Those universities featuring highest in this list can be said to concentrate on local research.

In each of 62 "societies" or "cultures", the project is working with typically two to five social scientists who are responsible for the local research.

"My No. 1 hobby is local historical research," he said.

In a way, I've done 23 years of local research.

Funds that are used to create these books do support local biological research.

He is actively taking part in the local and international research and academic organizations.

In addition, they must establish local research and development divisions that would share information.

He had to go to the public library to do some local research for his book.

This could well be a useful source of information on local educational research.

He was involved in the local historical research into the location of graves of writers.