Research in Milan
Science Explorer records 180 research institutions in Milan, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Politecnico di Milano, University of Milan and University of Milano-Bicocca.
- Research institutions
- 180 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 334k ▲ 12% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 8.2M 24.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.0% 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 Milan?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MilanUniversity | 88,136 | #409 | |
| 2 | Politecnico di MilanoUniversity | 67,691 | #399 | |
| 3 | Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreUniversity | 38,406 | #558 | |
| 4 | University of Milano-BicoccaUniversity | 25,961 | #483 | |
| 5 | Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityUniversity | 10,804 | #683 | |
| 6 | Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore PoliclinicoHospital / health system | 10,632 | #1,446 | |
| 7 | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei TumoriHospital / health system | 8,902 | #3,453 | |
| 8 | Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological ResearchNonprofit | 8,535 | #3,581 | |
| 9 | Bocconi UniversityUniversity | 8,450 | #759 | |
| 10 | European Institute of OncologyHospital / health system | 5,747 | #1,542 | |
| 11 | IRCCS Ospedale San RaffaeleHospital / health system | 5,503 | #2,249 | |
| 12 | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaHospital / health system | 4,138 | #8,017 | |
| 13 | Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaHospital / health system | 4,083 | #3,696 | |
| 14 | IRCCS Istituto Auxologico ItalianoHospital / health system | 3,652 | #4,000 | |
| 15 | STMicroelectronics (Italy)Company | 2,875 | #8,590 | |
| 16 | Don Carlo Gnocchi FoundationNonprofit | 2,684 | #5,814 | |
| 17 | ASST Fatebenefratelli SaccoHospital / health system | 2,100 | #6,033 | |
| 18 | Centro Cardiologico MonzinoHospital / health system | 1,925 | #10,086 | |
| 19 | Istituto Ortopedico GaleazziHospital / health system | 1,849 | #5,758 | |
| 20 | MultiMedicaHospital / health system | 1,684 | #7,266 | |
| 21 | Ospedale San GiuseppeHospital / health system | 1,549 | #4,314 | |
| 22 | IULM UniversityUniversity | 1,272 | #8,057 | |
| 23 | Istituto Ortopedico Gaetano PiniHospital / health system | 1,235 | #9,071 | |
| 24 | Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (Italy)Company | 1,113 | #15,147 | |
| 25 | Ambiente Italia (Italy)Company | 981 | #7,483 | |
| 26 | Fondazione Eni Enrico MatteiNonprofit | 841 | #18,769 | |
| 27 | Data Management (Italy)Company | 824 | #6,108 | |
| 28 | IFOMResearch facility | 745 | #8,610 | |
| 29 | Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale Civile di LegnanoHospital / health system | 714 | #19,326 | |
| 30 | Bracco (Italy)Company | 635 | #8,731 all time | |
| 31 | Pirelli (Italy)Company | 580 | #20,169 all time | |
| 32 | Istituti Clinici di PerfezionamentoHospital / health system | 512 | #21,249 all time | |
| 33 | Associazione Italiana Vulvodinia OnlusInstitution | 511 | #17,928 | |
| 34 | Centro Clinico NemoHospital / health system | 498 | #19,482 | |
| 35 | Edison (Italy)Company | 479 | #25,422 all time | |
| 36 | Istituto Clinico Sant'AmbrogioHospital / health system | 459 | #8,401 | |
| 37 | Ospedale San PaoloHospital / health system | 441 | #21,094 | |
| 38 | EMO GVM Centro Cuore ColumbusHospital / health system | 382 | #16,244 all time | |
| 39 | CESI (Italy)Company | 380 | #24,088 all time | |
| 40 | Italtel (Italy)Company | 365 | #26,093 all time | |
| 41 | Associazione Italiana Di Oncologia MedicaInstitution | 357 | #23,388 all time | |
| 42 | Italian Association for Cancer ResearchNonprofit | 356 | #16,148 | |
| 43 | Centro Diagnostico ItalianoHospital / health system | 356 | #20,052 | |
| 44 | Casa di Cura ColumbusHospital / health system | 350 | #18,919 | |
| 45 | Metropolitana Milanese (Italy)Company | 338 | #13,950 | |
| 46 | Lombardia Informatica (Italy)Company | 337 | #14,984 | |
| 47 | European Association for Palliative CareNonprofit | 323 | #26,425 all time | |
| 48 | Human TechnopoleResearch facility | 317 | #4,008 | |
| 49 | Ospedale BassiniHospital / health system | 316 | #16,759 all time | |
| 50 | Fondazione Politecnico di MilanoResearch facility | 290 | #17,731 all time | |
| 51 | Indena (Italy)Company | 269 | #26,143 all time | |
| 52 | Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche G. RonzoniUniversity | 261 | #32,355 all time | |
| 53 | Italfarmaco (Italy)Company | 256 | #33,067 all time | |
| 54 | Istituto Sperimentale Italiano Lazzaro SpallanzaniResearch facility | 250 | #21,383 all time | |
| 55 | CTI BioPharma (Italy)Company | 236 | #32,704 all time | |
| 56 | Dompé (Italy)Company | 233 | #23,159 all time | |
| 57 | Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität - Standort MailandUniversity | 224 | #16,809 | |
| 58 | Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna VertebraleHospital / health system | 204 | #25,802 all time | |
| 59 | Istituto Nazionale Genetica MolecolareNonprofit | 203 | #17,763 | |
| 60 | European School of Molecular MedicineInstitution | 201 | #21,127 all time |
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 Milan work in?
In 2022-now, 34% of research in Milan is in Physical Sciences, 33% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (30%), Engineering (14%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health 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 Sciences23k33.9%
- Engineering9,85814.3%
- Computer Science4,3006.2%
- Environmental Science2,5063.6%
- Physics and Astronomy2,2613.3%
- Materials Science1,3482.0%
- Mathematics9351.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences8561.2%
- Chemistry6220.9%
- Energy4220.6%
- Chemical Engineering2260.3%
- Health Sciences23k33.1%
- Medicine21k30.2%
- Health Professions1,2751.9%
- Dentistry3460.5%
- Nursing2870.4%
- Veterinary1300.2%
- Social Sciences14k20.3%
- Social Sciences5,2457.6%
- Arts and Humanities2,2013.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting2,0743.0%
- Psychology1,9672.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1,7832.6%
- Decision Sciences7081.0%
- Life Sciences8,71912.7%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4,4356.4%
- Neuroscience1,7062.5%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1,6652.4%
- Immunology and Microbiology7771.1%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1370.2%
What is Milan strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Milan is most concentrated in Industrial relations, General Arts and Humanities and Architecture (25.2× the world share in Industrial relations).
- Industrial relationsSubfield · 47.1 works25×
- General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 139.2 works11×
- ArchitectureSubfield · 88.1 works3.7×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 31.6 works2.8×
- Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 30.3 works2.5×
- GeneticsSubfield · 397.7 works2.4×
- Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 24.8 works2.4×
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 1,520.3 works2.4×
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: Medicine, 1.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine1.56×18k works
- Neuroscience1.51×1,485 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.48×1,998 works
- Veterinary1.37×113 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.28×1,658 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.19×3,860 works
- Mathematics1.17×835 works
- Arts and Humanities1.12×1,964 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.09×666 works
- Decision Sciences1.05×617 works
- Dentistry1.02×300 works
- Engineering0.98×8,886 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.96×1,878 works
- Chemical Engineering0.94×200 works
- Psychology0.92×1,708 works
- Nursing0.85×252 works
- Computer Science0.80×3,782 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.78×742 works
- Environmental Science0.71×2,152 works
- Health Professions0.71×1,135 works
- Energy0.68×380 works
- Social Sciences0.60×4,607 works
- Chemistry0.58×551 works
- Materials Science0.56×1,196 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.55×118 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.51×1,475 works
Which keywords describe research in Milan?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Machine Learning and Cardiovascular Disease.
- Urban Planning
- Survival Analysis
- Radiotherapy
- Guidelines
- Prognostic Factors
- Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Mutations
- Obesity
- Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Innovation
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Globalization
- Treatment
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Sustainability
- Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Environmental Impact
- Cultural Heritage
- Renewable Energy
- Risk Factors
- Management
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Big Data
- Heart Failure
- Identity
- Precision Medicine
- Echocardiography
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
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
- Epidemiology3,409▲ 1.24×139 topics
- Inflammation1,967▲ 1.34×83 topics
- Machine Learning1,927▼ 0.84×95 topics
- Deep Learning1,780▼ 0.75×83 topics
- Sustainability1,774◆ 1.05×129 topics
- Climate Change1,593▼ 0.85×123 topics
- Quality of Life1,318▲ 1.33×59 topics
- Treatment1,282▲ 1.53×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,232▲ 1.57×39 topics
- Globalization1,230◆ 0.91×173 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,224◆ 1.08×63 topics
- Cancer1,075▲ 1.16×59 topics
- Diagnosis1,051▲ 1.64×41 topics
- Chemotherapy1,046▲ 2.1×25 topics
- Environmental Impact1,016◆ 0.87×71 topics
- Immunotherapy983▲ 1.98×19 topics
- Cultural Heritage947▲ 2.6×38 topics
- Innovation917▲ 1.29×74 topics
- Renewable Energy866◆ 0.87×57 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome863▲ 1.55×24 topics
- Risk Factors841◆ 1.11×37 topics
- Clinical Trials809▲ 1.76×19 topics
- Management792▲ 1.44×40 topics
- Genetics773▲ 1.59×27 topics
- Biomarkers762▲ 1.59×18 topics
- Obesity761▲ 1.44×28 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines738▲ 1.95×14 topics
- Genetic Mutations731▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Big Data719◆ 1.09×35 topics
- Neurological Disorders674▲ 1.71×20 topics
- Heart Failure670▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Prognostic Factors649▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Identity632▲ 1.27×77 topics
- Guidelines598▲ 1.84×13 topics
- Precision Medicine533▲ 1.56×8 topics
- Radiotherapy522▲ 1.92×13 topics
- Echocardiography507▲ 2.6×8 topics
- Survival Analysis451▲ 2.4×7 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy415▲ 2.5×5 topics
- Urban Planning290▲ 4.9×15 topics
What research is done in Milan?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 163 works
- 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 155 works
- 3 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Sociology and Political Science 146 works
- 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 141 works
- 5 Educational and Social Studies Education 141 works
- 6 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 139 works
- 7 Diverse academic and cultural studies Economics and Econometrics 138 works
- 8 Italian Literature and Culture General Arts and Humanities 137 works
- 9 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 135 works
- 10 Structural Health Monitoring Techniques Civil and Structural Engineering 133 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 29.7% in 2016.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in Milan for research?
Science Explorer records 180 research institutions in Milan, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Politecnico di Milano, University of Milan and University of Milano-Bicocca.
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