Research in Madison
Science Explorer records 150 research institutions in Madison, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and University of Wisconsin System.
- Research institutions
- 150 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 234k ◆ 0% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 20.3% 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 Madison?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity | 191,625 | #83 | |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin SystemUniversity | 8,510 | #4,033 | |
| 3 | UW Health University HospitalHospital / health system | 3,415 | #13,126 | |
| 4 | Madison Group (United States)Company | 2,396 | #18,843 | |
| 5 | Forest Products LaboratoryResearch facility | 2,367 | #14,228 | |
| 6 | Northern Research StationGovernment institution | 1,960 | #10,267 | |
| 7 | William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans HospitalHospital / health system | 1,887 | #6,988 | |
| 8 | University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer CenterFunder | 1,713 | #3,583 | |
| 9 | Exact Sciences (United States)Company | 1,359 | #5,360 | |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin HealthHospital / health system | 1,249 | #8,670 | |
| 11 | Wisconsin Division of Public HealthHospital / health system | 1,246 | #9,080 | |
| 12 | University of Wisconsin–ExtensionUniversity | 1,204 | #18,641 | |
| 13 | St. Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,031 | #10,379 | |
| 14 | Advanced DermatologyHospital / health system | 896 | #15,018 | |
| 15 | Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 894 | #18,345 | |
| 16 | U.S. Dairy Forage Research CenterResearch facility | 874 | #21,147 | |
| 17 | Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoveryNonprofit | 829 | #8,093 | |
| 18 | Promega (United States)Company | 749 | #14,454 | |
| 19 | Great Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterResearch facility | 580 | #11,766 | |
| 20 | Medical Education InstituteNonprofit | 558 | #33,039 all time | |
| 21 | Madison Area Technical CollegeUniversity | 503 | #18,147 | |
| 22 | State Innovation ExchangeNonprofit | 465 | #22,554 | |
| 23 | Morgridge Institute for ResearchNonprofit | 459 | #4,355 | |
| 24 | Wisconsin Disability AssociationNonprofit | 445 | #15,580 all time | |
| 25 | Center for TelepsychologyUniversity | 391 | #42,125 all time | |
| 26 | Edgewood UniversityUniversity | 376 | #25,857 | |
| 27 | Wisconsin Department of Health ServicesGovernment institution | 356 | #25,519 all time | |
| 28 | National Wildlife Health CenterHospital / health system | 328 | #18,136 all time | |
| 29 | Energy Center of WisconsinInstitution | 286 | #12,580 all time | |
| 30 | Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationNonprofit | 255 | #18,803 all time | |
| 31 | Soil Science Society of AmericaInstitution | 247 | #25,291 all time | |
| 32 | WiCellResearch facility | 246 | #14,481 all time | |
| 33 | Convergent Science (United States)Company | 233 | #9,983 | |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin American Family Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 187 | #35,431 all time | |
| 35 | Wisconsin Department of Public InstructionGovernment institution | 180 | #34,355 all time | |
| 36 | Mendota Mental Health InstituteHospital / health system | 176 | #34,813 all time | |
| 37 | Learning Multi Systems (United States)Company | 166 | #37,956 all time | |
| 38 | Meriter HospitalHospital / health system | 163 | #34,824 all time | |
| 39 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & LettersUniversity | 153 | #27,989 | |
| 40 | Cameca (United States)Company | 145 | #20,363 all time | |
| 41 | Salus (United States)Company | 134 | #28,041 all time | |
| 42 | University of Wisconsin FoundationUniversity | 117 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Healthcare Technology SystemsHospital / health system | 117 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Wisconsin Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 110 | not ranked | |
| 45 | IPM Institute of North AmericaNonprofit | 110 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Wisconsin Historical SocietyInstitution | 97 | not ranked | |
| 47 | CompuTherm (United States)Company | 92 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Dean Health SystemsHospital / health system | 87 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Wisconsin Veterans MuseumArchive | 86 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Alliant Energy (United States)Company | 84 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Wisconsin Geological and Natural History SurveyGovernment institution | 71 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Mirus Bio (United States)Company | 71 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Bellbrook Labs (United States)Company | 71 | not ranked | |
| 54 | American Academy of Cosmetic DentistryUniversity | 61 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Cellular Dynamics International (United States)Company | 61 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Forte (United States)Company | 58 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Wisconsin Medical SocietyInstitution | 58 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Wisconsin Association for Perinatal CareNonprofit | 56 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Prism Computational Sciences (United States)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Swallow Solutions (United States)Company | 47 | 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 Madison strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Madison is most concentrated in Transplantation, Agronomy and Crop Science and Small Animals (4.8× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 52.1 works4.8×
- Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 188.3 works3.2×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 93.3 works3.1×
- VeterinaryField · 102.9 works3.1×
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 Madison?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Machine Learning, Quality of Life, Biomarkers and Mental Health.
- Dairy Cattle
- Vascular Risk Factors
- Animal Welfare
- Population Genetics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Neuroimaging
- Genetic Mutations
- Gene Expression
- Social Support
- Invasive Species
- Biodiversity
- Remote Sensing
- Depression
- Biomarkers
- Globalization
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Genetics
- Aging
- Neurological Disorders
- Chemotherapy
- Clinical Trials
- Health Disparities
- Global Warming
- Mortality Risk
- Cognitive Decline
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Marker-Assisted Selection
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
- Epidemiology1,196▲ 1.23×136 topics
- Climate Change912▲ 1.38×116 topics
- Machine Learning638▼ 0.79×87 topics
- Inflammation609▲ 1.19×82 topics
- Deep Learning564▼ 0.67×80 topics
- Oxidative Stress478▲ 1.19×60 topics
- Quality of Life444▲ 1.25×57 topics
- Mental Health439▲ 1.22×45 topics
- Public Health401◆ 1.12×68 topics
- Cancer396▲ 1.20×56 topics
- Risk Factors358▲ 1.32×37 topics
- Globalization342▼ 0.71×133 topics
- Treatment330◆ 1.10×51 topics
- Biomarkers327▲ 1.94×18 topics
- Immunotherapy318▲ 1.81×19 topics
- Depression278▲ 1.28×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease271◆ 0.99×37 topics
- Remote Sensing270◆ 0.89×39 topics
- Genetics260▲ 1.51×27 topics
- Biodiversity251▲ 1.37×35 topics
- Aging248▲ 1.87×18 topics
- Invasive Species230▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Neurological Disorders219▲ 1.57×20 topics
- Social Support217▲ 1.58×20 topics
- Chemotherapy215▲ 1.25×25 topics
- Gene Expression208▲ 1.38×20 topics
- Clinical Trials206▲ 1.24×19 topics
- Genetic Mutations182▲ 1.71×23 topics
- Health Disparities181▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Neuroimaging170▲ 2.5×11 topics
- Global Warming170▲ 1.69×15 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging157▲ 2.5×8 topics
- Mortality Risk145▲ 2.5×6 topics
- Population Genetics119▲ 3.5×5 topics
- Cognitive Decline113▲ 3.8×2 topics
- Animal Welfare97▲ 4.5×5 topics
- Mild Cognitive Impairment95▲ 4.6×1 topic
- Vascular Risk Factors95▲ 4.6×1 topic
- Marker-Assisted Selection94▲ 4.9×3 topics
- Dairy Cattle90▲ 7.0×2 topics
What research is done in Madison?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchPsychiatry and Mental health 95 works
- 2 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestockGenetics 68 works
- 3 Health disparities and outcomesHealth 58 works
- 4 Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsPhysiology 58 works
- 5 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 56 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 56 works
- 7 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 52 works
- 8 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 52 works
- 9 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 51 works
- 10 Gut microbiota and healthMolecular Biology 51 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.