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Research in Ambato

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Ambato, Ecuador. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes, Universidad Indoamérica and Universidad Técnica de Ambato.

Research institutions
3
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
14k
▲ 155% vs 2018-21
Citations
25k
1.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1967-2026
60 years on the record
Ambato

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 Ambato?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesUniversity 6,130 #1,732
2Universidad Técnica de AmbatoUniversity 5,550 #2,658
3Universidad IndoaméricaUniversity 2,303 #1,764

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 Ambato work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research in Ambato is in Social Sciences, 32% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Medicine (19%), Health Professions (11%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4,669 fractional works · 48.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,991 fractional works · 31.4% of its workLaw: 1,052 fractional works · 11.0% of its workEducation: 696 fractional works · 7.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 376 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 351 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCommunication: 92 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 88 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 72 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 55 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 48 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 47 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 71 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 581 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 566 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 521 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 277 fractional works · 2.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 109 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 85 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 485 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAccounting: 188 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 153 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 57 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 66 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 3,091 fractional works · 32.4% of its workMedicine: 1,766 fractional works · 18.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 387 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSurgery: 219 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 136 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 84 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 73 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 69 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 63 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 56 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 51 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 49 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 42 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 41 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 38 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 28 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 153 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1,046 fractional works · 11.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 587 fractional works · 6.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 170 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmacy: 109 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 214 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOral Surgery: 87 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPeriodontics: 70 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthodontics: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 49 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,227 fractional works · 12.9% of its workComputer Science: 503 fractional works · 5.3% of its workInformation Systems: 261 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 134 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 363 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 219 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 58 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 276 fractional works · 2.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 51 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 55 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 552 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 266 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFood Science: 89 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 52 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 66 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 153 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 64 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 46 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 65 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 41 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAmbato9,540fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences32%Social Sciences49%

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 Sciences4,66948.9%
    1. Social Sciences2,99131.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5816.1%
    3. Psychology5215.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting4855.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities660.7%
    6. Decision Sciences260.3%
  2. Health Sciences3,09132.4%
    1. Medicine1,76618.5%
    2. Health Professions1,04611.0%
    3. Dentistry2142.2%
    4. Nursing490.5%
    5. Veterinary170.2%
    1. Computer Science5035.3%
    2. Environmental Science3633.8%
    3. Engineering2762.9%
    4. Energy300.3%
    5. Materials Science240.2%
    6. Mathematics100.1%
    7. Chemistry90.1%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences90.1%
    9. Physics and Astronomy40.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2662.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1531.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology650.7%
    4. Neuroscience590.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics100.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Ambato strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ambato is most concentrated in Law, Pharmacy and Medical Laboratory Technology (19.4× the world share in Law).

  1. LawSubfield · 991.0 works19×
  2. PharmacySubfield · 102.3 works13×
  3. Medical Laboratory TechnologySubfield · 30.1 works11×
  4. Occupational TherapySubfield · 158.8 works11×
  5. General Social SciencesSubfield · 79.7 works8.3×
  6. Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 23.6 works8.3×
← 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: 0.55× its world share, 227 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.29× its world share, 133 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.67× its world share, 59 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.37× its world share, 52 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.28× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.64× its world share, 436 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.35× its world share, 28 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 236 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.76× its world share, 330 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 19 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 4.79× its world share, 203 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.29× its world share, 990 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.97× its world share, 1,633 worksMedicineNursing: 1.08× its world share, 46 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.10× its world share, 13 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 59 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.57× its world share, 444 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.97× its world share, 557 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.79× its world share, 478 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.49× its world share, 2,753 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry4.79×203 works
  2. Health Professions4.29×990 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.97×557 works
  4. Social Sciences2.49×2,753 works
  5. Psychology1.79×478 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.57×444 works
  7. Veterinary1.10×13 works
  8. Nursing1.08×46 works
  9. Medicine0.97×1,633 works
  10. Environmental Science0.76×330 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.67×59 works
  12. Computer Science0.64×436 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.55×227 works
  14. Neuroscience0.37×52 works
  15. Energy0.35×28 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.29×133 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.28×9 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.26×22 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.23×59 works
  20. Engineering0.18×236 works
  21. Mathematics0.09×9 works
  22. Chemistry0.06×8 works
  23. Materials Science0.06×19 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.05×7 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.03×1 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.01×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Ambato?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Human Rights, Globalization, Health Promotion, Inclusive Education, Small and Medium Enterprises, Digital Marketing and Social Justice.

▲ 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. Education1,262▲ 7.7×68 topics
  2. Globalization952▲ 5.1×68 topics
  3. Human Rights888▲ 9.1×44 topics
  4. Health Promotion683▲ 23×17 topics
  5. Inclusive Education674▲ 20×14 topics
  6. Public Health632▲ 4.5×56 topics
  7. Small and Medium Enterprises632▲ 37×5 topics
  8. Epidemiology618▲ 1.62×128 topics
  9. Quality of Life596▲ 4.3×55 topics
  10. Digital Marketing582▲ 16×6 topics
  11. Mental Health578▲ 4.2×38 topics
  12. Social Justice572▲ 10×20 topics
  13. Social Responsibility562▲ 25×8 topics
  14. Innovation547▲ 5.6×50 topics
  15. Competitiveness546▲ 72×6 topics
  16. Economic Impact530▲ 10×9 topics
  17. Innovation Ecosystems528▲ 54×3 topics
  18. Globalization Effects525▲ 80×3 topics
  19. Urban Development520▲ 15×10 topics
  20. Ethics515▲ 11×18 topics
  21. Psychopharmacology Education512▲ 86×1 topic
  22. Tourism Management512▲ 77×1 topic
  23. Criminal Law500▲ 33×4 topics
  24. Youth Offenders500▲ 116×3 topics
  25. Drug Policy499▲ 185×2 topics
  26. Legal Reform499▲ 173×2 topics
  27. Risk Factors466▲ 4.4×33 topics
  28. Nutrition439▲ 10×13 topics
  29. Knowledge Management413▲ 7.8×24 topics
  30. Criminal Justice412▲ 19×8 topics
  31. Occupational Health388▲ 36×7 topics
  32. University Students364▲ 68×2 topics
  33. Obesity364▲ 5.0×23 topics
  34. Physical Activity357▲ 7.7×12 topics
  35. Social Impact342▲ 9.2×16 topics
  36. Educational Interventions337▲ 39×3 topics
  37. Chronic Diseases329▲ 14×9 topics
  38. Healthy Lifestyles305▲ 78×1 topic
  39. Technology305▲ 6.1×23 topics
  40. Research272▲ 23×8 topics

What research is done in Ambato?

Business, Innovation, and Economy: 492 fractional worksSocial Issues and Policies in Latin America: 466 fractional worksHealth and Lifestyle Studies: 295 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Penology: 226 fractional worksStress and Burnout Research: 195 fractional worksPublic Health and Enviro…189Public Health and Environmental Issues: 189 fractional worksViolence, Education, and Gender Studies: 170 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 144 fractional worksLegal processes and jurisprudence: 134 fractional worksOccupational Health and Safety in Workplaces: 133 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsLawGeneral Health ProfessionsSocial Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 492 works
  2. 2 Social Issues and Policies in Latin America Law 466 works
  3. 3 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 295 works
  4. 4 Criminal Justice and Penology Law 226 works
  5. 5 Stress and Burnout Research Social Psychology 195 works
  6. 6 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 189 works
  7. 7 Violence, Education, and Gender Studies Education 170 works
  8. 8 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 144 works
  9. 9 Legal processes and jurisprudence Law 134 works
  10. 10 Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces Occupational Therapy 133 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 2025Ambato9.2% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.5% in 2013.

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