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Research in Trento

Science Explorer records 21 research institutions in Trento, Italy. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Provincia Autonoma di Trento.

Research institutions
21
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
34k
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
764k
22.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
22.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Trento

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 Trento?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of TrentoUniversity 25,790 #401
2Fondazione Bruno KesslerResearch facility 4,061 #1,862
3Ospedale Santa ChiaraHospital / health system 1,616 #10,847
4Provincia Autonoma di TrentoGovernment institution 1,018 #8,243
5European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related AreasResearch facility 475 #12,601 all time
6Museo delle ScienzeArchive 410 #15,865 all time
7Fondazione GraphiTechInstitution 208 #25,210 all time
8Casa di Cura Villa BiancaHospital / health system 110 not ranked
9European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social EnterpriseUniversity 78 not ranked
10SpazioDati (Italy)Company 35 not ranked
11EnginSoft (Italy)Company 35 not ranked
12SOLIDpower (Italy)Company 27 not ranked
13Trento RISE (Italy)Company 26 not ranked
14Conservatorio di Musica FA Bonporti TrentoUniversity 10 not ranked
15Avantune (Italy)Company 9 not ranked
16Sinergis (Italy)Company 8 not ranked
17Trentino Network (Italy)Company 8 not ranked
18Trilogis (Italy)Company 4 not ranked
19Zobele (Italy)Company 3 not ranked
20Touring Club ItalianoInstitution 1 not ranked
21Fondazione PezcollerNonprofit 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.

University of Trento: 76.0%Fondazione Bruno Kessler: 12.0%Ospedale Santa Chiara: 4.8%Provincia Autonoma di Trento: 3.0%16 others listed: 4.3%76%largest
University of Trento26k · 76.0%Fondazione Bruno Kessler4,061 · 12.0%Ospedale Santa Chiara1,616 · 4.8%Provincia Autonoma di Trento1,018 · 3.0%16 others listed1,447 · 4.3%

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

Which fields of science does Trento work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research in Trento is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (18%), Computer Science (16%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4,257 fractional works · 53.6% of its workEngineering: 1,450 fractional works · 18.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 321 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 189 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 140 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 133 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 122 fractional works · 1.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 104 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 91 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 66 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 59 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 53 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1,261 fractional works · 15.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 497 fractional works · 6.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 261 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 120 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 118 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 89 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSignal Processing: 56 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoftware: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 425 fractional works · 5.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 119 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 80 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 77 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 74 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiation: 45 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 363 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 75 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 66 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 66 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 50 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 23 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 253 fractional works · 3.2% of its workApplied Mathematics: 62 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeometry and Topology: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 38 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 229 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 115 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 45 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 174 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 60 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 35 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 48 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,964 fractional works · 24.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 867 fractional works · 10.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 326 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 150 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 96 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 28 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 20 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 74 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 319 fractional works · 4.0% of its workHistory: 59 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 43 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 41 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 316 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 96 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 69 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 67 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 61 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 231 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 65 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 22 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 155 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 107 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 76 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 942 fractional works · 11.9% of its workMedicine: 813 fractional works · 10.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 100 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 77 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 75 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 56 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 54 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 47 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 34 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 33 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 32 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 17 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 191 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth Professions: 102 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 55 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 11 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 781 fractional works · 9.8% of its workNeuroscience: 284 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 215 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 29 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 282 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 161 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 46 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 19 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 186 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 76 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 30 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 24 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKTrento7,945fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences25%

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. Engineering1,45018.3%
    2. Computer Science1,26115.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy4255.3%
    4. Environmental Science3634.6%
    5. Mathematics2533.2%
    6. Materials Science2292.9%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1742.2%
    8. Chemistry480.6%
    9. Energy340.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering200.2%
  2. Social Sciences1,96424.7%
    1. Social Sciences86710.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities3194.0%
    3. Psychology3164.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2312.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1552.0%
    6. Decision Sciences761.0%
    1. Medicine81310.2%
    2. Health Professions1021.3%
    3. Dentistry120.2%
    4. Nursing110.1%
    5. Veterinary40.0%
    1. Neuroscience2843.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2823.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1862.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology240.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Trento strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Trento is most concentrated in Software and Geometry and Topology (6.3× the world share in Software).

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 28.2 works6.3×
  2. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 50.5 works4.5×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 163 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.64× its world share, 237 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.28× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.14× its world share, 241 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.77× its world share, 19 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.41× its world share, 44 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.06× its world share, 1,114 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.34× its world share, 146 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 31 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.26× its world share, 1,317 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.86× its world share, 299 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.81× its world share, 198 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.81× its world share, 230 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.47× its world share, 382 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 11 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.49× its world share, 90 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.52× its world share, 696 worksMedicineNursing: 0.26× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.39× its world share, 279 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.91× its world share, 205 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.00× its world share, 67 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.95× its world share, 141 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.28× its world share, 271 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.84× its world share, 736 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics2.81×230 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy2.47×382 works
  3. Neuroscience2.14×241 works
  4. Computer Science2.06×1,114 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.39×279 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.34×146 works
  7. Psychology1.28×271 works
  8. Engineering1.26×1,317 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.00×67 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.95×141 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.91×205 works
  12. Environmental Science0.86×299 works
  13. Social Sciences0.84×736 works
  14. Materials Science0.81×198 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.77×19 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.64×237 works
  17. Medicine0.52×696 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×163 works
  19. Health Professions0.49×90 works
  20. Energy0.48×31 works
  21. Chemistry0.41×44 works
  22. Veterinary0.34×3 works
  23. Dentistry0.33×11 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.28×20 works
  25. Nursing0.26×9 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Trento?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Cultural Heritage, Globalization and Neural Mechanisms.

▲ 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. Deep Learning520▲ 1.90×78 topics
  2. Machine Learning368▲ 1.39×84 topics
  3. Neural Networks237▲ 1.93×38 topics
  4. Climate Change228◆ 1.06×97 topics
  5. Remote Sensing180▲ 1.85×34 topics
  6. Sustainability171◆ 0.88×79 topics
  7. Globalization169◆ 1.08×107 topics
  8. Cultural Heritage120▲ 2.8×29 topics
  9. Mechanical Properties112▲ 1.44×34 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence109◆ 0.97×44 topics
  11. Environmental Impact106▼ 0.78×53 topics
  12. Convolutional Neural Networks105▲ 1.82×14 topics
  13. Innovation97▲ 1.18×46 topics
  14. Security92▲ 1.73×27 topics
  15. Identity88▲ 1.52×53 topics
  16. Energy Efficiency82◆ 1.11×35 topics
  17. Literature74▲ 1.70×41 topics
  18. Feature Extraction74▲ 2.0×10 topics
  19. Classification66▲ 1.83×13 topics
  20. Medical Imaging66▲ 1.57×9 topics
  21. Social Cognition61▲ 4.2×9 topics
  22. Neural Mechanisms56▲ 7.0×4 topics
  23. Terrestrial Laser Scanning53▲ 5.5×2 topics
  24. Photon Counting50▲ 9.5×3 topics
  25. Unsupervised Learning50▲ 4.1×3 topics
  26. Representation Learning44▲ 3.5×3 topics
  27. Text Classification43▲ 3.3×3 topics
  28. 3D Reconstruction41▲ 5.7×2 topics
  29. Point Clouds41▲ 5.7×2 topics
  30. Quantum Information40▲ 4.3×3 topics
  31. Deep Neural Networks39▲ 4.0×3 topics
  32. Tropical Geometry38▲ 14×2 topics
  33. Working Memory35▲ 4.9×3 topics
  34. CMOS Technology34▲ 5.3×5 topics
  35. Model Checking32▲ 8.7×3 topics
  36. Photogrammetry32▲ 6.7×1 topic
  37. UAV32▲ 6.7×1 topic
  38. Symplectic Geometry31▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Image Captioning30▲ 6.8×1 topic
  40. Multimodal Fusion30▲ 6.8×1 topic

What research is done in Trento?

Topic Modeling31Topic Modeling: 31 fractional works3D Surveying and Cultura…303D Surveying and Cultural Heritage: 30 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 28 fractional worksRadiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies: 24 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Classification: 23 fractional worksAlgebraic Geometry and Number Theory: 23 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 23 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network …21Advanced Neural Network Applications: 21 fractional worksParticle Detector Development and Performance: 20 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 20 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceGeologyRadiationMedia Technology3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 31 works
  2. 2 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Geology 30 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 28 works
  4. 4 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radiation 24 works
  5. 5 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 23 works
  6. 6 Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Geometry and Topology 23 works
  7. 7 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 23 works
  8. 8 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 21 works
  9. 9 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 20 works
  10. 10 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 20 works

Research output over time

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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%Trento21.1% 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 34.5% in 2013.

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