Research in Leicester
Science Explorer records 45 research institutions in Leicester, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Leicester, De Montfort University and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
- Research institutions
- 45 9 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 82k ▼ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2M 24.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.0% 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 Leicester?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of LeicesterUniversity | 58,276 | #431 | |
| 2 | De Montfort UniversityUniversity | 12,987 | #2,121 | |
| 3 | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustHospital / health system | 3,982 | #4,887 | |
| 4 | Leicester CollegeUniversity | 1,424 | #16,547 | |
| 5 | Guidance (United Kingdom)Company | 1,044 | #11,018 | |
| 6 | National Centre for Earth ObservationResearch facility | 640 | #14,890 | |
| 7 | Leicestershire Partnership NHS TrustHospital / health system | 592 | #14,990 | |
| 8 | PepsiCo (United Kingdom)Company | 577 | #9,919 | |
| 9 | National Space CentreArchive | 409 | #14,690 all time | |
| 10 | Mental Health Research UKNonprofit | 344 | #19,458 | |
| 11 | Ulverscroft (United Kingdom)Company | 344 | #9,283 all time | |
| 12 | Leicester City CouncilGovernment institution | 318 | #17,379 all time | |
| 13 | British Psychological SocietyInstitution | 279 | #26,821 all time | |
| 14 | European Thermodynamics (United Kingdom)Company | 151 | #33,119 all time | |
| 15 | Paint Research AssociationInstitution | 134 | #31,984 all time | |
| 16 | Energy Technologies InstituteResearch facility | 120 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Mettler-Toledo (United Kingdom)Company | 76 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Leicester Frith HospitalHospital / health system | 63 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Children's Cancer and Leukaemia GroupNonprofit | 48 | not ranked | |
| 20 | St Philip's CentreInstitution | 35 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Crown Packaging (United Kingdom)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Tech4i2Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Fusion UKNonprofit | 23 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Mark Group (United Kingdom)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 25 | New Walk Museum and Art GalleryArchive | 18 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Steris (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Caterpillar (United Kingdom)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Ibstock Brick (United Kingdom)Company | 14 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Nova LaboratoriesResearch facility | 13 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Leicestershire PoliceGovernment institution | 13 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Base Materials (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Bluefrog Design (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Ametek (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 34 | National Youth AgencyInstitution | 8 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Euro Projects (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Learning and Work InstituteInstitution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Magna Parva (United Kingdom)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Corium Solutions (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Hope Against CancerNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Medieval Settlement Research GroupInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 41 | New Wave InnovationResearch facility | 1 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Leicestershire Fire and Rescue ServiceGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 43 | DarbarInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Schizophrenia Research FundNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Uvasol (United Kingdom)Company | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Leicester work in?
In 2022-now, 36% of research in Leicester is in Health Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (30%), Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.6× 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 Sciences3,95236.1%
- Medicine3,33330.5%
- Health Professions5485.0%
- Nursing460.4%
- Dentistry170.2%
- Veterinary80.1%
- Social Sciences3,45531.6%
- Social Sciences1,60214.6%
- Arts and Humanities5795.3%
- Psychology5264.8%
- Business, Management and Accounting3643.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2712.5%
- Decision Sciences1131.0%
- Physical Sciences2,68824.6%
- Engineering8097.4%
- Computer Science6415.9%
- Environmental Science3983.6%
- Physics and Astronomy2592.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2202.0%
- Materials Science1281.2%
- Chemistry970.9%
- Mathematics710.6%
- Energy380.4%
- Chemical Engineering260.2%
- Life Sciences8517.8%
What is Leicester strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Leicester is most concentrated in Nephrology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and History (4.0× the world share in Nephrology).
- NephrologySubfield · 82.2 works4.0×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 40.8 works3.9×
- HistorySubfield · 107.1 works3.5×
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: Health Professions, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Professions1.91×483 works
- Arts and Humanities1.89×525 works
- Psychology1.60×470 works
- Medicine1.58×2,921 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.25×188 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.24×255 works
- Social Sciences1.17×1,420 works
- Decision Sciences1.12×104 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.06×329 works
- Neuroscience0.97×151 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.94×202 works
- Nursing0.84×40 works
- Computer Science0.78×582 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.77×74 works
- Environmental Science0.71×342 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×345 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.65×22 works
- Chemical Engineering0.61×21 works
- Veterinary0.57×7 works
- Chemistry0.55×84 works
- Mathematics0.50×56 works
- Engineering0.49×702 works
- Energy0.36×32 works
- Dentistry0.35×16 works
- Materials Science0.32×106 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×142 works
Which keywords describe research in Leicester?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Mental Health, Public Health, Primary Care, Inflammation, Quality of Life and Gender.
- Insulin Therapy
- COPD
- Glycemic Control
- Aging
- Literature
- Diabetes
- Guidelines
- Human Rights
- Heart Failure
- Global Burden
- COVID-19
- Depression
- Identity
- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Globalization
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Sustainability
- Management
- Healthcare
- Gender
- Primary Care
- Mortality
- Obesity
- History
- Genetics
- Social Capital
- Anxiety
- Colonialism
- Respiratory
- spirometry
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
- Epidemiology626▲ 1.43×138 topics
- Machine Learning351◆ 0.96×93 topics
- Deep Learning336◆ 0.89×83 topics
- Inflammation325▲ 1.39×82 topics
- Globalization297▲ 1.38×121 topics
- Mental Health291▲ 1.86×47 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease287▲ 2.3×37 topics
- Public Health286▲ 1.79×67 topics
- Quality of Life275▲ 1.74×57 topics
- Climate Change246▼ 0.83×99 topics
- Treatment232▲ 1.75×52 topics
- Diagnosis218▲ 2.1×41 topics
- Sustainability210▼ 0.78×102 topics
- Risk Factors196▲ 1.62×37 topics
- Management188▲ 2.1×34 topics
- Identity188▲ 2.4×62 topics
- Healthcare187▲ 1.50×36 topics
- Depression187▲ 1.94×26 topics
- Gender186▲ 3.2×50 topics
- COVID-19180▲ 1.26×34 topics
- Primary Care172▲ 4.2×15 topics
- Global Burden163▲ 2.7×12 topics
- Mortality159▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Heart Failure155▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Obesity149▲ 1.77×27 topics
- Human Rights149▲ 1.33×61 topics
- History138▲ 1.82×48 topics
- Guidelines137▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Genetics136▲ 1.76×27 topics
- Diabetes132▲ 2.4×21 topics
- Social Capital114▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Literature113▲ 1.89×52 topics
- Anxiety112▲ 2.2×12 topics
- Aging111▲ 1.86×18 topics
- Colonialism110▲ 2.1×46 topics
- Glycemic Control93▲ 5.3×4 topics
- Respiratory80▲ 7.5×2 topics
- COPD75▲ 10×1 topic
- spirometry75▲ 10×1 topic
- Insulin Therapy70▲ 5.1×3 topics
What research is done in Leicester?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 71 works
- 2 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 42 works
- 3 Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Neurology 36 works
- 4 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 32 works
- 5 Chronic Disease Management Strategies Epidemiology 31 works
- 6 Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies Nephrology 29 works
- 7 Cardiac Health and Mental Health Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 29 works
- 8 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 28 works
- 9 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 28 works
- 10 Mental Health and Patient Involvement General Health Professions 27 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 28.0% in 2008.
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