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Research in Harpenden

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Harpenden, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Rothamsted Research.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6.5k
▼ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
386k
59.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
30.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Harpenden

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 Harpenden?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Rothamsted ResearchResearch facility 5,987 #5,181
2A-T SocietyInstitution 497 #16,384 all time
3Agrimetrics (United Kingdom)Company 16 not ranked
4Rothamsted InternationalNonprofit 7 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.

Rothamsted Research: 92.0%A-T Society: 7.6%Agrimetrics (United Kingdom): 0.2%Rothamsted International: 0.1%92%largest
Rothamsted Research5,987 · 92.0%A-T Society497 · 7.6%Agrimetrics (United Kingdom)16 · 0.2%Rothamsted International7 · 0.1%

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

Which fields of science does Harpenden work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research in Harpenden is in Life Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (41%), Environmental Science (22%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%). It does 3.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 265 fractional works · 53.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 200 fractional works · 40.6% of its workPlant Science: 91 fractional works · 18.4% of its workSoil Science: 39 fractional works · 7.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 18 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInsect Science: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workFood Science: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workForestry: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 61 fractional works · 12.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 31 fractional works · 6.3% of its workGenetics: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCell Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiochemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 161 fractional works · 32.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 110 fractional works · 22.4% of its workEcology: 30 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 16 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 42 fractional works · 8.5% of its workMedicine: 26 fractional works · 5.2% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNursing: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKHarpenden493fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences54%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences5%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20040.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6112.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.4%
    4. Neuroscience20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Environmental Science11022.4%
    2. Engineering153.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences91.7%
    4. Computer Science81.7%
    5. Chemistry61.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy51.1%
    7. Mathematics30.6%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    9. Materials Science10.3%
    10. Energy10.2%
    1. Medicine265.2%
    2. Nursing132.7%
    3. Veterinary20.4%
    4. Health Professions10.2%
    1. Social Sciences102.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance91.9%
    3. Decision Sciences20.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities20.4%
    5. Psychology10.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Harpenden strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Harpenden is most concentrated in Soil Science, Plant Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26.7× the world share in Soil Science).

  1. Soil ScienceSubfield · 34.1 works27×
  2. Plant ScienceSubfield · 77.0 works10×
  3. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 174.3 works8.6×
  4. EcologySubfield · 26.6 works8.0×
← 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: 8.62× its world share, 174 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.26× its world share, 51 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.67× its world share, 99 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.64× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.30× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 5.58× its world share, 12 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.07× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.99× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8.62×174 works
  2. Nursing5.58×12 works
  3. Environmental Science4.67×99 works
  4. Veterinary3.07×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.26×51 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.99×7 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.99×9 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.74×1 works
  9. Chemistry0.74×5 works
  10. Mathematics0.64×3 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.44×2 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.39×2 works
  13. Medicine0.30×24 works
  14. Energy0.24×1 works
  15. Engineering0.22×14 works
  16. Neuroscience0.17×1 works
  17. Computer Science0.17×6 works
  18. Social Sciences0.12×6 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.11×1 works
  20. Psychology0.11×1 works
  21. Health Professions0.10×1 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.10×1 works
  23. Materials Science0.08×1 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.04×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Harpenden?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Ecosystem Functioning, Soil Fertility, Microbial Communities, Nutrient Limitation, Biochar Application and Nitrogen Cycle.

▲ 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 Change84▲ 6.2×64 topics
  2. Soil Carbon Sequestration28▲ 70×2 topics
  3. Ecosystem Functioning27▲ 26×7 topics
  4. Soil Fertility26▲ 23×6 topics
  5. Microbial Communities25▲ 12×7 topics
  6. Environmental Impact24▲ 2.9×27 topics
  7. Nutrient Limitation24▲ 43×2 topics
  8. Biochar Application24▲ 46×1 topic
  9. Nitrogen Cycle24▲ 71×1 topic
  10. Sustainability22▲ 1.82×27 topics
  11. Land Use Change21▲ 14×8 topics
  12. Water Quality19▲ 9.4×8 topics
  13. Remote Sensing16▲ 2.7×19 topics
  14. Nutrient Cycling16▲ 44×3 topics
  15. QTL Mapping15▲ 26×6 topics
  16. Eutrophication15▲ 27×3 topics
  17. Health Effects14▲ 4.8×15 topics
  18. Hyporheic Zone14▲ 134×1 topic
  19. Phosphorus Management14▲ 134×1 topic
  20. Biodiversity14▲ 3.8×17 topics
  21. Sustainable Agriculture14▲ 9.0×8 topics
  22. Agricultural Sustainability13▲ 24×3 topics
  23. Genome Sequencing13▲ 16×6 topics
  24. Genetic Improvement12▲ 29×4 topics
  25. Crop Improvement12▲ 51×2 topics
  26. Greenhouse Gas Emissions12▲ 9.0×5 topics
  27. Phylogenetic Analysis12▲ 7.9×9 topics
  28. Invasive Species12▲ 5.7×18 topics
  29. Sediment Transport12▲ 15×3 topics
  30. Genetic Diversity11▲ 5.3×13 topics
  31. Soil Degradation11▲ 44×2 topics
  32. Ecosystem Services11▲ 5.8×10 topics
  33. Global Carbon Budget11▲ 30×2 topics
  34. Biological Control11▲ 14×9 topics
  35. Livestock Production10▲ 22×2 topics
  36. Yield Potential10▲ 39×2 topics
  37. Hydrological Modeling10▲ 8.3×4 topics
  38. Phosphorus10▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Genetic Mapping10▲ 25×6 topics
  40. Model Evaluation10▲ 15×2 topics

What research is done in Harpenden?

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen…21Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 21 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 13 fractional worksSoil erosion and sediment transport: 9 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 8 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 7 fractional worksWheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology: 6 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interaction…6Insect-Plant Interactions and Control: 6 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 6 fractional worksFood composition and properties: 5 fractional worksPlant nutrient uptake and metabolism: 5 fractional works
Soil ScienceEnvironmental ChemistryEcologyWater Science and Technology4 others

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

  1. 1 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 21 works
  2. 2 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 13 works
  3. 3 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 9 works
  4. 4 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 8 works
  5. 5 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 7 works
  6. 6 Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology Plant Science 6 works
  7. 7 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 6 works
  8. 8 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 6 works
  9. 9 Food composition and properties Nutrition and Dietetics 5 works
  10. 10 Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism Plant Science 5 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%60%Harpenden26.2% 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 57.7% in 2016.

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