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Research in Los Angeles
Science Explorer records 345 research institutions in Los Angeles, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
- Research institutions
- 345 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 460k ▲ 13% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.6% 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 Los Angeles?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of California, Los AngelesUniversity | 183,822 | #38 | |
| 2 | University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity | 123,551 | #129 | |
| 3 | Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterHospital / health system | 20,775 | #784 | |
| 4 | Film IndependentNonprofit | 18,801 | #1,538 | |
| 5 | UCLA HealthHospital / health system | 12,919 | #2,109 | |
| 6 | Children's Hospital of Los AngelesFunder | 8,614 | #3,706 | |
| 7 | California State University Los AngelesUniversity | 7,796 | #5,763 | |
| 8 | Loyola Marymount UniversityUniversity | 7,770 | #9,468 | |
| 9 | Los Angeles Medical CenterHospital / health system | 5,474 | #6,479 | |
| 10 | Doheny Eye InstituteResearch facility | 3,830 | #10,988 | |
| 11 | LAC+USC Medical CenterHospital / health system | 3,755 | #11,544 | |
| 12 | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 3,616 | #4,159 | |
| 13 | Occidental CollegeUniversity | 2,673 | #10,481 | |
| 14 | Keck Hospital of USCHospital / health system | 2,549 | #6,726 | |
| 15 | Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and ScienceUniversity | 2,536 | #9,343 | |
| 16 | California NanoSystems InstituteResearch facility | 2,070 | #928 | |
| 17 | Parsons (United States)Company | 2,034 | #17,591 | |
| 18 | Olive View-UCLA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,781 | #13,987 | |
| 19 | USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 1,676 | #9,135 | |
| 20 | Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart InstituteHospital / health system | 1,366 | #3,053 | |
| 21 | VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care CenterHospital / health system | 1,330 | #7,006 all time | |
| 22 | Los Angeles County Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 1,211 | #14,806 | |
| 23 | Orthopaedic HospitalHospital / health system | 1,204 | #12,594 all time | |
| 24 | House ClinicNonprofit | 1,197 | #9,805 all time | |
| 25 | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyArchive | 1,134 | #10,141 | |
| 26 | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,109 | #11,934 | |
| 27 | Los Angeles City CollegeUniversity | 1,071 | #22,527 | |
| 28 | Broad CenterNonprofit | 962 | #1,711 | |
| 29 | System Science Applications (United States)Company | 953 | #6,098 all time | |
| 30 | Community PartnersInstitution | 883 | #17,639 | |
| 31 | Children’s InstituteNonprofit | 742 | #13,011 | |
| 32 | American Jewish UniversityUniversity | 739 | #22,757 | |
| 33 | Mattel Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 736 | #18,088 | |
| 34 | Creative Technologies (United States)Company | 678 | #14,531 | |
| 35 | Institute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisUniversity | 672 | #21,541 | |
| 36 | W. M. Keck FoundationFunder | 625 | #3,954 all time | |
| 37 | Los Angeles County Department of Health ServicesHospital / health system | 609 | #21,062 | |
| 38 | Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical CenterHospital / health system | 596 | #20,070 | |
| 39 | Laser Operations (United States)Company | 595 | #17,721 all time | |
| 40 | APLA HealthNonprofit | 582 | #15,163 | |
| 41 | University Vascular AssociatesUniversity | 567 | #27,430 | |
| 42 | Southern California Eye InstituteHospital / health system | 550 | #13,699 | |
| 43 | Education and Research InstituteNonprofit | 522 | #26,221 | |
| 44 | Piedmont UniversityUniversity | 515 | #16,968 | |
| 45 | Preston UniversityUniversity | 514 | #13,664 all time | |
| 46 | Institute for Magnetospheric PhysicsResearch facility | 485 | #24,228 | |
| 47 | VA West Los Angeles Medical CenterHospital / health system | 467 | #17,192 all time | |
| 48 | Southern California Earthquake CenterInstitution | 466 | #11,961 | |
| 49 | Capital Group (United States)Company | 464 | #23,448 | |
| 50 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care CenterHospital / health system | 458 | #22,196 all time | |
| 51 | Good Samaritan HospitalHospital / health system | 455 | #17,127 all time | |
| 52 | St Vincent Medical CenterHospital / health system | 448 | #19,606 all time | |
| 53 | Southern California Clinical and Translational Science InstituteResearch facility | 447 | #15,394 | |
| 54 | University of Philosophical ResearchUniversity | 435 | #25,955 | |
| 55 | Southwestern Law SchoolUniversity | 430 | #38,438 all time | |
| 56 | California Animal HospitalHospital / health system | 424 | #27,631 | |
| 57 | Los Angeles Mission CollegeUniversity | 412 | #23,998 | |
| 58 | Los Angeles Unified School DistrictUniversity | 411 | #27,872 all time | |
| 59 | National Research InstituteInstitution | 403 | #16,918 all time | |
| 60 | Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe InstituteHospital / health system | 400 | #27,484 |
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.
University of California, Los Angeles184k · 41.4%University of Southern California124k · 27.8%Cedars-Sinai Medical Center21k · 4.7%Film Independent19k · 4.2%56 others listed97k · 21.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Los Angeles strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Los Angeles is most concentrated in Transplantation, General Psychology and Music (5.5× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 148.3 works5.5×
- General PsychologySubfield · 26.8 works4.3×
- MusicSubfield · 181.1 works3.7×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 285.6 works3.1×
- Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 30.3 works2.9×
- AgingSubfield · 41.0 works2.8×
- Structural BiologySubfield · 25.3 works2.6×
← 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 Los Angeles?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Identity, Mental Health, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Risk Factors and Quality of Life.
- Anaerobic
- Mortality Risk
- Complications
- Social Support
- Culture
- Mortality
- Literature
- Neurological Disorders
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Biomarkers
- Big Data
- History
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Identity
- Oxidative Stress
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Cancer
- Depression
- Gender
- Diagnosis
- Chemotherapy
- Colonialism
- Genetics
- Nationalism
- Clinical Trials
- Genetic Mutations
- Religion
- Health Disparities
- Neuroimaging
▲ 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
- Epidemiology3,355▲ 1.40×139 topics
- Deep Learning1,786▼ 0.86×85 topics
- Machine Learning1,783◆ 0.90×95 topics
- Inflammation1,611▲ 1.28×83 topics
- Globalization1,351◆ 1.14×167 topics
- Mental Health1,344▲ 1.52×48 topics
- Quality of Life1,210▲ 1.39×61 topics
- Public Health1,178▲ 1.34×73 topics
- Climate Change1,141▼ 0.70×123 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,123◆ 1.14×62 topics
- Risk Factors1,111▲ 1.67×37 topics
- Identity1,044▲ 2.4×75 topics
- Treatment1,026▲ 1.40×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease968▲ 1.44×39 topics
- Cancer927◆ 1.14×59 topics
- Immunotherapy887▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Depression834▲ 1.57×26 topics
- History815▲ 1.92×62 topics
- Gender767▲ 2.3×56 topics
- Big Data750▲ 1.37×35 topics
- Diagnosis747▲ 1.33×41 topics
- Biomarkers722▲ 1.75×18 topics
- Chemotherapy719▲ 1.70×25 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome699▲ 1.42×24 topics
- Colonialism684▲ 2.4×50 topics
- Neurological Disorders678▲ 1.98×20 topics
- Genetics672▲ 1.59×27 topics
- Literature658▲ 2.0×61 topics
- Nationalism656▲ 2.4×33 topics
- Mortality638▲ 1.83×13 topics
- Clinical Trials633▲ 1.56×19 topics
- Culture616▲ 1.93×37 topics
- Genetic Mutations594▲ 2.3×23 topics
- Social Support569▲ 1.69×19 topics
- Religion568▲ 1.98×43 topics
- Complications548▲ 1.81×17 topics
- Health Disparities535▲ 3.4×9 topics
- Mortality Risk439▲ 3.0×6 topics
- Neuroimaging437▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Anaerobic270▲ 6.4×1 topic
What research is done in Los Angeles?
Environmental ChemistryAstronomy and AstrophysicsFood SciencePsychiatry and Mental health6 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 270 works
- 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 210 works
- 3 Culinary Culture and Tourism Food Science 178 works
- 4 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 170 works
- 5 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 162 works
- 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 160 works
- 7 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 158 works
- 8 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 140 works
- 9 Health disparities and outcomes Health 136 works
- 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 130 works
Research output over time
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