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Research in Tampa

Science Explorer records 69 research institutions in Tampa, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of South Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute.

Research institutions
69
10 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
89k
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
15.8%
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 Tampa?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of South FloridaUniversity 61,441 #642
2Moffitt Cancer CenterHospital / health system 12,726 #1,074
3University of TampaUniversity 3,670 #9,189
4James A. Haley Veterans' HospitalHospital / health system 1,981 #15,959
5Tampa General HospitalHospital / health system 1,449 #11,129
6Atkins (United States)Company 1,420 #9,729
7Children's Cancer CenterNonprofit 1,069 #8,066
8AdventHealth TampaHospital / health system 794 #18,553
9Florida Orthopaedic InstituteHospital / health system 585 #26,670
10USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's InstituteResearch facility 393 #5,435
11Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenHospital / health system 321 #26,915 all time
12Financial Management Association InternationalInstitution 266 #26,314 all time
13Jaeb Center for Health ResearchNonprofit 238 #22,007 all time
14Shriners Hospitals for Children - TampaHospital / health system 223 #26,084 all time
15St. Joseph's HospitalHospital / health system 205 #30,292 all time
16Revenue Management Solutions (United States)Company 196 #40,727 all time
17Florida Craniofacial InstituteHospital / health system 194 #27,896 all time
18Prosthetic Design + Research (United States)Company 187 #27,724 all time
19Hillsborough Community CollegeUniversity 161 #31,831 all time
20American College of Physician ExecutivesUniversity 157 #39,134 all time
21Hillsborough County Public SchoolsUniversity 134 #37,274 all time
22Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and EducationNonprofit 127 #40,787 all time
23Florida AquariumNonprofit 124 #36,975 all time
24Facing Our Risk of Cancer EmpoweredNonprofit 121 #22,039 all time
25St. Joseph's Children's HospitalHospital / health system 93 not ranked
26Joint Special Operations UniversityUniversity 87 not ranked
27Retina Associates of FloridaHospital / health system 75 not ranked
28Modulation Therapeutics (United States)Company 64 not ranked
29American Association of Kidney PatientsNonprofit 58 not ranked
30Laser Spine InstituteHospital / health system 47 not ranked
31The Pelvic Floor InstituteHospital / health system 38 not ranked
32Everest UniversityUniversity 36 not ranked
33Romark (United States)Company 30 not ranked
34University Diagnostic InstituteHospital / health system 29 not ranked
35Saneron CCEL Therapeutics (United States)Company 25 not ranked
36Polaris Group (United States)Company 21 not ranked
37Hillsborough County Anti Drug Alliance’sNonprofit 17 not ranked
38Intezyne (United States)Company 17 not ranked
39Oragenics (United States)Company 16 not ranked
40National Academy of InventorsNonprofit 16 not ranked
41T2C-Energy (United States)Company 9 not ranked
42Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management CouncilInstitution 8 not ranked
43Academic Alliance in DermatologyHospital / health system 7 not ranked
44Rehab Ideas (United States)Company 7 not ranked
45The AIDS InstituteNonprofit 6 not ranked
46TransGenex Nanobiotech (United States)Company 6 not ranked
47Chapters Health SystemHospital / health system 5 not ranked
48Agency for Community Treatment ServicesInstitution 4 not ranked
49Metastasis Research SocietyNonprofit 4 not ranked
50THAP Group (United States)Company 4 not ranked
51Florida Education FundNonprofit 3 not ranked
52National CMV FoundationNonprofit 3 not ranked
53Cvergenx (United States)Company 3 not ranked
54Stedman Clinical TrialsResearch facility 2 not ranked
55Tampa Veterans Research and Education FoundationNonprofit 2 not ranked
56Neurotech NetworksNonprofit 2 not ranked
57Magellan BioScience (United States)Company 2 not ranked
58Kforce (United States)Company 2 not ranked
59Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library SystemArchive 2 not ranked
60UBC (United States)Company 2 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 South Florida: 69.1%Moffitt Cancer Center: 14.3%University of Tampa: 4.1%James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital: 2.2%56 others listed: 10.3%69%largest
University of South Florida61k · 69.1%Moffitt Cancer Center13k · 14.3%University of Tampa3,670 · 4.1%James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital1,981 · 2.2%56 others listed9,116 · 10.3%

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

What is Tampa strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Tampa is most concentrated in Hematology, Oncology and Genetics (5.9× the world share in Hematology).

  1. HematologySubfield · 254.0 works5.9×
  2. OncologySubfield · 762.7 works4.8×
  3. GeneticsSubfield · 174.5 works4.5×
  4. TransplantationSubfield · 20.6 works3.2×
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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 Tampa?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Chemotherapy, Lymphoma, Cancer Immunotherapy, Inflammation and Quality of Life.

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,046▲ 1.86×134 topics
  2. Immunotherapy538▲ 5.3×19 topics
  3. Inflammation467▲ 1.58×82 topics
  4. Chemotherapy392▲ 3.9×25 topics
  5. Prognostic Factors382▲ 6.2×14 topics
  6. Quality of Life374▲ 1.82×54 topics
  7. Machine Learning368▼ 0.79×85 topics
  8. Mental Health334▲ 1.60×43 topics
  9. Treatment318▲ 1.84×52 topics
  10. Cancer303▲ 1.59×55 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress283▲ 1.21×61 topics
  12. Risk Factors264▲ 1.69×37 topics
  13. Public Health262▲ 1.26×62 topics
  14. Diagnosis259▲ 1.96×41 topics
  15. Tumor Microenvironment238▲ 3.8×8 topics
  16. Depression233▲ 1.86×24 topics
  17. Clinical Trials228▲ 2.4×19 topics
  18. Lymphoma218▲ 9.5×4 topics
  19. Cancer Immunotherapy216▲ 9.9×3 topics
  20. Radiotherapy210▲ 3.8×13 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations198▲ 3.2×23 topics
  22. Management198▲ 1.77×33 topics
  23. Clinical Practice Guidelines198▲ 2.5×14 topics
  24. Cancer Therapy182▲ 2.2×20 topics
  25. Tumor Regression175▲ 11×2 topics
  26. Surgical Management174▲ 3.0×20 topics
  27. Complications173▲ 2.4×17 topics
  28. Targeted Therapy163▲ 5.2×5 topics
  29. Leukemia153▲ 13×2 topics
  30. CAR T Cells148▲ 14×1 topic
  31. Chimeric Antigen Receptor148▲ 14×1 topic
  32. Survival Analysis143▲ 3.7×7 topics
  33. Neoadjuvant Therapy139▲ 4.2×5 topics
  34. Health-related Quality of Life131▲ 3.9×6 topics
  35. Hematopoietic Stem Cells127▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Rituximab122▲ 5.7×4 topics
  37. Immune Checkpoint Blockade107▲ 6.8×1 topic
  38. PD-1 and PD-L1107▲ 6.8×1 topic
  39. AML91▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Acute Myeloid Leukemia91▲ 13×1 topic

What research is done in Tampa?

  1. 1 CAR-T cell therapy researchOncology 148 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 107 works
  3. 3 Acute Myeloid Leukemia ResearchHematology 91 works
  4. 4 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 74 works
  5. 5 Lymphoma Diagnosis and TreatmentPathology and Forensic Medicine 62 works
  6. 6 Immunotherapy and Immune ResponsesImmunology 61 works
  7. 7 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia ResearchGenetics 50 works
  8. 8 Multiple Myeloma Research and TreatmentsHematology 50 works
  9. 9 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 49 works
  10. 10 Glioma Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetics 45 works

Research output over time

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