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Research in Neuchâtel

Science Explorer records 25 research institutions in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Neuchâtel, Victoria School of Management and Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland).

Research institutions
25
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
17k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
381k
22.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
19.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Neuchâtel

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 Neuchâtel?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of NeuchâtelUniversity 11,524 #1,686
2Victoria School of ManagementUniversity 2,106 #8,904
3Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)Company 1,780 #12,869
4Observatoire Cantonal de NeuchâtelResearch facility 534 #28,307 all time
5Hospital NeuchâtelHospital / health system 362 #19,161
6Federal Statistical OfficeGovernment institution 257 #17,713 all time
7info faunaArchive 189 #24,578 all time
8Alpes Lasers (Switzerland)Company 103 not ranked
9Hôpital de la ProvidenceHospital / health system 84 not ranked
10Suss Microoptics (Switzerland)Company 80 not ranked
11Institut de Recherche et de Documentation PédagogiqueResearch facility 67 not ranked
12Swiss Health ObservatoryResearch facility 64 not ranked
13ADMED (Switzerland)Company 28 not ranked
14Microsens (Switzerland)Company 14 not ranked
15Conférence Universitaire de Suisse OccidentaleUniversity 14 not ranked
16LaténiumArchive 12 not ranked
17Planair (Switzerland)Company 5 not ranked
18Swiss Foundation for Research in MicrotechnologyInstitution 5 not ranked
19Fondation Suisse pour les TéléthèsesNonprofit 4 not ranked
20Aktive Arc (Switzerland)Company 3 not ranked
21Conférence Intercantonale de l'Instruction Publique de la Suisse Romande et du TessinInstitution 2 not ranked
22Pulmonx (Switzerland)Company 2 not ranked
23Archives de l'État de NeuchâtelArchive 1 not ranked
24Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de NeuchâtelArchive 1 not ranked
25SUSS MicroTec (Switzerland)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.

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 Neuchâtel: 66.8%Victoria School of Management: 12.2%Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland): 10.3%Observatoire Cantonal de Neuchâtel: 3.1%20 others listed: 7.5%67%largest
University of Neuchâtel12k · 66.8%Victoria School of Management2,106 · 12.2%Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)1,780 · 10.3%Observatoire Cantonal de Neuchâtel534 · 3.1%20 others listed1,297 · 7.5%

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

Which fields of science does Neuchâtel work in?

In 2022-now, 42% of research in Neuchâtel is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (19%), Engineering (9%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 984 fractional works · 41.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 460 fractional works · 19.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 178 fractional works · 7.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 67 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 44 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLinguistics and Language: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 207 fractional works · 8.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 55 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 41 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhilosophy: 36 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory: 23 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClassics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 153 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 53 fractional works · 2.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 32 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 27 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 77 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 61 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 37 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFinance: 13 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 27 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 789 fractional works · 33.5% of its workEngineering: 212 fractional works · 9.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 104 fractional works · 4.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 35 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 145 fractional works · 6.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 67 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 137 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEcology: 36 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 92 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 49 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 70 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOceanography: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 60 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeometry and Topology: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 32 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 22 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 15 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 319 fractional works · 13.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 178 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 69 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPlant Science: 63 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInsect Science: 30 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 41 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 28 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 37 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 267 fractional works · 11.3% of its workMedicine: 184 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSurgery: 22 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 18 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 58 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 78 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 57 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNeuchâtel2,359fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences42%

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 Sciences46019.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities2078.8%
    3. Psychology1536.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting773.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance612.6%
    6. Decision Sciences271.2%
    1. Engineering2129.0%
    2. Computer Science1456.2%
    3. Environmental Science1375.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy923.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences703.0%
    6. Mathematics602.5%
    7. Chemistry321.3%
    8. Materials Science220.9%
    9. Energy180.8%
    10. Chemical Engineering30.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1787.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology944.0%
    3. Neuroscience371.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology90.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
    1. Medicine1847.8%
    2. Health Professions783.3%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Veterinary10.1%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Neuchâtel strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Neuchâtel is most concentrated in Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (9.5× the world share in Linguistics and Language).

  1. Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 22.2 works9.5×
  2. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 49.7 works5.5×
  3. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 52.2 works5.4×
  4. Insect ScienceSubfield · 26.4 works4.5×
← 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: 1.45× its world share, 141 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.69× its world share, 76 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.39× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 30 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.84× its world share, 27 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.79× its world share, 126 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 55 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.82× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.64× its world share, 196 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.04× its world share, 106 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.27× its world share, 19 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.22× its world share, 54 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.93× its world share, 88 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.31× its world share, 71 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.40× its world share, 156 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.23× its world share, 191 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.07× its world share, 71 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 24 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.30× its world share, 57 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.07× its world share, 130 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 404 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.23×191 works
  2. Mathematics2.22×54 works
  3. Psychology2.07×130 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.93×88 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.72×55 works
  6. Social Sciences1.56×404 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.45×141 works
  8. Health Professions1.31×71 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.30×57 works
  10. Decision Sciences1.23×24 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting1.07×71 works
  12. Environmental Science1.04×106 works
  13. Neuroscience0.90×30 works
  14. Chemistry0.84×27 works
  15. Energy0.82×16 works
  16. Computer Science0.79×126 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.69×76 works
  18. Engineering0.64×196 works
  19. Veterinary0.45×1 works
  20. Medicine0.40×156 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.39×8 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.33×2 works
  23. Materials Science0.27×19 works
  24. Nursing0.19×2 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.10×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.10×1 works

Which keywords describe research in Neuchâtel?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Globalization, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Pragmatics, Evolution, Sociolinguistics and Phylogeny.

▲ 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 Change123▲ 1.91×83 topics
  2. Globalization100▲ 2.1×85 topics
  3. Biodiversity68▲ 3.8×27 topics
  4. Invasive Species55▲ 5.5×20 topics
  5. Identity46▲ 2.7×42 topics
  6. Pragmatics45▲ 12×6 topics
  7. Evolution45▲ 7.1×17 topics
  8. Gender43▲ 3.4×33 topics
  9. Sociolinguistics40▲ 9.4×8 topics
  10. Social Interaction38▲ 4.1×11 topics
  11. History36▲ 2.2×35 topics
  12. Phylogeny36▲ 9.1×17 topics
  13. Ethnicity35▲ 4.0×16 topics
  14. Taxonomy34▲ 10.0×15 topics
  15. Biogeography33▲ 5.0×20 topics
  16. Nonlinear Optics32▲ 13×4 topics
  17. Habitat Fragmentation30▲ 6.0×5 topics
  18. Global Change30▲ 4.8×6 topics
  19. Discourse Analysis29▲ 5.1×7 topics
  20. Immigration29▲ 11×5 topics
  21. Phylogenetic Analysis29▲ 4.0×16 topics
  22. Cognition27▲ 8.1×6 topics
  23. DNA Barcoding26▲ 6.2×9 topics
  24. Citizenship25▲ 8.9×9 topics
  25. Microresonators24▲ 13×3 topics
  26. Narrative Analysis24▲ 19×3 topics
  27. Optical Modulators23▲ 7.0×3 topics
  28. Biological Control23▲ 6.5×9 topics
  29. Multilingualism23▲ 6.0×5 topics
  30. Rhetoric23▲ 9.5×6 topics
  31. Raman Lasers23▲ 9.1×2 topics
  32. Identity Construction22▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Refugees21▲ 7.3×8 topics
  34. Cosmopolitanism21▲ 8.3×5 topics
  35. Bilingualism20▲ 6.3×7 topics
  36. National Identity20▲ 7.3×6 topics
  37. Argumentation19▲ 28×1 topic
  38. Ethos19▲ 28×1 topic
  39. Microwave Photonics19▲ 9.5×2 topics
  40. Neural Basis18▲ 8.7×3 topics

What research is done in Neuchâtel?

Linguistics and Discours…18Linguistics and Discourse Analysis: 18 fractional worksAdvanced Fiber Laser Tec…17Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies: 17 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 16 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 14 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 14 fractional worksMigration, Refugees, and Integration: 14 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 13 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity M…13Geophysics and Gravity Measurements: 13 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 13 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition: 12 fractional works
PhilosophyAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6 others

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

  1. 1 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Philosophy 18 works
  2. 2 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 17 works
  3. 3 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 16 works
  4. 4 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 14 works
  5. 5 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 14 works
  6. 6 Migration, Refugees, and Integration Sociology and Political Science 14 works
  7. 7 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 13 works
  8. 8 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 13 works
  9. 9 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 13 works
  10. 10 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 12 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 counting20%40%Neuchâtel16.6% 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 31.2% in 2011.

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