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Research in Thurso

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Thurso, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Environmental Research Institute.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
582
▼ 8% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
23.5%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Thurso?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Environmental Research InstituteNonprofit 582 #14,352

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.

What is Thurso strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Thurso is most concentrated in Environmental Science (9.3× the world share in Environmental Science).

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 37.4 works9.3×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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 Thurso?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Remote Sensing, Recycling, Waste Management, Water Quality, Microbial Communities and Habitat Selection.

▲ 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 Change16▲ 7.2×44 topics
  2. Environmental Impact8▲ 5.8×23 topics
  3. Remote Sensing5▲ 5.0×16 topics
  4. Sustainability4▲ 2.1×20 topics
  5. Recycling3▲ 11×4 topics
  6. Waste Management3▲ 9.7×3 topics
  7. Habitat Selection3▲ 45×2 topics
  8. Invasive Species3▲ 7.8×9 topics
  9. Land Use Change3▲ 11×6 topics
  10. Microbial Communities3▲ 7.8×6 topics
  11. Water Quality3▲ 8.3×7 topics
  12. Population Dynamics3▲ 13×6 topics
  13. Ecosystem Services2▲ 7.9×7 topics
  14. Pollution2▲ 16×3 topics
  15. Toxicity2▲ 7.2×12 topics
  16. Adsorption2▲ 14×5 topics
  17. Fisheries Sustainability2▲ 34×2 topics
  18. Marine Environment2▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Biodiversity Conservation2▲ 7.4×8 topics
  20. Carbon Sequestration2▲ 38×2 topics
  21. Ecosystem Resilience2▲ 18×3 topics
  22. Health Effects2▲ 4.5×10 topics
  23. Human Health2▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Life Cycle Assessment2▲ 9.5×6 topics
  25. Aquatic Environment2▲ 31×2 topics
  26. Wastewater Treatment2▲ 11×7 topics
  27. Antibiotics2▲ 29×1 topic
  28. Freshwater Biodiversity2▲ 38×2 topics
  29. Microplastics2▲ 24×1 topic
  30. Resistance Genes2▲ 46×1 topic
  31. Terrestrial Ecosystems2▲ 24×1 topic
  32. Trophic Cascades2▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Coastal Protection2▲ 36×2 topics
  34. Eutrophication2▲ 21×3 topics
  35. Global Carbon Budget2▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Avian Ecology2▲ 98×1 topic
  37. Circular Economy2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  38. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 9.7×4 topics
  39. Heavy Metals2▲ 8.7×4 topics
  40. Migration Patterns2▲ 82×1 topic

What research is done in Thurso?

  1. 1 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 2 works
  2. 2 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 2 works
  3. 3 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 2 works
  4. 4 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  5. 5 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 2 works
  6. 6 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 1 works
  7. 7 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  9. 9 Remote Sensing and Land Use Atmospheric Science 1 works
  10. 10 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 1 works

Research output over time

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