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Research in Siena

Science Explorer records 17 research institutions in Siena, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Siena, Toscana Life Sciences and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese.

Research institutions
17
6 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
30k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
20.3%
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 Siena?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of SienaUniversity 26,676 #963
2Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria SeneseHospital / health system 860 #10,394
3Ospedale Santa Maria alle ScotteHospital / health system 590 #18,471
4University for Foreigners of SienaUniversity 478 #19,423
5Polo d’Innovazione di GenomicaResearch facility 452 #21,929
6Toscana Life SciencesNonprofit 388 #6,629
7ALTA (Italy)Company 151 #18,677 all time
8Siena Biotech (Italy)Company 138 #31,330 all time
9VisMederi ResearchResearch facility 69 not ranked
10Philogen (Italy)Company 43 not ranked
11Wave Up (Italy)Company 35 not ranked
12Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di SienaNonprofit 22 not ranked
13Toscana Biomarkers (Italy)Company 19 not ranked
14Network Italiano Per la Bioterapia Dei TumoriResearch facility 14 not ranked
15Siena School for Liberal ArtsUniversity 7 not ranked
16Associazione Italiana RettInstitution 3 not ranked
17VisMederi (Italy)Company 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.

University of Siena: 89.1%Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese: 2.9%Ospedale Santa Maria alle Scotte: 2.0%University for Foreigners of Siena: 1.6%13 others listed: 4.5%89%largest
University of Siena27k · 89.1%Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese860 · 2.9%Ospedale Santa Maria alle Scotte590 · 2.0%University for Foreigners of Siena478 · 1.6%13 others listed1,342 · 4.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Siena strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Siena is most concentrated in General Arts and Humanities, Orthodontics and Microbiology (31.8× the world share in General Arts and Humanities).

  1. General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 31.2 works32×
  2. OrthodonticsSubfield · 23.4 works4.4×
  3. MicrobiologySubfield · 20.9 works4.2×
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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 Siena?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Identity, Pragmatics, Treatment, Inflammation, Literature, Globalization and Language Teaching.

▲ 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
  1. Epidemiology310▲ 1.66×132 topics
  2. Inflammation140▲ 1.43×80 topics
  3. Climate Change136◆ 1.07×87 topics
  4. Deep Learning134▼ 0.83×64 topics
  5. Globalization128▲ 1.38×86 topics
  6. Treatment115▲ 2.0×52 topics
  7. Identity106▲ 3.1×50 topics
  8. Quality of Life100▲ 1.46×55 topics
  9. Diagnosis94▲ 2.1×41 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress90▲ 1.16×60 topics
  11. Innovation81▲ 1.63×38 topics
  12. Literature81▲ 3.1×43 topics
  13. Gender72▲ 2.8×36 topics
  14. Religion71▲ 3.2×30 topics
  15. Cultural Heritage68▲ 2.6×23 topics
  16. Vaccine66▲ 3.5×11 topics
  17. Nationalism66▲ 3.0×24 topics
  18. Pragmatics64▲ 8.4×6 topics
  19. Pathogenesis64▲ 2.6×24 topics
  20. Immunity62▲ 3.2×11 topics
  21. Language Teaching61▲ 5.1×6 topics
  22. Heart Failure61▲ 3.0×14 topics
  23. Colonialism57▲ 2.5×29 topics
  24. SARS-CoV-256▲ 3.7×6 topics
  25. Cultural Studies56▲ 3.1×24 topics
  26. Genetic Mutations54▲ 2.6×23 topics
  27. Memory49▲ 4.2×14 topics
  28. Prosody48▲ 27×2 topics
  29. Portuguese46▲ 26×2 topics
  30. Corpora46▲ 76×1 topic
  31. Spoken Language46▲ 76×1 topic
  32. Echocardiography45▲ 3.5×8 topics
  33. Autoantibodies44▲ 4.0×8 topics
  34. Italy44▲ 36×2 topics
  35. Propaganda42▲ 17×5 topics
  36. Immunosuppressive Therapy41▲ 4.7×8 topics
  37. Fascism40▲ 39×1 topic
  38. Totalitarianism40▲ 31×1 topic
  39. Urban Planning37▲ 9.5×9 topics
  40. Ethnobotany32▲ 11×5 topics

What research is done in Siena?

  1. 1 Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition Artificial Intelligence 46 works
  2. 2 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Sociology and Political Science 40 works
  3. 3 Italian Literature and Culture General Arts and Humanities 30 works
  4. 4 Educational and Social Studies Education 27 works
  5. 5 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 24 works
  6. 6 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies Aerospace Engineering 21 works
  7. 7 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 21 works
  8. 8 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 19 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 17 works
  10. 10 Diverse academic and cultural studies Economics and Econometrics 17 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.