Research in Providence
Science Explorer records 57 research institutions in Providence, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Brown University, Providence College and Rhode Island Hospital.
- Research institutions
- 57 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 96k ▲ 8% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.6% 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 Providence?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown UniversityUniversity | 58,963 | #345 | |
| 2 | Providence CollegeUniversity | 10,726 | #3,552 | |
| 3 | Rhode Island HospitalHospital / health system | 6,810 | #5,392 | |
| 4 | Rhode Island CollegeUniversity | 2,612 | #12,764 | |
| 5 | Miriam HospitalHospital / health system | 1,934 | #14,658 | |
| 6 | Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode IslandHospital / health system | 1,850 | #10,962 | |
| 7 | University GastroenterologyUniversity | 1,752 | #23,029 | |
| 8 | LifespanHospital / health system | 1,414 | #7,516 | |
| 9 | Textron (United States)Company | 1,344 | #4,236 all time | |
| 10 | Butler HospitalHospital / health system | 1,272 | #18,685 | |
| 11 | Providence VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,089 | #12,021 | |
| 12 | Roger Williams Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,035 | #27,175 | |
| 13 | Healthcentric AdvisorsNonprofit | 939 | #17,671 | |
| 14 | Rhode Island Department of HealthGovernment institution | 816 | #15,481 | |
| 15 | Hasbro Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 706 | #16,612 | |
| 16 | Rhode Island School of DesignUniversity | 692 | #23,065 | |
| 17 | NeuroDevelopment CenterResearch facility | 674 | #15,501 | |
| 18 | Johnson & Wales UniversityUniversity | 469 | #26,969 | |
| 19 | Providence CenterHospital / health system | 259 | #21,295 all time | |
| 20 | American Mathematical SocietyInstitution | 244 | #11,638 all time | |
| 21 | Warren Alpert FoundationNonprofit | 112 | not ranked | |
| 22 | EpiVax (United States)Company | 83 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Rhode Island Department of Environmental ManagementGovernment institution | 83 | not ranked | |
| 24 | John Carter Brown LibraryArchive | 52 | not ranked | |
| 25 | National Perinatal Information CenterNonprofit | 45 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Vision Systems Incorporation (United States)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Providence AthenaeumArchive | 26 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Clinica Esperanza/Hope ClinicHospital / health system | 22 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Nortek (United States)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Rhode Island Blood CenterHospital / health system | 18 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Rhode Island Health Center AssociationHospital / health system | 17 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Providence Public LibraryArchive | 15 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Rhode Island Historical SocietyInstitution | 15 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Howard Brain Sciences FoundationNonprofit | 11 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Day OneInstitution | 10 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Rhode Island Department of Human ServicesGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & FamiliesGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 38 | State of Rhode Island Office of Library and Information ServicesGovernment institution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Groden NetworkNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Southside Community Land TrustNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Providence Community Health CentersNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Nabsys (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 43 | GAIA Vaccine FoundationInstitution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Spectrum Coatings (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Rhode Island PBS FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Rhode Island Council for the HumanitiesFunder | 2 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Rhode Island FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Cody FoundationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Rhode Island Commerce CorporationGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 51 | What Kids Can DoNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Rhode Island League of Cities and TownsNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Gnosys Systems (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Big Picture LearningInstitution | 0 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Rhode Island Black Heritage SocietyArchive | 0 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Everett Company Stage SchoolUniversity | 0 | 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 Providence strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Providence is most concentrated in Emergency Medicine, Applied Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health (3.5× the world share in Emergency Medicine).
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 107.6 works3.5×
- Applied PsychologySubfield · 61.9 works3.4×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 210.2 works3.3×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 45.2 works3.3×
- Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 112.3 works3.1×
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 23.5 works3.0×
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 Providence?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Inflammation, Public Health, Depression, Quality of Life and Treatment.
- Behavioral Interventions
- Quality of Care
- Global Burden of Disease
- Clinical Outcomes
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Substance Use Disorders
- Emotion Regulation
- Prevalence
- Adolescents
- Complications
- Aging
- Genetics
- Mortality
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Depression
- Cancer
- Diagnosis
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Clinical Trials
- Chemotherapy
- Primary Care
- Anxiety
- Mortality Risk
- Global Burden
- Guidelines
- Neuroimaging
- Neuroprotection
- Health Disparities
- Health Care Utilization
- Long-Term Care
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
- Epidemiology1,080▲ 2.1×132 topics
- Inflammation461▲ 1.73×81 topics
- Mental Health414▲ 2.2×44 topics
- Public Health373▲ 2.0×63 topics
- Risk Factors369▲ 2.6×37 topics
- Quality of Life331▲ 1.80×56 topics
- Treatment308▲ 1.99×51 topics
- Oxidative Stress283▲ 1.36×60 topics
- Depression277▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease242▲ 1.70×38 topics
- Cancer228▲ 1.33×54 topics
- Biomarkers222▲ 2.5×18 topics
- Diagnosis208▲ 1.75×40 topics
- Immunotherapy195▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome190▲ 1.82×23 topics
- Mortality189▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Clinical Trials188▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Genetics185▲ 2.1×25 topics
- Chemotherapy183▲ 2.0×25 topics
- Aging181▲ 2.6×18 topics
- Primary Care179▲ 3.7×15 topics
- Complications176▲ 2.8×17 topics
- Anxiety172▲ 2.9×12 topics
- Adolescents171▲ 3.6×10 topics
- Mortality Risk159▲ 5.2×6 topics
- Prevalence156▲ 3.0×15 topics
- Global Burden154▲ 2.2×12 topics
- Emotion Regulation147▲ 3.7×9 topics
- Guidelines146▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Substance Use Disorders146▲ 16×2 topics
- Neuroimaging134▲ 3.9×11 topics
- Psychiatric Disorders134▲ 7.9×4 topics
- Neuroprotection130▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Clinical Outcomes126▲ 4.6×6 topics
- Health Disparities124▲ 3.7×9 topics
- Global Burden of Disease117▲ 3.7×4 topics
- Health Care Utilization110▲ 7.5×3 topics
- Quality of Care92▲ 8.5×4 topics
- Long-Term Care86▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Behavioral Interventions83▲ 8.3×3 topics
What research is done in Providence?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 75 works
- 2 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 74 works
- 3 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 72 works
- 4 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 71 works
- 5 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 64 works
- 6 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 52 works
- 7 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 50 works
- 8 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 49 works
- 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 44 works
- 10 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 44 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.