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Research in Byurakan

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Byurakan, Armenia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1k
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.4k
3.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
8.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1956-2026
71 years on the record
Byurakan

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 Byurakan?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Byurakan Astrophysical ObservatoryResearch facility 1,007 #22,087

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 Byurakan work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research in Byurakan is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (73%), Engineering (10%), Arts and Humanities (4%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 131 fractional works · 90.9% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 106 fractional works · 73.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 73 fractional works · 50.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 12 fractional works · 8.3% of its workInstrumentation: 12 fractional works · 8.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 9.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 6.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 5.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKByurakan144fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences6%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy10673.5%
    2. Engineering149.9%
    3. Mathematics32.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences31.8%
    5. Chemistry21.2%
    6. Computer Science21.0%
    7. Environmental Science10.7%
    8. Materials Science00.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities64.4%
    2. Social Sciences21.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Medicine42.7%
    1. Neuroscience10.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Byurakan strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Byurakan is most concentrated in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics and Astronomy (100.3× the world share in Astronomy and Astrophysics).

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 65.1 works100×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 89.4 works32×
← 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 21 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.91× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.13× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.72× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.81× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 32.17× its world share, 89 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.66× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 32.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy32.17×89 works
  2. Mathematics1.81×3 works
  3. Arts and Humanities1.66×6 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.13×2 works
  5. Chemistry0.91×2 works
  6. Chemical Engineering0.76×0 works
  7. Engineering0.72×14 works
  8. Neuroscience0.33×1 works
  9. Medicine0.16×4 works
  10. Computer Science0.15×2 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.15×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.11×1 works
  13. Materials Science0.09×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.07×1 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Byurakan?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Supernovae and Exoplanets.

▲ 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. Star Formation19▲ 238×2 topics
  2. Black Holes19▲ 135×3 topics
  3. Cosmology14▲ 148×3 topics
  4. Dark Matter14▲ 85×4 topics
  5. Accretion Disks13▲ 179×2 topics
  6. Magnetic Fields13▲ 135×2 topics
  7. Supernovae12▲ 105×2 topics
  8. Exoplanets12▲ 207×1 topic
  9. Stellar Astrophysics12▲ 207×1 topic
  10. Astronomical Instrumentation12▲ 252×1 topic
  11. Spectrograph12▲ 252×1 topic
  12. Galaxies12▲ 272×1 topic
  13. Stellar Populations12▲ 272×1 topic
  14. Gravitational Waves9▲ 104×2 topics
  15. Cosmic Rays8▲ 119×2 topics
  16. Neutrinos8▲ 119×2 topics
  17. General Relativity8▲ 87×2 topics
  18. Quantum Gravity8▲ 65×4 topics
  19. Molecular Clouds8▲ 200×1 topic
  20. Protoplanetary Disks8▲ 200×1 topic
  21. Dark Energy8▲ 81×2 topics
  22. Cosmic Microwave Background7▲ 93×1 topic
  23. Cosmological Parameters7▲ 93×1 topic
  24. Galactic Center7▲ 108×2 topics
  25. Optical 3D Laser Measurement7▲ 366×1 topic
  26. Position-Sensitive Detector7▲ 366×1 topic
  27. Historical Astronomy7▲ 271×2 topics
  28. High-Energy Astrophysics6▲ 171×1 topic
  29. Particle Acceleration6▲ 171×1 topic
  30. Nucleosynthesis6▲ 77×3 topics
  31. Event Horizon Telescope5▲ 155×1 topic
  32. X-Ray Astronomy5▲ 155×1 topic
  33. Gamma-Ray Bursts5▲ 130×1 topic
  34. Neutron Stars5▲ 130×1 topic
  35. Monte Carlo Simulation5▲ 16×4 topics
  36. Antikythera Mechanism4▲ 337×1 topic
  37. Astronomical Calculator4▲ 337×1 topic
  38. Spectroscopy4▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Binary Black Hole4▲ 81×1 topic
  40. Radio Astronomy4▲ 110×2 topics

What research is done in Byurakan?

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 10 fractional worksGalaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 10 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysi…8Astronomy and Astrophysical Research: 8 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Fo…7Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 7 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 7 fractional worksAstronomical Observations and Instrumentation: 7 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic …6Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 6 fractional worksGamma-ray bursts and supernovae: 5 fractional worksAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations: 5 fractional worksHistorical Astronomy and Related Studies: 3 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentationComputational MechanicsNuclear and High Energy Physics

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

  1. 1 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  2. 2 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  3. 3 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 8 works
  4. 4 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 works
  5. 5 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 7 works
  6. 6 Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation Computational Mechanics 7 works
  7. 7 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 6 works
  8. 8 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 works
  9. 9 Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 works
  10. 10 Historical Astronomy and Related Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 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%Byurakan15.4% 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 15.4% in 2025.

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