Research in San Antonio
Science Explorer records 112 research institutions in San Antonio, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are The University of Texas at San Antonio, Southwest Research Institute and San Antonio College.
- Research institutions
- 112 13 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 105k ▼ 5% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2.9M 27.2 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 15.5% 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 San Antonio?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of Texas at San AntonioUniversity | 52,405 | #386 | |
| 2 | Southwest Research InstituteNonprofit | 8,051 | #2,348 | |
| 3 | Trinity UniversityUniversity | 5,001 | #7,276 | |
| 4 | San Antonio CollegeUniversity | 3,868 | #3,089 | |
| 5 | Texas Biomedical Research InstituteResearch facility | 2,750 | #4,504 | |
| 6 | Quality ResearchResearch facility | 2,245 | #5,455 | |
| 7 | University Health SystemHospital / health system | 1,713 | #8,953 | |
| 8 | University of the Incarnate WordUniversity | 1,497 | #10,272 | |
| 9 | St. Mary's University, TexasUniversity | 1,129 | #11,814 | |
| 10 | Urology San AntonioHospital / health system | 922 | #14,644 | |
| 11 | San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education ConsortiumHospital / health system | 671 | #14,239 | |
| 12 | Texas Plastic SurgeryHospital / health system | 583 | #20,350 all time | |
| 13 | Our Lady of the Lake UniversityUniversity | 480 | #19,705 | |
| 14 | Sylvana ResearchInstitution | 394 | #15,374 all time | |
| 15 | Texas Center for Infectious DiseaseResearch facility | 333 | #11,764 all time | |
| 16 | Incell Corporation (United States)Company | 304 | #17,067 all time | |
| 17 | Baptist Health SystemHospital / health system | 287 | #28,012 all time | |
| 18 | South Texas Accelerated Research TherapeuticsResearch facility | 273 | #22,084 | |
| 19 | Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants (United States)Company | 185 | #29,714 all time | |
| 20 | Bexar County Medical Examiner's OfficeGovernment institution | 183 | #25,850 all time | |
| 21 | Children's Hospital of San AntonioHospital / health system | 180 | #30,917 all time | |
| 22 | Diagnostics Research GroupResearch facility | 144 | #26,795 all time | |
| 23 | Methodist HealthcareHospital / health system | 138 | #32,847 all time | |
| 24 | Texas Diabetes InstituteResearch facility | 131 | #27,922 all time | |
| 25 | CHRISTUS Transplant InstituteHospital / health system | 124 | #34,679 all time | |
| 26 | Conceptual Mindworks (United States)Company | 123 | #29,010 all time | |
| 27 | Metrica (United States)Company | 119 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Medical Center Ophthalmology AssociatesHospital / health system | 111 | not ranked | |
| 29 | East FoundationNonprofit | 110 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Neurobehavioral Research Laboratory and ClinicHospital / health system | 104 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Texas Liver InstituteHospital / health system | 103 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Valero Energy (United States)Company | 100 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Christus Santa Rosa Health SystemHospital / health system | 96 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Peripheral Vascular AssociatesHospital / health system | 96 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Operational Technologies Corporation (United States)Company | 91 | not ranked | |
| 36 | San Antonio State Chest HospitalHospital / health system | 88 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Renal Associates P. A.Hospital / health system | 85 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Lackland Independent School DistrictUniversity | 84 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Alamo CollegesUniversity | 84 | not ranked | |
| 40 | United Services Automobile AssociationInstitution | 80 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Methodist Children’s HospitalHospital / health system | 76 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Texas Endosurgery InstituteHospital / health system | 75 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Center for Health Care ServicesHospital / health system | 65 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Ear Medical GroupHospital / health system | 65 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Oblate School of TheologyUniversity | 65 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Integrative Health Technologies (United States)Company | 64 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Fertility Center of San AntonioHospital / health system | 61 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Diabetes & Glandular Disease ClinicHospital / health system | 60 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Northwest Vista CollegeUniversity | 59 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Xenex Disinfection Services (United States)Company | 56 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Hallmark UniversityUniversity | 54 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Edgewood Independent School DistrictUniversity | 54 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Biodynamic Research Corporation (United States)Company | 52 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Northeast Baptist HospitalHospital / health system | 41 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Foundation for Advancing Veterans Health ResearchNonprofit | 40 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Seno Medical (United States)Company | 40 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Targazyme (United States)Company | 40 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Tesoro (United States)Company | 39 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Biomedical Development CorporationCompany | 37 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Chromosome 18 Registry & Research SocietyNonprofit | 33 | not ranked |
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 San Antonio work in?
In 2022-now, 42% of research in San Antonio is in Health Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (36%), Social Sciences (10%), Engineering (8%). It does 1.8× 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 Sciences6,51641.9%
- Medicine5,63936.3%
- Health Professions6614.3%
- Dentistry1100.7%
- Nursing780.5%
- Veterinary270.2%
- Physical Sciences3,74524.1%
- Engineering1,2898.3%
- Computer Science8435.4%
- Environmental Science4653.0%
- Physics and Astronomy4132.7%
- Materials Science1881.2%
- Chemistry1691.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1691.1%
- Mathematics1170.8%
- Chemical Engineering530.3%
- Energy390.3%
- Social Sciences3,12220.1%
- Social Sciences1,4979.6%
- Psychology7014.5%
- Arts and Humanities3252.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting2501.6%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1961.3%
- Decision Sciences1521.0%
- Life Sciences2,15313.9%
What is San Antonio strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in San Antonio is most concentrated in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Astronomy and Astrophysics (5.3× the world share in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine).
- Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineSubfield · 108.4 works5.3×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 144.0 works4.3×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 261.4 works3.7×
- Emergency Medical ServicesSubfield · 72.8 works2.9×
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, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Medicine1.87×4,922 works
- Neuroscience1.74×386 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.71×235 works
- Health Professions1.67×603 works
- Psychology1.50×626 works
- Dentistry1.49×99 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.31×953 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.17×355 works
- Veterinary1.15×21 works
- Decision Sciences1.04×138 works
- Chemical Engineering1.02×49 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.00×48 works
- Nursing1.00×67 works
- Social Sciences0.79×1,369 works
- Arts and Humanities0.74×291 works
- Computer Science0.70×745 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.70×150 works
- Chemistry0.69×148 works
- Mathematics0.65×105 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×180 works
- Environmental Science0.60×405 works
- Engineering0.55×1,124 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.51×224 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.38×244 works
- Materials Science0.34×162 works
- Energy0.28×35 works
Which keywords describe research in San Antonio?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Treatment, Risk Factors, Public Health, Quality of Life, Resuscitation and Mental Health.
- Terrestrial Planets
- Coagulopathy
- Hemorrhage
- Health Outcomes
- Surgical Management
- Primary Care
- Trauma
- Heart Failure
- Neurological Disorders
- Resuscitation
- Chemotherapy
- Immunotherapy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Management
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- Cancer
- Depression
- Mortality
- Complications
- Biomarkers
- Global Burden
- Aging
- Diabetes
- Guidelines
- Sepsis
- Neuroinflammation
- Quality Improvement
- Solar Wind
- Solar System Abundances
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
- Epidemiology1,241▲ 2.0×140 topics
- Inflammation500▲ 1.51×83 topics
- Machine Learning437▼ 0.84×90 topics
- Deep Learning392▼ 0.73×80 topics
- Public Health383▲ 1.69×72 topics
- Quality of Life378▲ 1.69×58 topics
- Treatment365▲ 1.93×52 topics
- Mental Health362▲ 1.63×47 topics
- Risk Factors350▲ 2.0×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress340▲ 1.33×62 topics
- Diagnosis305▲ 2.1×41 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease274▲ 1.55×39 topics
- Cancer254▲ 1.22×58 topics
- Management246▲ 1.99×36 topics
- Depression243▲ 1.78×26 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome208▲ 1.65×23 topics
- Mortality203▲ 2.3×13 topics
- Immunotherapy190▲ 1.69×19 topics
- Complications185▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Chemotherapy183▲ 1.66×25 topics
- Biomarkers179▲ 1.66×18 topics
- Resuscitation167▲ 8.1×4 topics
- Global Burden166▲ 1.97×12 topics
- Neurological Disorders162▲ 1.83×20 topics
- Aging159▲ 1.88×19 topics
- Heart Failure154▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Diabetes153▲ 1.95×22 topics
- Trauma151▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Guidelines150▲ 2.0×13 topics
- Primary Care148▲ 2.6×14 topics
- Sepsis146▲ 5.2×7 topics
- Surgical Management140▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Neuroinflammation134▲ 3.0×6 topics
- Health Outcomes121▲ 2.9×8 topics
- Quality Improvement117▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Hemorrhage100▲ 9.3×3 topics
- Solar Wind98▲ 6.9×2 topics
- Coagulopathy92▲ 7.2×2 topics
- Solar System Abundances80▲ 11×1 topic
- Terrestrial Planets80▲ 11×1 topic
What research is done in San Antonio?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 71 works
- 2 Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 60 works
- 3 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 55 works
- 4 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 48 works
- 5 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 46 works
- 6 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 45 works
- 7 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 40 works
- 8 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 36 works
- 9 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 35 works
- 10 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 35 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 23.6% in 2013.
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