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Research in Lancaster

Science Explorer records 14 research institutions in Lancaster, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Lancaster University and Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Research institutions
14
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
40k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2M
30.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Lancaster

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 Lancaster?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Lancaster UniversityUniversity 38,034 #433
2Royal Lancaster InfirmaryHospital / health system 718 #21,892
3Lancaster City CouncilGovernment institution 400 #7,687 all time
4Myerscough CollegeUniversity 205 #28,194 all time
5Ridge Lea HospitalHospital / health system 183 #29,774 all time
6Lancaster Royal Grammar SchoolUniversity 61 not ranked
7Hybrid Instruments (United Kingdom)Company 47 not ranked
8HW Communications (United Kingdom)Company 39 not ranked
9Lancaster and Morecambe CollegeUniversity 23 not ranked
10Rinicom (United Kingdom)Company 14 not ranked
11InTouch (United Kingdom)Company 9 not ranked
12Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological SocietyInstitution 2 not ranked
13The Ethical Small Traders AssociationInstitution 2 not ranked
14Lancaster City MuseumArchive 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.

Lancaster University: 95.7%Royal Lancaster Infirmary: 1.8%Lancaster City Council: 1.0%Myerscough College: 0.5%10 others listed: 1.0%96%largest
Lancaster University38k · 95.7%Royal Lancaster Infirmary718 · 1.8%Lancaster City Council400 · 1.0%Myerscough College205 · 0.5%10 others listed381 · 1.0%

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

Which fields of science does Lancaster work in?

In 2022-now, 44% of research in Lancaster is in Social Sciences, 37% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Engineering (10%), Computer Science (10%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,812 fractional works · 44.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,308 fractional works · 20.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 450 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 198 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEducation: 159 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGender Studies: 72 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 48 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 46 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 452 fractional works · 7.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 119 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 79 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhilosophy: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 387 fractional works · 6.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 109 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 94 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 80 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 79 fractional works · 1.2% of its workApplied Psychology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 275 fractional works · 4.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 61 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 55 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 256 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 154 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFinance: 68 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 133 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 72 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2,342 fractional works · 36.7% of its workEngineering: 645 fractional works · 10.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 176 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 86 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 64 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 618 fractional works · 9.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 200 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 84 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 79 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 77 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 75 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 397 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 98 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 48 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 213 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 72 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 69 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiation: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 141 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 45 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workApplied Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 111 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 75 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 91 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 801 fractional works · 12.6% of its workMedicine: 570 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 95 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSurgery: 62 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 122 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 210 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 147 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 421 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 161 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPlant Science: 58 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 120 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 62 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 113 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 82 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLancaster6,375fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences37%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences44%

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 Sciences2,81244.1%
    1. Social Sciences1,30820.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities4527.1%
    3. Psychology3876.1%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2754.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2564.0%
    6. Decision Sciences1332.1%
    1. Engineering64510.1%
    2. Computer Science6189.7%
    3. Environmental Science3976.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy2133.3%
    5. Mathematics1412.2%
    6. Materials Science1111.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences911.4%
    8. Chemistry651.0%
    9. Energy480.8%
    10. Chemical Engineering130.2%
    1. Medicine5708.9%
    2. Health Professions2103.3%
    3. Nursing100.2%
    4. Dentistry60.1%
    5. Veterinary50.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1612.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1201.9%
    3. Neuroscience1131.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology220.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Lancaster strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Lancaster is most concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction, Finance and Literature and Literary Theory (5.7× the world share in Human-Computer Interaction).

  1. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 65.9 works5.7×
  2. FinanceSubfield · 63.8 works3.8×
  3. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 106.2 works3.6×
  4. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 29.8 works3.5×
← 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: 0.54× its world share, 145 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.35× its world share, 105 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.09× its world share, 99 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.56× its world share, 11 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.68× its world share, 60 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.24× its world share, 539 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 74 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.78× its world share, 40 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.69× its world share, 576 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.25× its world share, 348 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.50× its world share, 98 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.88× its world share, 124 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.51× its world share, 188 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.20× its world share, 177 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.44× its world share, 479 worksMedicineNursing: 0.32× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.61× its world share, 5 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.50× its world share, 405 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.40× its world share, 253 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.04× its world share, 110 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.98× its world share, 238 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.00× its world share, 341 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.62× its world share, 1,150 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities2.50×405 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.04×110 works
  3. Psychology2.00×341 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.98×238 works
  5. Mathematics1.88×124 works
  6. Social Sciences1.62×1,150 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.51×188 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.40×253 works
  9. Environmental Science1.25×348 works
  10. Computer Science1.24×539 works
  11. Health Professions1.20×177 works
  12. Neuroscience1.09×99 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.85×74 works
  14. Energy0.78×40 works
  15. Engineering0.69×576 works
  16. Chemistry0.68×60 works
  17. Veterinary0.61×5 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.56×11 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.54×145 works
  20. Materials Science0.50×98 works
  21. Medicine0.44×479 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.35×105 works
  23. Nursing0.32×9 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×17 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×4 works
  26. Dentistry0.21×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Lancaster?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Climate Change, Gender, Social Interaction, Neoliberalism, Machine Learning, Sustainability and Identity.

▲ 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. Globalization272▲ 2.2×115 topics
  2. Climate Change263▲ 1.52×104 topics
  3. Machine Learning220◆ 1.03×82 topics
  4. Deep Learning198◆ 0.90×75 topics
  5. Sustainability191▲ 1.23×95 topics
  6. Epidemiology156▼ 0.61×123 topics
  7. Mental Health139▲ 1.53×40 topics
  8. Public Health139▲ 1.50×62 topics
  9. Gender120▲ 3.5×51 topics
  10. Social Media118▲ 1.34×33 topics
  11. Identity110▲ 2.4×58 topics
  12. Neural Networks106◆ 1.08×37 topics
  13. Social Interaction105▲ 4.2×11 topics
  14. Neoliberalism101▲ 4.4×26 topics
  15. Human Rights96▲ 1.48×58 topics
  16. Ethics93▲ 2.9×40 topics
  17. History92▲ 2.1×46 topics
  18. Literature88▲ 2.5×42 topics
  19. Big Data85▲ 1.40×26 topics
  20. Economic Growth83▲ 1.61×28 topics
  21. Colonialism82▲ 2.7×44 topics
  22. Nationalism80▲ 2.8×29 topics
  23. Social Capital75▲ 2.3×18 topics
  24. Higher Education73▲ 2.2×23 topics
  25. Ethical Considerations72▲ 3.2×19 topics
  26. Feminism66▲ 3.5×22 topics
  27. Embodiment64▲ 5.4×7 topics
  28. Corpus Linguistics59▲ 4.4×5 topics
  29. Emotion55▲ 4.2×12 topics
  30. Monetary Policy54▲ 3.6×9 topics
  31. Politics54▲ 3.2×18 topics
  32. Participatory Design48▲ 14×2 topics
  33. User Experience48▲ 8.9×3 topics
  34. Aesthetics44▲ 8.7×8 topics
  35. Language Development43▲ 5.4×6 topics
  36. Health Behavior Change42▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Neural Basis41▲ 7.1×4 topics
  38. Academic Writing35▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Design Research35▲ 19×1 topic
  40. Interaction Design35▲ 19×1 topic

What research is done in Lancaster?

Innovative Human-Technology Interaction: 32 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition: 29 fractional worksDiscourse Analysis in La…22Discourse Analysis in Language Studies: 22 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Com…22Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 22 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 19 fractional worksGender, Feminism, and Media: 18 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare S…16Employment and Welfare Studies: 16 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 16 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 16 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies…15Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 15 fractional works
Human-Computer InteractionExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyLiterature and Literary TheoryLanguage and Linguistics5 others

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

  1. 1 Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Human-Computer Interaction 32 works
  2. 2 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 29 works
  3. 3 Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Literature and Literary Theory 22 works
  4. 4 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 22 works
  5. 5 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 19 works
  6. 6 Gender, Feminism, and Media Gender Studies 18 works
  7. 7 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 16 works
  8. 8 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 16 works
  9. 9 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 16 works
  10. 10 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 15 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 counting20%40%Lancaster22.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 37.8% in 2006.

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