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Research in Dharān

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Dharān, Nepal. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.6k
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
27k
7.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
4.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Dharān

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 Dharān?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1B.P. Koirala Institute of Health SciencesUniversity 3,552 #14,210

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 Dharān work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research in Dharān is in Health Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (65%), Dentistry (7%), Health Professions (6%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 750 fractional works · 79.3% of its workMedicine: 618 fractional works · 65.4% of its workSurgery: 125 fractional works · 13.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 52 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEpidemiology: 41 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 33 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 23 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 23 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 21 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeurology: 21 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRheumatology: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhysiology: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOncology: 19 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 16 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOphthalmology: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDermatology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workUrology: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHepatology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHematology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDentistry: 68 fractional works · 7.2% of its workOral Surgery: 27 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPeriodontics: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrthodontics: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 54 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 25 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacy: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 93 fractional works · 9.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 42 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 fractional works · 1.9% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVirology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 76 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 22 fractional works · 2.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDharān945fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences79%Social Sciences8%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine61865.4%
    2. Dentistry687.2%
    3. Health Professions545.7%
    4. Nursing80.9%
    5. Veterinary20.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology424.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology181.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences171.8%
    4. Neuroscience111.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.6%
    1. Social Sciences303.2%
    2. Psychology222.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance121.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting60.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities50.6%
    6. Decision Sciences10.1%
    1. Environmental Science111.1%
    2. Engineering70.7%
    3. Computer Science50.5%
    4. Mathematics20.2%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    6. Chemistry10.1%
    7. Energy00.0%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Dharān strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Dharān is most concentrated in Oral Surgery and Dentistry (14.9× the world share in Oral Surgery).

  1. Oral SurgerySubfield · 24.7 works15×
  2. DentistryField · 59.1 works14×
← 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 25 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: 0.41× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 38 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.01× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.70× its world share, 10 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.78× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 14.16× its world share, 59 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.27× its world share, 51 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.40× its world share, 562 worksMedicineNursing: 1.86× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.78× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 26 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 14.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry14.16×59 works
  2. Medicine3.40×562 works
  3. Health Professions2.27×51 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology2.01×17 works
  5. Nursing1.86×8 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.78×5 works
  7. Veterinary0.88×1 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.83×38 works
  9. Psychology0.78×20 works
  10. Neuroscience0.70×10 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×11 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.41×17 works
  13. Environmental Science0.24×10 works
  14. Social Sciences0.24×26 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.19×5 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.16×4 works
  17. Mathematics0.15×2 works
  18. Computer Science0.07×4 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.06×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.05×1 works
  21. Engineering0.05×7 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.03×0 works
  23. Energy0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Dharān?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Surgical Management, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Complications and Management.

▲ 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. Epidemiology145▲ 3.9×122 topics
  2. Treatment53▲ 4.6×44 topics
  3. Quality of Life50▲ 3.7×39 topics
  4. Diagnosis50▲ 5.6×40 topics
  5. Risk Factors43▲ 4.1×32 topics
  6. COVID-1939▲ 3.2×18 topics
  7. Inflammation38▲ 1.90×48 topics
  8. Surgical Management36▲ 9.4×20 topics
  9. Management36▲ 4.8×28 topics
  10. Public Health35▲ 2.5×35 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease33▲ 3.1×28 topics
  12. Complications33▲ 7.0×17 topics
  13. Global Burden24▲ 4.6×12 topics
  14. Prevention23▲ 5.7×15 topics
  15. Mortality21▲ 3.9×13 topics
  16. Metabolic Syndrome21▲ 2.7×20 topics
  17. Guidelines21▲ 4.7×12 topics
  18. Pathogenesis20▲ 4.2×21 topics
  19. Chemotherapy18▲ 2.7×21 topics
  20. Clinical Practice Guidelines16▲ 3.1×13 topics
  21. Maternal Mortality16▲ 7.6×5 topics
  22. Vaccine16▲ 4.3×10 topics
  23. Prenatal Diagnosis16▲ 11×7 topics
  24. Genetic Mutations16▲ 3.8×22 topics
  25. Surgery14▲ 4.3×10 topics
  26. Children14▲ 6.6×7 topics
  27. Dental Caries14▲ 14×2 topics
  28. Pain Management14▲ 6.3×8 topics
  29. Radiotherapy13▲ 3.6×13 topics
  30. Chronic Pain13▲ 6.2×5 topics
  31. Drug Resistance13▲ 4.7×8 topics
  32. Diabetes Mellitus12▲ 6.1×7 topics
  33. Infection Control12▲ 15×3 topics
  34. Social Determinants11▲ 5.9×5 topics
  35. Epidemiological Profile11▲ 28×2 topics
  36. Dental Practice11▲ 27×1 topic
  37. Transmission Routes11▲ 27×1 topic
  38. Health Inequalities11▲ 9.2×3 topics
  39. Molecular Pathology10▲ 10×2 topics
  40. Postoperative Complications10▲ 8.3×4 topics

What research is done in Dharān?

Dental Research and COVI…10Dental Research and COVID-19: 10 fractional worksOral and Maxillofacial P…8Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology: 8 fractional worksDental Health and Care Utilization: 6 fractional worksDental Radiography and Imaging: 6 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 6 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 5 fractional worksDental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques: 5 fractional worksOral microbiology and pe…5Oral microbiology and periodontitis research: 5 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 5 fractional worksOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics: 5 fractional works
General DentistryOral SurgeryPeriodonticsPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Dental Research and COVID-19 General Dentistry 10 works
  2. 2 Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Oral Surgery 8 works
  3. 3 Dental Health and Care Utilization Periodontics 6 works
  4. 4 Dental Radiography and Imaging Oral Surgery 6 works
  5. 5 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  6. 6 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 5 works
  7. 7 Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques Oral Surgery 5 works
  8. 8 Oral microbiology and periodontitis research Periodontics 5 works
  9. 9 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 5 works
  10. 10 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Orthodontics 5 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Dharān6.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.4% in 2016.

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