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Research in Palmerston North

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Palmerston North, New Zealand. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Massey University and Palmerston North Hospital.

Research institutions
8
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
31k
▼ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
832k
26.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
26.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Palmerston North

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 Palmerston North?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Massey UniversityUniversity 28,907 #916
2Palmerston North HospitalHospital / health system 1,264 #17,935
3Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern TerritoryGovernment institution 151 #34,226 all time
4Universal College of LearningUniversity 107 not ranked
5Institute of the Pacific UnitedUniversity 89 not ranked
6Medlab Central (New Zealand)Company 76 not ranked
7New Zealand Leather & Shoe Research Association Inc.Nonprofit 27 not ranked
8Palmerston North City CouncilGovernment institution 5 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.

Massey University: 94.4%Palmerston North Hospital: 4.1%Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory: 0.5%Universal College of Learning: 0.3%4 others listed: 0.6%94%largest
Massey University29k · 94.4%Palmerston North Hospital1,264 · 4.1%Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory151 · 0.5%Universal College of Learning107 · 0.3%4 others listed197 · 0.6%

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

Which fields of science does Palmerston North work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research in Palmerston North is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%), Medicine (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,708 fractional works · 37.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 813 fractional works · 18.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 278 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEducation: 138 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 67 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 53 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 48 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Administration: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 270 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAccounting: 83 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 72 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 255 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 101 fractional works · 2.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 75 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 167 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 112 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFinance: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 124 fractional works · 2.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 79 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 54 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,006 fractional works · 22.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 318 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEcology: 112 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 41 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 268 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 87 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 196 fractional works · 4.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 62 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 34 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 64 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeophysics: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 38 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomaterials: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 34 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeometry and Topology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 923 fractional works · 20.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 567 fractional works · 12.6% of its workFood Science: 153 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPlant Science: 127 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 83 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 76 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 46 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInsect Science: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workForestry: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 260 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 104 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 84 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCell Biology: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiotechnology: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 49 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 39 fractional works · 0.9% of its workParasitology: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 870 fractional works · 19.3% of its workMedicine: 514 fractional works · 11.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 94 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEpidemiology: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 87 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 196 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 98 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacy: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 80 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 77 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 75 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmall Animals: 61 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEquine: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPalmerston North4,507fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences38%

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 Sciences1,70837.9%
    1. Social Sciences81318.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting2706.0%
    3. Psychology2555.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1673.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities1242.7%
    6. Decision Sciences791.8%
    1. Environmental Science3187.1%
    2. Engineering2685.9%
    3. Computer Science1964.4%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences641.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy380.9%
    6. Materials Science360.8%
    7. Mathematics340.8%
    8. Chemistry270.6%
    9. Energy230.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering30.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences56712.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2605.8%
    3. Neuroscience491.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology390.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics80.2%
    1. Medicine51411.4%
    2. Health Professions1964.4%
    3. Nursing801.8%
    4. Veterinary751.7%
    5. Dentistry50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Palmerston North strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Palmerston North is most concentrated in Veterinary, Public Administration and Small Animals (11.7× the world share in Veterinary).

  1. VeterinaryField · 64.5 works12×
  2. Public AdministrationSubfield · 22.6 works10×
  3. Small AnimalsSubfield · 51.3 works10×
  4. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 70.8 works7.9×
  5. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 70.8 works7.3×
  6. Food ScienceSubfield · 133.9 works4.3×
  7. Radiological and Ultrasound TechnologySubfield · 21.1 works4.3×
← 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: 2.61× its world share, 505 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.07× its world share, 232 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.85× its world share, 35 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.66× its world share, 44 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.47× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.39× its world share, 25 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.56× its world share, 177 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.86× its world share, 55 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.54× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 241 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.40× its world share, 284 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 32 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.65× its world share, 31 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.37× its world share, 34 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.69× its world share, 181 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.60× its world share, 470 worksMedicineNursing: 3.67× its world share, 73 worksNursingVeterinary: 11.66× its world share, 64 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.94× its world share, 110 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.88× its world share, 246 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.87× its world share, 74 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.80× its world share, 157 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.85× its world share, 229 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 741 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 11.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary11.66×64 works
  2. Nursing3.67×73 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.61×505 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.88×246 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.87×74 works
  6. Psychology1.85×229 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.80×157 works
  8. Health Professions1.69×181 works
  9. Social Sciences1.44×741 works
  10. Environmental Science1.40×284 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.07×232 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.94×110 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.86×55 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.85×35 works
  15. Neuroscience0.66×44 works
  16. Mathematics0.65×31 works
  17. Medicine0.60×470 works
  18. Computer Science0.56×177 works
  19. Energy0.54×20 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.47×7 works
  21. Chemistry0.39×25 works
  22. Engineering0.39×241 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.37×34 works
  24. Dentistry0.24×5 works
  25. Materials Science0.22×32 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.15×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Palmerston North?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Resilience, Vulnerability, Sustainability, Risk Management, Lipid Oxidation, Globalization and Public Health.

▲ 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 Change256▲ 2.1×96 topics
  2. Sustainability179▲ 1.62×80 topics
  3. Epidemiology175◆ 0.98×114 topics
  4. Globalization145▲ 1.63×83 topics
  5. Public Health124▲ 1.89×54 topics
  6. Mental Health122▲ 1.90×36 topics
  7. Environmental Impact109▲ 1.42×48 topics
  8. Resilience104▲ 4.7×15 topics
  9. Risk Management96▲ 4.5×14 topics
  10. Corporate Governance83▲ 2.5×19 topics
  11. Health Effects82▲ 3.0×22 topics
  12. Vulnerability81▲ 7.7×7 topics
  13. Social Capital79▲ 3.4×17 topics
  14. Lipid Oxidation69▲ 15×2 topics
  15. Health Benefits60▲ 4.0×13 topics
  16. Gut Microbiota60▲ 3.8×7 topics
  17. Consumer Perception59▲ 5.6×8 topics
  18. Genetic Diversity57▲ 2.9×18 topics
  19. Probiotics57▲ 5.3×6 topics
  20. Hydrocolloids54▲ 15×2 topics
  21. Greenhouse Gas Emissions53▲ 4.3×7 topics
  22. Animal Welfare50▲ 12×4 topics
  23. Risk Perception49▲ 4.1×7 topics
  24. Decolonization48▲ 13×6 topics
  25. Proteins48▲ 12×3 topics
  26. Livestock Production48▲ 11×3 topics
  27. Emulsions46▲ 15×2 topics
  28. Facilities Management46▲ 13×2 topics
  29. Milk Composition45▲ 23×2 topics
  30. Digestion44▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Nanoemulsions44▲ 22×1 topic
  32. Firm Performance42▲ 5.2×4 topics
  33. Amino Acids41▲ 9.7×3 topics
  34. Community39▲ 7.3×7 topics
  35. Financial Constraints37▲ 8.0×2 topics
  36. Microbial Community36▲ 9.4×5 topics
  37. Construction Projects35▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Risk35▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Burnout35▲ 8.6×5 topics
  40. Emergency Management35▲ 14×2 topics

What research is done in Palmerston North?

Proteins in Food Systems38Proteins in Food Systems: 38 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Go…32Corporate Finance and Governance: 32 fractional worksDisaster Management and Resilience: 31 fractional worksConstruction Project Man…31Construction Project Management and Performance: 31 fractional worksBIM and Construction Int…30BIM and Construction Integration: 30 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 29 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 28 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welf…25Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 25 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product Quality: 25 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 24 fractional works
Food ScienceAccountingSociology and Political ScienceManagement Science and Operations Research6 others

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

  1. 1 Proteins in Food Systems Food Science 38 works
  2. 2 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 32 works
  3. 3 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 31 works
  4. 4 Construction Project Management and Performance Management Science and Operations Research 31 works
  5. 5 BIM and Construction Integration Building and Construction 30 works
  6. 6 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 29 works
  7. 7 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 28 works
  8. 8 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 25 works
  9. 9 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 25 works
  10. 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 24 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%Palmerston North27.6% 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 33.6% in 2015.

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