Research in Barcelona
Science Explorer records 360 research institutions in Barcelona, Spain. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Universitat de Barcelona, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Research institutions
- 360 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 311k ▲ 11% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 19.8% 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 Barcelona?
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Barcelona strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Barcelona is most concentrated in General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies and Transplantation (3.9× the world share in General Social Sciences).
- General Social SciencesSubfield · 240.6 works3.9×
- Life-span and Life-course StudiesSubfield · 36.1 works3.8×
- TransplantationSubfield · 77.5 works3.1×
- General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 35.0 works3.0×
- Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 46.9 works2.5×
- HistorySubfield · 457.5 works2.5×
- ArcheologySubfield · 415.8 works2.4×
- Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 26.3 works2.3×
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 Barcelona?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Climate Change, Quality of Life, Treatment, Globalization, Diagnosis and Welfare State.
- Spain
- Welfare State
- Communication
- Guidelines
- Gender
- Mortality
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Cancer
- Immunotherapy
- Mental Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Public Health
- Education
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Globalization
- Deep Learning
- Sustainability
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- COVID-19
- Risk Factors
- Chemotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Management
- History
- Obesity
- Neurological Disorders
- Prognostic Factors
- Cultural Heritage
- Heart Failure
- Latin America
- Autoantibodies
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
- Epidemiology3,249▲ 1.45×140 topics
- Climate Change1,655◆ 1.08×118 topics
- Inflammation1,550▲ 1.31×83 topics
- Machine Learning1,257▼ 0.68×95 topics
- Globalization1,244◆ 1.12×156 topics
- Quality of Life1,242▲ 1.52×60 topics
- Deep Learning1,164▼ 0.60×84 topics
- Treatment1,133▲ 1.65×52 topics
- Sustainability1,072▼ 0.78×125 topics
- Education1,035◆ 1.06×147 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,002◆ 1.08×63 topics
- Public Health996▲ 1.21×76 topics
- Diagnosis907▲ 1.72×41 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease897▲ 1.42×39 topics
- COVID-19866◆ 1.12×34 topics
- Mental Health843◆ 1.01×47 topics
- Risk Factors827▲ 1.33×37 topics
- Immunotherapy783▲ 1.94×19 topics
- Chemotherapy783▲ 1.97×25 topics
- Cancer705◆ 0.93×59 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome663▲ 1.44×24 topics
- Genetics646▲ 1.63×27 topics
- Management640▲ 1.44×39 topics
- Clinical Trials623▲ 1.64×19 topics
- History616▲ 1.55×64 topics
- Biomarkers603▲ 1.56×18 topics
- Obesity588▲ 1.37×29 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines572▲ 1.85×14 topics
- Neurological Disorders534▲ 1.66×20 topics
- Mortality533▲ 1.63×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors504▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Gender498▲ 1.62×56 topics
- Cultural Heritage496▲ 1.60×37 topics
- Guidelines487▲ 1.84×13 topics
- Heart Failure456▲ 1.86×14 topics
- Communication422▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Latin America421▲ 3.9×23 topics
- Welfare State400▲ 8.2×4 topics
- Autoantibodies366▲ 2.8×8 topics
- Spain237▲ 11×5 topics
What research is done in Barcelona?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 184 works
- 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 138 works
- 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 137 works
- 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 131 works
- 5 Human Rights and Immigration Sociology and Political Science 129 works
- 6 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 124 works
- 7 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 123 works
- 8 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 114 works
- 9 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 108 works
- 10 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 105 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.