Research in Anchorage
Science Explorer records 68 research institutions in Anchorage, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Alaska Anchorage, Institute of the North and Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute.
- Research institutions
- 68 4 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 7.5k ▲ 7% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 136k 18.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 12.0% 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 Anchorage?
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 Anchorage work in?
In 2022-now, 31% of research in Anchorage is in Health Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (24%), Social Sciences (15%), Environmental Science (9%). It does 1.4× 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
- Health Sciences42831.4%
- Medicine32924.1%
- Health Professions856.2%
- Nursing80.6%
- Dentistry50.4%
- Veterinary20.1%
- Social Sciences40429.6%
- Social Sciences20715.2%
- Psychology775.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting443.2%
- Arts and Humanities402.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance251.8%
- Decision Sciences120.9%
- Physical Sciences40329.6%
- Environmental Science1289.4%
- Engineering1208.8%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences735.4%
- Computer Science413.0%
- Physics and Astronomy151.1%
- Materials Science100.7%
- Energy60.4%
- Mathematics60.4%
- Chemistry40.3%
- Chemical Engineering10.1%
- Life Sciences1289.4%
What is Anchorage strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Anchorage is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science and General Health Professions (7.1× the world share in Atmospheric Science).
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 37.8 works7.1×
- General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 60.5 works3.6×
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, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3.56×68 works
- Health Professions2.42×77 works
- Environmental Science1.87×113 works
- Psychology1.69×62 works
- Medicine1.22×285 works
- Social Sciences1.21×185 works
- Nursing1.17×7 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.15×66 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.07×42 works
- Arts and Humanities1.06×37 works
- Veterinary0.95×2 works
- Decision Sciences0.94×11 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.88×23 works
- Neuroscience0.76×15 works
- Dentistry0.65×4 works
- Engineering0.58×106 works
- Energy0.52×6 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.52×14 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.48×6 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.44×28 works
- Computer Science0.39×36 works
- Mathematics0.37×5 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.31×1 works
- Chemistry0.20×4 works
- Materials Science0.19×8 works
- Chemical Engineering0.16×1 works
Which keywords describe research in Anchorage?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Arctic, Food Security, Vulnerability, Epidemiology, Hydrology, Mental Health and Remote Sensing.
- Shipping
- Headache Disorders
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Historical Trauma
- Migraine
- Genetic Influences
- Thawing
- Methane Emissions
- Health Equity
- Resilience
- Arctic Indigenous Peoples
- Nutrition Transition
- Guidelines
- Hydrology
- Heart Failure
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Arctic
- Mental Health
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Remote Sensing
- Food Security
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Vulnerability
- Social Justice
- Traditional Knowledge
- Ecological Knowledge
- community-based monitoring
- Soil Fertility
- Permafrost
- Carbon Feedback
- Decolonization
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Settler Colonialism
- Indigenous Health
- Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
- Oil and Gas
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
- Climate Change151▲ 4.1×73 topics
- Epidemiology68▲ 1.26×104 topics
- Sustainability47▲ 1.40×57 topics
- Mental Health45▲ 2.3×35 topics
- Remote Sensing42▲ 2.5×23 topics
- Arctic37▲ 25×4 topics
- Food Security34▲ 4.6×11 topics
- Treatment33▲ 1.99×39 topics
- Globalization32▲ 1.19×60 topics
- Risk Factors30▲ 2.0×31 topics
- Public Health29▲ 1.46×45 topics
- Heart Failure28▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Vulnerability26▲ 8.1×6 topics
- Hydrology25▲ 14×3 topics
- Social Justice24▲ 3.0×20 topics
- Guidelines21▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Traditional Knowledge20▲ 35×3 topics
- Nutrition Transition20▲ 46×2 topics
- Ecological Knowledge20▲ 34×2 topics
- Arctic Indigenous Peoples20▲ 83×1 topic
- community-based monitoring20▲ 83×1 topic
- Resilience18▲ 2.8×15 topics
- Soil Fertility18▲ 5.7×6 topics
- Health Equity17▲ 4.4×6 topics
- Permafrost17▲ 27×2 topics
- Methane Emissions16▲ 22×2 topics
- Carbon Feedback15▲ 31×1 topic
- Thawing15▲ 31×1 topic
- Decolonization12▲ 11×3 topics
- Genetic Influences12▲ 18×3 topics
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems12▲ 26×2 topics
- Migraine12▲ 21×2 topics
- Settler Colonialism12▲ 21×2 topics
- Historical Trauma12▲ 57×1 topic
- Indigenous Health12▲ 57×1 topic
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge12▲ 19×2 topics
- Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide11▲ 19×1 topic
- Headache Disorders11▲ 33×1 topic
- Oil and Gas11▲ 23×2 topics
- Shipping11▲ 16×2 topics
What research is done in Anchorage?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 18 works
- 2 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 14 works
- 3 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 11 works
- 4 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 10 works
- 5 Agricultural Productivity and Crop Improvement Agronomy and Crop Science 9 works
- 6 Migraine and Headache Studies Psychiatry and Mental health 9 works
- 7 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 8 works
- 8 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 8 works
- 9 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 7 works
- 10 Agriculture and Biological Studies General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 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 28.6% in 2013.
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