Research in Leeds
Science Explorer records 69 research institutions in Leeds, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Leeds Beckett University.
- Research institutions
- 69 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 140k ▲ 4% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.5% 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 Leeds?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of LeedsUniversity | 92,371 | #183 | |
| 2 | Leeds Beckett UniversityUniversity | 9,145 | #3,235 | |
| 3 | Leeds General InfirmaryHospital / health system | 8,517 | #15,979 | |
| 4 | St James's University HospitalHospital / health system | 8,405 | #5,103 | |
| 5 | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHospital / health system | 4,781 | #3,349 | |
| 6 | Feminist Archive NorthArchive | 2,742 | #17,867 | |
| 7 | Hitachi (United Kingdom)Company | 1,241 | #5,473 all time | |
| 8 | National Centre for Atmospheric ScienceNonprofit | 1,169 | #2,158 | |
| 9 | Leeds Dental HospitalHospital / health system | 1,132 | #23,460 | |
| 10 | The MountHospital / health system | 1,004 | #25,317 | |
| 11 | Health Education EnglandGovernment institution | 965 | #17,431 | |
| 12 | Leeds Trinity UniversityUniversity | 930 | #14,093 | |
| 13 | St Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 929 | #12,146 all time | |
| 14 | NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research UnitGovernment institution | 920 | #7,158 | |
| 15 | Chapel Allerton HospitalHospital / health system | 622 | #17,584 | |
| 16 | Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 547 | #22,958 | |
| 17 | KillingbeckHospital / health system | 509 | #35,036 all time | |
| 18 | NIHR Research Delivery NetworkGovernment institution | 441 | #12,829 | |
| 19 | NHS DigitalGovernment institution | 436 | #18,374 | |
| 20 | Seacroft HospitalHospital / health system | 416 | #25,435 all time | |
| 21 | Leeds Community Healthcare NHS TrustHospital / health system | 406 | #20,520 all time | |
| 22 | Royal ArmouriesArchive | 297 | #19,528 all time | |
| 23 | Leeds Arts UniversityUniversity | 276 | #23,298 | |
| 24 | British Association for Slavonic and East European StudiesInstitution | 239 | #27,841 all time | |
| 25 | Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and TectonicsResearch facility | 234 | #10,245 all time | |
| 26 | Active Medicine (United Kingdom)Company | 188 | #36,294 all time | |
| 27 | Epilepsy ActionNonprofit | 145 | #31,219 all time | |
| 28 | Centre for Polar Observation and ModellingResearch facility | 129 | #5,569 all time | |
| 29 | Leeds College of BuildingUniversity | 104 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Leeds College of MusicUniversity | 93 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Leeds City CouncilGovernment institution | 93 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Getech (United Kingdom)Company | 82 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (United Kingdom)Company | 65 | not ranked | |
| 34 | NHS EmployersInstitution | 53 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Worldwide Universities NetworkInstitution | 51 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Northern Gas Networks (United Kingdom)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 37 | NIHR AcademyGovernment institution | 34 | not ranked | |
| 38 | NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operativeResearch facility | 32 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Rescon Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Engie (United Kingdom)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 41 | 4D Pharma (United Kingdom)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 42 | British Association for Cancer ResearchNonprofit | 27 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Nonwovens Innovation & Research InstituteCompany | 25 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Communication MattersNonprofit | 25 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Heart Research UKNonprofit | 23 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Avacta (United Kingdom)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Fibre Extrusion Technology (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Opera North (United Kingdom)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Clariant (United Kingdom)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Xiros (United Kingdom)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Brandon Medical (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Sweco (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 53 | International Moisture Analysers (United Kingdom)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Leeds CaresInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Surgical Innovations (United Kingdom)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Yorkshire ForwardInstitution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Thackray Medical MuseumArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Arterius (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Keracol (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Hanzo Archives (United Kingdom)Company | 3 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Leeds strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Leeds is most concentrated in Music, Public Administration and Classics (5.5× the world share in Music).
- MusicSubfield · 75.7 works5.5×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 36.0 works4.0×
- ClassicsSubfield · 34.3 works3.4×
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 247.5 works3.3×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 83.8 works3.2×
- RheumatologySubfield · 213.8 works2.8×
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 Leeds?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Climate Change, Gender, Inflammation, Public Health, Quality of Life and Identity.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Feminism
- Prevention
- Social Capital
- Literature
- Ethical Considerations
- Complications
- Physical Activity
- Colonialism
- History
- Depression
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Social Media
- Gender
- Identity
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Human Rights
- Mortality
- Neoliberalism
- Primary Care
- Obesity
- Global Warming
- Religion
- Autoantibodies
- Ethics
- Guidelines
- Culture
- Adolescents
- 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
- Epidemiology799▲ 1.20×134 topics
- Climate Change579▲ 1.28×110 topics
- Globalization534▲ 1.62×129 topics
- Inflammation424▲ 1.21×82 topics
- Sustainability417◆ 1.02×109 topics
- Machine Learning396▼ 0.72×89 topics
- Deep Learning377▼ 0.66×83 topics
- Public Health363▲ 1.49×66 topics
- Quality of Life361▲ 1.49×58 topics
- Mental Health313▲ 1.27×47 topics
- Risk Factors300▲ 1.63×37 topics
- Identity276▲ 2.3×72 topics
- Treatment270▲ 1.33×50 topics
- Gender261▲ 2.9×53 topics
- Human Rights214▲ 1.24×64 topics
- Social Media214◆ 0.89×35 topics
- Mortality211▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease199◆ 1.07×38 topics
- Neoliberalism184▲ 3.1×27 topics
- Depression183▲ 1.24×25 topics
- Primary Care182▲ 2.9×15 topics
- History179▲ 1.52×55 topics
- Obesity175▲ 1.38×26 topics
- Colonialism172▲ 2.2×44 topics
- Global Warming168▲ 2.5×16 topics
- Physical Activity165▲ 2.0×12 topics
- Religion163▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Complications161▲ 1.92×17 topics
- Autoantibodies161▲ 4.1×8 topics
- Ethical Considerations160▲ 2.8×21 topics
- Ethics152▲ 1.88×45 topics
- Literature150▲ 1.65×53 topics
- Guidelines148▲ 1.89×13 topics
- Social Capital147▲ 1.65×17 topics
- Culture146▲ 1.65×33 topics
- Prevention130▲ 1.85×16 topics
- Adolescents127▲ 2.0×10 topics
- Feminism126▲ 2.7×24 topics
- Patient Satisfaction122▲ 2.3×10 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions114▲ 2.5×9 topics
What research is done in Leeds?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 62 works
- 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 57 works
- 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 49 works
- 4 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 49 works
- 5 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 48 works
- 6 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 46 works
- 7 Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 45 works
- 8 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 44 works
- 9 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 42 works
- 10 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 40 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.