Research in Baton Rouge
Science Explorer records 59 research institutions in Baton Rouge, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Louisiana State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.
- Research institutions
- 59 9 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 82k ▼ 7% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2.2M 27.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 17.4% 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 Baton Rouge?
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 Baton Rouge work in?
In 2022-now, 41% of research in Baton Rouge is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (17%), Engineering (13%), Social Sciences (11%).
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 Sciences3,79841.1%
- Engineering1,20913.1%
- Environmental Science8949.7%
- Computer Science4855.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3253.5%
- Physics and Astronomy2733.0%
- Materials Science2522.7%
- Mathematics1481.6%
- Chemistry1331.4%
- Energy460.5%
- Chemical Engineering330.4%
- Social Sciences2,16723.5%
- Social Sciences1,04111.3%
- Psychology4264.6%
- Arts and Humanities2853.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting1842.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1531.7%
- Decision Sciences770.8%
- Health Sciences1,90320.6%
- Medicine1,55816.9%
- Health Professions2312.5%
- Nursing570.6%
- Veterinary410.4%
- Dentistry150.2%
- Life Sciences1,37214.8%
What is Baton Rouge strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Baton Rouge is most concentrated in Earth-Surface Processes, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology (5.6× the world share in Earth-Surface Processes).
- Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 53.0 works5.6×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 74.0 works3.9×
- EcologySubfield · 208.2 works3.3×
- VeterinaryField · 33.6 works3.1×
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: Veterinary, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary3.09×34 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.25×283 works
- Environmental Science1.93×766 works
- Psychology1.51×368 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.37×243 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.30×494 works
- Mathematics1.27×120 works
- Nursing1.23×48 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.15×92 works
- Neuroscience1.11×145 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.03×440 works
- Arts and Humanities1.01×234 works
- Chemical Engineering0.99×28 works
- Health Professions0.99×208 works
- Chemistry0.91×114 works
- Social Sciences0.90×908 works
- Medicine0.88×1,351 works
- Engineering0.87×1,049 works
- Decision Sciences0.86×67 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.82×140 works
- Materials Science0.78×217 works
- Computer Science0.68×421 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.65×168 works
- Energy0.56×41 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.45×13 works
- Dentistry0.35×14 works
Which keywords describe research in Baton Rouge?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Obesity, Sea-Level Rise, Public Health, Ecosystem Services, Invasive Species and Remote Sensing.
- Wetland Restoration
- Eutrophication
- Coastal Protection
- Global Carbon Budget
- Weight Loss
- Population Dynamics
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Insulin Resistance
- Conservation
- Physical Activity
- Global Warming
- Health Effects
- Invasive Species
- Environmental Impact
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Obesity
- Mental Health
- Sustainability
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Remote Sensing
- Oxidative Stress
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Ecosystem Services
- Biodiversity
- Aging
- Genetics
- Sea-Level Rise
- Adolescents
- Water Quality
- Global Change
- Sediment Transport
- Exercise
- Climate Change Impacts
- Carbon Sequestration
- Mangrove Forests
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 Change570▲ 2.3×100 topics
- Epidemiology405◆ 1.10×129 topics
- Machine Learning247▼ 0.80×82 topics
- Inflammation230▲ 1.17×82 topics
- Public Health216▲ 1.60×59 topics
- Sustainability212◆ 0.94×96 topics
- Deep Learning211▼ 0.66×81 topics
- Mental Health193▲ 1.46×42 topics
- Remote Sensing188▲ 1.67×35 topics
- Obesity185▲ 2.6×26 topics
- Oxidative Stress167◆ 1.10×57 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome155▲ 2.1×24 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease147▲ 1.39×38 topics
- Environmental Impact142◆ 0.90×59 topics
- Ecosystem Services133▲ 3.7×13 topics
- Invasive Species130▲ 3.3×21 topics
- Biodiversity125▲ 1.78×32 topics
- Health Effects103▲ 1.84×24 topics
- Aging102▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Global Warming101▲ 2.6×14 topics
- Genetics99▲ 1.52×26 topics
- Physical Activity97▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Sea-Level Rise96▲ 8.9×5 topics
- Conservation88▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Adolescents87▲ 2.6×9 topics
- Insulin Resistance87▲ 2.1×10 topics
- Water Quality81▲ 2.2×15 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation80▲ 4.0×5 topics
- Global Change77▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Population Dynamics72▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Sediment Transport70▲ 4.7×6 topics
- Weight Loss68▲ 4.7×4 topics
- Exercise64▲ 5.8×3 topics
- Global Carbon Budget64▲ 9.3×2 topics
- Climate Change Impacts64▲ 5.7×8 topics
- Coastal Protection62▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Carbon Sequestration54▲ 8.1×3 topics
- Eutrophication54▲ 5.2×4 topics
- Mangrove Forests54▲ 16×1 topic
- Wetland Restoration54▲ 16×1 topic
What research is done in Baton Rouge?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 45 works
- 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 34 works
- 3 Adipose Tissue and Metabolism Physiology 33 works
- 4 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 32 works
- 5 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 32 works
- 6 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 32 works
- 7 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 30 works
- 8 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 28 works
- 9 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 25 works
- 10 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 25 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 29.8% in 2016.
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