Research in St Louis
Science Explorer records 131 research institutions in St Louis, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University and University of Missouri–St. Louis.
- Research institutions
- 131 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 195k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 8.2M 41.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.5% 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 St Louis?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington University in St. LouisUniversity | 129,403 | #66 | |
| 2 | Saint Louis UniversityUniversity | 26,664 | #835 | |
| 3 | University of Missouri–St. LouisUniversity | 12,231 | #2,559 | |
| 4 | AscensionHospital / health system | 7,130 | #8,060 | |
| 5 | Missouri Botanical GardenArchive | 3,719 | #9,846 | |
| 6 | Ophthalmology Associates (United States)Institution | 2,572 | #19,777 | |
| 7 | James S. McDonnell FoundationNonprofit | 2,358 | #7,673 | |
| 8 | Donald Danforth Plant Science CenterNonprofit | 1,829 | #5,302 | |
| 9 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisInstitution | 1,592 | #16,916 | |
| 10 | BJC HealthCareHospital / health system | 986 | #7,033 | |
| 11 | University of Health Sciences and PharmacyUniversity | 831 | #9,722 | |
| 12 | Hope Center for Neurological DisordersHospital / health system | 704 | #3,356 | |
| 13 | Emerson (United States)Company | 619 | #3,166 all time | |
| 14 | American Optometric AssociationNonprofit | 618 | #26,317 all time | |
| 15 | St. Luke's HospitalHospital / health system | 602 | #7,725 all time | |
| 16 | Botanical Society of AmericaNonprofit | 513 | #15,467 all time | |
| 17 | Retina InstituteHospital / health system | 492 | #15,654 all time | |
| 18 | Sisters of Mercy Health SystemHospital / health system | 488 | #17,684 | |
| 19 | Saint Louis ZooArchive | 470 | #20,956 | |
| 20 | Missouri Institute of Mental HealthHospital / health system | 396 | #17,585 all time | |
| 21 | Mercy HospitalHospital / health system | 391 | #21,073 | |
| 22 | Maryville UniversityUniversity | 384 | #16,741 | |
| 23 | Concordia SeminaryUniversity | 342 | #33,178 all time | |
| 24 | St Louis Community CollegeUniversity | 308 | #14,089 all time | |
| 25 | SSM Health CareHospital / health system | 298 | #19,143 | |
| 26 | Certara (United States)Company | 278 | #16,709 | |
| 27 | Engineering Software Research and Development (United States)Company | 250 | #16,868 | |
| 28 | APT Therapeutics (United States)Company | 249 | #15,477 all time | |
| 29 | St. Louis County MissouriGovernment institution | 248 | #22,010 all time | |
| 30 | EaglePicher Technologies (United States)Company | 242 | #30,541 all time | |
| 31 | St. Mary's Health CenterHospital / health system | 222 | #31,058 all time | |
| 32 | Central DermatologyInstitution | 203 | #27,968 all time | |
| 33 | Aquinas Institute of TheologyUniversity | 188 | #32,853 all time | |
| 34 | Barnes-Jewish CollegeUniversity | 178 | #29,938 all time | |
| 35 | Missouri Bone and Joint CenterHospital / health system | 177 | #30,067 all time | |
| 36 | Ophthalmology ConsultantsHospital / health system | 159 | #26,637 all time | |
| 37 | Express Scripts Holding Company (United States)Company | 155 | #24,727 all time | |
| 38 | Fontbonne UniversityUniversity | 146 | #26,569 all time | |
| 39 | St. Louis University High SchoolUniversity | 144 | #16,928 all time | |
| 40 | Places For PeopleNonprofit | 127 | #31,852 all time | |
| 41 | Covenant Theological SeminaryUniversity | 119 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Belden (United States)Company | 104 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Children's Advocacy CenterHospital / health system | 100 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Confluence Life Sciences (United States)Company | 96 | not ranked | |
| 45 | LickenbrockCompany | 91 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Harris–Stowe State UniversityUniversity | 83 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Vantage View (United States)Company | 78 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Midwest Therapeutic EndoscopyHospital / health system | 77 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Stereotaxis (United States)Company | 72 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Sequoia Sciences (United States)Company | 66 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Object Computing (United States)Company | 63 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Ameren (United States)Company | 60 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Missouri Baptist UniversityUniversity | 55 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Kenrick–Glennon SeminaryUniversity | 55 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Production Products (United States)Company | 55 | not ranked | |
| 56 | St. Louis Public SchoolsUniversity | 52 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationGovernment institution | 51 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Energizer (United States)Company | 36 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Saint Louis Science CenterResearch facility | 35 | not ranked | |
| 60 | C2N Diagnostics (United States)Company | 35 | 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 St Louis work in?
In 2022-now, 44% of research in St Louis is in Health Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (39%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 1.9× 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 Sciences12k43.6%
- Medicine11k39.3%
- Health Professions9633.6%
- Nursing1170.4%
- Dentistry540.2%
- Veterinary280.1%
- Life Sciences5,29819.7%
- Social Sciences5,03118.7%
- Social Sciences2,0107.5%
- Psychology1,2504.7%
- Arts and Humanities6312.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance5352.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting4131.5%
- Decision Sciences1920.7%
- Physical Sciences4,81517.9%
- Engineering1,2184.5%
- Computer Science8683.2%
- Physics and Astronomy6762.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences6462.4%
- Environmental Science6022.2%
- Mathematics2510.9%
- Materials Science2430.9%
- Chemistry2170.8%
- Energy630.2%
- Chemical Engineering330.1%
What is St Louis strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in St Louis is most concentrated in Transplantation, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology and Geophysics (6.2× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 64.6 works6.2×
- Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 43.0 works5.6×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 440.8 works5.4×
- HematologySubfield · 232.3 works3.3×
- Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 220.4 works3.0×
- Developmental NeuroscienceSubfield · 34.2 works2.9×
- GeneticsSubfield · 186.5 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: Immunology and Microbiology, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology2.44×575 works
- Neuroscience2.38×907 works
- Medicine2.02×9,110 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.91×2,386 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.70×624 works
- Psychology1.52×1,088 works
- Health Professions1.39×860 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.23×639 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.99×499 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.97×80 works
- Nursing0.85×98 works
- Veterinary0.81×26 works
- Arts and Humanities0.79×535 works
- Mathematics0.78×216 works
- Decision Sciences0.72×163 works
- Social Sciences0.59×1,760 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.56×622 works
- Chemistry0.54×198 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.49×372 works
- Environmental Science0.46×533 works
- Computer Science0.41×743 works
- Dentistry0.41×47 works
- Chemical Engineering0.34×28 works
- Engineering0.31×1,078 works
- Energy0.25×55 works
- Materials Science0.25×208 works
Which keywords describe research in St Louis?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Quality of Life, Mental Health, Cancer, Treatment and Risk Factors.
- Cognitive Decline
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Surface Wave
- Magnetosphere
- Electron Acceleration
- Neuroimaging
- Heart Failure
- Neuroinflammation
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Trials
- Neurological Disorders
- Aging
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Immunotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Oxidative Stress
- Mental Health
- Treatment
- Public Health
- Diagnosis
- Depression
- Genetics
- Chemotherapy
- Management
- Complications
- Neurodegeneration
- Prognostic Factors
- Tomography
- Radiotherapy
- Solar Wind
- Ionosphere
- Seismic Noise
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Brain Development
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
- Epidemiology1,963▲ 1.83×138 topics
- Inflammation971▲ 1.70×83 topics
- Oxidative Stress716▲ 1.62×63 topics
- Quality of Life642▲ 1.65×55 topics
- Mental Health639▲ 1.66×45 topics
- Cancer599▲ 1.66×58 topics
- Treatment571▲ 1.75×52 topics
- Risk Factors547▲ 1.85×37 topics
- Public Health546▲ 1.39×71 topics
- Biomarkers452▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Diagnosis451▲ 1.80×41 topics
- Immunotherapy442▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Depression429▲ 1.82×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease418▲ 1.36×39 topics
- Genetics379▲ 2.0×27 topics
- Aging376▲ 2.6×18 topics
- Chemotherapy375▲ 1.97×25 topics
- Neurological Disorders366▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Management346▲ 1.61×36 topics
- Clinical Trials325▲ 1.81×19 topics
- Complications317▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Genetic Mutations311▲ 2.6×23 topics
- Neurodegeneration298▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Gene Expression298▲ 1.77×20 topics
- Prognostic Factors284▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Neuroinflammation283▲ 3.6×6 topics
- Tomography271▲ 5.7×5 topics
- Heart Failure266▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Radiotherapy261▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Neuroimaging258▲ 3.5×11 topics
- Solar Wind242▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Electron Acceleration234▲ 13×2 topics
- Ionosphere234▲ 16×1 topic
- Magnetosphere234▲ 16×1 topic
- Seismic Noise218▲ 17×1 topic
- Surface Wave218▲ 17×1 topic
- Ionospheric Anomalies192▲ 19×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics192▲ 19×1 topic
- Brain Development183▲ 3.9×6 topics
- Cognitive Decline167▲ 5.1×2 topics
What research is done in St Louis?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 234 works
- 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 218 works
- 3 Earthquake Detection and Analysis Geophysics 192 works
- 4 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 125 works
- 5 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 95 works
- 6 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 81 works
- 7 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 81 works
- 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 74 works
- 9 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 70 works
- 10 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 68 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 30.5% in 2008.
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