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Research in Fayetteville

Science Explorer records 16 research institutions in Fayetteville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Research institutions
16
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
32k
▲ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
730k
22.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
16.3%
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 Fayetteville?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of Arkansas at FayettevilleUniversity 31,285 #744
2Fayetteville Public LibraryArchive 218 #20,462 all time
3Nanomaterials & Nanofabrication Laboratories (United States)Company 98 not ranked
4Arkansas Power Electronics InternationalCompany 83 not ranked
5Highlands Oncology GroupHospital / health system 77 not ranked
6Parallel Quantum Solutions (United States)Company 53 not ranked
7Washington Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system 47 not ranked
8VinTech (United States)Company 43 not ranked
9Space Photonics (United States)Company 12 not ranked
10Aspire Solutions (United States)Company 9 not ranked
11SFC Fluidics (United States)Company 9 not ranked
12BlueInGreen (United States)Company 2 not ranked
13BioDetection Instruments (United States)Company 2 not ranked
14North American Membrane SocietyNonprofit 1 not ranked
15BiologicsMD (United States)Company 0 not ranked
16Communities UnlimitedInstitution 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 Arkansas at Fayetteville: 98.0%Fayetteville Public Library: 0.7%Nanomaterials & Nanofabrication Laboratories (United States): 0.3%Arkansas Power Electronics International: 0.3%10 others listed: 0.8%98%largest
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville31k · 98.0%Fayetteville Public Library218 · 0.7%Nanomaterials & Nanofabrication Laboratories (United States)98 · 0.3%Arkansas Power Electronics International83 · 0.3%10 others listed255 · 0.8%

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

Which fields of science does Fayetteville work in?

In 2022-now, 39% of research in Fayetteville is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (16%), Social Sciences (13%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,272 fractional works · 39.4% of its workEngineering: 947 fractional works · 16.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 378 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 144 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 81 fractional works · 1.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 53 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArchitecture: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 367 fractional works · 6.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 144 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 54 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 52 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSignal Processing: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 316 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEcology: 70 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 189 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 98 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 189 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 96 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 94 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 76 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 59 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,664 fractional works · 28.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 761 fractional works · 13.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 217 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEducation: 165 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 85 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGender Studies: 53 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 44 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 330 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 98 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 98 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 74 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 207 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhilosophy: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 59 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 182 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMarketing: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 112 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 80 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 71 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1,102 fractional works · 19.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 519 fractional works · 9.0% of its workPlant Science: 193 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 82 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 68 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInsect Science: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 372 fractional works · 6.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 222 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGenetics: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCell Biology: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 162 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 99 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 722 fractional works · 12.5% of its workMedicine: 527 fractional works · 9.2% of its workPhysiology: 64 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 59 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 46 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 35 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 118 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 126 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 63 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFayetteville5,759fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences29%

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. Engineering94716.5%
    2. Computer Science3676.4%
    3. Environmental Science3165.5%
    4. Materials Science1893.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1893.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences941.6%
    7. Mathematics761.3%
    8. Chemistry591.0%
    9. Energy240.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering110.2%
  1. Social Sciences1,66428.9%
    1. Social Sciences76113.2%
    2. Psychology3305.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities2073.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1823.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1122.0%
    6. Decision Sciences711.2%
  2. Life Sciences1,10219.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5199.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3726.5%
    3. Neuroscience1622.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology390.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics100.2%
    1. Medicine5279.2%
    2. Health Professions1262.2%
    3. Nursing380.7%
    4. Veterinary250.4%
    5. Dentistry50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Fayetteville strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Fayetteville is most concentrated in Animal Science and Zoology and Condensed Matter Physics (6.7× the world share in Animal Science and Zoology).

  1. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 71.1 works6.7×
  2. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 23.7 works3.0×
← 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: 1.94× its world share, 448 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.23× its world share, 317 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.65× its world share, 32 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.70× its world share, 134 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.49× its world share, 8 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.56× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.65× its world share, 49 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.82× its world share, 310 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 85 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 21 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.15× its world share, 838 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.12× its world share, 269 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.93× its world share, 158 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.16× its world share, 66 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.30× its world share, 140 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 101 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 422 worksMedicineNursing: 1.33× its world share, 32 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.95× its world share, 20 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.12× its world share, 157 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.96× its world share, 150 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.34× its world share, 63 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.91× its world share, 94 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.85× its world share, 273 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 652 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary2.95×20 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.94×448 works
  3. Psychology1.85×273 works
  4. Neuroscience1.70×134 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.34×63 works
  6. Nursing1.33×32 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.30×140 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.23×317 works
  9. Mathematics1.16×66 works
  10. Engineering1.15×838 works
  11. Environmental Science1.12×269 works
  12. Arts and Humanities1.12×157 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.11×85 works
  14. Social Sciences1.06×652 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.96×150 works
  16. Materials Science0.93×158 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.91×94 works
  18. Computer Science0.82×310 works
  19. Health Professions0.79×101 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.65×32 works
  21. Chemistry0.65×49 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.56×9 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.49×8 works
  24. Energy0.48×21 works
  25. Medicine0.45×422 works
  26. Dentistry0.22×5 works

Which keywords describe research in Fayetteville?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Power Electronics, Thermal Management, Climate Change, High-Temperature Electronics, Power Devices, Reliability, Silicon Carbide and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors.

▲ 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 Change201▲ 1.29×87 topics
  2. Machine Learning172◆ 0.90×79 topics
  3. Epidemiology170▼ 0.74×108 topics
  4. Deep Learning166▼ 0.84×79 topics
  5. Sustainability126◆ 0.90×77 topics
  6. Mental Health122▲ 1.49×38 topics
  7. Globalization117◆ 1.04×76 topics
  8. Power Electronics103▲ 5.5×8 topics
  9. Social Media96▲ 1.21×28 topics
  10. Thermal Management94▲ 5.0×8 topics
  11. Neural Networks89◆ 1.00×35 topics
  12. Public Health83◆ 0.99×45 topics
  13. Renewable Energy Integration76▲ 4.0×6 topics
  14. Gender73▲ 2.4×39 topics
  15. High-Temperature Electronics68▲ 20×2 topics
  16. Gut Microbiota68▲ 3.4×7 topics
  17. Power Devices63▲ 16×2 topics
  18. Reliability62▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Silicon Carbide58▲ 21×1 topic
  20. Wide Bandgap Semiconductors58▲ 24×1 topic
  21. Biosensors57▲ 2.0×11 topics
  22. Probiotics51▲ 3.7×6 topics
  23. Heat Stress47▲ 10×2 topics
  24. Amino Acids45▲ 8.3×2 topics
  25. Intestinal Barrier42▲ 9.4×2 topics
  26. Electric Vehicle Charging42▲ 8.8×2 topics
  27. Academic Achievement42▲ 4.2×10 topics
  28. Engineering Education41▲ 8.3×4 topics
  29. Entanglement39▲ 4.5×4 topics
  30. Feed Additives39▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Antibiotic Alternatives38▲ 12×1 topic
  32. Poultry Production38▲ 12×1 topic
  33. DC-DC Converters38▲ 12×1 topic
  34. High-Frequency Power Conversion38▲ 12×1 topic
  35. Nanowires35▲ 4.3×5 topics
  36. Educational Inequality30▲ 8.8×3 topics
  37. Photovoltaic Systems29▲ 6.0×3 topics
  38. Band Parameters27▲ 8.6×2 topics
  39. Multilevel Converters26▲ 8.7×1 topic
  40. Voltage Source Inverters26▲ 8.7×1 topic

What research is done in Fayetteville?

  1. 1 Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 53 works
  2. 2 Advanced DC-DC Converters Electrical and Electronic Engineering 37 works
  3. 3 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 34 works
  4. 4 Multilevel Inverters and Converters Electrical and Electronic Engineering 25 works
  5. 5 Neural Networks and Applications Artificial Intelligence 20 works
  6. 6 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 17 works
  7. 7 Weed Control and Herbicide Applications Plant Science 17 works
  8. 8 GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials Condensed Matter Physics 16 works
  9. 9 Higher Education Research Studies Education 14 works
  10. 10 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 14 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%Fayetteville15.7% 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 26.5% in 2011.

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