Research in Rochester
Science Explorer records 67 research institutions in Rochester, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Rochester, University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester Institute of Technology.
- Research institutions
- 67 11 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 128k ▼ 5% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 16.0% 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 Rochester?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of RochesterUniversity | 72,437 | #379 | |
| 2 | University of Rochester Medical CenterHospital / health system | 19,240 | #1,260 | |
| 3 | Rochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 17,578 | #1,858 | |
| 4 | Kodak (United States)Company | 3,949 | #1,897 all time | |
| 5 | St. John Fisher CollegeUniversity | 2,526 | #13,872 | |
| 6 | Carestream (United States)Company | 2,331 | #21,590 | |
| 7 | Rochester General HospitalHospital / health system | 1,964 | #11,750 | |
| 8 | Strong Memorial HospitalHospital / health system | 1,379 | #20,510 | |
| 9 | Unity Health SystemHospital / health system | 1,228 | #10,244 | |
| 10 | Highland HospitalHospital / health system | 755 | #17,430 all time | |
| 11 | Nazareth CollegeUniversity | 544 | #24,135 | |
| 12 | Gleason (United States)Company | 493 | #13,113 all time | |
| 13 | Golisano Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 475 | #19,973 | |
| 14 | Unity HospitalHospital / health system | 358 | #24,552 | |
| 15 | Monroe Community HospitalHospital / health system | 275 | #30,151 all time | |
| 16 | QED Technologies (United States)Company | 242 | #33,150 all time | |
| 17 | Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity SchoolUniversity | 230 | #33,831 all time | |
| 18 | Roberts Wesleyan CollegeUniversity | 225 | #33,777 all time | |
| 19 | Albany International (United States)Company | 143 | #34,488 all time | |
| 20 | Dimension Technologies (United States)Company | 130 | #37,912 all time | |
| 21 | Gradient Lens Corporation (United States)Company | 124 | #34,279 all time | |
| 22 | Litron Laboratories (United States)Company | 104 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Rochester Rehabilitation CenterNonprofit | 94 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Monroe County Department of Public HealthGovernment institution | 79 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Vaccinex (United States)Company | 68 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Sydor Technologies (United States)Company | 52 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Rochester Precision Optics (United States)Company | 50 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Rochester City School DistrictUniversity | 48 | not ranked | |
| 29 | BlackBox Biometrics (United States)Company | 47 | not ranked | |
| 30 | The Harley SchoolUniversity | 44 | not ranked | |
| 31 | St. Bernard’s School of Theology and MinistryUniversity | 40 | not ranked | |
| 32 | LPA Software Solutions (United States)Company | 39 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Caliber Imaging and Diagnostics (United States)Company | 33 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Integrated Nano-Technologies (United States)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Rochester Museum and Science CenterArchive | 31 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Mary M. Gooley Hemophilia CenterHospital / health system | 29 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Orthogonal (United States)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 38 | George Eastman HouseArchive | 27 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Med Graph (United States)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 40 | SiMPore (United States)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Quatela Center for Plastic SurgeryHospital / health system | 16 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Gastroenterology Group of RochesterHospital / health system | 15 | not ranked | |
| 43 | OLEDWorks (United States)Company | 13 | not ranked | |
| 44 | LighTopTech (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Lumetrics (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 46 | OyaGen (United States)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Teens Living with CancerHospital / health system | 8 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Catholic Family CenterNonprofit | 8 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Nohms Technologies (United States)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Center for Governmental ResearchNonprofit | 8 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Rochester Engineering SocietyInstitution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Foundation for Personality and Social PsychologyNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Socratech (United States)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Monroe County Department of Human ServicesGovernment institution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Rochester RootsNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Measures for JusticeNonprofit | 3 | not ranked | |
| 57 | National Museum of PlayArchive | 3 | not ranked | |
| 58 | FoodlinkNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 59 | SkuTek Instrumentation (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Retina Associates of Western New YorkInstitution | 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 Rochester strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Rochester is most concentrated in Internal Medicine, Sensory Systems and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (3.2× the world share in Internal Medicine).
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 26.5 works3.2×
- Sensory SystemsSubfield · 32.7 works3.2×
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 291.5 works3.0×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 43.4 works3.0×
- Immunology and AllergySubfield · 31.5 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 Rochester?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Deep Learning, Quality of Life, Inflammation, Treatment, Diagnosis, Risk Factors and Machine Learning.
- Perceptual Learning
- Cortical Connectivity
- Spectroscopy
- Medical Education
- Surgery
- Echocardiography
- Neurological Disorders
- Biomarkers
- Mortality
- Prognostic Factors
- Complications
- Immunotherapy
- Depression
- Public Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Quality of Life
- Oxidative Stress
- Diagnosis
- Mental Health
- Cancer
- Chemotherapy
- Management
- Clinical Trials
- Heart Failure
- Guidelines
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Aging
- Genetic Mutations
- Radiotherapy
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Children
- Nonlinear Optics
- Neural Processing
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
- Epidemiology876▲ 1.65×132 topics
- Deep Learning505◆ 1.10×77 topics
- Inflammation392▲ 1.40×80 topics
- Machine Learning388◆ 0.88×82 topics
- Quality of Life341▲ 1.76×54 topics
- Treatment310▲ 1.91×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress276▲ 1.26×60 topics
- Risk Factors270▲ 1.83×37 topics
- Diagnosis268▲ 2.1×41 topics
- Neural Networks243▲ 1.18×36 topics
- Mental Health234▲ 1.19×39 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease201▲ 1.35×37 topics
- Cancer198◆ 1.10×52 topics
- Public Health194◆ 0.99×57 topics
- Chemotherapy191▲ 2.0×25 topics
- Depression189▲ 1.60×23 topics
- Management187▲ 1.77×35 topics
- Immunotherapy176▲ 1.84×19 topics
- Clinical Trials157▲ 1.75×19 topics
- Complications152▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Heart Failure152▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors150▲ 2.6×14 topics
- Guidelines145▲ 2.3×13 topics
- Mortality144▲ 1.86×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines143▲ 1.95×14 topics
- Biomarkers142▲ 1.54×17 topics
- Aging141▲ 1.96×18 topics
- Neurological Disorders138▲ 1.81×20 topics
- Genetic Mutations131▲ 2.2×23 topics
- Echocardiography125▲ 3.4×8 topics
- Radiotherapy112▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Surgery109▲ 2.3×12 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life94▲ 3.0×5 topics
- Medical Education93▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Children91▲ 2.9×7 topics
- Spectroscopy87▲ 3.8×11 topics
- Nonlinear Optics81▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Cortical Connectivity59▲ 10×2 topics
- Neural Processing58▲ 6.9×2 topics
- Perceptual Learning57▲ 8.7×2 topics
What research is done in Rochester?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 56 works
- 2 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 48 works
- 3 Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 40 works
- 4 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 36 works
- 5 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 36 works
- 6 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 35 works
- 7 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 34 works
- 8 Hearing Impairment and Communication Developmental and Educational Psychology 33 works
- 9 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 32 works
- 10 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 30 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.