Research in Chicago
Science Explorer records 464 research institutions in Chicago, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and Rush University Medical Center.
- Research institutions
- 464 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 448k ▲ 3% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.2% 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 Chicago?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of ChicagoUniversity | 134,750 | #79 | |
| 2 | University of Illinois ChicagoUniversity | 88,742 | #284 | |
| 3 | Loyola University ChicagoUniversity | 26,838 | #1,884 | |
| 4 | Rush University Medical CenterHospital / health system | 22,778 | #1,437 | |
| 5 | Illinois Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 19,870 | #2,278 | |
| 6 | DePaul UniversityUniversity | 14,161 | #4,019 | |
| 7 | Experimental StationInstitution | 9,020 | #18,935 | |
| 8 | Boeing (United States)Company | 8,433 | #16,020 | |
| 9 | University of Chicago Medical CenterHospital / health system | 6,285 | #5,416 | |
| 10 | Mount Sinai HospitalHospital / health system | 5,528 | #7,452 | |
| 11 | Rush UniversityUniversity | 5,021 | #4,785 | |
| 12 | Northwestern Memorial HospitalHospital / health system | 4,728 | #6,735 | |
| 13 | John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook CountyHospital / health system | 4,651 | #14,314 | |
| 14 | Abbott FundNonprofit | 3,883 | #22,953 | |
| 15 | Abbott (United States)Company | 3,013 | #14,801 | |
| 16 | Field Museum of Natural HistoryArchive | 2,970 | #7,092 | |
| 17 | Chicago Kent College of LawUniversity | 2,872 | #23,596 | |
| 18 | American College of SurgeonsInstitution | 2,648 | #19,501 | |
| 19 | Shirley Ryan AbilityLabHospital / health system | 2,604 | #11,266 | |
| 20 | IIT Research InstituteNonprofit | 2,515 | #23,306 | |
| 21 | Northwestern MedicineHospital / health system | 2,423 | #3,759 | |
| 22 | Mercy Hospital and Medical CenterHospital / health system | 2,362 | #6,028 all time | |
| 23 | Roosevelt UniversityUniversity | 2,113 | #12,308 | |
| 24 | Northeastern Illinois UniversityUniversity | 2,107 | #14,828 | |
| 25 | American Medical AssociationInstitution | 1,662 | #10,484 | |
| 26 | American Dental AssociationNonprofit | 1,595 | #20,336 | |
| 27 | American Association of EndodontistsNonprofit | 1,517 | #14,276 | |
| 28 | Chicago State UniversityUniversity | 1,470 | #13,805 | |
| 29 | Chicago Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 1,463 | #6,363 | |
| 30 | School of the Art Institute of ChicagoUniversity | 1,427 | #9,426 | |
| 31 | Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsNonprofit | 1,381 | #15,713 | |
| 32 | Jesse Brown VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,336 | #5,885 | |
| 33 | Comer Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,250 | #18,589 | |
| 34 | Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,181 | #9,891 | |
| 35 | Saint Xavier UniversityUniversity | 1,159 | #8,656 | |
| 36 | American Bar FoundationNonprofit | 1,089 | #27,014 | |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoInstitution | 1,050 | #19,508 | |
| 38 | John Marshall Law SchoolUniversity | 1,048 | #27,936 all time | |
| 39 | Chicago Neuropsychology GroupInstitution | 1,026 | #28,701 all time | |
| 40 | The Chicago SchoolUniversity | 1,018 | #15,320 | |
| 41 | Medical Library AssociationInstitution | 990 | #22,913 | |
| 42 | Institute for the International Education of StudentsNonprofit | 954 | #20,484 all time | |
| 43 | American Academy of PediatricsNonprofit | 948 | #18,614 | |
| 44 | American Library AssociationNonprofit | 845 | #12,425 all time | |
| 45 | National Opinion Research CenterFunder | 843 | #15,237 | |
| 46 | Chicago Institute for PsychoanalysisNonprofit | 812 | #7,600 | |
| 47 | Thoracic Surgery FoundationNonprofit | 800 | #9,967 all time | |
| 48 | Foundation for Human PotentialInstitution | 798 | #24,344 | |
| 49 | National Louis UniversityUniversity | 794 | #25,037 | |
| 50 | Illinois College of OptometryUniversity | 770 | #29,071 all time | |
| 51 | Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical EducationNonprofit | 751 | #15,707 | |
| 52 | American Bar AssociationNonprofit | 731 | #18,879 | |
| 53 | Cook County Health and Hospitals SystemHospital / health system | 719 | #15,451 | |
| 54 | Spencer FoundationNonprofit | 708 | #15,391 | |
| 55 | Alzheimer's AssociationNonprofit | 677 | #11,207 | |
| 56 | Toyota Technological Institute at ChicagoUniversity | 675 | #14,683 | |
| 57 | CME Group (United States)Company | 671 | #16,187 all time | |
| 58 | St. Augustine CollegeUniversity | 670 | #20,264 | |
| 59 | Kraft Heinz (United States)Company | 669 | #18,008 all time | |
| 60 | Saint Joseph HospitalHospital / health system | 636 | #18,281 |
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 Chicago strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Chicago is most concentrated in Library and Information Sciences, Transplantation and General Decision Sciences (5.0× the world share in Library and Information Sciences).
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 49.3 works5.0×
- TransplantationSubfield · 101.7 works4.4×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 36.8 works3.8×
- Issues, ethics and legal aspectsSubfield · 36.8 works3.5×
- MusicSubfield · 141.8 works3.4×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 99.9 works3.2×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 61.7 works2.5×
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 Chicago?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Public Health, Treatment and Globalization.
- Medical Education
- Neuroimaging
- Rehabilitation
- Health Disparities
- Primary Care
- Social Support
- Guidelines
- Mortality
- Religion
- Genetics
- Chemotherapy
- Complications
- Clinical Trials
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Globalization
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Depression
- Management
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Neurological Disorders
- Aging
- Gender
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Nationalism
- Heart Failure
- Genetic Mutations
- Patient Satisfaction
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
- Epidemiology3,314▲ 1.62×138 topics
- Inflammation1,510▲ 1.41×83 topics
- Mental Health1,279▲ 1.69×47 topics
- Machine Learning1,210▼ 0.72×96 topics
- Quality of Life1,170▲ 1.57×61 topics
- Public Health1,161▲ 1.55×74 topics
- Globalization1,142◆ 1.13×167 topics
- Risk Factors1,099▲ 1.94×37 topics
- Deep Learning1,080▼ 0.61×85 topics
- Treatment1,062▲ 1.70×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress927◆ 1.10×63 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease858▲ 1.50×39 topics
- Diagnosis817▲ 1.70×41 topics
- Cancer763◆ 1.10×58 topics
- Depression670▲ 1.48×25 topics
- Clinical Trials632▲ 1.83×19 topics
- Management631▲ 1.56×40 topics
- Complications625▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Immunotherapy605▲ 1.65×19 topics
- Chemotherapy600▲ 1.66×25 topics
- Biomarkers573▲ 1.63×18 topics
- Genetics569▲ 1.58×27 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome555▲ 1.32×24 topics
- Religion544▲ 2.2×43 topics
- Neurological Disorders541▲ 1.85×20 topics
- Mortality538▲ 1.81×13 topics
- Aging520▲ 1.88×19 topics
- Guidelines516▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Gender509▲ 1.82×57 topics
- Social Support506▲ 1.76×19 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines501▲ 1.78×14 topics
- Primary Care490▲ 2.5×15 topics
- Nationalism485▲ 2.0×33 topics
- Health Disparities465▲ 3.4×9 topics
- Heart Failure453▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Rehabilitation447▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations434▲ 1.95×23 topics
- Neuroimaging398▲ 2.9×11 topics
- Patient Satisfaction387▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Medical Education380▲ 2.9×14 topics
What research is done in Chicago?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchPsychiatry and Mental health 177 works
- 2 Innovations in Medical EducationPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 144 works
- 3 Total Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesSurgery 141 works
- 4 Diversity and Career in MedicineGender Studies 140 works
- 5 Shoulder Injury and TreatmentSurgery 133 works
- 6 Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 118 works
- 7 Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics and Econometrics 117 works
- 8 Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyPathology and Forensic Medicine 115 works
- 9 Health disparities and outcomesHealth 112 works
- 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Informatics 110 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.