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Research in Iligan City

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Iligan City, Philippines. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.5k
▲ 123% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.2k
2.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Iligan City

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 Iligan City?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyUniversity 3,438 #5,537
2Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital CollegeHospital / health system 76 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 Iligan City work in?

In 2022-now, 44% of research in Iligan City is in Physical Sciences, 38% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (33%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Environmental Science (11%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,222 fractional works · 44.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 379 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPaleontology: 334 fractional works · 12.1% of its workOceanography: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 301 fractional works · 10.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 101 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEcology: 83 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 31 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPollution: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 182 fractional works · 6.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 51 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 172 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiomaterials: 148 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 130 fractional works · 4.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 55 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 26 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1,058 fractional works · 38.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 908 fractional works · 32.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 822 fractional works · 29.7% of its workPlant Science: 36 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInsect Science: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 136 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 52 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiotechnology: 36 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 379 fractional works · 13.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 223 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEducation: 101 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 49 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDemography: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 67 fractional works · 2.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 21 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 108 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 64 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 37 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKIligan City2,766fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences38%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences14%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences37913.7%
    2. Environmental Science30110.9%
    3. Engineering1826.6%
    4. Materials Science1726.2%
    5. Computer Science1304.7%
    6. Mathematics240.9%
    7. Chemistry180.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy90.3%
    9. Energy60.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.0%
  2. Life Sciences1,05838.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences90832.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1364.9%
    3. Neuroscience50.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology40.1%
    1. Social Sciences2238.1%
    2. Psychology672.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting331.2%
    4. Arts and Humanities210.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance190.7%
    6. Decision Sciences170.6%
    1. Medicine642.3%
    2. Health Professions371.3%
    3. Nursing70.2%
    4. Veterinary10.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Iligan City strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Iligan City is most concentrated in Computational Theory and Mathematics (13.8× the world share in Computational Theory and Mathematics).

  1. Computational Theory and MathematicsSubfield · 53.3 works14×
← 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: 1.15× its world share, 50 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.61× its world share, 30 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.39× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.93× its world share, 13 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.69× its world share, 119 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.65× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.17× its world share, 158 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.97× its world share, 88 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.92× its world share, 29 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.93× its world share, 20 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.32× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.29× its world share, 31 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 51 worksMedicineNursing: 1.27× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.52× its world share, 14 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.97× its world share, 28 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.43× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.89× its world share, 17 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.86× its world share, 51 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.29× its world share, 148 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science1.97×88 works
  2. Mathematics1.93×20 works
  3. Psychology1.86×51 works
  4. Computer Science1.69×119 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.43×12 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.39×4 works
  7. Health Professions1.29×31 works
  8. Social Sciences1.29×148 works
  9. Nursing1.27×6 works
  10. Engineering1.17×158 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.15×50 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.97×14 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.97×28 works
  14. Chemistry0.93×13 works
  15. Materials Science0.92×29 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.89×17 works
  17. Energy0.65×5 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.61×30 works
  19. Veterinary0.61×1 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.52×14 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.39×4 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.32×1 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.32×6 works
  24. Medicine0.29×51 works
  25. Neuroscience0.21×3 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Iligan City?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biogeography, Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Evolution, Ecology, Biodiversity, DNA Barcoding and Coleoptera.

▲ 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. Biogeography766▲ 99×17 topics
  2. Taxonomy616▲ 153×10 topics
  3. Phylogeny606▲ 131×14 topics
  4. Evolution454▲ 61×12 topics
  5. Ecology435▲ 92×5 topics
  6. Biodiversity413▲ 20×21 topics
  7. DNA Barcoding298▲ 62×9 topics
  8. Coleoptera284▲ 394×2 topics
  9. Phylogenetic Analysis260▲ 30×11 topics
  10. Speciation218▲ 177×3 topics
  11. Adaptation218▲ 26×7 topics
  12. Groundwater217▲ 84×4 topics
  13. Genetic Analysis216▲ 153×2 topics
  14. Cavefish216▲ 401×1 topic
  15. Subterranean216▲ 401×1 topic
  16. Neotropical Region211▲ 426×2 topics
  17. Cryptic Species211▲ 299×2 topics
  18. Systematics210▲ 378×2 topics
  19. Diversity210▲ 43×5 topics
  20. molecular209▲ 124×2 topics
  21. Collembola208▲ 1155×1 topic
  22. morphological208▲ 1155×1 topic
  23. Diversification200▲ 163×2 topics
  24. Morphology193▲ 39×6 topics
  25. beetles180▲ 389×1 topic
  26. Habitat Fragmentation163▲ 27×5 topics
  27. Conservation162▲ 14×16 topics
  28. Environmental Monitoring148▲ 14×9 topics
  29. Molecular Phylogeny144▲ 32×8 topics
  30. Self-Assembly138▲ 15×5 topics
  31. Nanostructured Materials136▲ 29×3 topics
  32. Invasive Species135▲ 12×17 topics
  33. Surface Functionalization135▲ 85×2 topics
  34. Biomimetic Synthesis135▲ 256×1 topic
  35. Peptide-Directed Materials135▲ 256×1 topic
  36. Endemism110▲ 213×2 topics
  37. Cladistic Analysis107▲ 452×1 topic
  38. Regionalization107▲ 452×1 topic
  39. Cerambycidae104▲ 402×1 topic
  40. Host Plants104▲ 265×1 topic

What research is done in Iligan City?

Advanced Graph Theory Re…39Advanced Graph Theory Research: 39 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 10 fractional worksGraph Labeling and Dimension Problems: 8 fractional worksRecycling and Waste Management Techniques: 7 fractional worksEnergy Harvesting in Wireless Networks: 6 fractional worksWater Quality Monitoring Technologies: 6 fractional worksSports and Physical Education Research: 6 fractional worksPhilippine History and Culture: 6 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 6 fractional worksScience Education and Pedagogy: 5 fractional works
Computational Theory and MathematicsPollutionIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringElectrical and Electronic Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Graph Theory Research Computational Theory and Mathematics 39 works
  2. 2 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 10 works
  3. 3 Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems Computational Theory and Mathematics 8 works
  4. 4 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 7 works
  5. 5 Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  6. 6 Water Quality Monitoring Technologies Water Science and Technology 6 works
  7. 7 Sports and Physical Education Research Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 6 works
  8. 8 Philippine History and Culture Anthropology 6 works
  9. 9 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 6 works
  10. 10 Science Education and Pedagogy Education 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Iligan City8.3% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.8% in 2014.

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