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Research in Big Rapids

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Big Rapids, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Ferris State University.

Research institutions
3
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.2k
▼ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
14.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
11.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Big Rapids

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Which research institutions are in Big Rapids?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Ferris State UniversityUniversity 1,142 #13,122
2Occupational Research and AssessmentInstitution 13 not ranked
3Mecosta County Medical CenterHospital / health system 7 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.

Which fields of science does Big Rapids work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research in Big Rapids is in Health Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (28%), Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 59 fractional works · 35.5% of its workMedicine: 47 fractional works · 28.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 53 fractional works · 31.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 15.6% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 3.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 3.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 20.6% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 6.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 5.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 12.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBig Rapids167fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences36%Social Sciences32%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine4728.4%
    2. Health Professions116.4%
    3. Nursing10.6%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences2615.6%
    2. Psychology116.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting63.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities63.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.3%
    6. Decision Sciences10.4%
    1. Engineering126.9%
    2. Computer Science95.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy53.2%
    4. Mathematics31.6%
    5. Chemistry31.5%
    6. Environmental Science21.5%
    7. Materials Science10.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology106.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology53.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics31.6%
    4. Neuroscience20.9%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Big Rapids?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Drug Resistance, Inappropriate Medication Use, Polypharmacy, Infectious Diseases, Electric Vehicles and Global Health.

▲ 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. Epidemiology14▲ 2.2×26 topics
  2. Public Health9▲ 3.6×14 topics
  3. Drug Resistance5▲ 11×4 topics
  4. Antibiotic Resistance5▲ 7.2×3 topics
  5. Electric Vehicles5▲ 9.7×3 topics
  6. Inappropriate Medication Use5▲ 68×1 topic
  7. Infectious Diseases5▲ 8.5×2 topics
  8. Polypharmacy5▲ 68×1 topic
  9. Global Health5▲ 18×3 topics
  10. Reflective Practice5▲ 14×3 topics
  11. Antimicrobial Stewardship4▲ 60×1 topic
  12. Bacterial Infections4▲ 60×1 topic
  13. Assessment Methods4▲ 24×3 topics
  14. Faculty Development4▲ 32×2 topics
  15. Mental Health4▲ 1.72×14 topics
  16. Healthcare Quality4▲ 23×4 topics
  17. Clinical Trials4▲ 3.3×9 topics
  18. Lithium-ion Batteries4▲ 5.3×3 topics
  19. Competency-Based Education4▲ 24×1 topic
  20. Professional Identity Formation4▲ 34×1 topic
  21. Antimicrobial Resistance3▲ 9.2×4 topics
  22. Student Engagement3▲ 4.6×7 topics
  23. Battery Technology3▲ 6.5×2 topics
  24. Primary Care3▲ 4.9×7 topics
  25. Job Satisfaction3▲ 3.9×7 topics
  26. Meta-Analysis3▲ 3.0×8 topics
  27. Adverse Drug Reactions3▲ 31×3 topics
  28. Gender3▲ 3.1×5 topics
  29. Leadership3▲ 3.4×6 topics
  30. Healthcare-Associated Infections2▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Battery Management Systems2▲ 9.6×1 topic
  32. Career Development2▲ 11×4 topics
  33. Thermal Runaway2▲ 9.6×1 topic
  34. Academic Medicine2▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Charging Infrastructure2▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Psychiatric Disorders2▲ 8.8×3 topics
  37. Social Identity2▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Vehicle-to-Grid2▲ 16×1 topic
  39. Youth2▲ 8.8×2 topics
  40. Adverse Events2▲ 17×2 topics

What research is done in Big Rapids?

Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 4 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resistance: 4 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technologies Research: 2 fractional worksElectric Vehicles and Infrastructure: 2 fractional worksMedical Malpractice and …2Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues: 2 fractional worksMentoring and Academic Development: 1 fractional worksSmoking Behavior and Cessation: 1 fractional worksEducation and Critical Thinking Development: 1 fractional worksPolicing Practices and Perceptions: 1 fractional works
Geriatrics and GerontologyApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthAutomotive Engineering6 others

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

  1. 1 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 4 works
  2. 2 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 4 works
  3. 3 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  4. 4 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  6. 6 Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues Pharmacy 2 works
  7. 7 Mentoring and Academic Development Social Psychology 1 works
  8. 8 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 1 works
  9. 9 Education and Critical Thinking Development Education 1 works
  10. 10 Policing Practices and Perceptions Political Science and International Relations 1 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%60%all institutions10.0% in 2025Big Rapids9.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 40.5% in 2009.

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