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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?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of WashingtonUniversity 194,655 #48
2Seattle UniversityUniversity 21,701 #1,698
3Fred Hutch Cancer CenterNonprofit 14,593 #853
4University of Washington Medical CenterHospital / health system 6,269 #3,515
5University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryResearch facility 5,573 #2,216
6Seattle Children's HospitalHospital / health system 5,220 #4,067
7Amazon (United States)Company 4,021 #3,184
8Virginia Mason Medical CenterHospital / health system 3,900 #7,390
9Harborview Medical CenterHospital / health system 3,644 #13,776
10Cancer Research And BiostatisticsNonprofit 3,517 #6,024
11Allen Institute for Brain ScienceResearch facility 3,368 #864
12VA Puget Sound Health Care SystemHospital / health system 2,963 #7,532
13Williams & AssociatesInstitution 2,072 #21,449
14Seattle Pacific UniversityUniversity 2,056 #12,857
15Discovery InstituteNonprofit 1,897 #1,855
16Earth and Space ResearchNonprofit 1,816 #5,504
17Behavioral Tech Research, Inc.Nonprofit 1,657 #15,899
18Integral Consulting (United States)Company 1,505 #20,325
19Group Health CooperativeNonprofit 1,487 #4,491 all time
20NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science CenterFunder 1,345 #11,512
21Washington Poison CenterNonprofit 1,211 #18,839
22Institute for Systems BiologyNonprofit 1,161 #4,805
23NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Alaska Fisheries Science CenterGovernment institution 1,136 #14,173
24NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental LaboratoryGovernment institution 1,134 #7,476
25Swedish Medical CenterHospital / health system 1,121 #14,471
26ScreenHospital / health system 1,102 #18,000 all time
27City University of SeattleUniversity 1,048 #9,068
28Program for Appropriate Technology in HealthNonprofit 987 #10,401
29Gates FoundationNonprofit 907 #6,002
30Allen InstituteNonprofit 867 #1,544
31Center for Infectious Disease ResearchNonprofit 841 #9,646
32Public Health – Seattle & King CountyGovernment institution 793 #17,093
33Ross Laboratories (United States)Company 781 #12,743 all time
34Marine Conservation InstituteNonprofit 776 #13,078
35Bloodworks NorthwestNonprofit 720 #8,189 all time
36Infectious Disease Research InstituteNonprofit 715 #6,052
37Seattle Cancer Care AllianceHospital / health system 713 #10,518 all time
38Science Communication InstituteNonprofit 691 #32,479 all time
39Institute for Health Metrics and EvaluationResearch facility 674 #1,927
40Northwest African American MuseumArchive 644 #13,417
41Novo Nordisk (United States)Company 630 #8,866
42ID Genomics (United States)Company 594 #12,512
43Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research InstituteNonprofit 593 #6,274 all time
44Interdisciplinary Scientific ResearchResearch facility 511 #25,606 all time
45Harborview Injury Prevention and Research CenterResearch facility 494 #25,602
46University PrepUniversity 457 #20,236
47Behavioral TechInstitution 421 #20,382
48Burke Museum of Natural History and CultureArchive 417 #14,551
49Milliman (United States)Company 401 #27,220
50Qualis HealthNonprofit 399 #23,628
51Camber Collective (United States)Company 377 #37,846 all time
52Pride FoundationNonprofit 357 #32,235 all time
53Peregrine Power (United States)Company 333 #25,961 all time
54Pacific Science CenterArchive 325 #10,052 all time
55King County Medical Examiner's OfficeGovernment institution 286 #25,488 all time
56North Seattle CollegeUniversity 275 #8,344 all time
57Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceNonprofit 269 #8,774
58Computer Professionals for Social ResponsibilityInstitution 257 #37,318 all time
59Nanostring Technologies (United States)Company 242 #7,796
60Health Alliance InternationalNonprofit 237 #33,688 all time

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 Washington: 63.0%Seattle University: 7.0%Fred Hutch Cancer Center: 4.7%University of Washington Medical Center: 2.0%56 others listed: 23.3%63%largest
University of Washington195k · 63.0%Seattle University22k · 7.0%Fred Hutch Cancer Center15k · 4.7%University of Washington Medical Center6,269 · 2.0%56 others listed72k · 23.3%

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).

  1. AgingSubfield · 40.4 works4.3×
  2. VirologySubfield · 86.4 works3.8×
  3. OceanographySubfield · 358.8 works3.3×
  4. HematologySubfield · 353.2 works3.0×
  5. TransplantationSubfield · 51.3 works3.0×
  6. BiophysicsSubfield · 128.0 works2.9×
  7. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 228.6 works2.8×
  8. Emergency MedicineSubfield · 261.2 works2.8×
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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 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.

▲ 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. Epidemiology2,569▲ 1.68×138 topics
  2. Climate Change1,333▲ 1.28×116 topics
  3. Machine Learning1,327◆ 1.05×95 topics
  4. Deep Learning1,287◆ 0.97×83 topics
  5. Inflammation1,045▲ 1.30×83 topics
  6. Public Health893▲ 1.59×71 topics
  7. Mental Health808▲ 1.43×48 topics
  8. Quality of Life772▲ 1.39×59 topics
  9. Neural Networks756▲ 1.27×39 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress751▲ 1.19×63 topics
  11. Risk Factors743▲ 1.75×37 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease668▲ 1.56×39 topics
  13. Immunotherapy619▲ 2.2×19 topics
  14. Treatment599▲ 1.28×52 topics
  15. Cancer585◆ 1.13×57 topics
  16. Depression563▲ 1.66×25 topics
  17. Clinical Trials492▲ 1.90×19 topics
  18. Biomarkers473▲ 1.79×18 topics
  19. Big Data460▲ 1.31×32 topics
  20. Mortality458▲ 2.0×13 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome436▲ 1.39×23 topics
  22. Neurological Disorders425▲ 1.94×20 topics
  23. Genetics423▲ 1.57×27 topics
  24. Chemotherapy412▲ 1.52×25 topics
  25. Immune Response405▲ 1.85×23 topics
  26. Global Burden401▲ 1.93×12 topics
  27. Vaccine379▲ 2.4×11 topics
  28. Prognostic Factors369▲ 2.2×14 topics
  29. Genetic Mutations362▲ 2.2×23 topics
  30. Health Disparities323▲ 3.2×9 topics
  31. Primary Care322▲ 2.2×15 topics
  32. Antiretroviral Therapy312▲ 5.0×6 topics
  33. Cancer Immunotherapy300▲ 5.0×3 topics
  34. Lymphoma276▲ 4.4×4 topics
  35. Tumor Regression214▲ 5.1×2 topics
  36. Mortality Rates202▲ 5.5×2 topics
  37. Leukemia201▲ 6.2×2 topics
  38. CAR T Cells195▲ 6.8×1 topic
  39. Chimeric Antigen Receptor195▲ 6.8×1 topic
  40. HIV Transmission185▲ 6.5×2 topics

What research is done in Seattle?

  1. 1 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 196 works
  2. 2 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 195 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing TechniquesArtificial Intelligence 139 works
  4. 4 HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsInfectious Diseases 133 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics and Econometrics 117 works
  6. 6 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 113 works
  7. 7 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsMolecular Biology 110 works
  8. 8 Marine and fisheries researchGlobal and Planetary Change 106 works
  9. 9 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchInfectious Diseases 106 works
  10. 10 Immune Cell Function and InteractionImmunology 104 works

Research output over time

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