'surge of research' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sudden increase in research activity or output. For example, "There has been a surge of research into renewable energy sources in recent years."
So there is suddenly a surge of research interest in software quality.
Tianjin has also received a surge of research subsidies for enterprises like the Tianjin-Qingyuan Electric Vehicle Company.
The key question is whether this surge of research activity in China is going to be translated into industrial leadership, economic growth and benefit to humankind.
During the past couple of decades, though, there has been a surge of research on prehistoric mayhem, and Pinker's claims grow out of a great deal of this recent work in what might be called atrociology.
And the levels of both are regulated by genes, with different variants of the same underlying gene having different effects.Recent years have seen a surge of research into the links between particular versions of neurotransmitter-related genes and behavioural outcomes, such as voter turnout, risk-aversion, personal popularity and sexual promiscuity.
In recent years there is a surge of research in this field aiming at solving these problems.
This surge of academic research also comes as the percentage of Americans living in poverty hit a 15-year high: one in seven, or 44 million.
It will not be surprising to see that there will be a surge of new research on the impact of Syrian refugees on most of these outcomes as new data sets with greater micro-level details become available.
The tick work is part of a surge of new research on basophils, some of it suggesting that they orchestrate immune responses to parasitic worms and raise the alarm during bacterial infections.
The combined efforts of these historians led to a surge of new research into crusader society.
Much work remains in translating the recent surge of genetic research discoveries into the clinic.
