Research in Lincoln
Science Explorer records 46 research institutions in Lincoln, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.
- Research institutions
- 46 2 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 61k ▼ 12% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.8M 29.1 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.4% 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 Lincoln?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Nebraska–LincolnUniversity | 56,150 | #568 | |
| 2 | Entrepreneurial EcosystemsInstitution | 1,267 | #5,687 | |
| 3 | University of Nebraska SystemUniversity | 459 | #9,711 all time | |
| 4 | Pacific Engineering (United States)Company | 346 | #7,777 all time | |
| 5 | Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityUniversity | 287 | #18,953 all time | |
| 6 | Nebraska Hematology-OncologyHospital / health system | 253 | #24,348 all time | |
| 7 | Nebraska Game and Parks CommissionGovernment institution | 233 | #33,804 all time | |
| 8 | Bryan HealthHospital / health system | 210 | #27,461 all time | |
| 9 | J.A. Woollam Company (United States)Company | 200 | #23,980 all time | |
| 10 | Nebraska State Historical SocietyInstitution | 178 | #26,161 all time | |
| 11 | LI-COR Biosciences (United States)Company | 172 | #26,800 all time | |
| 12 | Nebraska Department of Health and Human ServicesGovernment institution | 171 | #29,685 all time | |
| 13 | Nebraska Department of EducationGovernment institution | 141 | #30,998 all time | |
| 14 | Madonna Rehabilitation HospitalHospital / health system | 134 | #31,403 all time | |
| 15 | Celerion (United States)Company | 92 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Southeast Community CollegeUniversity | 76 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical CenterHospital / health system | 76 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Bryan College of Health SciencesUniversity | 37 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Lancaster County Medical SocietyHospital / health system | 32 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Nature Technology Corporation (United States)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Union Adventist UniversityUniversity | 24 | not ranked | |
| 22 | CHI Health Nebraska HeartHospital / health system | 24 | not ranked | |
| 23 | GC Image (United States)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Nebraska State College SystemUniversity | 16 | not ranked | |
| 25 | American Distance Education ConsortiumNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Mid-America Transportation CenterInstitution | 10 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Alivation (United States)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Cooper FoundationNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Nebraska Academy of SciencesUniversity | 6 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Autistic Women & Nonbinary NetworkNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 31 | LNKChemsolutionsCompany | 5 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Southeast Nebraska Cancer CenterResearch facility | 3 | not ranked | |
| 33 | McBride and Associates (United States)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Nebraska Cancer Research CenterResearch facility | 3 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Nebraska Council on Economic EducationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Nebraska State Office of the GovernorGovernment institution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Humanities NebraskaNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 38 | AirLift Environmental (United States)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Nebraska Educational TelecommunicationsInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Nebraska Bankers AssociationNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Lincoln Fencing ClubNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Epicrop Technologies (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Hexagon Lincoln (United States)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Nebraska Department of AgricultureGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Nebraska Press AssociationInstitution | 0 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Nebraska Environmental TrustGovernment institution | 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 Lincoln work in?
In 2022-now, 39% of research in Lincoln is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (14%), Social Sciences (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Life 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
- Physical Sciences2,90139.4%
- Engineering1,01913.8%
- Environmental Science6028.2%
- Computer Science4325.9%
- Materials Science2463.4%
- Physics and Astronomy2102.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1712.3%
- Mathematics881.2%
- Chemistry801.1%
- Energy380.5%
- Chemical Engineering160.2%
- Social Sciences2,03027.6%
- Social Sciences92512.6%
- Psychology3665.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting2593.5%
- Arts and Humanities2383.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1572.1%
- Decision Sciences851.2%
- Life Sciences1,61822.0%
- Health Sciences80811.0%
- Medicine5787.9%
- Health Professions1381.9%
- Nursing520.7%
- Veterinary320.4%
- Dentistry80.1%
What is Lincoln strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Lincoln is most concentrated in Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology and Soil Science (7.5× the world share in Agronomy and Crop Science).
- Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 115.2 works7.5×
- Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 65.5 works4.6×
- Soil ScienceSubfield · 70.7 works3.6×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 26.5 works3.3×
- VeterinaryField · 27.8 works3.2×
- Insect ScienceSubfield · 54.8 works3.0×
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: Veterinary, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary3.16×28 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.53×778 works
- Environmental Science1.64×526 works
- Psychology1.63×323 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.52×155 works
- Nursing1.48×47 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.42×492 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.34×193 works
- Decision Sciences1.16×73 works
- Arts and Humanities1.09×204 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.02×213 works
- Mathematics1.00×76 works
- Materials Science0.98×221 works
- Social Sciences0.98×799 works
- Engineering0.95×919 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.94×130 works
- Neuroscience0.91×96 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.88×57 works
- Computer Science0.77×386 works
- Health Professions0.72×124 works
- Chemistry0.67×68 works
- Chemical Engineering0.62×14 works
- Energy0.52×31 works
- Medicine0.41×511 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×8 works
- Dentistry0.19×6 works
Which keywords describe research in Lincoln?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Mental Health, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Machine Learning, Hydrological Modeling, Genetic Improvement and Marker-Assisted Selection.
- Quantitative Genetics
- Ionosphere
- groundwater depletion
- Ruminant Nutrition
- Crop Improvement
- Teacher Preparation
- Engineering Education
- Sea Level Rise
- Soil Carbon Sequestration
- Population Genetics
- QTL Mapping
- Genetic Improvement
- Global Warming
- Genetic Diversity
- Microbial Communities
- Remote Sensing
- Environmental Impact
- Deep Learning
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Biodiversity
- Innovation
- Invasive Species
- Hydrological Modeling
- Gut Microbiota
- Marker-Assisted Selection
- Plant Breeding
- Microbial Community
- Biological Control
- Animal Welfare
- Milk Composition
- Heat Stress
- Methane Production
- GRACE
- Dairy Cattle
- Magnetosphere
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
- Climate Change462▲ 2.3×106 topics
- Machine Learning233◆ 0.95×88 topics
- Epidemiology217▼ 0.74×125 topics
- Sustainability212▲ 1.18×96 topics
- Mental Health183▲ 1.74×41 topics
- Deep Learning181▼ 0.71×77 topics
- Globalization159◆ 1.10×107 topics
- Environmental Impact136◆ 1.09×55 topics
- Biodiversity136▲ 2.4×32 topics
- Remote Sensing121▲ 1.35×35 topics
- Innovation100▲ 1.32×55 topics
- Microbial Communities89▲ 2.8×10 topics
- Invasive Species86▲ 2.8×20 topics
- Genetic Diversity80▲ 2.5×22 topics
- Hydrological Modeling80▲ 4.6×5 topics
- Global Warming72▲ 2.3×15 topics
- Gut Microbiota67▲ 2.6×7 topics
- Genetic Improvement62▲ 9.7×4 topics
- Marker-Assisted Selection62▲ 11×3 topics
- QTL Mapping57▲ 6.7×6 topics
- Plant Breeding55▲ 8.1×4 topics
- Population Genetics53▲ 5.2×5 topics
- Microbial Community52▲ 8.3×4 topics
- Soil Carbon Sequestration50▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Biological Control49▲ 4.4×9 topics
- Sea Level Rise48▲ 5.2×3 topics
- Animal Welfare48▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Engineering Education44▲ 7.0×5 topics
- Milk Composition41▲ 13×2 topics
- Teacher Preparation41▲ 7.4×4 topics
- Heat Stress41▲ 6.9×2 topics
- Crop Improvement39▲ 11×2 topics
- Methane Production39▲ 18×1 topic
- Ruminant Nutrition39▲ 18×1 topic
- GRACE39▲ 11×1 topic
- groundwater depletion39▲ 11×1 topic
- Dairy Cattle38▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Ionosphere37▲ 9.2×1 topic
- Magnetosphere37▲ 9.2×1 topic
- Quantitative Genetics37▲ 9.6×2 topics
What research is done in Lincoln?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 37 works
- 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 37 works
- 3 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 34 works
- 4 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 32 works
- 5 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 31 works
- 6 Crop Yield and Soil Fertility Agronomy and Crop Science 28 works
- 7 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 24 works
- 8 Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals Genetics 23 works
- 9 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 22 works
- 10 Agricultural Economics and Policy General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 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 30.7% in 2016.
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