Research in Nashville
Science Explorer records 82 research institutions in Nashville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Health and Meharry Medical College.
- Research institutions
- 82 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 135k ▲ 2% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.7M 34.6 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.9% 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 Nashville?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanderbilt UniversityUniversity | 110,118 | #129 | |
| 2 | Tennessee State UniversityUniversity | 3,804 | #5,883 | |
| 3 | Meharry Medical CollegeUniversity | 2,950 | #5,691 | |
| 4 | Vanderbilt HealthCompany | 2,457 | #1,205 | |
| 5 | Nashville Oncology AssociatesInstitution | 1,825 | #14,894 | |
| 6 | Hypertension InstituteResearch facility | 1,741 | #12,185 | |
| 7 | Belmont UniversityUniversity | 1,294 | #7,757 | |
| 8 | Sarah CannonResearch facility | 1,166 | #8,145 | |
| 9 | Fisk UniversityUniversity | 1,006 | #15,530 | |
| 10 | Tennessee Department of HealthGovernment institution | 764 | #18,391 | |
| 11 | HCA HealthcareHospital / health system | 601 | #16,028 | |
| 12 | Tennessee OncologyHospital / health system | 601 | #13,677 | |
| 13 | Lipscomb UniversityUniversity | 595 | #9,870 | |
| 14 | Urology AssociatesHospital / health system | 556 | #21,816 | |
| 15 | University School of NashvilleUniversity | 549 | #9,157 all time | |
| 16 | Hermitage MuseumArchive | 491 | #16,200 | |
| 17 | Clinical Research AssociatesInstitution | 461 | #10,737 all time | |
| 18 | Tennessee Department of EducationGovernment institution | 353 | #13,324 all time | |
| 19 | Centennial Medical CenterHospital / health system | 334 | #14,038 | |
| 20 | Gold Skin Care CenterHospital / health system | 261 | #23,160 all time | |
| 21 | Vanderbilt Psychiatric HospitalHospital / health system | 214 | #21,873 all time | |
| 22 | Tennessee RetinaHospital / health system | 165 | #31,978 all time | |
| 23 | Welch CollegeUniversity | 146 | #32,306 all time | |
| 24 | Bridgestone (United States)Company | 140 | #31,555 all time | |
| 25 | Tennessee Clinical Research CenterResearch facility | 137 | #31,920 all time | |
| 26 | Tennessee Department of TransportationGovernment institution | 127 | #33,210 all time | |
| 27 | Trevecca Nazarene UniversityUniversity | 91 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Watkins College of Art Design and FilmUniversity | 90 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Tennessee Orthopaedic AllianceHospital / health system | 71 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Tennessee Wildlife Resources AgencyInstitution | 71 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Southern Hills Medical CenterHospital / health system | 69 | not ranked | |
| 32 | CenterstoneHospital / health system | 55 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Insight Genetics (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 34 | St. Thomas Medical GroupHospital / health system | 46 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Children’s Hospital at TriStar CentennialHospital / health system | 42 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Molecular Sensing (United States)Company | 42 | not ranked | |
| 37 | American Economic AssociationInstitution | 39 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Nashville State Community CollegeUniversity | 37 | not ranked | |
| 39 | American Baptist CollegeUniversity | 34 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Nashville Public Education FoundationNonprofit | 31 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Tennessee Department of Environment and ConservationGovernment institution | 18 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Tennessee Department of AgricultureGovernment institution | 16 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Tennessee Voices for ChildrenNonprofit | 14 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission & Student Assistance CorporationGovernment institution | 13 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Centennial Heart Cardiovascular ConsultantsInstitution | 13 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Aquinas College - TennesseeUniversity | 12 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Beacon Center of TennesseeNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Middle Tennessee Research InstituteNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 50 | GenHunter (United States)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 51 | MetaMorph (United States)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 52 | IQuity (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Nashville Medical Research InstituteResearch facility | 7 | not ranked | |
| 54 | AppliFlex (United States)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 55 | International Bluegrass Music AssociationInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Tennessee Department of Human ServicesGovernment institution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Tennessee Physical Therapy AssociationInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Nashville Public LibraryArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse ServicesHospital / health system | 6 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Alive HospiceNonprofit | 5 | 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 Nashville work in?
In 2022-now, 47% of research in Nashville is in Health Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (42%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Social Sciences (9%). 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 Sciences10k46.8%
- Medicine9,22241.9%
- Health Professions8273.8%
- Nursing1760.8%
- Veterinary370.2%
- Dentistry340.2%
- Social Sciences4,26719.4%
- Social Sciences1,8928.6%
- Psychology1,0304.7%
- Arts and Humanities5002.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4181.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting2601.2%
- Decision Sciences1670.8%
- Life Sciences4,11118.7%
- Physical Sciences3,34515.2%
- Engineering1,1045.0%
- Computer Science9254.2%
- Environmental Science3231.5%
- Physics and Astronomy3101.4%
- Mathematics2131.0%
- Materials Science1690.8%
- Chemistry1620.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences940.4%
- Energy280.1%
- Chemical Engineering170.1%
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×
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: Neuroscience, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Neuroscience2.68×836 works
- Medicine2.16×7,984 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.06×399 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.93×1,978 works
- Nursing1.64×154 works
- Psychology1.52×891 works
- Health Professions1.45×735 works
- Veterinary1.30×34 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.24×84 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.92×379 works
- Mathematics0.83×188 works
- Arts and Humanities0.80×445 works
- Decision Sciences0.78×144 works
- Social Sciences0.70×1,704 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.62×263 works
- Computer Science0.55×816 works
- Chemistry0.48×144 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.37×227 works
- Engineering0.34×975 works
- Dentistry0.32×30 works
- Environmental Science0.30×284 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×264 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.27×80 works
- Chemical Engineering0.23×15 works
- Materials Science0.22×149 works
- Energy0.13×24 works
Which keywords describe research in Nashville?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Quality of Life, Treatment, Oxidative Stress, Heart Failure and Cancer.
- Brain Connectivity
- Medical Education
- Neuroimaging
- Radiotherapy
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Prognostic Factors
- Guidelines
- Mortality
- Precision Medicine
- Depression
- Neurological Disorders
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Diagnosis
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Machine Learning
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Cancer
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Heart Failure
- Clinical Trials
- Obesity
- Complications
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Hypertension
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Clinical Guidelines
- Targeted Therapy
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
- Epidemiology1,688▲ 1.92×133 topics
- Inflammation1,002▲ 2.1×82 topics
- Quality of Life627▲ 1.97×55 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease591▲ 2.4×38 topics
- Deep Learning567▼ 0.75×83 topics
- Machine Learning542▼ 0.74×88 topics
- Oxidative Stress541▲ 1.49×61 topics
- Treatment528▲ 1.97×52 topics
- Cancer496▲ 1.68×55 topics
- Public Health482▲ 1.50×65 topics
- Risk Factors446▲ 1.84×37 topics
- Diagnosis420▲ 2.0×41 topics
- Mental Health416▲ 1.32×44 topics
- Chemotherapy385▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Immunotherapy370▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Management361▲ 2.0×35 topics
- Biomarkers359▲ 2.3×18 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome355▲ 1.99×23 topics
- Genetics350▲ 2.2×27 topics
- Neurological Disorders341▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Heart Failure332▲ 3.4×13 topics
- Depression330▲ 1.70×24 topics
- Clinical Trials323▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Precision Medicine291▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Obesity281▲ 1.66×26 topics
- Mortality276▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Complications269▲ 2.5×17 topics
- Guidelines265▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations255▲ 2.6×23 topics
- Prognostic Factors241▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines237▲ 1.95×14 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment222▲ 2.2×8 topics
- Hypertension209▲ 3.3×16 topics
- Radiotherapy205▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Chronic Kidney Disease200▲ 3.6×9 topics
- Neuroimaging183▲ 3.0×11 topics
- Clinical Guidelines183▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Medical Education179▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Targeted Therapy174▲ 3.5×5 topics
- Brain Connectivity126▲ 6.1×2 topics
What research is done in Nashville?
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
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 29.6% in 2016.
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