Company | 58 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis ClinicHospital / health system | 57 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Skyline High SchoolUniversity | 57 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Echelon BiosciencesCompany | 56 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Carterra (United States)Company | 53 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Pyrexar Medical (United States)Company | 52 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Center for Facial AppearancesInstitution | 49 | not ranked | |
| 46 | LDS Business CollegeUniversity | 47 | not ranked | |
| 47 | BioFire Diagnostics (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Blackrock Microsystems (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Utah Cancer SpecialistsHospital / health system | 45 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Pachyonychia Congenita ProjectInstitution | 45 | not ranked | |
| 51 | International Severity Information Systems (United States)Company | 44 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Foothill Family ClinicHospital / health system | 38 | not ranked | |
| 53 | IsoForensicsResearch facility | 36 | not ranked | |
| 54 | American Finance AssociationUniversity | 29 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Varex Imaging (United States)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Bard Access Systems (United States)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 57 | George Wythe UniversityUniversity | 27 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Utah System of Higher EducationUniversity | 26 | not ranked | |
| 59 | ProActive Memory Services (United States)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Cimarron Software (United States)Company | 26 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Salt Lake City work in?
In 2022-now, 43% of research in Salt Lake City is in Health Sciences, 26% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Engineering (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%). It does 1.8× 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 Sciences8,49942.7%
- Medicine7,54237.9%
- Health Professions8024.0%
- Nursing790.4%
- Dentistry550.3%
- Veterinary210.1%
- Physical Sciences5,13425.8%
- Engineering1,7668.9%
- Computer Science9794.9%
- Environmental Science7583.8%
- Materials Science3731.9%
- Physics and Astronomy3541.8%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3471.7%
- Mathematics2191.1%
- Chemistry2041.0%
- Energy850.4%
- Chemical Engineering480.2%
- Social Sciences3,48617.5%
- Social Sciences1,5057.6%
- Psychology8994.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3671.8%
- Arts and Humanities3191.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting2351.2%
- Decision Sciences1600.8%
- Life Sciences2,77714.0%
What is Salt Lake City strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Salt Lake City is most concentrated in Family Practice, Transplantation and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (3.2× the world share in Family Practice).
- Family PracticeSubfield · 26.3 works3.2×
- TransplantationSubfield · 24.5 works3.2×
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 26.7 works3.1×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 32.2 works3.0×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 123.8 works2.9×
- HematologySubfield · 133.4 works2.5×
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, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine1.98×6,569 works
- Health Professions1.57×717 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.55×1,427 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.55×270 works
- Psychology1.49×787 works
- Neuroscience1.47×413 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.12×305 works
- Mathematics0.95×193 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.92×56 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.89×328 works
- Decision Sciences0.83×139 works
- Veterinary0.82×19 works
- Nursing0.79×67 works
- Environmental Science0.78×666 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.74×285 works
- Chemical Engineering0.72×44 works
- Chemistry0.68×186 works
- Computer Science0.61×822 works
- Engineering0.60×1,566 works
- Social Sciences0.60×1,313 works
- Dentistry0.53×44 works
- Materials Science0.52×316 works
- Arts and Humanities0.51×253 works
- Energy0.47×74 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.38×213 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.27×226 works
Which keywords describe research in Salt Lake City?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Public Health, Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease.
- Revision Surgery
- Quality Improvement
- Health Disparities
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Anxiety
- Global Burden
- Neurological Disorders
- Prognostic Factors
- Mortality
- Complications
- Genetic Mutations
- Biomarkers
- Diagnosis
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Deep Learning
- Risk Factors
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Treatment
- Cancer
- Depression
- Clinical Trials
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Heart Failure
- Guidelines
- Rehabilitation
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Primary Care
- Clinical Guidelines
- Biomechanics
- Mortality Risk
- Prostate Cancer
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
- Epidemiology1,438▲ 1.81×137 topics
- Inflammation610▲ 1.44×83 topics
- Quality of Life485▲ 1.69×56 topics
- Machine Learning480▼ 0.72×87 topics
- Climate Change461▼ 0.85×109 topics
- Risk Factors447▲ 2.0×37 topics
- Public Health441▲ 1.52×70 topics
- Deep Learning424▼ 0.62×83 topics
- Mental Health408▲ 1.43×44 topics
- Oxidative Stress401▲ 1.22×62 topics
- Treatment395▲ 1.63×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease380▲ 1.68×39 topics
- Cancer375▲ 1.40×58 topics
- Immunotherapy355▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Depression303▲ 1.73×24 topics
- Diagnosis301▲ 1.62×41 topics
- Clinical Trials299▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Biomarkers280▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Management252▲ 1.58×38 topics
- Genetic Mutations250▲ 2.9×23 topics
- Chemotherapy246▲ 1.75×25 topics
- Complications240▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Heart Failure240▲ 2.7×14 topics
- Mortality236▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Guidelines218▲ 2.3×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors213▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Rehabilitation209▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Neurological Disorders194▲ 1.71×20 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines194▲ 1.77×14 topics
- Global Burden194▲ 1.79×12 topics
- Primary Care192▲ 2.6×15 topics
- Anxiety184▲ 1.95×12 topics
- Clinical Guidelines172▲ 2.9×9 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life166▲ 3.5×5 topics
- Biomechanics162▲ 2.7×12 topics
- Health Disparities154▲ 3.0×9 topics
- Mortality Risk150▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Quality Improvement138▲ 3.6×8 topics
- Prostate Cancer119▲ 4.4×6 topics
- Revision Surgery113▲ 4.5×2 topics
What research is done in Salt Lake City?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 60 works
- 2 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 52 works
- 3 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 52 works
- 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 51 works
- 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 50 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 48 works
- 7 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 46 works
- 8 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 46 works
- 9 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 45 works
- 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 42 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 31.0% in 2008.
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