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Research in Ghent

Science Explorer records 42 research institutions in Ghent, Belgium. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Ghent University, HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie.

Research institutions
42
11 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
116k
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.7M
32.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Ghent

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 Ghent?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Ghent UniversityUniversity 103,957 #107
2HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and ArtsUniversity 2,616 #1,705
3Vlaams Instituut voor BiotechnologieResearch facility 1,937 #5,558
4Nutrition Sciences (Belgium)Company 1,847 #8,528
5iMindsNonprofit 1,519 #12,578
6AZ Sint-LucasHospital / health system 961 #16,222
7Vlerick Business SchoolUniversity 794 #12,842
8Ablynx (Belgium)Company 411 #10,033
9AZ Maria MiddelaresHospital / health system 368 #16,584
10Cancer Research Institute GhentResearch facility 352 #10,730
11Fujirebio (Belgium)Company 311 #26,768 all time
12Artevelde University College GhentUniversity 224 #20,749 all time
13Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban Resource RecoveryResearch facility 150 #16,087
14ArcelorMittal (Belgium)Company 146 #32,500 all time
15Argenx (Belgium)Company 79 not ranked
16ProDigest (Belgium)Company 56 not ranked
17CRM Group (Belgium)Company 50 not ranked
18Orpheus InstituteUniversity 47 not ranked
19Bio Base EuropeResearch facility 42 not ranked
20Belgian Welding InstituteNonprofit 40 not ranked
21Organic Waste Systems (Belgium)Company 38 not ranked
22Strategic Initiative Materials in FlandersNonprofit 28 not ranked
23TP Vision (Belgium)Company 15 not ranked
24CropDesign (Belgium)Company 15 not ranked
25CrossLang (Belgium)Company 14 not ranked
26ActoGeniX (Belgium)Company 11 not ranked
27Q-Biologicals (Belgium)Company 11 not ranked
28E2S (Belgium)Company 10 not ranked
29Oystershell (Belgium)Company 10 not ranked
30Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and TelematicsNonprofit 8 not ranked
31International Union of Radio ScienceNonprofit 5 not ranked
32Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information TechnologiesNonprofit 5 not ranked
33International Association of SedimentologistsNonprofit 4 not ranked
34Dekimo (Belgium)Company 4 not ranked
35Alpro FoundationNonprofit 4 not ranked
36European Passengers' FederationNonprofit 4 not ranked
37Museum Dr GuislainArchive 2 not ranked
38Packed (Belgium)Company 2 not ranked
39TomTom (Belgium)Company 2 not ranked
40UCO Raymond Denim (Belgium)Company 1 not ranked
41Flemish Institute for ArchivesNonprofit 1 not ranked
42Remedent (Belgium)Company 1 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.

Ghent University: 89.5%HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts: 2.3%Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie: 1.7%Nutrition Sciences (Belgium): 1.6%38 others listed: 4.9%90%largest
Ghent University104k · 89.5%HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts2,616 · 2.3%Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie1,937 · 1.7%Nutrition Sciences (Belgium)1,847 · 1.6%38 others listed5,745 · 4.9%

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

Which fields of science does Ghent work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research in Ghent is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (19%), Engineering (13%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 7,315 fractional works · 35.7% of its workEngineering: 2,749 fractional works · 13.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 611 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 460 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 319 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 310 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 193 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 150 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 134 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 117 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 111 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 85 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 82 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 81 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 46 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 43 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1,238 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEcology: 240 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 186 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 160 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 123 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 117 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 105 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 85 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 68 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 67 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 64 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1,136 fractional works · 5.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 429 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 159 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 140 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 116 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 99 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 74 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 50 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 68 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 601 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 311 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomaterials: 100 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 81 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 45 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 63 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 402 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 158 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 76 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 52 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 48 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 69 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 334 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 157 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 63 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 329 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 82 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 61 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 129 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 317 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOceanography: 84 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 73 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 47 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 113 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 106 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 92 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 102 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 51 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 51 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 4,766 fractional works · 23.3% of its workMedicine: 3,942 fractional works · 19.3% of its workSurgery: 486 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 322 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 307 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEpidemiology: 269 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 228 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 215 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 199 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 191 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 128 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 126 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 124 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 111 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 107 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 102 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 92 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 87 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 86 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 83 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 56 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 54 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 48 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 47 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHepatology: 43 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 43 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 344 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 471 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 271 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 64 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 136 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVeterinary: 144 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmall Animals: 119 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 130 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 115 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 80 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4,629 fractional works · 22.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,017 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 682 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 330 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 230 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 103 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 100 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 76 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 68 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 61 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 50 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLinguistics and Language: 50 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth: 42 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 168 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 978 fractional works · 4.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 287 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 282 fractional works · 1.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 182 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 149 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 65 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 752 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 180 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 115 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 108 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 82 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 67 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 50 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 151 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 383 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 98 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 70 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 58 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 54 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 51 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 42 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 293 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 206 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 67 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 205 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 114 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 42 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 49 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3,758 fractional works · 18.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1,493 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 870 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGenetics: 241 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 90 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 74 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 53 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 166 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1,347 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPlant Science: 494 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFood Science: 216 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 130 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 111 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 102 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 98 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 62 fractional works · 0.3% of its workForestry: 48 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 504 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 323 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 60 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 55 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 67 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 358 fractional works · 1.7% of its workImmunology: 254 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMicrobiology: 52 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 52 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 56 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKGhent20kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences23%Social Sciences23%

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. Engineering2,74913.4%
    2. Environmental Science1,2386.0%
    3. Computer Science1,1365.5%
    4. Materials Science6012.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy4022.0%
    6. Chemistry3341.6%
    7. Mathematics3291.6%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences3171.5%
    9. Energy1060.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering1020.5%
  2. Health Sciences4,76623.3%
    1. Medicine3,94219.3%
    2. Health Professions4712.3%
    3. Veterinary1440.7%
    4. Nursing1300.6%
    5. Dentistry800.4%
  3. Social Sciences4,62922.6%
    1. Social Sciences2,0179.9%
    2. Psychology9784.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities7523.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting3831.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2931.4%
    6. Decision Sciences2051.0%
  4. Life Sciences3,75818.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1,4937.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1,3476.6%
    3. Neuroscience5042.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology3581.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics560.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Ghent strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ghent is most concentrated in Equine, Veterinary and Small Animals (9.8× the world share in Equine).

  1. EquineSubfield · 23.1 works9.8×
  2. VeterinaryField · 127.3 works5.2×
  3. Small AnimalsSubfield · 104.2 works4.7×
  4. Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 28.4 works4.0×
  5. Metals and AlloysSubfield · 22.1 works3.7×
  6. Public AdministrationSubfield · 35.3 works3.6×
  7. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 114.9 works2.9×
← 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: 1.40× its world share, 1,202 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.33× its world share, 1,285 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.72× its world share, 314 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.46× its world share, 428 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 49 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.48× its world share, 94 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.06× its world share, 301 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.72× its world share, 1,012 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.96× its world share, 272 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.57× its world share, 95 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.91× its world share, 2,468 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.19× its world share, 1,068 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.85× its world share, 537 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.35× its world share, 289 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.88× its world share, 353 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.82× its world share, 72 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.89× its world share, 424 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.00× its world share, 3,490 worksMedicineNursing: 1.32× its world share, 117 worksNursingVeterinary: 5.17× its world share, 127 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.29× its world share, 676 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.60× its world share, 350 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 180 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 264 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.53× its world share, 846 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 1,804 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary5.17×127 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology1.72×314 works
  3. Psychology1.53×846 works
  4. Chemical Engineering1.48×94 works
  5. Neuroscience1.46×428 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.40×1,202 works
  7. Mathematics1.35×289 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.33×1,285 works
  9. Nursing1.32×117 works
  10. Arts and Humanities1.29×676 works
  11. Environmental Science1.19×1,068 works
  12. Chemistry1.06×301 works
  13. Decision Sciences1.03×180 works
  14. Medicine1.00×3,490 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.96×272 works
  16. Engineering0.91×2,468 works
  17. Health Professions0.89×424 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.88×353 works
  19. Materials Science0.85×537 works
  20. Dentistry0.82×72 works
  21. Social Sciences0.79×1,804 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.77×49 works
  23. Computer Science0.72×1,012 works
  24. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×264 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.60×350 works
  26. Energy0.57×95 works

Which keywords describe research in Ghent?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Inflammation, Environmental Impact, Quality of Life, Sustainability, Machine Learning and Mental Health.

▲ 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. Epidemiology909◆ 1.11×134 topics
  2. Climate Change639◆ 1.15×112 topics
  3. Machine Learning478▼ 0.70×85 topics
  4. Inflammation468◆ 1.08×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning453▼ 0.64×78 topics
  6. Sustainability430▼ 0.86×110 topics
  7. Environmental Impact404▲ 1.16×64 topics
  8. Quality of Life358▲ 1.21×56 topics
  9. Globalization339▼ 0.84×121 topics
  10. Mental Health330◆ 1.13×45 topics
  11. Public Health310◆ 1.04×66 topics
  12. Treatment278◆ 1.12×51 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress275▼ 0.82×62 topics
  14. Nanoparticles242◆ 0.94×44 topics
  15. Cancer232▼ 0.84×59 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease231◆ 0.99×39 topics
  17. Mechanical Properties214◆ 1.07×39 topics
  18. Biomedical Applications213◆ 0.88×35 topics
  19. Biodiversity205▲ 1.31×35 topics
  20. Genetics199▲ 1.37×27 topics
  21. Health Effects198▲ 1.60×24 topics
  22. Depression195◆ 1.09×25 topics
  23. Gene Expression190▲ 1.48×20 topics
  24. Immunotherapy183▲ 1.24×19 topics
  25. Catalysis179▲ 1.32×28 topics
  26. Gut Microbiota174▲ 2.5×7 topics
  27. Biomarkers169▲ 1.18×18 topics
  28. Ecosystem Services156▲ 1.97×14 topics
  29. Gender151▲ 1.37×46 topics
  30. Physical Activity149▲ 1.50×12 topics
  31. Emotion Regulation148▲ 2.3×9 topics
  32. Microbial Communities146▲ 1.64×10 topics
  33. Biosensors139▲ 1.38×12 topics
  34. Probiotics116▲ 2.4×6 topics
  35. Microbiota106▲ 2.4×8 topics
  36. Neural Mechanisms85▲ 4.1×4 topics
  37. Microcavities79▲ 3.7×2 topics
  38. Raman Lasers78▲ 3.6×2 topics
  39. Nanophotonic Waveguides76▲ 4.2×1 topic
  40. Whispering Gallery Mode76▲ 4.2×1 topic

What research is done in Ghent?

Photonic and Optical Dev…70Photonic and Optical Devices: 70 fractional worksConcrete and Cement Mate…47Concrete and Cement Materials Research: 47 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 44 fractional worksReproductive Biology and Fertility: 40 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Physiology: 38 fractional worksAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies: 37 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 36 fractional worksPlant Molecular Biology …36Plant Molecular Biology Research: 36 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 35 fractional worksAgroforestry and silvopastoral systems: 34 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringCivil and Structural EngineeringMolecular BiologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6 others

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

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 70 works
  2. 2 Concrete and Cement Materials Research Civil and Structural Engineering 47 works
  3. 3 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 44 works
  4. 4 Reproductive Biology and Fertility Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 40 works
  5. 5 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 38 works
  6. 6 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies Automotive Engineering 37 works
  7. 7 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 36 works
  8. 8 Plant Molecular Biology Research Plant Science 36 works
  9. 9 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 35 works
  10. 10 Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems Forestry 34 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%Ghent21.2% 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 35.5% in 2016.

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