City · United States
Research in St Louis
Science Explorer records 143 research institutions in St Louis, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University and Hope Center for Neurological Disorders.
- Research institutions
- 143 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 195k ▲ 10% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.5% 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 St Louis?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington University in St. LouisUniversity | 117,919 | #69 | |
| 2 | Saint Louis UniversityUniversity | 24,533 | #1,415 | |
| 3 | University of Missouri–St. LouisUniversity | 12,227 | #4,120 | |
| 4 | Washington University Medical CenterHospital / health system | 4,333 | #17,246 | |
| 5 | Missouri Botanical GardenArchive | 3,719 | #10,626 | |
| 6 | Barnes-Jewish HospitalHospital / health system | 3,435 | #8,835 | |
| 7 | St. Louis Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 2,802 | #10,395 | |
| 8 | Ophthalmology Associates (United States)Institution | 2,572 | #24,770 | |
| 9 | James S. McDonnell FoundationNonprofit | 2,358 | #7,385 | |
| 10 | Donald Danforth Plant Science CenterNonprofit | 1,829 | #6,349 | |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisInstitution | 1,592 | #20,838 | |
| 12 | Saint Louis University HospitalHospital / health system | 1,531 | #9,886 | |
| 13 | Central Institute for the DeafUniversity | 845 | #8,548 all time | |
| 14 | University of Health Sciences and PharmacyUniversity | 831 | #9,966 | |
| 15 | Hope Center for Neurological DisordersHospital / health system | 704 | #3,251 | |
| 16 | Emerson (United States)Company | 619 | #4,431 all time | |
| 17 | American Optometric AssociationNonprofit | 618 | #24,891 all time | |
| 18 | St. Luke's HospitalHospital / health system | 602 | #13,106 all time | |
| 19 | AscensionHospital / health system | 588 | #12,451 | |
| 20 | St. Louis VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 581 | #14,952 all time | |
| 21 | Botanical Society of AmericaNonprofit | 513 | #28,349 all time | |
| 22 | Retina InstituteHospital / health system | 492 | #19,969 all time | |
| 23 | Sisters of Mercy Health SystemHospital / health system | 488 | #21,614 | |
| 24 | Saint Louis ZooArchive | 470 | #23,037 | |
| 25 | Missouri Institute of Mental HealthHospital / health system | 396 | #22,813 all time | |
| 26 | John Cochran VA Medical CenterHospital / health system | 395 | #15,998 all time | |
| 27 | Mercy HospitalHospital / health system | 391 | #24,806 | |
| 28 | Maryville UniversityUniversity | 384 | #19,709 | |
| 29 | Concordia SeminaryUniversity | 342 | #32,863 all time | |
| 30 | St Louis Community CollegeUniversity | 308 | #27,367 all time | |
| 31 | BJC HealthCareHospital / health system | 303 | #21,110 all time | |
| 32 | SSM Health CareHospital / health system | 298 | #24,965 | |
| 33 | Certara (United States)Company | 278 | #12,097 | |
| 34 | Alvin J. Siteman Cancer CenterHospital / health system | 260 | #13,704 all time | |
| 35 | Engineering Software Research and Development (United States)Company | 250 | #24,754 | |
| 36 | APT Therapeutics (United States)Company | 249 | #33,916 all time | |
| 37 | St. Louis County MissouriGovernment institution | 248 | #31,976 all time | |
| 38 | EaglePicher Technologies (United States)Company | 242 | #22,727 all time | |
| 39 | VA St. Louis Health Care SystemHospital / health system | 227 | #11,776 | |
| 40 | Shriners Hospitals for Children - St. LouisHospital / health system | 222 | #19,526 all time | |
| 41 | St. Mary's Health CenterHospital / health system | 222 | #38,977 all time | |
| 42 | Missouri Baptist Medical CenterHospital / health system | 220 | #27,493 all time | |
| 43 | Central DermatologyInstitution | 203 | #23,240 all time | |
| 44 | Aquinas Institute of TheologyUniversity | 188 | #40,477 all time | |
| 45 | Barnes-Jewish CollegeUniversity | 178 | #29,849 all time | |
| 46 | Missouri Bone and Joint CenterHospital / health system | 177 | #40,871 all time | |
| 47 | Ophthalmology ConsultantsHospital / health system | 159 | #35,187 all time | |
| 48 | Express Scripts Holding Company (United States)Company | 155 | #17,801 all time | |
| 49 | Fontbonne UniversityUniversity | 146 | #40,125 all time | |
| 50 | St. Louis University High SchoolUniversity | 144 | #32,965 all time | |
| 51 | Places For PeopleNonprofit | 127 | #42,279 all time | |
| 52 | Covenant Theological SeminaryUniversity | 119 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Belden (United States)Company | 104 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Children's Advocacy CenterHospital / health system | 100 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Confluence Life Sciences (United States)Company | 96 | not ranked | |
| 56 | LickenbrockCompany | 91 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Harris–Stowe State UniversityUniversity | 83 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Vantage View (United States)Company | 78 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Midwest Therapeutic EndoscopyHospital / health system | 77 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Stereotaxis (United States)Company | 72 | 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.
Washington University in St. Louis118k · 60.9%Saint Louis University25k · 12.7%University of Missouri–St. Louis12k · 6.3%Washington University Medical Center4,333 · 2.2%56 others listed35k · 17.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
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×
← 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 St Louis?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Solar Wind, Cancer and Tomography.
- Cognitive Decline
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Surface Wave
- Radiotherapy
- Neuroimaging
- Ionosphere
- Solar Wind
- Prognostic Factors
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Mutations
- Clinical Trials
- Neurological Disorders
- Chemotherapy
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Immunotherapy
- Diagnosis
- Public Health
- Cancer
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Risk Factors
- Biomarkers
- Depression
- Aging
- Genetics
- Management
- Complications
- Tomography
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuroinflammation
- Electron Acceleration
- Magnetosphere
- Heart Failure
- Seismic Noise
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Alzheimer's Disease
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,708▲ 1.84×137 topics
- Inflammation844▲ 1.73×83 topics
- Oxidative Stress616▲ 1.61×63 topics
- Mental Health580▲ 1.69×44 topics
- Quality of Life567▲ 1.68×54 topics
- Cancer530▲ 1.68×58 topics
- Treatment501▲ 1.76×52 topics
- Public Health485▲ 1.42×69 topics
- Risk Factors466▲ 1.81×37 topics
- Diagnosis395▲ 1.81×41 topics
- Biomarkers394▲ 2.5×18 topics
- Immunotherapy390▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Depression376▲ 1.82×25 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease361▲ 1.39×39 topics
- Aging335▲ 2.7×18 topics
- Chemotherapy325▲ 1.98×25 topics
- Genetics324▲ 1.98×27 topics
- Neurological Disorders319▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Management294▲ 1.60×36 topics
- Clinical Trials288▲ 1.83×19 topics
- Complications277▲ 2.4×17 topics
- Genetic Mutations269▲ 2.6×23 topics
- Tomography264▲ 6.2×5 topics
- Gene Expression256▲ 1.79×20 topics
- Neurodegeneration253▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Prognostic Factors251▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Neuroinflammation249▲ 3.7×6 topics
- Solar Wind242▲ 11×2 topics
- Electron Acceleration234▲ 15×2 topics
- Ionosphere234▲ 18×1 topic
- Magnetosphere234▲ 18×1 topic
- Neuroimaging227▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Heart Failure226▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Radiotherapy222▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Seismic Noise218▲ 19×1 topic
- Surface Wave218▲ 19×1 topic
- Ionospheric Anomalies192▲ 21×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics192▲ 21×1 topic
- Alzheimer's Disease190▲ 2.9×9 topics
- Cognitive Decline150▲ 5.3×2 topics
What research is done in St Louis?
Astronomy and AstrophysicsGeophysicsPsychiatry and Mental healthPhysiology5 others
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
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