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Research in Oldham

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Oldham, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Oldham Council and Royal Oldham Hospital.

Research institutions
4
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
5.3k
▲ 77% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
12.2%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Oldham?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Oldham CouncilGovernment institution 4,613 #3,409
2Royal Oldham HospitalHospital / health system 588 #19,169
3Oldham CollegeUniversity 74 not ranked
4Capita Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom)Company 7 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.

Oldham Council: 87.3%Royal Oldham Hospital: 11.1%Oldham College: 1.4%Capita Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom): 0.1%87%largest
Oldham Council4,613 · 87.3%Royal Oldham Hospital588 · 11.1%Oldham College74 · 1.4%Capita Translation and Interpreting (United Kingdom)7 · 0.1%

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

What is Oldham strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Oldham is most concentrated in Management Information Systems and Safety Research (5.1× the world share in Management Information Systems).

  1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 43.0 works5.1×
  2. Safety ResearchSubfield · 20.9 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.

Which keywords describe research in Oldham?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Machine Learning, Globalization, Sustainability, Security, Healthcare, Distributed Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Machine Learning123▲ 1.84×75 topics
  2. Big Data86▲ 4.6×21 topics
  3. Sustainability84▲ 1.68×76 topics
  4. Deep Learning83▲ 1.19×72 topics
  5. Globalization82▲ 2.0×89 topics
  6. Climate Change73▲ 1.32×92 topics
  7. Healthcare60▲ 2.6×27 topics
  8. Epidemiology59▼ 0.72×105 topics
  9. Artificial Intelligence58▲ 2.1×39 topics
  10. Supply Chain Management51▲ 2.7×19 topics
  11. Security50▲ 3.8×23 topics
  12. Education48▲ 1.38×73 topics
  13. Neural Networks46▲ 1.47×32 topics
  14. Mental Health44▲ 1.47×37 topics
  15. Ethics39▲ 3.9×37 topics
  16. Internet of Things38▲ 2.1×15 topics
  17. Identity36▲ 2.5×44 topics
  18. Human Rights34▲ 1.62×43 topics
  19. History34▲ 2.4×38 topics
  20. Distributed Systems33▲ 9.6×5 topics
  21. Data Mining30▲ 1.95×15 topics
  22. Risk Management29▲ 2.9×12 topics
  23. Nationalism28▲ 3.0×28 topics
  24. Culture28▲ 2.6×26 topics
  25. Colonialism28▲ 2.8×32 topics
  26. Religion27▲ 2.8×29 topics
  27. Cloud Computing26▲ 4.6×7 topics
  28. Anomaly Detection22▲ 3.6×4 topics
  29. Firm Performance22▲ 5.7×2 topics
  30. Privacy22▲ 3.6×8 topics
  31. Predictive Analytics21▲ 9.4×2 topics
  32. Data Science21▲ 9.5×2 topics
  33. Analytics20▲ 11×1 topic
  34. Business Intelligence20▲ 11×1 topic
  35. International Relations20▲ 4.1×19 topics
  36. Resource Management19▲ 5.3×6 topics
  37. Virtualization17▲ 10×2 topics
  38. Quantum Gravity16▲ 9.4×4 topics
  39. Data Centers15▲ 12×1 topic
  40. MapReduce15▲ 12×1 topic

What research is done in Oldham?

  1. 1 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 20 works
  2. 2 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 15 works
  3. 3 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 14 works
  4. 4 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 14 works
  5. 5 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 12 works
  6. 6 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 12 works
  7. 7 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 9 works
  8. 8 Relativity and Gravitational Theory Astronomy and Astrophysics 9 works
  9. 9 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 works
  10. 10 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 7 works

Research output over time

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