Research in Amsterdam
Science Explorer records 161 research institutions in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Research institutions
- 161 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 269k ▼ 3% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 9.6M 35.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 27.0% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 Amsterdam?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of AmsterdamUniversity | 96,374 | #55 | |
| 2 | Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity | 63,057 | #161 | |
| 3 | Philips (Netherlands)Company | 30,422 | #2,024 | |
| 4 | Amsterdam UMC Location University of AmsterdamHospital / health system | 20,297 | #3,474 | |
| 5 | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesGovernment institution | 16,943 | #311 | |
| 6 | Amsterdam University Medical CentersHospital / health system | 10,410 | #412 | |
| 7 | Centrum Wiskunde & InformaticaResearch facility | 5,468 | #3,882 | |
| 8 | Institute for Atomic and Molecular PhysicsResearch facility | 5,440 | #2,450 | |
| 9 | Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesUniversity | 5,403 | #1,435 | |
| 10 | RijksmuseumArchive | 5,007 | #4,540 | |
| 11 | GGD AmsterdamHospital / health system | 3,161 | #2,268 | |
| 12 | RELX Group (Netherlands)Company | 2,863 | #3,853 | |
| 13 | Dutch Blood Transfusion SocietyInstitution | 2,093 | #23,399 all time | |
| 14 | Emma KinderziekenhuisHospital / health system | 2,025 | #5,634 | |
| 15 | National Institute for Subatomic PhysicsResearch facility | 1,950 | #8,416 | |
| 16 | OLVGHospital / health system | 1,857 | #6,783 | |
| 17 | SanquinNonprofit | 1,717 | #4,639 | |
| 18 | Netherlands Aerospace CentreNonprofit | 1,677 | #18,452 | |
| 19 | AkzoNobel (Netherlands)Company | 1,474 | #16,529 | |
| 20 | De Nederlandsche BankFunder | 1,279 | #16,640 | |
| 21 | Amsterdam University of the ArtsUniversity | 1,065 | #7,260 | |
| 22 | SlotervaartziekenhuisHospital / health system | 970 | #10,441 all time | |
| 23 | Cyclotron (Netherlands)Company | 857 | #11,292 all time | |
| 24 | European Organisation for Research and Treatment of CancerNonprofit | 844 | #8,305 | |
| 25 | Royal Tropical InstituteArchive | 810 | #8,106 all time | |
| 26 | Gemeente AmsterdamGovernment institution | 724 | #17,244 | |
| 27 | Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law EnforcementResearch facility | 709 | #11,936 | |
| 28 | Sint Lucas Andreas HospitalHospital / health system | 656 | #15,329 all time | |
| 29 | Cancer Center AmsterdamHospital / health system | 641 | #6,904 | |
| 30 | ReadeResearch facility | 568 | #20,328 | |
| 31 | Netherlands Leprosy ReliefNonprofit | 554 | #18,073 | |
| 32 | GGZ inGeestFunder | 527 | #18,631 | |
| 33 | Netherlands Center for Occupational DiseasesResearch facility | 479 | #11,234 all time | |
| 34 | Dutch Cancer SocietyInstitution | 467 | #10,262 | |
| 35 | European Medicines AgencyGovernment institution | 440 | #13,343 | |
| 36 | Amsterdam MuseumArchive | 356 | #21,651 all time | |
| 37 | Netherlands eScience CenterFunder | 345 | #18,545 | |
| 38 | General Electric (Netherlands)Company | 334 | #24,271 all time | |
| 39 | Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and DevelopmentResearch facility | 326 | #9,955 | |
| 40 | Amsterdam University CollegeUniversity | 296 | #16,241 | |
| 41 | Health & Safety in SportsInstitution | 271 | #18,165 | |
| 42 | Cargill (Netherlands)Company | 267 | #16,039 all time | |
| 43 | Health Action InternationalNonprofit | 264 | #19,387 all time | |
| 44 | PharmAccess GroupNonprofit | 240 | #13,491 | |
| 45 | ArkinHospital / health system | 187 | #22,937 all time | |
| 46 | TomTom (Netherlands)Company | 154 | #21,907 all time | |
| 47 | Dolby (Netherlands)Company | 153 | #26,884 all time | |
| 48 | VeiligheidNLNonprofit | 145 | #25,709 all time | |
| 49 | Uitvoeringsinstituut WerknemersverzekeringenInstitution | 144 | #27,305 all time | |
| 50 | ING BankInstitution | 131 | #33,494 all time | |
| 51 | AtriaArchive | 127 | #23,912 all time | |
| 52 | Scientific Computing & Modelling (Netherlands)Company | 115 | not ranked | |
| 53 | ReumaNederlandNonprofit | 111 | not ranked | |
| 54 | SURFsara (Netherlands)Company | 109 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Avantium (Netherlands)Company | 105 | not ranked | |
| 56 | MRC Holland (Netherlands)Company | 99 | not ranked | |
| 57 | HealthNet TPOHospital / health system | 96 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Arcadis (Netherlands)Company | 96 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Prysmian Group (Netherlands)Company | 95 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Stichting HIV MonitoringInstitution | 93 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Amsterdam work in?
In 2022-now, 34% of research in Amsterdam is in Health Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (30%), Social Sciences (15%), Computer Science (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health 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 city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences14k34.4%
- Medicine12k29.6%
- Health Professions1,4193.5%
- Dentistry3300.8%
- Nursing1660.4%
- Veterinary250.1%
- Social Sciences13k32.0%
- Social Sciences5,99514.9%
- Psychology2,5526.4%
- Arts and Humanities1,6204.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,0932.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1,0112.5%
- Decision Sciences5981.5%
- Physical Sciences8,37220.8%
- Computer Science2,8377.1%
- Engineering1,6954.2%
- Environmental Science1,1842.9%
- Physics and Astronomy1,0172.5%
- Mathematics4191.0%
- Chemistry3700.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3530.9%
- Materials Science3260.8%
- Energy1250.3%
- Chemical Engineering470.1%
- Life Sciences5,08312.7%
What is Amsterdam strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Amsterdam is most concentrated in General Decision Sciences, Applied Psychology and Public Administration (4.4× the world share in General Decision Sciences).
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 29.6 works4.4×
- Applied PsychologySubfield · 163.6 works3.2×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 58.2 works3.0×
- Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 774.6 works3.0×
- Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 465.7 works2.8×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 486.4 works2.8×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 37.8 works2.7×
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.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Neuroscience2.24×1,290 works
- Psychology2.05×2,218 works
- Dentistry1.70×291 works
- Medicine1.55×11k works
- Decision Sciences1.50×515 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.43×511 works
- Arts and Humanities1.39×1,423 works
- Health Professions1.36×1,269 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.24×940 works
- Social Sciences1.19×5,314 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.16×913 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.07×2,029 works
- Computer Science0.91×2,496 works
- Mathematics0.90×375 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.87×994 works
- Nursing0.83×145 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.61×76 works
- Environmental Science0.57×1,001 works
- Chemistry0.56×312 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.53×292 works
- Veterinary0.42×20 works
- Energy0.35×115 works
- Chemical Engineering0.32×40 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.30×507 works
- Engineering0.28×1,512 works
- Materials Science0.23×278 works
Which keywords describe research in Amsterdam?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Globalization, Depression, Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease.
- Mental Disorders
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Psychopathology
- Guidelines
- Neuroimaging
- Global Burden
- Emotion Regulation
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Aging
- Diagnosis
- Neurological Disorders
- Genetics
- Oxidative Stress
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Social Media
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Depression
- Risk Factors
- Human Rights
- Biomarkers
- Meta-Analysis
- Chemotherapy
- Management
- Ethics
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Anxiety
- Gender
- Rehabilitation
- Neurodegeneration
- Emotion
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology2,534▲ 1.58×138 topics
- Inflammation1,198▲ 1.40×83 topics
- Globalization1,049▲ 1.33×167 topics
- Machine Learning1,025▼ 0.77×86 topics
- Mental Health966▲ 1.68×47 topics
- Deep Learning935▼ 0.68×82 topics
- Quality of Life928▲ 1.60×60 topics
- Climate Change831▼ 0.76×118 topics
- Public Health735▲ 1.26×73 topics
- Social Media699▲ 1.26×40 topics
- Depression696▲ 1.97×26 topics
- Treatment689▲ 1.41×52 topics
- Risk Factors678▲ 1.53×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease675▲ 1.47×39 topics
- Human Rights644▲ 1.57×82 topics
- Oxidative Stress630◆ 0.95×62 topics
- Biomarkers545▲ 1.95×18 topics
- Genetics500▲ 1.76×27 topics
- Meta-Analysis493▲ 2.1×21 topics
- Neurological Disorders486▲ 2.1×20 topics
- Chemotherapy483▲ 1.70×25 topics
- Diagnosis479▲ 1.28×41 topics
- Management450▲ 1.40×39 topics
- Aging447▲ 2.0×19 topics
- Ethics430▲ 2.1×57 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome424▲ 1.30×23 topics
- Clinical Trials410▲ 1.53×19 topics
- Emotion Regulation395▲ 3.1×9 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines384▲ 1.74×14 topics
- Global Burden380▲ 1.73×12 topics
- Anxiety377▲ 1.97×12 topics
- Neuroimaging367▲ 3.3×11 topics
- Gender367▲ 1.70×52 topics
- Guidelines353▲ 1.86×13 topics
- Rehabilitation327▲ 2.0×13 topics
- Psychopathology308▲ 4.3×4 topics
- Neurodegeneration308▲ 2.5×11 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy284▲ 3.0×5 topics
- Emotion280▲ 3.3×12 topics
- Mental Disorders223▲ 4.8×3 topics
What research is done in Amsterdam?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 165 works
- 2 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 125 works
- 3 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 122 works
- 4 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 108 works
- 5 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 108 works
- 6 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 105 works
- 7 Social Media and Politics Communication 103 works
- 8 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 102 works
- 9 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 95 works
- 10 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 89 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
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 37.9% in 2016.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in Amsterdam for research?
Science Explorer records 161 research institutions in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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