Research in Umeå
Science Explorer records 20 research institutions in Umeå, Sweden. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Umeå University, Umeå Plant Science Centre and Arctic Research Centre.
- Research institutions
- 20 4 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 44k ▼ 6% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 25.3% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Umeå?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Umeå UniversityUniversity | 40,000 | #847 | |
| 2 | University Hospital of UmeåHospital / health system | 1,245 | #24,307 | |
| 3 | Arctic Research CentreResearch facility | 903 | #16,085 | |
| 4 | Umeå Plant Science CentreResearch facility | 764 | #10,701 | |
| 5 | Centre for Biomedical Engineering and PhysicsNonprofit | 595 | #16,752 all time | |
| 6 | Västerbotten CountyGovernment institution | 133 | #32,191 all time | |
| 7 | Boréa (Sweden)Company | 99 | not ranked | |
| 8 | LunaLEC (Sweden)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 9 | Algoryx Simulation (Sweden)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 10 | SweTree Technologies (Sweden)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 11 | Västerbottens Läns LandstingGovernment institution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 12 | Umeå MunicipalityGovernment institution | 5 | not ranked | |
| 13 | Lipigon Pharmaceuticals (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 14 | Uminova Innovation (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 15 | SpaceTime Communication (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Limes Audio (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Enetjärn Natur (Sweden)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Betagenon (Sweden)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Codemill (Sweden)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Bioendev (Sweden)Company | 1 | 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.
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What is Umeå strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Umeå is most concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction and Gender Studies (3.0× the world share in Human-Computer Interaction).
- Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 32.6 works3.0×
- Gender StudiesSubfield · 51.6 works2.7×
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 Umeå?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Mental Health, Public Health, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors.
- spirometry
- Academic Achievement
- Methodology
- Mortality Risk
- Learning
- Surveillance
- Social Sciences
- Anxiety
- Mortality
- Well-being
- Genetics
- Diagnosis
- Social Media
- Oxidative Stress
- Education
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Depression
- Qualitative Research
- Global Burden
- Management
- Health Effects
- Pedagogy
- Ethics
- Health Disparities
- Discourse Analysis
- Special Education
- Gender Studies
- Quantitative Methods
- COPD
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
- Epidemiology310▲ 1.49×126 topics
- Climate Change197▲ 1.39×89 topics
- Inflammation147▲ 1.34×80 topics
- Machine Learning142▼ 0.82×72 topics
- Mental Health132▲ 1.72×35 topics
- Public Health129▲ 1.68×55 topics
- Quality of Life127▲ 1.67×52 topics
- Globalization119◆ 1.15×79 topics
- Deep Learning118▼ 0.66×68 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease114▲ 1.95×36 topics
- Risk Factors106▲ 1.83×36 topics
- Education102◆ 1.13×55 topics
- Treatment95▲ 1.49×48 topics
- Oxidative Stress94◆ 1.09×55 topics
- Depression87▲ 1.88×22 topics
- Social Media84◆ 1.12×32 topics
- Qualitative Research83▲ 1.81×21 topics
- Diagnosis79▲ 1.61×38 topics
- Global Burden78▲ 2.8×12 topics
- Genetics68▲ 1.85×25 topics
- Management66▲ 1.60×31 topics
- Well-being62▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Health Effects62▲ 1.94×21 topics
- Mortality61▲ 2.0×13 topics
- Pedagogy57▲ 2.2×17 topics
- Anxiety55▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Ethics54▲ 2.1×27 topics
- Social Sciences49▲ 6.6×8 topics
- Health Disparities46▲ 3.4×9 topics
- Surveillance45▲ 3.2×5 topics
- Discourse Analysis44▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Learning42▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Special Education40▲ 13×4 topics
- Mortality Risk40▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Gender Studies39▲ 4.8×8 topics
- Methodology37▲ 15×2 topics
- Quantitative Methods37▲ 48×1 topic
- Academic Achievement35▲ 3.9×9 topics
- COPD27▲ 7.9×1 topic
- spirometry27▲ 7.9×1 topic
What research is done in Umeå?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Social and Educational Sciences Education 37 works
- 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 27 works
- 3 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 23 works
- 4 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 22 works
- 5 Health disparities and outcomes Health 21 works
- 6 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 20 works
- 7 Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Human-Computer Interaction 19 works
- 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 17 works
- 9 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 16 works
- 10 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 16 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.