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Research in Columbus
Science Explorer records 112 research institutions in Columbus, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are The Ohio State University, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital.
- Research institutions
- 112 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 257k ▼ 6% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.7% 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 Columbus?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ohio State UniversityUniversity | 205,202 | #112 | |
| 2 | BattelleNonprofit | 10,993 | #6,552 | |
| 3 | Nationwide Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 10,885 | #2,303 | |
| 4 | The Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterHospital / health system | 10,800 | #1,418 | |
| 5 | Franklin UniversityUniversity | 3,035 | #11,403 | |
| 6 | The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research InstituteHospital / health system | 2,100 | #3,193 | |
| 7 | Ohio State University HospitalHospital / health system | 1,547 | #9,544 all time | |
| 8 | Grant Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,201 | #16,966 | |
| 9 | State Library of OhioArchive | 1,024 | #16,526 | |
| 10 | Riverside Methodist HospitalHospital / health system | 829 | #19,304 | |
| 11 | OhioHealthHospital / health system | 828 | #12,280 | |
| 12 | Ohio Department of HealthGovernment institution | 765 | #17,120 | |
| 13 | Columbus Oncology and Hematology AssociatesInstitution | 659 | #26,647 | |
| 14 | Mount Carmel HealthHospital / health system | 641 | #26,262 | |
| 15 | Ohio Environmental Protection AgencyGovernment institution | 629 | #14,170 | |
| 16 | Orthopedic OneInstitution | 545 | #19,804 all time | |
| 17 | Ohio Department of EducationGovernment institution | 475 | #22,597 | |
| 18 | Ohio Dominican UniversityUniversity | 365 | #20,646 all time | |
| 19 | Edison Welding InstituteNonprofit | 360 | #21,624 all time | |
| 20 | Doctors HospitalHospital / health system | 352 | #27,000 | |
| 21 | PAST FoundationNonprofit | 317 | #33,788 all time | |
| 22 | American Academy of Fixed ProsthodonticsUniversity | 312 | #29,114 all time | |
| 23 | Columbus State Community CollegeUniversity | 294 | #14,319 all time | |
| 24 | Ohio Supercomputer CenterResearch facility | 285 | #17,714 all time | |
| 25 | Ohio Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 269 | #34,652 all time | |
| 26 | MetaMateria (United States)Company | 191 | #13,167 all time | |
| 27 | Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction ServicesGovernment institution | 179 | #32,316 all time | |
| 28 | Supreme Court of OhioGovernment institution | 174 | #39,966 all time | |
| 29 | Mount Carmel College of NursingUniversity | 167 | #25,377 | |
| 30 | Tech4Imaging (United States)Company | 158 | #39,660 all time | |
| 31 | Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (United States)Company | 149 | #37,341 all time | |
| 32 | Southeast HealthcareCompany | 139 | #40,407 all time | |
| 33 | Trinity Lutheran SeminaryInstitution | 120 | #40,480 all time | |
| 34 | Columbus City SchoolsUniversity | 100 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Hyper Tech Research (United States)Company | 97 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Ohio History ConnectionNonprofit | 90 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Mount Carmel EastHospital / health system | 71 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Center For Balanced LivingNonprofit | 69 | not ranked | |
| 39 | National Registry of Emergency Medical TechniciansHospital / health system | 58 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Pontifical College JosephinumUniversity | 55 | not ranked | |
| 41 | SCI Engineered Materials (United States)Company | 53 | not ranked | |
| 42 | General Innovations and Goods (United States)Company | 52 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Hexion (United States)Company | 48 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Arcos (United States)Company | 46 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Osteopathic Heritage FoundationNonprofit | 45 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Columbus Community Clinical Oncology ProgramInstitution | 45 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Ohio Sea Grant College ProgramInstitution | 38 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Scientific Forming Technologies Corporation (United States)Company | 37 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Ohio Department of Higher EducationGovernment institution | 36 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Columbus Eye Surgery CenterHospital / health system | 34 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Mettler-Toledo (United States)Company | 34 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Mark H. Zangmeister Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 33 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Columbus College of Art and DesignUniversity | 33 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Srico (United States)Company | 27 | not ranked | |
| 55 | LeadScope (United States)Company | 27 | not ranked | |
| 56 | WeldQC (United States)Company | 25 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Rosedale Bible CollegeUniversity | 23 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Ohio Domestic Violence NetworkInstitution | 23 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Kappa Kappa GammaNonprofit | 17 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Bradford School - ColumbusUniversity | 16 | 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.
The Ohio State University205k · 79.8%Battelle11k · 4.3%Nationwide Children's Hospital11k · 4.2%The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center11k · 4.2%56 others listed19k · 7.5%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Columbus strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Columbus is most concentrated in Transplantation, Genetics and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (3.1× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 38.4 works3.1×
- GeneticsSubfield · 224.1 works3.0×
- Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 87.9 works2.9×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 182.7 works2.7×
- VeterinaryField · 101.5 works2.7×
← 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 Columbus?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Risk Factors, Quality of Life and Mental Health.
- Academic Medicine
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Mortality Risk
- Primary Care
- Heart Failure
- Surgical Management
- Mortality
- Genetic Mutations
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Depression
- Prognostic Factors
- Cancer
- Immunotherapy
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Chemotherapy
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Obesity
- Biomarkers
- Adolescents
- Complications
- Radiotherapy
- Guidelines
- Rehabilitation
- Medical Education
- Health Disparities
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,913▲ 1.75×136 topics
- Inflammation834▲ 1.45×82 topics
- Quality of Life603▲ 1.51×57 topics
- Mental Health602▲ 1.49×45 topics
- Climate Change580▼ 0.78×108 topics
- Risk Factors579▲ 1.90×36 topics
- Machine Learning556▼ 0.61×89 topics
- Treatment545▲ 1.63×50 topics
- Public Health516▲ 1.28×67 topics
- Immunotherapy513▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Chemotherapy507▲ 2.6×25 topics
- Cancer455▲ 1.23×57 topics
- Oxidative Stress450◆ 0.99×58 topics
- Prognostic Factors427▲ 3.5×14 topics
- Diagnosis414▲ 1.61×41 topics
- Depression411▲ 1.69×24 topics
- Management348▲ 1.60×37 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease347◆ 1.13×39 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines323▲ 2.1×14 topics
- Genetics320▲ 1.66×27 topics
- Obesity309▲ 1.48×24 topics
- Clinical Trials307▲ 1.66×19 topics
- Biomarkers287▲ 1.52×18 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment286▲ 2.3×8 topics
- Adolescents284▲ 2.8×10 topics
- Genetic Mutations278▲ 2.3×23 topics
- Complications277▲ 2.0×17 topics
- Mortality260▲ 1.63×13 topics
- Radiotherapy258▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Surgical Management246▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Guidelines235▲ 1.83×13 topics
- Heart Failure232▲ 1.94×14 topics
- Rehabilitation231▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Primary Care224▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Medical Education210▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Mortality Risk206▲ 3.1×6 topics
- Health Disparities201▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life191▲ 2.9×5 topics
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes172▲ 3.3×6 topics
- Academic Medicine131▲ 6.1×3 topics
What research is done in Columbus?
OncologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthGender StudiesCancer Research4 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 93 works
- 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 86 works
- 3 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 80 works
- 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 78 works
- 5 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 76 works
- 6 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 73 works
- 7 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 70 works
- 8 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 68 works
- 9 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 67 works
- 10 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 62 works
Research output over time
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