Research in San Diego
Science Explorer records 430 research institutions in San Diego, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of California San Diego, Scripps Research Institute and UC San Diego Health System.
- Research institutions
- 430 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 287k ▲ 5% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 20.1% 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 San Diego?
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 San Diego strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in San Diego is most concentrated in Aging, Virology and Developmental Biology (4.7× the world share in Aging).
- AgingSubfield · 40.2 works4.7×
- VirologySubfield · 72.0 works3.5×
- Developmental BiologySubfield · 25.3 works3.2×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 306.0 works2.8×
- OceanographySubfield · 271.7 works2.7×
- Endocrine and Autonomic SystemsSubfield · 79.8 works2.6×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 457.5 works2.6×
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 San Diego?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Mental Health, Cancer and Treatment.
- Tumor Regression
- Neurobiology
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Prevalence
- Genetic Mutations
- Insulin Resistance
- Cancer Therapy
- Mortality
- Clinical Trials
- Diagnosis
- Genetics
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Cancer
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Mental Health
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Depression
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Neurological Disorders
- Aging
- Management
- Obesity
- Immune Response
- Neuroimaging
- Neurodegeneration
- Immunity
- Neuroinflammation
- Innate Immunity
- Cancer Immunotherapy
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
- Epidemiology2,101▲ 1.50×136 topics
- Inflammation1,151▲ 1.56×83 topics
- Deep Learning1,081◆ 0.89×84 topics
- Machine Learning1,057◆ 0.91×93 topics
- Oxidative Stress859▲ 1.48×62 topics
- Climate Change766▼ 0.80×114 topics
- Mental Health724▲ 1.39×48 topics
- Cancer679▲ 1.43×57 topics
- Treatment646▲ 1.50×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease613▲ 1.56×39 topics
- Quality of Life606▲ 1.19×58 topics
- Risk Factors598▲ 1.53×37 topics
- Public Health590◆ 1.15×68 topics
- Neural Networks523◆ 0.96×40 topics
- Depression510▲ 1.64×26 topics
- Biomarkers491▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome489▲ 1.69×24 topics
- Immunotherapy488▲ 1.93×19 topics
- Neurological Disorders468▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Genetics459▲ 1.85×27 topics
- Aging446▲ 2.3×18 topics
- Diagnosis439▲ 1.33×41 topics
- Management373▲ 1.34×37 topics
- Clinical Trials371▲ 1.56×19 topics
- Obesity366▲ 1.36×28 topics
- Mortality350▲ 1.71×13 topics
- Immune Response334▲ 1.66×23 topics
- Cancer Therapy320▲ 1.58×20 topics
- Neuroimaging311▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Insulin Resistance310▲ 1.92×10 topics
- Neurodegeneration294▲ 2.8×11 topics
- Genetic Mutations293▲ 1.91×23 topics
- Immunity287▲ 2.0×11 topics
- Prevalence280▲ 1.94×15 topics
- Neuroinflammation280▲ 2.8×6 topics
- Alzheimer's Disease272▲ 2.7×9 topics
- Innate Immunity259▲ 2.3×11 topics
- Neurobiology236▲ 2.6×10 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy206▲ 3.8×3 topics
- Tumor Regression175▲ 4.5×2 topics
What research is done in San Diego?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchPsychiatry and Mental health 153 works
- 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 117 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 106 works
- 4 RNA and protein synthesis mechanismsMolecular Biology 99 works
- 5 Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsPhysiology 98 works
- 6 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 98 works
- 7 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 94 works
- 8 Immune Cell Function and InteractionImmunology 91 works
- 9 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies ResearchRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 89 works
- 10 Geophysics and Gravity MeasurementsOceanography 88 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.