SignalSpore Research Intelligence
University research rankings with receipts.
SignalSpore maps university research strength, topic expertise, funding momentum, specialization, and student research opportunity using public data, transparent scoring, confidence flags, and source receipts. It maps research strength, funding momentum, topic expertise, and student research opportunity through public-data driven research rankings.
Search any research topic to see which universities are strongest, rising fastest, most specialized, best funded, or most accessible for student research.
Every ranking includes a receipt: source data, scoring components, update dates, confidence level, and caveats.
SignalSpore is a university research intelligence platform and research expertise graph, not a general admissions list and not a single prestige ranking.
Methodology: SignalSpore Research Graph v0.1 ranks school-topic pairs using research strength, expertise density, momentum, funding pulse, topic leadership, undergraduate research opportunity, and data confidence.
Current public snapshot sources include OpenAlex, ROR, College Scorecard / IPEDS, and roadmap enrichment from NCSES HERD, NIH RePORTER, NSF Award Search, USAspending, DOE/OSTI, ClinicalTrials.gov, and patents.
Machine-readable docs are available at /llms.txt and /skill.md. Public ranking data is available through /api/rankings.