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Research in Manhattan

Science Explorer records 13 research institutions in Manhattan, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Kansas State University.

Research institutions
13
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
47k
▼ 21% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2M
26.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Manhattan

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 Manhattan?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Kansas State UniversityUniversity 45,707 #640
2NanoScale Corporation (United States)Company 112 not ranked
3Global Alliance for Rabies ControlNonprofit 43 not ranked
4Heartland Plant Innovations (United States)Company 30 not ranked
5Edenspace Systems (United States)Company 28 not ranked
6Manhattan Area Technical CollegeUniversity 27 not ranked
7Ascension Via Christi HospitalHospital / health system 26 not ranked
8Manhattan Christian CollegeUniversity 25 not ranked
9Sunhai Bioadhesive Technologies (United States)Company 9 not ranked
10Thunderhead Engineering (United States)Company 4 not ranked
11American Society of MammalogistsNonprofit 4 not ranked
12Meadowlark HillsNonprofit 3 not ranked
13UncopiersCompany 1 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.

Kansas State University: 99.3%NanoScale Corporation (United States): 0.2%Global Alliance for Rabies Control: 0.1%Heartland Plant Innovations (United States): 0.1%9 others listed: 0.3%99%largest
Kansas State University46k · 99.3%NanoScale Corporation (United States)112 · 0.2%Global Alliance for Rabies Control43 · 0.1%Heartland Plant Innovations (United States)30 · 0.1%9 others listed127 · 0.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Manhattan work in?

In 2022-now, 35% of research in Manhattan is in Life Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (24%), Medicine (10%), Engineering (9%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 1,803 fractional works · 34.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1,272 fractional works · 24.5% of its workPlant Science: 368 fractional works · 7.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 293 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 193 fractional works · 3.7% of its workFood Science: 116 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInsect Science: 89 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 87 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSoil Science: 59 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 377 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 181 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGenetics: 93 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCell Biology: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 84 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMicrobiology: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 60 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,625 fractional works · 31.2% of its workEngineering: 460 fractional works · 8.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 99 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 79 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 50 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 41 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 371 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEcology: 106 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 52 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 40 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 259 fractional works · 5.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 108 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSignal Processing: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 131 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 87 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomaterials: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 128 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 53 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 87 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 70 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 64 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 971 fractional works · 18.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 453 fractional works · 8.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 130 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEducation: 122 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 172 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 68 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 41 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 129 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAccounting: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 94 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 81 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 65 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 42 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 801 fractional works · 15.4% of its workMedicine: 534 fractional works · 10.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 72 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 57 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 53 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 39 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 109 fractional works · 2.1% of its workVeterinary: 117 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmall Animals: 110 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 74 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 74 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 73 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 36 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKManhattan5,200fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences35%Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences19%

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. Life Sciences1,80334.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1,27224.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3777.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology841.6%
    4. Neuroscience601.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics100.2%
    1. Engineering4608.9%
    2. Environmental Science3717.1%
    3. Computer Science2595.0%
    4. Materials Science1312.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1282.5%
    6. Mathematics871.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences701.3%
    8. Chemistry641.2%
    9. Energy340.7%
    10. Chemical Engineering200.4%
    1. Social Sciences4538.7%
    2. Psychology1723.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting1292.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities941.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance811.6%
    6. Decision Sciences420.8%
    1. Medicine53410.3%
    2. Veterinary1172.2%
    3. Nursing741.4%
    4. Health Professions731.4%
    5. Dentistry40.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Manhattan strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Manhattan is most concentrated in Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals and Agronomy and Crop Science (25.7× the world share in Animal Science and Zoology).

  1. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 268.1 works26×
  2. Small AnimalsSubfield · 94.5 works16×
  3. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 176.5 works16×
  4. VeterinaryField · 100.6 works16×
  5. Insect ScienceSubfield · 82.8 works6.2×
  6. MicrobiologySubfield · 29.1 works5.9×
  7. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 1,165.5 works5.2×
← 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: 5.18× its world share, 1,166 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.36× its world share, 342 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.57× its world share, 75 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.70× its world share, 54 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.52× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.04× its world share, 17 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.79× its world share, 58 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.65× its world share, 239 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.90× its world share, 67 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.74× its world share, 32 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.60× its world share, 423 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.43× its world share, 335 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.71× its world share, 117 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.38× its world share, 77 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.13× its world share, 119 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.54× its world share, 67 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.53× its world share, 482 worksMedicineNursing: 2.86× its world share, 66 worksNursingVeterinary: 15.64× its world share, 101 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 86 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.79× its world share, 120 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.86× its world share, 39 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.76× its world share, 77 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.05× its world share, 151 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 408 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 15.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary15.64×101 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.18×1,166 works
  3. Nursing2.86×66 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.57×75 works
  5. Environmental Science1.43×335 works
  6. Mathematics1.38×77 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.36×342 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy1.13×119 works
  9. Psychology1.05×151 works
  10. Chemical Engineering1.04×17 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.90×67 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.86×39 works
  13. Chemistry0.79×58 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.79×120 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.76×77 works
  16. Energy0.74×32 works
  17. Materials Science0.71×117 works
  18. Neuroscience0.70×54 works
  19. Social Sciences0.68×408 works
  20. Computer Science0.65×239 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.63×86 works
  22. Engineering0.60×423 works
  23. Health Professions0.54×67 works
  24. Medicine0.53×482 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.52×9 works
  26. Dentistry0.16×4 works

Which keywords describe research in Manhattan?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gut Microbiota, Heat Stress, Probiotics, Amino Acids, Intestinal Barrier, Feed Additives, Antibiotic Alternatives and Poultry Production.

▲ 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. Climate Change311▲ 2.2×90 topics
  2. Epidemiology234◆ 1.13×111 topics
  3. Gut Microbiota218▲ 12×7 topics
  4. Heat Stress202▲ 49×2 topics
  5. Probiotics184▲ 15×6 topics
  6. Amino Acids180▲ 37×3 topics
  7. Intestinal Barrier171▲ 42×2 topics
  8. Feed Additives171▲ 57×2 topics
  9. Antibiotic Alternatives170▲ 60×1 topic
  10. Poultry Production170▲ 60×1 topic
  11. Sustainability149▲ 1.17×78 topics
  12. Pathogenesis102▲ 3.8×21 topics
  13. Animal Welfare100▲ 22×4 topics
  14. Biodiversity91▲ 2.3×30 topics
  15. Genetic Improvement90▲ 20×4 topics
  16. Genetic Diversity83▲ 3.7×19 topics
  17. QTL Mapping78▲ 13×6 topics
  18. Health Benefits74▲ 4.3×14 topics
  19. Genome Sequencing69▲ 8.4×10 topics
  20. Consumer Perception68▲ 5.6×8 topics
  21. Plant Breeding67▲ 14×4 topics
  22. Lipid Oxidation65▲ 12×2 topics
  23. Microbial Community62▲ 14×5 topics
  24. Genetic Characterization61▲ 26×2 topics
  25. Meat Quality58▲ 15×3 topics
  26. Genomic Sequencing57▲ 9.5×6 topics
  27. Livestock Production57▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Emotional State56▲ 35×1 topic
  29. Stress Indicators56▲ 35×1 topic
  30. Dietary Fiber56▲ 9.9×3 topics
  31. Drought Tolerance55▲ 7.6×9 topics
  32. Fatty Acid Composition52▲ 9.4×2 topics
  33. Milk Composition51▲ 22×2 topics
  34. Crop Management51▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Dairy Cattle50▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Maize Yield50▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Methane Production50▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Nitrogen Uptake50▲ 25×1 topic
  39. Ruminant Nutrition50▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Marker-Assisted Selection49▲ 12×3 topics

What research is done in Manhattan?

Animal Nutrition and Phy…159Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 159 fractional worksCrop Yield and Soil Fertility: 48 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 48 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product Quality: 44 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 42 fractional worksAnimal Disease Managemen…33Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 33 fractional worksFood composition and properties: 32 fractional worksWheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology: 30 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 29 fractional worksEffects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock: 27 fractional works
Animal Science and ZoologyAgronomy and Crop ScienceSmall AnimalsNutrition and Dietetics2 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 159 works
  2. 2 Crop Yield and Soil Fertility Agronomy and Crop Science 48 works
  3. 3 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 48 works
  4. 4 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 44 works
  5. 5 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 42 works
  6. 6 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 33 works
  7. 7 Food composition and properties Nutrition and Dietetics 32 works
  8. 8 Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology Plant Science 30 works
  9. 9 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 29 works
  10. 10 Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock Animal Science and Zoology 27 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%30%Manhattan18.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 29.4% in 2007.

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