Research in Minneapolis
Science Explorer records 141 research institutions in Minneapolis, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Medical Center and University of Minnesota System.
- Research institutions
- 141 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 241k ▼ 3% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.2% 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 Minneapolis?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MinnesotaUniversity | 159,356 | #124 | |
| 2 | University of Minnesota SystemUniversity | 24,925 | #2,307 | |
| 3 | University of Minnesota Medical CenterHospital / health system | 14,651 | #1,559 | |
| 4 | Walden UniversityUniversity | 4,912 | #7,857 | |
| 5 | Hennepin County Medical CenterHospital / health system | 3,345 | #12,753 | |
| 6 | Augsburg UniversityUniversity | 2,871 | #16,054 | |
| 7 | Minneapolis Institute of ArtsArchive | 2,516 | #23,729 | |
| 8 | HealthPartnersNonprofit | 2,483 | #8,036 | |
| 9 | Target (United States)Company | 2,000 | #6,032 | |
| 10 | Medtronic (United States)Company | 1,844 | #13,093 | |
| 11 | Minneapolis VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,653 | #22,257 | |
| 12 | Minneapolis Heart Institute FoundationFunder | 1,625 | #12,623 | |
| 13 | Abbott Northwestern HospitalHospital / health system | 1,262 | #14,996 | |
| 14 | Capella UniversityUniversity | 1,238 | #22,202 | |
| 15 | Minneapolis VA Health Care SystemHospital / health system | 1,051 | #9,444 | |
| 16 | General Mills (United States)Company | 945 | #23,717 | |
| 17 | Fairview Health ServicesHospital / health system | 874 | #16,679 | |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of MinneapolisInstitution | 826 | #19,649 | |
| 19 | Hennepin Healthcare Research InstituteResearch facility | 720 | #3,264 | |
| 20 | Life Services (United States)Company | 611 | #21,761 | |
| 21 | Children's MinnesotaHospital / health system | 609 | #20,182 | |
| 22 | Hennepin CountyGovernment institution | 556 | #15,994 all time | |
| 23 | National Marrow Donor ProgramNonprofit | 543 | #7,150 | |
| 24 | Allina HealthHospital / health system | 534 | #20,461 | |
| 25 | University of Minnesota Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 520 | #21,233 | |
| 26 | Metro TransitGovernment institution | 491 | #24,526 | |
| 27 | MNGI Digestive HealthHospital / health system | 454 | #19,668 all time | |
| 28 | Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 454 | #12,858 all time | |
| 29 | Twin Cities Spine CenterHospital / health system | 358 | #33,025 all time | |
| 30 | The Retina CenterHospital / health system | 339 | #23,125 | |
| 31 | Innovative Research (United States)Company | 336 | #13,537 | |
| 32 | Midwest Orthopaedic Research FoundationNonprofit | 332 | #19,803 all time | |
| 33 | R&D Systems (United States)Company | 315 | #15,432 all time | |
| 34 | Itasca Consultants (United States)Company | 315 | #25,886 all time | |
| 35 | Minneapolis Public SchoolsUniversity | 263 | #28,605 all time | |
| 36 | American Academy of NeurologyNonprofit | 245 | #17,372 all time | |
| 37 | Adolescent Health ClinicHospital / health system | 227 | #26,691 all time | |
| 38 | Search InstituteNonprofit | 222 | #23,488 all time | |
| 39 | Minnesota Medical AssociationNonprofit | 218 | #38,397 all time | |
| 40 | Land Stewardship ProjectNonprofit | 209 | #17,409 all time | |
| 41 | DaVita Clinical Research (United States)University | 204 | #32,545 all time | |
| 42 | Park Nicollet Health ServicesNonprofit | 203 | #22,566 all time | |
| 43 | PLUS FoundationNonprofit | 190 | #35,432 all time | |
| 44 | MEI Research (United States)Company | 190 | #38,277 all time | |
| 45 | Dayforce (United States)Company | 187 | #27,244 all time | |
| 46 | Creative Health Care ManagementInstitution | 177 | #21,234 all time | |
| 47 | Smart Information Flow Technologies (United States)Company | 158 | #40,881 all time | |
| 48 | Graco (United States)Company | 138 | #41,037 all time | |
| 49 | ViteroRetinal SurgeryNonprofit | 118 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Xcel Energy (United States)Company | 114 | not ranked | |
| 51 | North Central UniversityUniversity | 113 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Seward (United States)Company | 105 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Bakken MuseumArchive | 104 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Minneapolis CollegeUniversity | 92 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Hysitron (United States)Company | 92 | not ranked | |
| 56 | CyberOptics (United States)Company | 89 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Cell Culture Company (United States)Company | 83 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Minneapolis College of Art and DesignUniversity | 71 | not ranked | |
| 59 | T3 Scientific (United States)Company | 66 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Fluorescence Innovations (United States)Company | 63 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Minneapolis strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Minneapolis is most concentrated in Transplantation, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Family Practice (6.6× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 72.5 works6.6×
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 793.0 works3.0×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 35.1 works3.0×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 75.5 works2.5×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 130.1 works2.5×
- Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 66.5 works2.4×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 188.0 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.
Which keywords describe research in Minneapolis?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Public Health, Quality of Life, Risk Factors and Heart Failure.
- Graft Survival
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Emotion Regulation
- Health Disparities
- Myocardial Infarction
- Complications
- Primary Care
- Social Support
- Biomarkers
- Mortality
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Obesity
- Immunotherapy
- Depression
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Machine Learning
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Cancer
- Diagnosis
- Heart Failure
- Neurological Disorders
- Clinical Trials
- Guidelines
- Genetics
- Adolescents
- Aging
- Anxiety
- Echocardiography
- Prevalence
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Mortality Risk
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
- Epidemiology1,534▲ 1.56×134 topics
- Inflammation684▲ 1.32×83 topics
- Mental Health639▲ 1.76×46 topics
- Climate Change565▼ 0.85×110 topics
- Public Health554▲ 1.54×63 topics
- Quality of Life551▲ 1.54×58 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease523▲ 1.90×39 topics
- Machine Learning507▼ 0.62×87 topics
- Deep Learning503▼ 0.59×78 topics
- Risk Factors496▲ 1.82×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress465◆ 1.15×62 topics
- Treatment428▲ 1.42×51 topics
- Cancer363◆ 1.09×58 topics
- Depression348▲ 1.60×25 topics
- Diagnosis338▲ 1.46×40 topics
- Immunotherapy338▲ 1.91×19 topics
- Heart Failure334▲ 3.1×14 topics
- Obesity318▲ 1.69×27 topics
- Neurological Disorders306▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome278▲ 1.38×24 topics
- Clinical Trials276▲ 1.66×19 topics
- Mortality264▲ 1.84×13 topics
- Guidelines259▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Biomarkers258▲ 1.52×18 topics
- Genetics256▲ 1.48×26 topics
- Social Support238▲ 1.72×18 topics
- Adolescents228▲ 2.5×11 topics
- Primary Care223▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Aging220▲ 1.65×19 topics
- Complications217▲ 1.75×17 topics
- Anxiety215▲ 1.83×12 topics
- Myocardial Infarction201▲ 3.5×7 topics
- Echocardiography201▲ 3.0×8 topics
- Health Disparities199▲ 3.0×9 topics
- Prevalence194▲ 1.92×15 topics
- Emotion Regulation192▲ 2.5×9 topics
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention176▲ 5.3×4 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging172▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Mortality Risk170▲ 2.9×6 topics
- Graft Survival111▲ 5.5×3 topics
What research is done in Minneapolis?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 88 works
- 2 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 79 works
- 3 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 77 works
- 4 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 73 works
- 5 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 72 works
- 6 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 70 works
- 7 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 68 works
- 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 64 works
- 9 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 64 works
- 10 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 62 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.