Research in Madrid
Science Explorer records 456 research institutions in Madrid, Spain. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
- Research institutions
- 456 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 568k ▲ 18% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 16.5% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Madrid?
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 Madrid strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Madrid is most concentrated in General Social Sciences, General Arts and Humanities and Industrial relations (7.3× the world share in General Social Sciences).
- General Social SciencesSubfield · 827.7 works7.3×
- General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 152.2 works7.1×
- Industrial relationsSubfield · 21.2 works6.6×
- HistorySubfield · 1,763.0 works5.3×
- Life-span and Life-course StudiesSubfield · 89.5 works5.2×
- ConservationSubfield · 486.2 works5.0×
- ArcheologySubfield · 1,375.8 works4.4×
- Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 654.3 works3.8×
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 Madrid?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Latin America, Globalization, Education, History, Welfare State, Gender and Cultural Heritage.
- Migrant Integration
- Social Work
- Social Rights
- Participation
- Political Power
- Spain
- Urban Development
- Cultural Studies
- Culture
- Social Movements
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Literature
- Cultural Heritage
- Identity
- COVID-19
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Education
- Inflammation
- History
- Human Rights
- Public Health
- Gender
- Mental Health
- Latin America
- Diagnosis
- Ethics
- Communication
- Welfare State
- Historiography
- Society
- Cultural Exchange
- Economic Crisis
- Iberian Peninsula
- Constitutionalism
- Family Support
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
- Epidemiology5,840▲ 1.42×140 topics
- Globalization3,476▲ 1.71×178 topics
- Education3,180▲ 1.79×154 topics
- Climate Change3,024◆ 1.08×124 topics
- Inflammation2,704▲ 1.25×83 topics
- Sustainability2,322◆ 0.92×134 topics
- History2,288▲ 3.1×66 topics
- Treatment2,004▲ 1.59×52 topics
- Human Rights1,967▲ 1.84×86 topics
- Quality of Life1,948▲ 1.30×60 topics
- Public Health1,923▲ 1.28×77 topics
- COVID-191,908▲ 1.35×34 topics
- Gender1,819▲ 3.2×57 topics
- Identity1,748▲ 2.3×80 topics
- Mental Health1,741◆ 1.15×48 topics
- Cultural Heritage1,732▲ 3.0×40 topics
- Latin America1,701▲ 8.6×23 topics
- Literature1,639▲ 2.9×62 topics
- Diagnosis1,583▲ 1.64×41 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,557▲ 1.35×39 topics
- Ethics1,358▲ 2.7×60 topics
- Social Movements1,307▲ 4.2×32 topics
- Communication1,256▲ 3.9×25 topics
- Culture1,232▲ 2.2×40 topics
- Welfare State1,208▲ 14×4 topics
- Cultural Studies1,068▲ 2.7×42 topics
- Historiography1,037▲ 7.9×15 topics
- Urban Development1,033▲ 2.7×21 topics
- Society1,027▲ 5.1×26 topics
- Spain902▲ 23×5 topics
- Cultural Exchange742▲ 5.5×12 topics
- Political Power707▲ 14×5 topics
- Economic Crisis703▲ 5.6×6 topics
- Participation676▲ 6.6×5 topics
- Iberian Peninsula673▲ 21×3 topics
- Social Rights673▲ 20×2 topics
- Constitutionalism652▲ 6.6×6 topics
- Social Work629▲ 8.6×4 topics
- Family Support608▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Migrant Integration607▲ 16×2 topics
What research is done in Madrid?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Social Sciences and PoliciesGeneral Social Sciences 584 works
- 2 Historical Art and Architecture StudiesConservation 392 works
- 3 Human Rights and ImmigrationSociology and Political Science 384 works
- 4 Communication and COVID-19 ImpactCommunication 334 works
- 5 Archaeological and Historical StudiesArcheology 326 works
- 6 Spanish Linguistics and Language StudiesLanguage and Linguistics 303 works
- 7 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studiesPolitical Science and International Relations 288 works
- 8 E-Learning and Knowledge ManagementComputer Science Applications 284 works
- 9 Ethics and bioethics in healthcarePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 283 works
- 10 Educational Innovations and TechnologyInformation Systems 280 works
Research output over time
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