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Research in Tijuana

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Tijuana, Mexico. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Regenerative Medicine Institute, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana and Universidad de Tijuana.

Research institutions
8
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6k
▲ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
71k
11.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
14.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Tijuana

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 Tijuana?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Instituto Tecnológico de TijuanaUniversity 1,911 #8,119
2Regenerative Medicine InstituteResearch facility 1,182 #3,670
3Universidad de TijuanaUniversity 283 #15,427
4Xochicalco UniversityUniversity 126 #27,258 all time
5CODET Vision InstituteHospital / health system 55 not ranked
6Universidad del Desarrollo ProfesionalUniversity 52 not ranked
7Oasis of Hope HospitalHospital / health system 52 not ranked
8Universidad de las CaliforniasUniversity 31 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.

Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana: 51.8%Regenerative Medicine Institute: 32.0%Universidad de Tijuana: 7.7%Xochicalco University: 3.4%4 others listed: 5.1%52%largest
Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana1,911 · 51.8%Regenerative Medicine Institute1,182 · 32.0%Universidad de Tijuana283 · 7.7%Xochicalco University126 · 3.4%4 others listed190 · 5.1%

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

Which fields of science does Tijuana work in?

In 2022-now, 31% of research in Tijuana is in Social Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (24%), Social Sciences (21%), Computer Science (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 482 fractional works · 31.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 321 fractional works · 20.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 102 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 40 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDemography: 34 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEducation: 25 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCultural Studies: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workUrban Studies: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopment: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 54 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 43 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 39 fractional works · 2.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 16 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 36 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 20 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 423 fractional works · 27.3% of its workMedicine: 370 fractional works · 23.9% of its workSurgery: 61 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEpidemiology: 22 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 22 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOncology: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 16 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrology: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDermatology: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 39 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 24 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 415 fractional works · 26.8% of its workComputer Science: 162 fractional works · 10.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 106 fractional works · 6.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 107 fractional works · 6.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 38 fractional works · 2.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 65 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 26 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 32 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomaterials: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workModeling and Simulation: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 229 fractional works · 14.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 133 fractional works · 8.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 84 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 44 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPlant Science: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 28 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 21 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKTijuana1,549fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences27%Social Sciences31%

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
    1. Social Sciences32120.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance543.5%
    3. Psychology392.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting362.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities201.3%
    6. Decision Sciences130.8%
    1. Medicine37023.9%
    2. Health Professions392.5%
    3. Dentistry90.6%
    4. Nursing40.3%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Computer Science16210.4%
    2. Engineering1076.9%
    3. Environmental Science654.2%
    4. Materials Science322.1%
    5. Mathematics181.2%
    6. Chemistry150.9%
    7. Energy60.4%
    8. Physics and Astronomy60.4%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences50.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1338.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences442.8%
    3. Neuroscience281.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology211.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Tijuana?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Latin America, Migration, Regeneration, Pattern Recognition, Control Systems, System Identification and Community Participation.

▲ 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. Globalization90▲ 3.0×57 topics
  2. Machine Learning75▲ 1.46×57 topics
  3. Sustainability71▲ 1.88×60 topics
  4. Deep Learning66▲ 1.24×52 topics
  5. Epidemiology63◆ 1.03×118 topics
  6. Inflammation58▲ 1.75×77 topics
  7. Public Health54▲ 2.4×49 topics
  8. Latin America49▲ 17×16 topics
  9. Mental Health48▲ 2.1×33 topics
  10. Migration42▲ 8.0×14 topics
  11. Identity41▲ 3.6×21 topics
  12. Regeneration40▲ 13×5 topics
  13. Community Participation40▲ 7.3×10 topics
  14. Pattern Recognition39▲ 40×4 topics
  15. Control Systems39▲ 14×4 topics
  16. System Identification39▲ 68×2 topics
  17. Fuzzy Logic Systems38▲ 159×1 topic
  18. Type-2 Fuzzy Sets38▲ 159×1 topic
  19. Urban Development38▲ 7.0×9 topics
  20. Labor Market35▲ 8.0×8 topics
  21. Health34▲ 5.5×15 topics
  22. Regenerative Medicine34▲ 8.6×6 topics
  23. Ethnicity33▲ 5.6×6 topics
  24. Tissue Engineering32▲ 3.5×12 topics
  25. Drug Delivery31▲ 3.7×14 topics
  26. Social Inequality29▲ 7.1×9 topics
  27. Evolutionary Algorithms28▲ 18×4 topics
  28. Geopolitics25▲ 10×6 topics
  29. Biomaterials24▲ 6.4×7 topics
  30. Environmental Policy23▲ 7.5×6 topics
  31. Growth Factors23▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Particle Swarm Optimization23▲ 12×3 topics
  33. Vulnerability22▲ 6.2×6 topics
  34. Mesenchymal Stem Cells22▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Differentiation21▲ 22×2 topics
  36. Backpropagation Learning20▲ 18×1 topic
  37. Self-Organizing Maps20▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Borders20▲ 148×2 topics
  39. Immigration20▲ 12×4 topics
  40. Constraint Handling20▲ 16×2 topics

What research is done in Tijuana?

Fuzzy Logic and Control …36Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems: 36 fractional worksNeural Networks and Applications: 20 fractional worksMexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics: 17 fractional worksMetaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research: 17 fractional worksMigration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography: 16 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, and Economy: 15 fractional worksMigration and Labor Dyna…13Migration and Labor Dynamics: 13 fractional worksLatin American Urban Studies: 13 fractional worksFuzzy Systems and Optimization: 12 fractional worksRegional Development and…12Regional Development and Innovation: 12 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawDemographyEconomics and Econometrics4 others

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

  1. 1 Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems Artificial Intelligence 36 works
  2. 2 Neural Networks and Applications Artificial Intelligence 20 works
  3. 3 Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 17 works
  4. 4 Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research Artificial Intelligence 17 works
  5. 5 Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography Demography 16 works
  6. 6 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 15 works
  7. 7 Migration and Labor Dynamics Sociology and Political Science 13 works
  8. 8 Latin American Urban Studies Urban Studies 13 works
  9. 9 Fuzzy Systems and Optimization Statistics and Probability 12 works
  10. 10 Regional Development and Innovation Development 12 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 counting10%20%30%Tijuana11.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.7% in 2016.

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