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Research in Geneva

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Geneva, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Research institutions
3
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.8k
▼ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
28k
15.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Geneva

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 Geneva?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Hobart and William Smith CollegesUniversity 1,785 #14,447
2African Literature AssociationNonprofit 2 not ranked
3Geneva Historical SocietyArchive 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.

Which fields of science does Geneva work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research in Geneva is in Social Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (23%), Environmental Science (6%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 141 fractional works · 67.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 74 fractional works · 35.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 24 fractional works · 11.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workCultural Studies: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workDemography: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workDevelopment: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 47 fractional works · 22.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 19 fractional works · 9.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClassics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 38 fractional works · 18.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 3.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 17 fractional works · 8.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGeneva207fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences68%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences7435.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities4722.5%
    3. Psychology84.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance83.7%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting31.3%
    6. Decision Sciences20.7%
    1. Environmental Science125.8%
    2. Computer Science73.2%
    3. Chemistry62.7%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences52.6%
    5. Engineering31.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy31.5%
    7. Mathematics10.7%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    9. Energy00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology63.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.5%
    3. Neuroscience52.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine73.2%
    2. Health Professions52.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Geneva strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Geneva is most concentrated in Arts and Humanities (7.7× the world share in Arts and Humanities).

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 43.5 works7.7×
← 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: 0.54× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.60× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.43× its world share, 4 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 1.81× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.73× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.19× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.00× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 7.69× its world share, 44 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.72× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.35× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.85× its world share, 71 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities7.69×44 works
  2. Social Sciences2.85×71 works
  3. Chemistry1.81×6 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.73×5 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.72×7 works
  6. Neuroscience1.43×4 works
  7. Psychology1.35×8 works
  8. Environmental Science1.19×12 works
  9. Health Professions1.00×5 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.60×6 works
  11. Mathematics0.55×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.54×5 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.53×1 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.49×2 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.42×3 works
  16. Computer Science0.40×6 works
  17. Energy0.19×0 works
  18. Medicine0.17×6 works
  19. Engineering0.10×3 works
  20. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Geneva?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: History, Literature, Gender, Culture, Society, Identity, Globalization and Colonialism.

▲ 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. History23▲ 16×15 topics
  2. Literature22▲ 20×16 topics
  3. Gender20▲ 18×15 topics
  4. Culture18▲ 17×11 topics
  5. Society18▲ 44×10 topics
  6. Globalization17▲ 4.2×29 topics
  7. Identity14▲ 9.2×15 topics
  8. Colonialism10▲ 11×15 topics
  9. Religious Identity10▲ 80×3 topics
  10. Golden Age Spain9▲ 568×1 topic
  11. Visual Arts9▲ 290×1 topic
  12. Neoliberalism9▲ 12×9 topics
  13. Climate Change9▲ 1.52×29 topics
  14. Feminism8▲ 14×8 topics
  15. Social Movements8▲ 13×9 topics
  16. Economic Growth8▲ 4.5×9 topics
  17. Cultural Exchange7▲ 28×7 topics
  18. Cultural Identity7▲ 7.0×8 topics
  19. Nationalism6▲ 6.8×8 topics
  20. Religion6▲ 6.5×10 topics
  21. Governance6▲ 8.7×4 topics
  22. Historiography6▲ 23×7 topics
  23. Philosophy6▲ 6.2×8 topics
  24. Cultural Studies5▲ 7.0×10 topics
  25. Politics5▲ 9.2×7 topics
  26. Postcolonial Studies5▲ 160×2 topics
  27. NGOs5▲ 24×2 topics
  28. Political Power4▲ 45×3 topics
  29. Latin America4▲ 11×5 topics
  30. Anticancer Agents4▲ 14×4 topics
  31. Memory4▲ 8.4×5 topics
  32. Modernization4▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Visual Culture4▲ 37×2 topics
  34. Colonial Spanish America4▲ 161×1 topic
  35. Indigenous History4▲ 161×1 topic
  36. Power4▲ 26×5 topics
  37. Medicinal Chemistry4▲ 6.9×3 topics
  38. Poverty Reduction4▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Poetry4▲ 54×3 topics
  40. Science4▲ 7.2×4 topics

What research is done in Geneva?

Early Modern Spanish Lit…9Early Modern Spanish Literature: 9 fractional worksLatin American history a…4Latin American history and culture: 4 fractional worksInternational Developmen…4International Development and Aid: 4 fractional worksHistorical Studies in Latin America: 3 fractional worksSpanish Literature and Culture Studies: 3 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 2 fractional worksSynthesis and biological activity: 2 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Institutions: 2 fractional worksComparative Literary Analysis and Criticism: 2 fractional worksHistory of Science and Medicine: 2 fractional works
Literature and Literary TheoryVisual Arts and Performing ArtsDevelopmentDemography4 others

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

  1. 1 Early Modern Spanish Literature Literature and Literary Theory 9 works
  2. 2 Latin American history and culture Visual Arts and Performing Arts 4 works
  3. 3 International Development and Aid Development 4 works
  4. 4 Historical Studies in Latin America Demography 3 works
  5. 5 Spanish Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 3 works
  6. 6 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 2 works
  7. 7 Synthesis and biological activity Organic Chemistry 2 works
  8. 8 Economic Theory and Institutions Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  9. 9 Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
  10. 10 History of Science and Medicine History and Philosophy of Science 2 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%60%Geneva16.5% 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 43.7% in 2002.

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