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Research in Union

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Union, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Kean University.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.5k
▲ 121% vs 2018-21
Citations
27k
11.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
22.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1952-2026
75 years on the record

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 Union?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Kean UniversityUniversity 2,466 #3,964

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 Union work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research in Union is in Social Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Computer Science (15%), Medicine (10%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 393 fractional works · 50.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 182 fractional works · 23.2% of its workEducation: 63 fractional works · 8.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 46 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGender Studies: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety Research: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 71 fractional works · 9.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 27 fractional works · 3.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 18 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 16 fractional works · 2.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 49 fractional works · 6.2% of its workAccounting: 19 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 47 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 27 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFinance: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 35 fractional works · 4.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 222 fractional works · 28.2% of its workComputer Science: 121 fractional works · 15.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 46 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInformation Systems: 21 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 38 fractional works · 4.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 24 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 103 fractional works · 13.1% of its workMedicine: 75 fractional works · 9.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 25 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 67 fractional works · 8.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 17 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 19 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 16 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKUnion784fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences50%

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 Sciences18223.2%
    2. Psychology719.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting496.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance476.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities354.4%
    6. Decision Sciences101.3%
    1. Computer Science12115.4%
    2. Engineering384.9%
    3. Environmental Science243.1%
    4. Mathematics101.2%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences81.0%
    6. Materials Science70.9%
    7. Energy50.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy40.5%
    9. Chemistry40.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Medicine759.5%
    2. Health Professions253.2%
    3. Nursing20.2%
    4. Veterinary10.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology263.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences192.4%
    3. Neuroscience162.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology40.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Union?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Corporate Governance, Mental Health, Self-Regulation, Child Development, Firm Performance and Academic Achievement.

▲ 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. Machine Learning52▲ 1.99×56 topics
  2. Deep Learning40▲ 1.49×57 topics
  3. Mental Health26▲ 2.4×31 topics
  4. Globalization26▲ 1.67×38 topics
  5. Education24▲ 1.76×36 topics
  6. Corporate Governance21▲ 3.7×16 topics
  7. Neural Networks18▲ 1.52×21 topics
  8. Social Media17▲ 1.56×20 topics
  9. Child Development16▲ 5.1×7 topics
  10. Security15▲ 2.9×15 topics
  11. Identity15▲ 2.7×20 topics
  12. Social Capital15▲ 3.7×14 topics
  13. Big Data15▲ 1.98×17 topics
  14. Self-Regulation14▲ 9.9×5 topics
  15. Economic Growth14▲ 2.1×15 topics
  16. Gender13▲ 3.0×16 topics
  17. Firm Performance13▲ 9.0×3 topics
  18. Resilience12▲ 3.2×11 topics
  19. Monetary Policy12▲ 6.7×7 topics
  20. Academic Achievement12▲ 8.6×6 topics
  21. Student Engagement12▲ 3.7×12 topics
  22. Well-being12▲ 3.8×10 topics
  23. Coping Strategies11▲ 5.5×5 topics
  24. Emotion Regulation10▲ 4.2×9 topics
  25. Diversity9▲ 6.4×7 topics
  26. Early Childhood Education9▲ 13×2 topics
  27. Financial Reporting8▲ 8.3×5 topics
  28. Language Development8▲ 8.2×5 topics
  29. School Engagement8▲ 22×1 topic
  30. Student-Teacher Relationships8▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Internet Use8▲ 12×2 topics
  32. Teacher Education8▲ 7.8×5 topics
  33. Evidence-Based Practice8▲ 7.4×5 topics
  34. Financial Constraints8▲ 9.7×2 topics
  35. Molecular Docking8▲ 8.0×1 topic
  36. Virtual Screening8▲ 11×1 topic
  37. Academic Performance8▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Investor Protection8▲ 13×1 topic
  39. Learning Analytics8▲ 8.0×2 topics
  40. Ownership Structure8▲ 13×1 topic

What research is done in Union?

  1. 1 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 7 works
  2. 2 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 7 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 6 works
  4. 4 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 6 works
  5. 5 Child Development and Digital Technology Education 5 works
  6. 6 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  7. 7 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research Occupational Therapy 4 works
  8. 8 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  9. 9 AI in cancer detection Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  10. 10 Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance Accounting 4 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%Union22.2% 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 27.1% in 2002.

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