Research in Silver Spring
Science Explorer records 83 research institutions in Silver Spring, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
- Research institutions
- 83 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 53k ▼ 3% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 20.9% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Silver Spring?
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.
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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.
Which keywords describe research in Silver Spring?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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
- Flow Regulation
- Medication Adherence
- Marine Mammals
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Health Utility Measures
- Economic Evaluation
- Ocean Acidification
- False Discovery Rate
- Adverse Drug Reactions
- SARS-CoV-2
- Bayesian Methods
- Marine Fisheries
- Ecosystem Management
- Conservation
- Population Dynamics
- Remote Sensing
- Quality of Life
- Clinical Trials
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Biomarkers
- Trophic Cascades
- Vaccine
- Global Warming
- Fish Population Dynamics
- Pathogenesis
- Ocean Circulation
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Adaptive Designs
- Data Assimilation
- Acoustic Communication
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Drug Development
- Anthropogenic Noise
- Freshwater Biodiversity
- Conservation Challenges
- Marine Ecosystems
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
- Climate Change434▲ 3.8×92 topics
- Epidemiology286▲ 1.69×129 topics
- Public Health128▲ 2.0×56 topics
- Clinical Trials124▲ 4.3×19 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability122▲ 32×2 topics
- Quality of Life113▲ 1.82×53 topics
- Biomarkers103▲ 3.5×18 topics
- Remote Sensing94▲ 1.78×31 topics
- Trophic Cascades85▲ 21×2 topics
- Population Dynamics85▲ 7.8×10 topics
- Vaccine82▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Conservation82▲ 4.4×21 topics
- Global Warming79▲ 4.5×14 topics
- Ecosystem Management79▲ 31×3 topics
- Fish Population Dynamics77▲ 44×1 topic
- Marine Fisheries77▲ 44×1 topic
- Pathogenesis73▲ 3.3×24 topics
- Bayesian Methods65▲ 30×2 topics
- Ocean Circulation64▲ 12×3 topics
- SARS-CoV-263▲ 4.5×6 topics
- Monoclonal Antibodies62▲ 16×3 topics
- Adverse Drug Reactions61▲ 27×2 topics
- Adaptive Designs57▲ 66×1 topic
- False Discovery Rate57▲ 66×1 topic
- Data Assimilation54▲ 8.1×4 topics
- Ocean Acidification53▲ 17×3 topics
- Acoustic Communication52▲ 24×2 topics
- Economic Evaluation50▲ 9.6×3 topics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis48▲ 13×1 topic
- Health Utility Measures48▲ 13×1 topic
- Drug Development48▲ 13×3 topics
- Predator-Prey Interactions47▲ 14×3 topics
- Anthropogenic Noise46▲ 37×1 topic
- Marine Mammals46▲ 37×1 topic
- Freshwater Biodiversity46▲ 18×2 topics
- Medication Adherence46▲ 20×2 topics
- Conservation Challenges45▲ 22×1 topic
- Flow Regulation45▲ 22×1 topic
- Marine Ecosystems45▲ 20×2 topics
- Biopharmaceuticals44▲ 20×3 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.