Research in Bristol
Science Explorer records 116 research institutions in Bristol, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Bristol, At Bristol and University of the West of England.
- Research institutions
- 116 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 152k ▼ 4% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.7M 31.1 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.4% 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 Bristol?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of BristolUniversity | 105,650 | #92 | |
| 2 | University of the West of EnglandUniversity | 14,627 | #1,498 | |
| 3 | North Bristol NHS TrustHospital / health system | 7,229 | #3,674 | |
| 4 | At BristolNonprofit | 5,193 | #1,237 | |
| 5 | Centre for Sustainable EnergyNonprofit | 3,201 | #5,295 | |
| 6 | Bristol Robotics LaboratoryResearch facility | 2,382 | #4,371 | |
| 7 | University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 1,663 | #4,450 | |
| 8 | JiscNonprofit | 1,018 | #8,403 | |
| 9 | Victim SupportNonprofit | 950 | #11,035 | |
| 10 | Feminist Archive SouthArchive | 884 | #5,793 | |
| 11 | WatershedCompany | 800 | #12,622 | |
| 12 | National Composites CentreInstitution | 798 | #21,328 | |
| 13 | Graphic Science (United Kingdom)Company | 711 | #20,088 all time | |
| 14 | Equilibrium ResearchResearch facility | 631 | #11,623 | |
| 15 | Airbus (United Kingdom)Company | 522 | #19,054 | |
| 16 | Renal AssociationNonprofit | 417 | #9,191 all time | |
| 17 | Development InitiativesNonprofit | 408 | #11,380 | |
| 18 | Bristol General HospitalHospital / health system | 363 | #17,918 all time | |
| 19 | Office for StudentsInstitution | 323 | #13,071 | |
| 20 | Drylands ResearchInstitution | 280 | #20,846 all time | |
| 21 | Highways EnglandGovernment institution | 264 | #25,948 all time | |
| 22 | Defence Equipment and SupportGovernment institution | 245 | #21,957 all time | |
| 23 | Maxim Integrated (United Kingdom)Company | 238 | #17,650 all time | |
| 24 | Bristol Homeopathic HospitalHospital / health system | 145 | #29,316 all time | |
| 25 | Bristol City CouncilGovernment institution | 137 | #19,811 all time | |
| 26 | Imperial Brands (United Kingdom)Company | 127 | #29,968 all time | |
| 27 | 3C Research (United Kingdom)Company | 126 | #34,704 all time | |
| 28 | Proton (United Kingdom)Company | 120 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Bristol Clinical Commissioning GroupInstitution | 117 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical ResearchResearch facility | 104 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Western Power Distribution (United Kingdom)Company | 85 | not ranked | |
| 32 | City of Bristol CollegeUniversity | 84 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Bristol and Bath Science ParkUniversity | 84 | not ranked | |
| 34 | South Gloucestershire and Stroud CollegeUniversity | 83 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Ultrahaptics (United Kingdom)Company | 75 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Blackberry Hill HospitalHospital / health system | 73 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Land Use Consultants (United Kingdom)Company | 64 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Dantec Dynamics (United Kingdom)Company | 54 | not ranked | |
| 39 | NIHR Applied Research Collaboration WestResearch facility | 54 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Tribal GroupCompany | 48 | not ranked | |
| 41 | British Neuroscience AssociationNonprofit | 46 | not ranked | |
| 42 | European Society for Paediatric EndocrinologyInstitution | 42 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Bristol Industrial and Research Associates (United Kingdom)Company | 40 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Hoare Lea (United Kingdom)Company | 37 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Society for EndocrinologyNonprofit | 37 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Bioscientifica (United Kingdom)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Zuken (United Kingdom)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Bristol Water (United Kingdom)Company | 30 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Spire Bristol HospitalHospital / health system | 27 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Institute of Bio-Sensing TechnologyResearch facility | 23 | not ranked | |
| 51 | West of England Academic Health Science NetworkHospital / health system | 22 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Mass Spec Analytical (United Kingdom)Company | 21 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Soil AssociationNonprofit | 21 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Oliver Crispin Robotics (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 55 | HiETA Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Bristol Museum & Art GalleryArchive | 18 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Clean Energy Prospector (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Air Quality Consultants (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Tony Coll and Associates (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Stirling Dynamics (United Kingdom)Company | 16 | 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 Bristol work in?
In 2022-now, 34% of research in Bristol is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (20%), Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (13%).
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 Sciences7,21534.1%
- Engineering2,74613.0%
- Computer Science1,4006.6%
- Environmental Science1,0965.2%
- Physics and Astronomy4992.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences4582.2%
- Materials Science3761.8%
- Mathematics2711.3%
- Chemistry2441.2%
- Energy860.4%
- Chemical Engineering390.2%
- Social Sciences6,47730.6%
- Social Sciences3,08714.6%
- Arts and Humanities1,0134.8%
- Psychology9984.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting5872.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance5272.5%
- Decision Sciences2651.3%
- Health Sciences5,32725.2%
- Medicine4,27220.2%
- Health Professions8243.9%
- Veterinary930.4%
- Dentistry740.4%
- Nursing640.3%
- Life Sciences2,14210.1%
What is Bristol strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Bristol is most concentrated in Public Administration, Classics and Paleontology (4.1× the world share in Public Administration).
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 40.6 works4.1×
- ClassicsSubfield · 40.6 works3.7×
- PaleontologySubfield · 75.8 works3.4×
- History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 92.8 works3.3×
- VeterinaryField · 79.4 works3.2×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 67.7 works3.0×
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, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary3.16×79 works
- Arts and Humanities1.68×896 works
- Psychology1.53×865 works
- Health Professions1.48×723 works
- Neuroscience1.40×419 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.30×378 works
- Decision Sciences1.27×227 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.22×484 works
- Social Sciences1.16×2,719 works
- Mathematics1.09×238 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.07×442 works
- Medicine1.06×3,757 works
- Environmental Science0.99×914 works
- Engineering0.88×2,430 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.87×520 works
- Computer Science0.84×1,208 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.81×804 works
- Chemistry0.73×212 works
- Dentistry0.70×63 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.69×129 works
- Nursing0.63×57 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.55×486 works
- Chemical Engineering0.52×34 works
- Materials Science0.50×322 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.46×30 works
- Energy0.43×73 works
Which keywords describe research in Bristol?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Climate Change, Public Health, Mental Health, Deep Learning, Quality of Life and Machine Learning.
- Genetic Variation
- Neuroscience
- Ethical Considerations
- Religion
- Complications
- Resilience
- Literature
- Ethics
- Genetics
- Mortality
- COVID-19
- Gender
- Identity
- Neural Networks
- Treatment
- Inflammation
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Machine Learning
- Sustainability
- Quality of Life
- Human Rights
- Risk Factors
- Healthcare
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Depression
- History
- Colonialism
- Prevalence
- Primary Care
- Nationalism
- Neoliberalism
- Adolescents
- Culture
- Health
- Feminism
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
- Epidemiology1,025▲ 1.22×137 topics
- Climate Change731▲ 1.27×120 topics
- Globalization655▲ 1.57×156 topics
- Deep Learning606▼ 0.83×83 topics
- Machine Learning552▼ 0.78×94 topics
- Public Health550▲ 1.78×73 topics
- Sustainability476◆ 0.92×123 topics
- Mental Health473▲ 1.56×48 topics
- Quality of Life393▲ 1.29×59 topics
- Inflammation381▼ 0.85×83 topics
- Human Rights316▲ 1.46×79 topics
- Treatment300▲ 1.17×50 topics
- Risk Factors300▲ 1.29×37 topics
- Neural Networks275▼ 0.84×40 topics
- Healthcare271◆ 1.12×40 topics
- Identity267▲ 1.74×74 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease264◆ 1.09×39 topics
- Gender259▲ 2.3×56 topics
- Depression253▲ 1.36×26 topics
- COVID-19248◆ 0.90×33 topics
- History234▲ 1.59×57 topics
- Mortality230▲ 1.91×13 topics
- Colonialism223▲ 2.2×48 topics
- Genetics216▲ 1.44×27 topics
- Prevalence215▲ 2.5×15 topics
- Ethics213▲ 1.99×54 topics
- Primary Care212▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Literature200▲ 1.72×60 topics
- Nationalism193▲ 2.0×32 topics
- Resilience193▲ 1.85×18 topics
- Neoliberalism178▲ 2.3×28 topics
- Complications176▲ 1.68×17 topics
- Adolescents174▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Religion172▲ 1.76×42 topics
- Culture171▲ 1.54×36 topics
- Ethical Considerations164▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Health157▲ 1.86×27 topics
- Neuroscience150▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Feminism135▲ 2.2×27 topics
- Genetic Variation121▲ 2.6×9 topics
What research is done in Bristol?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 41 works
- 2 Genetic Associations and Epidemiology Genetics 40 works
- 3 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 40 works
- 4 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 39 works
- 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 37 works
- 6 Mechanical Behavior of Composites Mechanics of Materials 37 works
- 7 Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials Biomedical Engineering 37 works
- 8 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 37 works
- 9 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 36 works
- 10 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 35 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 31.9% in 2016.
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