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Research in Ames

Science Explorer records 15 research institutions in Ames, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Iowa State University.

Research institutions
15
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
98k
▼ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.9M
30.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Ames

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 Ames?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Iowa State UniversityUniversity 94,672 #281
2NewLink Genetics (United States)Company 80 not ranked
3Metabolic Technologies (United States)Company 74 not ranked
4Sustainable Horizons InstituteUniversity 25 not ranked
5Mary Greeley Medical CenterHospital / health system 24 not ranked
6BioForce Nanosciences (United States)Company 14 not ranked
7Biotronics (United States)Company 11 not ranked
8Practical Farmers of IowaNonprofit 10 not ranked
9Egg Industry CenterInstitution 7 not ranked
10Council for Agricultural Science and TechnologyNonprofit 6 not ranked
11PowerFilm (United States)Company 4 not ranked
12Gross Wen Technologies (United States)Company 3 not ranked
13Krell InstituteNonprofit 3 not ranked
14Sukra Helitek (United States)Company 2 not ranked
15PathoVacs (United States)Company 2 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.

Iowa State University: 99.7%NewLink Genetics (United States): 0.1%Metabolic Technologies (United States): 0.1%Sustainable Horizons Institute: 0.0%11 others listed: 0.1%100%largest
Iowa State University95k · 99.7%NewLink Genetics (United States)80 · 0.1%Metabolic Technologies (United States)74 · 0.1%Sustainable Horizons Institute25 · 0.0%11 others listed86 · 0.1%

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

Which fields of science does Ames work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Ames is in Physical Sciences, 21% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (19%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Computer Science (8%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4,738 fractional works · 50.7% of its workEngineering: 1,786 fractional works · 19.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 405 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 253 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 202 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 187 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 143 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 114 fractional works · 1.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 111 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 72 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 70 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 67 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 760 fractional works · 8.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 290 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 93 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 83 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 75 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 69 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoftware: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 583 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEcology: 120 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 81 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 73 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 64 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 49 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 41 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 563 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 289 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 126 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 54 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 379 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 134 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 107 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 57 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 243 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 78 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 62 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 42 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 175 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 50 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 74 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 135 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Engineering: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 53 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 46 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1,984 fractional works · 21.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1,093 fractional works · 11.7% of its workPlant Science: 358 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 248 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 134 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 87 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 76 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 66 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 62 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 45 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 679 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 393 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGenetics: 137 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 82 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 121 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 51 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMicrobiology: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workParasitology: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 83 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,632 fractional works · 17.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 653 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 209 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEducation: 154 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 56 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 32 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 120 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychology: 331 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 112 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 77 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 55 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 53 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 227 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMuseology: 54 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 38 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 68 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 208 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 46 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 44 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 107 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 78 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 106 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 986 fractional works · 10.6% of its workMedicine: 711 fractional works · 7.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 93 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 84 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 73 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 70 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 38 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 37 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 36 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 220 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth Professions: 123 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 64 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 59 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 102 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmall Animals: 97 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 45 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAmes9,340fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences51%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences17%

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. Engineering1,78619.1%
    2. Computer Science7608.1%
    3. Environmental Science5836.2%
    4. Materials Science5636.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy3794.1%
    6. Chemistry2432.6%
    7. Mathematics1751.9%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1351.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering590.6%
    10. Energy530.6%
  2. Life Sciences1,98421.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1,09311.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6797.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology1211.3%
    4. Neuroscience830.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics80.1%
  3. Social Sciences1,63217.5%
    1. Social Sciences6537.0%
    2. Psychology3313.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities2272.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2082.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1071.1%
    6. Decision Sciences1061.1%
    1. Medicine7117.6%
    2. Health Professions1231.3%
    3. Veterinary1021.1%
    4. Nursing450.5%
    5. Dentistry50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Ames strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ames is most concentrated in Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals and Veterinary (12.4× the world share in Animal Science and Zoology).

  1. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 226.3 works12×
  2. Small AnimalsSubfield · 85.0 works8.3×
  3. VeterinaryField · 89.1 works7.9×
  4. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 98.4 works7.4×
  5. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 118.9 works6.0×
  6. MuseologySubfield · 53.0 works5.2×
  7. SoftwareSubfield · 21.6 works4.0×
← 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: 2.47× its world share, 975 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.33× its world share, 587 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.23× its world share, 103 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 72 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.80× its world share, 52 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.69× its world share, 220 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.04× its world share, 673 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 121 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.62× its world share, 48 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.28× its world share, 1,594 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.25× its world share, 514 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.70× its world share, 492 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.53× its world share, 150 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.86× its world share, 343 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 112 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 630 worksMedicineNursing: 1.01× its world share, 41 worksNursingVeterinary: 7.90× its world share, 89 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.82× its world share, 197 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.73× its world share, 194 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.10× its world share, 88 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.57× its world share, 101 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.18× its world share, 298 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 595 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 7.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary7.90×89 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.47×975 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.86×343 works
  4. Chemical Engineering1.80×52 works
  5. Materials Science1.70×492 works
  6. Chemistry1.69×220 works
  7. Mathematics1.53×150 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.33×587 works
  9. Engineering1.28×1,594 works
  10. Environmental Science1.25×514 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology1.23×103 works
  12. Psychology1.18×298 works
  13. Decision Sciences1.10×88 works
  14. Computer Science1.04×673 works
  15. Nursing1.01×41 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.93×121 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.82×197 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.73×194 works
  19. Energy0.62×48 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.57×101 works
  21. Social Sciences0.57×595 works
  22. Neuroscience0.54×72 works
  23. Health Professions0.51×112 works
  24. Medicine0.39×630 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×6 works
  26. Dentistry0.10×4 works

Which keywords describe research in Ames?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Heat Stress, Gut Microbiota, Superconductivity, Machine Learning, Probiotics, Amino Acids and Intestinal Barrier.

▲ 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 Change374▲ 1.47×96 topics
  2. Machine Learning349◆ 1.12×84 topics
  3. Epidemiology347◆ 0.93×115 topics
  4. Deep Learning289◆ 0.90×76 topics
  5. Sustainability262◆ 1.15×92 topics
  6. Environmental Impact203▲ 1.28×55 topics
  7. Gut Microbiota154▲ 4.8×7 topics
  8. Pathogenesis144▲ 3.0×20 topics
  9. Nanoparticles142▲ 1.20×42 topics
  10. Heat Stress136▲ 18×2 topics
  11. Mechanical Properties131▲ 1.44×35 topics
  12. Probiotics130▲ 5.8×6 topics
  13. Superconductivity124▲ 7.7×9 topics
  14. Nanocomposites121▲ 1.64×21 topics
  15. Vaccine116▲ 3.1×10 topics
  16. Amino Acids113▲ 13×3 topics
  17. Intestinal Barrier108▲ 15×2 topics
  18. Genetic Diversity107▲ 2.6×20 topics
  19. Feed Additives106▲ 20×2 topics
  20. Antibiotic Alternatives106▲ 21×1 topic
  21. Poultry Production106▲ 21×1 topic
  22. Microstructure98▲ 2.0×19 topics
  23. Animal Welfare90▲ 11×4 topics
  24. Genomic Sequencing87▲ 8.0×6 topics
  25. Electronic Structure82▲ 4.9×8 topics
  26. Vaccine Development79▲ 3.3×11 topics
  27. Antimicrobial Resistance71▲ 3.7×9 topics
  28. Metagenomics63▲ 7.4×3 topics
  29. Marker-Assisted Selection62▲ 8.6×3 topics
  30. QTL Mapping61▲ 5.6×6 topics
  31. Topological Insulators59▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Genetic Improvement53▲ 6.6×4 topics
  33. Genetic Characterization52▲ 12×2 topics
  34. Meat Quality51▲ 7.4×3 topics
  35. Emotional State49▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Stress Indicators49▲ 17×1 topic
  37. Circovirus49▲ 17×1 topic
  38. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus49▲ 17×1 topic
  39. Dairy Cattle48▲ 9.8×2 topics
  40. Viral Pathogenesis48▲ 8.1×3 topics

What research is done in Ames?

Animal Nutrition and Phy…98Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 98 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections Studies: 44 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 42 fractional worksAnimal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 39 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 38 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product Quality: 36 fractional worksRare-earth and actinide …34Rare-earth and actinide compounds: 34 fractional worksFashion and Cultural Textiles: 32 fractional worksDiverse Educational Innovations Studies: 32 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic t…30Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 30 fractional works
Animal Science and ZoologySmall AnimalsAgronomy and Crop ScienceInfectious Diseases4 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 98 works
  2. 2 Animal Virus Infections Studies Animal Science and Zoology 44 works
  3. 3 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 42 works
  4. 4 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 39 works
  5. 5 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 38 works
  6. 6 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 36 works
  7. 7 Rare-earth and actinide compounds Condensed Matter Physics 34 works
  8. 8 Fashion and Cultural Textiles Museology 32 works
  9. 9 Diverse Educational Innovations Studies General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 32 works
  10. 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 30 works

Research output over time

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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 counting20%40%Ames18.3% 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 32.0% in 2016.

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