Biotechnology Institute
In research, Biotechnology Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,180 of 6,403 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,078 of 10,670 worldwide) and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#957 of 2,964 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Ecology is 7.7× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #4,398 of 22,385 · #1,806 all time
- Rank in United States
- #612 of 3,332
- Research works
- 3k ▼ 13% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 172k 57.1 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 11.6% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.04× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 50% world 40%
- International
- 32% world 18%
What is Biotechnology Institute known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life SciencesDomain | #1,180 of 6,403 | 10.1% | 148 | #882 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #3,078 of 10,670 | 11.6% | 123 | #1436 | |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField | #957 of 2,964 | 8.9% | 91 | #719 | |
| Molecular BiologySubfield | #783 of 1,880 | 8.4% | 64 | #649 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Biotechnology Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).
Which of those standings moved
The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.
- Life Sciences#882 #1,180
- Physical Sciences#1,436 #3,078
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#719 #957
- Molecular Biology#649 #783
A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.
Which fields of science does Biotechnology Institute work in?
In 2022-now, 45% of research at Biotechnology Institute is in Life Sciences, 38% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Environmental Science (17%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Life 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 institution does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Life Sciences16745.3%
- Physical Sciences13937.7%
- Environmental Science6216.9%
- Engineering298.0%
- Materials Science123.3%
- Chemistry112.9%
- Energy61.7%
- Computer Science61.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences61.6%
- Physics and Astronomy30.8%
- Chemical Engineering30.7%
- Mathematics10.2%
- Health Sciences5214.1%
- Medicine4712.8%
- Nursing30.7%
- Health Professions10.3%
- Dentistry10.2%
- Veterinary10.2%
- Social Sciences112.9%
What does Biotechnology Institute specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology takes 7.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- EcologySubfield · 22.2 works7.7×
- Molecular BiologySubfield · 71.5 works6.4×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 102.1 works5.2×
Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.
Field profile
Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.19×102 works
- Environmental Science3.40×62 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.05×54 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.57×3 works
- Chemical Engineering2.11×3 works
- Energy1.88×6 works
- Chemistry1.86×11 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.72×6 works
- Nursing1.43×3 works
- Veterinary1.16×1 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.00×6 works
- Materials Science0.94×12 works
- Medicine0.66×47 works
- Engineering0.53×29 works
- Decision Sciences0.38×1 works
- Dentistry0.36×1 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.35×3 works
- Neuroscience0.29×2 works
- Computer Science0.21×6 works
- Arts and Humanities0.15×2 works
- Mathematics0.13×1 works
- Health Professions0.12×1 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.11×1 works
- Social Sciences0.11×5 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.09×1 works
- Psychology0.04×0 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5.2×
- Environmental Science 3.4×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3.0×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.6×
- Chemical Engineering 2.1×
- Energy 1.9×
- Chemistry 1.9×
- Immunology and Microbiology 1.7×
- Nursing 1.4×
- Veterinary 1.2×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 1.0×
- Materials Science 0.9×
- Medicine 0.7×
- Engineering 0.5×
- Decision Sciences 0.4×
- Dentistry 0.4×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.3×
- Neuroscience 0.3×
- Computer Science 0.2×
- Arts and Humanities 0.1×
- Mathematics 0.1×
- Health Professions 0.1×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×
- Social Sciences 0.1×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.1×
- Psychology 0.0×
Who are the top researchers at Biotechnology Institute?
Ranked on the quality score, John Moult, Roy A. Mariuzza and Patrick Alexander lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Biotechnology Institute.
- 1
John Moult
United States · #128,324 worldwide 20k citations · 255 works
- 2
Roy A. Mariuzza
United States · #141,642 worldwide 18k citations · 329 works
- 3
Patrick Alexander
United States · #270,747 worldwide 2.4k citations · 96 works
- 4
Philip N. Bryan
United States · #325,590 worldwide 5.6k citations · 100 works
- 5
Mikael H. Elias
United States · #408,741 worldwide 4.6k citations · 147 works
- 6
Yossi Tal
United States · #467,787 worldwide 2.5k citations · 33 works
- 7
Michael F. Freeman
United States · #853,534 worldwide 1.7k citations · 49 works
- 8
Osnat Herzberg
United States · #928,535 worldwide 7.8k citations · 224 works
- 9
Carlos A. Velikovsky
United States · #1,150,121 worldwide 2.2k citations · 39 works
- 10
Michael Braxenthaler
United States · #1,655,838 worldwide 1.5k citations · 19 works
Which keywords describe research at Biotechnology Institute?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Microbial Communities, Wastewater Treatment, Microbial Ecology, Climate Change, Bacterial Diversity, Marine Microbes, Microbial Biogeography and Phylogenetic Analysis.
- MicroRNA
- sequence alignment
- Synthetic Biology
- Signal Transduction
- Extracellular Electron Transfer
- RNA-Seq
- Short-Chain Fatty Acids
- Green Chemistry
- Evolution
- Metabolic Health
- Genomics
- Metabolic Engineering
- Health Effects
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Metabolism
- Marine Microbes
- Bacterial Diversity
- Inflammation
- Wastewater Treatment
- Microbial Communities
- Climate Change
- Cancer
- Microbial Ecology
- Nanoparticles
- Gene Expression
- Microbial Biogeography
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Gut Microbiota
- Hydrogen Production
- Drug Discovery
- Ecology
- Microbiome
- Inflammatory Diseases
- Metagenomic Analysis
- Quality Assessment
- Ecosystem Functioning
- Microbial Fuel Cells
- Functional Genomics
- genome annotation
- Lignocellulosic Biomass
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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 Change22▲ 2.2×52 topics
- Microbial Communities15▲ 9.3×8 topics
- Cancer14▲ 2.9×37 topics
- Wastewater Treatment13▲ 15×8 topics
- Microbial Ecology13▲ 20×4 topics
- Inflammation12▲ 1.50×45 topics
- Nanoparticles11▲ 2.4×22 topics
- Bacterial Diversity11▲ 24×2 topics
- Gene Expression10▲ 4.4×17 topics
- Marine Microbes10▲ 47×1 topic
- Microbial Biogeography10▲ 47×1 topic
- Metabolism9▲ 4.8×20 topics
- Phylogenetic Analysis9▲ 7.8×11 topics
- Antibiotic Resistance8▲ 5.5×9 topics
- Gut Microbiota8▲ 6.0×6 topics
- Health Effects7▲ 3.3×13 topics
- Hydrogen Production7▲ 7.3×3 topics
- Metabolic Engineering7▲ 20×5 topics
- Drug Discovery7▲ 8.1×11 topics
- Genomics6▲ 6.0×11 topics
- Ecology6▲ 9.7×7 topics
- Metabolic Health6▲ 8.3×3 topics
- Microbiome6▲ 11×3 topics
- Evolution6▲ 5.6×6 topics
- Inflammatory Diseases6▲ 8.0×3 topics
- Green Chemistry6▲ 8.4×8 topics
- Metagenomic Analysis6▲ 13×1 topic
- Short-Chain Fatty Acids6▲ 13×1 topic
- Quality Assessment5▲ 8.0×2 topics
- RNA-Seq5▲ 12×2 topics
- Ecosystem Functioning5▲ 6.9×7 topics
- Extracellular Electron Transfer5▲ 53×1 topic
- Microbial Fuel Cells5▲ 53×1 topic
- Signal Transduction5▲ 9.0×5 topics
- Functional Genomics5▲ 17×2 topics
- Synthetic Biology5▲ 22×2 topics
- genome annotation5▲ 20×1 topic
- sequence alignment5▲ 20×1 topic
- Lignocellulosic Biomass5▲ 13×2 topics
- MicroRNA5▲ 11×2 topics
Which research topics does Biotechnology Institute publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 10 works
- 2 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 6 works
- 3 Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation Environmental Engineering 5 works
- 4 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 5 works
- 5 Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction Molecular Biology 4 works
- 6 Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization Molecular Biology 4 works
- 7 Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal Pollution 4 works
- 8 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Ecology 4 works
- 9 Biofuel production and bioconversion Biomedical Engineering 3 works
- 10 Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 3 works
How open and international is its research?
Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Biotechnology Institute's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Biotechnology Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0014% in 2024.
Fractional works of Biotechnology Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
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 22.1% in 2005.
Other research institutions in Washington D.C.
- United States Department of Defense
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- United States Department of Agriculture
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Georgetown University
- George Washington University
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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