Research in Cork
Science Explorer records 40 research institutions in Cork, Ireland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University College Cork, Munster Technological University and APC Microbiome Institute.
- Research institutions
- 40 6 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 40k ▲ 10% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1M 25.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.5% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Cork?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University College CorkUniversity | 33,946 | #710 | |
| 2 | Munster Technological UniversityResearch facility | 2,284 | #3,102 | |
| 3 | InfantResearch facility | 925 | #8,908 | |
| 4 | APC Microbiome InstituteResearch facility | 818 | #3,728 | |
| 5 | United Technologies Research CenterCompany | 623 | #13,518 all time | |
| 6 | National Cancer RegistryInstitution | 515 | #20,412 | |
| 7 | International Energy Research CentreResearch facility | 282 | #18,463 | |
| 8 | Central Statistics OfficeInstitution | 281 | #18,575 all time | |
| 9 | Bon Secours Hospital CorkHospital / health system | 230 | #21,689 all time | |
| 10 | National Suicide Research FoundationNonprofit | 154 | #30,270 all time | |
| 11 | Griffith College CorkUniversity | 123 | #33,924 all time | |
| 12 | Cork County CouncilGovernment institution | 105 | not ranked | |
| 13 | Alimentary Health (Ireland)Company | 81 | not ranked | |
| 14 | Farran Technology (Ireland)Company | 44 | not ranked | |
| 15 | DELL (Ireland)Company | 43 | not ranked | |
| 16 | SensL (Ireland)Company | 34 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Eli Lilly (Ireland)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Stryker (Ireland)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 19 | I WishNonprofit | 20 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Shellfish Ireland (Ireland)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Marigot (Ireland)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Cork City CouncilGovernment institution | 17 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Fota Wildlife ParkNonprofit | 10 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Alcon (Ireland)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Cork’s Technology NetworkNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Lifetime LabArchive | 6 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Reprodoc (Ireland)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Atlantia Food Clinical TrialsResearch facility | 5 | not ranked | |
| 29 | BioMarin (Ireland)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Red Hat (Ireland)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Agilent Technologies (Ireland)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 32 | RediCare (Ireland)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Blackrock Castle ObservatoryResearch facility | 3 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Irish Hydrodata (Ireland)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 35 | ServusNet Informatics (Ireland)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Johnson Controls (Ireland)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Recordati (Ireland)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 38 | St Nicholas TrustNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Solvotrin Innovations (Ireland)Company | 0 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Cork Alliance CentreInstitution | 0 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Cork work in?
In 2022-now, 33% of research in Cork is in Health Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (26%), Social Sciences (13%), Engineering (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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
- Health Sciences2,88232.8%
- Medicine2,28926.0%
- Health Professions4375.0%
- Nursing941.1%
- Dentistry470.5%
- Veterinary150.2%
- Physical Sciences2,40727.4%
- Engineering94310.7%
- Computer Science4955.6%
- Environmental Science4304.9%
- Materials Science1301.5%
- Physics and Astronomy1131.3%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences981.1%
- Chemistry730.8%
- Energy550.6%
- Mathematics490.6%
- Chemical Engineering220.2%
- Social Sciences2,28826.0%
- Social Sciences1,10612.6%
- Psychology4164.7%
- Arts and Humanities2963.4%
- Business, Management and Accounting2012.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1902.2%
- Decision Sciences790.9%
- Life Sciences1,21513.8%
What is Cork strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Cork is most concentrated in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Biological Psychiatry and Music (7.9× the world share in Geriatrics and Gerontology).
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 65.4 works7.9×
- Biological PsychiatrySubfield · 24.5 works5.8×
- MusicSubfield · 20.3 works3.2×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 2.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Nursing2.13×80 works
- Health Professions1.92×389 works
- Psychology1.56×365 works
- Medicine1.36×2,016 works
- Neuroscience1.33×166 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.32×36 works
- Veterinary1.23×13 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.18×483 works
- Arts and Humanities1.15×256 works
- Dentistry1.08×40 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.08×178 works
- Social Sciences1.00×970 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.97×75 works
- Environmental Science0.96×365 works
- Decision Sciences0.81×60 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.77×282 works
- Engineering0.74×853 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.74×183 works
- Computer Science0.71×423 works
- Chemical Engineering0.70×19 works
- Energy0.68×48 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.63×76 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.58×98 works
- Chemistry0.52×62 works
- Mathematics0.49×44 works
- Materials Science0.41×111 works
Which keywords describe research in Cork?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Metabolic Health, Inflammation, Immune Responses, Metagenomic Analysis, Short-Chain Fatty Acids, Gut Microbiota and Inflammatory Diseases.
- Lactic Acid Bacteria
- Northern Ireland
- Reconciliation
- Prebiotics
- Transition
- Microbiota
- Anxiety
- Short-Chain Fatty Acids
- Immune Responses
- Nationalism
- Metabolic Health
- Gut Microbiota
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Identity
- Depression
- Renewable Energy
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Risk Factors
- Healthcare
- Clinical Trials
- Treatment
- Microbial Communities
- Inflammatory Diseases
- Metagenomic Analysis
- Probiotics
- Primary Care
- Ethical Considerations
- Conflict
- Immune Modulation
- Consociationalism
- Gut Health
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
- Epidemiology480▲ 1.37×130 topics
- Inflammation298▲ 1.59×82 topics
- Machine Learning256◆ 0.87×80 topics
- Climate Change237◆ 0.99×101 topics
- Quality of Life217▲ 1.71×56 topics
- Deep Learning212▼ 0.70×75 topics
- Public Health205▲ 1.60×66 topics
- Sustainability193◆ 0.90×88 topics
- Mental Health190▲ 1.51×44 topics
- Renewable Energy188▲ 1.48×44 topics
- Globalization172◆ 0.99×115 topics
- Depression168▲ 2.2×22 topics
- Risk Factors159▲ 1.65×36 topics
- Identity157▲ 2.5×56 topics
- Healthcare144▲ 1.44×31 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome142▲ 1.99×24 topics
- Clinical Trials141▲ 2.4×19 topics
- Gut Microbiota140▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Treatment138▲ 1.29×50 topics
- Metabolic Health136▲ 7.8×3 topics
- Microbial Communities131▲ 3.4×10 topics
- Nationalism124▲ 3.1×28 topics
- Inflammatory Diseases116▲ 6.9×6 topics
- Immune Responses116▲ 9.2×3 topics
- Metagenomic Analysis113▲ 11×1 topic
- Short-Chain Fatty Acids113▲ 11×1 topic
- Probiotics106▲ 5.0×6 topics
- Anxiety98▲ 2.3×11 topics
- Primary Care95▲ 2.9×15 topics
- Microbiota95▲ 5.0×7 topics
- Ethical Considerations85▲ 2.8×18 topics
- Transition78▲ 10×5 topics
- Conflict72▲ 5.0×9 topics
- Prebiotics70▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Immune Modulation64▲ 6.9×3 topics
- Reconciliation61▲ 41×2 topics
- Consociationalism60▲ 60×1 topic
- Northern Ireland60▲ 60×1 topic
- Gut Health58▲ 11×1 topic
- Lactic Acid Bacteria58▲ 11×1 topic
What research is done in Cork?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 98 works
- 2 Irish and British Studies Sociology and Political Science 56 works
- 3 Probiotics and Fermented Foods Food Science 50 works
- 4 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 42 works
- 5 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 40 works
- 6 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 26 works
- 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 26 works
- 8 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 26 works
- 9 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 24 works
- 10 Proteins in Food Systems Food Science 24 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 31.9% in 2016.
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