--- title: "Agglomerations of science, ranked by citations" description: "The city agglomerations of the universities, labs and companies whose researchers wrote the papers of this library; San Francisco Bay Area, New York and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) / agglomerations # Agglomerations The city agglomerations of the universities, labs and companies whose researchers wrote the papers of this library; San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Seattle lead. 390 agglomerations · page 1 of 4 · ranked by the citations of their institutions · [institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) ## By country [United States 66](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/us/) [Germany 33](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/de/) [United Kingdom 26](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/gb/) [China 20](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/cn/) [France 17](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/fr/) [India 17](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/in/) [Italy 14](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/it/) [Canada 11](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ca/) [Netherlands 10](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/nl/) [Spain 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/es/) [Saudi Arabia 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/sa/) [Switzerland 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ch/) [Egypt 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/eg/) [Japan 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/jp/) [Algeria 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/dz/) [South Africa 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/za/) [Australia 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/au/) [Brazil 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/br/) [Indonesia 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/id/) [Sweden 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/se/) [Austria 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/at/) [Belgium 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/be/) [Israel 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/il/) [Norway 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/no/) [New Zealand 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/nz/) [Poland 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/pl/) [United Arab Emirates 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ae/) [Czechia 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/cz/) [Denmark 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/dk/) [Finland 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/fi/) [Nigeria 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ng/) [Russia 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ru/) [Estonia 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ee/) [Ethiopia 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/et/) [Hungary 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/hu/) [Ireland 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ie/) [Jordan 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/jo/) [South Korea 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/kr/) [Morocco 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ma/) [Portugal 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/pt/) [Romania 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ro/) [Tunisia 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/tn/) [Türkiye 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/tr/) [Taiwan 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/tw/) [Ukraine 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/ua/) [Vietnam 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/country/vn/) ## Ranking **1** [2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/2/) [3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/3/) [4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/4/) [next →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/2/) 1. [**San Francisco Bay Area**United States*25 institutions · 994,288 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/san-francisco/) 2. [**New York**United States*22 institutions · 380,280 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/new-york-city/) 3. [**Seattle**United States*5 institutions · 376,498 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/seattle/) 4. [**Beijing**China*31 institutions · 283,594 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/beijing/) 5. [**Boston**United States*19 institutions · 201,258 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/boston/) 6. [**Austin**United States*4 institutions · 177,075 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/austin/) 7. [**Pittsburgh**United States*2 institutions · 159,422 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/pittsburgh/) 8. [**Oxford**United Kingdom*2 institutions · 153,625 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/oxford/) 9. [**Munich**Germany*5 institutions · 145,936 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/munich/) 10. [**Paris**France*53 institutions · 131,216 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/paris/) 11. [**Los Angeles**United States*7 institutions · 127,094 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/los-angeles/) 12. [**London**United Kingdom*14 institutions · 119,289 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/london/) 13. [**Hefei**China*3 institutions · 113,446 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/hefei/) 14. [**Cambridge**United Kingdom*2 institutions · 112,595 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/cambridge/) 15. [**Montreal**Canada*7 institutions · 100,848 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/montreal/) 16. [**Singapore**Singapore*8 institutions · 91,887 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/singapore/) 17. [**Sydney**Australia*5 institutions · 86,752 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/sydney/) 18. [**Baltimore**United States*4 institutions · 85,711 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/baltimore/) 19. [**Philadelphia**United States*5 institutions · 84,622 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/philadelphia/) 20. [**Amsterdam**Netherlands*5 institutions · 83,111 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/amsterdam/) 21. [**Chicago**United States*5 institutions · 79,313 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/chicago/) 22. [**Toronto**Canada*8 institutions · 77,095 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/toronto/) 23. [**Seoul**South Korea*11 institutions · 76,422 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/seoul/) 24. [**Melbourne**Australia*4 institutions · 74,966 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/melbourne/) 25. [**Bremen**Germany*2 institutions · 68,160 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/bremen/) 26. [**Birmingham**United Kingdom*3 institutions · 67,994 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/birmingham/) 27. [**Champaign**United States*1 institution · 63,460 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/champaign/) 28. [**Springfield**United States*1 institution · 62,590 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/springfield/) 29. [**Jyväskylä**Finland*1 institution · 62,143 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/jyvaskyla/) 30. [**Tel Aviv**Israel*10 institutions · 62,083 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tel-aviv/) 31. [**Tallinn**Estonia*1 institution · 62,003 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tallinn/) 32. [**Atlanta**United States*3 institutions · 60,649 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/atlanta/) 33. [**Edinburgh**United Kingdom*2 institutions · 59,810 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/edinburgh/) 34. [**Trento**Italy*4 institutions · 59,387 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/trento/) 35. [**Saarbruecken**Germany*4 institutions · 58,971 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/saarbruecken/) 36. [**Berlin**Germany*9 institutions · 53,998 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/berlin/) 37. [**Denver**United States*4 institutions · 51,449 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/denver/) 38. [**Washington D.C.**United States*12 institutions · 51,159 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/washington/) 39. [**Stuttgart**Germany*4 institutions · 48,738 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/stuttgart/) 40. [**Hong Kong**China*6 institutions · 48,034 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/hong-kong/) 41. [**Moscow**Russia*9 institutions · 47,834 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/moscow/) 42. [**Madison**United States*1 institution · 46,745 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/madison/) 43. [**Mannheim**Germany*4 institutions · 45,641 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/mannheim/) 44. [**Milan**Italy*4 institutions · 45,460 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/milan/) 45. [**San Diego**United States*1 institution · 45,121 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/san-diego/) 46. [**Shanghai**China*9 institutions · 44,531 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/shanghai/) 47. [**Salt Lake City**United States*2 institutions · 44,223 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/salt-lake-city/) 48. [**Manchester**United Kingdom*1 institution · 42,781 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/manchester/) 49. [**Ljubljana**Slovenia*3 institutions · 42,003 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/ljubljana/) 50. [**Hangzhou**China*8 institutions · 41,869 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/hangzhou/) 51. [**Sacramento**United States*1 institution · 41,553 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/sacramento/) 52. [**Zurich**Switzerland*3 institutions · 40,737 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/zurich/) 53. [**Pilani**India*1 institution · 40,529 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/pilani/) 54. [**Reutlingen**Germany*1 institution · 40,312 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/reutlingen/) 55. [**Vienna**Austria*3 institutions · 39,613 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/vienna/) 56. [**Orlando**United States*1 institution · 39,453 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/orlando/) 57. [**Marseille**France*3 institutions · 39,245 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/marseille/) 58. [**Rochester**United States*1 institution · 38,902 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/rochester/) 59. [**Kiel**Germany*1 institution · 38,850 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kiel/) 60. [**Belo Horizonte**Brazil*1 institution · 38,791 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/belo-horizonte/) 61. [**Pilsen**Czechia*1 institution · 38,657 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/pilsen/) 62. [**Augsburg**Germany*1 institution · 38,318 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/augsburg/) 63. [**Cincinnati**United States*1 institution · 38,318 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/cincinnati/) 64. [**Vancouver**Canada*2 institutions · 36,949 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/vancouver/) 65. [**Xi'an**China*4 institutions · 36,769 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/xi-an/) 66. [**South Bend**United States*1 institution · 35,879 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/south-bend/) 67. [**Tampa**United States*1 institution · 33,109 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/saint-petersburg/) 68. [**Barcelona**Spain*6 institutions · 31,969 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/barcelona/) 69. [**Guangzhou**China*8 institutions · 31,481 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/guangzhou/) 70. [**Tokyo**Japan*19 institutions · 30,147 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tokyo/) 71. [**Raleigh**United States*3 institutions · 26,400 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/raleigh/) 72. [**Harbin**China*1 institution · 25,250 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/harbin/) 73. [**Stellenbosch**South Africa*1 institution · 24,025 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/stellenbosch/) 74. [**Providence**United States*1 institution · 21,721 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/providence/) 75. [**Athens**Greece*4 institutions · 19,846 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/athens/) 76. [**Prague**Czechia*3 institutions · 19,140 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/prague/) 77. [**Ottawa**Canada*2 institutions · 18,930 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/ottawa/) 78. [**Sheffield**United Kingdom*1 institution · 17,924 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/sheffield/) 79. [**Lisbon**Portugal*7 institutions · 17,801 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/lisbon/) 80. [**Columbus**United States*1 institution · 16,163 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/columbus/) 81. [**Copenhagen**Denmark*5 institutions · 16,112 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/copenhagen/) 82. [**Darmstadt**Germany*2 institutions · 15,928 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/darmstadt/) 83. [**Rome**Italy*4 institutions · 15,585 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/rome/) 84. [**Detroit**United States*3 institutions · 14,607 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/detroit/) 85. [**Doha**Qatar*5 institutions · 14,524 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/doha/) 86. [**Bilbao**Spain*1 institution · 14,069 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/bilbao/) 87. [**Dublin**Ireland*7 institutions · 13,507 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/dublin/) 88. [**Arnhem**Netherlands*2 institutions · 12,883 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/arnhem/) 89. [**Kitchener**Canada*2 institutions · 12,845 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kitchener/) 90. [**Osaka Kyoto**Japan*5 institutions · 12,545 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/osaka/) 91. [**Uppsala**Sweden*1 institution · 11,454 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/uppsala/) 92. [**Dortmund**Germany*3 institutions · 11,368 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/essen/) 93. [**Rochester**United States*2 institutions · 11,106 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/rochester-us/) 94. [**Pisa**Italy*3 institutions · 10,199 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/pisa/) 95. [**Tucson**United States*1 institution · 9,997 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/tucson/) 96. [**Dallas**United States*5 institutions · 9,782 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/dallas/) 97. [**Birmingham**United States*1 institution · 9,535 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/birmingham-us/) 98. [**Guangzhou**China*3 institutions · 9,428 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/guangzhou-cn/) 99. [**Bengaluru**India*5 institutions · 8,707 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/bengaluru/) 100. [**Jerusalem**Israel*3 institutions · 8,672 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/jerusalem/) **1** [2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/2/) [3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/3/) [4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/4/) [next →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/page/2/) Agglomerations: the GHSL Urban Centre Database 2025; populations: the GHSL functional urban areas 2015 (urban centre and commuting zone), else the urban centre, as each page says (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, CC BY 4.0). An institution belongs to the urban centre its coordinates (ROR, OpenAlex) fall in, or one within 5 km. Land: Natural Earth. - [← back to](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) — institutions