Research in Orlando
Science Explorer records 77 research institutions in Orlando, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Central Florida, AdventHealth Orlando and Orlando Health.
- Research institutions
- 77 11 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 59k ▲ 26% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 17.3% 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 Orlando?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Central FloridaUniversity | 45,925 | #419 | |
| 2 | Orlando HealthHospital / health system | 1,868 | #10,506 | |
| 3 | AdventHealth OrlandoHospital / health system | 1,790 | #7,775 | |
| 4 | American Academy of OptometryUniversity | 1,690 | #18,457 all time | |
| 5 | Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems DivisionResearch facility | 1,288 | #10,156 all time | |
| 6 | Orlando Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 822 | #22,829 | |
| 7 | SeaWorld EntertainmentInstitution | 675 | #20,266 | |
| 8 | Nemours Children's ClinicHospital / health system | 493 | #20,587 | |
| 9 | Arnold Palmer Hospital for ChildrenHospital / health system | 401 | #23,139 | |
| 10 | Florida Hospital Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 366 | #21,760 | |
| 11 | Cole Engineering Services (United States)Company | 247 | #25,387 | |
| 12 | Valencia CollegeUniversity | 243 | #34,805 all time | |
| 13 | Orlando VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 206 | #36,597 all time | |
| 14 | Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and DiabetesResearch facility | 200 | #13,220 | |
| 15 | Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements (United States)Company | 188 | #21,319 all time | |
| 16 | Design Interactive (United States)Company | 165 | #33,830 all time | |
| 17 | Plasmonics (United States)Company | 163 | #14,167 all time | |
| 18 | Advanced Power Electronics (United States)Company | 161 | #34,348 all time | |
| 19 | AdventHealth East OrlandoHospital / health system | 161 | #23,081 | |
| 20 | Adventist University of Health SciencesUniversity | 149 | #35,005 all time | |
| 21 | Florida Department of Health in Orange CountyGovernment institution | 148 | #37,356 all time | |
| 22 | Florida College of Integrative MedicineUniversity | 146 | #42,654 all time | |
| 23 | Florida Technical CollegeUniversity | 145 | #39,787 all time | |
| 24 | Orlando Clinical Research CenterResearch facility | 140 | #32,027 all time | |
| 25 | AdventHealth for ChildrenHospital / health system | 133 | #38,843 all time | |
| 26 | Orlando Immunology CenterResearch facility | 127 | #16,654 all time | |
| 27 | Florida Urology AssociatesHospital / health system | 106 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Laser Institute of AmericaInstitution | 94 | not ranked | |
| 29 | International Vedic Hindu UniversityUniversity | 93 | not ranked | |
| 30 | SdPhotonics (United States)Company | 70 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Southern Technical CollegeUniversity | 64 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Orange County Public SchoolsUniversity | 60 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & BabiesHospital / health system | 53 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Florida Maxima (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 35 | RSK Assessments (United States)Company | 45 | not ranked | |
| 36 | McKnight Brain Research FoundationNonprofit | 42 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Planar Energy (United States)Company | 38 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Hesperos (United States)Company | 36 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Sciperio (United States)Company | 35 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Enveda Therapeutics (United States)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Jewett Orthopaedic ClinicHospital / health system | 31 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Central Florida Neurosurgery InstituteHospital / health system | 28 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Biomedical Acoustics (United States)Company | 25 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Nscrypt (United States)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Q4 (United States)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 46 | API Technologies (United States)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Expand (United States)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Lensar (United States)Company | 18 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Partow Technologies (United States)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 50 | AdventHealth Foundation Central FloridaHospital / health system | 12 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Truventic (United States)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Central Florida Pulmonary GroupHospital / health system | 12 | not ranked | |
| 53 | CNS HealthcareHospital / health system | 11 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Global Institute for Quality EducationNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Florida Hospital AssociationNonprofit | 8 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Clear Hat Consulting (United States)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 57 | American University of LeadershipUniversity | 7 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Compass ResearchResearch facility | 6 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Orlando Science CenterArchive | 5 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Florida Space Grant ConsortiumInstitution | 5 | 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 Orlando strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Orlando is most concentrated in Public Administration, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes and Human-Computer Interaction (4.6× the world share in Public Administration).
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 25.3 works4.6×
- Fluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesSubfield · 34.8 works4.4×
- Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 68.2 works3.2×
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 78.2 works3.2×
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 Orlando?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Nonlinear Optics, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Driver Behavior and Heat Transfer.
- Road Safety
- Traffic Accidents
- Ultrafast Lasers
- Combustion Instabilities
- Whispering Gallery Mode
- Silicon Photonics
- Microcavities
- Injury Severity
- Raman Lasers
- Microresonators
- Fiber Lasers
- Driver Behavior
- Biosensors
- Complications
- Heat Transfer
- Treatment
- Inflammation
- Neural Networks
- Mental Health
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Risk Factors
- Public Health
- Quality of Life
- Social Media
- Diagnosis
- Nonlinear Optics
- Student Engagement
- Optical Modulators
- Chemical Kinetics
- Integrated Circuits
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Microwave Photonics
- Traffic Flow
- Nanophotonic Waveguides
- Spatial Analysis
- Optical Frequency Combs
- Pedestrian Safety
- Crash Prediction Models
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
- Epidemiology522▲ 1.30×132 topics
- Deep Learning424▲ 1.22×79 topics
- Machine Learning350◆ 1.05×86 topics
- Mental Health226▲ 1.52×42 topics
- Risk Factors198▲ 1.77×37 topics
- Neural Networks196▲ 1.25×37 topics
- Public Health187▲ 1.26×61 topics
- Inflammation178▼ 0.84×79 topics
- Quality of Life164◆ 1.12×57 topics
- Treatment152▲ 1.23×48 topics
- Social Media146◆ 1.01×32 topics
- Heat Transfer130▲ 2.6×18 topics
- Diagnosis123▲ 1.30×39 topics
- Complications118▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Nonlinear Optics111▲ 9.9×4 topics
- Biosensors108▲ 2.1×12 topics
- Student Engagement94▲ 2.3×15 topics
- Driver Behavior78▲ 9.8×2 topics
- Optical Modulators78▲ 5.2×3 topics
- Fiber Lasers74▲ 7.5×3 topics
- Chemical Kinetics73▲ 8.0×2 topics
- Microresonators70▲ 8.4×3 topics
- Integrated Circuits69▲ 4.3×3 topics
- Raman Lasers68▲ 5.8×2 topics
- Intelligent Transportation Systems66▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Injury Severity63▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Microwave Photonics62▲ 6.9×2 topics
- Microcavities61▲ 5.4×2 topics
- Traffic Flow60▲ 5.6×2 topics
- Silicon Photonics59▲ 5.3×2 topics
- Nanophotonic Waveguides57▲ 5.7×1 topic
- Whispering Gallery Mode57▲ 5.7×1 topic
- Spatial Analysis56▲ 6.0×5 topics
- Combustion Instabilities55▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Optical Frequency Combs55▲ 9.7×1 topic
- Ultrafast Lasers55▲ 9.7×1 topic
- Pedestrian Safety50▲ 11×2 topics
- Traffic Accidents50▲ 11×2 topics
- Crash Prediction Models49▲ 12×1 topic
- Road Safety49▲ 12×1 topic
What research is done in Orlando?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 57 works
- 2 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 55 works
- 3 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 49 works
- 4 Combustion and Detonation Processes Aerospace Engineering 45 works
- 5 Combustion and flame dynamics Computational Mechanics 40 works
- 6 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 38 works
- 7 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research Sociology and Political Science 37 works
- 8 Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 33 works
- 9 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 32 works
- 10 Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 30 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.