Research in Silver Spring
Science Explorer records 65 research institutions in Silver Spring, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are United States Food and Drug Administration, American Nurses Association and Medical Care Development International.
- Research institutions
- 65 8 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 53k ▼ 9% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.7M 32.8 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.9% 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 Silver Spring?
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 Silver Spring work in?
In 2022-now, 35% of research in Silver Spring is in Health Sciences, 34% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (29%), Environmental Science (14%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%). It does 1.5× 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 Sciences1,77635.1%
- Medicine1,47829.2%
- Health Professions2064.1%
- Nursing621.2%
- Veterinary200.4%
- Dentistry110.2%
- Physical Sciences1,73934.4%
- Environmental Science71714.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3296.5%
- Engineering2595.1%
- Computer Science1322.6%
- Mathematics1162.3%
- Physics and Astronomy681.3%
- Chemistry591.2%
- Materials Science501.0%
- Energy50.1%
- Chemical Engineering40.1%
- Life Sciences96119.0%
- Social Sciences58611.6%
- Social Sciences2374.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1282.5%
- Psychology992.0%
- Decision Sciences450.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting400.8%
- Arts and Humanities370.7%
What is Silver Spring strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Silver Spring is most concentrated in Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Toxicology and Statistics and Probability (25.4× the world share in Issues, ethics and legal aspects).
- Issues, ethics and legal aspectsSubfield · 22.5 works25×
- ToxicologySubfield · 26.0 works12×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 91.8 works10×
- Pharmaceutical ScienceSubfield · 40.4 works8.8×
- OceanographySubfield · 94.5 works7.9×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsField · 109.8 works7.3×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 68.8 works6.7×
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: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics7.27×110 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3.84×258 works
- Veterinary2.99×17 works
- Environmental Science2.83×603 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.76×119 works
- Nursing2.45×51 works
- Mathematics2.03×102 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.87×428 works
- Health Professions1.58×179 works
- Medicine1.56×1,283 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.26×115 works
- Decision Sciences0.94×39 works
- Chemistry0.74×50 works
- Psychology0.66×87 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.64×131 works
- Neuroscience0.58×40 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.55×52 works
- Dentistry0.41×9 works
- Social Sciences0.37×201 works
- Computer Science0.32×108 works
- Engineering0.30×196 works
- Materials Science0.27×40 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.24×34 works
- Chemical Engineering0.23×3 works
- Arts and Humanities0.22×28 works
- Energy0.11×4 works
Which keywords describe research in Silver Spring?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Fisheries Sustainability, Clinical Trials, Trophic Cascades, Population Dynamics, Ecosystem Management and Fish Population Dynamics.
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Drug Development
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Conservation Challenges
- Marine Ecosystems
- Acoustic Communication
- False Discovery Rate
- Adverse Drug Reactions
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Data Assimilation
- Pathogenesis
- Marine Fisheries
- Vaccine
- Trophic Cascades
- Conservation
- Remote Sensing
- Quality of Life
- Clinical Trials
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Biomarkers
- Global Warming
- Population Dynamics
- Ecosystem Management
- Fish Population Dynamics
- Ocean Circulation
- Invasive Species
- Bayesian Methods
- SARS-CoV-2
- Adaptive Designs
- Ocean Acidification
- Economic Evaluation
- Freshwater Biodiversity
- Flow Regulation
- Hydrological Cycle
- Medication Adherence
- Health Utility Measures
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
- Climate Change512▲ 3.7×97 topics
- Epidemiology323▲ 1.60×132 topics
- Public Health146▲ 1.98×57 topics
- Clinical Trials138▲ 4.1×19 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability138▲ 32×2 topics
- Quality of Life125▲ 1.71×54 topics
- Biomarkers116▲ 3.3×18 topics
- Remote Sensing115▲ 1.86×33 topics
- Global Warming102▲ 4.7×14 topics
- Conservation98▲ 4.5×22 topics
- Population Dynamics96▲ 7.4×11 topics
- Trophic Cascades94▲ 20×2 topics
- Ecosystem Management90▲ 30×4 topics
- Vaccine88▲ 4.3×11 topics
- Fish Population Dynamics86▲ 42×1 topic
- Marine Fisheries86▲ 42×1 topic
- Ocean Circulation82▲ 12×3 topics
- Pathogenesis79▲ 3.1×24 topics
- Invasive Species74▲ 3.5×18 topics
- Data Assimilation72▲ 8.7×4 topics
- Bayesian Methods71▲ 28×2 topics
- Monoclonal Antibodies71▲ 16×3 topics
- SARS-CoV-270▲ 4.5×6 topics
- Adverse Drug Reactions66▲ 25×2 topics
- Adaptive Designs63▲ 60×1 topic
- False Discovery Rate63▲ 60×1 topic
- Ocean Acidification61▲ 16×3 topics
- Acoustic Communication56▲ 21×2 topics
- Economic Evaluation54▲ 9.0×3 topics
- Marine Ecosystems54▲ 19×2 topics
- Freshwater Biodiversity53▲ 17×2 topics
- Conservation Challenges51▲ 22×1 topic
- Flow Regulation51▲ 22×1 topic
- Predator-Prey Interactions51▲ 13×3 topics
- Hydrological Cycle51▲ 10.0×2 topics
- Drug Development51▲ 12×3 topics
- Medication Adherence51▲ 18×2 topics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis50▲ 13×1 topic
- Health Utility Measures50▲ 13×1 topic
- Biopharmaceuticals50▲ 19×3 topics
What research is done in Silver Spring?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 77 works
- 2 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 57 works
- 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 48 works
- 4 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 46 works
- 5 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 45 works
- 6 Pharmaceutical studies and practices Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 42 works
- 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 33 works
- 8 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 33 works
- 9 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 31 works
- 10 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 30 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 32.2% in 2016.
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