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Research in Cedar Rapids

Science Explorer records 13 research institutions in Cedar Rapids, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are St. Luke's Hospital and Mercy Medical Center.

Research institutions
13
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2k
▲ 11% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
9.6%
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 Cedar Rapids?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Coe CollegeUniversity 566 #20,205 all time
2Mercy Medical CenterHospital / health system 400 #26,230
3St. Luke's HospitalHospital / health system 320 #23,931
4Cedar Rapids Public LibraryArchive 224 #27,697 all time
5Mount Mercy UniversityUniversity 192 #25,903 all time
6Diamond V (United States)Company 99 not ranked
7Kirkwood Community CollegeUniversity 87 not ranked
8Physicians' Clinic of IowaHospital / health system 51 not ranked
9Aegon (United States)Company 6 not ranked
10Clipper Windpower (United States)Company 4 not ranked
11National Czech and Slovak Museum & LibraryArchive 2 not ranked
12Trapeze (United States)Company 1 not ranked
13Matthew 25Nonprofit 1 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.

Coe College: 29.0%Mercy Medical Center: 20.5%St. Luke's Hospital: 16.4%Cedar Rapids Public Library: 11.5%9 others listed: 22.7%29%largest
Coe College566 · 29.0%Mercy Medical Center400 · 20.5%St. Luke's Hospital320 · 16.4%Cedar Rapids Public Library224 · 11.5%9 others listed443 · 22.7%

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

What is Cedar Rapids strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Cedar Rapids is most concentrated in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (6.9× the world share in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine).

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 20.0 works6.9×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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 Cedar Rapids?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Heart Failure, Diagnosis, Treatment, Risk Factors, Guidelines, Myocardial Infarction and Endovascular Repair.

▲ 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. Epidemiology24▲ 2.2×76 topics
  2. Treatment10▲ 3.1×26 topics
  3. Diagnosis10▲ 3.9×25 topics
  4. Risk Factors10▲ 3.3×21 topics
  5. Heart Failure8▲ 7.2×10 topics
  6. Guidelines8▲ 5.9×11 topics
  7. Myocardial Infarction6▲ 10×5 topics
  8. Endovascular Repair6▲ 27×3 topics
  9. Echocardiography6▲ 7.9×7 topics
  10. Population Dynamics6▲ 7.9×6 topics
  11. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention5▲ 15×4 topics
  12. Thrombosis5▲ 6.6×5 topics
  13. Catheter Ablation5▲ 14×2 topics
  14. Prophylaxis4▲ 13×4 topics
  15. Bacteremia4▲ 22×3 topics
  16. Milk Composition4▲ 38×2 topics
  17. Dilated Cardiomyopathy4▲ 22×2 topics
  18. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation4▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Cardiogenic Shock4▲ 31×1 topic
  20. Conservation Biology4▲ 14×2 topics
  21. Left Ventricular Assist Device4▲ 31×1 topic
  22. Methane Production4▲ 50×1 topic
  23. Ruminant Nutrition4▲ 50×1 topic
  24. Optical Properties4▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Antimicrobial Resistance4▲ 6.8×7 topics
  26. Arrhythmias4▲ 14×2 topics
  27. Surgical Repair4▲ 32×1 topic
  28. Ventricular Reconstruction4▲ 32×1 topic
  29. Anticoagulant Therapy4▲ 10×3 topics
  30. Thrombus Formation3▲ 16×3 topics
  31. Glass Science3▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Structural Analysis3▲ 12×1 topic
  33. Aortic Aneurysm3▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Stroke Prevention3▲ 9.4×2 topics
  35. Atrial Fibrillation3▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Genetic Susceptibility3▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement3▲ 15×1 topic
  38. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement3▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Aortic Dissection3▲ 26×1 topic
  40. Bicuspid Aortic Valve3▲ 26×1 topic

What research is done in Cedar Rapids?

  1. 1 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 4 works
  2. 2 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 4 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 4 works
  4. 4 Glass properties and applications Ceramics and Composites 3 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  9. 9 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.