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Research in Swindon

Science Explorer records 31 research institutions in Swindon, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Science and Technology Facilities Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council.

Research institutions
31
10 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
18k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.1%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 Swindon?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1New CollegeUniversity 3,052 #8,513
2Natural Environment Research CouncilGovernment institution 2,553 #7,047
3Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilGovernment institution 2,395 #4,800 all time
4Intel (United Kingdom)Company 2,202 #9,392
5Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilGovernment institution 1,518 #6,807
6Arts and Humanities Research CouncilGovernment institution 1,323 #23,443
7Science and Technology Facilities CouncilGovernment institution 1,116 #5,570
8Great Western HospitalHospital / health system 859 #26,102
9WRc (United Kingdom)Company 717 #18,687 all time
10Innovate UKGovernment institution 698 #17,899
11Economic and Social Research CouncilGovernment institution 629 #11,995 all time
12BCS — The Chartered Institute for ITInstitution 307 #31,203 all time
13UK Research and InnovationGovernment institution 239 #14,230
14Swindon CollegeUniversity 228 #16,438 all time
15Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system 187 #25,539
16Castrol (United Kingdom)Company 82 not ranked
17Nationwide Building SocietyInstitution 57 not ranked
18RWE (United Kingdom)Company 32 not ranked
19United Kingdom Space AgencyGovernment institution 30 not ranked
20BMI The Ridgeway HospitalHospital / health system 20 not ranked
21David Jarvis Associates (United Kingdom)Company 19 not ranked
22TE Connectivity (United Kingdom)Company 17 not ranked
23Precision Varionic International (United Kingdom)Company 15 not ranked
24CCm Technologies (United Kingdom)Company 10 not ranked
25Swindon Borough CouncilGovernment institution 9 not ranked
26Microsharp (United Kingdom)Company 8 not ranked
27Research Data AllianceNonprofit 6 not ranked
28Catalent (United Kingdom)Company 5 not ranked
29Associated Dental Products (United Kingdom)Company 5 not ranked
30AgSpace (United Kingdom)Company 2 not ranked
31Dycotec Materials (United Kingdom)Company 2 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.

New College: 16.6%Natural Environment Research Council: 13.9%Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council: 13.1%Intel (United Kingdom): 12.0%27 others listed: 44.4%17%largest
New College3,052 · 16.6%Natural Environment Research Council2,553 · 13.9%Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council2,395 · 13.1%Intel (United Kingdom)2,202 · 12.0%27 others listed8,140 · 44.4%

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

What is Swindon strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Swindon is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture and Visual Arts and Performing Arts (13.8× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).

  1. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 27.9 works14×
  2. Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 31.2 works11×
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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 Swindon?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Climate Change, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, Aesthetics and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 Change64▲ 1.32×82 topics
  2. Globalization60▲ 1.71×73 topics
  3. Machine Learning55◆ 0.93×73 topics
  4. Deep Learning52▼ 0.85×71 topics
  5. Epidemiology45▼ 0.64×100 topics
  6. Sustainability40◆ 0.91×70 topics
  7. Education35◆ 1.14×48 topics
  8. Pedagogy28▲ 3.2×12 topics
  9. Identity28▲ 2.2×40 topics
  10. Big Data28▲ 1.73×22 topics
  11. Literature26▲ 2.7×32 topics
  12. Gender25▲ 2.6×34 topics
  13. History24▲ 1.92×32 topics
  14. Ethics23▲ 2.7×29 topics
  15. Cultural Studies23▲ 3.4×16 topics
  16. Colonialism21▲ 2.5×31 topics
  17. High-Performance Computing20▲ 14×2 topics
  18. Parallel Computing19▲ 9.1×4 topics
  19. Religion19▲ 2.3×25 topics
  20. Nationalism19▲ 2.3×25 topics
  21. Thermal Management19▲ 3.1×7 topics
  22. Cultural Politics18▲ 15×4 topics
  23. Aesthetics17▲ 13×7 topics
  24. Gender Studies15▲ 5.5×8 topics
  25. Distributed Systems15▲ 5.0×6 topics
  26. International Relations15▲ 3.5×15 topics
  27. Social Sciences15▲ 5.9×5 topics
  28. Performance Optimization14▲ 12×3 topics
  29. GPU Computing14▲ 20×1 topic
  30. Multicore Architectures14▲ 20×1 topic
  31. CMOS Technology13▲ 9.3×5 topics
  32. Art Theory13▲ 46×2 topics
  33. Social Engagement13▲ 37×2 topics
  34. Contemporary Art12▲ 64×1 topic
  35. Relational Aesthetics12▲ 64×1 topic
  36. Special Education12▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Methodology12▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Quantitative Methods11▲ 43×1 topic
  39. Workflow Management11▲ 8.7×2 topics
  40. Detector Performance10▲ 18×2 topics

What research is done in Swindon?

  1. 1 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 14 works
  2. 2 Art, Politics, and Modernism Visual Arts and Performing Arts 12 works
  3. 3 Social and Educational Sciences Education 11 works
  4. 4 Museums and Cultural Heritage Museology 7 works
  5. 5 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 7 works
  6. 6 Cultural Industries and Urban Development Urban Studies 6 works
  7. 7 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 6 works
  8. 8 Heat Transfer and Optimization Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  9. 9 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 6 works
  10. 10 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 6 works

Research output over time

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