Research in Lahore
Science Explorer records 60 research institutions in Lahore, Pakistan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Education, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
- Research institutions
- 60 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 85k ▲ 71% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 839k 9.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 14.0% 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 Lahore?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of the PunjabUniversity | 16,042 | #3,557 | |
| 2 | University of LahoreUniversity | 7,109 | #4,680 | |
| 3 | University of Engineering and Technology LahoreUniversity | 5,774 | #3,257 | |
| 4 | Government College University, LahoreUniversity | 4,663 | #4,045 | |
| 5 | University of Veterinary and Animal SciencesUniversity | 3,505 | #8,455 | |
| 6 | University of EducationUniversity | 3,446 | #2,706 | |
| 7 | Lahore University of Management SciencesUniversity | 3,228 | #3,394 | |
| 8 | Information Technology UniversityUniversity | 3,128 | #4,305 | |
| 9 | Lahore College for Women UniversityUniversity | 2,583 | #4,275 | |
| 10 | Superior UniversityUniversity | 2,432 | #4,837 | |
| 11 | University of Central PunjabUniversity | 2,194 | #4,035 | |
| 12 | CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of DentistryHospital / health system | 1,997 | #16,880 | |
| 13 | King Edward Medical UniversityUniversity | 1,986 | #15,365 | |
| 14 | University College LahoreUniversity | 1,831 | #8,171 | |
| 15 | University of Health Sciences LahoreUniversity | 1,475 | #14,330 | |
| 16 | Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research CenterHospital / health system | 1,438 | #19,396 | |
| 17 | Allama Iqbal Medical CollegeUniversity | 1,316 | #15,156 | |
| 18 | Mayo HospitalHospital / health system | 1,234 | #16,111 | |
| 19 | Forman Christian CollegeUniversity | 1,195 | #7,025 | |
| 20 | Lahore Garrison UniversityUniversity | 1,102 | #5,273 | |
| 21 | Lahore General HospitalHospital / health system | 1,078 | #15,952 | |
| 22 | National College of Business Administration and EconomicsUniversity | 1,050 | #3,722 | |
| 23 | Virtual University of PakistanUniversity | 930 | #5,827 | |
| 24 | Minhaj University LahoreUniversity | 926 | #5,810 | |
| 25 | Government College of ScienceUniversity | 920 | #6,499 | |
| 26 | Punjab Institute of CardiologyHospital / health system | 919 | #14,943 | |
| 27 | Post Graduate Medical InstituteHospital / health system | 722 | #14,135 | |
| 28 | Lahore School of EconomicsUniversity | 718 | #8,866 | |
| 29 | Services HospitalHospital / health system | 676 | #16,083 | |
| 30 | Shaikh Zayed HospitalHospital / health system | 658 | #16,123 | |
| 31 | Services Institute of Medical SciencesUniversity | 637 | #13,434 | |
| 32 | Shalamar HospitalHospital / health system | 616 | #14,383 | |
| 33 | Fatima Jinnah Medical UniversityUniversity | 610 | #15,128 | |
| 34 | Kinnaird College for Women UniversityUniversity | 609 | #7,777 | |
| 35 | Centre of Excellence in Molecular BiologyUniversity | 597 | #16,645 | |
| 36 | Sir Ganga Ram HospitalHospital / health system | 590 | #18,839 | |
| 37 | Lahore Leads UniversityUniversity | 582 | #8,025 | |
| 38 | Qarshi UniversityUniversity | 582 | #7,864 | |
| 39 | Farooq HospitalHospital / health system | 568 | #13,944 | |
| 40 | Rashid Latif Medical CollegeUniversity | 529 | #14,704 | |
| 41 | Shaikh Zayed Postgraduate Medical InstituteHospital / health system | 490 | #16,808 | |
| 42 | Water and Power Development AuthorityGovernment institution | 405 | #13,745 | |
| 43 | Beaconhouse National UniversityUniversity | 350 | #15,229 | |
| 44 | University of South AsiaUniversity | 284 | #10,734 | |
| 45 | Nur International UniversityUniversity | 223 | #15,904 | |
| 46 | Urban UnitGovernment institution | 193 | #14,212 | |
| 47 | Aga Khan Development NetworkInstitution | 174 | #25,387 all time | |
| 48 | Institute of Management Sciences LahoreUniversity | 164 | #16,341 | |
| 49 | RahnumaInstitution | 143 | #32,188 all time | |
| 50 | Imperial College of Business StudiesUniversity | 134 | #31,564 all time | |
| 51 | National College of ArtsUniversity | 123 | #18,527 | |
| 52 | Punjab Medical CenterHospital / health system | 81 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Hajvery UniversityUniversity | 64 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Aitchison CollegeUniversity | 37 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Institute of Molecular Sciences and BioinformaticsUniversity | 25 | not ranked | |
| 56 | SKANS School of AccountancyUniversity | 9 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Surgimed HospitalHospital / health system | 9 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Shirkat GahNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Democratic Commission for Human DevelopmentNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Pakistan Association of Cognitive TherapistsNonprofit | 1 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Lahore work in?
In 2022-now, 30% of research in Lahore is in Health Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (26%), Social Sciences (12%), Engineering (8%). It does 1.3× 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 Sciences13k30.5%
- Medicine11k26.0%
- Health Professions1,1282.7%
- Nursing3520.8%
- Dentistry3060.7%
- Veterinary680.2%
- Physical Sciences12k28.5%
- Engineering3,2817.9%
- Computer Science2,6236.3%
- Environmental Science1,7644.2%
- Materials Science1,4563.5%
- Physics and Astronomy8792.1%
- Mathematics5961.4%
- Chemistry5381.3%
- Energy4421.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2370.6%
- Chemical Engineering920.2%
- Social Sciences11k27.1%
- Social Sciences5,15512.4%
- Psychology1,9114.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,6514.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1,1462.7%
- Arts and Humanities9542.3%
- Decision Sciences5111.2%
- Life Sciences5,76913.8%
What is Lahore strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Lahore is most concentrated in Leadership and Management, General Dentistry and Modeling and Simulation (3.6× the world share in Leadership and Management).
- Leadership and ManagementSubfield · 20.7 works3.6×
- General DentistrySubfield · 57.9 works3.6×
- Modeling and SimulationSubfield · 159.1 works3.1×
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 21.1 works3.0×
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 53.1 works2.9×
- Medical Laboratory TechnologySubfield · 29.3 works2.6×
- Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 252.5 works2.4×
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: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.98×258 works
- Nursing1.75×317 works
- Dentistry1.53×275 works
- Psychology1.48×1,674 works
- Medicine1.34×9,564 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.32×1,048 works
- Decision Sciences1.29×463 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.26×1,506 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.25×2,202 works
- Mathematics1.25×544 works
- Energy1.17×398 works
- Veterinary1.17×59 works
- Health Professions1.05×1,024 works
- Materials Science0.99×1,284 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.97×363 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.97×799 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.96×1,885 works
- Social Sciences0.96×4,508 works
- Environmental Science0.86×1,573 works
- Chemistry0.84×490 works
- Computer Science0.81×2,332 works
- Arts and Humanities0.76×807 works
- Neuroscience0.63×380 works
- Chemical Engineering0.62×80 works
- Engineering0.53×2,969 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.37×212 works
Which keywords describe research in Lahore?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Conflict, Mental Health, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Globalization and Quality of Life.
- Pakistan
- State-Building
- Central Asia
- Reconstruction
- Leadership
- Stress
- Conflict
- Diagnosis
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Healthcare
- Nanoparticles
- Risk Factors
- Social Media
- Cardiovascular Disease
- COVID-19
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Environmental Impact
- Nanomaterials
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Depression
- Security
- Pandemic
- Antioxidant
- Global Burden
- Toxicity
- Well-being
- Self-Efficacy
- Nation-Building
- Afghanistan
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
- Epidemiology2,642▲ 1.59×139 topics
- Machine Learning1,556◆ 1.12×96 topics
- Deep Learning1,195▼ 0.83×85 topics
- Inflammation1,098▲ 1.24×83 topics
- Mental Health988▲ 1.65×47 topics
- Globalization968▲ 1.18×144 topics
- Oxidative Stress932▲ 1.36×63 topics
- Climate Change876▼ 0.77×112 topics
- Quality of Life848▲ 1.41×57 topics
- Sustainability824▼ 0.81×112 topics
- Treatment773▲ 1.52×52 topics
- COVID-19772▲ 1.42×34 topics
- Environmental Impact770◆ 1.08×67 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease733▲ 1.54×39 topics
- Nanomaterials724▲ 1.66×21 topics
- Social Media723▲ 1.25×36 topics
- Renewable Energy699▲ 1.16×52 topics
- Risk Factors688▲ 1.50×37 topics
- Public Health676◆ 1.11×70 topics
- Nanoparticles674▲ 1.28×44 topics
- Depression646▲ 1.76×26 topics
- Healthcare634▲ 1.33×38 topics
- Security626▲ 2.2×31 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome606▲ 1.79×23 topics
- Pandemic605▲ 1.46×14 topics
- Diagnosis563▲ 1.45×41 topics
- Antioxidant562▲ 1.96×51 topics
- Conflict482▲ 7.1×10 topics
- Global Burden451▲ 1.98×12 topics
- Stress450▲ 2.9×11 topics
- Toxicity449▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Leadership436▲ 2.1×33 topics
- Well-being399▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Reconstruction381▲ 5.4×6 topics
- Self-Efficacy337▲ 3.1×11 topics
- Central Asia330▲ 11×4 topics
- Nation-Building321▲ 14×4 topics
- State-Building320▲ 22×2 topics
- Afghanistan316▲ 32×1 topic
- Pakistan316▲ 32×1 topic
What research is done in Lahore?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East Political Science and International Relations 291 works
- 2 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 173 works
- 3 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 164 works
- 4 Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications Materials Chemistry 141 works
- 5 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 137 works
- 6 Education and Islamic Studies Education 134 works
- 7 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 134 works
- 8 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 124 works
- 9 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 124 works
- 10 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 122 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 17.3% in 2016.
Questions people ask
Which research institutes are in Lahore?
Science Explorer records 60 research institutions in Lahore, Pakistan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Education, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore and Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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