Research in Madison
Science Explorer records 140 research institutions in Madison, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin System and Exact Sciences (United States).
- Research institutions
- 140 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 234k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 9.7M 41.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.3% 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 Madison?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity | 192,164 | #57 | |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin SystemUniversity | 8,510 | #1,335 | |
| 3 | UW Health University HospitalHospital / health system | 3,415 | #11,365 | |
| 4 | Madison Group (United States)Company | 2,396 | #14,917 | |
| 5 | University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer CenterFunder | 1,713 | #2,585 | |
| 6 | Exact Sciences (United States)Company | 1,359 | #1,939 | |
| 7 | University of Wisconsin HealthHospital / health system | 1,249 | #6,161 | |
| 8 | Wisconsin Division of Public HealthHospital / health system | 1,246 | #6,287 | |
| 9 | University of Wisconsin–ExtensionUniversity | 1,204 | #11,429 | |
| 10 | St. Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 1,031 | #13,377 | |
| 11 | Advanced DermatologyHospital / health system | 896 | #19,410 | |
| 12 | Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesGovernment institution | 894 | #19,941 | |
| 13 | Wisconsin Institutes for DiscoveryNonprofit | 829 | #4,002 | |
| 14 | Promega (United States)Company | 749 | #18,449 | |
| 15 | Medical Education InstituteNonprofit | 558 | #21,341 all time | |
| 16 | Madison Area Technical CollegeUniversity | 503 | #13,568 | |
| 17 | State Innovation ExchangeNonprofit | 465 | #15,743 | |
| 18 | Wisconsin Disability AssociationNonprofit | 445 | #13,506 all time | |
| 19 | Center for TelepsychologyUniversity | 391 | #28,592 all time | |
| 20 | Edgewood UniversityUniversity | 376 | #19,654 | |
| 21 | Wisconsin Department of Health ServicesGovernment institution | 356 | #15,147 all time | |
| 22 | Energy Center of WisconsinInstitution | 286 | #4,336 all time | |
| 23 | Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationNonprofit | 255 | #18,574 all time | |
| 24 | Soil Science Society of AmericaInstitution | 247 | #22,473 all time | |
| 25 | WiCellResearch facility | 246 | #25,125 all time | |
| 26 | Convergent Science (United States)Company | 233 | #8,470 | |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin American Family Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 187 | #28,518 all time | |
| 28 | Wisconsin Department of Public InstructionGovernment institution | 180 | #29,629 all time | |
| 29 | Mendota Mental Health InstituteHospital / health system | 176 | #29,436 all time | |
| 30 | Learning Multi Systems (United States)Company | 166 | #31,473 all time | |
| 31 | Meriter HospitalHospital / health system | 163 | #31,099 all time | |
| 32 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & LettersUniversity | 153 | #20,839 | |
| 33 | Cameca (United States)Company | 145 | #34,455 all time | |
| 34 | Salus (United States)Company | 134 | #29,068 all time | |
| 35 | University of Wisconsin FoundationUniversity | 117 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Healthcare Technology SystemsHospital / health system | 117 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Wisconsin Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 110 | not ranked | |
| 38 | IPM Institute of North AmericaNonprofit | 110 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Wisconsin Historical SocietyInstitution | 97 | not ranked | |
| 40 | CompuTherm (United States)Company | 92 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Dean Health SystemsHospital / health system | 87 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Wisconsin Veterans MuseumArchive | 86 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Alliant Energy (United States)Company | 84 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Mirus Bio (United States)Company | 71 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Bellbrook Labs (United States)Company | 71 | not ranked | |
| 46 | American Academy of Cosmetic DentistryUniversity | 61 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Cellular Dynamics International (United States)Company | 61 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Forte (United States)Company | 58 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Wisconsin Medical SocietyInstitution | 58 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Wisconsin Association for Perinatal CareNonprofit | 56 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Prism Computational Sciences (United States)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Swallow Solutions (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer ProtectionGovernment institution | 46 | not ranked | |
| 54 | A-R EditionsInstitution | 43 | not ranked | |
| 55 | American College of Veterinary PathologistsInstitution | 41 | not ranked | |
| 56 | World Council of Credit UnionsInstitution | 40 | not ranked | |
| 57 | UnityPoint Health MeriterHospital / health system | 37 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Stress Photonics (United States)Company | 37 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Dean Health PlanHospital / health system | 36 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Quintessence Biosciences (United States)Company | 34 | 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 Madison work in?
In 2022-now, 31% of research in Madison is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (26%), Social Sciences (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life 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
- Physical Sciences8,64230.7%
- Engineering2,5629.1%
- Environmental Science1,5235.4%
- Computer Science1,3224.7%
- Physics and Astronomy9623.4%
- Materials Science6692.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences5121.8%
- Chemistry4531.6%
- Mathematics4301.5%
- Energy1130.4%
- Chemical Engineering970.3%
- Health Sciences8,48830.2%
- Medicine7,31926.0%
- Health Professions8923.2%
- Veterinary1210.4%
- Nursing1150.4%
- Dentistry420.1%
- Social Sciences5,66920.1%
- Social Sciences2,7829.9%
- Psychology1,2054.3%
- Arts and Humanities6462.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4741.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting2981.1%
- Decision Sciences2640.9%
- Life Sciences5,34419.0%
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.
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: Veterinary, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary3.07×103 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.72×2,266 works
- Neuroscience1.61×644 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.55×847 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.54×382 works
- Psychology1.41×1,057 works
- Medicine1.33×6,303 works
- Mathematics1.30×376 works
- Health Professions1.22×791 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.19×458 works
- Environmental Science1.10×1,345 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.09×1,280 works
- Chemistry1.06×409 works
- Chemical Engineering0.99×86 works
- Decision Sciences0.96×228 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.84×441 works
- Nursing0.82×99 works
- Arts and Humanities0.80×567 works
- Social Sciences0.78×2,444 works
- Materials Science0.70×598 works
- Engineering0.63×2,326 works
- Computer Science0.59×1,137 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.58×50 works
- Energy0.44×99 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.34×268 works
- Dentistry0.29×34 works
Which keywords describe research in Madison?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Machine Learning, Oxidative Stress, Biomarkers, Quality of Life and Mental Health.
- Dairy Cattle
- Cognitive Decline
- Mortality Risk
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Neuroimaging
- Health Disparities
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Trials
- Gene Expression
- Neurological Disorders
- Aging
- Remote Sensing
- Depression
- Treatment
- Globalization
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Risk Factors
- Biomarkers
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Genetics
- Biodiversity
- Invasive Species
- Chemotherapy
- Social Support
- Precision Medicine
- Global Warming
- Ethical Considerations
- Neuroinflammation
- Population Genetics
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
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
- Epidemiology1,388▲ 1.24×136 topics
- Climate Change1,024▲ 1.34×119 topics
- Machine Learning754▼ 0.80×88 topics
- Inflammation703▲ 1.18×82 topics
- Deep Learning659▼ 0.68×81 topics
- Oxidative Stress561▲ 1.21×61 topics
- Quality of Life508▲ 1.25×57 topics
- Mental Health493▲ 1.22×45 topics
- Public Health458◆ 1.12×69 topics
- Cancer451▲ 1.19×56 topics
- Risk Factors404▲ 1.30×37 topics
- Globalization398▼ 0.72×139 topics
- Biomarkers385▲ 1.96×18 topics
- Treatment381◆ 1.11×52 topics
- Immunotherapy367▲ 1.81×19 topics
- Depression317▲ 1.28×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease314◆ 0.98×39 topics
- Remote Sensing310◆ 0.90×40 topics
- Genetics302▲ 1.52×27 topics
- Aging287▲ 1.87×18 topics
- Biodiversity287▲ 1.34×35 topics
- Neurological Disorders258▲ 1.60×20 topics
- Invasive Species253▲ 2.1×21 topics
- Gene Expression248▲ 1.41×20 topics
- Chemotherapy245▲ 1.23×25 topics
- Clinical Trials242▲ 1.29×19 topics
- Social Support235▲ 1.55×20 topics
- Genetic Mutations217▲ 1.76×23 topics
- Precision Medicine209▲ 1.49×8 topics
- Health Disparities206▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Global Warming194▲ 1.62×16 topics
- Neuroimaging192▲ 2.5×11 topics
- Ethical Considerations181▲ 1.86×20 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging178▲ 2.5×8 topics
- Neuroinflammation169▲ 2.1×6 topics
- Mortality Risk161▲ 2.4×6 topics
- Population Genetics135▲ 3.4×5 topics
- Cognitive Decline126▲ 3.7×2 topics
- Mild Cognitive Impairment107▲ 4.5×1 topic
- Dairy Cattle102▲ 6.9×2 topics
What research is done in Madison?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 95 works
- 2 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 68 works
- 3 Health disparities and outcomes Health 58 works
- 4 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 58 works
- 5 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 56 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 56 works
- 7 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 52 works
- 8 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 52 works
- 9 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 51 works
- 10 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 51 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 34.1% in 2010.
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