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Research in Canterbury

Science Explorer records 24 research institutions in Canterbury, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.

Research institutions
24
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
36k
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
727k
20.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
24.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Canterbury

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 Canterbury?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of KentUniversity 29,121 #567
2Canterbury Christ Church UniversityUniversity 4,641 #2,347
3Kent and Canterbury HospitalHospital / health system 899 #17,800 all time
4Pulmonary Vascular Research InstituteNonprofit 393 #23,059 all time
5St Martin's HospitalHospital / health system 308 #21,169 all time
6Canterbury Archaeological TrustNonprofit 202 #28,604 all time
7Canterbury CollegeUniversity 187 #26,621 all time
8Folkestone CollegeUniversity 89 not ranked
9The Langton Grammar School for BoysUniversity 62 not ranked
10Eastbridge HospitalHospital / health system 51 not ranked
11Broadstairs CollegeUniversity 42 not ranked
12Ancon (United Kingdom)Company 35 not ranked
13Dover Technical CollegeUniversity 17 not ranked
14Warnborough CollegeUniversity 9 not ranked
15Wildwood TrustNonprofit 8 not ranked
16Sheppey CollegeUniversity 5 not ranked
17Westgate HallNonprofit 4 not ranked
18Algaecytes (United Kingdom)Company 4 not ranked
19Canterbury City CouncilGovernment institution 3 not ranked
20Psicon (United Kingdom)Company 3 not ranked
21Naneum (United Kingdom)Company 3 not ranked
22Freight Transport AssociationInstitution 3 not ranked
23Creative FoundationInstitution 3 not ranked
24Canterbury Museums and GalleriesArchive 1 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.

University of Kent: 80.7%Canterbury Christ Church University: 12.9%Kent and Canterbury Hospital: 2.5%Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute: 1.1%20 others listed: 2.9%81%largest
University of Kent29k · 80.7%Canterbury Christ Church University4,641 · 12.9%Kent and Canterbury Hospital899 · 2.5%Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute393 · 1.1%20 others listed1,039 · 2.9%

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

Which fields of science does Canterbury work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Canterbury is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Medicine (12%), Arts and Humanities (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,256 fractional works · 51.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,150 fractional works · 26.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 424 fractional works · 9.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 186 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEducation: 123 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAnthropology: 58 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 57 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 48 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 42 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 34 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 33 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 452 fractional works · 10.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 95 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHistory: 92 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhilosophy: 61 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClassics: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 305 fractional works · 7.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 109 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 95 fractional works · 2.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 156 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 42 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 149 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 98 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 39 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,060 fractional works · 24.2% of its workEngineering: 332 fractional works · 7.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 99 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 66 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 43 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 301 fractional works · 6.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 105 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems: 51 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 148 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEcology: 42 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 93 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 45 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 41 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPaleontology: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 700 fractional works · 16.0% of its workMedicine: 524 fractional works · 12.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 66 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSurgery: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 34 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 33 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 79 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Professions: 156 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 110 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNursing: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 365 fractional works · 8.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 153 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 76 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 41 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCell Biology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 104 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 83 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 81 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCanterbury4,382fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences51%

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 Sciences2,25651.5%
    1. Social Sciences1,15026.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities45210.3%
    3. Psychology3057.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1563.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1493.4%
    6. Decision Sciences441.0%
    1. Engineering3327.6%
    2. Computer Science3016.9%
    3. Environmental Science1483.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy932.1%
    5. Materials Science451.0%
    6. Chemistry441.0%
    7. Mathematics410.9%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences360.8%
    9. Energy140.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering50.1%
    1. Medicine52412.0%
    2. Health Professions1563.6%
    3. Nursing90.2%
    4. Dentistry60.1%
    5. Veterinary50.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1533.5%
    2. Neuroscience1042.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences811.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology210.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Canterbury strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Canterbury is most concentrated in History, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and History and Philosophy of Science (6.6× the world share in History).

  1. HistorySubfield · 85.1 works6.6×
  2. Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 34.4 works5.2×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 30.9 works5.0×
  4. AnthropologySubfield · 54.9 works4.9×
← 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: 0.40× its world share, 75 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.66× its world share, 140 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.45× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.38× its world share, 90 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.63× its world share, 40 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.89× its world share, 275 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 34 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.35× its world share, 13 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.52× its world share, 309 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.66× its world share, 131 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 39 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.81× its world share, 38 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.92× its world share, 82 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.37× its world share, 144 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.62× its world share, 476 worksMedicineNursing: 0.41× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.82× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.61× its world share, 416 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.12× its world share, 145 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.02× its world share, 40 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.65× its world share, 141 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.21× its world share, 269 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.08× its world share, 1,052 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.61×416 works
  2. Psychology2.21×269 works
  3. Social Sciences2.08×1,052 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.65×141 works
  5. Neuroscience1.38×90 works
  6. Health Professions1.37×144 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.12×145 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.02×40 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.92×82 works
  10. Computer Science0.89×275 works
  11. Veterinary0.82×4 works
  12. Mathematics0.81×38 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×140 works
  14. Environmental Science0.66×131 works
  15. Chemistry0.63×40 works
  16. Medicine0.62×476 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.55×34 works
  18. Engineering0.52×309 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.45×18 works
  20. Nursing0.41×8 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.40×75 works
  22. Energy0.35×13 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.32×4 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.30×4 works
  25. Dentistry0.29×6 works
  26. Materials Science0.28×39 works

Which keywords describe research in Canterbury?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Identity, Gender, Colonialism, Religion, Literature, Mental Health and Nationalism.

▲ 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. Globalization220▲ 2.6×95 topics
  2. Mental Health137▲ 2.2×40 topics
  3. Identity123▲ 3.9×56 topics
  4. Epidemiology121▼ 0.69×114 topics
  5. Human Rights114▲ 2.5×53 topics
  6. Gender110▲ 4.7×45 topics
  7. Colonialism104▲ 5.0×36 topics
  8. Climate Change104◆ 0.87×88 topics
  9. Literature102▲ 4.2×45 topics
  10. Religion97▲ 4.8×34 topics
  11. Public Health95▲ 1.48×58 topics
  12. History94▲ 3.1×42 topics
  13. Ethics93▲ 4.2×38 topics
  14. Nationalism90▲ 4.6×28 topics
  15. Social Media88▲ 1.45×29 topics
  16. Quality of Life80▲ 1.27×47 topics
  17. Neoliberalism80▲ 5.0×23 topics
  18. Culture70▲ 3.0×24 topics
  19. Feminism64▲ 5.0×21 topics
  20. Intersectionality63▲ 7.6×13 topics
  21. Emotion63▲ 6.9×12 topics
  22. Social Justice59▲ 2.3×37 topics
  23. Neuroscience58▲ 4.3×15 topics
  24. Social Capital55▲ 2.4×19 topics
  25. Cultural Identity54▲ 2.5×24 topics
  26. Philosophy50▲ 2.6×31 topics
  27. Democracy50▲ 3.2×24 topics
  28. Politics48▲ 4.2×18 topics
  29. Society46▲ 5.5×15 topics
  30. Postcolonialism42▲ 6.8×17 topics
  31. Cosmopolitanism35▲ 7.4×7 topics
  32. Race34▲ 6.4×17 topics
  33. NGOs34▲ 8.2×4 topics
  34. National Identity34▲ 6.6×9 topics
  35. Anthropocene33▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Humanitarianism32▲ 12×4 topics
  37. Biopolitics32▲ 9.3×6 topics
  38. Social History31▲ 8.9×6 topics
  39. Theology30▲ 7.6×4 topics
  40. Global South28▲ 10×4 topics

What research is done in Canterbury?

Reformation and Early Mo…18Reformation and Early Modern Christianity: 18 fractional worksLaw in Society and Culture18Law in Society and Culture: 18 fractional worksGeographies of human-animal interactions: 16 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 16 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 16 fractional worksPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment: 16 fractional worksHistorical and Contemporary Political Dynamics: 14 fractional worksTheatre and Performance …14Theatre and Performance Studies: 14 fractional worksOptical Coherence Tomography Applications: 14 fractional worksAdvanced Wireless Communication Technologies: 14 fractional works
HistoryLawGeography, Planning and DevelopmentPaleontology5 others

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

  1. 1 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 18 works
  2. 2 Law in Society and Culture Law 18 works
  3. 3 Geographies of human-animal interactions Geography, Planning and Development 16 works
  4. 4 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 16 works
  5. 5 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 16 works
  6. 6 Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Cognitive Neuroscience 16 works
  7. 7 Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics History 14 works
  8. 8 Theatre and Performance Studies Visual Arts and Performing Arts 14 works
  9. 9 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications Biomedical Engineering 14 works
  10. 10 Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 14 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%Canterbury22.9% 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 34.2% in 2014.

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