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Research in Iquitos

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Iquitos, Peru. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Universidad Particular de Iquitos and Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana.

Research institutions
4
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.5k
▲ 39% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
6.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1966-2026
61 years on the record
Iquitos

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 Iquitos?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía PeruanaUniversity 643 #9,178
2Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía PeruanaResearch facility 608 #17,730
3Universidad Particular de IquitosUniversity 263 #16,100
4CONAPACNonprofit 4 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.

Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana: 42.4%Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana: 40.1%Universidad Particular de Iquitos: 17.3%CONAPAC: 0.3%42%largest
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana643 · 42.4%Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana608 · 40.1%Universidad Particular de Iquitos263 · 17.3%CONAPAC4 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Iquitos work in?

In 2022-now, 33% of research in Iquitos is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Environmental Science (17%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Social Sciences: 148 fractional works · 32.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 104 fractional works · 22.8% of its workEducation: 55 fractional works · 12.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDemography: 10 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 13 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 132 fractional works · 29.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 80 fractional works · 17.4% of its workEcology: 30 fractional works · 6.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 20 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 36 fractional works · 7.9% of its workInformation Systems: 21 fractional works · 4.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 122 fractional works · 26.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 91 fractional works · 20.0% of its workPlant Science: 20 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workFood Science: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAquatic Science: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInsect Science: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workForestry: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHorticulture: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workParasitology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 53 fractional works · 11.7% of its workMedicine: 35 fractional works · 7.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 14 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIquitos456fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences33%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences10422.8%
    2. Psychology194.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting132.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance61.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities61.3%
    6. Decision Sciences10.2%
    1. Environmental Science8017.4%
    2. Computer Science367.9%
    3. Engineering51.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.8%
    5. Mathematics30.7%
    6. Energy30.6%
    7. Chemistry10.3%
    8. Materials Science10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9120.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology184.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology81.7%
    4. Neuroscience30.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.4%
    1. Medicine357.7%
    2. Health Professions143.0%
    3. Nursing30.6%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
    5. Dentistry10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Iquitos strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Iquitos is most concentrated in Ecology (9.0× the world share in Ecology).

  1. EcologySubfield · 27.8 works9.0×
← 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 24 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: 4.26× its world share, 79 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.76× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.63× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.07× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.03× its world share, 32 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.65× its world share, 71 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.68× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.14× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.41× its world share, 31 worksMedicineNursing: 1.35× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.12× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.80× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.70× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.33× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 87 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.26×79 works
  2. Environmental Science3.65×71 works
  3. Social Sciences1.75×87 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.63×6 works
  5. Nursing1.35×3 works
  6. Psychology1.33×16 works
  7. Health Professions1.14×12 works
  8. Veterinary1.12×1 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.07×2 works
  10. Computer Science1.03×32 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.80×10 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.76×16 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.70×6 works
  14. Mathematics0.68×3 works
  15. Energy0.64×2 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.47×3 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.45×5 works
  18. Medicine0.41×31 works
  19. Dentistry0.32×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.21×1 works
  21. Decision Sciences0.13×0 works
  22. Neuroscience0.10×1 works
  23. Engineering0.08×4 works
  24. Materials Science0.05×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Iquitos?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Education, Climate Change, E-Learning, Invasive Species, Educational Technology, Digital Marketing and Conservation.

▲ 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. Biodiversity38▲ 11×23 topics
  2. Climate Change37▲ 3.0×52 topics
  3. Education35▲ 4.5×32 topics
  4. Sustainability28▲ 2.5×38 topics
  5. E-Learning26▲ 5.8×13 topics
  6. Educational Technology23▲ 4.3×21 topics
  7. Environmental Impact23▲ 3.0×22 topics
  8. Invasive Species22▲ 11×16 topics
  9. Public Health19▲ 2.9×34 topics
  10. Sustainable Development18▲ 2.5×22 topics
  11. COVID-1917▲ 2.9×13 topics
  12. Digital Marketing17▲ 9.7×3 topics
  13. Conservation17▲ 8.6×15 topics
  14. Food Security16▲ 6.7×16 topics
  15. Innovation16▲ 3.4×14 topics
  16. Knowledge Management16▲ 6.2×11 topics
  17. Nutrition15▲ 7.5×11 topics
  18. Economic Impact15▲ 6.2×5 topics
  19. Global Change14▲ 12×4 topics
  20. Molecular Phylogeny14▲ 19×10 topics
  21. Media Literacy12▲ 5.1×5 topics
  22. Genetic Diversity12▲ 6.1×18 topics
  23. Distance Learning12▲ 7.5×5 topics
  24. Population Dynamics12▲ 9.9×10 topics
  25. Ecosystem Services11▲ 6.4×8 topics
  26. Pedagogy11▲ 4.8×12 topics
  27. Biodiversity Conservation11▲ 6.4×12 topics
  28. Phylogenetic Analysis10▲ 7.3×11 topics
  29. Sustainable Agriculture10▲ 7.4×9 topics
  30. Community Ecology10▲ 27×2 topics
  31. Ecosystem10▲ 21×2 topics
  32. Fish Biodiversity10▲ 114×1 topic
  33. Freshwater Ecoregions10▲ 114×1 topic
  34. Evolution9▲ 7.4×11 topics
  35. Biogeography9▲ 7.0×13 topics
  36. Host-Parasite Interactions9▲ 65×1 topic
  37. Parasites9▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Innovation Ecosystems9▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Agroecology9▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Habitat Fragmentation8▲ 8.4×5 topics

What research is done in Iquitos?

Fish biology, ecology, a…9Fish biology, ecology, and behavior: 9 fractional worksSMEs Development and Dig…8SMEs Development and Digital Marketing: 8 fractional worksParasite Biology and Host Interactions: 8 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences7Plant and soil sciences: 7 fractional worksEnvironmental and Cultur…7Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond: 7 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 6 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 6 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, an…5Business, Innovation, and Economy: 5 fractional worksEducational Methods and Impacts: 5 fractional worksHealth and Lifestyle Studies: 4 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationDemographyEcologyGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences5 others

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

  1. 1 Fish biology, ecology, and behavior Nature and Landscape Conservation 9 works
  2. 2 SMEs Development and Digital Marketing Demography 8 works
  3. 3 Parasite Biology and Host Interactions Ecology 8 works
  4. 4 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 works
  5. 5 Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond Ecology 7 works
  6. 6 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 6 works
  7. 7 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6 works
  8. 8 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  9. 9 Educational Methods and Impacts Education 5 works
  10. 10 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 4 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 counting10%20%Iquitos10.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.5% in 2018.

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