Research in Waltham
Science Explorer records 70 research institutions in Waltham, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Brandeis University, Thermo Fisher Scientific (United States) and Bentley University.
- Research institutions
- 70 9 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 35k ▲ 12% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.3M 35.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.1% 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 Waltham?
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 Waltham work in?
In 2022-now, 35% of research in Waltham is in Social Sciences, 24% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social 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
- Social Sciences1,70635.2%
- Social Sciences84717.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2294.7%
- Psychology1934.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting1903.9%
- Arts and Humanities1893.9%
- Decision Sciences581.2%
- Health Sciences1,17224.2%
- Medicine1,01921.1%
- Health Professions1362.8%
- Nursing120.3%
- Veterinary30.1%
- Dentistry10.0%
- Physical Sciences1,07022.1%
- Engineering2835.9%
- Computer Science2755.7%
- Chemistry982.0%
- Materials Science962.0%
- Environmental Science952.0%
- Mathematics911.9%
- Physics and Astronomy901.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences210.4%
- Energy120.3%
- Chemical Engineering80.2%
- Life Sciences89218.4%
What is Waltham strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Waltham is most concentrated in Nephrology, Aquatic Science and Spectroscopy (6.7× the world share in Nephrology).
- NephrologySubfield · 61.0 works6.7×
- Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 28.7 works3.8×
- SpectroscopySubfield · 34.7 works3.7×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 28.9 works3.2×
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: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.16×194 works
- Neuroscience2.08×142 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.02×86 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.92×430 works
- Mathematics1.65×82 works
- Arts and Humanities1.38×167 works
- Social Sciences1.37×732 works
- Psychology1.34×171 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.29×19 works
- Chemistry1.28×84 works
- Decision Sciences1.28×52 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.18×160 works
- Health Professions1.12×124 works
- Medicine1.12×903 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.87×82 works
- Computer Science0.74×243 works
- Materials Science0.58×86 works
- Chemical Engineering0.47×7 works
- Nursing0.41×8 works
- Environmental Science0.40×83 works
- Engineering0.39×244 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.38×75 works
- Veterinary0.35×2 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.28×18 works
- Energy0.28×11 works
- Dentistry0.06×1 works
Which keywords describe research in Waltham?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Teaching Methods, Language Teaching, Critical Thinking, Digital Education, Formative Assessment, Tourism Development, Educational Technologies and Artistic Education.
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor
- Leukemia
- Water Efficiency
- Lymphoma
- Dialysis
- Tumor Regression
- Industrial Enterprises
- Glycosylation
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Global Governance
- Nationalism
- Human Rights
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Student Competencies
- Educational Technologies
- Formative Assessment
- Critical Thinking
- Pedagogy
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Teaching Methods
- Language Teaching
- Digital Education
- Tourism Development
- Artistic Education
- Inflammation
- Economic Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Investment
- Digital Economy
- Hemodialysis
- Innovation Economics
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Irrigation
- Israel
- CAR T Cells
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
- Epidemiology198◆ 1.02×118 topics
- Globalization168▲ 1.76×93 topics
- Quality of Life148▲ 2.1×52 topics
- Machine Learning141◆ 0.87×81 topics
- Teaching Methods139▲ 18×8 topics
- Pedagogy139▲ 5.7×14 topics
- Language Teaching134▲ 10×6 topics
- Critical Thinking132▲ 24×5 topics
- Digital Education130▲ 18×5 topics
- Formative Assessment130▲ 32×2 topics
- Tourism Development130▲ 20×2 topics
- Educational Technologies129▲ 29×2 topics
- Artistic Education129▲ 41×1 topic
- Student Competencies129▲ 41×1 topic
- Inflammation126▲ 1.22×78 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease96▲ 1.74×36 topics
- Economic Development84▲ 2.2×30 topics
- Human Rights83▲ 1.67×40 topics
- Entrepreneurship72▲ 3.8×13 topics
- Nationalism67▲ 3.1×25 topics
- Chronic Kidney Disease67▲ 5.5×9 topics
- Global Governance56▲ 4.8×17 topics
- Investment55▲ 9.9×5 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy53▲ 7.2×3 topics
- Digital Economy52▲ 5.3×7 topics
- Glycosylation52▲ 9.7×3 topics
- Hemodialysis50▲ 12×2 topics
- Industrial Enterprises49▲ 30×1 topic
- Innovation Economics49▲ 30×1 topic
- Tumor Regression46▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Monoclonal Antibodies45▲ 10×3 topics
- Dialysis45▲ 18×1 topic
- Peritoneal Dialysis45▲ 18×1 topic
- Lymphoma43▲ 5.6×4 topics
- Irrigation41▲ 43×1 topic
- Water Efficiency41▲ 43×1 topic
- Israel40▲ 25×2 topics
- Leukemia38▲ 9.3×2 topics
- CAR T Cells37▲ 10×1 topic
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor37▲ 10×1 topic
What research is done in Waltham?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 99 works
- 2 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 42 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 34 works
- 4 Engineering and Agricultural Innovations Aquatic Science 28 works
- 5 Economic and Industrial Development Economics and Econometrics 27 works
- 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 27 works
- 7 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 23 works
- 8 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 23 works
- 9 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 17 works
- 10 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 17 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 33.0% in 2008.
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