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Research in Madrid

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Madrid, Spain. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1k
▼ 17% vs 2018-21
Citations
53k
51.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
24.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1989-2026
38 years on the record
Madrid

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 Madrid?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular ResearchResearch facility 1,044 #6,181

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.

Which fields of science does Madrid work in?

In 2022-now, 53% of research in Madrid is in Health Sciences, 37% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (52%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (26%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Health Sciences: 128 fractional works · 53.1% of its workMedicine: 125 fractional works · 51.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 48 fractional works · 19.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSurgery: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEpidemiology: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOncology: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 89 fractional works · 36.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 62 fractional works · 25.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 45 fractional works · 18.5% of its workCell Biology: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiophysics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 19 fractional works · 7.7% of its workImmunology: 18 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 20 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMadrid242fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences37%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences53%Social Sciences2%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine12551.7%
    2. Health Professions21.0%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6225.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology197.7%
    3. Neuroscience73.0%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Engineering93.6%
    2. Materials Science31.3%
    3. Computer Science21.0%
    4. Chemistry20.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.6%
    6. Environmental Science10.5%
    7. Energy10.2%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Psychology10.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    3. Social Sciences10.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    5. Decision Sciences00.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Madrid strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Madrid is most concentrated in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Molecular Biology (18.6× the world share in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine).

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 43.7 works19×
  2. Molecular BiologySubfield · 40.8 works6.0×
← 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.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.78× its world share, 57 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.97× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.83× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.25× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.69× its world share, 116 worksMedicineNursing: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 8.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology7.97×18 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.78×57 works
  3. Medicine2.69×116 works
  4. Neuroscience1.83×7 works
  5. Nursing0.88×1 works
  6. Chemistry0.63×2 works
  7. Materials Science0.39×3 works
  8. Health Professions0.31×2 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.28×0 works
  10. Energy0.28×1 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.28×1 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.25×0 works
  13. Engineering0.25×8 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.20×1 works
  15. Psychology0.18×1 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.17×0 works
  17. Environmental Science0.10×1 works
  18. Computer Science0.09×2 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  20. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  21. Dentistry0.05×0 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.05×0 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.05×0 works
  24. Social Sciences0.02×0 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Madrid?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction, Oxidative Stress, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Obesity and Cardiac Imaging.

▲ 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-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
  1. Inflammation26▲ 5.2×68 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress17▲ 4.3×34 topics
  3. Heart Failure17▲ 16×13 topics
  4. Cancer16▲ 4.9×37 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease15▲ 5.5×30 topics
  6. Myocardial Infarction14▲ 24×7 topics
  7. Obesity12▲ 6.6×19 topics
  8. Cardiac Imaging11▲ 36×3 topics
  9. Genetic Mutations11▲ 10×11 topics
  10. Echocardiography10▲ 15×7 topics
  11. Guidelines9▲ 8.0×7 topics
  12. Cytokines9▲ 12×5 topics
  13. Treatment8▲ 2.9×21 topics
  14. Ion Channels8▲ 31×4 topics
  15. Diagnosis8▲ 3.6×16 topics
  16. Dilated Cardiomyopathy8▲ 47×2 topics
  17. Extracellular Matrix8▲ 17×5 topics
  18. Immunity7▲ 7.5×9 topics
  19. Reactive Oxygen Species7▲ 7.5×8 topics
  20. Arrhythmias7▲ 31×2 topics
  21. Macrophages7▲ 16×7 topics
  22. Sudden Cardiac Death7▲ 35×2 topics
  23. Gene Expression7▲ 4.6×13 topics
  24. Cardiovascular Risk7▲ 9.0×6 topics
  25. Cardiomyopathies7▲ 95×1 topic
  26. Myosin7▲ 95×1 topic
  27. Atherosclerosis6▲ 9.1×11 topics
  28. Cardiac Remodeling6▲ 56×2 topics
  29. Magnetic Resonance Imaging6▲ 10×5 topics
  30. Calcium Signaling6▲ 32×4 topics
  31. Cardiac Electrophysiology6▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Genetic Testing6▲ 20×2 topics
  33. Long-QT Syndrome6▲ 51×1 topic
  34. Cell Signaling5▲ 14×8 topics
  35. Mitochondrial Dysfunction5▲ 7.4×9 topics
  36. Stem Cells5▲ 7.7×8 topics
  37. Atrial Fibrillation5▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Cell Death5▲ 8.5×6 topics
  39. Chamber Quantification5▲ 26×1 topic
  40. Diastolic Function5▲ 26×1 topic

What research is done in Madrid?

Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies: 6 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 5 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …5Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 5 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…3Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksCongenital heart defects research: 3 fractional worksAtherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases: 3 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and…3Immune Cell Function and Interaction: 3 fractional worksCardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling: 3 fractional worksMitochondrial Function and Pathology: 3 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment …3Heart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingMolecular BiologyImmunology

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  3. 3 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  5. 5 Congenital heart defects research Molecular Biology 3 works
  6. 6 Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases Immunology 3 works
  7. 7 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 3 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Mitochondrial Function and Pathology Molecular Biology 3 works
  10. 10 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works

Research output over time

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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.

still counting20%40%60%Madrid18.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 45.3% in 2013.

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