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Research in Machala

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Machala, Ecuador. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidad Tecnica de Machala.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.6k
▲ 51% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.2k
2.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Machala

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 Machala?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Universidad Tecnica de MachalaUniversity 3,558 #1,696

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 Machala work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research in Machala is in Social Sciences, 19% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (17%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,211 fractional works · 57.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 533 fractional works · 25.5% of its workEducation: 131 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 96 fractional works · 4.6% of its workLaw: 93 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 50 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCommunication: 48 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 26 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopment: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 355 fractional works · 17.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 346 fractional works · 16.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 235 fractional works · 11.2% of its workAccounting: 88 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 87 fractional works · 4.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 21 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 75 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 37 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 392 fractional works · 18.7% of its workMedicine: 230 fractional works · 11.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 51 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSurgery: 29 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Professions: 143 fractional works · 6.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 85 fractional works · 4.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 22 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacy: 19 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 274 fractional works · 13.1% of its workComputer Science: 127 fractional works · 6.1% of its workInformation Systems: 61 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 49 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 93 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 31 fractional works · 1.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 23 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 215 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 169 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPlant Science: 49 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 38 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHorticulture: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workParasitology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMachala2,091fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences19%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 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences1,21157.9%
    1. Social Sciences53325.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance35517.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting23511.2%
    4. Psychology753.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities90.4%
    6. Decision Sciences50.2%
    1. Medicine23011.0%
    2. Health Professions1436.9%
    3. Veterinary90.4%
    4. Nursing90.4%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
    1. Computer Science1276.1%
    2. Environmental Science934.5%
    3. Engineering231.1%
    4. Energy110.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences90.4%
    6. Chemistry50.2%
    7. Materials Science40.2%
    8. Mathematics10.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    10. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1698.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology261.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology120.6%
    4. Neuroscience60.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Machala strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Machala is most concentrated in General Social Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (11.3× the world share in General Social Sciences).

  1. General Social SciencesSubfield · 22.3 works11×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 321.6 works11×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 330.3 works8.6×
  4. Computer Science ApplicationsSubfield · 38.0 works8.5×
  5. CommunicationSubfield · 41.9 works8.5×
← 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: 1.75× its world share, 150 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 22 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.51× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.72× its world share, 101 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.65× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 20 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.83× its world share, 74 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.48× its world share, 118 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.54× its world share, 188 worksMedicineNursing: 0.78× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.41× its world share, 6 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.44× its world share, 200 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8.58× its world share, 330 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.20× its world share, 66 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.02× its world share, 460 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8.58×330 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.44×200 works
  3. Health Professions2.48×118 works
  4. Veterinary2.41×6 works
  5. Social Sciences2.02×460 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.75×150 works
  7. Psychology1.20×66 works
  8. Environmental Science0.83×74 works
  9. Nursing0.78×7 works
  10. Computer Science0.72×101 works
  11. Energy0.65×11 works
  12. Medicine0.54×188 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.51×9 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×2 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.27×5 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×22 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.23×6 works
  18. Neuroscience0.21×6 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.16×8 works
  20. Chemistry0.15×4 works
  21. Engineering0.08×20 works
  22. Dentistry0.08×1 works
  23. Materials Science0.06×4 works
  24. Mathematics0.05×1 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Machala?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Small and Medium Enterprises, Digital Marketing, Social Responsibility, Globalization Effects, Economic Impact, Innovation Ecosystems, Urban Development and Psychopharmacology Education.

▲ 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. Small and Medium Enterprises409▲ 111×4 topics
  2. Digital Marketing354▲ 44×3 topics
  3. Social Responsibility341▲ 71×4 topics
  4. Globalization Effects334▲ 232×2 topics
  5. Economic Impact332▲ 30×5 topics
  6. Innovation Ecosystems332▲ 156×2 topics
  7. Urban Development328▲ 44×5 topics
  8. Psychopharmacology Education327▲ 252×1 topic
  9. Tourism Management327▲ 225×1 topic
  10. Education255▲ 7.1×39 topics
  11. Competitiveness246▲ 149×6 topics
  12. Innovation212▲ 9.8×19 topics
  13. Organizational Culture152▲ 19×6 topics
  14. Sustainability145▲ 2.8×34 topics
  15. Knowledge Management140▲ 12×13 topics
  16. Globalization131▲ 3.2×32 topics
  17. Social Impact114▲ 14×10 topics
  18. Public Health103▲ 3.4×33 topics
  19. Teacher Training101▲ 7.9×13 topics
  20. Health Promotion100▲ 15×14 topics
  21. Human Rights98▲ 4.6×19 topics
  22. Risk Assessment92▲ 6.6×10 topics
  23. Leadership85▲ 8.3×9 topics
  24. Nutrition84▲ 9.1×10 topics
  25. Decision Making81▲ 13×2 topics
  26. Public Policy80▲ 8.0×9 topics
  27. Financial Reporting77▲ 30×5 topics
  28. Inclusive Education76▲ 10×10 topics
  29. Qualitative Research75▲ 4.2×10 topics
  30. Gender Studies73▲ 23×3 topics
  31. Social Networks71▲ 12×5 topics
  32. Technology69▲ 6.3×11 topics
  33. Organizational Performance69▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Financial Analysis68▲ 29×1 topic
  35. Productivity Indicators68▲ 183×1 topic
  36. Ethical Leadership68▲ 208×1 topic
  37. Digitalization66▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Communication65▲ 9.9×11 topics
  39. Entrepreneurship65▲ 7.8×6 topics
  40. Strategic Management60▲ 20×3 topics

What research is done in Machala?

Business, Innovation, an…303Business, Innovation, and Economy: 303 fractional worksDiverse Applied Research Studies: 66 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 58 fractional worksEducational and Organizational Development: 47 fractional worksSocial Issues and Policies in Latin America: 42 fractional worksHealth and Lifestyle Studies: 38 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 37 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences: 29 fractional worksCommunication and COVID-19 Impact: 27 fractional worksStress and Burnout Research: 26 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsSociology and Political ScienceAccountingOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management6 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 303 works
  2. 2 Diverse Applied Research Studies Sociology and Political Science 66 works
  3. 3 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 58 works
  4. 4 Educational and Organizational Development Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 47 works
  5. 5 Social Issues and Policies in Latin America Law 42 works
  6. 6 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 38 works
  7. 7 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 37 works
  8. 8 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 29 works
  9. 9 Communication and COVID-19 Impact Communication 27 works
  10. 10 Stress and Burnout Research Social Psychology 26 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Machala8.7% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.2% in 2023.

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