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Research in Esmeraldas

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidad Técnica "Luis Vargas Torres".

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.1k
▲ 120% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.3k
2.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
16.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1967-2026
60 years on the record
Esmeraldas

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 Esmeraldas?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Universidad Técnica "Luis Vargas Torres"University 1,132 #2,710

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 Esmeraldas work in?

In 2022-now, 61% of research in Esmeraldas is in Social Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Computer Science (15%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (14%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 440 fractional works · 60.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 227 fractional works · 31.5% of its workEducation: 95 fractional works · 13.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 33 fractional works · 4.5% of its workDemography: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLaw: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSafety Research: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopment: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCultural Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 102 fractional works · 14.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 100 fractional works · 13.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 75 fractional works · 10.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 33 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAccounting: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 205 fractional works · 28.4% of its workComputer Science: 106 fractional works · 14.7% of its workInformation Systems: 65 fractional works · 9.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 30 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 38 fractional works · 5.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 27 fractional works · 3.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 21 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 20 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 43 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workFood Science: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 34 fractional works · 4.7% of its workHealth Professions: 22 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEsmeraldas722fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences61%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences22731.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10214.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting7510.4%
    4. Psychology263.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities71.0%
    6. Decision Sciences30.4%
    1. Computer Science10614.7%
    2. Environmental Science385.2%
    3. Engineering273.8%
    4. Energy212.9%
    5. Mathematics30.5%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.4%
    7. Materials Science30.4%
    8. Chemistry20.3%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences405.6%
    2. Neuroscience20.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Health Professions223.1%
    2. Medicine111.6%
    3. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Esmeraldas strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Esmeraldas is most concentrated in Computer Science Applications, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Economics and Econometrics (15.1× the world share in Computer Science Applications).

  1. Computer Science ApplicationsSubfield · 24.5 works15×
  2. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSubfield · 30.6 works9.7×
  3. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 99.3 works9.5×
← 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: 1.21× its world share, 38 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.82× its world share, 93 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.35× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 27 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.08× its world share, 35 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.27× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.34× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.41× its world share, 72 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.16× its world share, 101 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.18× its world share, 24 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.32× its world share, 193 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7.16×101 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.41×72 works
  3. Energy3.35×20 works
  4. Social Sciences2.32×193 works
  5. Computer Science1.82×93 works
  6. Health Professions1.27×22 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.21×38 works
  8. Psychology1.18×24 works
  9. Environmental Science1.08×35 works
  10. Mathematics0.39×3 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.35×2 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.34×6 works
  13. Engineering0.27×27 works
  14. Chemistry0.24×2 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.17×2 works
  17. Nursing0.12×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.09×2 works
  19. Medicine0.08×10 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.07×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.02×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Esmeraldas?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Digital Marketing, Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Responsibility, Innovation, Innovation Ecosystems, Urban Development and Economic Impact.

▲ 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. Education146▲ 12×29 topics
  2. Digital Marketing119▲ 42×2 topics
  3. Small and Medium Enterprises117▲ 92×4 topics
  4. Social Responsibility106▲ 64×3 topics
  5. Innovation101▲ 14×17 topics
  6. Innovation Ecosystems99▲ 134×3 topics
  7. Urban Development97▲ 38×6 topics
  8. Economic Impact96▲ 25×2 topics
  9. Globalization Effects96▲ 193×2 topics
  10. Psychopharmacology Education96▲ 213×1 topic
  11. Tourism Management96▲ 191×1 topic
  12. Competitiveness79▲ 138×6 topics
  13. E-Learning74▲ 11×8 topics
  14. Sustainability71▲ 4.0×40 topics
  15. Knowledge Management65▲ 16×13 topics
  16. Pedagogy62▲ 17×5 topics
  17. Teacher Training56▲ 13×8 topics
  18. Distance Learning52▲ 21×6 topics
  19. COVID-1951▲ 5.4×9 topics
  20. Organizational Culture50▲ 18×7 topics
  21. Educational Technology50▲ 5.8×15 topics
  22. Digital Divide47▲ 25×2 topics
  23. ICT47▲ 49×2 topics
  24. Digital Competence47▲ 73×1 topic
  25. Virtual Teaching47▲ 120×1 topic
  26. Social Impact46▲ 16×8 topics
  27. Globalization41▲ 2.9×31 topics
  28. Technology37▲ 9.9×11 topics
  29. Risk Assessment32▲ 6.6×5 topics
  30. Public Policy31▲ 8.9×8 topics
  31. Leadership30▲ 8.6×8 topics
  32. Informal Learning27▲ 29×3 topics
  33. Inclusive Education26▲ 9.8×8 topics
  34. Student Performance26▲ 34×2 topics
  35. Research26▲ 28×5 topics
  36. Teacher Development25▲ 56×2 topics
  37. Educational Leadership25▲ 27×1 topic
  38. Quality Education25▲ 96×1 topic
  39. Educational Projects23▲ 71×1 topic
  40. Remote Learning23▲ 71×1 topic

What research is done in Esmeraldas?

Business, Innovation, an…95Business, Innovation, and Economy: 95 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 42 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Training: 22 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 20 fractional worksDiverse Applied Research Studies: 19 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 17 fractional worksEducational and Organizational Development: 16 fractional worksEnvironmental and Ecological Studies: 14 fractional worksOccupational Health and Safety in Workplaces: 14 fractional worksKnowledge Societies in the 21st Century: 11 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsInformation SystemsEducationComputer Science Applications6 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 95 works
  2. 2 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 42 works
  3. 3 Education and Teacher Training Education 22 works
  4. 4 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 20 works
  5. 5 Diverse Applied Research Studies Sociology and Political Science 19 works
  6. 6 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 17 works
  7. 7 Educational and Organizational Development Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 16 works
  8. 8 Environmental and Ecological Studies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 14 works
  9. 9 Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces Occupational Therapy 14 works
  10. 10 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century Demography 11 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%Esmeraldas25.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.5% in 2025.

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