Research in Stanford
Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in Stanford, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Stanford University, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Health Care.
- Research institutions
- 7 5 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 250k ▲ 9% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 25.4% 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 Stanford?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford UniversityUniversity | 223,159 | #8 | |
| 2 | Stanford MedicineHospital / health system | 19,197 | #352 | |
| 3 | Stanford Health CareHospital / health system | 2,998 | #3,564 | |
| 4 | Carnegie Department of Plant BiologyResearch facility | 2,766 | #7,102 | |
| 5 | Hoover InstitutionResearch facility | 1,397 | #15,171 | |
| 6 | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachingNonprofit | 233 | #19,497 all time | |
| 7 | Eterna Massive Open LaboratoryResearch facility | 6 | not ranked |
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 Stanford strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Stanford is most concentrated in Transplantation, Health Informatics and Statistics and Probability (4.9× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 62.7 works4.9×
- Health InformaticsSubfield · 126.3 works3.6×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 182.5 works3.0×
- Developmental NeuroscienceSubfield · 40.2 works2.8×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 234.2 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 Stanford?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Immunotherapy, Inflammation, Precision Medicine, Risk Factors and Quality of Life.
- Lymphoma
- Health Equity
- Medical Education
- Biosensors
- Complications
- Radiotherapy
- Medical Imaging
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Gene Expression
- Mortality
- Clinical Trials
- Precision Medicine
- Healthcare
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Public Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Immunotherapy
- Climate Change
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Cancer
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Neural Networks
- Depression
- Diagnosis
- Neurological Disorders
- Chemotherapy
- Genetics
- Biomarkers
- Prognostic Factors
- Genetic Mutations
- Guidelines
- Heart Failure
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 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
- Epidemiology1,667▲ 1.46×136 topics
- Machine Learning969◆ 1.02×87 topics
- Deep Learning962◆ 0.97×82 topics
- Inflammation755▲ 1.25×83 topics
- Quality of Life543▲ 1.30×56 topics
- Climate Change531▼ 0.68×104 topics
- Cancer527▲ 1.36×58 topics
- Immunotherapy510▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Treatment505▲ 1.44×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress496◆ 1.05×62 topics
- Risk Factors488▲ 1.53×37 topics
- Public Health465◆ 1.11×71 topics
- Mental Health439◆ 1.03×46 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease427▲ 1.33×39 topics
- Neural Networks395◆ 0.89×38 topics
- Healthcare381▲ 1.17×34 topics
- Depression378▲ 1.49×26 topics
- Precision Medicine358▲ 2.6×8 topics
- Diagnosis356▲ 1.32×41 topics
- Clinical Trials353▲ 1.82×19 topics
- Neurological Disorders350▲ 2.1×20 topics
- Mortality349▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Chemotherapy341▲ 1.69×25 topics
- Gene Expression326▲ 1.85×20 topics
- Genetics325▲ 1.61×27 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome310▲ 1.32×24 topics
- Biomarkers303▲ 1.53×18 topics
- Medical Imaging294▲ 1.98×9 topics
- Prognostic Factors292▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Radiotherapy287▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations285▲ 2.3×23 topics
- Complications266▲ 1.84×17 topics
- Guidelines254▲ 1.88×13 topics
- Biosensors248▲ 1.66×12 topics
- Heart Failure243▲ 1.95×14 topics
- Medical Education210▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging199▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Health Equity195▲ 2.5×6 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy172▲ 3.9×3 topics
- Lymphoma169▲ 3.6×4 topics
What research is done in Stanford?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 126 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 114 works
- 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 93 works
- 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 86 works
- 5 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 84 works
- 6 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 78 works
- 7 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 78 works
- 8 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 78 works
- 9 Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 78 works
- 10 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 77 works
Research output over time
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