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Research in Riverside

Science Explorer records 20 research institutions in Riverside, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, Riverside, California Baptist University and La Sierra University.

Research institutions
20
5 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
54k
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
2M
37.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
20.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Riverside

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 Riverside?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of California, RiversideUniversity 50,549 #222
2California Baptist UniversityUniversity 636 #9,492
3La Sierra UniversityUniversity 526 #18,796
4Riverside Community HospitalHospital / health system 316 #21,067
5Carbon Solutions (United States)Company 177 #19,387
6Riverside City CollegeUniversity 144 #23,718 all time
7Riverside Unified School DistrictUniversity 91 not ranked
8Encore Pharmaceuticals (United States)Company 82 not ranked
9Sport FoundationNonprofit 69 not ranked
10ISCA Technologies (United States)Company 59 not ranked
11Riverside Transplantation InstituteHospital / health system 45 not ranked
12Kromek (United States)Company 33 not ranked
13Riverside County Office of EducationGovernment institution 22 not ranked
14Society for Archaeological SciencesNonprofit 18 not ranked
15Riverside Community College DistrictUniversity 14 not ranked
16American College of HealthcareResearch facility 6 not ranked
17Riverside Metropolitan MuseumArchive 5 not ranked
18Riverside County Department of Environmental HealthGovernment institution 4 not ranked
19Riverside County Library SystemArchive 1 not ranked
20Newport Coachworks (United States)Company 1 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.

University of California, Riverside: 95.7%California Baptist University: 1.2%La Sierra University: 1.0%Riverside Community Hospital: 0.6%16 others listed: 1.5%96%largest
University of California, Riverside51k · 95.7%California Baptist University636 · 1.2%La Sierra University526 · 1.0%Riverside Community Hospital316 · 0.6%16 others listed771 · 1.5%

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

Which fields of science does Riverside work in?

In 2022-now, 42% of research in Riverside is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (14%), Engineering (11%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3,093 fractional works · 42.0% of its workEngineering: 839 fractional works · 11.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 245 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 158 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 74 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 69 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 67 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 657 fractional works · 8.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 230 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 102 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 101 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 61 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 455 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEcology: 87 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 84 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 72 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 50 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 320 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 120 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 79 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 45 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 243 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 164 fractional works · 2.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 209 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 79 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPaleontology: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 151 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 61 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 132 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 51 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCatalysis: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,594 fractional works · 21.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 827 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 290 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 125 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 113 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCultural Studies: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 34 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 318 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 98 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 96 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 56 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 44 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 211 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 45 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 35 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArcheology: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 106 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 77 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 80 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 53 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1,497 fractional works · 20.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 664 fractional works · 9.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 410 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGenetics: 133 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCell Biology: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 53 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 536 fractional works · 7.3% of its workPlant Science: 264 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInsect Science: 106 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 91 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoil Science: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 218 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 110 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 52 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 43 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,174 fractional works · 16.0% of its workMedicine: 1,035 fractional works · 14.1% of its workSurgery: 125 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 88 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 82 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 74 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 66 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 49 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 48 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 41 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 25 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 125 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 107 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 65 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRiverside7,358fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences42%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences22%

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. Engineering83911.4%
    2. Computer Science6578.9%
    3. Environmental Science4556.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy3204.3%
    5. Materials Science2433.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences2092.8%
    7. Chemistry1512.1%
    8. Mathematics1321.8%
    9. Energy550.7%
    10. Chemical Engineering330.4%
  2. Social Sciences1,59421.7%
    1. Social Sciences82711.2%
    2. Psychology3184.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities2112.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1061.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting801.1%
    6. Decision Sciences530.7%
  3. Life Sciences1,49720.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6649.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5367.3%
    3. Neuroscience2183.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology620.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics170.2%
  4. Health Sciences1,17416.0%
    1. Medicine1,03514.1%
    2. Health Professions1071.5%
    3. Nursing230.3%
    4. Dentistry60.1%
    5. Veterinary40.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Riverside strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Riverside is most concentrated in Insect Science, Hardware and Architecture and Paleontology (5.3× the world share in Insect Science).

  1. Insect ScienceSubfield · 98.4 works5.3×
  2. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 29.6 works4.0×
  3. PaleontologySubfield · 28.0 works3.5×
  4. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 111.0 works3.2×
← 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: 1.54× its world share, 483 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.66× its world share, 584 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.78× its world share, 52 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.74× its world share, 186 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.63× its world share, 15 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.33× its world share, 31 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.31× its world share, 135 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.16× its world share, 598 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.81× its world share, 187 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.84× its world share, 51 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.77× its world share, 766 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.25× its world share, 410 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.96× its world share, 222 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.53× its world share, 119 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.01× its world share, 296 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.57× its world share, 98 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.71× its world share, 904 worksMedicineNursing: 0.66× its world share, 21 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.00× its world share, 190 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.34× its world share, 72 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 45 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 97 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.38× its world share, 278 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 760 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy2.01×296 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.81×187 works
  3. Neuroscience1.74×186 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.66×584 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.54×483 works
  6. Mathematics1.53×119 works
  7. Psychology1.38×278 works
  8. Chemical Engineering1.33×31 works
  9. Chemistry1.31×135 works
  10. Environmental Science1.25×410 works
  11. Computer Science1.16×598 works
  12. Arts and Humanities1.00×190 works
  13. Materials Science0.96×222 works
  14. Social Sciences0.91×760 works
  15. Energy0.84×51 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.78×52 works
  17. Engineering0.77×766 works
  18. Medicine0.71×904 works
  19. Decision Sciences0.71×45 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×97 works
  21. Nursing0.66×21 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.63×15 works
  23. Health Professions0.57×98 works
  24. Veterinary0.41×4 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.34×72 works
  26. Dentistry0.14×5 works

Which keywords describe research in Riverside?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Biological Control, Invasive Species, Epidemiology, Mental Health and Globalization.

▲ 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 Change307▲ 1.53×98 topics
  2. Deep Learning265◆ 1.05×77 topics
  3. Machine Learning240◆ 0.98×80 topics
  4. Epidemiology228▼ 0.78×133 topics
  5. Globalization156◆ 1.08×101 topics
  6. Mental Health142▲ 1.35×40 topics
  7. Neural Networks132▲ 1.16×34 topics
  8. Nanoparticles124▲ 1.34×37 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress112◆ 0.93×57 topics
  10. Invasive Species103▲ 3.3×21 topics
  11. Biodiversity94▲ 1.68×32 topics
  12. Identity87▲ 1.63×53 topics
  13. Colonialism80▲ 2.3×38 topics
  14. Gender80▲ 2.0×44 topics
  15. Genetics79▲ 1.52×27 topics
  16. Biological Control77▲ 6.9×9 topics
  17. Health Effects74▲ 1.66×23 topics
  18. Catalysis73▲ 1.50×27 topics
  19. Genomics72▲ 3.3×12 topics
  20. Gene Expression72▲ 1.55×20 topics
  21. Habitat Fragmentation66▲ 4.1×5 topics
  22. Phylogenetic Analysis64▲ 2.8×16 topics
  23. Global Change62▲ 3.2×7 topics
  24. Religion61▲ 1.80×32 topics
  25. Nationalism60▲ 1.83×27 topics
  26. Genetic Diversity59▲ 1.86×18 topics
  27. Microbiota56▲ 3.5×8 topics
  28. Neuroscience53▲ 2.3×15 topics
  29. Air Quality47▲ 3.4×6 topics
  30. Symbiosis45▲ 6.8×3 topics
  31. Intersectionality44▲ 3.2×13 topics
  32. Dark Matter41▲ 4.8×4 topics
  33. Plant-Animal Interactions37▲ 6.3×1 topic
  34. Pollinator Decline37▲ 6.3×1 topic
  35. Chemical Composition36▲ 5.0×3 topics
  36. Solar Wind35▲ 5.2×2 topics
  37. Atmospheric Aerosols34▲ 8.1×1 topic
  38. Black Carbon34▲ 8.1×1 topic
  39. Ants33▲ 11×1 topic
  40. Social Insects33▲ 11×1 topic

What research is done in Riverside?

Plant and animal studies35Plant and animal studies: 35 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry an…31Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 31 fractional worksInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior: 30 fractional worksInsect and Pesticide Res…27Insect and Pesticide Research: 27 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interaction…25Insect-Plant Interactions and Control: 25 fractional worksCRISPR and Genetic Engineering: 23 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 21 fractional worksVehicle emissions and pe…20Vehicle emissions and performance: 20 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 19 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 19 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAtmospheric ScienceGeneticsInsect Science5 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 35 works
  2. 2 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 31 works
  3. 3 Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior Genetics 30 works
  4. 4 Insect and Pesticide Research Insect Science 27 works
  5. 5 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 25 works
  6. 6 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 23 works
  7. 7 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 21 works
  8. 8 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 20 works
  9. 9 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 19 works
  10. 10 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 19 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%Riverside17.7% 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 37.9% in 2016.

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