Research in Fairbanks
Science Explorer records 18 research institutions in Fairbanks, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Alaska Fairbanks.
- Research institutions
- 18 1 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 14k ▼ 23% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.6% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Fairbanks?
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.
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.
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What is Fairbanks strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Fairbanks is most concentrated in Atmospheric Science, Geophysics and Earth and Planetary Sciences (30.0× the world share in Atmospheric Science).
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 159.8 works30×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 70.2 works17×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 297.7 works16×
- OceanographySubfield · 45.9 works14×
- Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 30.7 works12×
- EcologySubfield · 88.1 works9.3×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 52.2 works8.3×
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 Fairbanks?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Arctic, Hydrology, Methane Emissions, Permafrost, Carbon Feedback and Thawing.
- Sea Level
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Surface Wave
- community-based monitoring
- Nutrition Transition
- Traditional Knowledge
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Methane Oxidation
- Tomography
- Solar Wind
- Sea Ice
- Food Security
- Water Availability
- Conservation
- Population Dynamics
- Ocean Circulation
- Carbon Feedback
- Sustainability
- Hydrology
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Arctic
- Methane Emissions
- Permafrost
- Thawing
- Sea Level Rise
- Vulnerability
- Glacier
- Biodiversity
- Decline
- Invasive Species
- Microbial Communities
- Anaerobic
- Global Warming
- Ecological Knowledge
- Arctic Indigenous Peoples
- Trophic Cascades
- Seismic Noise
- Holocene
- Geodetic Measurements
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
- Climate Change344▲ 11×80 topics
- Remote Sensing115▲ 7.7×29 topics
- Arctic106▲ 78×4 topics
- Hydrology94▲ 62×4 topics
- Methane Emissions56▲ 89×2 topics
- Sustainability56▲ 1.89×43 topics
- Permafrost54▲ 104×2 topics
- Carbon Feedback52▲ 127×1 topic
- Thawing52▲ 127×1 topic
- Ocean Circulation51▲ 32×3 topics
- Sea Level Rise47▲ 30×3 topics
- Population Dynamics40▲ 13×11 topics
- Vulnerability40▲ 15×6 topics
- Conservation39▲ 7.5×19 topics
- Glacier38▲ 72×1 topic
- Water Availability38▲ 72×1 topic
- Biodiversity38▲ 4.2×24 topics
- Food Security36▲ 5.5×10 topics
- Decline36▲ 112×1 topic
- Sea Ice36▲ 112×1 topic
- Invasive Species35▲ 6.8×17 topics
- Solar Wind32▲ 29×2 topics
- Microbial Communities32▲ 6.2×8 topics
- Tomography30▲ 14×4 topics
- Anaerobic27▲ 32×1 topic
- Methane Oxidation27▲ 27×1 topic
- Global Warming26▲ 5.3×14 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability25▲ 23×2 topics
- Ecological Knowledge25▲ 46×2 topics
- Traditional Knowledge25▲ 50×3 topics
- Arctic Indigenous Peoples24▲ 112×1 topic
- Nutrition Transition24▲ 61×2 topics
- Trophic Cascades24▲ 21×2 topics
- community-based monitoring24▲ 112×1 topic
- Seismic Noise23▲ 39×1 topic
- Surface Wave23▲ 39×1 topic
- Holocene22▲ 16×3 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation21▲ 8.0×5 topics
- Geodetic Measurements21▲ 16×2 topics
- Sea Level21▲ 18×2 topics
What research is done in Fairbanks?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 52 works
- 2 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 38 works
- 3 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 36 works
- 4 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 27 works
- 5 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 24 works
- 6 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 23 works
- 7 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 20 works
- 8 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 18 works
- 9 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 15 works
- 10 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 14 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.