Research in Sheffield
Science Explorer records 79 research institutions in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
- Research institutions
- 79 10 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 130k ◆ 2% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.8% 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 Sheffield?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of SheffieldUniversity | 92,869 | #259 | |
| 2 | Sheffield Hallam UniversityUniversity | 13,075 | #2,699 | |
| 3 | Royal Hallamshire HospitalHospital / health system | 6,826 | #13,366 | |
| 4 | Northern General HospitalHospital / health system | 3,983 | #21,189 | |
| 5 | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustFunder | 3,543 | #5,915 | |
| 6 | Sheffield Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 2,283 | #8,511 | |
| 7 | Sheffield City CouncilGovernment institution | 1,478 | #11,259 all time | |
| 8 | Jessop HospitalHospital / health system | 678 | #15,125 all time | |
| 9 | Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 607 | #18,421 | |
| 10 | Weston Park Cancer CentreHospital / health system | 589 | #16,276 all time | |
| 11 | Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 491 | #25,912 all time | |
| 12 | Knowledge Integration (United Kingdom)Company | 443 | #22,162 | |
| 13 | Charles Clifford Dental HospitalHospital / health system | 305 | #34,969 all time | |
| 14 | InsigneoUniversity | 305 | #11,945 | |
| 15 | Simcyp (United Kingdom)Company | 256 | #14,457 | |
| 16 | Sheffield Kidney InstituteHospital / health system | 255 | #25,812 all time | |
| 17 | Sheffield Industrial Museums TrustNonprofit | 176 | #36,563 all time | |
| 18 | BresMedHospital / health system | 151 | #39,213 all time | |
| 19 | Glass Technology ServicesResearch facility | 128 | #29,880 all time | |
| 20 | Sheffield Children's UniversityUniversity | 105 | not ranked | |
| 21 | ITM Power (United Kingdom)Company | 102 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Atomising Systems (United Kingdom)Company | 95 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Porter Brook Medical CentreHospital / health system | 73 | not ranked | |
| 24 | RemediNonprofit | 73 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Claremont Private HospitalHospital / health system | 52 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Geographical AssociationInstitution | 52 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Institute of Spring TechnologyCompany | 50 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Blatchford (United Kingdom)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Devices for DignityCompany | 47 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Ansys (United Kingdom)Company | 43 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Chase Research Cryogenics (United Kingdom)Company | 33 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Magnomatics (United Kingdom)Company | 30 | not ranked | |
| 33 | British GlassCompany | 28 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Benchmark Animal Health (United Kingdom)Company | 24 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Benchmark (United Kingdom)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Knowledge Now (United Kingdom)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Faradion (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Ecclesfield GPHospital / health system | 20 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Blastech (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Environmental Monitoring Solutions (United Kingdom)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 41 | NanolayersResearch facility | 14 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Lablogic Systems (United Kingdom)Company | 14 | not ranked | |
| 43 | White Rose East Asia CentreNonprofit | 13 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Thornbury HospitalHospital / health system | 13 | not ranked | |
| 45 | South Yorkshire Passenger Transport ExecutiveCompany | 13 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Longley Park Sixth Form CollegeUniversity | 12 | not ranked | |
| 47 | UK Carbon Capture and Research CentreInstitution | 10 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Danieli (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Arconic (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Tribosonics (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Pakistan Muslim CentreNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Housing Studies AssociationInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 53 | British Tinnitus AssociationNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Stanley Black & Decker (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Cutting & Wear (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Outokumpu (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Smart Component Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Kings FoundationNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Tinsley Bridge GroupCompany | 6 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Dacord (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | 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.
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What is Sheffield strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Sheffield is most concentrated in Gastroenterology, Public Administration and Music (4.2× the world share in Gastroenterology).
- GastroenterologySubfield · 71.9 works4.2×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 28.2 works3.6×
- MusicSubfield · 37.6 works3.2×
- Gender StudiesSubfield · 133.4 works2.5×
- SoftwareSubfield · 23.5 works2.5×
- Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 61.7 works2.5×
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 Sheffield?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Public Health, Quality of Life, Neoliberalism, Machine Learning, Gender and Mental Health.
- Electric Motor Drives
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Health Equity
- Ethical Considerations
- Nationalism
- Ethics
- Prevalence
- Genetics
- Human Rights
- Healthcare
- Treatment
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Social Media
- Identity
- Gender
- Neoliberalism
- Mechanical Properties
- Primary Care
- Mortality
- Colonialism
- Social Support
- Microstructure
- Health
- Economic Evaluation
- Income Inequality
- Health Care Utilization
- Health Utility Measures
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
- Epidemiology590◆ 1.03×134 topics
- Machine Learning409▼ 0.86×87 topics
- Globalization405▲ 1.42×125 topics
- Deep Learning399▼ 0.80×82 topics
- Public Health347▲ 1.64×66 topics
- Quality of Life336▲ 1.60×54 topics
- Sustainability328◆ 0.93×111 topics
- Climate Change285▼ 0.73×105 topics
- Mental Health283▲ 1.33×44 topics
- Inflammation250▼ 0.83×81 topics
- Social Media224◆ 1.08×36 topics
- Risk Factors210▲ 1.31×37 topics
- Identity207▲ 1.96×61 topics
- Neural Networks201◆ 0.90×39 topics
- Gender199▲ 2.5×48 topics
- Treatment188◆ 1.06×51 topics
- Neoliberalism184▲ 3.5×27 topics
- Healthcare182◆ 1.11×36 topics
- Mechanical Properties174▲ 1.23×38 topics
- Human Rights169◆ 1.13×68 topics
- Primary Care164▲ 3.0×15 topics
- Genetics151▲ 1.49×27 topics
- Mortality142▲ 1.69×13 topics
- Prevalence140▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Colonialism139▲ 2.0×45 topics
- Ethics138▲ 1.96×42 topics
- Social Support136▲ 1.67×19 topics
- Nationalism130▲ 1.94×31 topics
- Microstructure127▲ 1.68×19 topics
- Ethical Considerations118▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Health112▲ 1.92×21 topics
- Health Equity103▲ 2.6×6 topics
- Economic Evaluation81▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Evidence-Based Practice78▲ 4.2×7 topics
- Income Inequality77▲ 3.7×6 topics
- Thermal Analysis77▲ 4.1×8 topics
- Health Care Utilization73▲ 4.4×3 topics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis72▲ 5.8×1 topic
- Health Utility Measures72▲ 5.8×1 topic
- Electric Motor Drives55▲ 9.3×1 topic
What research is done in Sheffield?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics and Econometrics 72 works
- 2 Electric Motor Design and AnalysisElectrical and Electronic Engineering 55 works
- 3 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and TreatmentsPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 50 works
- 4 Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismFinance 44 works
- 5 Homelessness and Social IssuesGeneral Health Professions 38 works
- 6 Employment and Welfare StudiesGeneral Health Professions 35 works
- 7 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 33 works
- 8 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Informatics 32 works
- 9 Structural Health Monitoring TechniquesCivil and Structural Engineering 31 works
- 10 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ResearchNeurology 30 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.