Research in New York
Science Explorer records 1,199 research institutions in New York, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Columbia University, New York University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- Research institutions
- 1,199 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 1M ▲ 7% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 34.3M 33.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 17.2% 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 New York?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia UniversityUniversity | 201,772 | #17 | |
| 2 | New York UniversityUniversity | 151,504 | #30 | |
| 3 | City University of New YorkUniversity | 108,465 | #286 | |
| 4 | Mount Sinai Health SystemHospital / health system | 69,264 | #211 | |
| 5 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 57,242 | #189 | |
| 6 | Human Growth FoundationNonprofit | 26,792 | #4,381 | |
| 7 | Pfizer (United States)Company | 25,569 | #644 | |
| 8 | Rockefeller UniversityUniversity | 21,869 | #685 | |
| 9 | Fordham UniversityUniversity | 19,019 | #2,370 | |
| 10 | Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States)Company | 15,078 | #1,306 | |
| 11 | St. John's UniversityUniversity | 11,050 | #2,330 | |
| 12 | Yeshiva UniversityUniversity | 8,865 | #4,386 | |
| 13 | American Museum of Natural HistoryArchive | 8,401 | #2,141 | |
| 14 | New York Proton CenterResearch facility | 8,352 | #5,018 | |
| 15 | RCA (United States)Company | 7,731 | #20,345 all time | |
| 16 | The King's CollegeUniversity | 7,352 | #4,473 | |
| 17 | New SchoolUniversity | 6,297 | #3,166 | |
| 18 | Pace UniversityUniversity | 6,242 | #2,980 | |
| 19 | Berkeley CollegeUniversity | 5,401 | #963 | |
| 20 | IHI Corporation (United States)Company | 5,296 | #34,856 all time | |
| 21 | Ludwig Cancer ResearchNonprofit | 5,246 | #1,405 | |
| 22 | St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital CenterHospital / health system | 4,991 | #9,365 all time | |
| 23 | New York Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteInstitution | 4,314 | #1,657 | |
| 24 | United NationsGovernment institution | 4,094 | #5,752 | |
| 25 | New York Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 3,631 | #3,592 | |
| 26 | Hess (United States)Company | 3,540 | #5,587 | |
| 27 | New York Law SchoolUniversity | 3,463 | #7,904 | |
| 28 | College of Staten IslandUniversity | 3,356 | #2,867 | |
| 29 | Barnard CollegeUniversity | 3,306 | #2,418 | |
| 30 | Wildlife Conservation SocietyNonprofit | 3,205 | #5,397 | |
| 31 | Whitney Museum of American ArtArchive | 3,100 | #8,607 | |
| 32 | Vaughn College of Aeronautics and TechnologyUniversity | 2,776 | #4,739 | |
| 33 | New York Botanical GardenArchive | 2,747 | #16,352 | |
| 34 | Girls IncorporatedNonprofit | 2,664 | #7,551 | |
| 35 | United Nations Children's FundFunder | 2,649 | #3,271 | |
| 36 | New York City Department of Health and Mental HygieneGovernment institution | 2,488 | #4,535 | |
| 37 | Manhattan UniversityUniversity | 2,486 | #4,492 | |
| 38 | Cancer Research InstituteNonprofit | 2,477 | #5,103 | |
| 39 | SUNY College of OptometryUniversity | 2,372 | #8,609 | |
| 40 | New York Eye and Ear InfirmaryHospital / health system | 2,353 | #14,568 | |
| 41 | Cicatelli AssociatesNonprofit | 2,332 | #32,244 all time | |
| 42 | Conference BoardNonprofit | 2,254 | #9,539 | |
| 43 | ING DirectInstitution | 2,251 | #8,490 | |
| 44 | Associated PressNonprofit | 2,209 | #9,260 | |
| 45 | New York Blood CenterNonprofit | 2,189 | #14,189 | |
| 46 | Japan SocietyNonprofit | 2,079 | #13,783 | |
| 47 | Alcoa (United States)Company | 2,034 | #7,302 all time | |
| 48 | Population CouncilNonprofit | 1,991 | #11,590 | |
| 49 | Faculty of 1000 (United States)Company | 1,983 | #13,063 | |
| 50 | American Society of Composers, Authors and PublishersNonprofit | 1,954 | #11,103 | |
| 51 | CHDI FoundationNonprofit | 1,917 | #3,164 all time | |
| 52 | Deloitte (United States)Company | 1,903 | #5,984 | |
| 53 | ENT and AllergyHospital / health system | 1,834 | #11,150 | |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkInstitution | 1,826 | #15,576 | |
| 55 | New York City Fire DepartmentGovernment institution | 1,799 | #5,789 | |
| 56 | Verizon (United States)Company | 1,728 | #11,081 | |
| 57 | CitigroupInstitution | 1,696 | #4,574 | |
| 58 | Pearson (United States)Company | 1,618 | #9,470 | |
| 59 | L-3 Communications (United States)Company | 1,605 | #9,611 | |
| 60 | IAC (United States)Company | 1,560 | #10,067 |
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 New York work in?
In 2022-now, 35% of research in New York is in Health Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (31%), Social Sciences (16%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%). It does 1.5× 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 Sciences58k35.2%
- Medicine51k31.3%
- Health Professions5,2073.2%
- Nursing5990.4%
- Dentistry4360.3%
- Veterinary2590.2%
- Social Sciences50k30.7%
- Social Sciences27k16.2%
- Psychology7,4544.5%
- Arts and Humanities5,6873.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance5,3713.3%
- Business, Management and Accounting3,6572.2%
- Decision Sciences1,5480.9%
- Physical Sciences35k21.1%
- Engineering11k6.7%
- Computer Science8,8935.4%
- Environmental Science5,0763.1%
- Physics and Astronomy3,1331.9%
- Mathematics1,8711.1%
- Materials Science1,4810.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1,4650.9%
- Chemistry1,0820.7%
- Energy4270.3%
- Chemical Engineering1540.1%
- Life Sciences21k13.0%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11k6.8%
- Neuroscience4,3752.7%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences2,9411.8%
- Immunology and Microbiology2,3291.4%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4910.3%
What is New York strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in New York is most concentrated in General Psychology, Transportation and Transplantation (5.3× the world share in General Psychology).
- General PsychologySubfield · 77.6 works5.3×
- TransportationSubfield · 2,202.9 works4.7×
- TransplantationSubfield · 212.2 works3.4×
- AgingSubfield · 81.1 works2.4×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 62.8 works2.4×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 203.2 works2.4×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 171.0 works2.2×
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, 1.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine1.66×45k works
- Neuroscience1.61×3,685 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.57×4,738 works
- Psychology1.50×6,432 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.42×2,022 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.28×9,642 works
- Health Professions1.25×4,644 works
- Social Sciences1.24×22k works
- Arts and Humanities1.19×4,840 works
- Veterinary1.17×224 works
- Mathematics0.98×1,626 works
- Decision Sciences0.95×1,300 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.85×421 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.84×2,631 works
- Nursing0.75×517 works
- Computer Science0.67×7,388 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.67×3,057 works
- Environmental Science0.63×4,400 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.58×1,272 works
- Dentistry0.56×380 works
- Engineering0.45×9,515 works
- Chemistry0.43×952 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.38×2,512 works
- Energy0.29×376 works
- Chemical Engineering0.26×130 works
- Materials Science0.26×1,272 works
Which keywords describe research in New York?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Legal Regulation, Economic Security, Science, Modernization, History, International Trade Law and Design.
- International Law
- Clinical Trials
- Diagnosis
- Warfare
- Strategic Planning
- Malay Language
- Sharia Law
- Public Oversight
- International Trade Law
- Social Influence
- Modernization
- Risk Factors
- Ethnicity
- Philosophy
- Human Rights
- Literature
- Quality of Life
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- History
- Legal Regulation
- Climate Change
- Culture
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Science
- Economic Security
- Islam
- Immunotherapy
- Design
- Transport Policy
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Foresight
- Air Force
- Depression
- Chemotherapy
- Complications
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
- Epidemiology9,748▲ 1.49×140 topics
- Machine Learning4,364▼ 0.80×96 topics
- Globalization4,247▲ 1.32×186 topics
- Inflammation3,884◆ 1.11×83 topics
- History3,727▲ 3.3×66 topics
- Mental Health3,614▲ 1.54×48 topics
- Legal Regulation3,516▲ 9.5×8 topics
- Quality of Life3,426▲ 1.45×61 topics
- Climate Change3,397▼ 0.76×132 topics
- Literature3,312▲ 3.7×64 topics
- Culture3,310▲ 3.9×40 topics
- Human Rights3,280▲ 1.95×91 topics
- Public Health3,202▲ 1.34×77 topics
- Philosophy3,158▲ 4.3×47 topics
- Treatment2,959▲ 1.48×52 topics
- Ethnicity2,942▲ 4.8×25 topics
- Science2,888▲ 7.2×13 topics
- Risk Factors2,879▲ 1.60×37 topics
- Economic Security2,826▲ 8.1×7 topics
- Modernization2,520▲ 8.4×5 topics
- Islam2,506▲ 7.4×5 topics
- Social Influence2,480▲ 7.2×3 topics
- Immunotherapy2,477▲ 2.1×19 topics
- International Trade Law2,451▲ 11×2 topics
- Design2,440▲ 9.1×6 topics
- Public Oversight2,420▲ 12×1 topic
- Transport Policy2,420▲ 12×1 topic
- Sharia Law2,399▲ 10×2 topics
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles2,396▲ 7.8×5 topics
- Malay Language2,392▲ 10×1 topic
- Foresight2,391▲ 11×2 topics
- Strategic Planning2,390▲ 9.9×5 topics
- Air Force2,361▲ 12×1 topic
- Warfare2,361▲ 12×1 topic
- Depression2,294▲ 1.59×26 topics
- Diagnosis2,292▲ 1.50×41 topics
- Chemotherapy2,269▲ 1.95×25 topics
- Clinical Trials1,918▲ 1.75×19 topics
- Complications1,736▲ 2.1×17 topics
- International Law1,457▲ 2.8×32 topics
What research is done in New York?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 2k works
- 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 2k works
- 3 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 2k works
- 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 396 works
- 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 386 works
- 6 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 383 works
- 7 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 381 works
- 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 347 works
- 9 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 326 works
- 10 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 299 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 27.8% in 2008.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in New York for research?
Science Explorer records 1,199 research institutions in New York, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Columbia University, New York University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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