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Research in Cayenne

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Cayenne, French Guiana. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of French Guiana and Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon.

Research institutions
3
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.6k
▲ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
24k
14.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1956-2026
71 years on the record
Cayenne

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 Cayenne?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of French GuianaUniversity 827 #7,903
2Centre Hospitalier Andrée RosemonHospital / health system 542 #11,527
3Atmo GuyaneInstitution 3 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 Cayenne work in?

In 2022-now, 45% of research in Cayenne is in Health Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Social Sciences (19%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 233 fractional works · 45.2% of its workMedicine: 197 fractional works · 38.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 43 fractional works · 8.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 29 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEpidemiology: 28 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSurgery: 14 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 29 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 23 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 140 fractional works · 27.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 100 fractional works · 19.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 64 fractional works · 12.4% of its workAnthropology: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 18 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 90 fractional works · 17.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 42 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 17 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPlant Science: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInsect Science: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workForestry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 25 fractional works · 4.8% of its workParasitology: 12 fractional works · 2.3% of its workImmunology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workVirology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 13 fractional works · 2.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCayenne516fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences45%Social Sciences27%

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. Medicine19738.2%
    2. Health Professions295.7%
    3. Nursing30.6%
    4. Dentistry20.4%
    5. Veterinary20.3%
    1. Social Sciences10019.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities183.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting61.2%
    5. Psychology51.1%
    6. Decision Sciences40.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences428.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology254.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology193.7%
    4. Neuroscience30.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.4%
    1. Environmental Science214.1%
    2. Engineering132.6%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences61.2%
    4. Computer Science61.1%
    5. Mathematics20.4%
    6. Energy10.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    8. Chemistry10.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Materials Science00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Cayenne strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Cayenne is most concentrated in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (8.3× the world share in Infectious Diseases).

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 26.1 works8.3×
  2. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 38.1 works6.2×
← 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: 1.74× its world share, 38 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.67× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.25× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.33× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.82× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.18× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.95× its world share, 173 worksMedicineNursing: 1.24× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.67× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.18× its world share, 16 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.41× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.58× its world share, 93 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology4.25×20 works
  2. Veterinary2.67×2 works
  3. Health Professions2.18×27 works
  4. Medicine1.95×173 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.74×38 works
  6. Social Sciences1.58×93 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.33×2 works
  8. Nursing1.24×3 works
  9. Arts and Humanities1.18×16 works
  10. Dentistry0.92×2 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.83×4 works
  12. Environmental Science0.82×19 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.75×6 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×16 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.66×6 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.41×6 works
  17. Psychology0.37×5 works
  18. Neuroscience0.32×2 works
  19. Mathematics0.32×2 works
  20. Chemical Engineering0.27×0 works
  21. Energy0.27×1 works
  22. Engineering0.18×12 works
  23. Computer Science0.16×6 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.07×1 works
  25. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  26. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Cayenne?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Migration, Healthcare Access, Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity, Sociolinguistics and Social Inequality.

▲ 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. Epidemiology101▲ 4.9×89 topics
  2. Public Health76▲ 10×36 topics
  3. Migration43▲ 24×11 topics
  4. Healthcare Access42▲ 30×8 topics
  5. Cultural Diversity40▲ 35×5 topics
  6. Ethnicity40▲ 21×5 topics
  7. Sociolinguistics40▲ 42×5 topics
  8. Social Inequality39▲ 28×7 topics
  9. Discrimination39▲ 36×3 topics
  10. French Territories38▲ 761×1 topic
  11. Migrant Workers38▲ 761×1 topic
  12. Vaccine Development27▲ 21×9 topics
  13. Diagnosis25▲ 5.2×29 topics
  14. Climate Change25▲ 1.76×50 topics
  15. Pathogenesis20▲ 7.6×20 topics
  16. Vector Control19▲ 32×4 topics
  17. Globalization19▲ 1.87×27 topics
  18. Treatment19▲ 3.0×33 topics
  19. Immune Response15▲ 5.1×16 topics
  20. Antifungal Therapy13▲ 29×3 topics
  21. Antiretroviral Therapy13▲ 16×6 topics
  22. Arboviral Diseases13▲ 39×1 topic
  23. Virulence Factors13▲ 17×7 topics
  24. Zika Virus13▲ 39×1 topic
  25. Diversity12▲ 13×4 topics
  26. HIV12▲ 28×4 topics
  27. Colonialism12▲ 4.7×15 topics
  28. Global Burden11▲ 4.0×12 topics
  29. Candidiasis11▲ 46×2 topics
  30. Public Policy11▲ 4.4×8 topics
  31. Antibiotic Resistance10▲ 5.0×12 topics
  32. Insecticide Resistance10▲ 24×4 topics
  33. Smallholder Farmers10▲ 8.8×3 topics
  34. Adaptation9▲ 6.1×6 topics
  35. Fungal Pathogens9▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Host-Pathogen Interactions9▲ 20×4 topics
  37. Genome Sequence8▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Maternal Mortality8▲ 7.3×5 topics
  39. Oral Manifestations8▲ 65×2 topics
  40. Opportunistic Infections8▲ 56×2 topics

What research is done in Cayenne?

Migration, Identity, and…37Migration, Identity, and Health: 37 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 12 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 8 fractional worksFungal Infections and Studies: 7 fractional worksHIV/AIDS oral health manifestations: 7 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social Studies: 6 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 6 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 6 fractional worksHemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders: 5 fractional worksViral Infections and Vectors: 5 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Migration, Identity, and Health Sociology and Political Science 37 works
  2. 2 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 12 works
  3. 3 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 8 works
  4. 4 Fungal Infections and Studies Epidemiology 7 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS oral health manifestations Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 7 works
  6. 6 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  7. 7 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6 works
  8. 8 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  9. 9 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 5 works
  10. 10 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 5 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Cayenne5.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 34.5% in 2010.

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