City · United States
Research in Detroit
Science Explorer records 55 research institutions in Detroit, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System and Henry Ford Hospital.
- Research institutions
- 55 12 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 119k ▲ 4% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 13.8% 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 Detroit?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wayne State UniversityUniversity | 64,652 | #731 | |
| 2 | Henry Ford HospitalHospital / health system | 12,887 | #4,174 | |
| 3 | General Motors (United States)Company | 10,544 | #8,092 | |
| 4 | Henry Ford Health SystemNonprofit | 7,191 | #2,865 | |
| 5 | University of Detroit MercyUniversity | 3,842 | #12,789 | |
| 6 | The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteResearch facility | 3,282 | #5,619 | |
| 7 | Children's Hospital of MichiganHospital / health system | 3,017 | #17,206 | |
| 8 | Detroit Medical CenterHospital / health system | 2,211 | #11,131 | |
| 9 | Detroit R&D (United States)Company | 2,048 | #6,918 all time | |
| 10 | St. John Hospital & Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,330 | #21,961 | |
| 11 | Harper University HospitalHospital / health system | 1,137 | #7,257 all time | |
| 12 | Detroit Receiving HospitalHospital / health system | 804 | #10,492 all time | |
| 13 | John D. Dingell VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 743 | #14,820 | |
| 14 | Kresge Eye InstituteResearch facility | 732 | #13,174 all time | |
| 15 | Hutzel Women's HospitalHospital / health system | 698 | #14,374 all time | |
| 16 | St. John Medical CenterHospital / health system | 688 | #19,829 all time | |
| 17 | Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health SciencesUniversity | 522 | #12,448 | |
| 18 | Sinai Grace HospitalHospital / health system | 507 | #27,128 | |
| 19 | Rehabilitation Institute of MichiganHospital / health system | 414 | #31,113 all time | |
| 20 | Michigan Science CenterArchive | 362 | #30,656 all time | |
| 21 | Sacred Heart Major SeminaryUniversity | 174 | #38,935 all time | |
| 22 | Detroit Historical SocietyInstitution | 155 | #38,138 all time | |
| 23 | DMC University LaboratoriesResearch facility | 123 | #26,330 all time | |
| 24 | Marygrove CollegeUniversity | 113 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Wayne County Community College DistrictUniversity | 103 | not ranked | |
| 26 | American Axle & Manufacturing (United States)Company | 89 | not ranked | |
| 27 | College for Creative StudiesUniversity | 79 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Detroit Institute of ArtsArchive | 78 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Samaritan CenterHospital / health system | 77 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationNonprofit | 75 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institute for Biomedical ResearchNonprofit | 66 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Dickinson Wright (United States)Company | 54 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Detroit Public LibraryArchive | 31 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Dykema (United States)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 35 | 21st Century Therapeutics (United States)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 36 | New Paradigm for EducationNonprofit | 20 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Graham International Implant InstituteResearch facility | 17 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Compuware (United States)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Miller Canfield (United States)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Microcide (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Department of Health and Wellness PromotionGovernment institution | 8 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Community Development Advocates of DetroitNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Allied Media ProjectsInstitution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Detroit Area Agency on AgingNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Greening of DetroitNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Detroit Economic Growth CorporationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Detroit Recovery ProjectNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 48 | ConVida - Popular Arts of the AmericasNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Warriors on Wheels of Metropolitan DetroitNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Community Health Awareness GroupNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Immunolight (United States)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 52 | United Way for Southeastern MichiganInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Detroit Area Pre College Engineering ProgramNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Detroit Rescue Mission MinistriesInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 55 | HoMedics (United States)Company | 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.
Wayne State University65k · 54.3%Henry Ford Hospital13k · 10.8%General Motors (United States)11k · 8.9%Henry Ford Health System7,191 · 6.0%51 others listed24k · 19.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Detroit strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Detroit is most concentrated in Transplantation, Internal Medicine and Behavioral Neuroscience (5.4× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 28.4 works5.4×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 37.8 works5.2×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 23.7 works5.1×
- DermatologySubfield · 135.5 works4.4×
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 488.3 works3.9×
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 21.0 works3.6×
← 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 Detroit?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Oxidative Stress, Chemotherapy and Guidelines.
- Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement
- Prophylaxis
- Health Disparities
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Surgery
- Echocardiography
- Prognostic Factors
- Genetic Mutations
- Complications
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Management
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Diagnosis
- Oxidative Stress
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Chemotherapy
- Public Health
- Guidelines
- Heart Failure
- Mortality
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Neurological Disorders
- Global Burden
- Surgical Management
- Radiotherapy
- Myocardial Infarction
- Thrombosis
- Neurobiology
- Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,108▲ 2.4×129 topics
- Inflammation444▲ 1.80×81 topics
- Treatment380▲ 2.7×49 topics
- Oxidative Stress348▲ 1.80×60 topics
- Risk Factors346▲ 2.7×36 topics
- Diagnosis334▲ 3.0×40 topics
- Quality of Life297▲ 1.74×55 topics
- Mental Health295▲ 1.70×43 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease259▲ 1.97×38 topics
- Cancer255▲ 1.61×53 topics
- Chemotherapy254▲ 3.1×25 topics
- Immunotherapy237▲ 2.8×18 topics
- Public Health229▲ 1.34×58 topics
- Management215▲ 2.3×36 topics
- Guidelines211▲ 3.8×13 topics
- Depression209▲ 2.0×25 topics
- Heart Failure200▲ 3.9×13 topics
- Clinical Trials196▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Mortality193▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Biomarkers190▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome186▲ 1.94×23 topics
- Complications186▲ 3.1×17 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines177▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Genetic Mutations164▲ 3.2×23 topics
- Neurological Disorders160▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Prognostic Factors159▲ 3.1×14 topics
- Global Burden134▲ 2.1×12 topics
- Echocardiography134▲ 4.2×8 topics
- Surgical Management134▲ 2.8×20 topics
- Surgery132▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Radiotherapy128▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment121▲ 2.3×8 topics
- Myocardial Infarction114▲ 4.1×7 topics
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention112▲ 7.1×4 topics
- Thrombosis109▲ 3.3×7 topics
- Health Disparities101▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Neurobiology100▲ 3.3×10 topics
- Prophylaxis83▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement81▲ 9.5×1 topic
- Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement81▲ 9.5×1 topic
What research is done in Detroit?
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineBiomedical EngineeringExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyEmergency Medicine3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 81 works
- 2 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 49 works
- 3 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 44 works
- 4 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 41 works
- 5 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 40 works
- 6 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 38 works
- 7 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 36 works
- 8 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 35 works
- 9 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 34 works
- 10 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 34 works
Research output over time
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