Research in New York
Science Explorer records 1,270 research institutions in New York, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Columbia University, New York University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
- Research institutions
- 1,270 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 1M ▲ 11% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.2% 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 New York?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbia UniversityUniversity | 163,528 | #49 | |
| 2 | New York UniversityUniversity | 115,437 | #81 | |
| 3 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUniversity | 51,980 | #169 | |
| 4 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 47,108 | #299 | |
| 5 | City University of New YorkUniversity | 32,166 | #1,062 | |
| 6 | Human Growth FoundationNonprofit | 26,792 | #4,863 | |
| 7 | Columbia University Irving Medical CenterHospital / health system | 26,624 | #344 | |
| 8 | Rockefeller UniversityUniversity | 21,504 | #602 | |
| 9 | Pfizer (United States)Company | 19,417 | #882 | |
| 10 | Fordham UniversityUniversity | 19,019 | #3,292 | |
| 11 | NewYork–Presbyterian HospitalHospital / health system | 14,621 | #3,479 | |
| 12 | City College of New YorkUniversity | 14,236 | #2,605 | |
| 13 | NYU Langone HealthHospital / health system | 12,982 | #862 | |
| 14 | The Graduate Center, CUNYUniversity | 12,103 | #994 | |
| 15 | St. John's UniversityUniversity | 11,050 | #2,706 | |
| 16 | Hospital for Special SurgeryHospital / health system | 10,120 | #3,364 | |
| 17 | Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States)Company | 9,607 | #2,251 | |
| 18 | Queens College, CUNYUniversity | 9,268 | #4,995 | |
| 19 | Hunter CollegeUniversity | 9,204 | #3,900 | |
| 20 | Yeshiva UniversityUniversity | 8,862 | #8,715 | |
| 21 | American Museum of Natural HistoryArchive | 8,401 | #4,368 | |
| 22 | New York Proton CenterResearch facility | 8,352 | #4,183 | |
| 23 | RCA (United States)Company | 7,731 | #536 all time | |
| 24 | The King's CollegeUniversity | 7,352 | #10,975 | |
| 25 | New SchoolUniversity | 6,297 | #7,215 | |
| 26 | Mount Sinai HospitalHospital / health system | 6,270 | #10,220 | |
| 27 | Pace UniversityUniversity | 6,242 | #9,898 | |
| 28 | Baruch CollegeUniversity | 6,129 | #7,035 | |
| 29 | Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesUniversity | 5,822 | #3,041 | |
| 30 | Weill Cornell MedicineUniversity | 5,812 | #669 | |
| 31 | Berkeley CollegeUniversity | 5,401 | #1,718 | |
| 32 | IHI Corporation (United States)Company | 5,296 | #10,511 all time | |
| 33 | St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital CenterHospital / health system | 4,991 | #3,191 all time | |
| 34 | Mount Sinai Beth IsraelHospital / health system | 4,972 | #15,831 | |
| 35 | Bellevue Hospital CenterHospital / health system | 4,882 | #4,359 | |
| 36 | New York Hospital QueensHospital / health system | 4,545 | #4,910 | |
| 37 | John Jay College of Criminal JusticeUniversity | 4,411 | #9,547 | |
| 38 | Maimonides Medical CenterHospital / health system | 4,361 | #12,190 | |
| 39 | New York Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteInstitution | 4,314 | #4,096 | |
| 40 | United NationsGovernment institution | 4,094 | #13,997 | |
| 41 | Lenox Hill HospitalHospital / health system | 3,941 | #9,070 | |
| 42 | New York State College of Veterinary MedicineUniversity | 3,565 | #4,590 | |
| 43 | Hess (United States)Company | 3,540 | #12,485 | |
| 44 | New York University Langone Orthopedic HospitalHospital / health system | 3,532 | #15,652 | |
| 45 | Lehman CollegeUniversity | 3,486 | #7,747 | |
| 46 | New York Law SchoolUniversity | 3,463 | #13,888 | |
| 47 | College of Staten IslandUniversity | 3,356 | #5,578 | |
| 48 | Barnard CollegeUniversity | 3,306 | #6,801 | |
| 49 | Novartis (United States)Company | 3,186 | #3,834 | |
| 50 | Whitney Museum of American ArtArchive | 3,100 | #8,296 | |
| 51 | New York Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 2,893 | #6,083 | |
| 52 | Vaughn College of Aeronautics and TechnologyUniversity | 2,776 | #7,656 | |
| 53 | New York Botanical GardenArchive | 2,747 | #19,189 | |
| 54 | Girls IncorporatedNonprofit | 2,664 | #10,600 | |
| 55 | Manhattan UniversityUniversity | 2,486 | #10,878 | |
| 56 | Cancer Research InstituteNonprofit | 2,477 | #4,937 | |
| 57 | SUNY College of OptometryUniversity | 2,372 | #20,201 | |
| 58 | New York Eye and Ear InfirmaryHospital / health system | 2,353 | #19,974 | |
| 59 | Cicatelli AssociatesNonprofit | 2,332 | #21,245 all time | |
| 60 | Conference BoardNonprofit | 2,254 | #14,958 |
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 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.
Which keywords describe research in New York?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Legal Regulation, Economic Security, Science, Modernization, History, International Trade Law and Design.
- Complications
- Warfare
- Chemotherapy
- Strategic Planning
- Sharia Law
- Transport Policy
- Depression
- Design
- Social Influence
- Islam
- Economic Security
- Science
- Human Rights
- Philosophy
- Legal Regulation
- Culture
- Climate Change
- History
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Literature
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Ethnicity
- Oxidative Stress
- Immunotherapy
- Modernization
- International Trade Law
- Diagnosis
- Public Oversight
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Foresight
- Malay Language
- Air Force
- Clinical Trials
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
- Epidemiology8,512▲ 1.53×140 topics
- Machine Learning3,508▼ 0.76×96 topics
- Globalization3,432▲ 1.24×185 topics
- Inflammation3,357◆ 1.14×83 topics
- Mental Health3,235▲ 1.57×48 topics
- History3,142▲ 3.2×66 topics
- Quality of Life3,029▲ 1.49×61 topics
- Climate Change2,923▼ 0.77×131 topics
- Public Health2,786▲ 1.36×77 topics
- Culture2,770▲ 3.7×39 topics
- Literature2,768▲ 3.6×64 topics
- Legal Regulation2,738▲ 8.8×8 topics
- Treatment2,592▲ 1.52×52 topics
- Philosophy2,591▲ 4.2×47 topics
- Risk Factors2,550▲ 1.65×37 topics
- Human Rights2,518▲ 1.74×91 topics
- Ethnicity2,457▲ 4.6×25 topics
- Science2,419▲ 6.9×13 topics
- Oxidative Stress2,388◆ 1.04×63 topics
- Economic Security2,324▲ 7.7×7 topics
- Immunotherapy2,162▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Islam2,084▲ 7.0×5 topics
- Modernization2,081▲ 8.0×5 topics
- Social Influence2,065▲ 6.8×3 topics
- International Trade Law2,028▲ 11×2 topics
- Design2,026▲ 8.7×6 topics
- Diagnosis2,026▲ 1.55×41 topics
- Depression2,012▲ 1.62×26 topics
- Public Oversight2,001▲ 11×1 topic
- Transport Policy2,001▲ 11×1 topic
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles1,990▲ 7.5×5 topics
- Sharia Law1,988▲ 9.8×2 topics
- Foresight1,986▲ 10×2 topics
- Strategic Planning1,983▲ 9.4×5 topics
- Malay Language1,982▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Chemotherapy1,975▲ 2.0×25 topics
- Air Force1,961▲ 11×1 topic
- Warfare1,961▲ 11×1 topic
- Clinical Trials1,715▲ 1.81×19 topics
- Complications1,527▲ 2.2×17 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.