Research in Sheffield
Science Explorer records 72 research institutions in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
- Research institutions
- 72 7 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 130k ▼ 9% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 3.7M 28.7 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.8% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Sheffield?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of SheffieldUniversity | 107,535 | #220 | |
| 2 | Sheffield Hallam UniversityUniversity | 13,186 | #1,899 | |
| 3 | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustFunder | 3,543 | #4,580 | |
| 4 | Sheffield City CouncilGovernment institution | 1,478 | #7,903 all time | |
| 5 | Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 607 | #13,988 | |
| 6 | Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 491 | #17,119 all time | |
| 7 | Knowledge Integration (United Kingdom)Company | 443 | #14,133 | |
| 8 | InsigneoUniversity | 305 | #14,009 | |
| 9 | Simcyp (United Kingdom)Company | 256 | #20,898 | |
| 10 | Sheffield Kidney InstituteHospital / health system | 255 | #23,761 all time | |
| 11 | Sheffield Industrial Museums TrustNonprofit | 176 | #27,710 all time | |
| 12 | BresMedHospital / health system | 151 | #33,626 all time | |
| 13 | Glass Technology ServicesResearch facility | 128 | #32,302 all time | |
| 14 | Sheffield Children's UniversityUniversity | 105 | not ranked | |
| 15 | ITM Power (United Kingdom)Company | 102 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Atomising Systems (United Kingdom)Company | 95 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Porter Brook Medical CentreHospital / health system | 73 | not ranked | |
| 18 | RemediNonprofit | 73 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Claremont Private HospitalHospital / health system | 52 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Geographical AssociationInstitution | 52 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Institute of Spring TechnologyCompany | 50 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Blatchford (United Kingdom)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Devices for DignityCompany | 47 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Ansys (United Kingdom)Company | 43 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Chase Research Cryogenics (United Kingdom)Company | 33 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Magnomatics (United Kingdom)Company | 30 | not ranked | |
| 27 | British GlassCompany | 28 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Benchmark Animal Health (United Kingdom)Company | 24 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Benchmark (United Kingdom)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Knowledge Now (United Kingdom)Company | 22 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Faradion (United Kingdom)Company | 20 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Ecclesfield GPHospital / health system | 20 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Blastech (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Environmental Monitoring Solutions (United Kingdom)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 35 | NanolayersResearch facility | 14 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Lablogic Systems (United Kingdom)Company | 14 | not ranked | |
| 37 | White Rose East Asia CentreNonprofit | 13 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Thornbury HospitalHospital / health system | 13 | not ranked | |
| 39 | South Yorkshire Passenger Transport ExecutiveCompany | 13 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Longley Park Sixth Form CollegeUniversity | 12 | not ranked | |
| 41 | UK Carbon Capture and Research CentreInstitution | 10 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Danieli (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Arconic (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Tribosonics (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Pakistan Muslim CentreNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Housing Studies AssociationInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 47 | British Tinnitus AssociationNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Stanley Black & Decker (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Cutting & Wear (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Outokumpu (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Smart Component Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Kings FoundationNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Tinsley Bridge GroupCompany | 6 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Dacord (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Good Things FoundationNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 56 | JRI Orthopaedics (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Jaywing (United Kingdom)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 58 | South Yorkshire Fire and RescueInstitution | 3 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Museums SheffieldNonprofit | 3 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Community Media AssociationNonprofit | 3 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Sheffield work in?
In 2022-now, 33% of research in Sheffield is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (22%), Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (14%).
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
- Physical Sciences5,40832.9%
- Engineering2,37414.4%
- Computer Science1,0276.2%
- Environmental Science5753.5%
- Materials Science4262.6%
- Physics and Astronomy4122.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1581.0%
- Mathematics1560.9%
- Chemistry1450.9%
- Energy910.6%
- Chemical Engineering440.3%
- Social Sciences5,06730.8%
- Social Sciences2,51315.3%
- Psychology7614.6%
- Arts and Humanities6884.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting4482.7%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4432.7%
- Decision Sciences2141.3%
- Health Sciences4,49827.3%
- Medicine3,56821.7%
- Health Professions7544.6%
- Dentistry990.6%
- Nursing660.4%
- Veterinary110.1%
- Life Sciences1,4849.0%
What is Sheffield strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Sheffield is most concentrated in Gastroenterology, Public Administration and Music (4.2× the world share in Gastroenterology).
- GastroenterologySubfield · 71.9 works4.2×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 28.2 works3.6×
- MusicSubfield · 37.6 works3.2×
- Gender StudiesSubfield · 133.4 works2.5×
- SoftwareSubfield · 23.5 works2.5×
- Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 61.7 works2.5×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 1.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Professions1.72×658 works
- Psychology1.52×673 works
- Arts and Humanities1.42×598 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.33×414 works
- Decision Sciences1.26×177 works
- Neuroscience1.24×292 works
- Dentistry1.24×87 works
- Social Sciences1.22×2,240 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.15×372 works
- Medicine1.10×3,087 works
- Engineering1.00×2,177 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.85×400 works
- Mathematics0.83×141 works
- Chemical Engineering0.80×41 works
- Nursing0.80×57 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.79×611 works
- Computer Science0.79×889 works
- Materials Science0.76×387 works
- Environmental Science0.70×504 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.67×34 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.62×91 works
- Energy0.61×82 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.60×137 works
- Chemistry0.59×135 works
- Veterinary0.50×10 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.37×252 works
Which keywords describe research in Sheffield?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Globalization, Public Health, Quality of Life, Machine Learning, Neoliberalism, Gender and Mental Health.
- Health Utility Measures
- Health Care Utilization
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Ethical Considerations
- Microstructure
- Social Support
- Mortality
- Depression
- Genetics
- Mechanical Properties
- Big Data
- Artificial Intelligence
- Healthcare
- Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Social Media
- Identity
- Gender
- Treatment
- Neoliberalism
- Primary Care
- Human Rights
- Ethics
- Colonialism
- Prevalence
- Nationalism
- Physical Activity
- Health Equity
- Economic Evaluation
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis
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
- Epidemiology676◆ 1.03×135 topics
- Machine Learning493◆ 0.90×87 topics
- Globalization457▲ 1.41×128 topics
- Deep Learning448▼ 0.79×82 topics
- Public Health400▲ 1.67×67 topics
- Quality of Life382▲ 1.61×56 topics
- Sustainability371◆ 0.92×112 topics
- Climate Change331▼ 0.74×109 topics
- Mental Health313▲ 1.33×44 topics
- Inflammation292▼ 0.83×81 topics
- Social Media248◆ 1.09×36 topics
- Risk Factors240▲ 1.32×37 topics
- Identity239▲ 2.0×63 topics
- Neural Networks231◆ 0.91×39 topics
- Gender219▲ 2.5×49 topics
- Healthcare216◆ 1.15×36 topics
- Treatment212◆ 1.06×52 topics
- Artificial Intelligence210◆ 0.90×50 topics
- Neoliberalism203▲ 3.4×27 topics
- Big Data190▲ 1.21×33 topics
- Primary Care188▲ 3.1×15 topics
- Mechanical Properties186▲ 1.16×38 topics
- Human Rights186◆ 1.10×70 topics
- Genetics178▲ 1.53×27 topics
- Ethics170▲ 2.0×45 topics
- Depression169▲ 1.17×23 topics
- Colonialism163▲ 2.1×45 topics
- Mortality159▲ 1.70×13 topics
- Prevalence156▲ 2.3×15 topics
- Social Support151▲ 1.70×20 topics
- Nationalism149▲ 2.0×31 topics
- Microstructure137▲ 1.60×19 topics
- Physical Activity136▲ 1.70×11 topics
- Ethical Considerations135▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Health Equity122▲ 2.5×6 topics
- Evidence-Based Practice93▲ 4.2×7 topics
- Economic Evaluation88▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Health Care Utilization80▲ 4.5×3 topics
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis78▲ 6.0×1 topic
- Health Utility Measures78▲ 6.0×1 topic
What research is done in Sheffield?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 72 works
- 2 Electric Motor Design and Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 55 works
- 3 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 50 works
- 4 Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism Finance 44 works
- 5 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 38 works
- 6 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 35 works
- 7 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 33 works
- 8 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 32 works
- 9 Structural Health Monitoring Techniques Civil and Structural Engineering 31 works
- 10 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Neurology 30 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 35.3% in 2016.
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