Research in Milwaukee
Science Explorer records 90 research institutions in Milwaukee, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Marquette University.
- Research institutions
- 90 13 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 124k ▼ 4% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2.9M 23.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 14.2% 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 Milwaukee?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical College of WisconsinUniversity | 41,160 | #924 | |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeUniversity | 29,025 | #1,483 | |
| 3 | Marquette UniversityUniversity | 21,817 | #1,614 | |
| 4 | Rockwell Automation (United States)Company | 12,815 | #19,430 | |
| 5 | Agricultural & Applied Economics AssociationNonprofit | 5,421 | #5,205 | |
| 6 | Versiti Blood Center of WisconsinHospital / health system | 1,514 | #11,004 | |
| 7 | Aurora St. Luke's Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,368 | #16,660 | |
| 8 | Milwaukee School of EngineeringUniversity | 1,026 | #10,954 | |
| 9 | Aurora Health CareHospital / health system | 994 | #12,262 | |
| 10 | Astronautics Corporation of AmericaCompany | 967 | #16,087 all time | |
| 11 | Harley-Davidson (United States)Company | 698 | #10,698 all time | |
| 12 | Burke FoundationNonprofit | 579 | #11,790 | |
| 13 | Johnson Controls (United States)Company | 569 | #16,999 all time | |
| 14 | Milwaukee County Medical ComplexHospital / health system | 513 | #16,917 all time | |
| 15 | Aurora Sinai Medical CenterHospital / health system | 439 | #21,082 all time | |
| 16 | University School of MilwaukeeUniversity | 376 | #18,278 | |
| 17 | Milwaukee Public MuseumArchive | 356 | #22,314 all time | |
| 18 | Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (United States)Company | 351 | #17,054 all time | |
| 19 | St. Joseph's HospitalHospital / health system | 332 | #21,868 | |
| 20 | Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeUniversity | 272 | #21,672 all time | |
| 21 | St. Francis HospitalHospital / health system | 253 | #30,919 all time | |
| 22 | Cardinal Stritch UniversityUniversity | 227 | #24,963 all time | |
| 23 | Milwaukee Health DepartmentGovernment institution | 220 | #18,905 all time | |
| 24 | Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage DistrictInstitution | 206 | #27,947 all time | |
| 25 | Mount Mary UniversityUniversity | 205 | #28,279 all time | |
| 26 | IndependenceFirstNonprofit | 183 | #14,028 | |
| 27 | Columbia St. Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 179 | #30,061 all time | |
| 28 | St. Joseph Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 177 | #33,682 all time | |
| 29 | Alverno CollegeUniversity | 161 | #29,718 all time | |
| 30 | Wisconsin Heart HospitalHospital / health system | 160 | #33,597 all time | |
| 31 | Wisconsin School of Professional PsychologyUniversity | 148 | #34,538 all time | |
| 32 | Wisconsin Parkinson AssociationNonprofit | 135 | #28,687 all time | |
| 33 | American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and ImmunologyNonprofit | 132 | #31,703 all time | |
| 34 | Milwaukee Public SchoolsUniversity | 111 | not ranked | |
| 35 | STEM ForwardNonprofit | 95 | not ranked | |
| 36 | PhysioGenix (United States)Company | 93 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeUniversity | 75 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Center for Urban Population HealthHospital / health system | 72 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Herzing UniversityUniversity | 70 | not ranked | |
| 40 | World Allergy OrganizationInstitution | 67 | not ranked | |
| 41 | United Community CenterInstitution | 58 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Sensient Technologies (United States)Company | 57 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Southeastern Wisconsin Information Technology Exchange ConsortiumNonprofit | 54 | not ranked | |
| 44 | American Society for QualityUniversity | 52 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Advanced Engines Development (United States)Company | 42 | not ranked | |
| 46 | American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental MedicineInstitution | 28 | not ranked | |
| 47 | AIDS Resource Center of WisconsinHospital / health system | 26 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Society for Immunotherapy of CancerNonprofit | 25 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Sixteenth Street Community Health CenterHospital / health system | 24 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Briggs & Stratton (United States)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Infinity HealthCare (United States)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Promentis Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Greater Milwaukee FoundationNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Milwaukee Public LibraryArchive | 18 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research SocietyNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Milwaukee Institute of Art & DesignUniversity | 17 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Clinical Immunology SocietyUniversity | 15 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Horizon Home Care and HospiceHospital / health system | 13 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Montessori Institute of MilwaukeeUniversity | 13 | not ranked | |
| 60 | American Society of Gene Therapy and Cell TherapyInstitution | 10 | 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 Milwaukee work in?
In 2022-now, 46% of research in Milwaukee is in Health Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Social Sciences (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%). It does 2.0× 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
- Health Sciences6,50945.7%
- Medicine5,77640.5%
- Health Professions5684.0%
- Nursing900.6%
- Dentistry620.4%
- Veterinary140.1%
- Social Sciences2,90520.4%
- Social Sciences1,2909.0%
- Psychology6064.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3202.2%
- Arts and Humanities3052.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting2691.9%
- Decision Sciences1140.8%
- Physical Sciences2,59318.2%
- Engineering9886.9%
- Computer Science4373.1%
- Environmental Science3962.8%
- Physics and Astronomy2181.5%
- Materials Science1601.1%
- Mathematics1280.9%
- Chemistry1220.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences900.6%
- Energy340.2%
- Chemical Engineering180.1%
- Life Sciences2,25115.8%
What is Milwaukee strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Milwaukee is most concentrated in Hematology, Emergency Medicine and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (5.2× the world share in Hematology).
- HematologySubfield · 197.1 works5.2×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 129.3 works4.2×
- Endocrine and Autonomic SystemsSubfield · 44.1 works4.2×
- GeneticsSubfield · 131.0 works3.8×
- Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 46.4 works3.4×
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, 2.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine2.11×5,071 works
- Neuroscience1.78×361 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.57×197 works
- Health Professions1.55×510 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.46×970 works
- Psychology1.38×524 works
- Nursing1.29×79 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.06×283 works
- Dentistry0.85×51 works
- Decision Sciences0.78×94 works
- Mathematics0.77×114 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.73×32 works
- Arts and Humanities0.73×264 works
- Social Sciences0.72×1,132 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.68×189 works
- Veterinary0.66×11 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.65×386 works
- Chemistry0.58×114 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.58×235 works
- Environmental Science0.56×346 works
- Engineering0.48×894 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.40×78 works
- Computer Science0.37×363 works
- Chemical Engineering0.36×16 works
- Materials Science0.34×146 works
- Energy0.26×30 works
Which keywords describe research in Milwaukee?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Immunotherapy, Treatment, Diagnosis and Quality of Life.
- Lymphoma
- Health Disparities
- Mortality Risk
- Primary Care
- Medical Education
- Anxiety
- Radiotherapy
- Heart Failure
- Prognostic Factors
- Guidelines
- Obesity
- Mortality
- Depression
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Risk Factors
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Clinical Trials
- Genetic Mutations
- Neurological Disorders
- Genetics
- Complications
- Thrombosis
- Echocardiography
- Neuroprotection
- Health Outcomes
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
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
- Epidemiology976▲ 1.72×132 topics
- Inflammation536▲ 1.77×83 topics
- Mental Health376▲ 1.84×46 topics
- Risk Factors328▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress328▲ 1.40×63 topics
- Quality of Life313▲ 1.52×56 topics
- Climate Change305▼ 0.79×109 topics
- Treatment299▲ 1.73×52 topics
- Public Health293▲ 1.41×64 topics
- Diagnosis268▲ 2.0×41 topics
- Sustainability263▼ 0.75×102 topics
- Cancer260▲ 1.36×59 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease248▲ 1.53×38 topics
- Immunotherapy247▲ 2.4×19 topics
- Management223▲ 1.96×36 topics
- Depression219▲ 1.75×26 topics
- Chemotherapy197▲ 1.95×24 topics
- Mortality187▲ 2.3×13 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome179▲ 1.55×23 topics
- Obesity176▲ 1.60×27 topics
- Clinical Trials175▲ 1.84×19 topics
- Guidelines175▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations170▲ 2.7×23 topics
- Prognostic Factors169▲ 2.7×14 topics
- Neurological Disorders164▲ 2.0×20 topics
- Heart Failure159▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Genetics154▲ 1.53×27 topics
- Radiotherapy148▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Complications146▲ 2.0×17 topics
- Anxiety137▲ 2.0×12 topics
- Thrombosis134▲ 3.4×7 topics
- Medical Education130▲ 3.4×12 topics
- Echocardiography129▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Primary Care122▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Neuroprotection118▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Mortality Risk113▲ 3.3×6 topics
- Health Outcomes113▲ 2.9×8 topics
- Health Disparities111▲ 3.0×8 topics
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes97▲ 3.6×6 topics
- Lymphoma89▲ 3.9×4 topics
What research is done in Milwaukee?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 52 works
- 2 Agricultural Economics and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 works
- 3 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 45 works
- 4 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 40 works
- 5 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 39 works
- 6 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 39 works
- 7 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 37 works
- 8 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 36 works
- 9 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 35 works
- 10 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 33 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 24.2% in 2004.
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