Research in Karachi
Science Explorer records 71 research institutions in Karachi, Pakistan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Iqra University, Institute of Business Management and ILMA University.
- Research institutions
- 71 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 75k ▲ 48% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 771k 10.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 11.0% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Karachi?
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Karachi work in?
In 2022-now, 46% of research in Karachi is in Health Sciences, 26% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (39%), Social Sciences (11%), Engineering (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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
- Health Sciences13k45.6%
- Medicine11k39.3%
- Health Professions9803.4%
- Dentistry5812.0%
- Nursing2720.9%
- Veterinary250.1%
- Social Sciences7,56825.9%
- Social Sciences3,19710.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,6265.6%
- Psychology1,0863.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance9313.2%
- Arts and Humanities4051.4%
- Decision Sciences3231.1%
- Physical Sciences5,24517.9%
- Engineering1,6835.8%
- Computer Science1,5735.4%
- Environmental Science7812.7%
- Materials Science3611.2%
- Chemistry2871.0%
- Energy1700.6%
- Mathematics1330.5%
- Physics and Astronomy1070.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1060.4%
- Chemical Engineering420.1%
- Life Sciences3,07510.5%
What is Karachi strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Karachi is most concentrated in General Dentistry, Periodontics and Dentistry (8.7× the world share in General Dentistry).
- General DentistrySubfield · 97.7 works8.7×
- PeriodonticsSubfield · 160.3 works4.6×
- DentistryField · 521.4 works4.2×
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 51.3 works4.0×
- Medical Laboratory TechnologySubfield · 29.9 works3.8×
- Oral SurgerySubfield · 186.2 works3.8×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Dentistry4.19×521 works
- Medicine2.04×10k works
- Nursing1.89×238 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.79×1,482 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.76×159 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.55×850 works
- Health Professions1.29×871 works
- Psychology1.21×944 works
- Decision Sciences1.15×286 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.07×276 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.91×1,247 works
- Social Sciences0.84×2,731 works
- Neuroscience0.75×314 works
- Computer Science0.69×1,375 works
- Energy0.67×158 works
- Chemistry0.65×261 works
- Veterinary0.62×22 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.57×697 works
- Environmental Science0.55×698 works
- Chemical Engineering0.43×39 works
- Arts and Humanities0.42×310 works
- Engineering0.39×1,494 works
- Mathematics0.39×119 works
- Materials Science0.35×316 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×90 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.16×89 works
Which keywords describe research in Karachi?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Treatment, COVID-19, Diagnosis and Machine Learning.
- Shariah Supervision
- Global Financial Crisis
- Finance
- Heart Failure
- Immune Response
- Consumer Behavior
- Diabetes
- Chemotherapy
- Mortality
- Supply Chain Management
- Guidelines
- Pandemic
- Depression
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- COVID-19
- Quality of Life
- Diagnosis
- Healthcare
- Public Health
- Management
- Social Media
- Global Burden
- Obesity
- Meta-Analysis
- Risk Management
- Complications
- Insulin Resistance
- Pathogenesis
- Maternal Mortality
- Financial Stability
- Ethical Identity
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
- Epidemiology2,507▲ 2.1×138 topics
- Machine Learning1,032◆ 1.06×96 topics
- Inflammation984▲ 1.58×83 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease848▲ 2.5×39 topics
- Deep Learning772▼ 0.77×84 topics
- Treatment757▲ 2.1×52 topics
- COVID-19742▲ 1.95×31 topics
- Risk Factors733▲ 2.3×37 topics
- Quality of Life726▲ 1.72×56 topics
- Oxidative Stress648▲ 1.35×62 topics
- Diagnosis637▲ 2.3×41 topics
- Mental Health637▲ 1.52×43 topics
- Healthcare593▲ 1.78×38 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome590▲ 2.5×24 topics
- Public Health574▲ 1.35×66 topics
- Depression570▲ 2.2×24 topics
- Management547▲ 2.3×38 topics
- Pandemic525▲ 1.81×13 topics
- Social Media518▲ 1.28×38 topics
- Guidelines479▲ 3.5×13 topics
- Global Burden474▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Supply Chain Management462▲ 1.76×24 topics
- Obesity430▲ 1.91×28 topics
- Mortality410▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Meta-Analysis401▲ 2.3×21 topics
- Chemotherapy394▲ 1.90×25 topics
- Risk Management383▲ 2.8×16 topics
- Diabetes372▲ 2.5×22 topics
- Complications367▲ 2.5×17 topics
- Consumer Behavior365▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Insulin Resistance361▲ 2.7×10 topics
- Immune Response354▲ 2.1×23 topics
- Pathogenesis352▲ 2.4×24 topics
- Heart Failure313▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Maternal Mortality287▲ 4.4×5 topics
- Finance246▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Financial Stability238▲ 4.2×7 topics
- Global Financial Crisis212▲ 5.6×3 topics
- Ethical Identity209▲ 6.2×1 topic
- Shariah Supervision209▲ 6.2×1 topic
What research is done in Karachi?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 199 works
- 2 Education and Islamic Studies Education 142 works
- 3 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 115 works
- 4 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 111 works
- 5 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 110 works
- 6 Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East Political Science and International Relations 110 works
- 7 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 110 works
- 8 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 106 works
- 9 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 101 works
- 10 Dental Research and COVID-19 General Dentistry 98 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.0% in 2010.
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Science Explorer records 71 research institutions in Karachi, Pakistan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Iqra University, Institute of Business Management and ILMA University.
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