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Research in Lyon

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Lyon. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are UR CONFLUENCE: Sciences et Humanités.

Research institutions
3
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.7k
▲ 79% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.7k
2.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1981-2026
46 years on the record
Lyon

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Which research institutions are in Lyon?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1UR CONFLUENCE: Sciences et HumanitésResearch facility 493 #7,672
2Bibliothèque municipale de LyonArchive 15 not ranked
3Cegid (France)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.

Which fields of science does Lyon work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research in Lyon is in Social Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (47%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Health Professions (7%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 575 fractional works · 81.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 332 fractional works · 47.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 135 fractional works · 19.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 62 fractional works · 8.9% of its workCultural Studies: 34 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAnthropology: 29 fractional works · 4.1% of its workUrban Studies: 26 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLaw: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLinguistics and Language: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 147 fractional works · 20.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 36 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPhilosophy: 31 fractional works · 4.4% of its workHistory: 21 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 16 fractional works · 2.3% of its workReligious studies: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArcheology: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClassics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 45 fractional works · 6.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 14 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAccounting: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 24 fractional works · 3.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 13 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 18 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 63 fractional works · 9.0% of its workHealth Professions: 52 fractional works · 7.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 50 fractional works · 7.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 7.3% of its workComputer Science: 23 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKLyon703fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences82%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences33247.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities14720.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting456.4%
    4. Psychology243.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance233.2%
    6. Decision Sciences40.6%
    1. Health Professions527.4%
    2. Medicine111.5%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    1. Computer Science233.3%
    2. Engineering162.3%
    3. Environmental Science60.8%
    4. Energy30.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    7. Mathematics10.1%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences71.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.5%
    3. Neuroscience20.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Lyon strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Lyon is most concentrated in Anthropology, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies (14.2× the world share in Anthropology).

  1. AnthropologySubfield · 27.3 works14×
  2. Urban StudiesSubfield · 24.9 works13×
  3. Cultural StudiesSubfield · 32.5 works12×
  4. PhilosophySubfield · 30.2 works10×
  5. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 35.9 works9.9×
← 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 24 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: 0.23× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.43× its world share, 23 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.84× its world share, 51 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 7.32× its world share, 145 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.97× its world share, 44 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.47× its world share, 22 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.15× its world share, 24 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.70× its world share, 321 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities7.32×145 works
  2. Social Sciences3.70×321 works
  3. Health Professions2.84×51 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.97×44 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.47×22 works
  6. Psychology1.15×24 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.66×4 works
  8. Computer Science0.43×23 works
  9. Energy0.42×3 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×7 works
  11. Nursing0.17×1 works
  12. Engineering0.16×16 works
  13. Neuroscience0.14×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.14×5 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.12×2 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×4 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×1 works
  18. Medicine0.08×11 works
  19. Mathematics0.07×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Lyon?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Colonialism, Gender, Identity, Religion, Community Engagement, History, Local Development and Territorial Governance.

▲ 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. Colonialism58▲ 17×29 topics
  2. Gender54▲ 14×27 topics
  3. Identity52▲ 10×38 topics
  4. Globalization51▲ 3.7×63 topics
  5. Religion47▲ 14×23 topics
  6. Community Engagement46▲ 20×6 topics
  7. History46▲ 9.5×32 topics
  8. Local Development46▲ 63×2 topics
  9. Territorial Governance46▲ 56×2 topics
  10. Literature42▲ 11×32 topics
  11. Migration40▲ 17×17 topics
  12. Ethics40▲ 11×33 topics
  13. Social Justice37▲ 8.9×15 topics
  14. Mental Health34▲ 3.4×15 topics
  15. Public Policy34▲ 10×10 topics
  16. Philosophy33▲ 11×26 topics
  17. Culture32▲ 8.9×18 topics
  18. Cultural Studies30▲ 11×17 topics
  19. Nationalism30▲ 9.5×19 topics
  20. Social Movements29▲ 14×12 topics
  21. Economic Development29▲ 5.2×14 topics
  22. Social Determinants of Health29▲ 19×3 topics
  23. Politics28▲ 15×11 topics
  24. Gender Studies28▲ 26×8 topics
  25. Social Innovation28▲ 25×6 topics
  26. Citizenship27▲ 32×6 topics
  27. Cooperatives26▲ 51×2 topics
  28. Social Change26▲ 30×8 topics
  29. Democracy26▲ 10×12 topics
  30. Cultural Identity25▲ 7.2×19 topics
  31. Institutionalization25▲ 38×1 topic
  32. Solidarity Economy25▲ 62×1 topic
  33. Palliative Care24▲ 22×3 topics
  34. Society22▲ 17×13 topics
  35. Islam22▲ 15×4 topics
  36. North Africa21▲ 84×2 topics
  37. Citizen Participation21▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Healthcare Legislation21▲ 53×1 topic
  39. Medical Ethics21▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Patient Rights21▲ 43×1 topic

What research is done in Lyon?

Social Sciences and Governance: 24 fractional worksHealth, Medicine and Society: 20 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social …20French Urban and Social Studies: 20 fractional worksMulticulturalism, Politi…18Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender: 18 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Practices: 17 fractional worksJapanese History and Culture: 11 fractional worksHistorical Studies and S…11Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 11 fractional worksCultural Insights and Digital Impacts: 11 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family: 11 fractional worksEducation, sociology, an…10Education, sociology, and vocational training: 10 fractional works
Urban StudiesGeneral Health ProfessionsSociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International Relations3 others

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

  1. 1 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 24 works
  2. 2 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 20 works
  3. 3 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 20 works
  4. 4 Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender Political Science and International Relations 18 works
  5. 5 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 17 works
  6. 6 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 11 works
  7. 7 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 11 works
  8. 8 Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts Computer Networks and Communications 11 works
  9. 9 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  10. 10 Education, sociology, and vocational training Sociology and Political Science 10 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Lyon4.9% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.3% in 2015.

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