City · United States
Research in Salt Lake City
Science Explorer records 136 research institutions in Salt Lake City, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Intermountain Healthcare.
- Research institutions
- 136 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 127k ▲ 12% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.0% 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 Salt Lake City?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of UtahUniversity | 102,332 | #250 | |
| 2 | Huntsman Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 3,077 | #3,057 | |
| 3 | Intermountain HealthcareHospital / health system | 2,139 | #7,554 | |
| 4 | University of Utah HospitalHospital / health system | 1,862 | #11,353 | |
| 5 | Primary Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,556 | #14,400 | |
| 6 | Rocky Mountain Research (United States)Company | 1,358 | #12,036 | |
| 7 | LDS HospitalHospital / health system | 1,187 | #5,770 all time | |
| 8 | St. Mark's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,112 | #24,648 | |
| 9 | Utah Department of HealthGovernment institution | 997 | #12,237 | |
| 10 | Technology Holding (United States)Company | 971 | #16,408 | |
| 11 | VA Salt Lake City Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 877 | #10,072 | |
| 12 | Motion Control (United States)Company | 753 | #20,646 | |
| 13 | Utah AIDS FoundationInstitution | 619 | #27,769 | |
| 14 | University of Utah Health CareHospital / health system | 617 | #18,437 | |
| 15 | Myriad GeneticsCompany | 437 | #14,053 all time | |
| 16 | HealthInsightNonprofit | 433 | #21,452 | |
| 17 | Salt Lake Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 433 | #14,245 all time | |
| 18 | Western Governors UniversityUniversity | 385 | #21,342 | |
| 19 | Utah Geological SurveyGovernment institution | 373 | #22,599 | |
| 20 | Westminster UniversityUniversity | 359 | #25,998 all time | |
| 21 | Institute for Research and EvaluationNonprofit | 331 | #25,385 all time | |
| 22 | Eye Institute of UtahResearch facility | 319 | #26,518 all time | |
| 23 | nView Medical (United States)Company | 304 | #25,018 | |
| 24 | George E. Wahlen Department of VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 295 | #16,928 | |
| 25 | Dermatology Research CenterResearch facility | 240 | #23,288 all time | |
| 26 | Salt Lake Community CollegeUniversity | 216 | #31,620 all time | |
| 27 | Natural History Museum of UtahArchive | 191 | #21,536 all time | |
| 28 | Process Instruments (United States)Company | 153 | #29,021 all time | |
| 29 | Wasatch Molecular (United States)Company | 152 | #17,564 all time | |
| 30 | Deseret Laboratories (United States)Company | 141 | #23,501 all time | |
| 31 | Vesta Sciences (United States)Company | 138 | #38,431 all time | |
| 32 | Independence UniversityUniversity | 127 | #38,640 all time | |
| 33 | FamilySearchNonprofit | 116 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Q Therapeutics (United States)Company | 116 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Leavitt Partners (United States)Company | 111 | not ranked | |
| 36 | NewPath ResearchInstitution | 105 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Ripple (United States)Company | 101 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Utah Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 100 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Utah State Historical SocietyGovernment institution | 94 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Midwives College of UtahUniversity | 90 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Diversified Maintenance Systems (United States)Company | 86 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Arrien Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 77 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Shriners Hospitals for Children - Salt Lake CityHospital / health system | 66 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Materials and Systems Research (United States)Company | 64 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Salt Lake City Public LibraryArchive | 63 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Jean Brown ResearchResearch facility | 62 | not ranked | |
| 47 | SINTX Technologies (United States)Company | 58 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis ClinicHospital / health system | 57 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Skyline High SchoolUniversity | 57 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Echelon BiosciencesCompany | 56 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Carterra (United States)Company | 53 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Pyrexar Medical (United States)Company | 52 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Center for Facial AppearancesInstitution | 49 | not ranked | |
| 54 | LDS Business CollegeUniversity | 47 | not ranked | |
| 55 | BioFire Diagnostics (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Blackrock Microsystems (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Utah Cancer SpecialistsHospital / health system | 45 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Pachyonychia Congenita ProjectInstitution | 45 | not ranked | |
| 59 | International Severity Information Systems (United States)Company | 44 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Foothill Family ClinicHospital / health system | 38 | 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.
University of Utah102k · 80.9%Huntsman Cancer Institute3,077 · 2.4%Intermountain Healthcare2,139 · 1.7%University of Utah Hospital1,862 · 1.5%56 others listed17k · 13.5%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
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×
← 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.
Which keywords describe research in Salt Lake City?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Public Health, Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease.
- Prostate Cancer
- Mortality Risk
- Biomechanics
- Clinical Guidelines
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Neurological Disorders
- Primary Care
- Prognostic Factors
- Complications
- Heart Failure
- Mortality
- Biomarkers
- Depression
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Cancer
- Clinical Trials
- Diagnosis
- Genetic Mutations
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Guidelines
- Rehabilitation
- Global Burden
- Anxiety
- Precision Medicine
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Health Disparities
- Quality Improvement
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,244▲ 1.82×137 topics
- Inflammation528▲ 1.47×83 topics
- Quality of Life423▲ 1.69×56 topics
- Machine Learning409▼ 0.72×86 topics
- Climate Change401▼ 0.86×109 topics
- Risk Factors397▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Public Health390▲ 1.55×67 topics
- Mental Health369▲ 1.46×44 topics
- Deep Learning364▼ 0.61×83 topics
- Treatment349▲ 1.67×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress347▲ 1.23×62 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease332▲ 1.73×39 topics
- Cancer323▲ 1.39×57 topics
- Immunotherapy305▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Clinical Trials268▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Depression268▲ 1.76×24 topics
- Diagnosis267▲ 1.66×41 topics
- Biomarkers240▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Genetic Mutations219▲ 2.9×23 topics
- Mortality215▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Management214▲ 1.58×38 topics
- Heart Failure210▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Chemotherapy209▲ 1.73×25 topics
- Complications205▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Guidelines194▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors188▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Rehabilitation183▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Primary Care173▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Global Burden172▲ 1.85×12 topics
- Neurological Disorders169▲ 1.72×20 topics
- Anxiety165▲ 2.0×12 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines165▲ 1.75×14 topics
- Precision Medicine156▲ 1.93×8 topics
- Clinical Guidelines147▲ 2.9×9 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life145▲ 3.6×5 topics
- Biomechanics140▲ 2.7×12 topics
- Health Disparities138▲ 3.0×9 topics
- Mortality Risk134▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Quality Improvement124▲ 3.7×8 topics
- Prostate Cancer99▲ 4.4×6 topics
What research is done in Salt Lake City?
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEconomics and EconometricsSurgeryOncology2 others
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
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