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Research in Boca Raton

Science Explorer records 19 research institutions in Boca Raton, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Florida Atlantic University, Lynn University and Everglades University.

Research institutions
19
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
26k
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
611k
23.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
16.5%
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 Boca Raton?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Florida Atlantic UniversityUniversity 23,253 #1,112
2Lynn UniversityUniversity 2,071 #7,194
3Everglades UniversityUniversity 655 #18,311
4Cancer Treatment Centers of AmericaHospital / health system 570 #19,569 all time
5Digital Media Arts CollegeUniversity 138 #32,823 all time
6ENT and Allergy Associates of FloridaHospital / health system 76 not ranked
7Dioxide Materials (United States)Company 66 not ranked
8TherapeuticsMD (United States)Company 63 not ranked
9Parkinson's Research and Education FoundationNonprofit 45 not ranked
10Digital Authentication Technologies (United States)Company 22 not ranked
11Office Depot (United States)Company 19 not ranked
12Biotest (United States)Company 11 not ranked
13University MRI & Diagnostic Imaging CentersHospital / health system 10 not ranked
14Air Turbine Technology (United States)Company 4 not ranked
15ArchieMD (United States)Company 3 not ranked
16Jarden (United States)Company 2 not ranked
17Unlimited Abilities FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
18National Association of Extension 4-H AgentsNonprofit 1 not ranked
19Unicorn Children's FoundationNonprofit 0 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.

Florida Atlantic University: 86.1%Lynn University: 7.7%Everglades University: 2.4%Cancer Treatment Centers of America: 2.1%14 others listed: 1.7%86%largest
Florida Atlantic University23k · 86.1%Lynn University2,071 · 7.7%Everglades University655 · 2.4%Cancer Treatment Centers of America570 · 2.1%14 others listed461 · 1.7%

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

Which fields of science does Boca Raton work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research in Boca Raton is in Social Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (13%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,682 fractional works · 36.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 577 fractional works · 12.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 206 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEducation: 107 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 438 fractional works · 9.5% of its workAccounting: 163 fractional works · 3.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 129 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 39 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 256 fractional works · 5.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 87 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 73 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 46 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 214 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 131 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFinance: 72 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 145 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 53 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,264 fractional works · 27.4% of its workComputer Science: 418 fractional works · 9.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 174 fractional works · 3.8% of its workInformation Systems: 62 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 49 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 367 fractional works · 7.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 55 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 53 fractional works · 1.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 208 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 53 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 75 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 70 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOceanography: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 55 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Science: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,168 fractional works · 25.3% of its workMedicine: 960 fractional works · 20.8% of its workSurgery: 132 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEpidemiology: 70 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 69 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 65 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 62 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 52 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 49 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 43 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 81 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 181 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 97 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 502 fractional works · 10.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 198 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 100 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 144 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 78 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 117 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPlant Science: 49 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBoca Raton4,617fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences25%Social Sciences36%

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. Social Sciences1,68236.4%
    1. Social Sciences57712.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting4389.5%
    3. Psychology2565.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2144.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities1453.1%
    6. Decision Sciences531.1%
    1. Computer Science4189.1%
    2. Engineering3677.9%
    3. Environmental Science2084.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy751.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences701.5%
    6. Mathematics551.2%
    7. Materials Science290.6%
    8. Chemistry240.5%
    9. Energy130.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering50.1%
  2. Health Sciences1,16825.3%
    1. Medicine96020.8%
    2. Health Professions1813.9%
    3. Nursing180.4%
    4. Dentistry50.1%
    5. Veterinary40.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1984.3%
    2. Neuroscience1443.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1172.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology360.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics80.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Boca Raton strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Boca Raton is most concentrated in Accounting and Finance (6.2× the world share in Accounting).

  1. AccountingSubfield · 157.7 works6.2×
  2. FinanceSubfield · 69.3 works5.5×
← 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: 0.51× its world share, 100 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.77× its world share, 169 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.73× its world share, 31 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.93× its world share, 130 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.50× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.34× its world share, 22 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.16× its world share, 373 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 64 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 12 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.54× its world share, 335 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 187 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 24 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.96× its world share, 47 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.71× its world share, 65 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.48× its world share, 162 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.06× its world share, 844 worksMedicineNursing: 0.74× its world share, 15 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.12× its world share, 134 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.12× its world share, 416 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 47 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.29× its world share, 203 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.80× its world share, 226 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 513 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.12×416 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.29×203 works
  3. Neuroscience1.93×130 works
  4. Psychology1.80×226 works
  5. Health Professions1.48×162 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.17×47 works
  7. Computer Science1.16×373 works
  8. Arts and Humanities1.12×134 works
  9. Medicine1.06×844 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.98×64 works
  11. Social Sciences0.98×513 works
  12. Mathematics0.96×47 works
  13. Environmental Science0.91×187 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.77×169 works
  15. Nursing0.74×15 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.73×31 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.71×65 works
  18. Engineering0.54×335 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.51×100 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.50×7 works
  21. Veterinary0.46×3 works
  22. Chemistry0.34×22 works
  23. Energy0.32×12 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.31×4 works
  25. Dentistry0.25×5 works
  26. Materials Science0.17×24 works

Which keywords describe research in Boca Raton?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Innovation, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Start-Up Firms and Machine Learning.

▲ 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. Machine Learning200▲ 1.30×82 topics
  2. Deep Learning198▲ 1.24×76 topics
  3. Epidemiology189◆ 1.03×124 topics
  4. Corporate Governance178▲ 5.2×24 topics
  5. Climate Change150▲ 1.20×93 topics
  6. Innovation146▲ 3.1×47 topics
  7. Entrepreneurship132▲ 7.2×15 topics
  8. Mental Health109▲ 1.66×37 topics
  9. Investment102▲ 19×4 topics
  10. Globalization95◆ 1.04×91 topics
  11. Sustainability89▼ 0.79×84 topics
  12. Quality of Life85▲ 1.28×55 topics
  13. Venture Capital83▲ 74×2 topics
  14. Private Equity83▲ 77×1 topic
  15. Social Capital83▲ 3.5×15 topics
  16. Start-Up Firms83▲ 77×1 topic
  17. Healthcare80▲ 1.51×32 topics
  18. Education78◆ 0.98×71 topics
  19. Public Health77◆ 1.15×55 topics
  20. Artificial Intelligence74◆ 1.13×42 topics
  21. Economic Growth61▲ 1.62×25 topics
  22. Classification56▲ 2.7×13 topics
  23. Financial Stability54▲ 6.0×7 topics
  24. Social Support51▲ 2.1×17 topics
  25. Asset Allocation46▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Firm Performance44▲ 5.4×4 topics
  27. Anomaly Detection44▲ 3.3×5 topics
  28. Corporate Finance41▲ 8.0×3 topics
  29. Ethical Guidelines41▲ 17×3 topics
  30. National Security41▲ 16×3 topics
  31. Investment Strategies40▲ 60×1 topic
  32. Sovereign Wealth Funds40▲ 81×1 topic
  33. Mergers and Acquisitions36▲ 9.0×2 topics
  34. Financial Constraints35▲ 7.5×2 topics
  35. Capital Structure35▲ 5.0×2 topics
  36. Investor Protection34▲ 9.8×1 topic
  37. Ownership Structure34▲ 9.8×1 topic
  38. Ensemble Methods26▲ 7.3×2 topics
  39. Imbalanced Data24▲ 14×1 topic
  40. SMOTE24▲ 14×1 topic

What research is done in Boca Raton?

  1. 1 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 82 works
  2. 2 State Capitalism and Financial Governance Strategy and Management 39 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 33 works
  4. 4 Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  5. 5 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 19 works
  6. 6 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 19 works
  7. 7 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 17 works
  8. 8 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 16 works
  9. 9 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 15 works
  10. 10 Corporate Governance and Law Strategy and Management 15 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 counting10%20%30%Boca Raton13.0% 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 28.9% in 2007.

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