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Research in Tervuren

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Tervuren, Belgium. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.2k
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
29k
24.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
15.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Tervuren

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 Tervuren?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Royal Museum for Central AfricaArchive 1,172 #10,948

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.

Which fields of science does Tervuren work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Tervuren is in Life Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (36%), Environmental Science (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 120 fractional works · 51.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 84 fractional works · 35.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 52 fractional works · 22.1% of its workInsect Science: 19 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAquatic Science: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 fractional works · 13.0% of its workGenetics: 22 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workParasitology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 78 fractional works · 33.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 40 fractional works · 17.1% of its workEcology: 15 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 27 fractional works · 11.5% of its workPaleontology: 14 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGeophysics: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKTervuren235fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences51%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences11%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8435.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3013.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology41.6%
    4. Neuroscience20.7%
    1. Environmental Science4017.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2711.5%
    3. Computer Science41.8%
    4. Materials Science20.9%
    5. Engineering20.8%
    6. Chemistry10.6%
    7. Mathematics10.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences145.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities72.9%
    3. Psychology31.3%
    4. Decision Sciences10.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Medicine83.3%
    2. Health Professions20.9%
    3. Veterinary10.5%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Tervuren strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Tervuren is most concentrated in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics (46.5× the world share in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics).

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 39.8 works46×
  2. GeneticsSubfield · 21.3 works14×
← 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: 7.43× its world share, 64 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.75× its world share, 27 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.37× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.74× its world share, 19 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.27× its world share, 30 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksMedicineVeterinary: 3.63× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.23× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 7.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7.43×64 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.74×19 works
  3. Veterinary3.63×1 works
  4. Environmental Science3.27×30 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.75×27 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.37×2 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.23×6 works
  8. Psychology0.50×3 works
  9. Neuroscience0.47×1 works
  10. Social Sciences0.46×11 works
  11. Chemistry0.43×1 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.38×1 works
  13. Health Professions0.36×2 works
  14. Computer Science0.28×4 works
  15. Mathematics0.26×1 works
  16. Materials Science0.20×1 works
  17. Medicine0.16×6 works
  18. Energy0.10×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.07×0 works
  21. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×0 works
  23. Engineering0.05×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Tervuren?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Phylogeny, Invasive Species, Taxonomy, Evolution, Biogeography, DNA Barcoding and Climate Change.

▲ 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. Biodiversity54▲ 30×22 topics
  2. Phylogeny50▲ 126×17 topics
  3. Invasive Species48▲ 49×17 topics
  4. Taxonomy40▲ 119×14 topics
  5. Evolution39▲ 62×14 topics
  6. Biogeography38▲ 58×20 topics
  7. Climate Change37▲ 5.8×45 topics
  8. DNA Barcoding35▲ 85×9 topics
  9. Morphology25▲ 59×8 topics
  10. Molecular Phylogeny21▲ 54×10 topics
  11. Biological Control20▲ 56×7 topics
  12. Conservation16▲ 16×15 topics
  13. Habitat Fragmentation16▲ 32×5 topics
  14. Cryptic Species16▲ 268×2 topics
  15. Global Change16▲ 26×6 topics
  16. Population Dynamics15▲ 24×11 topics
  17. Lepidoptera14▲ 304×1 topic
  18. Molecular Phylogenetics14▲ 304×1 topic
  19. Ecology12▲ 29×8 topics
  20. Phylogenetic Analysis12▲ 16×13 topics
  21. Ecosystem Services11▲ 12×9 topics
  22. Adaptation10▲ 14×7 topics
  23. Plant-Animal Interactions10▲ 54×1 topic
  24. Pollinator Decline10▲ 54×1 topic
  25. Speciation10▲ 93×2 topics
  26. Host Specificity9▲ 36×3 topics
  27. Coleoptera8▲ 134×2 topics
  28. Groundwater8▲ 35×3 topics
  29. Diversification8▲ 73×2 topics
  30. Cavefish7▲ 157×1 topic
  31. Subterranean7▲ 157×1 topic
  32. Pest Management7▲ 35×4 topics
  33. Species Delimitation7▲ 63×3 topics
  34. Biodiversity Loss7▲ 51×3 topics
  35. Ecosystem Functioning7▲ 14×7 topics
  36. Systematics7▲ 142×3 topics
  37. Tropical Forests7▲ 82×2 topics
  38. beetles7▲ 168×1 topic
  39. Microbiota6▲ 12×4 topics
  40. Cryptic Diversity6▲ 146×2 topics

What research is done in Tervuren?

Lepidoptera: Biology and…13Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 13 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 7 fractional worksHymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny: 6 fractional worksColeoptera Taxonomy and Distribution: 5 fractional worksSpider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies: 5 fractional worksSubterranean biodiversity and taxonomy: 5 fractional worksParasite Biology and Hos…4Parasite Biology and Host Interactions: 4 fractional worksFossil Insects in Amber: 4 fractional worksFish Biology and Ecology Studies: 3 fractional worksResearch on scale insects: 3 fractional works
GeneticsEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPaleontologyEcology2 others

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

  1. 1 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 13 works
  2. 2 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7 works
  3. 3 Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 6 works
  4. 4 Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 5 works
  5. 5 Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies Genetics 5 works
  6. 6 Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy Paleontology 5 works
  7. 7 Parasite Biology and Host Interactions Ecology 4 works
  8. 8 Fossil Insects in Amber Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 4 works
  9. 9 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 3 works
  10. 10 Research on scale insects Insect Science 3 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%60%all institutions10.0% in 2025Tervuren9.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 44.2% in 2018.

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