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Research in Piura

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Piura, Peru. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Piura and Universidad Nacional de Piura.

Research institutions
2
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.8k
▲ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.2k
3.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Piura

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 Piura?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of PiuraUniversity 1,250 #6,268
2Universidad Nacional de PiuraUniversity 554 #7,387

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.

Which fields of science does Piura work in?

In 2022-now, 48% of research in Piura is in Social Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (28%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 355 fractional works · 48.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 207 fractional works · 28.2% of its workEducation: 48 fractional works · 6.5% of its workLaw: 28 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workDemography: 15 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCultural Studies: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCommunication: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 49 fractional works · 6.7% of its workAccounting: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 42 fractional works · 5.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhilosophy: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 30 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 26 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 22 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 166 fractional works · 22.6% of its workEngineering: 52 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 47 fractional works · 6.5% of its workInformation Systems: 17 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 38 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 112 fractional works · 15.3% of its workMedicine: 76 fractional works · 10.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 18 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSurgery: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 32 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 99 fractional works · 13.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 77 fractional works · 10.5% of its workPlant Science: 21 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFood Science: 19 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKPiura733fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences48%

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 Sciences20728.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting496.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities425.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance304.1%
    5. Psychology223.0%
    6. Decision Sciences60.8%
    1. Engineering527.1%
    2. Computer Science476.5%
    3. Environmental Science385.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences70.9%
    5. Energy60.8%
    6. Chemistry50.7%
    7. Mathematics50.7%
    8. Physics and Astronomy30.4%
    9. Materials Science30.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Medicine7610.4%
    2. Health Professions324.3%
    3. Nursing20.3%
    4. Dentistry10.2%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7710.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology152.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology30.5%
    4. Neuroscience20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Piura strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Piura is most concentrated in Law (7.1× the world share in Law).

  1. LawSubfield · 25.3 works7.1×
← 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: 2.28× its world share, 66 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.43× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.53× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.90× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.03× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 46 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.11× its world share, 34 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.71× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.48× its world share, 56 worksMedicineNursing: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.14× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.56× its world share, 28 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.94× its world share, 38 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.10× its world share, 28 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.00× its world share, 19 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.25× its world share, 174 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 2.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.28×66 works
  2. Social Sciences2.25×174 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.10×28 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.94×38 works
  5. Health Professions1.71×27 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.56×28 works
  7. Veterinary1.14×1 works
  8. Environmental Science1.11×34 works
  9. Energy1.03×6 works
  10. Psychology1.00×19 works
  11. Computer Science0.90×43 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.87×5 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.58×6 works
  14. Nursing0.57×2 works
  15. Mathematics0.56×4 works
  16. Chemistry0.53×5 works
  17. Engineering0.50×46 works
  18. Medicine0.48×56 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.43×14 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.40×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×2 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.22×3 works
  23. Dentistry0.21×1 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.19×0 works
  25. Neuroscience0.15×2 works
  26. Materials Science0.08×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Piura?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Globalization, Innovation, Digital Marketing, Competitiveness, Latin America, Small and Medium Enterprises and Social Responsibility.

▲ 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. Education62▲ 4.9×37 topics
  2. Globalization44▲ 3.1×32 topics
  3. Sustainability40▲ 2.2×44 topics
  4. Innovation34▲ 4.5×20 topics
  5. Climate Change27▲ 1.37×50 topics
  6. Digital Marketing26▲ 9.3×4 topics
  7. Environmental Impact26▲ 2.1×29 topics
  8. Competitiveness26▲ 44×6 topics
  9. Sustainable Development26▲ 2.2×23 topics
  10. Latin America25▲ 18×12 topics
  11. Public Health24▲ 2.3×35 topics
  12. Knowledge Management24▲ 5.9×10 topics
  13. Small and Medium Enterprises23▲ 18×3 topics
  14. Social Responsibility23▲ 13×5 topics
  15. Ethics22▲ 6.0×16 topics
  16. COVID-1922▲ 2.3×15 topics
  17. Human Rights21▲ 2.8×14 topics
  18. Innovation Ecosystems21▲ 28×2 topics
  19. Economic Impact20▲ 5.2×5 topics
  20. Urban Development20▲ 7.9×6 topics
  21. E-Learning20▲ 2.8×9 topics
  22. Globalization Effects20▲ 39×2 topics
  23. Psychopharmacology Education19▲ 42×1 topic
  24. Tourism Management19▲ 38×1 topic
  25. Inclusive Education19▲ 7.2×10 topics
  26. Food Security18▲ 4.6×8 topics
  27. Health Promotion18▲ 7.9×9 topics
  28. Technology18▲ 4.7×12 topics
  29. Communication18▲ 7.6×9 topics
  30. Pedagogy17▲ 4.7×7 topics
  31. Organizational Culture16▲ 5.6×8 topics
  32. Cultural Identity15▲ 4.2×11 topics
  33. Social Justice15▲ 3.5×13 topics
  34. Rural Development14▲ 5.7×9 topics
  35. Criminal Justice14▲ 8.7×4 topics
  36. Social Movements14▲ 6.3×9 topics
  37. Distance Learning13▲ 5.1×6 topics
  38. Healthcare Access13▲ 6.4×10 topics
  39. Corporate Social Responsibility12▲ 9.9×6 topics
  40. Constitutionalism11▲ 17×3 topics

What research is done in Piura?

Business, Innovation, an…18Business, Innovation, and Economy: 18 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 9 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 8 fractional worksSocial Issues and Policies in Latin America: 8 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences: 7 fractional worksEducational Research and Science Teaching: 7 fractional worksLegal processes and juri…7Legal processes and jurisprudence: 7 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Training: 6 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 6 fractional worksComparative Internationa…6Comparative International Legal Studies: 6 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsInformation SystemsAccountingLaw4 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 18 works
  2. 2 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 9 works
  3. 3 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 8 works
  4. 4 Social Issues and Policies in Latin America Law 8 works
  5. 5 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 works
  6. 6 Educational Research and Science Teaching General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 works
  7. 7 Legal processes and jurisprudence Law 7 works
  8. 8 Education and Teacher Training Education 6 works
  9. 9 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 6 works
  10. 10 Comparative International Legal Studies Political Science and International Relations 6 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 counting10%20%Piura10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.3% in 2016.

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