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Research in Lawrence

Science Explorer records 16 research institutions in Lawrence, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Kansas.

Research institutions
16
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
56k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.6M
28.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
19.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Lawrence

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 Lawrence?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of KansasUniversity 83,038 #507
2Haskell Indian Nations UniversityUniversity 55 not ranked
3Kalscott Engineering (United States)Company 25 not ranked
4TVN Systems (United States)Company 22 not ranked
5University Press of KansasInstitution 21 not ranked
6Edge Enterprises (United States)Company 15 not ranked
7American Society of ParasitologistsInstitution 10 not ranked
8Allen Press (United States)Company 7 not ranked
9Pinnacle TechnologyCompany 7 not ranked
10Association for Tropical Biology and ConservationNonprofit 6 not ranked
11CritiTech (United States)Company 5 not ranked
12Society for the Study of Amphibians and ReptilesNonprofit 2 not ranked
13International Society for NeuroethologyInstitution 2 not ranked
14American Society of Ichthyologists and HerpetologistsArchive 1 not ranked
15Intellispeak (United States)Company 0 not ranked
16Mycological Society of AmericaInstitution 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.

University of Kansas: 99.8%Haskell Indian Nations University: 0.1%Kalscott Engineering (United States): 0.0%TVN Systems (United States): 0.0%10 others listed: 0.1%100%largest
University of Kansas83k · 99.8%Haskell Indian Nations University55 · 0.1%Kalscott Engineering (United States)25 · 0.0%TVN Systems (United States)22 · 0.0%10 others listed76 · 0.1%

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

Which fields of science does Lawrence work in?

In 2022-now, 35% of research in Lawrence is in Social Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (18%), Social Sciences (18%), Engineering (9%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,431 fractional works · 35.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,246 fractional works · 18.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 383 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEducation: 181 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 129 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 78 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 75 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 71 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrban Studies: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 524 fractional works · 7.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 173 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 121 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 98 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 97 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 273 fractional works · 3.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 55 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhilosophy: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 154 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 107 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 152 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 83 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2,207 fractional works · 31.8% of its workEngineering: 637 fractional works · 9.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 117 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 110 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 93 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 63 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 390 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 107 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 64 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 53 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 321 fractional works · 4.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 130 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 261 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeophysics: 78 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 54 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 42 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 199 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 75 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 54 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 139 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 76 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpectroscopy: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 108 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 69 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 84 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 45 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemical Engineering: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,492 fractional works · 21.5% of its workMedicine: 1,250 fractional works · 18.0% of its workSurgery: 147 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 115 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 92 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 87 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 82 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 66 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 65 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 60 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 143 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Professions: 214 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 120 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 802 fractional works · 11.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 374 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 216 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 82 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 194 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 63 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 57 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInsect Science: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 154 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 99 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 59 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKLawrence6,932fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences22%Social Sciences35%

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 Sciences2,43135.1%
    1. Social Sciences1,24618.0%
    2. Psychology5247.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities2733.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1542.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting1522.2%
    6. Decision Sciences831.2%
    1. Engineering6379.2%
    2. Environmental Science3905.6%
    3. Computer Science3214.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences2613.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1992.9%
    6. Chemistry1392.0%
    7. Materials Science1081.6%
    8. Mathematics841.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering390.6%
    10. Energy290.4%
  3. Health Sciences1,49221.5%
    1. Medicine1,25018.0%
    2. Health Professions2143.1%
    3. Nursing180.3%
    4. Dentistry60.1%
    5. Veterinary40.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3745.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1942.8%
    3. Neuroscience1542.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology590.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics210.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Lawrence strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Lawrence is most concentrated in Environmental Chemistry, Geography, Planning and Development and Paleontology (7.7× the world share in Environmental Chemistry).

  1. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 105.2 works7.7×
  2. Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSubfield · 76.9 works6.0×
  3. PaleontologySubfield · 33.9 works4.5×
  4. Safety ResearchSubfield · 69.6 works4.0×
← 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: 0.57× its world share, 172 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.98× its world share, 327 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.81× its world share, 52 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.37× its world share, 140 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.84× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.62× its world share, 36 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.25× its world share, 123 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.59× its world share, 287 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.47× its world share, 244 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.46× its world share, 26 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.61× its world share, 576 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.14× its world share, 355 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.42× its world share, 92 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.03× its world share, 76 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.28× its world share, 179 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.19× its world share, 197 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.93× its world share, 1,120 worksMedicineNursing: 0.53× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.51× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.36× its world share, 247 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.70× its world share, 143 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.28× its world share, 78 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.10× its world share, 148 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.44× its world share, 467 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.46× its world share, 1,162 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.47×244 works
  2. Psychology2.44×467 works
  3. Chemical Engineering1.62×36 works
  4. Social Sciences1.46×1,162 works
  5. Neuroscience1.37×140 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.36×247 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.28×179 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.28×78 works
  9. Chemistry1.25×123 works
  10. Health Professions1.19×197 works
  11. Environmental Science1.14×355 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.10×148 works
  13. Mathematics1.03×76 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.98×327 works
  15. Medicine0.93×1,120 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.84×19 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.81×52 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.70×143 works
  19. Engineering0.61×576 works
  20. Computer Science0.59×287 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.57×172 works
  22. Nursing0.53×16 works
  23. Veterinary0.51×4 works
  24. Energy0.46×26 works
  25. Materials Science0.42×92 works
  26. Dentistry0.20×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Lawrence?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Globalization, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Mental Health and Microbial Communities.

▲ 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. Epidemiology313◆ 1.13×128 topics
  2. Climate Change278▲ 1.47×96 topics
  3. Globalization226▲ 1.66×103 topics
  4. Mental Health189▲ 1.91×42 topics
  5. Quality of Life146▲ 1.46×53 topics
  6. Identity119▲ 2.4×55 topics
  7. Microbial Communities107▲ 3.5×10 topics
  8. Risk Factors103▲ 1.35×34 topics
  9. Gender100▲ 2.7×45 topics
  10. Methane Oxidation93▲ 17×2 topics
  11. Biodiversity92▲ 1.75×30 topics
  12. Anaerobic92▲ 21×1 topic
  13. Gas Hydrates92▲ 21×1 topic
  14. Depression90▲ 1.48×23 topics
  15. Genetics84▲ 1.71×25 topics
  16. Resilience82▲ 2.4×16 topics
  17. Colonialism76▲ 2.3×34 topics
  18. Neoliberalism75▲ 3.0×23 topics
  19. Adolescents73▲ 2.9×8 topics
  20. Nationalism72▲ 2.3×27 topics
  21. Feminism64▲ 3.1×22 topics
  22. Tomography61▲ 5.0×4 topics
  23. Hydrological Modeling61▲ 3.7×5 topics
  24. Evidence-Based Practice59▲ 6.3×7 topics
  25. Intersectionality57▲ 4.4×13 topics
  26. Seismic Noise54▲ 16×1 topic
  27. Surface Wave54▲ 16×1 topic
  28. Emotion53▲ 3.7×12 topics
  29. Sea Level Rise52▲ 6.0×3 topics
  30. Special Education48▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Geodetic Measurements45▲ 6.2×2 topics
  32. Geography45▲ 19×3 topics
  33. Behavioral Interventions45▲ 7.9×3 topics
  34. Electron Acceleration42▲ 9.0×2 topics
  35. GRACE40▲ 12×1 topic
  36. groundwater depletion40▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Ionosphere40▲ 11×1 topic
  38. Magnetosphere40▲ 11×1 topic
  39. Self-Determination38▲ 32×1 topic
  40. Universal Design for Learning38▲ 32×1 topic

What research is done in Lawrence?

Methane Hydrates and Rel…92Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 92 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis: 54 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 40 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 40 fractional worksDisability Education and Employment: 38 fractional worksFamily and Disability Support Research: 32 fractional worksBehavioral and Psycholog…31Behavioral and Psychological Studies: 31 fractional worksHistorical Geography and Geographical Thought: 30 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 26 fractional worksAutism Spectrum Disorder Research: 25 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryGeophysicsOceanographyAstronomy and Astrophysics5 others

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

  1. 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 92 works
  2. 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 54 works
  3. 3 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 40 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 40 works
  5. 5 Disability Education and Employment Safety Research 38 works
  6. 6 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 32 works
  7. 7 Behavioral and Psychological Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology 31 works
  8. 8 Historical Geography and Geographical Thought Geography, Planning and Development 30 works
  9. 9 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 26 works
  10. 10 Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Cognitive Neuroscience 25 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 counting20%40%Lawrence23.5% 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 32.9% in 2010.

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