Research in Omaha
Science Explorer records 53 research institutions in Omaha, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha.
- Research institutions
- 53 14 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 73k ▲ 22% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 14.4% 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 Omaha?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Nebraska Medical CenterHospital / health system | 23,533 | #1,045 | |
| 2 | Creighton UniversityUniversity | 14,107 | #3,993 | |
| 3 | University of Nebraska at OmahaUniversity | 11,866 | #3,531 | |
| 4 | Engineering Systems (United States)Company | 5,590 | #8,769 | |
| 5 | Nebraska Medical CenterHospital / health system | 5,131 | #3,228 | |
| 6 | Clarkson CollegeUniversity | 2,253 | #2,918 all time | |
| 7 | CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan MercyHospital / health system | 1,628 | #21,109 | |
| 8 | Children's Hospital & Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,463 | #18,957 | |
| 9 | Boys TownNonprofit | 1,170 | #16,043 | |
| 10 | Visiting Nurse AssociationInstitution | 1,077 | #25,583 | |
| 11 | Boys Town National Research HospitalHospital / health system | 1,005 | #14,089 | |
| 12 | Methodist HospitalHospital / health system | 741 | #24,607 | |
| 13 | CHI HealthHospital / health system | 461 | #25,031 | |
| 14 | VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care SystemHospital / health system | 441 | #12,948 | |
| 15 | Omaha VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 334 | #24,605 all time | |
| 16 | Prevention GroupCompany | 278 | #27,506 all time | |
| 17 | Diabetes & Endocrine AssociatesInstitution | 253 | #26,619 all time | |
| 18 | CHI Health ImmanuelHospital / health system | 253 | #27,201 | |
| 19 | Douglas County Health DepartmentGovernment institution | 197 | #38,730 all time | |
| 20 | Metropolitan Community CollegeUniversity | 146 | #32,702 all time | |
| 21 | Transgenomic (United States)Company | 138 | #32,016 all time | |
| 22 | College of Saint MaryUniversity | 138 | #39,086 all time | |
| 23 | Berkshire Hathaway (United States)Company | 103 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Nebraska Methodist CollegeUniversity | 99 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Quality LivingNonprofit | 82 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Nebraska Cancer SpecialistsHospital / health system | 69 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Grace UniversityUniversity | 59 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Meridian Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 55 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Susan Thompson Buffett FoundationNonprofit | 53 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Nebraska Orthopaedic HospitalHospital / health system | 38 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Hematology & Oncology ConsultantsHospital / health system | 20 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Missouri Valley Cancer ConsortiumNonprofit | 19 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Universal College of Healing ArtsUniversity | 16 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Omaha Public LibraryArchive | 11 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Society on Neuroimmune PharmacologyInstitution | 10 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Joslyn Art MuseumArchive | 10 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Urology Cancer Center and GU Research NetworkHospital / health system | 8 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Triological SocietyInstitution | 5 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Omaha Community FoundationNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Scoular (United States)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Methodist Hospital FoundationHospital / health system | 5 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Nebraska Independent College FoundationNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Nebraska Public Health LaboratoryResearch facility | 2 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Heartland Clinical ResearchResearch facility | 2 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Legal Aid of NebraskaNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Applied Information Management InstituteNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Durham MuseumArchive | 2 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Bemis Center for Contemporary ArtsInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Heartland Family ServiceNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Nebraska Space Grant ConsortiumInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 52 | 21CSi (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 53 | The Big GardenNonprofit | 1 | 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 Omaha strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Omaha is most concentrated in Virology, Sensory Systems and Gastroenterology (5.6× the world share in Virology).
- VirologySubfield · 32.8 works5.6×
- Sensory SystemsSubfield · 26.1 works3.4×
- GastroenterologySubfield · 39.1 works3.3×
- OncologySubfield · 372.9 works3.3×
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 Omaha?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Diagnosis, Chemotherapy, Quality of Life and Cancer.
- Hearing Loss
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Echocardiography
- Medical Education
- Radiotherapy
- Diabetes
- Mortality
- Genetics
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Complications
- Heart Failure
- Clinical Trials
- Neurological Disorders
- Depression
- Mental Health
- Chemotherapy
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Prognostic Factors
- Guidelines
- Biomarkers
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Immune Response
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Genetic Mutations
- Surgical Management
- Metastasis
- Rehabilitation
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
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
- Epidemiology894▲ 2.3×135 topics
- Inflammation444▲ 2.1×82 topics
- Treatment300▲ 2.5×49 topics
- Quality of Life280▲ 1.94×54 topics
- Oxidative Stress279▲ 1.70×58 topics
- Cancer263▲ 1.96×54 topics
- Diagnosis259▲ 2.8×41 topics
- Immunotherapy242▲ 3.4×19 topics
- Risk Factors229▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Chemotherapy219▲ 3.1×25 topics
- Public Health218▲ 1.49×59 topics
- Mental Health216▲ 1.47×44 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease204▲ 1.83×37 topics
- Depression173▲ 1.97×23 topics
- Management171▲ 2.2×35 topics
- Neurological Disorders165▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Prognostic Factors165▲ 3.8×14 topics
- Clinical Trials153▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Guidelines148▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Heart Failure146▲ 3.4×13 topics
- Biomarkers145▲ 2.1×18 topics
- Complications142▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines138▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome136▲ 1.67×22 topics
- Immune Response134▲ 2.4×22 topics
- Genetics130▲ 1.85×25 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment127▲ 2.9×8 topics
- Mortality126▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Genetic Mutations123▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Diabetes122▲ 2.5×22 topics
- Surgical Management120▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Radiotherapy103▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Metastasis102▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Medical Education102▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Rehabilitation102▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Echocardiography90▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life88▲ 3.8×5 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy77▲ 4.8×6 topics
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention71▲ 5.3×4 topics
- Hearing Loss67▲ 5.8×4 topics
What research is done in Omaha?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 46 works
- 2 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 42 works
- 3 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 34 works
- 4 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 32 works
- 5 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 32 works
- 6 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 32 works
- 7 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 31 works
- 8 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 29 works
- 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 29 works
- 10 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 28 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.