Research in Aberdeen
Science Explorer records 34 research institutions in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University and NHS Grampian.
- Research institutions
- 34 4 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 65k ▼ 4% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.9M 29.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 19.3% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Aberdeen?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of AberdeenUniversity | 53,512 | #690 | |
| 2 | Robert Gordon UniversityUniversity | 5,647 | #1,734 | |
| 3 | City HospitalHospital / health system | 2,565 | #17,140 | |
| 4 | NHS GrampianHospital / health system | 1,511 | #9,379 | |
| 5 | Robert Gordon's CollegeUniversity | 545 | #14,243 all time | |
| 6 | Macaulay Development TrustNonprofit | 522 | #15,034 all time | |
| 7 | Aberdeenshire CouncilGovernment institution | 469 | #13,674 all time | |
| 8 | Scottish Health ServicesHospital / health system | 338 | #13,187 all time | |
| 9 | Hunting Energy Services (United Kingdom)Company | 192 | #27,050 all time | |
| 10 | Albyn HospitalHospital / health system | 167 | #30,528 all time | |
| 11 | NovaBiotics (United Kingdom)Company | 139 | #28,887 all time | |
| 12 | National Hyperbaric CentreCompany | 136 | #33,627 all time | |
| 13 | Talisman EnergyCompany | 93 | not ranked | |
| 14 | Senergy (United Kingdom)Company | 91 | not ranked | |
| 15 | Chevron (United Kingdom)Company | 85 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Endeavour (United Kingdom)Company | 79 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Aberdeen Harbour BoardInstitution | 48 | not ranked | |
| 18 | ConocoPhillips (United Kingdom)Company | 46 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Aberdeen City CouncilGovernment institution | 45 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Offshore Installation Services (United Kingdom)Company | 36 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Subsea Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 35 | not ranked | |
| 22 | TauRx (United Kingdom)Company | 33 | not ranked | |
| 23 | John Wood Group (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Brinker Technology (United Kingdom)Company | 18 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Tern (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Food Standards ScotlandGovernment institution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Net Zero Technology CentreInstitution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Oceaneering International (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Oil & Gas Innovation CentreInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Moog (United Kingdom)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 31 | AquaTerra (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 32 | RAB Microfluidics (United Kingdom)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Aberdeen Science CentreArchive | 1 | not ranked | |
| 34 | NexusAB (United Kingdom)Company | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Aberdeen work in?
In 2022-now, 32% of research in Aberdeen is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (25%), Social Sciences (12%), Engineering (12%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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
- Physical Sciences2,21232.1%
- Engineering80211.6%
- Environmental Science4426.4%
- Computer Science4055.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1962.8%
- Materials Science1071.6%
- Physics and Astronomy650.9%
- Chemistry650.9%
- Mathematics580.8%
- Energy550.8%
- Chemical Engineering180.3%
- Health Sciences2,05429.8%
- Medicine1,71224.8%
- Health Professions2794.1%
- Nursing320.5%
- Dentistry230.3%
- Veterinary70.1%
- Social Sciences1,91327.7%
- Social Sciences84612.3%
- Arts and Humanities3565.2%
- Psychology2774.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting1852.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1632.4%
- Decision Sciences861.2%
- Life Sciences72010.4%
What is Aberdeen strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Aberdeen is most concentrated in Religious studies, History and Ocean Engineering (4.5× the world share in Religious studies).
- Religious studiesSubfield · 45.5 works4.5×
- HistorySubfield · 67.7 works3.4×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 107.6 works3.4×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 20.6 works3.1×
- Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 20.0 works2.7×
- Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 27.6 works2.7×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1.8×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.75×168 works
- Arts and Humanities1.75×309 works
- Health Professions1.57×253 works
- Neuroscience1.45×144 works
- Medicine1.30×1,530 works
- Psychology1.30×242 works
- Environmental Science1.27×387 works
- Decision Sciences1.24×73 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.18×154 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.97×60 works
- Social Sciences0.97×750 works
- Nursing0.89×27 works
- Energy0.87×49 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.85×168 works
- Engineering0.78×720 works
- Chemical Engineering0.76×16 works
- Computer Science0.76×360 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.75×244 works
- Mathematics0.69×50 works
- Veterinary0.65×5 works
- Chemistry0.64×61 works
- Dentistry0.64×19 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.58×170 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×12 works
- Materials Science0.44×95 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.41×56 works
Which keywords describe research in Aberdeen?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Machine Learning, Sustainability, Inflammation, Globalization, Religion and Renewable Energy.
- Thermal Maturity
- Gas Permeability
- Tectonics
- CO2 Sequestration
- Complications
- Colonialism
- Literature
- Primary Care
- Clinical Trials
- Identity
- Mortality
- Healthcare
- Human Rights
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Environmental Impact
- Renewable Energy
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Religion
- Gender
- Metabolic Syndrome
- History
- Genetics
- Social Justice
- Nationalism
- Guidelines
- Shale Gas
- Race
- Mudstones
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
- Epidemiology333▲ 1.21×131 topics
- Climate Change282▲ 1.50×100 topics
- Machine Learning218◆ 0.95×82 topics
- Deep Learning185▼ 0.78×78 topics
- Sustainability177◆ 1.05×84 topics
- Inflammation166◆ 1.13×81 topics
- Globalization160▲ 1.18×107 topics
- Renewable Energy140▲ 1.40×44 topics
- Quality of Life139▲ 1.40×56 topics
- Environmental Impact132◆ 1.12×55 topics
- Public Health131▲ 1.30×57 topics
- Mental Health129▲ 1.30×42 topics
- Treatment109▲ 1.30×51 topics
- Risk Factors105▲ 1.38×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress101◆ 0.89×56 topics
- Human Rights99▲ 1.40×61 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease95▲ 1.21×38 topics
- Healthcare92▲ 1.17×27 topics
- Religion92▲ 2.9×32 topics
- Mortality88▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Gender84▲ 2.3×45 topics
- Identity83▲ 1.66×56 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome80▲ 1.43×24 topics
- Clinical Trials74▲ 1.61×19 topics
- History73▲ 1.52×42 topics
- Primary Care72▲ 2.8×15 topics
- Genetics70▲ 1.43×25 topics
- Literature69▲ 1.82×45 topics
- Social Justice67▲ 1.62×36 topics
- Colonialism65▲ 1.98×40 topics
- Nationalism64▲ 2.1×26 topics
- Complications64▲ 1.85×17 topics
- Guidelines59▲ 1.82×13 topics
- CO2 Sequestration48▲ 3.5×4 topics
- Shale Gas40▲ 4.8×2 topics
- Tectonics38▲ 4.6×3 topics
- Race38▲ 4.6×16 topics
- Gas Permeability37▲ 5.6×2 topics
- Mudstones33▲ 6.5×1 topic
- Thermal Maturity33▲ 6.5×1 topic
What research is done in Aberdeen?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 31 works
- 2 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 23 works
- 3 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 23 works
- 4 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 22 works
- 5 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 19 works
- 6 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 18 works
- 7 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 17 works
- 8 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 16 works
- 9 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 16 works
- 10 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 16 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.4% in 2016.
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