Research in Philadelphia
Science Explorer records 232 research institutions in Philadelphia, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Temple University.
- Research institutions
- 232 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 446k ▼ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 16.6M 37.2 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.5% 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 Philadelphia?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of PennsylvaniaUniversity | 187,276 | #36 | |
| 2 | Temple UniversityUniversity | 60,396 | #616 | |
| 3 | Drexel UniversityUniversity | 54,375 | #756 | |
| 4 | Thomas Jefferson UniversityUniversity | 31,738 | #795 | |
| 5 | Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaFunder | 24,707 | #442 | |
| 6 | Philadelphia UniversityUniversity | 16,165 | #1,217 | |
| 7 | Temple University Health SystemUniversity | 10,833 | #2,279 | |
| 8 | Thomas Jefferson University HospitalHospital / health system | 8,549 | #6,089 | |
| 9 | The Wistar InstituteResearch facility | 4,944 | #3,486 | |
| 10 | University of the SciencesUniversity | 3,981 | #2,807 | |
| 11 | Saint Joseph's UniversityUniversity | 3,293 | #5,590 | |
| 12 | La Salle UniversityUniversity | 3,154 | #5,474 | |
| 13 | Sidney Kimmel Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 2,890 | #2,424 | |
| 14 | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineUniversity | 2,636 | #11,983 | |
| 15 | Rothman InstituteResearch facility | 2,069 | #6,041 | |
| 16 | Franklin InstituteArchive | 1,854 | #14,087 all time | |
| 17 | Chestnut Hill CollegeUniversity | 1,815 | #5,968 | |
| 18 | Photonics (United States)Company | 1,761 | #11,660 | |
| 19 | Monell Chemical Senses CenterNonprofit | 1,615 | #11,915 | |
| 20 | Lankenau Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,255 | #15,335 | |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of PhiladelphiaInstitution | 1,078 | #17,246 | |
| 22 | Graduate HospitalHospital / health system | 1,036 | #14,408 all time | |
| 23 | Rothman OrthopaedicsInstitution | 891 | #5,309 | |
| 24 | University City Science CenterResearch facility | 866 | #12,523 | |
| 25 | FMC (United States)Company | 818 | #24,228 all time | |
| 26 | Lankenau Institute for Medical ResearchNonprofit | 815 | #17,263 | |
| 27 | University of the ArtsUniversity | 773 | #4,778 | |
| 28 | Moore College of Art and DesignUniversity | 729 | #13,766 all time | |
| 29 | Moss Rehabilitation HospitalHospital / health system | 715 | #19,150 | |
| 30 | National Board of Medical ExaminersNonprofit | 699 | #18,576 | |
| 31 | Community College of PhiladelphiaUniversity | 679 | #15,213 | |
| 32 | American Board of Internal MedicineNonprofit | 673 | #16,463 | |
| 33 | Sunoco (United States)Company | 626 | #12,967 all time | |
| 34 | Einstein Healthcare NetworkHospital / health system | 564 | #18,364 | |
| 35 | Lutheran Theological Seminary at PhiladelphiaInstitution | 536 | #22,244 all time | |
| 36 | Philadelphia Fire DepartmentGovernment institution | 504 | #12,719 all time | |
| 37 | American College of PhysiciansInstitution | 448 | #4,749 all time | |
| 38 | Philadelphia Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 440 | #13,114 all time | |
| 39 | Samuel S. Fleisher Art MemorialInstitution | 430 | #14,326 all time | |
| 40 | Wolters Kluwer HealthCompany | 408 | #16,426 all time | |
| 41 | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related ResearchInstitution | 393 | #20,424 | |
| 42 | Treatment Research InstituteNonprofit | 388 | #16,589 all time | |
| 43 | Center for Visual Communication (United States)Company | 384 | #14,156 all time | |
| 44 | Research for ActionNonprofit | 360 | #16,294 | |
| 45 | Delaware County Community CollegeUniversity | 343 | #20,281 | |
| 46 | Eastern Cooperative Oncology GroupResearch facility | 321 | #7,444 all time | |
| 47 | NRG OncologyNonprofit | 292 | #9,736 all time | |
| 48 | Holy Family UniversityUniversity | 290 | #21,885 all time | |
| 49 | Comcast (United States)Company | 284 | #17,576 all time | |
| 50 | McNeil Center for Early American StudiesNonprofit | 279 | #17,262 all time | |
| 51 | RTOG FoundationNonprofit | 273 | #15,958 all time | |
| 52 | Pennsylvania Academy of ScienceInstitution | 272 | #15,747 all time | |
| 53 | School District of PhiladelphiaUniversity | 270 | #19,151 all time | |
| 54 | Gratz CollegeUniversity | 268 | #25,529 all time | |
| 55 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (United States)Company | 256 | #16,016 all time | |
| 56 | Science History InstituteResearch facility | 255 | #18,707 all time | |
| 57 | Adult Congenital Heart AssociationInstitution | 243 | #26,350 all time | |
| 58 | Alex's Lemonade Stand FoundationNonprofit | 236 | #17,204 all time | |
| 59 | American Association For Cancer ResearchNonprofit | 217 | #26,676 all time | |
| 60 | Society for Classical StudiesNonprofit | 216 | #25,266 all time |
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 Philadelphia work in?
In 2022-now, 52% of research in Philadelphia is in Health Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (46%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 2.2× 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 Sciences32k51.7%
- Medicine28k46.4%
- Health Professions2,4334.0%
- Dentistry3150.5%
- Nursing3050.5%
- Veterinary1840.3%
- Social Sciences11k17.7%
- Social Sciences4,4747.3%
- Psychology2,6514.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1,2172.0%
- Arts and Humanities1,0621.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting9371.5%
- Decision Sciences4480.7%
- Life Sciences9,94516.3%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5,7499.4%
- Neuroscience2,0813.4%
- Immunology and Microbiology1,3322.2%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences5730.9%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2100.3%
- Physical Sciences8,74914.3%
- Engineering2,8024.6%
- Computer Science2,1733.6%
- Environmental Science9071.5%
- Physics and Astronomy7511.2%
- Materials Science7281.2%
- Mathematics5570.9%
- Chemistry4490.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2150.4%
- Energy1180.2%
- Chemical Engineering500.1%
What is Philadelphia strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Philadelphia is most concentrated in Transplantation, Internal Medicine and Equine (5.9× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 140.4 works5.9×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 130.6 works4.0×
- EquineSubfield · 27.7 works4.0×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 92.4 works3.6×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 459.3 works3.5×
- Issues, ethics and legal aspectsSubfield · 36.4 works3.3×
- Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 185.4 works3.1×
- OphthalmologySubfield · 449.9 works3.1×
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, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine2.40×25k works
- Veterinary2.24×163 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.16×1,168 works
- Neuroscience2.05×1,784 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.75×5,008 works
- Health Professions1.53×2,169 works
- Psychology1.42×2,323 works
- Dentistry1.05×273 works
- Nursing1.01×264 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.99×1,137 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.98×185 works
- Mathematics0.78×495 works
- Decision Sciences0.75×389 works
- Arts and Humanities0.58×905 works
- Social Sciences0.58×3,963 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.57×679 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.49×851 works
- Chemistry0.48×406 works
- Computer Science0.45×1,899 works
- Materials Science0.35×653 works
- Engineering0.31×2,527 works
- Environmental Science0.30×800 works
- Chemical Engineering0.24×45 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×188 works
- Energy0.21×105 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×512 works
Which keywords describe research in Philadelphia?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Treatment, Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Diagnosis and Genetic Mutations.
- Leukemia
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Medical Education
- Primary Care
- Surgical Management
- Global Burden
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Guidelines
- Mortality
- Complications
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Cancer
- Diagnosis
- Oxidative Stress
- Treatment
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Risk Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Chemotherapy
- Genetic Mutations
- Depression
- Biomarkers
- Neurological Disorders
- Prognostic Factors
- Heart Failure
- Radiotherapy
- Precision Medicine
- Rehabilitation
- Echocardiography
- Mortality Risk
- Lymphoma
- Tumor Regression
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
- Epidemiology5,028▲ 2.1×140 topics
- Inflammation2,272▲ 1.75×83 topics
- Quality of Life1,622▲ 1.84×60 topics
- Treatment1,597▲ 2.1×52 topics
- Risk Factors1,504▲ 2.2×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,386▲ 1.38×63 topics
- Immunotherapy1,360▲ 3.1×19 topics
- Diagnosis1,289▲ 2.3×41 topics
- Public Health1,272▲ 1.43×75 topics
- Cancer1,262▲ 1.54×58 topics
- Mental Health1,218▲ 1.40×48 topics
- Management1,078▲ 2.2×38 topics
- Chemotherapy1,041▲ 2.4×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,012▲ 1.45×39 topics
- Genetic Mutations942▲ 3.5×23 topics
- Genetics902▲ 2.1×27 topics
- Depression899▲ 1.68×26 topics
- Clinical Trials891▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Biomarkers872▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Complications852▲ 2.8×17 topics
- Neurological Disorders837▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Mortality817▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors812▲ 3.1×14 topics
- Guidelines809▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Heart Failure746▲ 2.7×14 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines730▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Radiotherapy712▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Global Burden653▲ 1.96×12 topics
- Precision Medicine638▲ 2.1×8 topics
- Surgical Management629▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Rehabilitation604▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Primary Care604▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Echocardiography594▲ 3.5×8 topics
- Medical Education567▲ 3.5×13 topics
- Mortality Risk541▲ 3.7×6 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy503▲ 5.4×3 topics
- Lymphoma473▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes443▲ 3.8×6 topics
- Tumor Regression381▲ 5.6×2 topics
- Leukemia343▲ 6.8×2 topics
What research is done in Philadelphia?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 288 works
- 2 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 177 works
- 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 170 works
- 4 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 166 works
- 5 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 162 works
- 6 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 160 works
- 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 155 works
- 8 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 154 works
- 9 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 152 works
- 10 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 151 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 30.0% in 2016.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in Philadelphia for research?
Science Explorer records 232 research institutions in Philadelphia, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Temple University.
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