City · Greece
Research in Athens
Science Explorer records 257 research institutions in Athens, Greece. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National Technical University of Athens and University of West Attica.
- Research institutions
- 257 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 192k ▲ 21% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 20.4% 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 Athens?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National and Kapodistrian University of AthensUniversity | 50,485 | #278 | |
| 2 | National Technical University of AthensUniversity | 34,224 | #939 | |
| 3 | National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos"Research facility | 8,657 | #2,256 | |
| 4 | Agricultural University of AthensUniversity | 7,021 | #2,119 | |
| 5 | Athens University of Economics and BusinessUniversity | 6,658 | #5,283 | |
| 6 | University of West AtticaUniversity | 4,940 | #1,227 | |
| 7 | Hippocration General HospitalHospital / health system | 3,972 | #6,561 | |
| 8 | Evangelismos HospitalHospital / health system | 3,027 | #6,895 | |
| 9 | Red Cross HospitalHospital / health system | 3,014 | #14,361 | |
| 10 | Harokopio University of AthensUniversity | 2,859 | #3,502 | |
| 11 | University General Hospital AttikonHospital / health system | 2,793 | #6,220 | |
| 12 | National Hellenic Research FoundationFunder | 2,634 | #5,556 | |
| 13 | Laiko General Hospital of AthensHospital / health system | 2,517 | #5,510 | |
| 14 | Panteion UniversityUniversity | 2,426 | #8,586 | |
| 15 | Academy of AthensUniversity | 2,197 | #4,069 | |
| 16 | Technological Educational Institute of AthensUniversity | 2,153 | #7,725 all time | |
| 17 | National Observatory of AthensResearch facility | 2,137 | #4,666 | |
| 18 | Alexandra HospitalHospital / health system | 1,953 | #7,148 | |
| 19 | KAT General Hospital of AtticaHospital / health system | 1,666 | #13,541 | |
| 20 | Sotiria General HospitalHospital / health system | 1,639 | #5,949 | |
| 21 | Athens Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,634 | #14,548 | |
| 22 | Eginition HospitalHospital / health system | 1,462 | #7,095 | |
| 23 | Children's Hospital Agia SophiaHospital / health system | 1,380 | #11,710 | |
| 24 | Onassis Cardiac Surgery CenterHospital / health system | 1,303 | #18,231 | |
| 25 | General Hospital of Athens G. GenimatasHospital / health system | 1,252 | #16,436 | |
| 26 | Aretaeio HospitalHospital / health system | 1,251 | #17,631 | |
| 27 | Institute of Nuclear and Particle PhysicsResearch facility | 1,206 | #11,176 | |
| 28 | National Agricultural Research FoundationResearch facility | 1,123 | #18,047 all time | |
| 29 | Institute of Child HealthHospital / health system | 1,075 | #7,483 all time | |
| 30 | St Savas HospitalHospital / health system | 1,022 | #19,052 | |
| 31 | Metropolitan CollegeUniversity | 925 | #16,207 | |
| 32 | The American College of GreeceNonprofit | 901 | #9,079 | |
| 33 | Hellenic Air ForceGovernment institution | 864 | #13,884 | |
| 34 | Hygeia HospitalHospital / health system | 842 | #10,288 | |
| 35 | National School of Public HealthUniversity | 801 | #17,659 | |
| 36 | Sismanoglio General HospitalHospital / health system | 781 | #9,265 | |
| 37 | Panagiotis & Aglaia Kyriakou Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 773 | #8,252 | |
| 38 | Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of AthensNonprofit | 727 | #6,899 | |
| 39 | Benaki Phytopathological InstituteResearch facility | 716 | #17,651 | |
| 40 | 401 General Military Hospital of AthensHospital / health system | 715 | #21,269 | |
| 41 | Metropolitan HospitalHospital / health system | 701 | #11,925 | |
| 42 | Metaxa HospitalHospital / health system | 692 | #21,611 | |
| 43 | Pasteur Hellenic InstituteNonprofit | 676 | #13,902 | |
| 44 | Athens Information TechnologyNonprofit | 641 | #19,407 all time | |
| 45 | Andreas Sygros HospitalHospital / health system | 635 | #10,682 | |
| 46 | Hellenic Red CrossNonprofit | 616 | #24,755 | |
| 47 | Forthnet (Greece)Company | 613 | #23,648 all time | |
| 48 | French School at AthensResearch facility | 579 | #22,624 | |
| 49 | Agia Olga HospitalHospital / health system | 559 | #24,633 | |
| 50 | Henry Dunant HospitalHospital / health system | 554 | #21,208 | |
| 51 | National Centre for Social researchResearch facility | 502 | #23,202 | |
| 52 | Athens Naval & Veterans HospitalHospital / health system | 486 | #19,293 | |
| 53 | American School of Classical Studies at AthensUniversity | 452 | #21,516 all time | |
| 54 | Hellenic Ministry of Culture and SportsGovernment institution | 441 | #15,122 | |
| 55 | Frontier Science Foundation-HellasNonprofit | 430 | #14,879 | |
| 56 | Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research CenterResearch facility | 429 | #8,388 | |
| 57 | Stavros Niarchos FoundationNonprofit | 423 | #20,060 | |
| 58 | General Hospital Asklepieio VoulasHospital / health system | 389 | #22,025 | |
| 59 | Innovative Technologies Center (Greece)Company | 355 | #36,853 all time | |
| 60 | Polyclinic General HospitalHospital / health system | 350 | #20,219 |
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.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens50k · 28.3%National Technical University of Athens34k · 19.2%National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos"8,657 · 4.9%Agricultural University of Athens7,021 · 3.9%56 others listed78k · 43.7%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Athens strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Athens is most concentrated in Space and Planetary Science, Archeology and Classics (6.0× the world share in Space and Planetary Science).
- Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 41.7 works6.0×
- ArcheologySubfield · 348.9 works3.3×
- ClassicsSubfield · 64.2 works3.1×
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality ManagementSubfield · 21.9 works2.8×
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 984.5 works2.7×
- Reproductive MedicineSubfield · 189.5 works2.4×
- FinanceSubfield · 248.7 works2.4×
- General EnergySubfield · 22.2 works2.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
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 Athens?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Climate Change, Machine Learning, Treatment, Metabolic Syndrome and Sustainability.
- Mediterranean
- SARS-CoV-2
- Hypertension
- Guidelines
- Global Burden
- Immunotherapy
- Genetics
- Depression
- Economic Growth
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Obesity
- Diagnosis
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Remote Sensing
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Risk Factors
- Environmental Impact
- Renewable Energy
- Cancer
- Public Health
- Energy Efficiency
- Pandemic
- Clinical Trials
- Biomarkers
- Heart Failure
- Mortality
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Immune Response
- Prognostic Factors
- Cardiovascular Events
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,905▲ 1.38×138 topics
- Inflammation1,099▲ 1.51×83 topics
- Climate Change1,086▲ 1.16×117 topics
- Machine Learning1,061◆ 0.93×93 topics
- Deep Learning934▼ 0.78×81 topics
- Sustainability878◆ 1.03×120 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease839▲ 2.2×39 topics
- Treatment676▲ 1.60×51 topics
- Oxidative Stress661▲ 1.16×61 topics
- Quality of Life617▲ 1.23×60 topics
- Risk Factors615▲ 1.60×37 topics
- Remote Sensing582▲ 1.35×37 topics
- Environmental Impact580◆ 0.98×70 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome573▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Renewable Energy569◆ 1.13×56 topics
- Diagnosis553▲ 1.70×41 topics
- Cancer546▲ 1.16×59 topics
- Obesity497▲ 1.88×28 topics
- Public Health493◆ 0.97×67 topics
- Chemotherapy444▲ 1.82×25 topics
- Energy Efficiency429▲ 1.31×42 topics
- Management411▲ 1.50×39 topics
- Pandemic411◆ 1.10×14 topics
- Economic Growth410▲ 1.38×32 topics
- Clinical Trials395▲ 1.69×19 topics
- Depression389▲ 1.27×26 topics
- Biomarkers364▲ 1.52×18 topics
- Genetics363▲ 1.49×27 topics
- Heart Failure346▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Immunotherapy346▲ 1.39×19 topics
- Mortality331▲ 1.64×13 topics
- Global Burden326▲ 1.74×12 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines322▲ 1.69×14 topics
- Guidelines314▲ 1.93×13 topics
- Immune Response312▲ 1.58×22 topics
- Hypertension290▲ 2.9×16 topics
- Prognostic Factors287▲ 1.89×14 topics
- SARS-CoV-2266▲ 2.3×6 topics
- Cardiovascular Events199▲ 4.7×4 topics
- Mediterranean175▲ 5.4×6 topics
What research is done in Athens?
Infectious DiseasesCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineAnthropologyComputer Networks and Communications3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 117 works
- 2 Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 101 works
- 3 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 96 works
- 4 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 86 works
- 5 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 85 works
- 6 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 82 works
- 7 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 78 works
- 8 Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies Sociology and Political Science 77 works
- 9 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 77 works
- 10 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 75 works
Research output over time
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