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Research in Kyiv

Science Explorer records 17 research institutions in Kyiv. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are State University of Infrastructure and Technologies, National Scientific Centre “Institute of Agrarian Economics” and University of Educational Management.

Research institutions
17
10 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4k
▲ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.9k
1.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
13.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Kyiv

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 Kyiv?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1State University of Infrastructure and TechnologiesUniversity 909 #7,151
2National Scientific Centre “Institute of Agrarian Economics”Government institution 470 #7,618
3University of Educational ManagementUniversity 434 #9,657
4Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety ExaminationResearch facility 410 #21,203
5Institute of Social and Political PsychologyUniversity 338 #14,308
6Institute of Higher Education of NAES of UkraineGovernment institution 335 #11,273
7Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of UkraineUniversity 203 #15,074
8Institute for Digitalisation of Education of the NAES of UkraineGovernment institution 178 #10,180
9International European UniversityUniversity 146 #14,251
10State Enterprise «All-Ukrainian State Research and Production Center for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Consumers Rights Protection»Government institution 112 #19,973
11Academician F. H. Burchak Scientific-Research Institute of Private Law and EntrepreneurshipGovernment institution 68 not ranked
12Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of UkraineGovernment institution 48 not ranked
13State Scientific Institution "Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information"Government institution 20 not ranked
14American University KyivUniversity 13 not ranked
15National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of UkraineArchive 11 not ranked
16National Research Foundation of UkraineGovernment institution 5 not ranked
17Institute of Reflective Investigation and SpecializationResearch facility 0 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.

State University of Infrastructure and Technologies: 24.6%National Scientific Centre “Institute of Agrarian Economics”: 12.7%University of Educational Management: 11.7%Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety Examination: 11.1%12 others listed: 39.9%25%largest
State University of Infrastructure and Technologies909 · 24.6%National Scientific Centre “Institute of Agrarian Economics”470 · 12.7%University of Educational Management434 · 11.7%Ukrainian Institute for Plant Variety Examination410 · 11.1%12 others listed1,477 · 39.9%

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

Which fields of science does Kyiv work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research in Kyiv is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Engineering (17%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (12%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,116 fractional works · 55.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 710 fractional works · 35.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 263 fractional works · 13.1% of its workTransportation: 211 fractional works · 10.5% of its workEducation: 98 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 89 fractional works · 4.5% of its workDevelopment: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 239 fractional works · 11.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 137 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 95 fractional works · 4.7% of its workFinance: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 78 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 30 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 24 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 53 fractional works · 2.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 21 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 17 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 667 fractional works · 33.3% of its workEngineering: 347 fractional works · 17.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 216 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 24 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 164 fractional works · 8.2% of its workInformation Systems: 129 fractional works · 6.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 132 fractional works · 6.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 63 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 53 fractional works · 2.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 147 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 133 fractional works · 6.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 81 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPlant Science: 26 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 75 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMedicine: 53 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnatomy: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKKyiv2,005fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences56%

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. Social Sciences1,11655.7%
    1. Social Sciences71035.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23911.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting783.9%
    4. Psychology532.6%
    5. Decision Sciences190.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities170.9%
    1. Engineering34717.3%
    2. Computer Science1648.2%
    3. Environmental Science1326.6%
    4. Materials Science70.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy50.2%
    6. Chemistry30.2%
    7. Mathematics30.2%
    8. Energy30.1%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1336.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology60.3%
    3. Neuroscience50.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
    1. Medicine532.6%
    2. Health Professions190.9%
    3. Nursing30.1%
    4. Dentistry10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Kyiv strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Kyiv is most concentrated in Transportation, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Aerospace Engineering (32.6× the world share in Transportation).

  1. TransportationSubfield · 200.6 works33×
  2. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 85.9 works19×
  3. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 206.3 works9.6×
  4. General Agricultural and Biological SciencesSubfield · 62.1 works7.6×
← 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: 1.24× its world share, 109 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.03× its world share, 148 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.21× its world share, 334 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.28× its world share, 118 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 18 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 49 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 17 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.22× its world share, 73 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 17 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.29× its world share, 209 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 47 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.86× its world share, 668 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.29×209 works
  2. Social Sciences2.86×668 works
  3. Environmental Science1.28×118 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.24×109 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.22×73 works
  6. Engineering1.21×334 works
  7. Computer Science1.03×148 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.95×17 works
  9. Psychology0.84×47 works
  10. Health Professions0.36×18 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.32×17 works
  12. Nursing0.28×3 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.20×1 works
  14. Energy0.16×3 works
  15. Neuroscience0.15×4 works
  16. Medicine0.14×49 works
  17. Mathematics0.13×3 works
  18. Chemistry0.11×3 works
  19. Materials Science0.11×7 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.11×4 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×2 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×3 works
  23. Dentistry0.07×1 works
  24. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×6 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.06×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Kyiv?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sustainable Development, Economic Security, Legal Regulation, Foresight, Ethnicity, Modernization, Strategic Planning and Air Force.

▲ 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. Sustainable Development359▲ 11×48 topics
  2. Economic Security299▲ 70×7 topics
  3. Legal Regulation237▲ 53×8 topics
  4. Foresight218▲ 83×2 topics
  5. Ethnicity216▲ 29×5 topics
  6. Modernization212▲ 58×3 topics
  7. Strategic Planning212▲ 72×2 topics
  8. Air Force211▲ 89×1 topic
  9. Warfare211▲ 89×1 topic
  10. Philosophy210▲ 24×10 topics
  11. History209▲ 15×10 topics
  12. Culture209▲ 20×8 topics
  13. Literature209▲ 19×10 topics
  14. Public Oversight207▲ 84×1 topic
  15. Transport Policy207▲ 84×1 topic
  16. Science207▲ 42×3 topics
  17. Islam206▲ 50×1 topic
  18. Social Influence206▲ 49×1 topic
  19. Innovation195▲ 9.4×48 topics
  20. Globalization179▲ 4.5×49 topics
  21. Financial Security167▲ 79×3 topics
  22. Economic Development164▲ 10×26 topics
  23. Environmental Management125▲ 15×11 topics
  24. Education125▲ 3.6×44 topics
  25. Educational Technology111▲ 4.7×20 topics
  26. Artificial Intelligence110▲ 3.9×29 topics
  27. Digital Transformation100▲ 9.2×17 topics
  28. Pedagogy90▲ 9.0×11 topics
  29. Online Learning83▲ 5.0×9 topics
  30. Teacher Training83▲ 6.8×11 topics
  31. Distance Learning82▲ 12×8 topics
  32. Industrial Policy77▲ 36×5 topics
  33. Food Security75▲ 6.9×7 topics
  34. Digital Literacy73▲ 6.4×5 topics
  35. Public Finance71▲ 80×2 topics
  36. Fiscal Risks71▲ 99×1 topic
  37. Smart Industry71▲ 99×1 topic
  38. Resource Efficiency70▲ 26×3 topics
  39. Green Economy64▲ 68×3 topics
  40. Renewable Energy Sources64▲ 69×2 topics

What research is done in Kyiv?

Military Technology and …202Military Technology and Strategies: 202 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…197Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 197 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…196Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 196 fractional worksEconomic Issues in Ukraine: 66 fractional worksEconomic and Business Development Strategies: 53 fractional worksBusiness and Economic Development: 47 fractional worksInnovative Educational Technologies: 42 fractional worksLabor Market and Education: 39 fractional worksEducation and Social Development in Ukraine: 38 fractional worksAgriculture Market Analysis Ukraine: 33 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringTransportationSociology and Political ScienceGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance5 others

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

  1. 1 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 202 works
  2. 2 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 197 works
  3. 3 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 196 works
  4. 4 Economic Issues in Ukraine General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 66 works
  5. 5 Economic and Business Development Strategies Economics and Econometrics 53 works
  6. 6 Business and Economic Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 47 works
  7. 7 Innovative Educational Technologies Information Systems 42 works
  8. 8 Labor Market and Education Economics and Econometrics 39 works
  9. 9 Education and Social Development in Ukraine Education 38 works
  10. 10 Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 works

Research output over time

still counting20052010201520202025
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%Kyiv14.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.1% in 2020.

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