Research in Uppsala
Science Explorer records 73 research institutions in Uppsala, Sweden. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Uppsala University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Quantum Technologies (Sweden).
- Research institutions
- 73 6 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 133k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.8M 36.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 25.9% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 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 Uppsala?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uppsala UniversityUniversity | 97,601 | #154 | |
| 2 | Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesUniversity | 26,161 | #693 | |
| 3 | Swedish Veterinary AgencyGovernment institution | 1,980 | #18,063 | |
| 4 | Geological Survey of SwedenGovernment institution | 947 | #12,962 all time | |
| 5 | Akademiska BarnsjukhusetHospital / health system | 729 | #28,063 all time | |
| 6 | National Food AdministrationGovernment institution | 715 | #7,719 all time | |
| 7 | Swedish Collegium for Advanced StudyUniversity | 662 | #10,081 all time | |
| 8 | Quantum Technologies (Sweden)Company | 498 | #8,819 | |
| 9 | Forestry Research Institute of SwedenResearch facility | 469 | #21,793 | |
| 10 | Nordic Africa InstituteResearch facility | 414 | #11,723 | |
| 11 | Medical Products AgencyGovernment institution | 387 | #13,816 all time | |
| 12 | Swedish Species Information CentreResearch facility | 233 | #21,529 all time | |
| 13 | Uppsala Monitoring CentreInstitution | 216 | #19,752 all time | |
| 14 | Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education PolicyResearch facility | 200 | #26,725 all time | |
| 15 | Swedish Institute for Language and FolkloreInstitution | 188 | #29,305 all time | |
| 16 | Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster ScienceResearch facility | 185 | #19,612 all time | |
| 17 | Statisticon (Sweden)Company | 156 | #25,874 all time | |
| 18 | Image Intelligence (Sweden)Company | 126 | #30,896 all time | |
| 19 | Olink Bioscience (Sweden)Company | 45 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Orexo (Sweden)Company | 35 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Johannelund School of TheologyUniversity | 34 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Applied Nano Surfaces (Sweden)Company | 30 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Geosigma (Sweden)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 24 | General Electric (Sweden)Company | 26 | not ranked | |
| 25 | ChromoGenics (Sweden)Company | 25 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Swedish Society of OncologyInstitution | 24 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Royal Gustavus Adolphus AcademyUniversity | 23 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Dag Hammarskjöld FoundationNonprofit | 20 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Solibro Research (Sweden)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Carl von Linné ClinicHospital / health system | 18 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Landstinget i Uppsala länGovernment institution | 18 | not ranked | |
| 32 | UpplandsmuseetArchive | 16 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Scandinavian Leadership (Sweden)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Doxa (Sweden)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Biovica (Sweden)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Beactica (Sweden)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Scienta Scientific (Sweden)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Denator (Sweden)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 39 | ÅAC Microtec (Sweden)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Endovab Endovascular Development (Sweden)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Novavax (Sweden)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 42 | OssDsign (Sweden)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 43 | ScandiDos (Sweden)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Life & Peace InstituteNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Bencar (Sweden)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Dirac Research (Sweden)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 47 | LIDDS (Sweden)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Ilya Pharma (Sweden)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Molecular Fingerprint (Sweden)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Gradientech (Sweden)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Oasmia Pharmaceutical (Sweden)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 52 | EasyMining (Sweden)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Bio-Works (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Disruptive Materials (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Trade Extensions (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 56 | VBN Components (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Corline Systems (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Primateria (Sweden)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Ngenic (Sweden)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Q linea (Sweden)Company | 2 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Uppsala work in?
In 2022-now, 36% of research in Uppsala is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (19%), Social Sciences (11%), Environmental Science (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Life Sciences.
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
- Physical Sciences6,35735.8%
- Environmental Science1,6459.3%
- Engineering1,5008.4%
- Computer Science7804.4%
- Physics and Astronomy6643.7%
- Materials Science6063.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences4192.4%
- Chemistry2821.6%
- Mathematics2801.6%
- Energy1410.8%
- Chemical Engineering400.2%
- Social Sciences4,00622.5%
- Social Sciences2,00511.3%
- Arts and Humanities6713.8%
- Psychology5963.4%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3011.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting2871.6%
- Decision Sciences1450.8%
- Health Sciences3,97622.4%
- Medicine3,30118.6%
- Health Professions4032.3%
- Veterinary1600.9%
- Nursing860.5%
- Dentistry250.1%
- Life Sciences3,43119.3%
What is Uppsala strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Uppsala is most concentrated in Equine, Veterinary and Small Animals (14.5× the world share in Equine).
- EquineSubfield · 29.2 works15×
- VeterinaryField · 137.9 works6.5×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 108.7 works5.7×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 156.6 works4.2×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 30.5 works3.7×
- Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 122.4 works3.3×
- Insect ScienceSubfield · 131.8 works3.0×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary6.55×138 works
- Environmental Science1.84×1,419 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.66×1,220 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.66×571 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.46×1,202 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.46×354 works
- Mathematics1.39×254 works
- Arts and Humanities1.34×598 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.28×199 works
- Neuroscience1.06×267 works
- Psychology1.06×501 works
- Chemistry1.03×250 works
- Materials Science0.98×530 works
- Nursing0.98×74 works
- Medicine0.97×2,881 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.91×50 works
- Social Sciences0.90×1,759 works
- Energy0.86×123 works
- Health Professions0.85×347 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.84×280 works
- Decision Sciences0.82×123 works
- Chemical Engineering0.65×35 works
- Engineering0.58×1,355 works
- Computer Science0.56×676 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.52×260 works
- Dentistry0.28×21 works
Which keywords describe research in Uppsala?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Invasive Species, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Functioning, Sustainability, Biodiversity and Globalization.
- Marker-Assisted Selection
- Forest Management
- Methodology
- Animal Welfare
- Population Genetics
- Social Sciences
- Global Change
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Conservation
- Genetic Diversity
- Health Effects
- Ecosystem Functioning
- Genetics
- Renewable Energy
- Oxidative Stress
- Invasive Species
- Biodiversity
- Inflammation
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Environmental Impact
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Depression
- Global Warming
- Ecosystem Services
- Ethics
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Neoliberalism
- Population Dynamics
- Discourse Analysis
- Ecosystem Resilience
- Special Education
- Quantitative Methods
- Fisheries Sustainability
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
- Climate Change1,061▲ 2.2×110 topics
- Epidemiology772◆ 1.09×136 topics
- Sustainability451◆ 1.04×103 topics
- Globalization403◆ 1.15×132 topics
- Machine Learning400▼ 0.68×86 topics
- Inflammation378◆ 1.00×83 topics
- Environmental Impact342◆ 1.13×62 topics
- Biodiversity284▲ 2.1×35 topics
- Public Health273◆ 1.05×68 topics
- Invasive Species266▲ 3.5×21 topics
- Mental Health266◆ 1.04×40 topics
- Oxidative Stress265◆ 0.91×63 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation249▲ 3.7×19 topics
- Renewable Energy238◆ 0.93×47 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease228◆ 1.12×39 topics
- Genetics200▲ 1.60×27 topics
- Depression199▲ 1.28×24 topics
- Ecosystem Functioning194▲ 5.3×7 topics
- Global Warming194▲ 2.6×16 topics
- Health Effects187▲ 1.74×23 topics
- Ecosystem Services167▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Genetic Diversity165▲ 2.1×21 topics
- Ethics161▲ 1.79×43 topics
- Conservation159▲ 2.1×24 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation158▲ 4.1×5 topics
- Phylogenetic Analysis148▲ 2.7×16 topics
- Neoliberalism138▲ 2.2×25 topics
- Global Change135▲ 2.9×6 topics
- Population Dynamics132▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Social Sciences123▲ 4.8×10 topics
- Discourse Analysis116▲ 2.7×9 topics
- Population Genetics115▲ 4.6×5 topics
- Ecosystem Resilience101▲ 3.7×5 topics
- Animal Welfare99▲ 6.2×4 topics
- Special Education97▲ 9.2×6 topics
- Methodology90▲ 10×5 topics
- Quantitative Methods88▲ 38×1 topic
- Forest Management83▲ 7.7×4 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability82▲ 5.3×2 topics
- Marker-Assisted Selection78▲ 5.7×3 topics
What research is done in Uppsala?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Social and Educational Sciences Education 87 works
- 2 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 59 works
- 3 Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Insect Science 58 works
- 4 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 58 works
- 5 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 55 works
- 6 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 48 works
- 7 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 48 works
- 8 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 46 works
- 9 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 45 works
- 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 44 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 37.8% in 2016.
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