City · Italy
Research in Milan
Science Explorer records 213 research institutions in Milan, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Milan, Politecnico di Milano and University of Milano-Bicocca.
- Research institutions
- 213 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 334k ▲ 22% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.0% 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 Milan?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MilanUniversity | 84,747 | #193 | |
| 2 | Politecnico di MilanoUniversity | 63,725 | #203 | |
| 3 | Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreUniversity | 30,349 | #769 | |
| 4 | University of Milano-BicoccaUniversity | 25,134 | #556 | |
| 5 | Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityUniversity | 10,804 | #924 | |
| 6 | Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore PoliclinicoHospital / health system | 10,632 | #1,524 | |
| 7 | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei TumoriHospital / health system | 8,902 | #3,268 | |
| 8 | Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological ResearchNonprofit | 8,535 | #3,302 | |
| 9 | Bocconi UniversityUniversity | 8,310 | #1,895 | |
| 10 | European Institute of OncologyHospital / health system | 5,747 | #2,654 | |
| 11 | IRCCS Ospedale San RaffaeleHospital / health system | 5,503 | #2,483 | |
| 12 | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaHospital / health system | 4,138 | #5,149 | |
| 13 | Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaHospital / health system | 4,083 | #3,617 | |
| 14 | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di MilanoResearch facility | 3,965 | #3,863 | |
| 15 | IRCCS Istituto Auxologico ItalianoHospital / health system | 3,652 | #5,351 | |
| 16 | Luigi Sacco HospitalHospital / health system | 3,169 | #8,660 | |
| 17 | STMicroelectronics (Italy)Company | 2,875 | #9,588 | |
| 18 | Don Carlo Gnocchi FoundationNonprofit | 2,684 | #8,027 | |
| 19 | Centro Cardiologico MonzinoHospital / health system | 1,925 | #8,405 | |
| 20 | Istituto Ortopedico GaleazziHospital / health system | 1,849 | #7,409 | |
| 21 | MultiMedicaHospital / health system | 1,684 | #4,956 | |
| 22 | Brera Astronomical ObservatoryArchive | 1,602 | #8,855 | |
| 23 | Ospedale San GiuseppeHospital / health system | 1,549 | #6,783 | |
| 24 | IULM UniversityUniversity | 1,272 | #13,232 | |
| 25 | Center for Genomic ScienceResearch facility | 1,271 | #8,770 | |
| 26 | Istituto Ortopedico Gaetano PiniHospital / health system | 1,235 | #8,456 | |
| 27 | Istituto di Fotonica e NanotecnologieResearch facility | 1,219 | #5,170 | |
| 28 | Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (Italy)Company | 1,113 | #10,181 | |
| 29 | Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia AgrariaResearch facility | 1,016 | #11,844 all time | |
| 30 | Ambiente Italia (Italy)Company | 981 | #15,612 | |
| 31 | Institute of Molecular Science and TechnologiesResearch facility | 930 | #2,972 all time | |
| 32 | ASST Fatebenefratelli SaccoHospital / health system | 911 | #6,469 | |
| 33 | Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di MilanoGovernment institution | 886 | #8,789 all time | |
| 34 | Fondazione Eni Enrico MatteiNonprofit | 841 | #12,648 | |
| 35 | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano BicoccaResearch facility | 827 | #5,839 | |
| 36 | Data Management (Italy)Company | 824 | #11,086 | |
| 37 | Construction Technologies InstituteResearch facility | 753 | #18,207 | |
| 38 | IFOMResearch facility | 745 | #6,266 | |
| 39 | Ospedale dei Bambini Vittore BuzziHospital / health system | 719 | #14,056 | |
| 40 | Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale Civile di LegnanoHospital / health system | 714 | #20,796 | |
| 41 | Institute of Chemistry of Molecular RecognitionResearch facility | 648 | #12,393 all time | |
| 42 | Institute for Macromolecular StudiesResearch facility | 640 | #13,717 all time | |
| 43 | Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and PhysiologyResearch facility | 617 | #19,301 | |
| 44 | Pirelli (Italy)Company | 580 | #12,772 all time | |
| 45 | Istituti Clinici di PerfezionamentoHospital / health system | 512 | #22,309 all time | |
| 46 | Associazione Italiana Vulvodinia OnlusInstitution | 511 | #23,823 | |
| 47 | Center for Nano Science and TechnologyResearch facility | 504 | #7,528 | |
| 48 | Centro Clinico NemoHospital / health system | 498 | #22,130 | |
| 49 | Edison (Italy)Company | 479 | #11,984 all time | |
| 50 | The San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene TherapyResearch facility | 479 | #6,640 | |
| 51 | Azienda Ospedaliera Fatebenefratelli e OftalmicoHospital / health system | 470 | #27,415 all time | |
| 52 | Istituto Clinico Sant'AmbrogioHospital / health system | 459 | #12,589 | |
| 53 | Ospedale San PaoloHospital / health system | 441 | #16,837 | |
| 54 | Institute for Energetics and InterphasesResearch facility | 407 | #10,181 all time | |
| 55 | Bracco (Italy)Company | 402 | #20,107 all time | |
| 56 | Institute of Plasma PhysicsResearch facility | 383 | #12,220 all time | |
| 57 | EMO GVM Centro Cuore ColumbusHospital / health system | 382 | #18,947 all time | |
| 58 | CESI (Italy)Company | 380 | #22,819 all time | |
| 59 | Italtel (Italy)Company | 365 | #31,903 all time | |
| 60 | NTT (Italy)Company | 364 | #17,641 all time |
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.
University of Milan85k · 26.4%Politecnico di Milano64k · 19.8%Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore30k · 9.4%University of Milano-Bicocca25k · 7.8%56 others listed117k · 36.5%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
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×
← 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.
Which keywords describe research in Milan?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Sustainability, Cultural Heritage, Treatment, Chemotherapy, Cardiovascular Disease and Machine Learning.
- Urban Planning
- Survival Analysis
- Echocardiography
- Guidelines
- Prognostic Factors
- Neurological Disorders
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Renewable Energy
- Innovation
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Quality of Life
- Globalization
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Environmental Impact
- Cultural Heritage
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Risk Factors
- Management
- Obesity
- Genetic Mutations
- Big Data
- Heart Failure
- Identity
- Mortality
- Radiotherapy
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
- Epidemiology3,011▲ 1.25×139 topics
- Inflammation1,704▲ 1.35×83 topics
- Machine Learning1,666▼ 0.84×94 topics
- Sustainability1,572◆ 1.06×125 topics
- Deep Learning1,561▼ 0.75×83 topics
- Climate Change1,369▼ 0.84×121 topics
- Quality of Life1,160▲ 1.32×59 topics
- Treatment1,125▲ 1.53×52 topics
- Globalization1,089◆ 0.91×169 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,076▲ 1.59×39 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,076◆ 1.08×63 topics
- Cancer945▲ 1.16×59 topics
- Diagnosis932▲ 1.65×41 topics
- Chemotherapy909▲ 2.1×25 topics
- Environmental Impact877▼ 0.85×68 topics
- Immunotherapy864▲ 2.0×19 topics
- Cultural Heritage846▲ 2.5×38 topics
- Innovation842▲ 1.32×71 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome770▲ 1.56×24 topics
- Renewable Energy757◆ 0.87×56 topics
- Risk Factors735◆ 1.10×37 topics
- Clinical Trials718▲ 1.76×19 topics
- Management691▲ 1.45×40 topics
- Genetics663▲ 1.56×27 topics
- Obesity655▲ 1.43×28 topics
- Biomarkers648▲ 1.56×18 topics
- Genetic Mutations645▲ 2.5×23 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines638▲ 1.93×14 topics
- Big Data604◆ 1.10×35 topics
- Neurological Disorders591▲ 1.71×20 topics
- Heart Failure587▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Prognostic Factors577▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Identity556▲ 1.26×75 topics
- Guidelines522▲ 1.85×13 topics
- Mortality502▲ 1.43×13 topics
- Echocardiography444▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Radiotherapy440▲ 1.88×13 topics
- Survival Analysis388▲ 2.4×7 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy357▲ 2.5×5 topics
- Urban Planning250▲ 5.0×15 topics
What research is done in Milan?
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSociology and Political ScienceEconomics and EconometricsEducation4 others
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
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