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Research in Pekanbaru

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Islamic University of Riau and Universitas Lancang Kuning.

Research institutions
7
7 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
49k
▲ 93% vs 2018-21
Citations
113k
2.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1954-2026
73 years on the record
Pekanbaru

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 Pekanbaru?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Riau UniversityUniversity 20,471 #3,226
2Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim RiauUniversity 11,058 #1,138
3Islamic University of RiauUniversity 6,696 #1,140
4Universitas Lancang KuningUniversity 4,401 #2,091
5Universitas Muhammadiyah RiauUniversity 3,353 #2,334
6Universitas AbdurrabUniversity 1,506 #3,862
7Institut Bisnis dan Teknologi Pelita IndonesiaUniversity 1,055 #2,645

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.

Riau University: 42.2%Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau: 22.8%Islamic University of Riau: 13.8%Universitas Lancang Kuning: 9.1%3 others listed: 12.2%42%largest
Riau University20k · 42.2%Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau11k · 22.8%Islamic University of Riau6,696 · 13.8%Universitas Lancang Kuning4,401 · 9.1%3 others listed5,914 · 12.2%

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

Which fields of science does Pekanbaru work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research in Pekanbaru is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Computer Science (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (10%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 18k fractional works · 59.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 13k fractional works · 43.5% of its workEducation: 6,475 fractional works · 21.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2,207 fractional works · 7.4% of its workDemography: 1,245 fractional works · 4.2% of its workLaw: 891 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 732 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCultural Studies: 433 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 309 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 281 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 91 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 66 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 158 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2,928 fractional works · 9.9% of its workAccounting: 782 fractional works · 2.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 738 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 441 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMarketing: 369 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 339 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 245 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 570 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 372 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 96 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 75 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 540 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 514 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 496 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 242 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReligious studies: 77 fractional works · 0.3% of its workConservation: 66 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 112 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 176 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 70 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 69 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7,014 fractional works · 23.7% of its workComputer Science: 3,438 fractional works · 11.6% of its workInformation Systems: 2,528 fractional works · 8.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 668 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 108 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 133 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 1,453 fractional works · 4.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 323 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 253 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 179 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 149 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 134 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 79 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 72 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 263 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1,230 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEcology: 392 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 340 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 225 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 122 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 150 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 409 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 351 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 57 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 184 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 70 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 114 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 107 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 100 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 65 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 2,684 fractional works · 9.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2,406 fractional works · 8.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 841 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFood Science: 436 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPlant Science: 357 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAquatic Science: 287 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 242 fractional works · 0.8% of its workForestry: 81 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 67 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 96 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 200 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 117 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 83 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 28 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 27 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 22 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2,334 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMedicine: 1,176 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 605 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSurgery: 64 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 63 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 445 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1,071 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 324 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 297 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 274 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 138 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 74 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 66 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 9 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKPekanbaru30kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences59%

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 Sciences13k43.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting2,9289.9%
    3. Psychology5701.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5401.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities4961.7%
    6. Decision Sciences1760.6%
    1. Computer Science3,43811.6%
    2. Engineering1,4534.9%
    3. Environmental Science1,2304.2%
    4. Mathematics4091.4%
    5. Materials Science1840.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1070.4%
    7. Chemistry1000.3%
    8. Energy650.2%
    9. Physics and Astronomy170.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering120.0%
  3. Life Sciences2,6849.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2,4068.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2000.7%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics280.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology270.1%
    5. Neuroscience220.1%
    1. Medicine1,1764.0%
    2. Health Professions1,0713.6%
    3. Nursing740.2%
    4. Dentistry90.0%
    5. Veterinary40.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Pekanbaru strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Pekanbaru is most concentrated in Human Factors and Ergonomics, Education and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8.5× the world share in Human Factors and Ergonomics).

  1. Human Factors and ErgonomicsSubfield · 255.9 works8.5×
  2. EducationSubfield · 5,974.7 works7.2×
  3. General Agricultural and Biological SciencesSubfield · 784.9 works6.6×
  4. DemographySubfield · 1,205.9 works6.5×
  5. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 274.9 works5.6×
  6. LawSubfield · 833.6 works5.3×
  7. Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and RehabilitationSubfield · 255.2 works5.1×
  8. Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSubfield · 285.2 works5.1×
← 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: 1.74× its world share, 2,245 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 181 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 23 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 18 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 22 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 11 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 91 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.54× its world share, 3,264 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 103 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 59 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.33× its world share, 1,353 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.82× its world share, 1,114 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 164 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.22× its world share, 390 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 13 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.32× its world share, 945 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 1,044 worksMedicineNursing: 0.46× its world share, 61 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 423 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.08× its world share, 2,697 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 145 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.85× its world share, 496 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.56× its world share, 464 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.45× its world share, 12k worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences3.45×12k works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.08×2,697 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.74×2,245 works
  4. Computer Science1.54×3,264 works
  5. Health Professions1.32×945 works
  6. Mathematics1.22×390 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.85×496 works
  8. Environmental Science0.82×1,114 works
  9. Psychology0.56×464 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.55×145 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.54×423 works
  12. Nursing0.46×61 works
  13. Engineering0.33×1,353 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.24×103 works
  15. Energy0.24×59 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×22 works
  17. Chemistry0.21×91 works
  18. Medicine0.20×1,044 works
  19. Materials Science0.17×164 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×181 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.11×11 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×23 works
  23. Veterinary0.09×3 works
  24. Dentistry0.05×7 works
  25. Neuroscience0.04×18 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.02×13 works

Which keywords describe research in Pekanbaru?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Community Empowerment, Character Education, Curriculum Development, E-Learning, Media Literacy, Local Wisdom, Digital Learning and Educational Technology.

▲ 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. Community Empowerment2,712▲ 13×12 topics
  2. Character Education2,383▲ 17×6 topics
  3. Curriculum Development2,256▲ 11×16 topics
  4. E-Learning2,208▲ 7.7×22 topics
  5. Educational Technology2,159▲ 6.2×36 topics
  6. Media Literacy2,120▲ 14×5 topics
  7. Local Wisdom2,064▲ 15×9 topics
  8. Social Media2,012▲ 4.9×30 topics
  9. Digital Learning1,998▲ 13×10 topics
  10. Qualitative Research1,868▲ 7.4×25 topics
  11. Digital Literacy1,786▲ 11×12 topics
  12. Education1,779▲ 3.5×66 topics
  13. Online Learning1,764▲ 7.2×21 topics
  14. Indonesia1,672▲ 13×5 topics
  15. Islamic Education1,636▲ 17×4 topics
  16. Sustainable Development1,487▲ 3.2×71 topics
  17. E-commerce1,486▲ 8.8×11 topics
  18. STEM Education1,424▲ 11×14 topics
  19. Mobile Learning1,339▲ 13×6 topics
  20. Islamic Banking1,338▲ 12×3 topics
  21. Financial Performance1,320▲ 7.9×14 topics
  22. COVID-191,277▲ 3.3×27 topics
  23. Learning Outcomes1,267▲ 10×9 topics
  24. Pandemic1,246▲ 4.2×12 topics
  25. Economic Impact1,203▲ 7.6×8 topics
  26. Corporate Governance1,172▲ 5.4×24 topics
  27. Student Development1,032▲ 18×2 topics
  28. Religious Values1,030▲ 19×1 topic
  29. School Environment1,030▲ 19×1 topic
  30. SMEs1,009▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Digital Marketing996▲ 8.7×4 topics
  32. UMKM988▲ 12×1 topic
  33. Information Literacy973▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Reading Interest965▲ 16×1 topic
  35. School Literacy Movement965▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Community Participation923▲ 8.8×6 topics
  37. Health Education897▲ 7.0×10 topics
  38. Teaching Strategies860▲ 10×5 topics
  39. Character Development856▲ 18×2 topics
  40. 21st Century Skills846▲ 9.9×6 topics

What research is done in Pekanbaru?

Education and Character Development: 974 fractional worksSMEs Development and Digital Marketing: 969 fractional worksEducational Methods and …944Educational Methods and Media Use: 944 fractional worksEducational Curriculum a…660Educational Curriculum and Learning Methods: 660 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Communication: 610 fractional worksPublic Health and Nutrition: 557 fractional worksSTEM Education507STEM Education: 507 fractional worksEducational Methods and Impacts: 488 fractional worksLegal Studies and Policies: 434 fractional worksManagement and Optimizat…426Management and Optimization Techniques: 426 fractional works
EducationDemographyInformation SystemsSociology and Political Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Education and Character Development Education 974 works
  2. 2 SMEs Development and Digital Marketing Demography 969 works
  3. 3 Educational Methods and Media Use Information Systems 944 works
  4. 4 Educational Curriculum and Learning Methods Education 660 works
  5. 5 Islamic Finance and Communication Sociology and Political Science 610 works
  6. 6 Public Health and Nutrition Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 557 works
  7. 7 STEM Education Education 507 works
  8. 8 Educational Methods and Impacts Education 488 works
  9. 9 Legal Studies and Policies Law 434 works
  10. 10 Management and Optimization Techniques Strategy and Management 426 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Pekanbaru6.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.4% in 2020.

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