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Research in La Plata

Science Explorer records 6 research institutions in La Plata, Argentina. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas and Ministerio de Salud - Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Research institutions
6
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
38k
▼ 24% vs 2018-21
Citations
425k
11.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
La Plata

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 La Plata?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Universidad Nacional de La PlataUniversity 28,429 #2,102
2Comisión de Investigaciones CientíficasGovernment institution 1,608 #10,049
3Ministerio de Salud - Provincia de Buenos AiresGovernment institution 408 #12,080
4Hospital de Niños Superiora Sor María LudovicaHospital / health system 362 #27,423 all time
5Universidad Notarial ArgentinaUniversity 293 #26,477 all time
6Universidad Católica de La PlataUniversity 166 #29,624 all time

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 Plata: 90.9%Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas: 5.1%Ministerio de Salud - Provincia de Buenos Aires: 1.3%Hospital de Niños Superiora Sor María Ludovica: 1.2%2 others listed: 1.5%91%largest
Universidad Nacional de La Plata28k · 90.9%Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas1,608 · 5.1%Ministerio de Salud - Provincia de Buenos Aires408 · 1.3%Hospital de Niños Superiora Sor María Ludovica362 · 1.2%2 others listed459 · 1.5%

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

Which fields of science does La Plata work in?

In 2022-now, 41% of research in La Plata is in Social Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Arts and Humanities (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,544 fractional works · 40.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,516 fractional works · 24.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 323 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEducation: 204 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCultural Studies: 174 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 172 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAnthropology: 108 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 72 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 72 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 67 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrban Studies: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 62 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 57 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopment: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 644 fractional works · 10.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 141 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHistory: 88 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhilosophy: 76 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 76 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 69 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 63 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 43 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 200 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 105 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 99 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 75 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 67 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,954 fractional works · 31.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 383 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEcology: 113 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 330 fractional works · 5.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 98 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 91 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 64 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInstrumentation: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 315 fractional works · 5.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 73 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 61 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 300 fractional works · 4.8% of its workInformation Systems: 88 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 57 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 52 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 33 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 231 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPaleontology: 111 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeophysics: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 168 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 84 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomaterials: 41 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 121 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 59 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 44 fractional works · 0.7% of its workChemical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1,091 fractional works · 17.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 637 fractional works · 10.2% of its workPlant Science: 171 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 135 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFood Science: 111 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInsect Science: 72 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 58 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAquatic Science: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 293 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 149 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 69 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 59 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 670 fractional works · 10.7% of its workMedicine: 490 fractional works · 7.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 78 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 44 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 138 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Professions: 89 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 52 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 56 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 56 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLa Plata6,258fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences41%

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. Social Sciences2,54440.6%
    1. Social Sciences1,51624.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities64410.3%
    3. Psychology2003.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance991.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting671.1%
    6. Decision Sciences180.3%
    1. Environmental Science3836.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy3305.3%
    3. Engineering3155.0%
    4. Computer Science3004.8%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences2313.7%
    6. Materials Science1682.7%
    7. Chemistry1211.9%
    8. Energy470.8%
    9. Mathematics440.7%
    10. Chemical Engineering140.2%
  3. Life Sciences1,09117.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences63710.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2934.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology691.1%
    4. Neuroscience590.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics320.5%
    1. Medicine4907.8%
    2. Health Professions891.4%
    3. Nursing560.9%
    4. Veterinary260.4%
    5. Dentistry80.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is La Plata strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in La Plata is most concentrated in Life-span and Life-course Studies, Paleontology and General Social Sciences (22.7× the world share in Life-span and Life-course Studies).

  1. Life-span and Life-course StudiesSubfield · 21.1 works23×
  2. PaleontologySubfield · 91.5 works14×
  3. General Social SciencesSubfield · 69.5 works11×
  4. MuseologySubfield · 58.9 works8.6×
  5. Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 70.8 works7.7×
  6. Cultural StudiesSubfield · 159.0 works7.0×
← 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: 1.99× its world share, 530 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.84× its world share, 252 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.02× its world share, 58 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.57× its world share, 51 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.51× its world share, 30 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.63× its world share, 12 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.23× its world share, 108 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.64× its world share, 277 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.18× its world share, 192 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.84× its world share, 44 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 283 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.19× its world share, 331 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.74× its world share, 144 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.59× its world share, 39 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.15× its world share, 268 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 85 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.41× its world share, 437 worksMedicineNursing: 1.82× its world share, 50 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.14× its world share, 24 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.76× its world share, 609 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 64 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.78× its world share, 94 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.08× its world share, 184 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.00× its world share, 1,415 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.76×609 works
  2. Veterinary3.14×24 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.18×192 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy2.15×268 works
  5. Social Sciences2.00×1,415 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.99×530 works
  7. Nursing1.82×50 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.51×30 works
  9. Chemistry1.23×108 works
  10. Environmental Science1.19×331 works
  11. Psychology1.08×184 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology1.02×58 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.84×252 works
  14. Energy0.84×44 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.78×94 works
  16. Materials Science0.74×144 works
  17. Computer Science0.64×277 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.63×12 works
  19. Mathematics0.59×39 works
  20. Health Professions0.58×85 works
  21. Neuroscience0.57×51 works
  22. Medicine0.41×437 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.36×64 works
  24. Engineering0.34×283 works
  25. Dentistry0.28×8 works
  26. Decision Sciences0.28×15 works

Which keywords describe research in La Plata?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Latin America, Globalization, Gender, Education, Social Movements, History, Memory and Cultural Studies.

▲ 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. Globalization423▲ 3.4×95 topics
  2. Education340▲ 3.2×84 topics
  3. Latin America290▲ 24×21 topics
  4. Climate Change283▲ 1.66×95 topics
  5. Gender251▲ 7.5×46 topics
  6. History231▲ 5.3×46 topics
  7. Social Movements208▲ 11×27 topics
  8. Human Rights191▲ 3.0×45 topics
  9. Public Health190▲ 2.1×56 topics
  10. Identity186▲ 4.1×46 topics
  11. Memory177▲ 12×17 topics
  12. Cultural Studies166▲ 7.2×28 topics
  13. Biodiversity148▲ 3.1×30 topics
  14. Literature145▲ 4.2×39 topics
  15. Innovation144▲ 2.2×40 topics
  16. Social Inequality143▲ 8.5×14 topics
  17. Neoliberalism141▲ 6.3×23 topics
  18. Cultural Identity138▲ 4.4×24 topics
  19. Cultural Heritage121▲ 3.6×27 topics
  20. Colonialism117▲ 3.9×33 topics
  21. Communication115▲ 5.8×17 topics
  22. Biogeography115▲ 6.6×20 topics
  23. Invasive Species111▲ 4.2×21 topics
  24. Feminism111▲ 6.0×20 topics
  25. Ethics107▲ 3.4×42 topics
  26. Technology107▲ 3.3×22 topics
  27. Culture106▲ 3.2×28 topics
  28. Inequality103▲ 7.2×15 topics
  29. Society101▲ 8.4×16 topics
  30. Political Violence95▲ 60×3 topics
  31. Phylogeny89▲ 8.5×17 topics
  32. Molecular Phylogeny89▲ 8.6×11 topics
  33. Politics87▲ 5.3×17 topics
  34. Violence84▲ 9.1×12 topics
  35. Dictatorship82▲ 75×2 topics
  36. Gender Studies75▲ 7.9×17 topics
  37. Welfare State75▲ 15×4 topics
  38. Economy74▲ 16×5 topics
  39. Social Sciences74▲ 8.2×16 topics
  40. Social History71▲ 14×6 topics

What research is done in La Plata?

Memory, violence, and hi…62Memory, violence, and history: 62 fractional worksLatin American socio-pol…58Latin American socio-political dynamics: 58 fractional worksArgentine historical studies: 52 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Poli…52Social Sciences and Policies: 52 fractional worksLatin American Urban Stu…48Latin American Urban Studies: 48 fractional worksLatin American Literature Studies: 38 fractional worksGender and Feminist Studies: 38 fractional worksPhotographic and Visual …37Photographic and Visual Arts: 37 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 37 fractional worksComparative Literary Analysis and Criticism: 36 fractional works
Social PsychologySociology and Political ScienceCultural StudiesGeneral Social Sciences5 others

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

  1. 1 Memory, violence, and history Social Psychology 62 works
  2. 2 Latin American socio-political dynamics Sociology and Political Science 58 works
  3. 3 Argentine historical studies Cultural Studies 52 works
  4. 4 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 52 works
  5. 5 Latin American Urban Studies Urban Studies 48 works
  6. 6 Latin American Literature Studies Cultural Studies 38 works
  7. 7 Gender and Feminist Studies Gender Studies 38 works
  8. 8 Photographic and Visual Arts Museology 37 works
  9. 9 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 37 works
  10. 10 Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 36 works

Research output over time

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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 2025La Plata9.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.4% in 2016.

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