Research in Seattle
Science Explorer records 324 research institutions in Seattle, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Washington, Fred Hutch Cancer Center and Allen Institute for Brain Science.
- Research institutions
- 324 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 318k ▲ 3% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.5% 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 Seattle?
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 Seattle strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Seattle is most concentrated in Aging, Virology and Oceanography (4.3× the world share in Aging).
- AgingSubfield · 40.4 works4.3×
- VirologySubfield · 86.4 works3.8×
- OceanographySubfield · 358.8 works3.3×
- HematologySubfield · 353.2 works3.0×
- TransplantationSubfield · 51.3 works3.0×
- BiophysicsSubfield · 128.0 works2.9×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 228.6 works2.8×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 261.2 works2.8×
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 Seattle?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Inflammation, Public Health, Risk Factors and Immunotherapy.
- HIV Transmission
- CAR T Cells
- Mortality Rates
- Lymphoma
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Health Disparities
- Prognostic Factors
- Global Burden
- Chemotherapy
- Neurological Disorders
- Mortality
- Biomarkers
- Depression
- Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Mental Health
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Clinical Trials
- Big Data
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Genetics
- Immune Response
- Vaccine
- Genetic Mutations
- Primary Care
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Tumor Regression
- Leukemia
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor
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
- Epidemiology2,569▲ 1.68×138 topics
- Climate Change1,333▲ 1.28×116 topics
- Machine Learning1,327◆ 1.05×95 topics
- Deep Learning1,287◆ 0.97×83 topics
- Inflammation1,045▲ 1.30×83 topics
- Public Health893▲ 1.59×71 topics
- Mental Health808▲ 1.43×48 topics
- Quality of Life772▲ 1.39×59 topics
- Neural Networks756▲ 1.27×39 topics
- Oxidative Stress751▲ 1.19×63 topics
- Risk Factors743▲ 1.75×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease668▲ 1.56×39 topics
- Immunotherapy619▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Treatment599▲ 1.28×52 topics
- Cancer585◆ 1.13×57 topics
- Depression563▲ 1.66×25 topics
- Clinical Trials492▲ 1.90×19 topics
- Biomarkers473▲ 1.79×18 topics
- Big Data460▲ 1.31×32 topics
- Mortality458▲ 2.0×13 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome436▲ 1.39×23 topics
- Neurological Disorders425▲ 1.94×20 topics
- Genetics423▲ 1.57×27 topics
- Chemotherapy412▲ 1.52×25 topics
- Immune Response405▲ 1.85×23 topics
- Global Burden401▲ 1.93×12 topics
- Vaccine379▲ 2.4×11 topics
- Prognostic Factors369▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Genetic Mutations362▲ 2.2×23 topics
- Health Disparities323▲ 3.2×9 topics
- Primary Care322▲ 2.2×15 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy312▲ 5.0×6 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy300▲ 5.0×3 topics
- Lymphoma276▲ 4.4×4 topics
- Tumor Regression214▲ 5.1×2 topics
- Mortality Rates202▲ 5.5×2 topics
- Leukemia201▲ 6.2×2 topics
- CAR T Cells195▲ 6.8×1 topic
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor195▲ 6.8×1 topic
- HIV Transmission185▲ 6.5×2 topics
What research is done in Seattle?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 196 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 195 works
- 3 Natural Language Processing TechniquesArtificial Intelligence 139 works
- 4 HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsInfectious Diseases 133 works
- 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics and Econometrics 117 works
- 6 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 113 works
- 7 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsMolecular Biology 110 works
- 8 Marine and fisheries researchGlobal and Planetary Change 106 works
- 9 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchInfectious Diseases 106 works
- 10 Immune Cell Function and InteractionImmunology 104 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.