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Research in Qingdao

Science Explorer records 5 research institutions in Qingdao. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Laoshan Laboratory and SINOPEC Research Institute of Safety Engineering Co., Ltd..

Research institutions
5
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
959
▲ 2150% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.8k
8.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
22.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
2008-2026
19 years on the record
Qingdao

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 Qingdao?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Laoshan LaboratoryResearch facility 699 #1,194
2SINOPEC Research Institute of Safety Engineering Co., Ltd.Nonprofit 157 #20,836
3Qingdao City UniversityUniversity 61 not ranked
4State Key Laboratory of Digital Multimedia TechnologyResearch facility 21 not ranked
5Shandong Sinder Technology Co., Ltd.Company 11 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.

Laoshan Laboratory: 73.7%SINOPEC Research Institute of Safety Engineering Co., Ltd.: 16.5%Qingdao City University: 6.4%State Key Laboratory of Digital Multimedia Technology: 2.2%1 other listed: 1.2%74%largest
Laoshan Laboratory699 · 73.7%SINOPEC Research Institute of Safety Engineering Co., Ltd.157 · 16.5%Qingdao City University61 · 6.4%State Key Laboratory of Digital Multimedia Technology21 · 2.2%1 other listed11 · 1.2%

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

Which fields of science does Qingdao work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research in Qingdao is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (29%), Engineering (23%), Environmental Science (18%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 765 fractional works · 86.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 254 fractional works · 28.6% of its workOceanography: 118 fractional works · 13.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 63 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGeophysics: 40 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 207 fractional works · 23.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 39 fractional works · 4.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 28 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 25 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 21 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 21 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 19 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 157 fractional works · 17.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 65 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEcology: 22 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 21 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 46 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 28 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 36 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCatalysis: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBioengineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 75 fractional works · 8.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 28 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAquatic Science: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 20 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKQingdao887fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences3%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences25428.6%
    2. Engineering20723.3%
    3. Environmental Science15717.7%
    4. Materials Science465.2%
    5. Computer Science364.1%
    6. Chemistry242.7%
    7. Energy171.9%
    8. Physics and Astronomy121.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering111.3%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology465.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences182.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology70.8%
    4. Neuroscience30.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences111.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting40.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.4%
    4. Decision Sciences30.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities30.3%
    6. Psychology10.1%
    1. Medicine182.0%
    2. Health Professions10.1%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Qingdao strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Qingdao is most concentrated in Oceanography, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Atmospheric Science (47.4× the world share in Oceanography).

  1. OceanographySubfield · 103.5 works47×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 221.2 works18×
  3. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 55.5 works16×
  4. GeophysicsSubfield · 36.1 works13×
  5. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 56.9 works9.6×
← 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: 0.45× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.03× its world share, 43 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.78× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 3.85× its world share, 10 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.76× its world share, 22 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.51× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18.11× its world share, 221 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.05× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.53× its world share, 179 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.56× its world share, 138 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.49× its world share, 40 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.59× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 18.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.11×221 works
  2. Chemical Engineering3.85×10 works
  3. Environmental Science3.56×138 works
  4. Energy2.05×15 works
  5. Chemistry1.76×22 works
  6. Engineering1.53×179 works
  7. Materials Science1.49×40 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.03×43 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.78×6 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.59×10 works
  11. Computer Science0.51×31 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×17 works
  13. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.42×1 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.38×3 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.22×4 works
  16. Nursing0.21×1 works
  17. Neuroscience0.17×2 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×4 works
  19. Mathematics0.12×1 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.12×3 works
  21. Medicine0.11×16 works
  22. Social Sciences0.11×10 works
  23. Veterinary0.08×0 works
  24. Health Professions0.05×1 works
  25. Psychology0.04×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Qingdao?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming, Data Assimilation, Climate Change Impact, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis and Hydrological Cycle.

▲ 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 Change133▲ 5.5×58 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation99▲ 81×3 topics
  3. Global Warming74▲ 20×9 topics
  4. Data Assimilation68▲ 47×4 topics
  5. Climate Change Impact52▲ 25×3 topics
  6. Oceanic Modeling51▲ 161×1 topic
  7. Tidal Analysis51▲ 161×1 topic
  8. Hydrological Cycle39▲ 44×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions38▲ 15×7 topics
  10. Extreme Events37▲ 45×2 topics
  11. Remote Sensing37▲ 3.4×31 topics
  12. Climate Modeling37▲ 55×1 topic
  13. Precipitation Extremes37▲ 55×1 topic
  14. Nanoparticles30▲ 2.6×25 topics
  15. Plate Tectonics28▲ 21×3 topics
  16. Tropical Cyclones28▲ 56×2 topics
  17. Eutrophication24▲ 24×3 topics
  18. Harmful Algal Blooms24▲ 32×3 topics
  19. Nutrient Limitation22▲ 22×2 topics
  20. Dissolved Organic Matter22▲ 56×1 topic
  21. Oceanic Carbon Cycle22▲ 56×1 topic
  22. Microbial Communities21▲ 5.4×8 topics
  23. Tectonics20▲ 19×3 topics
  24. Sea Level Rise20▲ 18×3 topics
  25. Wireless Sensor Networks19▲ 4.8×12 topics
  26. Aquaculture18▲ 8.1×8 topics
  27. Wave Modeling18▲ 39×2 topics
  28. Anaerobic18▲ 31×1 topic
  29. Methane Oxidation18▲ 26×1 topic
  30. Shale Gas18▲ 17×2 topics
  31. Probabilistic Forecasting17▲ 9.9×3 topics
  32. Boundary Layer17▲ 15×2 topics
  33. Ensemble Kalman Filter16▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Arctic16▲ 16×4 topics
  35. Rogue Waves15▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Marine Sediments15▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Ocean Waves15▲ 73×1 topic
  38. Wind Stress15▲ 73×1 topic
  39. Convective Parameterization15▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Mesoscale Modeling15▲ 29×1 topic

What research is done in Qingdao?

Oceanographic and Atmosp…43Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 43 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 31 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 20 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 16 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 13 fractional worksOcean Waves and Remote Sensing: 13 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 13 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 12 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 11 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 11 fractional works
OceanographyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEnvironmental ChemistryAtmospheric Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 43 works
  2. 2 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 31 works
  3. 3 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 20 works
  4. 4 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 16 works
  5. 5 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 13 works
  6. 6 Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing Oceanography 13 works
  7. 7 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 13 works
  8. 8 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 12 works
  9. 9 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 11 works
  10. 10 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 11 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

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