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Research in Merced

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Merced, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, Merced.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
8k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
223k
27.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
20.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Merced

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 Merced?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of California, MercedUniversity 7,855 #1,280
2Merced CollegeUniversity 85 not ranked
3Golden Valley Health CentersHospital / health system 78 not ranked
4Mercy Medical Center MercedHospital / health system 25 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.

University of California, Merced: 97.7%Merced College: 1.1%Golden Valley Health Centers: 1.0%Mercy Medical Center Merced: 0.3%98%largest
University of California, Merced7,855 · 97.7%Merced College85 · 1.1%Golden Valley Health Centers78 · 1.0%Mercy Medical Center Merced25 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Merced work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research in Merced is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (16%), Social Sciences (11%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,243 fractional works · 52.1% of its workEngineering: 379 fractional works · 15.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 96 fractional works · 4.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 50 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 47 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 36 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 20 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 260 fractional works · 10.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 99 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 60 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 30 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 237 fractional works · 9.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 68 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology: 42 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 25 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 115 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 52 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 76 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 51 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomaterials: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 68 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 26 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 43 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 32 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 27 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNumerical Analysis: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 545 fractional works · 22.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 271 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 106 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEducation: 39 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 27 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 135 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 39 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 39 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 58 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 30 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 26 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 356 fractional works · 14.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 166 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 105 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGenetics: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCell Biology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 111 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPlant Science: 44 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSoil Science: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 53 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 37 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 22 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 242 fractional works · 10.2% of its workMedicine: 182 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEpidemiology: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 50 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 37 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMerced2,387fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences23%

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. Engineering37915.9%
    2. Computer Science26010.9%
    3. Environmental Science2379.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy1154.8%
    5. Materials Science763.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences682.8%
    7. Chemistry431.8%
    8. Energy321.3%
    9. Mathematics291.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering50.2%
    1. Social Sciences27111.4%
    2. Psychology1355.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities582.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance301.2%
    5. Decision Sciences281.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting231.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1667.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1114.7%
    3. Neuroscience532.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology220.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.2%
    1. Medicine1827.6%
    2. Health Professions502.1%
    3. Nursing60.2%
    4. Veterinary40.2%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Merced strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Merced is most concentrated in Global and Planetary Change (3.7× the world share in Global and Planetary Change).

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 59.1 works3.7×
← 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: 0.95× its world share, 95 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.25× its world share, 140 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.96× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.40× its world share, 48 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.52× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.17× its world share, 39 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.39× its world share, 228 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 57 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.49× its world share, 29 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.09× its world share, 344 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.02× its world share, 211 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.90× its world share, 66 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.10× its world share, 27 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.23× its world share, 105 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 44 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.38× its world share, 155 worksMedicineNursing: 0.49× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.06× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.79× its world share, 48 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 20 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.22× its world share, 25 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.60× its world share, 27 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.88× its world share, 120 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 243 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy2.23×105 works
  2. Environmental Science2.02×211 works
  3. Psychology1.88×120 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.72×57 works
  5. Energy1.49×29 works
  6. Neuroscience1.40×48 works
  7. Computer Science1.39×228 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.25×140 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.22×25 works
  10. Chemistry1.17×39 works
  11. Mathematics1.10×27 works
  12. Engineering1.09×344 works
  13. Veterinary1.06×3 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.96×20 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.95×95 works
  16. Social Sciences0.91×243 works
  17. Materials Science0.90×66 works
  18. Health Professions0.79×44 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.79×48 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.60×27 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.52×4 works
  22. Nursing0.49×5 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.40×3 works
  24. Medicine0.38×155 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.29×20 works
  26. Dentistry0.08×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Merced?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Resilience, Neural Networks, Hydrological Modeling and Molecular Dynamics.

▲ 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 Change167▲ 2.6×83 topics
  2. Deep Learning125▲ 1.52×69 topics
  3. Machine Learning104▲ 1.31×61 topics
  4. Remote Sensing65▲ 2.2×30 topics
  5. Neural Networks61▲ 1.65×33 topics
  6. Sustainability60◆ 1.02×63 topics
  7. Globalization53◆ 1.12×64 topics
  8. Mental Health52▲ 1.52×30 topics
  9. Renewable Energy43▲ 1.25×34 topics
  10. Public Health37◆ 1.06×39 topics
  11. Ecosystem Resilience34▲ 9.3×5 topics
  12. Global Warming32▲ 3.1×13 topics
  13. Hydrological Modeling31▲ 5.4×5 topics
  14. Microbial Communities28▲ 2.7×9 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks27▲ 1.57×13 topics
  16. Health Effects27▲ 1.85×19 topics
  17. Molecular Dynamics26▲ 6.2×6 topics
  18. Colonialism25▲ 2.2×23 topics
  19. Nonlinear Systems24▲ 4.7×8 topics
  20. Electric Vehicles23▲ 3.4×4 topics
  21. Soil Properties22▲ 5.2×4 topics
  22. Health Disparities19▲ 3.1×7 topics
  23. Emotion18▲ 3.7×10 topics
  24. Model Reduction18▲ 13×2 topics
  25. Fluid Dynamics17▲ 5.2×5 topics
  26. Ecosystem Functioning17▲ 3.5×7 topics
  27. Forest Fires17▲ 16×1 topic
  28. Wildfire Activity17▲ 16×1 topic
  29. Drought17▲ 7.0×3 topics
  30. Stability Analysis17▲ 4.4×5 topics
  31. Acculturation16▲ 9.0×2 topics
  32. Antifungal Therapy16▲ 7.5×3 topics
  33. Evapotranspiration15▲ 7.9×2 topics
  34. Model Evaluation15▲ 4.9×2 topics
  35. Sea Level Rise15▲ 5.0×3 topics
  36. Implicit Bias13▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Electron Acceleration13▲ 8.0×2 topics
  38. Carbon Balance12▲ 9.9×1 topic
  39. Tree Mortality12▲ 9.9×1 topic
  40. Real-time Optimization11▲ 9.4×2 topics

What research is done in Merced?

Fire effects on ecosystems15Fire effects on ecosystems: 15 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technol…11Advanced Battery Technologies Research: 11 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 11 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 11 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 10 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 10 fractional worksBehavioral Health and Interventions: 10 fractional worksMigration, Health and Tr…9Migration, Health and Trauma: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Control Systems Design: 9 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 8 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAutomotive EngineeringEnvironmental ChemistryOceanography5 others

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

  1. 1 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 15 works
  2. 2 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 11 works
  3. 3 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 11 works
  4. 4 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 11 works
  5. 5 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 10 works
  6. 6 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  7. 7 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 10 works
  8. 8 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 9 works
  9. 9 Advanced Control Systems Design Control and Systems Engineering 9 works
  10. 10 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 8 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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 counting20%40%Merced18.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 38.6% in 2010.

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