Research in Southampton
Science Explorer records 45 research institutions in Southampton, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Southampton, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and National Oceanography Centre.
- Research institutions
- 45 5 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 109k ▼ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 3.2M 29.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.3% 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 Southampton?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of SouthamptonUniversity | 98,574 | #214 | |
| 2 | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 4,976 | #2,104 | |
| 3 | National Oceanography CentreResearch facility | 4,001 | #2,832 | |
| 4 | Southampton Solent UniversityUniversity | 1,293 | #6,707 | |
| 5 | Ordnance SurveyGovernment institution | 723 | #13,378 all time | |
| 6 | Wessex Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 638 | #6,116 all time | |
| 7 | Southern Health NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 335 | #18,054 | |
| 8 | Moorgreen HospitalHospital / health system | 324 | #19,224 all time | |
| 9 | Drug Safety Research UnitNonprofit | 276 | #19,925 all time | |
| 10 | Southampton City CouncilGovernment institution | 274 | #15,657 all time | |
| 11 | Solent NHS TrustHospital / health system | 226 | #23,662 all time | |
| 12 | International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and DiseaseNonprofit | 196 | #22,977 all time | |
| 13 | Mars Space (United Kingdom)Company | 163 | #32,270 all time | |
| 14 | Chilworth Technology (United Kingdom)Company | 121 | #30,811 all time | |
| 15 | NIHR Evaluation Trials and Studies Coordinating CentreGovernment institution | 97 | not ranked | |
| 16 | City College SouthamptonUniversity | 67 | not ranked | |
| 17 | South East Physics NetworkInstitution | 53 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Beasy (United Kingdom)Company | 49 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Hythe HospitalHospital / health system | 43 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Maritime and Coastguard AgencyGovernment institution | 32 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Fianium (United Kingdom)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Fibercore (United Kingdom)Company | 31 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Wessex Medical ResearchNonprofit | 17 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Western Community HospitalHospital / health system | 17 | not ranked | |
| 25 | CJR Propulsion (United Kingdom)Company | 16 | not ranked | |
| 26 | The Centre of Chinese MedicineHospital / health system | 16 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Zoetis (United Kingdom)Company | 14 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Synairgen (United Kingdom)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Cascoda (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 30 | National Centre for Research MethodsInstitution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 31 | ATDBio (United Kingdom)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Symetrica Security (United Kingdom)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 33 | SENSEYE LIMITEDCompany | 7 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Biome Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Community Network ServicesInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 36 | MA Systems and Control (United Kingdom)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Vantia (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Spire Southampton HospitalHospital / health system | 4 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Royal Yachting AssociationInstitution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 40 | CeramTec (United Kingdom)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 41 | NquiringMinds (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Garmin (United Kingdom)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Embecosm (United Kingdom)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 44 | HiLight Semiconductor (United Kingdom)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Bee Farmers AssociationInstitution | 0 | 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 Southampton work in?
In 2022-now, 41% of research in Southampton is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (22%), Engineering (17%), Social Sciences (11%).
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 Sciences5,90441.3%
- Engineering2,43417.0%
- Computer Science8826.2%
- Environmental Science6894.8%
- Physics and Astronomy6394.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences5744.0%
- Materials Science3022.1%
- Mathematics1521.1%
- Chemistry1431.0%
- Energy630.4%
- Chemical Engineering260.2%
- Health Sciences3,72926.1%
- Medicine3,10321.7%
- Health Professions5203.6%
- Nursing790.6%
- Dentistry140.1%
- Veterinary130.1%
- Social Sciences3,57925.0%
- Social Sciences1,56010.9%
- Psychology6284.4%
- Arts and Humanities4573.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting4122.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3242.3%
- Decision Sciences1991.4%
- Life Sciences1,0927.6%
What is Southampton strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Southampton is most concentrated in Oceanography, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics (5.4× the world share in Oceanography).
- OceanographySubfield · 193.9 works5.4×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 113.8 works2.9×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 167.5 works2.5×
- PaleontologySubfield · 38.3 works2.5×
- Geriatrics and GerontologySubfield · 33.5 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: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.36×471 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.96×554 works
- Psychology1.45×560 works
- Health Professions1.42×475 works
- Decision Sciences1.35×166 works
- Engineering1.17×2,230 works
- Medicine1.13×2,761 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.13×307 works
- Nursing1.12×70 works
- Arts and Humanities1.09×399 works
- Neuroscience1.08×222 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.98×125 works
- Environmental Science0.95×600 works
- Mathematics0.90×134 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.90×370 works
- Social Sciences0.87×1,403 works
- Computer Science0.77×760 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×456 works
- Veterinary0.66×12 works
- Chemistry0.62×124 works
- Materials Science0.60×267 works
- Energy0.48×56 works
- Chemical Engineering0.47×21 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×17 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×136 works
- Dentistry0.18×11 works
Which keywords describe research in Southampton?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Nonlinear Optics, Fiber Lasers, Inflammation, Machine Learning, Optical Fiber and Vibration Control.
- Tidal Analysis
- Elastic Waves
- Subwavelength Imaging
- High-Power Laser
- Gas Sensing
- Whispering Gallery Mode
- Microcavities
- Integrated Circuits
- Turbulent Flow
- Vibration Control
- Optical Fiber
- Fiber Lasers
- Nonlinear Optics
- Biosensors
- Genetics
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Global Warming
- Primary Care
- Prevalence
- Ocean Circulation
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Optical Modulators
- Raman Lasers
- Silicon Photonics
- Nanophotonic Waveguides
- Microwave Photonics
- Flow Control
- Supercontinuum Generation
- Band Gaps
- Oceanic Modeling
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
- Epidemiology701▲ 1.23×134 topics
- Climate Change549▲ 1.41×101 topics
- Machine Learning407▼ 0.85×89 topics
- Deep Learning374▼ 0.76×82 topics
- Inflammation338◆ 1.11×82 topics
- Quality of Life263▲ 1.27×55 topics
- Public Health261▲ 1.25×64 topics
- Globalization255◆ 0.91×105 topics
- Treatment240▲ 1.38×51 topics
- Mental Health233◆ 1.14×45 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome196▲ 1.69×24 topics
- Genetics162▲ 1.61×27 topics
- Global Warming143▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Biosensors140▲ 1.99×12 topics
- Primary Care140▲ 2.6×15 topics
- Nonlinear Optics139▲ 9.1×4 topics
- Prevalence135▲ 2.3×15 topics
- Fiber Lasers127▲ 9.6×3 topics
- Ocean Circulation113▲ 5.8×3 topics
- Optical Fiber113▲ 7.6×3 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation112▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Vibration Control101▲ 11×4 topics
- Optical Modulators100▲ 5.0×3 topics
- Turbulent Flow92▲ 5.4×4 topics
- Raman Lasers92▲ 6.1×2 topics
- Integrated Circuits87▲ 4.2×3 topics
- Silicon Photonics82▲ 5.7×2 topics
- Microcavities81▲ 5.4×2 topics
- Nanophotonic Waveguides80▲ 6.2×1 topic
- Whispering Gallery Mode80▲ 6.2×1 topic
- Microwave Photonics76▲ 6.3×2 topics
- Gas Sensing74▲ 12×2 topics
- Flow Control65▲ 8.3×2 topics
- High-Power Laser62▲ 24×1 topic
- Supercontinuum Generation62▲ 24×1 topic
- Subwavelength Imaging62▲ 9.8×2 topics
- Band Gaps60▲ 8.6×2 topics
- Elastic Waves60▲ 9.4×2 topics
- Oceanic Modeling59▲ 12×1 topic
- Tidal Analysis59▲ 12×1 topic
What research is done in Southampton?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 77 works
- 2 Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics Electrical and Electronic Engineering 58 works
- 3 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research Biomedical Engineering 56 works
- 4 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 54 works
- 5 Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors Electrical and Electronic Engineering 54 works
- 6 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 50 works
- 7 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 46 works
- 8 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 44 works
- 9 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 42 works
- 10 Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows Aerospace Engineering 39 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 34.1% in 2016.
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