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Research in Nashville
Science Explorer records 90 research institutions in Nashville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Health.
- Research institutions
- 90 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 135k ▲ 10% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.9% 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 Nashville?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanderbilt UniversityUniversity | 80,699 | #282 | |
| 2 | Vanderbilt University Medical CenterHospital / health system | 28,547 | #388 | |
| 3 | Tennessee State UniversityUniversity | 3,804 | #8,123 | |
| 4 | Meharry Medical CollegeUniversity | 2,950 | #8,954 | |
| 5 | Vanderbilt HealthCompany | 2,457 | #3,466 | |
| 6 | Nashville Oncology AssociatesInstitution | 1,825 | #20,244 | |
| 7 | Hypertension InstituteResearch facility | 1,741 | #12,772 | |
| 8 | Belmont UniversityUniversity | 1,294 | #11,454 | |
| 9 | VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 1,201 | #3,969 | |
| 10 | Sarah CannonResearch facility | 1,166 | #4,946 | |
| 11 | Fisk UniversityUniversity | 1,006 | #12,447 | |
| 12 | Tennessee Department of HealthGovernment institution | 764 | #17,752 | |
| 13 | HCA HealthcareHospital / health system | 601 | #14,298 | |
| 14 | Tennessee OncologyHospital / health system | 601 | #9,542 | |
| 15 | Lipscomb UniversityUniversity | 595 | #18,226 | |
| 16 | Urology AssociatesHospital / health system | 556 | #24,473 | |
| 17 | University School of NashvilleUniversity | 549 | #18,953 all time | |
| 18 | Hermitage MuseumArchive | 491 | #23,384 | |
| 19 | Clinical Research AssociatesInstitution | 461 | #12,884 all time | |
| 20 | Tennessee Department of EducationGovernment institution | 353 | #27,594 all time | |
| 21 | Centennial Medical CenterHospital / health system | 334 | #24,214 | |
| 22 | Nashville VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 314 | #13,822 all time | |
| 23 | Saint Thomas HealthHospital / health system | 305 | #31,023 all time | |
| 24 | Saint Thomas Midtown HospitalHospital / health system | 284 | #31,379 all time | |
| 25 | Gold Skin Care CenterHospital / health system | 261 | #32,787 all time | |
| 26 | Saint Thomas West HospitalHospital / health system | 220 | #26,857 all time | |
| 27 | Vanderbilt Psychiatric HospitalHospital / health system | 214 | #17,645 all time | |
| 28 | Tennessee RetinaHospital / health system | 165 | #39,387 all time | |
| 29 | Welch CollegeUniversity | 146 | #34,536 all time | |
| 30 | Bridgestone (United States)Company | 140 | #35,179 all time | |
| 31 | Tennessee Clinical Research CenterResearch facility | 137 | #39,698 all time | |
| 32 | Tennessee Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 127 | #39,876 all time | |
| 33 | Trevecca Nazarene UniversityUniversity | 91 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Watkins College of Art Design and FilmUniversity | 90 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Tennessee Orthopaedic AllianceHospital / health system | 71 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Tennessee Wildlife Resources AgencyInstitution | 71 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Southern Hills Medical CenterHospital / health system | 69 | not ranked | |
| 38 | CenterstoneHospital / health system | 55 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Insight Genetics (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 40 | St. Thomas Medical GroupHospital / health system | 46 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Children’s Hospital at TriStar CentennialHospital / health system | 42 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Molecular Sensing (United States)Company | 42 | not ranked | |
| 43 | American Economic AssociationInstitution | 39 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Nashville State Community CollegeUniversity | 37 | not ranked | |
| 45 | American Baptist CollegeUniversity | 34 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Nashville Public Education FoundationNonprofit | 31 | not ranked | |
| 47 | VA MidSouth Healthcare NetworkHospital / health system | 22 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Tennessee Department of Environment and ConservationGovernment institution | 18 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Tennessee Department of AgricultureGovernment institution | 16 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Tennessee Voices for ChildrenNonprofit | 14 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission & Student Assistance CorporationGovernment institution | 13 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Centennial Heart Cardiovascular ConsultantsInstitution | 13 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Aquinas College - TennesseeUniversity | 12 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Beacon Center of TennesseeNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Middle Tennessee Research InstituteNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 57 | GenHunter (United States)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 58 | MetaMorph (United States)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 59 | IQuity (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Nashville Medical Research InstituteResearch facility | 7 | 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.
Vanderbilt University81k · 59.7%Vanderbilt University Medical Center29k · 21.1%Tennessee State University3,804 · 2.8%Meharry Medical College2,950 · 2.2%56 others listed19k · 14.2%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Nashville strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Nashville is most concentrated in Transplantation, Family Practice and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (5.3× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 45.3 works5.3×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 37.9 works4.1×
- Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineSubfield · 97.2 works3.4×
- NephrologySubfield · 129.5 works3.1×
- Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 434.8 works3.1×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 184.5 works3.1×
- Immunology and AllergySubfield · 46.8 works3.1×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 142.7 works3.0×
← 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 Nashville?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Quality of Life, Treatment, Cancer, Oxidative Stress and Chemotherapy.
- Academic Medicine
- Targeted Therapy
- Neuroimaging
- Radiotherapy
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Prognostic Factors
- Guidelines
- Obesity
- Precision Medicine
- Depression
- Neurological Disorders
- Management
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Chemotherapy
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Machine Learning
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Cancer
- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Heart Failure
- Mortality
- Complications
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Hypertension
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Medical Education
- Brain Connectivity
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,468▲ 1.93×133 topics
- Inflammation871▲ 2.2×82 topics
- Quality of Life554▲ 2.0×55 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease504▲ 2.4×38 topics
- Deep Learning494▼ 0.75×83 topics
- Machine Learning469▼ 0.74×88 topics
- Oxidative Stress464▲ 1.48×61 topics
- Treatment458▲ 1.97×52 topics
- Cancer435▲ 1.69×54 topics
- Public Health426▲ 1.53×64 topics
- Risk Factors390▲ 1.84×37 topics
- Mental Health374▲ 1.33×44 topics
- Diagnosis367▲ 2.0×41 topics
- Chemotherapy331▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Immunotherapy318▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome318▲ 2.0×22 topics
- Biomarkers311▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Management309▲ 2.0×35 topics
- Genetics299▲ 2.2×27 topics
- Neurological Disorders298▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Clinical Trials293▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Depression285▲ 1.69×24 topics
- Heart Failure276▲ 3.3×13 topics
- Precision Medicine252▲ 2.8×8 topics
- Mortality244▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Obesity241▲ 1.66×26 topics
- Complications230▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Guidelines230▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations220▲ 2.6×23 topics
- Prognostic Factors212▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines208▲ 1.99×14 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment199▲ 2.3×8 topics
- Hypertension183▲ 3.3×16 topics
- Radiotherapy176▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Chronic Kidney Disease172▲ 3.7×9 topics
- Neuroimaging158▲ 3.0×11 topics
- Medical Education158▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Targeted Therapy156▲ 3.6×5 topics
- Brain Connectivity111▲ 6.1×2 topics
- Academic Medicine103▲ 6.9×3 topics
What research is done in Nashville?
OncologyCognitive NeuroscienceCancer ResearchGender Studies3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 77 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 69 works
- 3 Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Cognitive Neuroscience 65 works
- 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 62 works
- 5 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 60 works
- 6 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 58 works
- 7 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 57 works
- 8 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 56 works
- 9 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 55 works
- 10 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 53 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.