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Research in Lviv

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Lviv. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Lviv University of Business and Law and Lviv Medical University.

Research institutions
3
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
745
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.4k
1.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
11.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1964-2026
63 years on the record
Lviv

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 Lviv?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Lviv University of Business and LawUniversity 540 #8,800
2Lviv Medical UniversityUniversity 202 #11,444
3State Enterprise "Scientific and Research Institute for Metrology of Measurement and Control Systems"Government institution 2 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.

Which fields of science does Lviv work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research in Lviv is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (44%), Engineering (15%), Medicine (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 247 fractional works · 58.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 185 fractional works · 43.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 67 fractional works · 15.7% of its workTransportation: 63 fractional works · 14.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 37 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 2.8% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 39 fractional works · 9.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 25 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 20 fractional works · 4.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 93 fractional works · 21.9% of its workEngineering: 65 fractional works · 15.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 63 fractional works · 14.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 10 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 54 fractional works · 12.8% of its workMedicine: 44 fractional works · 10.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAnatomy: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDentistry: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPeriodontics: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOral Surgery: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 31 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 16 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPharmacology: 16 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKLviv425fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences58%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences18543.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance399.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting204.8%
    4. Psychology20.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
    1. Engineering6515.3%
    2. Environmental Science173.9%
    3. Chemistry41.1%
    4. Computer Science30.8%
    5. Materials Science20.5%
    6. Mathematics10.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    8. Energy00.0%
    1. Medicine4410.3%
    2. Dentistry81.8%
    3. Health Professions20.5%
    4. Nursing10.2%
    1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics163.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.4%
    5. Neuroscience20.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Lviv strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Lviv is most concentrated in Transportation and Aerospace Engineering (42.7× the world share in Transportation).

  1. TransportationSubfield · 53.9 works43×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 53.9 works12×
← 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 25 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: 0.29× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.29× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 11.74× its world share, 16 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.75× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.98× its world share, 56 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.83× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 4.09× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.57× its world share, 42 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.27× its world share, 16 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.19× its world share, 34 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.40× its world share, 163 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 11.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics11.74×16 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.19×34 works
  3. Dentistry4.09×8 works
  4. Social Sciences3.40×163 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.27×16 works
  6. Engineering0.98×56 works
  7. Environmental Science0.83×16 works
  8. Chemistry0.75×4 works
  9. Medicine0.57×42 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.47×2 works
  11. Nursing0.34×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×5 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.29×6 works
  14. Neuroscience0.25×2 works
  15. Health Professions0.21×2 works
  16. Psychology0.19×2 works
  17. Materials Science0.17×2 works
  18. Computer Science0.11×3 works
  19. Energy0.04×0 works
  20. Mathematics0.04×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works
  23. Decision Sciences0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Lviv?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Legal Regulation, Economic Security, Foresight, Literature, Air Force, Culture, Islam and Modernization.

▲ 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. Legal Regulation92▲ 96×5 topics
  2. Economic Security78▲ 86×5 topics
  3. Foresight63▲ 113×2 topics
  4. Literature63▲ 27×2 topics
  5. Air Force63▲ 125×1 topic
  6. Culture63▲ 28×1 topic
  7. Islam63▲ 71×1 topic
  8. Modernization63▲ 81×1 topic
  9. Public Oversight63▲ 120×1 topic
  10. Transport Policy63▲ 120×1 topic
  11. Sustainable Development51▲ 7.7×26 topics
  12. Human Rights40▲ 9.2×9 topics
  13. Innovation30▲ 6.7×20 topics
  14. Economic Development28▲ 8.2×15 topics
  15. Globalization28▲ 3.3×17 topics
  16. International Law27▲ 20×7 topics
  17. Financial Security24▲ 54×3 topics
  18. Digital Economy21▲ 25×10 topics
  19. Environmental Management20▲ 11×6 topics
  20. Social Responsibility17▲ 17×3 topics
  21. Criminal Justice15▲ 16×2 topics
  22. Forensic Pharmacy14▲ 1362×1 topic
  23. Pharmacotherapy14▲ 167×1 topic
  24. Environmental Information14▲ 212×1 topic
  25. Global Society14▲ 212×1 topic
  26. Digital Transformation13▲ 5.7×9 topics
  27. War Crimes13▲ 69×2 topics
  28. Regional Development12▲ 8.4×8 topics
  29. Security12▲ 4.3×2 topics
  30. Pedagogy12▲ 5.7×5 topics
  31. Martial Law12▲ 322×1 topic
  32. Transitional Justice12▲ 34×1 topic
  33. Entrepreneurship11▲ 6.6×9 topics
  34. Human Capital11▲ 17×4 topics
  35. Environmental Policy11▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Reform11▲ 40×1 topic
  37. Student11▲ 216×1 topic
  38. Labor Migration9▲ 128×1 topic
  39. Social Security9▲ 44×1 topic
  40. Innovation Development9▲ 28×2 topics

What research is done in Lviv?

Military Technology and …54Military Technology and Strategies: 54 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…54Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 54 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…54Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 54 fractional worksMedical and Pharmaceutic Studies: 14 fractional worksUkrainian Legal and Forensic Studies: 12 fractional worksEducation and Social Development in Ukraine: 10 fractional worksWar, Law, and Justice: 10 fractional worksBusiness and Economic Development: 8 fractional worksLabor Market and Education: 7 fractional worksEconomic and Business Development Strategies: 7 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceTransportationPharmacology4 others

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

  1. 1 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 54 works
  2. 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 54 works
  3. 3 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 54 works
  4. 4 Medical and Pharmaceutic Studies Pharmacology 14 works
  5. 5 Ukrainian Legal and Forensic Studies Political Science and International Relations 12 works
  6. 6 Education and Social Development in Ukraine Education 10 works
  7. 7 War, Law, and Justice Political Science and International Relations 10 works
  8. 8 Business and Economic Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 8 works
  9. 9 Labor Market and Education Economics and Econometrics 7 works
  10. 10 Economic and Business Development Strategies Economics and Econometrics 7 works

Research output over time

still counting200020102020
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 counting10%20%Lviv11.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.1% in 2024.

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