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Research in Pittsburgh
Science Explorer records 190 research institutions in Pittsburgh, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
- Research institutions
- 190 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 310k ▲ 6% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 19.4% 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 Pittsburgh?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of PittsburghUniversity | 137,602 | #117 | |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity | 81,103 | #135 | |
| 3 | University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterHospital / health system | 19,802 | #1,283 | |
| 4 | Duquesne UniversityUniversity | 8,292 | #4,697 | |
| 5 | Children's Hospital of PittsburghHospital / health system | 7,074 | #3,960 | |
| 6 | La Roche CollegeUniversity | 6,132 | #18,206 | |
| 7 | UPMC Hillman Cancer CenterResearch facility | 5,312 | #1,339 | |
| 8 | Geriatric Research Education and Clinical CenterHospital / health system | 4,647 | #3,310 | |
| 9 | Allegheny General HospitalHospital / health system | 4,537 | #14,845 | |
| 10 | Allegheny Health NetworkHospital / health system | 2,526 | #6,677 | |
| 11 | UPMC Health SystemHospital / health system | 2,280 | #6,188 | |
| 12 | Magee-Womens HospitalHospital / health system | 2,140 | #18,071 | |
| 13 | VA Pittsburgh Healthcare SystemHospital / health system | 2,137 | #5,827 | |
| 14 | Robert Morris UniversityUniversity | 1,872 | #19,903 | |
| 15 | UPMC PresbyterianHospital / health system | 1,869 | #19,222 | |
| 16 | PPG Industries (United States)Company | 1,325 | #19,341 | |
| 17 | Combustion InstituteNonprofit | 1,320 | #19,869 | |
| 18 | Chatham UniversityUniversity | 1,228 | #17,172 | |
| 19 | Software Engineering InstituteResearch facility | 1,222 | #18,258 | |
| 20 | McGowan Institute for Regenerative MedicineResearch facility | 1,169 | #5,908 | |
| 21 | Western Pennsylvania HospitalHospital / health system | 1,168 | #18,181 | |
| 22 | Institute for Transfusion MedicineHospital / health system | 1,149 | #17,126 | |
| 23 | Magee-Womens Research InstituteResearch facility | 1,085 | #9,415 | |
| 24 | Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryArchive | 912 | #19,808 | |
| 25 | UPMC MontefioreHospital / health system | 821 | #11,157 all time | |
| 26 | Center for the Neural Basis of CognitionResearch facility | 774 | #8,697 | |
| 27 | Shadyside HospitalHospital / health system | 717 | #15,070 all time | |
| 28 | Eye and Ear FoundationNonprofit | 697 | #17,164 all time | |
| 29 | The Art InstitutesUniversity | 603 | #21,904 | |
| 30 | Kuraray (United States)Company | 485 | #30,900 all time | |
| 31 | St. Margaret Memorial HospitalHospital / health system | 394 | #31,383 all time | |
| 32 | Pittsburgh Supercomputing CenterResearch facility | 384 | #12,024 all time | |
| 33 | Allegheny-Singer Research InstituteHospital / health system | 382 | #11,142 all time | |
| 34 | Allegheny CountyGovernment institution | 374 | #27,354 all time | |
| 35 | Pittsburgh Theological SeminaryUniversity | 350 | #27,458 all time | |
| 36 | Healthy StartHospital / health system | 329 | #17,967 | |
| 37 | Michael Baker International (United States)Company | 310 | #28,527 all time | |
| 38 | Carlow UniversityUniversity | 293 | #22,143 all time | |
| 39 | NSABP FoundationNonprofit | 277 | #18,208 all time | |
| 40 | Point Park UniversityUniversity | 234 | #31,308 all time | |
| 41 | St Francis Medical CenterHospital / health system | 225 | #30,466 all time | |
| 42 | Pharmaceutical Formulations (United States)Company | 215 | #29,570 all time | |
| 43 | Oncology Nursing SocietyNonprofit | 212 | #15,134 all time | |
| 44 | Carnegie Museum of ArtArchive | 208 | #30,340 all time | |
| 45 | Historical Society of Western PennsylvaniaInstitution | 198 | #35,524 all time | |
| 46 | Highmark Blue Cross Blue ShieldNonprofit | 187 | #35,499 all time | |
| 47 | AT Sciences (United States)Company | 185 | #38,611 all time | |
| 48 | HeidelbergCement (United States)Company | 181 | #25,558 all time | |
| 49 | Greater Pittsburgh Orthopaedic AssociatesInstitution | 173 | #35,630 all time | |
| 50 | UPMC Center for High Value Health CareInstitution | 143 | #32,500 all time | |
| 51 | Advanced Materials Corporation (United States)Company | 112 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Precision Therapeutics (United States)Company | 111 | not ranked | |
| 53 | ChemImage (United States)Company | 110 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Community College of Allegheny CountyUniversity | 104 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Hemophilia Center of Western PennsylvaniaResearch facility | 100 | not ranked | |
| 56 | ATI Inc. (United States)Company | 97 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Institute for Research, Education and Training in AddictionsNonprofit | 92 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Management Science Associates (United States)Company | 91 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Education Management Corporation (United States)Company | 90 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Covestro (United States)Company | 90 | 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.
University of Pittsburgh138k · 44.6%Carnegie Mellon University81k · 26.3%University of Pittsburgh Medical Center20k · 6.4%Duquesne University8,292 · 2.7%56 others listed61k · 19.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Pittsburgh strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Pittsburgh is most concentrated in Transplantation, Family Practice and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (4.9× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 78.2 works4.9×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 52.4 works3.1×
- Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineSubfield · 156.8 works2.9×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 253.7 works2.9×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 39.8 works2.8×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 108.8 works2.8×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 61.2 works2.8×
- Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 723.8 works2.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
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 Pittsburgh?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Quality of Life, Oxidative Stress, Risk Factors and Treatment.
- Resuscitation
- Mortality Risk
- Neuroprotection
- Neuroinflammation
- Guidelines
- Meta-Analysis
- Rehabilitation
- Clinical Trials
- Mortality
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Chemotherapy
- Management
- Biomarkers
- Depression
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diagnosis
- Immunotherapy
- Neurological Disorders
- Aging
- Genetics
- Complications
- Heart Failure
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Global Burden
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Radiotherapy
- Neuroimaging
- Prognosis
▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s
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
- Epidemiology2,486▲ 1.75×139 topics
- Deep Learning1,472▲ 1.20×82 topics
- Machine Learning1,318◆ 1.12×88 topics
- Inflammation1,264▲ 1.69×82 topics
- Oxidative Stress853▲ 1.45×60 topics
- Quality of Life824▲ 1.59×58 topics
- Neural Networks728▲ 1.32×38 topics
- Treatment708▲ 1.63×52 topics
- Risk Factors706▲ 1.79×37 topics
- Public Health620▲ 1.19×74 topics
- Cancer616▲ 1.28×59 topics
- Mental Health602◆ 1.15×45 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease595▲ 1.49×39 topics
- Depression555▲ 1.76×25 topics
- Diagnosis518▲ 1.55×41 topics
- Biomarkers512▲ 2.1×18 topics
- Immunotherapy491▲ 1.92×19 topics
- Management466▲ 1.65×38 topics
- Neurological Disorders440▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Chemotherapy437▲ 1.74×25 topics
- Aging421▲ 2.2×17 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome411▲ 1.41×24 topics
- Genetics411▲ 1.64×27 topics
- Mortality393▲ 1.90×13 topics
- Complications358▲ 2.0×17 topics
- Clinical Trials355▲ 1.48×19 topics
- Heart Failure351▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Rehabilitation351▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines347▲ 1.78×14 topics
- Meta-Analysis340▲ 1.61×21 topics
- Global Burden325▲ 1.69×12 topics
- Guidelines322▲ 1.93×13 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment317▲ 1.99×8 topics
- Neuroinflammation310▲ 3.0×6 topics
- Radiotherapy290▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Neuroprotection287▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Neuroimaging287▲ 3.0×11 topics
- Mortality Risk283▲ 3.3×6 topics
- Prognosis269▲ 2.3×9 topics
- Resuscitation204▲ 4.3×4 topics
What research is done in Pittsburgh?
Artificial IntelligencePsychiatry and Mental healthOncologyExperimental and Cognitive Psychology3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 145 works
- 2 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 134 works
- 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 122 works
- 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 109 works
- 5 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 108 works
- 6 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 97 works
- 7 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 97 works
- 8 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 92 works
- 9 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 90 works
- 10 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 84 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.