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Research in Eugene

Science Explorer records 37 research institutions in Eugene, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Oregon, Oregon Research Institute and Decision Research.

Research institutions
37
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
37k
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.8M
47.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Eugene

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 Eugene?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of OregonUniversity 30,252 #437
2Oregon Research InstituteNonprofit 1,729 #6,786
3Oregon Social Learning CenterNonprofit 872 #7,862 all time
4Eugene Research InstituteNonprofit 851 #1,984 all time
5Decision ResearchNonprofit 731 #17,793
6Radiology AssociatesHospital / health system 538 #21,435
7Science FactoryNonprofit 483 #14,020 all time
8NeuroSpine InstituteHospital / health system 177 #32,416 all time
9Deschutes ResearchCompany 149 #34,737 all time
10Sacred Heart Medical CenterHospital / health system 135 #30,460 all time
11Oregon Center For Applied Science (United States)Company 103 not ranked
12Electrical Geodesics (United States)Company 76 not ranked
13Lane Community CollegeUniversity 71 not ranked
14Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research CenterHospital / health system 70 not ranked
15Bushnell UniversityUniversity 55 not ranked
16Marker Gene Technologies (United States)Company 45 not ranked
17Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports MedicineHospital / health system 38 not ranked
18Microtech Instruments (United States)Company 38 not ranked
19Gutenberg CollegeUniversity 37 not ranked
20Technological Assistance Institute for Intellectual DisabilityNonprofit 36 not ranked
21On Time Systems (United States)Company 34 not ranked
22Northwest Media (United States)Company 16 not ranked
23Slocum Research and Education FoundationNonprofit 16 not ranked
24ParaTools (United States)Company 15 not ranked
25Drs. Fine, Hoffman & SimsHospital / health system 14 not ranked
26InterVision Media (United States)Company 11 not ranked
27New Hope Christian CollegeUniversity 10 not ranked
28Collinge and AssociatesInstitution 10 not ranked
29Educational Policy Improvement CenterNonprofit 7 not ranked
30Lane County Department of Youth ServicesGovernment institution 6 not ranked
31Jewell Plastic Surgery CenterHospital / health system 6 not ranked
32Cognitopia (United States)Company 4 not ranked
33IRIS Educational MediaCompany 3 not ranked
34Fanconi Anemia Research FundNonprofit 1 not ranked
35mAbDx (United States)Company 1 not ranked
36Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsArchive 0 not ranked
37Oregon Family Support NetworkNonprofit 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.

University of Oregon: 82.6%Oregon Research Institute: 4.7%Oregon Social Learning Center: 2.4%Eugene Research Institute: 2.3%31 others listed: 8.0%83%largest
University of Oregon30k · 82.6%Oregon Research Institute1,729 · 4.7%Oregon Social Learning Center872 · 2.4%Eugene Research Institute851 · 2.3%31 others listed2,936 · 8.0%

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

Which fields of science does Eugene work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research in Eugene is in Social Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (18%), Medicine (13%), Psychology (10%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,461 fractional works · 38.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 704 fractional works · 18.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 239 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEducation: 108 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 68 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGender Studies: 39 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 35 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 35 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 33 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 22 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 22 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 15 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 374 fractional works · 9.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 136 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 88 fractional works · 2.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 67 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 58 fractional works · 1.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 23 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 171 fractional works · 4.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 36 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 26 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 25 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReligious studies: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 89 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAccounting: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 23 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 80 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 60 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFinance: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 43 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,204 fractional works · 31.4% of its workComputer Science: 237 fractional works · 6.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 98 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 34 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 33 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 23 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 208 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 55 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 48 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 179 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEcology: 49 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 43 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 168 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGeophysics: 54 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 44 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPaleontology: 33 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOceanography: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 129 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 42 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 29 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 29 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 124 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 35 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematical Physics: 28 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 17 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 71 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 45 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 62 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 27 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 22 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 20 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 600 fractional works · 15.7% of its workMedicine: 482 fractional works · 12.6% of its workSurgery: 57 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 49 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 38 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 36 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 32 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 28 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 23 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 22 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 21 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 19 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 15 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 59 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 106 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 68 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 563 fractional works · 14.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 269 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 141 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 48 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 33 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAging: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 190 fractional works · 4.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 130 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 31 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 84 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPlant Science: 24 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 22 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEugene3,829fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences38%

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. Social Sciences1,46138.2%
    1. Social Sciences70418.4%
    2. Psychology3749.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities1714.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting892.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance802.1%
    6. Decision Sciences431.1%
    1. Computer Science2376.2%
    2. Engineering2085.4%
    3. Environmental Science1794.7%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1684.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1293.4%
    6. Mathematics1243.2%
    7. Materials Science711.9%
    8. Chemistry621.6%
    9. Energy220.6%
    10. Chemical Engineering50.1%
    1. Medicine48212.6%
    2. Health Professions1062.8%
    3. Nursing90.2%
    4. Dentistry20.1%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2697.0%
    2. Neuroscience1904.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences842.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology160.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Eugene strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Eugene is most concentrated in Paleontology, Geometry and Topology and Cognitive Neuroscience (7.1× the world share in Paleontology).

  1. PaleontologySubfield · 29.7 works7.1×
  2. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 32.5 works5.8×
  3. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 114.9 works4.5×
← 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 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: 0.45× its world share, 75 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.25× its world share, 231 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.40× its world share, 14 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.95× its world share, 166 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.09× its world share, 59 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.82× its world share, 221 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.75× its world share, 149 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.63× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.36× its world share, 187 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.94× its world share, 161 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.54× its world share, 66 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.71× its world share, 110 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.60× its world share, 123 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.07× its world share, 98 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.64× its world share, 429 worksMedicineNursing: 0.51× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.58× its world share, 158 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.72× its world share, 81 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 39 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.00× its world share, 74 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.14× its world share, 332 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.49× its world share, 652 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology3.14×332 works
  2. Neuroscience2.95×166 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.75×149 works
  4. Mathematics2.71×110 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.60×123 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.58×158 works
  7. Social Sciences1.49×652 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.25×231 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.16×39 works
  10. Chemistry1.09×59 works
  11. Health Professions1.07×98 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.00×74 works
  13. Environmental Science0.94×161 works
  14. Computer Science0.82×221 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.72×81 works
  16. Medicine0.64×429 works
  17. Energy0.63×20 works
  18. Materials Science0.54×66 works
  19. Nursing0.51×9 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×75 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.40×14 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.38×5 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.36×4 works
  24. Engineering0.36×187 works
  25. Veterinary0.15×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.11×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Eugene?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Climate Change, Emotion Regulation, Psychopathology, Adolescents, Developmental Trajectories, Anxiety Disorders and Parenting.

▲ 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 Change160▲ 1.53×84 topics
  2. Mental Health142▲ 2.6×36 topics
  3. Epidemiology108▼ 0.71×108 topics
  4. Globalization102▲ 1.36×92 topics
  5. Depression75▲ 2.2×22 topics
  6. Social Media74▲ 1.41×30 topics
  7. Emotion Regulation72▲ 6.0×9 topics
  8. Public Health67▲ 1.20×48 topics
  9. Adolescents64▲ 4.6×10 topics
  10. Resilience58▲ 3.1×13 topics
  11. Identity55▲ 1.99×45 topics
  12. Gender54▲ 2.6×35 topics
  13. Psychopathology52▲ 7.6×4 topics
  14. Developmental Trajectories49▲ 11×3 topics
  15. History48▲ 1.79×38 topics
  16. Neuroscience44▲ 3.7×15 topics
  17. Anxiety Disorders43▲ 10×2 topics
  18. Child Development43▲ 2.7×7 topics
  19. Children42▲ 4.8×6 topics
  20. Parenting41▲ 8.7×3 topics
  21. Behavioral Problems39▲ 13×1 topic
  22. Neoliberalism38▲ 2.7×25 topics
  23. Neurobiology35▲ 3.5×10 topics
  24. Evidence-Based Practice34▲ 6.8×7 topics
  25. Emotion34▲ 4.3×12 topics
  26. Working Memory32▲ 9.3×3 topics
  27. Special Education32▲ 14×5 topics
  28. Behavioral Interventions31▲ 9.8×2 topics
  29. Plate Tectonics30▲ 5.1×3 topics
  30. Self-Regulation30▲ 4.3×6 topics
  31. Prefrontal Cortex30▲ 9.0×3 topics
  32. Psychiatric Disorders28▲ 5.4×4 topics
  33. Executive Functioning28▲ 5.7×3 topics
  34. Spatial Representation26▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Holocene25▲ 6.0×3 topics
  36. Speech Perception24▲ 7.3×3 topics
  37. Sea Level23▲ 6.6×2 topics
  38. Paleoclimatology22▲ 7.1×2 topics
  39. Neuronal Oscillations22▲ 7.8×2 topics
  40. Parenting Stress22▲ 8.2×2 topics

What research is done in Eugene?

Child and Adolescent Psy…36Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 36 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 20 fractional worksFamily and Disability Support Research: 18 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brain function: 17 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 17 fractional worksBehavioral and Psychological Studies: 16 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic …14earthquake and tectonic studies: 14 fractional worksMemory and Neural Mechanisms: 13 fractional worksMedia Studies and Communication: 13 fractional worksPhonetics and Phonology …13Phonetics and Phonology Research: 13 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyAtmospheric ScienceCognitive NeuroscienceGeophysics3 others

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

  1. 1 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 36 works
  2. 2 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 20 works
  3. 3 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 18 works
  4. 4 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 17 works
  5. 5 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 17 works
  6. 6 Behavioral and Psychological Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology 16 works
  7. 7 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 14 works
  8. 8 Memory and Neural Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 13 works
  9. 9 Media Studies and Communication Communication 13 works
  10. 10 Phonetics and Phonology Research Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 13 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 counting20%40%Eugene21.6% 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 39.1% in 2016.

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