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Research in Urbana

Science Explorer records 10 research institutions in Urbana, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois System and Carle Foundation Hospital.

Research institutions
10
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
192k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.5M
38.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Urbana

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 Urbana?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity 174,139 #61
2University of Illinois SystemUniversity 17,760 #2,499
3Carle Foundation HospitalHospital / health system 844 #10,292
4Creative Thermal SolutionsResearch facility 130 #34,054 all time
5National Council of Teachers of EnglishInstitution 28 not ranked
6Runtime Verification (United States)Company 24 not ranked
7American Oil Chemists SocietyInstitution 15 not ranked
8The Urbana Free LibraryArchive 13 not ranked
9University Park Pathology AssociatesInstitution 8 not ranked
10InstaRecon (United States)Company 4 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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 90.2%University of Illinois System: 9.2%Carle Foundation Hospital: 0.4%Creative Thermal Solutions: 0.1%6 others listed: 0.0%90%largest
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign174k · 90.2%University of Illinois System18k · 9.2%Carle Foundation Hospital844 · 0.4%Creative Thermal Solutions130 · 0.1%6 others listed92 · 0.0%

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

Which fields of science does Urbana work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research in Urbana is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (17%), Computer Science (13%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10k fractional works · 48.9% of its workEngineering: 3,594 fractional works · 16.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 721 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 622 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 355 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 342 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 278 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 262 fractional works · 1.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 248 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 163 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 136 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 131 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 99 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 93 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 74 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 2,711 fractional works · 12.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1,061 fractional works · 5.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 380 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 297 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 291 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 193 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 131 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 110 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 85 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 83 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 46 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1,082 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEcology: 221 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 207 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 138 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 115 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 86 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 64 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 62 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 61 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 59 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 48 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1,023 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 385 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 214 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 165 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 123 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 81 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 54 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 733 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 438 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 88 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 78 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 52 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 51 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 430 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 91 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 86 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 72 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 61 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 119 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 340 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 139 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 66 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 135 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 333 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 138 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 47 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 92 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 113 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 99 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 86 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5,059 fractional works · 23.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2,309 fractional works · 10.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 740 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEducation: 408 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 198 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 151 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 113 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 108 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 81 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 73 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 70 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 68 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 62 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 49 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 187 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 915 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 283 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 241 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 170 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 156 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 50 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 584 fractional works · 2.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 130 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 81 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 74 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 73 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 53 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 130 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 458 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 105 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 101 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 73 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 69 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 59 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 53 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 412 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 291 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 89 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 381 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 195 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 98 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 79 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 3,201 fractional works · 15.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1,463 fractional works · 6.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 871 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 237 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCell Biology: 85 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 75 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 195 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1,109 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPlant Science: 326 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 175 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 150 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 133 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 121 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 71 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 62 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 49 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 449 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 268 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 75 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 106 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 152 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 96 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 55 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 30 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2,670 fractional works · 12.5% of its workMedicine: 2,038 fractional works · 9.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 211 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 182 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 174 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 156 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 155 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 133 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 115 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 102 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 87 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 70 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 57 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 56 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 56 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 440 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Professions: 414 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 206 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 44 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 164 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVeterinary: 103 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 87 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 96 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 90 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 19 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUrbana21kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences49%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences24%

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. Engineering3,59416.8%
    2. Computer Science2,71112.7%
    3. Environmental Science1,0825.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy1,0234.8%
    5. Materials Science7333.4%
    6. Mathematics4302.0%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences3401.6%
    8. Chemistry3331.6%
    9. Energy1130.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering860.4%
  2. Social Sciences5,05923.7%
    1. Social Sciences2,30910.8%
    2. Psychology9154.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities5842.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting4582.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4121.9%
    6. Decision Sciences3811.8%
  3. Life Sciences3,20115.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1,4636.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1,1095.2%
    3. Neuroscience4492.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology1520.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics300.1%
  4. Health Sciences2,67012.5%
    1. Medicine2,0389.5%
    2. Health Professions4141.9%
    3. Veterinary1030.5%
    4. Nursing960.4%
    5. Dentistry190.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Urbana strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Urbana is most concentrated in Library and Information Sciences, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Animal Science and Zoology (6.1× the world share in Library and Information Sciences).

  1. Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 22.1 works6.1×
  2. Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 29.3 works3.9×
  3. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 154.3 works3.7×
  4. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 73.3 works3.5×
  5. VeterinaryField · 87.9 works3.4×
← 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: 1.06× its world share, 947 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.24× its world share, 1,251 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.68× its world share, 129 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.28× its world share, 392 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 25 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.17× its world share, 77 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.02× its world share, 303 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.60× its world share, 2,355 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 288 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.59× its world share, 102 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.14× its world share, 3,239 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.00× its world share, 940 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.97× its world share, 640 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.73× its world share, 383 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.16× its world share, 906 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.19× its world share, 18 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.76× its world share, 377 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.49× its world share, 1,774 worksMedicineNursing: 0.93× its world share, 86 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.43× its world share, 88 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.96× its world share, 522 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.69× its world share, 417 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.84× its world share, 335 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.94× its world share, 379 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.41× its world share, 809 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.88× its world share, 2,097 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary3.43×88 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy2.16×906 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.84×335 works
  4. Mathematics1.73×383 works
  5. Computer Science1.60×2,355 works
  6. Psychology1.41×809 works
  7. Neuroscience1.28×392 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.24×1,251 works
  9. Chemical Engineering1.17×77 works
  10. Engineering1.14×3,239 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.06×947 works
  12. Chemistry1.02×303 works
  13. Environmental Science1.00×940 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.97×288 works
  15. Materials Science0.97×640 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.96×522 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.94×379 works
  18. Nursing0.93×86 works
  19. Social Sciences0.88×2,097 works
  20. Health Professions0.76×377 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.69×417 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.68×129 works
  23. Energy0.59×102 works
  24. Medicine0.49×1,774 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.38×25 works
  26. Dentistry0.19×18 works

Which keywords describe research in Urbana?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Climate Change, Mental Health, Epidemiology, Biomedical Applications and Heat Stress.

▲ 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 Learning1,025▲ 1.39×83 topics
  2. Machine Learning924▲ 1.30×89 topics
  3. Climate Change652◆ 1.12×112 topics
  4. Neural Networks597▲ 1.81×41 topics
  5. Epidemiology505▼ 0.59×135 topics
  6. Sustainability393▼ 0.75×106 topics
  7. Mental Health378▲ 1.23×42 topics
  8. Globalization356▼ 0.85×128 topics
  9. Biomedical Applications300▲ 1.18×36 topics
  10. Public Health280◆ 0.90×66 topics
  11. Social Media273◆ 0.92×33 topics
  12. Education268▼ 0.73×95 topics
  13. Big Data243▲ 1.19×32 topics
  14. Nanoparticles240◆ 0.89×43 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks197▲ 1.27×14 topics
  16. Gut Microbiota178▲ 2.4×7 topics
  17. Gender170▲ 1.48×49 topics
  18. Social Support167▲ 1.45×19 topics
  19. Heat Transfer158▲ 1.51×17 topics
  20. Student Engagement150▲ 1.76×15 topics
  21. Information Retrieval149▲ 3.2×6 topics
  22. Probiotics144▲ 2.8×6 topics
  23. Molecular Dynamics135▲ 3.6×6 topics
  24. Topic Modeling134▲ 4.1×3 topics
  25. Text Classification134▲ 3.9×3 topics
  26. Machine Translation122▲ 3.4×2 topics
  27. Semantic Similarity120▲ 4.5×1 topic
  28. Word Representation120▲ 4.5×1 topic
  29. Heat Stress113▲ 6.6×2 topics
  30. Entanglement112▲ 3.5×4 topics
  31. Amino Acids109▲ 5.4×3 topics
  32. Distributed Systems109▲ 3.0×6 topics
  33. Intestinal Barrier101▲ 6.0×2 topics
  34. Parallel Computing97▲ 3.8×5 topics
  35. Learning Analytics95▲ 3.7×2 topics
  36. Feed Additives92▲ 7.6×2 topics
  37. Antibiotic Alternatives91▲ 7.9×1 topic
  38. Poultry Production91▲ 7.9×1 topic
  39. Engineering Education88▲ 4.8×6 topics
  40. Approximation Algorithms86▲ 5.4×5 topics

What research is done in Urbana?

Topic Modeling104Topic Modeling: 104 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Physiology: 82 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 65 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 46 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 45 fractional worksParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques: 45 fractional worksTeaching and Learning Pr…43Teaching and Learning Programming: 43 fractional worksOnline Learning and Analytics: 43 fractional worksModel Reduction and Neural Networks: 42 fractional worksMachine Learning in Mate…40Machine Learning in Materials Science: 40 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceAnimal Science and ZoologyMolecular BiologyCivil and Structural Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 104 works
  2. 2 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 82 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 65 works
  4. 4 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 46 works
  5. 5 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 45 works
  6. 6 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 45 works
  7. 7 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 43 works
  8. 8 Online Learning and Analytics Computer Science Applications 43 works
  9. 9 Model Reduction and Neural Networks Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 42 works
  10. 10 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 40 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%Urbana20.0% 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 35.6% in 2013.

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