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Research in Ann Arbor

Science Explorer records 123 research institutions in Ann Arbor, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

Research institutions
123
13 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
294k
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
21.3%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 Ann Arbor?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of MichiganUniversity 253,914 #35
2Michigan MedicineHospital / health system 13,363 #985
3Ann Arbor Center for Independent LivingNonprofit 4,905 #7,778
4Ann Arbor VA Medical CenterHospital / health system 2,800 #15,536
5VA Ann Arbor Healthcare SystemHospital / health system 1,975 #4,175
6C. S. Mott Children's HospitalHospital / health system 1,433 #17,136
7Environmental Research Institute of MichiganResearch facility 1,376 #3,417 all time
8Women's HospitalHospital / health system 1,143 #23,283
9A. Alfred Taubman Health Care CenterHospital / health system 1,123 #15,908
10Michigan Center for Translational PathologyResearch facility 1,009 #6,461
11NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research LaboratoryFunder 898 #13,704
12VA Center for Clinical Management ResearchHospital / health system 884 #7,884
13U-M Rogel Cancer CenterHospital / health system 852 #10,993
14ProQuest (United States)Company 779 #12,539
15Trinity Health Ann Arbor HospitalHospital / health system 710 #15,940 all time
16NSK (United States)Company 470 #31,900 all time
17Truven Health Analytics (United States)Company 427 #20,006 all time
18Warde Medical LaboratoryResearch facility 408 #14,406 all time
19Altarum InstituteNonprofit 377 #21,921 all time
20Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthNonprofit 376 #8,389 all time
21Washtenaw Community CollegeUniversity 367 #13,131 all time
22Therapeutics Systems Research Laboratories (United States)Company 338 #15,489 all time
23KMS Fusion (United States)Company 319 #12,902 all time
24STATinMED (United States)Company 240 #31,376 all time
25Michigan Cancer Research ConsortiumInstitution 225 #16,698 all time
26Association for Asian StudiesNonprofit 208 #29,126 all time
27Hope FoundationNonprofit 195 #36,336 all time
28Michigan Psychoanalytic InstituteInstitution 194 #29,767 all time
29National Sanitation Foundation InternationalResearch facility 183 #29,949 all time
30Trinity Health MichiganHospital / health system 153 #36,456 all time
31Gift of Life MichiganNonprofit 145 #27,662 all time
32Applied Dynamics International (United States)Company 134 #27,596 all time
33Biomedware (United States)Company 128 #39,435 all time
34Michigan Headache and Neurological InstituteHospital / health system 126 #36,497 all time
35OG Technologies (United States)Company 100 not ranked
36Merit NetworkNonprofit 97 not ranked
37Society for Research in Child DevelopmentNonprofit 95 not ranked
38NanoBio (United States)Company 89 not ranked
39Great Lakes Fishery CommissionGovernment institution 87 not ranked
40University BankUniversity 81 not ranked
41Cayman Chemical (United States)Company 75 not ranked
42Esperion Therapeutics (United States)Company 74 not ranked
43SoundRocket (United States)Company 73 not ranked
44Cybernet Systems Corporation (United States)Company 67 not ranked
453D Biomatrix (United States)Company 63 not ranked
46Tecumseh Products (United States)Company 60 not ranked
47Medical Physics ConsultantsCompany 58 not ranked
48HealthMedia (United States)Company 55 not ranked
49ElectroDynamic Applications (United States)Company 50 not ranked
50EMAG Technologies (United States)Company 47 not ranked
51MC3 (United States)Company 47 not ranked
52Koester Performance Research (United States)Company 46 not ranked
53Integrated Nonclinical Development Solutions (United States)Company 46 not ranked
54Advanced Fiber Sensors (United States)Company 42 not ranked
55CareEvolution (United States)Company 38 not ranked
56Concordia University Ann ArborUniversity 37 not ranked
57Mayaterials (United States)Company 37 not ranked
58H3D (United States)Company 36 not ranked
59Essen BioScience (United States)Company 36 not ranked
60ProNAi Therapeutics (United States)Company 35 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.

University of Michigan: 86.4%Michigan Medicine: 4.5%Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living: 1.7%Ann Arbor VA Medical Center: 1.0%56 others listed: 6.4%86%largest
University of Michigan254k · 86.4%Michigan Medicine13k · 4.5%Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living4,905 · 1.7%Ann Arbor VA Medical Center2,800 · 1.0%56 others listed19k · 6.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Ann Arbor strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ann Arbor is most concentrated in Family Practice, Aging and Transplantation (3.8× the world share in Family Practice).

  1. Family PracticeSubfield · 59.4 works3.8×
  2. AgingSubfield · 25.3 works3.2×
  3. TransplantationSubfield · 46.4 works3.1×
  4. Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 32.2 works3.0×
  5. Endocrine and Autonomic SystemsSubfield · 76.0 works2.7×
  6. Internal MedicineSubfield · 54.1 works2.7×
  7. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 186.6 works2.6×
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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.

Which keywords describe research in Ann Arbor?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Public Health, Depression and Treatment.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Epidemiology2,068▲ 1.57×139 topics
  2. Inflammation988▲ 1.43×81 topics
  3. Machine Learning865▼ 0.80×88 topics
  4. Mental Health792▲ 1.62×46 topics
  5. Deep Learning782▼ 0.69×84 topics
  6. Quality of Life775▲ 1.62×57 topics
  7. Public Health697▲ 1.44×70 topics
  8. Risk Factors683▲ 1.87×37 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress618◆ 1.14×61 topics
  10. Treatment615▲ 1.52×52 topics
  11. Cancer589▲ 1.32×56 topics
  12. Depression552▲ 1.89×26 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease537▲ 1.45×39 topics
  14. Biomarkers468▲ 2.1×17 topics
  15. Diagnosis450▲ 1.45×41 topics
  16. Immunotherapy432▲ 1.83×19 topics
  17. Management416▲ 1.60×38 topics
  18. Metabolic Syndrome416▲ 1.54×24 topics
  19. Clinical Trials395▲ 1.77×19 topics
  20. Chemotherapy379▲ 1.63×25 topics
  21. Genetics363▲ 1.56×27 topics
  22. Primary Care354▲ 2.8×15 topics
  23. Mortality341▲ 1.78×13 topics
  24. Social Support336▲ 1.82×19 topics
  25. Health Disparities335▲ 3.8×9 topics
  26. Aging331▲ 1.85×17 topics
  27. Global Burden327▲ 1.83×12 topics
  28. Anxiety319▲ 2.0×12 topics
  29. Guidelines299▲ 1.93×13 topics
  30. Mortality Risk298▲ 3.8×6 topics
  31. Genetic Mutations272▲ 1.89×23 topics
  32. Radiotherapy261▲ 2.0×13 topics
  33. Adolescents256▲ 2.1×9 topics
  34. Health Outcomes242▲ 2.6×8 topics
  35. Medical Education232▲ 2.7×14 topics
  36. Health Equity226▲ 2.5×6 topics
  37. Quality Improvement211▲ 3.3×8 topics
  38. Discrimination202▲ 3.1×8 topics
  39. Academic Medicine191▲ 7.3×3 topics
  40. Substance Use Disorders146▲ 6.0×2 topics

What research is done in Ann Arbor?

  1. 1 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 124 works
  2. 2 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 109 works
  3. 3 Health disparities and outcomes Health 105 works
  4. 4 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 102 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 90 works
  6. 6 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 85 works
  7. 7 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 81 works
  8. 8 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 77 works
  9. 9 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 74 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 70 works

Research output over time

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