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Research in Venice

Science Explorer records 31 research institutions in Venice, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Università Iuav di Venezia and IRCCS San Camillo Hospital.

Research institutions
31
8 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
26k
▲ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
353k
13.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
15.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Venice

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 Venice?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Ca' Foscari University of VeniceUniversity 14,702 #671
2Università Iuav di VeneziaUniversity 2,739 #3,282
3IRCCS San Camillo HospitalHospital / health system 1,693 #9,451
4Ospedale Civile di VeneziaHospital / health system 1,214 #18,403
5Regione del VenetoGovernment institution 802 #10,304
6Venice International UniversityUniversity 602 #18,710
7Ospedale dell' AngeloHospital / health system 425 #18,472
8Consorzio Venezia RicercheNonprofit 380 #23,093 all time
9Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale La Chimica Per L'AmbienteUniversity 228 #23,251 all time
10European Centre for Living TechnologyResearch facility 194 #16,875
11Veneto Eye Bank FoundationNonprofit 177 #28,084 all time
12Venezia Tecnologie (Italy)Company 105 not ranked
13National Library of St MarkArchive 93 not ranked
14Giorgio Cini FoundationInstitution 78 not ranked
15ThetisCompany 49 not ranked
16Global Campus of Human RightsUniversity 48 not ranked
17Consortium for Coordination of Research activities Concerning the Venice Lagoon SystemInstitution 33 not ranked
18Invent (Italy)Company 21 not ranked
19Accademia di Belle Arti di VeneziaUniversity 21 not ranked
20Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di VeneziaUniversity 19 not ranked
21Archivio di Stato di VeneziaArchive 19 not ranked
22International Academy of Environmental SciencesResearch facility 13 not ranked
23Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (Italy)Company 12 not ranked
24Veritas (Italy)Company 11 not ranked
25Autorità di bacino dei fiumi Isonzo, Tagliamento, Livenza, Piave, Brenta-BacchiglioneGovernment institution 8 not ranked
26Veneto Innovazione (Italy)Company 2 not ranked
27Marsilio Editori (Italy)Company 2 not ranked
28European Association of Environmental and Resource EconomistsInstitution 2 not ranked
29Ospedale San Raffaele ArcangeloHospital / health system 2 not ranked
30Fondazione Querini StampaliaInstitution 1 not ranked
31Gruppi di Ricerca Economica Teorica ed ApplicataInstitution 0 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.

Ca' Foscari University of Venice: 62.0%Università Iuav di Venezia: 11.6%IRCCS San Camillo Hospital: 7.1%Ospedale Civile di Venezia: 5.1%26 others listed: 14.1%62%largest
Ca' Foscari University of Venice15k · 62.0%Università Iuav di Venezia2,739 · 11.6%IRCCS San Camillo Hospital1,693 · 7.1%Ospedale Civile di Venezia1,214 · 5.1%26 others listed3,347 · 14.1%

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

Which fields of science does Venice work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research in Venice is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (24%), Social Sciences (22%), Medicine (8%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4,348 fractional works · 57.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1,805 fractional works · 23.7% of its workArcheology: 270 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHistory: 268 fractional works · 3.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 233 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 222 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 220 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 140 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClassics: 113 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 90 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 73 fractional works · 1.0% of its workReligious studies: 58 fractional works · 0.8% of its workConservation: 57 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMuseology: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMusic: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,676 fractional works · 22.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 555 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAnthropology: 333 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 212 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 132 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCultural Studies: 85 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrban Studies: 65 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 43 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLinguistics and Language: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 303 fractional works · 4.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 93 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 52 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 299 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 230 fractional works · 3.0% of its workFinance: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 207 fractional works · 2.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 60 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 57 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 58 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2,191 fractional works · 28.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 543 fractional works · 7.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 114 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 104 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 93 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 51 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 40 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 453 fractional works · 6.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 219 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 60 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 57 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 410 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 69 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArchitecture: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 57 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 352 fractional works · 4.6% of its workOceanography: 99 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 76 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 134 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 90 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 109 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 78 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 90 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 682 fractional works · 9.0% of its workMedicine: 580 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSurgery: 60 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 43 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 41 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 189 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 89 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 53 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 378 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 143 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 130 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 74 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 82 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 59 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVenice7,599fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences57%

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
  1. Social Sciences4,34857.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities1,80523.7%
    2. Social Sciences1,67622.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting3034.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2993.9%
    5. Psychology2072.7%
    6. Decision Sciences580.8%
    1. Environmental Science5437.1%
    2. Computer Science4536.0%
    3. Engineering4105.4%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences3524.6%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1341.8%
    6. Chemistry1091.4%
    7. Materials Science901.2%
    8. Mathematics460.6%
    9. Energy380.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering160.2%
    1. Medicine5807.6%
    2. Health Professions891.2%
    3. Dentistry60.1%
    4. Nursing50.1%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1431.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1301.7%
    3. Neuroscience821.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology160.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics80.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Venice strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Venice is most concentrated in General Arts and Humanities, Classics and Anthropology (59.9× the world share in General Arts and Humanities).

  1. General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 85.0 works60×
  2. ClassicsSubfield · 103.0 works25×
  3. AnthropologySubfield · 312.2 works16×
  4. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 135.1 works13×
  5. ArcheologySubfield · 251.0 works12×
  6. HistorySubfield · 250.4 works11×
← 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.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 127 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.31× its world share, 114 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 14 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 71 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.30× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.62× its world share, 15 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.95× its world share, 102 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.75× its world share, 401 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.77× its world share, 296 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.55× its world share, 35 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.35× its world share, 360 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.35× its world share, 460 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.34× its world share, 80 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.51× its world share, 41 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.83× its world share, 126 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.46× its world share, 84 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 510 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 8.49× its world share, 1,676 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.26× its world share, 277 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 55 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.87× its world share, 274 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.89× its world share, 185 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 1,515 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 8.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities8.49×1,676 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.77×296 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.87×274 works
  4. Social Sciences1.75×1,515 works
  5. Environmental Science1.35×460 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.26×277 works
  7. Chemistry0.95×102 works
  8. Psychology0.89×185 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.83×126 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.83×55 works
  11. Computer Science0.75×401 works
  12. Neuroscience0.64×71 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.62×15 works
  14. Energy0.55×35 works
  15. Mathematics0.51×41 works
  16. Health Professions0.46×84 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.39×127 works
  18. Medicine0.39×510 works
  19. Engineering0.35×360 works
  20. Materials Science0.34×80 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.31×114 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.30×7 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×14 works
  24. Dentistry0.15×5 works
  25. Nursing0.12×4 works
  26. Veterinary0.07×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Venice?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Literature, Identity, History, Gender, Late Antiquity, Demography and Religion.

▲ 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-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
  1. Climate Change436▲ 2.1×101 topics
  2. Cultural Heritage408▲ 10×36 topics
  3. Globalization380▲ 2.5×131 topics
  4. Literature374▲ 9.0×56 topics
  5. Identity368▲ 6.7×70 topics
  6. History318▲ 6.0×59 topics
  7. Gender288▲ 7.0×51 topics
  8. Innovation286▲ 3.6×51 topics
  9. Late Antiquity269▲ 70×3 topics
  10. Sustainability254▲ 1.37×99 topics
  11. Religion249▲ 7.1×41 topics
  12. Demography238▲ 69×3 topics
  13. Ancient Rome234▲ 97×1 topic
  14. Greek Literature234▲ 97×1 topic
  15. Colonialism226▲ 6.3×47 topics
  16. Philosophy225▲ 6.7×39 topics
  17. Culture212▲ 5.3×35 topics
  18. Nationalism190▲ 5.6×32 topics
  19. Cultural Studies183▲ 6.5×32 topics
  20. Society147▲ 10×24 topics
  21. Pragmatics141▲ 12×6 topics
  22. Urban Development141▲ 5.3×17 topics
  23. Ethics138▲ 3.6×54 topics
  24. Memory135▲ 7.2×23 topics
  25. Archaeology128▲ 13×11 topics
  26. Cultural Exchange127▲ 13×12 topics
  27. Urban Planning126▲ 19×11 topics
  28. Narrative123▲ 10×13 topics
  29. Language Teaching119▲ 5.9×6 topics
  30. Aristotle116▲ 61×2 topics
  31. Metaphysics111▲ 34×5 topics
  32. Cultural History110▲ 12×17 topics
  33. Medicine95▲ 15×10 topics
  34. Prosody92▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Media and Communication91▲ 54×2 topics
  36. Emotional Intelligence90▲ 8.4×3 topics
  37. Portuguese89▲ 34×2 topics
  38. Alchemy89▲ 34×3 topics
  39. Research89▲ 9.4×8 topics
  40. Ethnobotany88▲ 18×5 topics

What research is done in Venice?

Classical Antiquity Stud…218Classical Antiquity Studies: 218 fractional worksItalian Literature and Culture: 82 fractional worksLinguistic Studies and Language Acquisition: 79 fractional worksClassical Philosophy and Thought: 68 fractional worksEducational and Social Studies: 64 fractional worksItalian Fascism and Post-war Society: 64 fractional worksRenaissance and Early Mo…62Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: 62 fractional worksDiverse academic and cul…60Diverse academic and cultural studies: 60 fractional worksHistorical and Environme…58Historical and Environmental Studies: 58 fractional worksLinguistics and language…45Linguistics and language evolution: 45 fractional works
AnthropologyGeneral Arts and HumanitiesArtificial IntelligencePhilosophy5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 218 works
  2. 2 Italian Literature and Culture General Arts and Humanities 82 works
  3. 3 Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition Artificial Intelligence 79 works
  4. 4 Classical Philosophy and Thought Philosophy 68 works
  5. 5 Educational and Social Studies Education 64 works
  6. 6 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Sociology and Political Science 64 works
  7. 7 Renaissance and Early Modern Studies History 62 works
  8. 8 Diverse academic and cultural studies Economics and Econometrics 60 works
  9. 9 Historical and Environmental Studies Sociology and Political Science 58 works
  10. 10 Linguistics and language evolution Language and Linguistics 45 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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.

still counting10%20%30%Venice15.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.0% in 2016.

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