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Research in Wilmington

Science Explorer records 49 research institutions in Wilmington, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are AstraZeneca (United States), Corteva (United States) and Christiana Care Health System.

Research institutions
49
9 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
27k
▲ 17% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.1%
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 Wilmington?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1DuPont (United States)Company 12,595 #15,271
2AstraZeneca (United States)Company 2,963 #2,368
3Christiana Care Health SystemHospital / health system 2,553 #8,740
4Alfred I. duPont Hospital for ChildrenHospital / health system 2,225 #20,783
5Winterthur Museum Garden and LibraryArchive 1,779 #15,209
6Incyte (United States)Company 1,153 #10,022
7Office of the GovernorGovernment institution 917 #23,211
8InterDigital (United States)Company 782 #14,169
9Corteva (United States)Company 640 #6,123
10Wilmington VA Medical CenterHospital / health system 329 #29,681 all time
11Hagley Museum and LibraryArchive 194 #21,937 all time
12Advanced Materials Technology (United States)Company 172 #20,696 all time
13Goldey–Beacom CollegeUniversity 106 not ranked
14Applied Diamond (United States)Company 86 not ranked
15Andrew McDonough B+ FoundationNonprofit 69 not ranked
16American University for HumanitiesUniversity 56 not ranked
17Delaware Diamond Knives (United States)Company 55 not ranked
18Delaware Museum of Nature and ScienceArchive 29 not ranked
19JBS Technologies (United States)Company 26 not ranked
20Jonas (United States)Company 24 not ranked
21Analytical Biological Services (United States)Company 23 not ranked
22Advanced Fiber Technologies (United States)Company 21 not ranked
23Delaware College of Art and DesignUniversity 18 not ranked
24Delaware Division of the ArtsGovernment institution 13 not ranked
25Chimera Technologies (United States)Company 13 not ranked
26WSFS Financial Corporation (United States)Company 10 not ranked
27Delaware Art MuseumArchive 10 not ranked
28Albert Einstein AcademyUniversity 8 not ranked
29AlphaSense (United States)Company 6 not ranked
30Delaware Humanities ForumNonprofit 6 not ranked
31Delaware Historical SocietyArchive 5 not ranked
32Wilmington Public LibraryArchive 4 not ranked
33Butamax (United States)Company 4 not ranked
34MantraCareHospital / health system 4 not ranked
35Spectrum Magnetics (United States)Company 3 not ranked
36Business History ConferenceInstitution 3 not ranked
37Intercultural Open University FoundationNonprofit 3 not ranked
38Rodel Foundation of DelawareNonprofit 2 not ranked
39Brandywine Counseling & Community ServicesNonprofit 2 not ranked
40Delaware Coalition Against Domestic ViolenceNonprofit 2 not ranked
41Old Swedes FoundationArchive 1 not ranked
42Intercollegiate Studies InstituteNonprofit 1 not ranked
43Junior Achievement of DelawareInstitution 1 not ranked
44Delaware Heritage CommissionGovernment institution 1 not ranked
45Association of Educational PublishersNonprofit 0 not ranked
46Urigen Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 0 not ranked
47OrphageniX (United States)Company 0 not ranked
48Nacey Maggioncalda FoundationNonprofit 0 not ranked
49Delaware Breast Cancer CoalitionNonprofit 0 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.

DuPont (United States): 46.8%AstraZeneca (United States): 11.0%Christiana Care Health System: 9.5%Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children: 8.3%40 others listed: 24.4%47%largest
DuPont (United States)13k · 46.8%AstraZeneca (United States)2,963 · 11.0%Christiana Care Health System2,553 · 9.5%Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children2,225 · 8.3%40 others listed6,581 · 24.4%

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

What is Wilmington strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Wilmington is most concentrated in Genetics, Hematology and Oncology (6.5× the world share in Genetics).

  1. GeneticsSubfield · 47.1 works6.5×
  2. HematologySubfield · 37.3 works4.6×
  3. OncologySubfield · 134.7 works4.5×
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 149.9 works3.6×
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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 Wilmington?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Targeted Therapy, Diagnosis and Monoclonal Antibodies.

▲ 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. Epidemiology182▲ 1.72×121 topics
  2. Inflammation111▲ 1.99×78 topics
  3. Treatment84▲ 2.6×43 topics
  4. Diagnosis72▲ 2.9×33 topics
  5. Chemotherapy71▲ 3.8×24 topics
  6. Immunotherapy70▲ 3.7×19 topics
  7. Quality of Life66▲ 1.72×47 topics
  8. Cancer61▲ 1.71×49 topics
  9. Clinical Trials58▲ 3.3×18 topics
  10. Management58▲ 2.8×27 topics
  11. Genetics57▲ 3.0×24 topics
  12. Prognostic Factors49▲ 4.2×14 topics
  13. Targeted Therapy49▲ 8.2×5 topics
  14. Tumor Microenvironment47▲ 3.9×8 topics
  15. Monoclonal Antibodies40▲ 17×3 topics
  16. Glycosylation39▲ 13×3 topics
  17. Lymphoma37▲ 8.5×4 topics
  18. Cancer Immunotherapy36▲ 8.8×3 topics
  19. Heart Failure35▲ 3.1×13 topics
  20. Therapeutic Antibodies35▲ 19×2 topics
  21. Rituximab34▲ 8.6×4 topics
  22. Asthma33▲ 13×2 topics
  23. Breast Cancer32▲ 5.0×11 topics
  24. Tumor Regression32▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Immunology30▲ 10×2 topics
  26. Allergic Diseases28▲ 18×1 topic
  27. Eosinophils28▲ 18×1 topic
  28. Genomic Profiling27▲ 9.9×2 topics
  29. Antibody Engineering25▲ 17×1 topic
  30. Fc Receptors25▲ 17×1 topic
  31. Therapeutic Targets25▲ 6.2×8 topics
  32. Leukemia25▲ 11×2 topics
  33. CAR T Cells24▲ 12×1 topic
  34. Chimeric Antigen Receptor24▲ 12×1 topic
  35. Resistance Mechanisms24▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Immune Checkpoint Blockade23▲ 7.8×1 topic
  37. PD-1 and PD-L123▲ 7.8×1 topic
  38. ALK Inhibitors23▲ 14×1 topic
  39. EGFR Mutations23▲ 14×1 topic
  40. Biopharmaceuticals22▲ 16×3 topics

What research is done in Wilmington?

  1. 1 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 28 works
  2. 2 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 25 works
  3. 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 24 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 23 works
  5. 5 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 23 works
  6. 6 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Genetics 17 works
  7. 7 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 16 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 16 works
  9. 9 Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 15 works
  10. 10 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 12 works

Research output over time

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