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Research in Columbia

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Columbia. The largest by output are Columbia Environmental Research Center and South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association.

Research institutions
2
Research works
195
▲ 56% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
23.3%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 Columbia?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Columbia Environmental Research CenterResearch facility 194 #28,226 all time
2South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury AssociationNonprofit 1 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

What is Columbia strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Columbia is most concentrated in Environmental Science (14.3× the world share in Environmental Science).

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 26.5 works14×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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.

Which keywords describe research in Columbia?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Invasive Species, Freshwater Biodiversity, Fisheries Sustainability, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation Challenges, Flow Regulation and Bioaccumulation.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change10▲ 9.8×20 topics
  2. Invasive Species7▲ 47×9 topics
  3. Freshwater Biodiversity6▲ 245×2 topics
  4. Fisheries Sustainability5▲ 164×2 topics
  5. Habitat Fragmentation5▲ 63×3 topics
  6. Conservation Challenges5▲ 274×1 topic
  7. Flow Regulation5▲ 274×1 topic
  8. Bioaccumulation4▲ 114×3 topics
  9. Environmental Impact3▲ 5.0×14 topics
  10. Water Quality3▲ 22×6 topics
  11. Biodiversity3▲ 10×10 topics
  12. Conservation Genetics3▲ 188×2 topics
  13. Global Distribution3▲ 108×3 topics
  14. Aquaculture2▲ 25×4 topics
  15. Oxidative Stress2▲ 4.1×5 topics
  16. Pesticides2▲ 95×3 topics
  17. Ecological Impact2▲ 129×2 topics
  18. Conservation2▲ 14×5 topics
  19. Biomarkers2▲ 8.1×2 topics
  20. Health Effects2▲ 9.3×5 topics
  21. Sediment Transport2▲ 35×3 topics
  22. Aquatic Organisms2▲ 198×1 topic
  23. Environmental Risk Assessment2▲ 62×1 topic
  24. Toxicity2▲ 12×5 topics
  25. DNA Barcoding2▲ 31×3 topics
  26. River Restoration2▲ 119×2 topics
  27. Environmental Impacts2▲ 17×2 topics
  28. Ecosystem Engineering2▲ 150×1 topic
  29. Environmental Exposure2▲ 38×2 topics
  30. Freshwater Mussels2▲ 221×1 topic
  31. Aquatic Environment1▲ 45×2 topics
  32. Biogeography1▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Freshwater1▲ 75×2 topics
  34. Microbial Communities1▲ 8.0×2 topics
  35. Brominated Flame Retardants1▲ 89×1 topic
  36. Eutrophication1▲ 32×3 topics
  37. Genetic Diversity1▲ 7.5×3 topics
  38. Pharmaceuticals1▲ 47×2 topics
  39. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons1▲ 61×1 topic
  40. Wastewater Treatment1▲ 14×2 topics

What research is done in Columbia?

  1. 1 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 5 works
  2. 2 Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  3. 3 Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Ecology 2 works
  4. 4 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  5. 5 Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes Ecology 1 works
  6. 6 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 1 works
  7. 7 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Ecology 1 works
  8. 8 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  9. 9 Aquaculture disease management and microbiota Immunology 1 works
  10. 10 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 1 works

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