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Research in Nanterre

Science Explorer records 17 research institutions in Nanterre, France. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Université Paris Nanterre and Etudes romanes.

Research institutions
17
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
33k
▼ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
119k
3.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Nanterre

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 Nanterre?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Université Paris NanterreUniversity 17,488 #1,346
2Etudes romanesResearch facility 1,042 #21,079
3Institut de recherche Juridique sur l'entreprise et les relations professionnellesResearch facility 391 #26,926 all time
4Centre d’études et de Recherches sur l’espace GermanophoneResearch facility 223 #27,747 all time
5Agence de l'Eau Seine NormandieResearch facility 163 #27,803 all time
6Centre de Recherches sur le Droit PublicResearch facility 105 not ranked
7Clinique de la DéfenseHospital / health system 94 not ranked
8Hôpital Max FourestierHospital / health system 79 not ranked
9Institut de recherches philosophiquesResearch facility 76 not ranked
10Centre de droit pénal et de criminologieResearch facility 73 not ranked
11Centre des Sciences des Littératures en langue FrançaiseResearch facility 48 not ranked
12Centre Européen d’Etudes de Sécurité et d’Analyse des RisquesNonprofit 42 not ranked
13Faurecia (France)Company 37 not ranked
14Brothier (France)Company 9 not ranked
15Laboratoires Nogues (France)Company 5 not ranked
16Ariamis (France)Company 4 not ranked
17Laboratoire de sociologie, philosophie et anthropologie politiquesResearch facility 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.

Université Paris Nanterre: 88.0%Etudes romanes: 5.2%Institut de recherche Juridique sur l'entreprise et les relations professionnelles: 2.0%Centre d’études et de Recherches sur l’espace Germanophone: 1.1%13 others listed: 3.7%88%largest
Université Paris Nanterre17k · 88.0%Etudes romanes1,042 · 5.2%Institut de recherche Juridique sur l'entreprise et les relations professionnelles391 · 2.0%Centre d’études et de Recherches sur l’espace Germanophone223 · 1.1%13 others listed736 · 3.7%

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

Which fields of science does Nanterre work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research in Nanterre is in Social Sciences, 10% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Arts and Humanities (26%), Psychology (5%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5,265 fractional works · 79.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,843 fractional works · 43.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1,175 fractional works · 17.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 480 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAnthropology: 358 fractional works · 5.4% of its workCultural Studies: 186 fractional works · 2.8% of its workUrban Studies: 164 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEducation: 93 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 79 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 77 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 42 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 33 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1,728 fractional works · 26.2% of its workArcheology: 366 fractional works · 5.5% of its workHistory: 299 fractional works · 4.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 291 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPhilosophy: 246 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 145 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 141 fractional works · 2.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 54 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReligious studies: 47 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClassics: 42 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMuseology: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 312 fractional works · 4.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 151 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 65 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 53 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 187 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 124 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFinance: 40 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 172 fractional works · 2.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 74 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 668 fractional works · 10.1% of its workComputer Science: 211 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 93 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 61 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 168 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 96 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPaleontology: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 92 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 39 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 463 fractional works · 7.0% of its workHealth Professions: 299 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 261 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 149 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 77 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVeterinary: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 205 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 112 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 68 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 53 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNanterre6,601fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences5,26579.8%
    1. Social Sciences2,84343.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities1,72826.2%
    3. Psychology3124.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1872.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting1722.6%
    6. Decision Sciences220.3%
    1. Computer Science2113.2%
    2. Engineering1682.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences961.5%
    4. Environmental Science921.4%
    5. Mathematics340.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy290.4%
    7. Materials Science240.4%
    8. Energy120.2%
    9. Chemistry20.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.0%
    1. Health Professions2994.5%
    2. Medicine1492.3%
    3. Veterinary120.2%
    4. Dentistry20.0%
    5. Nursing10.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1121.7%
    2. Neuroscience530.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology360.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology30.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Nanterre strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Nanterre is most concentrated in General Arts and Humanities, Anthropology and Archeology (23.8× the world share in General Arts and Humanities).

  1. General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 30.8 works24×
  2. AnthropologySubfield · 344.4 works20×
  3. ArcheologySubfield · 346.1 works18×
  4. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 142.2 works15×
  5. HistorySubfield · 283.2 works14×
  6. ClassicsSubfield · 40.4 works11×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 108 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.44× its world share, 45 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 201 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 90 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 156 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 85 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 21 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.43× its world share, 32 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.19× its world share, 26 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.74× its world share, 286 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 133 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 9.15× its world share, 1,646 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.80× its world share, 161 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.34× its world share, 179 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.52× its world share, 289 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.43× its world share, 2,707 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 9.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities9.15×1,646 works
  2. Social Sciences3.43×2,707 works
  3. Health Professions1.74×286 works
  4. Psychology1.52×289 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.34×179 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.92×90 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.80×161 works
  8. Neuroscience0.44×45 works
  9. Mathematics0.43×32 works
  10. Computer Science0.41×201 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×108 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.33×20 works
  13. Veterinary0.30×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.27×85 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.19×26 works
  16. Energy0.18×11 works
  17. Engineering0.17×156 works
  18. Medicine0.11×133 works
  19. Materials Science0.10×21 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×25 works
  21. Dentistry0.05×2 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.04×1 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.04×1 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×2 works
  25. Nursing0.03×1 works
  26. Chemistry0.01×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Nanterre?

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

▲ 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. Globalization534▲ 4.1×140 topics
  2. Community Engagement500▲ 23×18 topics
  3. Territorial Governance484▲ 64×4 topics
  4. Local Development482▲ 70×2 topics
  5. Public Policy482▲ 15×28 topics
  6. Social Justice466▲ 12×40 topics
  7. Gender447▲ 13×55 topics
  8. Colonialism441▲ 14×52 topics
  9. Identity435▲ 9.1×75 topics
  10. Sustainable Development426▲ 4.1×67 topics
  11. Citizen Participation347▲ 46×3 topics
  12. Environmental Participation345▲ 73×1 topic
  13. Proximity and Innovation345▲ 73×1 topic
  14. History329▲ 7.2×63 topics
  15. Gender Studies304▲ 30×15 topics
  16. Religion295▲ 9.7×41 topics
  17. Migration288▲ 13×28 topics
  18. Literature259▲ 7.2×61 topics
  19. Cultural Studies255▲ 10×37 topics
  20. Nationalism250▲ 8.4×33 topics
  21. Archaeology230▲ 27×11 topics
  22. Culture215▲ 6.2×34 topics
  23. Cultural Heritage212▲ 6.0×37 topics
  24. Social Movements210▲ 11×30 topics
  25. Sociolinguistics210▲ 17×8 topics
  26. Democracy194▲ 8.4×27 topics
  27. Memory183▲ 11×23 topics
  28. Citizenship172▲ 22×12 topics
  29. Pragmatics169▲ 16×7 topics
  30. Social Change167▲ 21×18 topics
  31. Social Determinants of Health167▲ 12×7 topics
  32. Ethnographic Research167▲ 51×4 topics
  33. Politics166▲ 9.6×23 topics
  34. Islam156▲ 11×5 topics
  35. Sociological Analysis156▲ 42×2 topics
  36. Educational Policies155▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Professional Practices155▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Public Action155▲ 65×1 topic
  39. North Africa152▲ 64×2 topics
  40. Social Innovation151▲ 15×9 topics

What research is done in Nanterre?

French Urban and Social …342French Urban and Social Studies: 342 fractional worksEducation, sociology, and vocational training: 153 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Governance: 134 fractional worksMulticulturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender: 129 fractional worksLinguistics and Discourse Analysis: 122 fractional worksHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 111 fractional worksPsychoanalysis and Psych…93Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research: 93 fractional worksDiverse Cultural and Historical Studies: 90 fractional worksHealth, Medicine and Society: 88 fractional worksCultural Insights and Digital Impacts: 84 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceUrban StudiesPolitical Science and International RelationsPhilosophy5 others

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

  1. 1 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 342 works
  2. 2 Education, sociology, and vocational training Sociology and Political Science 153 works
  3. 3 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 134 works
  4. 4 Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender Political Science and International Relations 129 works
  5. 5 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Philosophy 122 works
  6. 6 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 111 works
  7. 7 Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Clinical Psychology 93 works
  8. 8 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies Cultural Studies 90 works
  9. 9 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 88 works
  10. 10 Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts Computer Networks and Communications 84 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%Nanterre12.6% 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 14.2% in 2015.

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