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Research in Abbottabad

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Women Medical College, Ayub Medical College and Frontier Medical College.

Research institutions
3
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4.4k
▲ 131% vs 2018-21
Citations
30k
7.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
2.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Abbottabad

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 Abbottabad?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Women Medical CollegeUniversity 3,122 #11,597
2Ayub Medical CollegeUniversity 1,054 #15,206
3Frontier Medical CollegeHospital / health system 190 #21,413

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.

Which fields of science does Abbottabad work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research in Abbottabad is in Health Sciences, 13% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (62%), Social Sciences (5%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 838 fractional works · 71.0% of its workMedicine: 734 fractional works · 62.2% of its workSurgery: 120 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEpidemiology: 62 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 52 fractional works · 4.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 50 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 47 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 43 fractional works · 3.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 32 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 30 fractional works · 2.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 22 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOncology: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRheumatology: 17 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOphthalmology: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHematology: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNephrology: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workReproductive Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHepatology: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 45 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 23 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 38 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOral Surgery: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPeriodontics: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrthodontics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 19 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 159 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 60 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 39 fractional works · 3.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 23 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 27 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 110 fractional works · 9.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 55 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 23 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 17 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 73 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEngineering: 25 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAbbottabad1,180fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences71%Social Sciences13%

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. Medicine73462.2%
    2. Health Professions453.8%
    3. Dentistry383.3%
    4. Nursing191.6%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Social Sciences605.1%
    2. Psychology393.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities272.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting141.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance131.1%
    6. Decision Sciences60.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology554.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences201.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology171.5%
    4. Neuroscience121.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.5%
    1. Engineering252.1%
    2. Environmental Science171.4%
    3. Computer Science171.4%
    4. Mathematics60.5%
    5. Materials Science40.4%
    6. Chemistry30.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.0%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    9. Energy00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Abbottabad strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Abbottabad is most concentrated in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dentistry (10.1× the world share in Obstetrics and Gynecology).

  1. Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 29.1 works10×
  2. DentistryField · 35.2 works7.2×
← 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: 0.35× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.84× its world share, 45 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.45× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.30× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 13 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 21 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.38× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 7.24× its world share, 35 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.50× its world share, 40 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.26× its world share, 628 worksMedicineNursing: 3.45× its world share, 17 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.84× its world share, 24 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.54× its world share, 12 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.07× its world share, 33 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 46 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry7.24×35 works
  2. Nursing3.45×17 works
  3. Medicine3.26×628 works
  4. Health Professions1.50×40 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.45×15 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.30×5 works
  7. Psychology1.07×33 works
  8. Veterinary0.92×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.84×45 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.84×24 works
  11. Neuroscience0.56×9 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.55×5 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.54×12 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×13 works
  15. Mathematics0.38×4 works
  16. Social Sciences0.36×46 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.35×17 works
  18. Environmental Science0.26×13 works
  19. Computer Science0.17×13 works
  20. Engineering0.14×21 works
  21. Materials Science0.11×4 works
  22. Chemistry0.09×1 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.04×0 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×1 works
  25. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works
  26. Energy0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Abbottabad?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Guidelines, Treatment, Diagnosis and Maternal Mortality.

▲ 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. Epidemiology158▲ 3.4×118 topics
  2. Inflammation68▲ 2.7×65 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease61▲ 4.5×35 topics
  4. Quality of Life56▲ 3.3×43 topics
  5. Treatment50▲ 3.5×46 topics
  6. Diagnosis45▲ 4.1×39 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress44▲ 2.3×48 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome42▲ 4.4×22 topics
  9. Risk Factors42▲ 3.2×33 topics
  10. Management40▲ 4.2×28 topics
  11. Guidelines39▲ 7.0×13 topics
  12. Complications34▲ 5.8×16 topics
  13. Maternal Mortality33▲ 12×5 topics
  14. COVID-1931▲ 2.0×20 topics
  15. Public Health30▲ 1.75×43 topics
  16. Obesity30▲ 3.3×22 topics
  17. Global Burden28▲ 4.3×12 topics
  18. Depression27▲ 2.6×17 topics
  19. Meta-Analysis27▲ 3.9×13 topics
  20. Insulin Resistance24▲ 4.6×9 topics
  21. Surgical Management24▲ 5.0×18 topics
  22. Prevention23▲ 4.7×16 topics
  23. Diabetes22▲ 3.8×16 topics
  24. Mortality21▲ 3.2×13 topics
  25. Heart Failure21▲ 4.0×13 topics
  26. Immune Response20▲ 3.0×17 topics
  27. Endothelial Dysfunction19▲ 7.0×8 topics
  28. Surgery18▲ 4.5×10 topics
  29. Children18▲ 6.7×7 topics
  30. Vaccine18▲ 3.8×10 topics
  31. Cardiovascular Health16▲ 7.0×7 topics
  32. Atherosclerosis15▲ 4.6×10 topics
  33. Myocardial Infarction15▲ 5.5×7 topics
  34. Elderly14▲ 4.9×6 topics
  35. Prenatal Diagnosis14▲ 8.1×7 topics
  36. Preeclampsia13▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Pregnancy Complications13▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Hypertensive Disorders12▲ 17×1 topic
  39. Placental Development12▲ 17×1 topic
  40. CT Scan12▲ 10×2 topics

What research is done in Abbottabad?

Pregnancy and preeclamps…12Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies: 12 fractional worksAppendicitis Diagnosis a…9Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management: 9 fractional worksHealth and Well-being Studies: 9 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 8 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 8 fractional worksMaternal and fetal healthcare: 8 fractional worksMaternal and Perinatal Health Interventions: 6 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Wate…6Child Nutrition and Water Access: 6 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarction Research: 6 fractional worksDental Research and COVID-19: 6 fractional works
Obstetrics and GynecologyEmergency MedicineClinical PsychologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 12 works
  2. 2 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management Emergency Medicine 9 works
  3. 3 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 9 works
  4. 4 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 8 works
  5. 5 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 8 works
  6. 6 Maternal and fetal healthcare Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 8 works
  7. 7 Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions Obstetrics and Gynecology 6 works
  8. 8 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 6 works
  9. 9 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Dental Research and COVID-19 General Dentistry 6 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Abbottabad2.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.8% in 2008.

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