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Research in Champaign

Science Explorer records 36 research institutions in Champaign, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Illinois Archaeological Survey.

Research institutions
36
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6.1k
▼ 42% vs 2018-21
Citations
109k
17.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
13.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Champaign

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 Champaign?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Illinois Archaeological SurveyInstitution 3,730 #14,783
2Parkland CollegeUniversity 417 #21,346 all time
3Wolfram Research (United States)Company 325 #16,309 all time
4Rao Research and Consulting (United States)Company 161 #22,507 all time
5American Dairy Science AssociationInstitution 131 #33,173 all time
6Committee on Institutional CooperationUniversity 123 #30,972 all time
7CU Aerospace (United States)Company 120 #33,446 all time
8Nuclear Plasma Laboratories (United States)Company 64 not ranked
9The HDF GroupNonprofit 51 not ranked
10Starfire Industries (United States)Company 50 not ranked
11PowerWorld (United States)Company 35 not ranked
12Champaign Public LibraryArchive 34 not ranked
13Common Ground Research NetworksNonprofit 24 not ranked
14Poultry Science AssociationNonprofit 24 not ranked
15ATSP Innovations (United States)Company 21 not ranked
16Federation of Animal Science SocietiesNonprofit 19 not ranked
17Mimosa Acoustics (United States)Company 17 not ranked
18Labthermics Technologies (United States)Company 15 not ranked
19American Society of Animal ScienceGovernment institution 13 not ranked
20GlucoSentient (United States)Company 13 not ranked
21Illinois Rocstar (United States)Company 11 not ranked
22Vesuvius (United States)Company 11 not ranked
23Eden Park Illumination (United States)Company 11 not ranked
24Prenosis (United States)Company 9 not ranked
25EpiWorks (United States)Company 5 not ranked
26Serionix (United States)Company 4 not ranked
27Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in IllinoisInstitution 4 not ranked
28Vanquish Oncology (United States)Company 3 not ranked
29ANDalyze (United States)Company 2 not ranked
30Charmworks (United States)Company 2 not ranked
31Champaign County History MuseumArchive 2 not ranked
32Aptimmune Biologics (United States)Company 2 not ranked
33PhotoniCare (United States)Company 1 not ranked
34National Academy of KinesiologyInstitution 1 not ranked
35ImmuVen (United States)Company 1 not ranked
36Prosperity GardensNonprofit 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.

Illinois Archaeological Survey: 68.4%Parkland College: 7.6%Wolfram Research (United States): 6.0%Rao Research and Consulting (United States): 3.0%32 others listed: 15.1%68%largest
Illinois Archaeological Survey3,730 · 68.4%Parkland College417 · 7.6%Wolfram Research (United States)325 · 6.0%Rao Research and Consulting (United States)161 · 3.0%32 others listed824 · 15.1%

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

Which fields of science does Champaign work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research in Champaign is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (19%), Engineering (15%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 256 fractional works · 55.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 86 fractional works · 18.5% of its workEcology: 32 fractional works · 6.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 71 fractional works · 15.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 21 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 39 fractional works · 8.5% of its workPaleontology: 10 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 23 fractional works · 4.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 84 fractional works · 18.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 50 fractional works · 10.9% of its workPlant Science: 16 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 14 fractional works · 3.0% of its workInsect Science: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 fractional works · 4.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workParasitology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 82 fractional works · 17.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 46 fractional works · 10.1% of its workEducation: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAnthropology: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 39 fractional works · 8.4% of its workMedicine: 28 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKChampaign461fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences56%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences18%

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. Environmental Science8618.5%
    2. Engineering7115.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences398.5%
    4. Computer Science234.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy143.1%
    6. Materials Science112.5%
    7. Mathematics51.2%
    8. Chemistry30.7%
    9. Energy20.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5010.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology224.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology71.6%
    4. Neuroscience40.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences4610.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities112.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting102.1%
    4. Psychology71.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.8%
    6. Decision Sciences40.8%
    1. Medicine286.0%
    2. Health Professions61.3%
    3. Veterinary20.5%
    4. Nursing20.4%
    5. Dentistry10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Champaign strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Champaign is most concentrated in Ecology (8.8× the world share in Ecology).

  1. EcologySubfield · 27.5 works8.8×
← 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: 2.22× its world share, 42 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 18 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.42× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.45× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.67× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.53× its world share, 35 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.05× its world share, 62 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.78× its world share, 75 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.70× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.10× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.43× its world share, 13 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 0.79× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.47× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.92× its world share, 11 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.56× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 42 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.53×35 works
  2. Veterinary4.47×2 works
  3. Environmental Science3.78×75 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.22×42 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.43×13 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.42×6 works
  7. Mathematics1.10×5 works
  8. Engineering1.05×62 works
  9. Chemical Engineering0.98×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.92×11 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.83×18 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.83×3 works
  13. Social Sciences0.83×42 works
  14. Nursing0.79×2 works
  15. Materials Science0.70×10 works
  16. Computer Science0.67×21 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.56×7 works
  18. Psychology0.50×6 works
  19. Neuroscience0.48×3 works
  20. Energy0.48×2 works
  21. Chemistry0.45×3 works
  22. Health Professions0.36×4 works
  23. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.34×3 works
  24. Medicine0.31×24 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.20×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Champaign?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Biodiversity, Population Dynamics, Habitat Fragmentation, Biogeography, Conservation and DNA Barcoding.

▲ 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. Climate Change54▲ 4.3×68 topics
  2. Biodiversity20▲ 5.8×22 topics
  3. Invasive Species20▲ 10×19 topics
  4. Remote Sensing13▲ 2.3×23 topics
  5. Environmental Impact12▲ 1.54×29 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation12▲ 12×4 topics
  7. Population Dynamics12▲ 10×11 topics
  8. Conservation12▲ 5.9×17 topics
  9. Biogeography11▲ 8.5×16 topics
  10. DNA Barcoding10▲ 12×9 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services10▲ 5.3×10 topics
  12. Phylogenetic Analysis9▲ 6.4×12 topics
  13. Phylogeny9▲ 12×12 topics
  14. Habitat Selection8▲ 24×2 topics
  15. Cultural Heritage8▲ 3.2×11 topics
  16. Genetic Diversity8▲ 3.8×13 topics
  17. Pathogen Transmission8▲ 23×3 topics
  18. Trophic Cascades8▲ 18×2 topics
  19. Conservation Biology7▲ 15×4 topics
  20. Freshwater Biodiversity7▲ 26×2 topics
  21. Global Change7▲ 5.5×7 topics
  22. Sediment Transport7▲ 8.9×4 topics
  23. Evolution6▲ 5.2×13 topics
  24. Fisheries Sustainability6▲ 16×2 topics
  25. Agricultural Origins6▲ 42×1 topic
  26. Radiocarbon Dating6▲ 42×1 topic
  27. Genome Sequencing6▲ 8.7×5 topics
  28. Biological Control6▲ 8.9×9 topics
  29. Model Evaluation6▲ 11×2 topics
  30. Holocene6▲ 12×3 topics
  31. Paleoclimatology6▲ 16×2 topics
  32. Sea Level6▲ 14×2 topics
  33. Animal Movement6▲ 24×1 topic
  34. Occupancy Rates6▲ 24×1 topic
  35. Huanglongbing6▲ 109×1 topic
  36. Phytoplasmas6▲ 109×1 topic
  37. Tectonics6▲ 10×3 topics
  38. Glacial Cycles5▲ 18×1 topic
  39. Monsoon Dynamics5▲ 18×1 topic
  40. Taxonomy5▲ 7.8×9 topics

What research is done in Champaign?

Archaeology and ancient …6Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 6 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…5Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 5 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 5 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…4Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 4 fractional worksPhytoplasmas and Hemipte…4Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens: 4 fractional worksSilicon Carbide Semicond…4Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies: 4 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…4Species Distribution and Climate Change: 4 fractional worksArchaeology and Natural History: 3 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interactions and Control: 3 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 3 fractional works
PaleontologyEcologyAtmospheric ScienceNature and Landscape Conservation5 others

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

  1. 1 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 6 works
  2. 2 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 5 works
  3. 3 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 5 works
  4. 4 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 4 works
  5. 5 Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens Plant Science 4 works
  6. 6 Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  7. 7 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 4 works
  8. 8 Archaeology and Natural History Anthropology 3 works
  9. 9 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 3 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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%30%Champaign14.8% 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 24.1% in 2002.

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