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Research in Milwaukee
Science Explorer records 93 research institutions in Milwaukee, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Marquette University.
- Research institutions
- 93 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 124k ◆ 1% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 14.2% 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 Milwaukee?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical College of WisconsinUniversity | 36,046 | #991 | |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeUniversity | 29,025 | #2,180 | |
| 3 | Marquette UniversityUniversity | 21,817 | #3,224 | |
| 4 | Rockwell Automation (United States)Company | 12,815 | #26,911 | |
| 5 | Agricultural & Applied Economics AssociationNonprofit | 5,421 | #8,600 | |
| 6 | Children's Hospital of WisconsinHospital / health system | 2,665 | #12,209 | |
| 7 | Versiti Blood Center of WisconsinHospital / health system | 1,514 | #6,841 | |
| 8 | Milwaukee VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,457 | #21,731 | |
| 9 | Aurora St. Luke's Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,368 | #20,550 | |
| 10 | Milwaukee School of EngineeringUniversity | 1,026 | #17,274 | |
| 11 | Aurora Health CareHospital / health system | 994 | #18,540 | |
| 12 | Astronautics Corporation of AmericaCompany | 967 | #10,708 all time | |
| 13 | Froedtert HospitalHospital / health system | 938 | #12,798 | |
| 14 | Harley-Davidson (United States)Company | 698 | #17,613 all time | |
| 15 | Burke FoundationNonprofit | 579 | #12,519 | |
| 16 | Johnson Controls (United States)Company | 569 | #18,407 all time | |
| 17 | Milwaukee County Medical ComplexHospital / health system | 513 | #15,151 all time | |
| 18 | Aurora Sinai Medical CenterHospital / health system | 439 | #26,202 all time | |
| 19 | University School of MilwaukeeUniversity | 376 | #26,654 | |
| 20 | Milwaukee Public MuseumArchive | 356 | #23,824 all time | |
| 21 | Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (United States)Company | 351 | #32,419 all time | |
| 22 | St. Joseph's HospitalHospital / health system | 332 | #18,674 | |
| 23 | Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeUniversity | 272 | #33,243 all time | |
| 24 | St. Francis HospitalHospital / health system | 253 | #32,234 all time | |
| 25 | Cardinal Stritch UniversityUniversity | 227 | #28,279 all time | |
| 26 | Milwaukee Health DepartmentGovernment institution | 220 | #33,225 all time | |
| 27 | Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage DistrictInstitution | 206 | #38,269 all time | |
| 28 | Mount Mary UniversityUniversity | 205 | #37,287 all time | |
| 29 | IndependenceFirstNonprofit | 183 | #24,610 | |
| 30 | Columbia St. Mary's HospitalHospital / health system | 179 | #37,722 all time | |
| 31 | St. Joseph Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 177 | #36,224 all time | |
| 32 | Alverno CollegeUniversity | 161 | #31,927 all time | |
| 33 | Wisconsin Heart HospitalHospital / health system | 160 | #41,563 all time | |
| 34 | Wisconsin School of Professional PsychologyUniversity | 148 | #41,141 all time | |
| 35 | Wisconsin Parkinson AssociationNonprofit | 135 | #35,666 all time | |
| 36 | American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and ImmunologyNonprofit | 132 | #28,360 all time | |
| 37 | Milwaukee Public SchoolsUniversity | 111 | not ranked | |
| 38 | STEM ForwardNonprofit | 95 | not ranked | |
| 39 | PhysioGenix (United States)Company | 93 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeUniversity | 75 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Center for Urban Population HealthHospital / health system | 72 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Herzing UniversityUniversity | 70 | not ranked | |
| 43 | World Allergy OrganizationInstitution | 67 | not ranked | |
| 44 | United Community CenterInstitution | 58 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Sensient Technologies (United States)Company | 57 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Southeastern Wisconsin Information Technology Exchange ConsortiumNonprofit | 54 | not ranked | |
| 47 | American Society for QualityUniversity | 52 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Advanced Engines Development (United States)Company | 42 | not ranked | |
| 49 | American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental MedicineInstitution | 28 | not ranked | |
| 50 | AIDS Resource Center of WisconsinHospital / health system | 26 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Society for Immunotherapy of CancerNonprofit | 25 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Sixteenth Street Community Health CenterHospital / health system | 24 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Briggs & Stratton (United States)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Infinity HealthCare (United States)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Promentis Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Greater Milwaukee FoundationNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Milwaukee Public LibraryArchive | 18 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research SocietyNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Milwaukee Institute of Art & DesignUniversity | 17 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Clinical Immunology SocietyUniversity | 15 | not ranked |
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.
Medical College of Wisconsin36k · 29.1%University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee29k · 23.4%Marquette University22k · 17.6%Rockwell Automation (United States)13k · 10.3%56 others listed24k · 19.6%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
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×
← 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 Milwaukee?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life and Diagnosis.
- Quality Improvement
- Health Outcomes
- Neuroprotection
- Echocardiography
- Primary Care
- Anxiety
- Radiotherapy
- Heart Failure
- Obesity
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Trials
- Mortality
- Depression
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Sustainability
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Risk Factors
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Cancer
- Immunotherapy
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Guidelines
- Prognostic Factors
- Neurological Disorders
- Complications
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Thrombosis
- Medical Education
- Mortality Risk
- Health Disparities
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
▲ 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
- Epidemiology862▲ 1.74×132 topics
- Inflammation468▲ 1.80×82 topics
- Mental Health329▲ 1.80×44 topics
- Risk Factors294▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress282▲ 1.38×61 topics
- Quality of Life279▲ 1.55×56 topics
- Climate Change269▼ 0.80×105 topics
- Treatment266▲ 1.76×52 topics
- Public Health261▲ 1.44×62 topics
- Diagnosis236▲ 2.0×41 topics
- Cancer233▲ 1.39×56 topics
- Sustainability231▼ 0.76×96 topics
- Immunotherapy216▲ 2.4×19 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease211▲ 1.52×37 topics
- Management191▲ 1.95×36 topics
- Depression187▲ 1.71×25 topics
- Chemotherapy172▲ 1.97×24 topics
- Mortality171▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome161▲ 1.58×23 topics
- Clinical Trials157▲ 1.88×19 topics
- Guidelines154▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations153▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Prognostic Factors152▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Obesity151▲ 1.59×26 topics
- Neurological Disorders145▲ 2.0×20 topics
- Heart Failure138▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Complications135▲ 2.2×17 topics
- Radiotherapy132▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines122▲ 1.80×14 topics
- Anxiety118▲ 2.0×11 topics
- Thrombosis118▲ 3.4×7 topics
- Primary Care111▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Medical Education110▲ 3.4×12 topics
- Echocardiography108▲ 3.2×8 topics
- Mortality Risk103▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Neuroprotection102▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Health Disparities101▲ 3.1×8 topics
- Health Outcomes100▲ 2.9×8 topics
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes85▲ 3.6×6 topics
- Quality Improvement84▲ 3.5×8 topics
What research is done in Milwaukee?
OncologyGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesEpidemiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging5 others
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
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.