Research in Leeds
Science Explorer records 61 research institutions in Leeds, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
- Research institutions
- 61 12 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 140k ▼ 3% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 3.8M 27.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.5% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 | 112,088 | #137 | |
| 2 | Leeds Beckett UniversityUniversity | 9,145 | #1,164 | |
| 3 | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHospital / health system | 7,020 | #2,316 | |
| 4 | Feminist Archive NorthArchive | 2,742 | #8,466 | |
| 5 | National Centre for Atmospheric ScienceNonprofit | 1,169 | #5,839 | |
| 6 | The MountHospital / health system | 1,004 | #16,007 | |
| 7 | Health Education EnglandGovernment institution | 965 | #10,808 | |
| 8 | Leeds Trinity UniversityUniversity | 930 | #8,180 | |
| 9 | St Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 929 | #13,186 all time | |
| 10 | Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 547 | #13,890 | |
| 11 | KillingbeckHospital / health system | 509 | #20,854 all time | |
| 12 | NIHR Research Delivery NetworkGovernment institution | 441 | #10,492 | |
| 13 | NHS DigitalGovernment institution | 436 | #10,646 | |
| 14 | Leeds Community Healthcare NHS TrustHospital / health system | 406 | #14,449 all time | |
| 15 | Royal ArmouriesArchive | 297 | #23,597 all time | |
| 16 | Leeds Arts UniversityUniversity | 276 | #20,380 | |
| 17 | British Association for Slavonic and East European StudiesInstitution | 239 | #28,881 all time | |
| 18 | Active Medicine (United Kingdom)Company | 188 | #27,174 all time | |
| 19 | Epilepsy ActionNonprofit | 145 | #31,020 all time | |
| 20 | Centre for Polar Observation and ModellingResearch facility | 129 | #25,268 all time | |
| 21 | Leeds College of BuildingUniversity | 104 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Leeds College of MusicUniversity | 93 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Leeds City CouncilGovernment institution | 93 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Getech (United Kingdom)Company | 82 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (United Kingdom)Company | 65 | not ranked | |
| 26 | NHS EmployersInstitution | 53 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Worldwide Universities NetworkInstitution | 51 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Northern Gas Networks (United Kingdom)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 29 | NIHR AcademyGovernment institution | 34 | not ranked | |
| 30 | NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operativeResearch facility | 32 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Rescon Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Engie (United Kingdom)Company | 29 | not ranked | |
| 33 | 4D Pharma (United Kingdom)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 34 | British Association for Cancer ResearchNonprofit | 27 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Nonwovens Innovation & Research InstituteCompany | 25 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Communication MattersNonprofit | 25 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Heart Research UKNonprofit | 23 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Avacta (United Kingdom)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Fibre Extrusion Technology (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Opera North (United Kingdom)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Clariant (United Kingdom)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Xiros (United Kingdom)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Brandon Medical (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Sweco (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 45 | International Moisture Analysers (United Kingdom)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Leeds CaresInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Surgical Innovations (United Kingdom)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Yorkshire ForwardInstitution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Thackray Medical MuseumArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Arterius (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Keracol (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Hanzo Archives (United Kingdom)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Leeds Community FoundationInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 54 | The Churches Conservation TrustNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Bitecic (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 56 | MIE Medical Research (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Bone Cancer Research TrustNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Badrilla (United Kingdom)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Dearne Valley CollegeUniversity | 1 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Action for Trans HealthNonprofit | 0 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.
Which fields of science does Leeds work in?
In 2022-now, 33% of research in Leeds is in Social Sciences, 31% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (25%), Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (9%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences6,32032.9%
- Social Sciences3,02515.8%
- Arts and Humanities1,0205.3%
- Psychology9214.8%
- Business, Management and Accounting5933.1%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance5673.0%
- Decision Sciences1931.0%
- Health Sciences5,89030.7%
- Medicine4,85325.3%
- Health Professions8034.2%
- Dentistry1090.6%
- Nursing1060.6%
- Veterinary190.1%
- Physical Sciences5,33927.8%
- Engineering1,8219.5%
- Environmental Science9204.8%
- Computer Science8534.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences6093.2%
- Materials Science3591.9%
- Physics and Astronomy3371.8%
- Mathematics1580.8%
- Chemistry1420.7%
- Energy990.5%
- Chemical Engineering410.2%
- Life Sciences1,6328.5%
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.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.91×502 works
- Arts and Humanities1.85×895 works
- Health Professions1.61×712 works
- Psychology1.60×818 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.36×489 works
- Medicine1.33×4,305 works
- Social Sciences1.23×2,615 works
- Dentistry1.15×94 works
- Nursing1.09×90 works
- Decision Sciences1.04×168 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.99×538 works
- Environmental Science0.93×774 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.89×150 works
- Neuroscience0.86×233 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.81×301 works
- Veterinary0.77×18 works
- Mathematics0.72×142 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.69×615 works
- Engineering0.64×1,623 works
- Chemical Engineering0.62×36 works
- Energy0.57×89 works
- Computer Science0.56×727 works
- Materials Science0.54×319 works
- Chemistry0.49×129 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.48×379 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.48×28 works
Which keywords describe research in Leeds?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Climate Change, Sustainability, Gender, Inflammation, Quality of Life and Identity.
- Biopolitics
- Student Competencies
- Educational Technologies
- Formative Assessment
- Teaching Methods
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Language Teaching
- Religion
- Ethics
- Autoantibodies
- Primary Care
- Global Warming
- Mortality
- Gender
- Identity
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Machine Learning
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Public Health
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Human Rights
- Neoliberalism
- History
- Colonialism
- Physical Activity
- Ethical Considerations
- Complications
- Feminism
- Postcolonialism
- Tourism Development
- Critical Thinking
- Artistic Education
- Hydrological Cycle
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology902▲ 1.18×136 topics
- Climate Change703▲ 1.35×112 topics
- Globalization655▲ 1.74×134 topics
- Sustainability520◆ 1.11×112 topics
- Inflammation481▲ 1.18×82 topics
- Machine Learning466▼ 0.73×89 topics
- Deep Learning428▼ 0.65×83 topics
- Quality of Life411▲ 1.48×58 topics
- Public Health408▲ 1.46×70 topics
- Mental Health347▲ 1.26×48 topics
- Risk Factors335▲ 1.59×37 topics
- Identity313▲ 2.2×72 topics
- Treatment308▲ 1.32×51 topics
- Gender289▲ 2.8×54 topics
- Human Rights238▲ 1.21×68 topics
- Mortality228▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Neoliberalism211▲ 3.1×27 topics
- Global Warming209▲ 2.5×16 topics
- History206▲ 1.55×55 topics
- Primary Care204▲ 2.9×15 topics
- Colonialism193▲ 2.1×45 topics
- Autoantibodies188▲ 4.2×8 topics
- Physical Activity186▲ 2.0×12 topics
- Ethics183▲ 1.89×46 topics
- Ethical Considerations178▲ 2.7×21 topics
- Religion177▲ 2.0×40 topics
- Complications175▲ 1.84×17 topics
- Language Teaching151▲ 3.0×7 topics
- Feminism148▲ 2.6×25 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions141▲ 2.7×9 topics
- Postcolonialism123▲ 4.5×21 topics
- Teaching Methods119▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Tourism Development119▲ 4.5×2 topics
- Formative Assessment115▲ 7.2×2 topics
- Critical Thinking111▲ 5.0×5 topics
- Educational Technologies103▲ 5.9×2 topics
- Artistic Education102▲ 8.1×1 topic
- Student Competencies102▲ 8.1×1 topic
- Hydrological Cycle101▲ 5.2×2 topics
- Biopolitics94▲ 6.3×6 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.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.6% in 2016.
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