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Research in Rotorua

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Rotorua, New Zealand. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Scion.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.4k
▲ 4% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
22.0%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Rotorua?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1ScionResearch facility 1,185 #9,875
2Future Forests ResearchResearch facility 752 #20,509 all time
3Rotorua HospitalHospital / health system 463 #24,228 all time
4Geyserland ObservatoryResearch facility 0 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.

Scion: 49.4%Future Forests Research: 31.3%Rotorua Hospital: 19.3%49%largest
Scion1,185 · 49.4%Future Forests Research752 · 31.3%Rotorua Hospital463 · 19.3%

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

What is Rotorua strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Rotorua is most concentrated in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Science (27.5× the world share in Nature and Landscape Conservation).

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 20.0 works28×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 20.8 works9.0×
  3. Environmental ScienceField · 95.0 works6.3×
← 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.

Which keywords describe research in Rotorua?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biomass Estimation, Invasive Species, Aboveground Biomass, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Global Change and Allometric Models.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change41▲ 5.0×58 topics
  2. Biomass Estimation22▲ 47×3 topics
  3. Invasive Species20▲ 16×14 topics
  4. Aboveground Biomass19▲ 70×2 topics
  5. Biodiversity16▲ 7.1×19 topics
  6. Biodiversity Conservation14▲ 13×8 topics
  7. Remote Sensing13▲ 3.4×18 topics
  8. Global Change13▲ 16×5 topics
  9. Allometric Models13▲ 82×2 topics
  10. Carbon Stocks12▲ 147×1 topic
  11. Tropical Forests12▲ 114×1 topic
  12. Phylogenetic Analysis12▲ 13×8 topics
  13. Environmental Impact11▲ 2.2×24 topics
  14. Biomedical Applications11▲ 3.0×20 topics
  15. Biological Invasions11▲ 40×3 topics
  16. Ecosystem Functioning11▲ 18×6 topics
  17. Ecosystem Resilience10▲ 23×5 topics
  18. Forest Management10▲ 56×4 topics
  19. Habitat Fragmentation10▲ 15×4 topics
  20. Global Warming10▲ 7.8×8 topics
  21. Conservation9▲ 7.0×11 topics
  22. Soil Properties8▲ 16×5 topics
  23. Terrestrial Laser Scanning7▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Ecosystem7▲ 21×4 topics
  25. Fungal Pathogens7▲ 17×4 topics
  26. Economic Impacts7▲ 33×2 topics
  27. Ecosystem Services7▲ 5.8×7 topics
  28. Forest Carbon Stocks7▲ 36×1 topic
  29. Lidar Remote Sensing7▲ 36×1 topic
  30. Recycling7▲ 5.7×6 topics
  31. Climate Change Impacts6▲ 18×5 topics
  32. Community Ecology6▲ 24×2 topics
  33. Forest Carbon Sequestration6▲ 96×1 topic
  34. Host Specificity6▲ 18×4 topics
  35. Sustainable Forest Management6▲ 96×1 topic
  36. Bark Beetles6▲ 93×1 topic
  37. Forest Pests6▲ 93×1 topic
  38. Endophytic Fungi6▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Dead Wood6▲ 104×1 topic
  40. Saproxylic Beetles6▲ 104×1 topic

What research is done in Rotorua?

  1. 1 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 12 works
  2. 2 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 7 works
  3. 3 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 6 works
  4. 4 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 6 works
  5. 5 Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Insect Science 6 works
  6. 6 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  7. 7 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 5 works
  8. 8 Lignin and Wood Chemistry Biomedical Engineering 5 works
  9. 9 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 5 works
  10. 10 Wood Treatment and Properties Building and Construction 4 works

Research output over time

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