Research in Antwerp
Science Explorer records 34 research institutions in Antwerp, Belgium. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Antwerp, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde and Province of Antwerp.
- Research institutions
- 34 7 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 54k ◆ 2% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.5M 27.6 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.8% 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 Antwerp?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of AntwerpUniversity | 43,367 | #277 | |
| 2 | Instituut voor Tropische GeneeskundeFunder | 3,302 | #5,109 | |
| 3 | Province of AntwerpGovernment institution | 1,454 | #6,213 | |
| 4 | ZNA Middelheim HospitalHospital / health system | 1,287 | #19,639 | |
| 5 | Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen StuivenbergHospital / health system | 853 | #15,831 | |
| 6 | Domus MedicaNonprofit | 541 | #13,301 | |
| 7 | Provincial Institute for HygieneResearch facility | 528 | #20,907 all time | |
| 8 | GZA Ziekenhuizen Campus Sint-AugustinusHospital / health system | 521 | #18,830 | |
| 9 | Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool AntwerpenUniversity | 401 | #11,330 all time | |
| 10 | Synergetics (Belgium)Company | 229 | #19,239 all time | |
| 11 | Flanders HydraulicsResearch facility | 210 | #28,919 all time | |
| 12 | Royal Zoological Society of AntwerpInstitution | 189 | #27,820 all time | |
| 13 | Biomedical Informatics Research Center AntwerpResearch facility | 141 | #26,994 all time | |
| 14 | Karel de Grote HogeschoolUniversity | 131 | #28,188 all time | |
| 15 | International Marine and Dredging ConsultantsCompany | 126 | #32,471 all time | |
| 16 | Antwerp Maritime AcademyUniversity | 106 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Iridium KankernetwerkHospital / health system | 87 | not ranked | |
| 18 | HistoGeneX (Belgium)Company | 40 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Gouverneur KinsbergencentrumInstitution | 30 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Fluvius (Belgium)Company | 27 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Exmar (Belgium)Company | 25 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Atlas Copco (Belgium)Company | 24 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Cipla (Belgium)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 24 | University Centre Saint-Ignatius AntwerpNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Antea Group (Belgium)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 26 | City of AntwerpGovernment institution | 16 | not ranked | |
| 27 | SGS (Belgium)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Port of AntwerpGovernment institution | 12 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Ineos (Belgium)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Digipolis (Belgium)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Otoconsult (Belgium)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Water-link (Belgium)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Board of Innovation (Belgium)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Flanders Institute for LogisticsNonprofit | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Antwerp work in?
In 2022-now, 32% of research in Antwerp is in Health Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (29%), Social Sciences (13%), Engineering (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 Sciences3,13532.3%
- Medicine2,77828.6%
- Health Professions2852.9%
- Nursing310.3%
- Dentistry230.2%
- Veterinary180.2%
- Physical Sciences2,71828.0%
- Engineering8688.9%
- Environmental Science5355.5%
- Computer Science4925.1%
- Materials Science2352.4%
- Physics and Astronomy1721.8%
- Chemistry1101.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1071.1%
- Mathematics860.9%
- Energy760.8%
- Chemical Engineering370.4%
- Social Sciences2,58526.6%
- Social Sciences1,23112.7%
- Arts and Humanities3884.0%
- Psychology3513.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting2933.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2092.2%
- Decision Sciences1131.2%
- Life Sciences1,27413.1%
What is Antwerp strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Antwerp is most concentrated in Microbiology, Sensory Systems and Parasitology (3.5× the world share in Microbiology).
- MicrobiologySubfield · 30.9 works3.5×
- Sensory SystemsSubfield · 22.1 works3.4×
- ParasitologySubfield · 28.9 works3.2×
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: Immunology and Microbiology, 1.8×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology1.78×153 works
- Neuroscience1.73×240 works
- Medicine1.51×2,469 works
- Arts and Humanities1.39×343 works
- Veterinary1.38×16 works
- Decision Sciences1.20×99 works
- Psychology1.19×310 works
- Health Professions1.14×257 works
- Chemical Engineering1.10×33 works
- Environmental Science1.06×450 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.04×190 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.03×467 works
- Social Sciences0.99×1,072 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.96×264 works
- Energy0.82×64 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.79×150 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.72×22 works
- Mathematics0.72×72 works
- Materials Science0.70×208 works
- Chemistry0.69×93 works
- Computer Science0.66×440 works
- Nursing0.64×27 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.62×82 works
- Engineering0.60×768 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.54×218 works
- Dentistry0.51×21 works
Which keywords describe research in Antwerp?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Globalization, Public Health, Treatment, Quality of Life, Diagnosis and Drug Resistance.
- Urinary Incontinence
- Public Opinion
- Hearing Loss
- Democracy
- Immunity
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine Development
- Neurological Disorders
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Clinical Trials
- Drug Resistance
- Immune Response
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Diagnosis
- Social Media
- Mental Health
- Chemotherapy
- Global Burden
- Depression
- Mortality
- Vaccine
- Health Effects
- Rehabilitation
- Insulin Resistance
- Complications
- Surgical Treatment
- Low Back Pain
- HIV Transmission
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
- Epidemiology714▲ 1.85×134 topics
- Climate Change279◆ 1.06×101 topics
- Globalization237▲ 1.24×118 topics
- Deep Learning212▼ 0.63×73 topics
- Machine Learning208▼ 0.64×78 topics
- Sustainability196▼ 0.83×89 topics
- Public Health196▲ 1.38×66 topics
- Quality of Life190▲ 1.36×56 topics
- Inflammation190◆ 0.92×83 topics
- Treatment180▲ 1.53×52 topics
- Diagnosis154▲ 1.70×41 topics
- Oxidative Stress153◆ 0.96×61 topics
- Social Media152◆ 1.13×36 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease146▲ 1.31×38 topics
- Mental Health119▼ 0.86×40 topics
- Risk Factors118◆ 1.10×37 topics
- Chemotherapy114▲ 1.66×25 topics
- Immune Response106▲ 1.91×23 topics
- Global Burden104▲ 1.95×12 topics
- Drug Resistance100▲ 3.6×9 topics
- Depression98◆ 1.14×24 topics
- Clinical Trials94▲ 1.45×19 topics
- Mortality94▲ 1.69×13 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines92▲ 1.73×14 topics
- Vaccine91▲ 2.3×11 topics
- Neurological Disorders88▲ 1.59×20 topics
- Health Effects87▲ 1.48×22 topics
- Vaccine Development84▲ 3.4×11 topics
- Rehabilitation84▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Pathogenesis80▲ 1.61×24 topics
- Insulin Resistance79▲ 1.81×10 topics
- Immunity78▲ 1.98×11 topics
- Complications76▲ 1.58×17 topics
- Democracy74▲ 2.2×24 topics
- Surgical Treatment67▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Hearing Loss62▲ 5.4×4 topics
- Low Back Pain57▲ 3.5×4 topics
- Public Opinion56▲ 4.7×6 topics
- HIV Transmission42▲ 5.6×2 topics
- Urinary Incontinence41▲ 5.3×2 topics
What research is done in Antwerp?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Physiology 30 works
- 2 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 28 works
- 3 Plasma Applications and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 28 works
- 4 Social Media and Politics Communication 27 works
- 5 Catalytic Processes in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 24 works
- 6 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 23 works
- 7 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 23 works
- 8 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 21 works
- 9 Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Science and International Relations 20 works
- 10 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 20 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 34.4% in 2016.
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