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Research in Stony Brook

Science Explorer records 22 research institutions in Stony Brook, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Stony Brook University, Stony Brook School and Stony Brook University Hospital.

Research institutions
22
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
59k
▲ 8% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
19.5%
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 Stony Brook?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Stony Brook UniversityUniversity 51,687 #336
2Stony Brook SchoolUniversity 2,766 #3,841
3Stony Brook University HospitalHospital / health system 2,634 #9,113
4Stony Brook MedicineHospital / health system 1,688 #10,175
5Simons Center for Geometry and PhysicsUniversity 252 #5,064 all time
6Stony Brook Children's HospitalHospital / health system 183 #32,882 all time
7Private Machines (United States)Company 47 not ranked
8Brookhaven Technology Group (United States)Company 39 not ranked
9Applied DNA Sciences (United States)Company 38 not ranked
10Traverse Biosciences (United States)Company 30 not ranked
11Center for Aesthetic Dermatology & Laser SurgeryHospital / health system 28 not ranked
12Codagenix (United States)Company 19 not ranked
13Rether Networks (United States)Company 13 not ranked
14Avalon Nature PreserveArchive 8 not ranked
15Charmtech Labs (United States)Company 8 not ranked
16The Long Island MuseumArchive 2 not ranked
17Brookhaven Science AssociatesInstitution 2 not ranked
18TargaGenix (United States)Company 2 not ranked
19NeoMatrix Therapeutics (United States)Company 1 not ranked
20Institute for Research on Unlimited LoveNonprofit 1 not ranked
21Theragnostic Technologies (United States)Company 1 not ranked
22Swartz FoundationNonprofit 1 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.

Stony Brook University: 86.9%Stony Brook School: 4.7%Stony Brook University Hospital: 4.4%Stony Brook Medicine: 2.8%18 others listed: 1.1%87%largest
Stony Brook University52k · 86.9%Stony Brook School2,766 · 4.7%Stony Brook University Hospital2,634 · 4.4%Stony Brook Medicine1,688 · 2.8%18 others listed675 · 1.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Stony Brook strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Stony Brook is most concentrated in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geometry and Topology and Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.2× the world share in Nuclear and High Energy Physics).

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 200.4 works8.2×
  2. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 68.0 works5.4×
  3. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 145.2 works3.6×
  4. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 60.7 works3.6×
  5. Physics and AstronomyField · 597.0 works3.5×
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Which keywords describe research in Stony Brook?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Lattice QCD, Neural Networks, Dark Matter, Inflammation and Climate Change.

▲ 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. Epidemiology393▲ 1.28×130 topics
  2. Deep Learning352▲ 1.33×77 topics
  3. Machine Learning279◆ 1.10×78 topics
  4. Climate Change198◆ 0.95×88 topics
  5. Inflammation182◆ 1.13×81 topics
  6. Neural Networks165▲ 1.38×37 topics
  7. Cancer131▲ 1.26×52 topics
  8. Treatment129▲ 1.37×48 topics
  9. Public Health128◆ 1.13×57 topics
  10. Mental Health126◆ 1.11×37 topics
  11. Risk Factors124▲ 1.45×37 topics
  12. Oxidative Stress122◆ 0.96×56 topics
  13. Quality of Life122◆ 1.09×51 topics
  14. Diagnosis112▲ 1.56×41 topics
  15. Depression105▲ 1.53×22 topics
  16. Guidelines91▲ 2.5×12 topics
  17. Mortality80▲ 1.80×13 topics
  18. Lattice QCD80▲ 17×2 topics
  19. Dark Matter67▲ 7.5×4 topics
  20. Emotion Regulation67▲ 2.8×9 topics
  21. Entanglement61▲ 5.3×4 topics
  22. Particle Physics58▲ 10.0×2 topics
  23. Quantum Information58▲ 6.4×3 topics
  24. Renormalization Group55▲ 13×2 topics
  25. Higgs Boson47▲ 12×1 topic
  26. High-Energy Collider47▲ 12×1 topic
  27. Black Holes46▲ 6.3×3 topics
  28. Electron Acceleration45▲ 8.6×2 topics
  29. Quantum Gravity44▲ 7.0×4 topics
  30. Anaerobic43▲ 7.9×1 topic
  31. Methane Oxidation43▲ 6.8×1 topic
  32. Solar Wind42▲ 5.8×2 topics
  33. QCD41▲ 16×1 topic
  34. charmonium41▲ 16×1 topic
  35. Ionosphere41▲ 9.4×1 topic
  36. Magnetosphere41▲ 9.4×1 topic
  37. Hydrodynamics40▲ 8.6×3 topics
  38. Quantum Simulation40▲ 6.4×2 topics
  39. Heavy-Ion Collisions38▲ 19×1 topic
  40. Quark-Gluon Plasma38▲ 19×1 topic

What research is done in Stony Brook?

  1. 1 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesNuclear and High Energy Physics 47 works
  2. 2 Methane Hydrates and Related PhenomenaEnvironmental Chemistry 43 works
  3. 3 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsNuclear and High Energy Physics 41 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 41 works
  5. 5 High-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchNuclear and High Energy Physics 38 works
  6. 6 Black Holes and Theoretical PhysicsNuclear and High Energy Physics 33 works
  7. 7 Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence 28 works
  8. 8 Quantum Information and CryptographyArtificial Intelligence 26 works
  9. 9 Cosmology and Gravitation TheoriesAstronomy and Astrophysics 25 works
  10. 10 Seismic Waves and AnalysisGeophysics 24 works

Research output over time

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