City · Netherlands
Research in Rotterdam
Science Explorer records 82 research institutions in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus MC and Erasmus MC Cancer Institute.
- Research institutions
- 82 10 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 101k ▲ 7% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 26.7% 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 Rotterdam?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erasmus University RotterdamUniversity | 46,472 | #535 | |
| 2 | Erasmus MCHospital / health system | 25,799 | #605 | |
| 3 | Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesUniversity | 6,470 | #10,297 | |
| 4 | Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s HospitalHospital / health system | 3,381 | #7,296 | |
| 5 | Chevron (Netherlands)Company | 3,155 | #22,765 | |
| 6 | Erasmus MC Cancer InstituteHospital / health system | 2,826 | #2,275 | |
| 7 | Tinbergen InstituteUniversity | 2,401 | #10,724 | |
| 8 | Unilever (Netherlands)Company | 2,396 | #3,675 all time | |
| 9 | Ikazia ZiekenhuisHospital / health system | 1,657 | #19,876 all time | |
| 10 | Sint Franciscus GasthuisHospital / health system | 914 | #12,110 | |
| 11 | Rotterdam Eye HospitalHospital / health system | 791 | #18,965 all time | |
| 12 | Maasstad ZiekenhuisHospital / health system | 695 | #11,673 | |
| 13 | Combined Ophthalmic Research RotterdamNonprofit | 614 | #18,594 all time | |
| 14 | GGD Rotterdam-RijnmondGovernment institution | 478 | #20,341 all time | |
| 15 | Codarts RotterdamUniversity | 364 | #23,016 | |
| 16 | Natural History Museum RotterdamArchive | 342 | #22,885 all time | |
| 17 | Star Medisch Diagnostisch CentrumHospital / health system | 258 | #29,057 all time | |
| 18 | Cardialysis (Netherlands)Company | 216 | #19,425 all time | |
| 19 | St Clara HospitalHospital / health system | 187 | #34,161 all time | |
| 20 | IVO Addiction Research InstituteResearch facility | 159 | #30,719 all time | |
| 21 | Procter & Gamble (Netherlands)Company | 147 | #29,771 all time | |
| 22 | Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular SurgeryResearch facility | 121 | #40,244 all time | |
| 23 | Center for Personalized Cancer TreatmentHospital / health system | 114 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Pharmerit (Netherlands)Company | 113 | not ranked | |
| 25 | DNV (Netherlands)Company | 113 | not ranked | |
| 26 | EuroQol Research FoundationNonprofit | 105 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Havenziekenhuis RotterdamHospital / health system | 102 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Ecorys (Netherlands)Company | 92 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Gemeente RotterdamGovernment institution | 88 | not ranked | |
| 30 | LaurensHospital / health system | 64 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Viroclinics Biosciences (Netherlands)Company | 59 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Evides (Netherlands)Company | 59 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Rijndam RevalidatiecentrumHospital / health system | 57 | not ranked | |
| 34 | AntesHospital / health system | 56 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Bouman GGZHospital / health system | 55 | not ranked | |
| 36 | KijvelandenHospital / health system | 49 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Dura Vermeer (Netherlands)Company | 48 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Almende (Netherlands)Company | 36 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Bouwcentrum (Netherlands)Company | 35 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Harbour BioMed (Netherlands)Company | 33 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Rotterdam Stroke ServiceHospital / health system | 30 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Islamic University of RotterdamUniversity | 27 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Startup FoundationNonprofit | 25 | not ranked | |
| 44 | International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and ConstructionInstitution | 24 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Capri HartrevalidatieHospital / health system | 24 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Hunter Douglas (Netherlands)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Imtech Marine (Netherlands)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Port of Rotterdam AuthorityGovernment institution | 14 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Kliniek voor Parodontologie RotterdamHospital / health system | 14 | not ranked | |
| 50 | International New Town InstituteUniversity | 14 | not ranked | |
| 51 | CED GroepInstitution | 12 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Stichting Kind en GroeiInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Netherlands Architecture InstituteInstitution | 8 | not ranked | |
| 54 | C Care OrthopedicsHospital / health system | 7 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Stichting Urologisch Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Het Nieuwe InstituutArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Andromed (Netherlands)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 58 | STC Group (Netherlands)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Dutch CAA FoundationInstitution | 5 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Centrient Pharmaceuticals (Netherlands)Company | 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.
Erasmus University Rotterdam46k · 45.8%Erasmus MC26k · 25.4%Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences6,470 · 6.4%Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s Hospital3,381 · 3.3%56 others listed19k · 19.0%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Rotterdam strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Rotterdam is most concentrated in General Decision Sciences, Transplantation and Public Administration (11.5× the world share in General Decision Sciences).
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 29.2 works11×
- TransplantationSubfield · 37.1 works6.2×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 30.4 works4.2×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 26.0 works4.0×
- FinanceSubfield · 154.6 works3.8×
- RheumatologySubfield · 212.5 works3.5×
← 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 Rotterdam?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Genetic Mutations and Cardiovascular Disease.
- Endothelial Dysfunction
- Health Utility Measures
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Echocardiography
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Survival Analysis
- Global Burden
- Mortality
- Heart Failure
- Guidelines
- Obesity
- Biomarkers
- Genetic Mutations
- Oxidative Stress
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Immunotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Chemotherapy
- Globalization
- Diagnosis
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Management
- Genetics
- Prognostic Factors
- Radiotherapy
- Social Capital
- Cardiovascular Risk
- Primary Care
- Economic Evaluation
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Health-related Quality of Life
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,021▲ 1.92×128 topics
- Inflammation549▲ 1.96×83 topics
- Quality of Life425▲ 2.2×57 topics
- Treatment330▲ 2.0×49 topics
- Immunotherapy312▲ 3.3×19 topics
- Public Health308▲ 1.58×58 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease302▲ 2.0×38 topics
- Mental Health282▲ 1.43×45 topics
- Chemotherapy280▲ 3.0×25 topics
- Risk Factors274▲ 1.85×37 topics
- Globalization269◆ 1.02×109 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome258▲ 2.4×22 topics
- Diagnosis254▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Oxidative Stress252◆ 1.14×57 topics
- Clinical Trials236▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Genetic Mutations228▲ 3.9×23 topics
- Depression224▲ 1.90×25 topics
- Biomarkers217▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines212▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Obesity206▲ 2.0×23 topics
- Management198▲ 1.88×34 topics
- Guidelines197▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Genetics192▲ 2.0×23 topics
- Heart Failure182▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Prognostic Factors173▲ 3.0×14 topics
- Mortality167▲ 2.1×13 topics
- Radiotherapy165▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Global Burden155▲ 2.1×12 topics
- Social Capital154▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Survival Analysis149▲ 4.1×7 topics
- Cardiovascular Risk148▲ 3.6×9 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy140▲ 4.4×5 topics
- Primary Care136▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Echocardiography126▲ 3.5×8 topics
- Economic Evaluation122▲ 7.5×4 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging121▲ 3.5×8 topics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis118▲ 10×1 topic
- Health Utility Measures118▲ 10×1 topic
- Health-related Quality of Life115▲ 3.6×6 topics
- Endothelial Dysfunction113▲ 3.6×8 topics
What research is done in Rotterdam?
Economics and EconometricsRheumatologyObstetrics and GynecologyOncology4 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 118 works
- 2 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 52 works
- 3 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 49 works
- 4 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 48 works
- 5 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 47 works
- 6 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 47 works
- 7 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 47 works
- 8 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 46 works
- 9 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 45 works
- 10 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 43 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.