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Research in Valledupar

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Valledupar, Colombia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Popular University of Cesar.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.2k
▲ 142% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.8k
2.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1986-2026
41 years on the record
Valledupar

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 Valledupar?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Popular University of CesarUniversity 1,195 #4,734

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 Valledupar work in?

In 2022-now, 45% of research in Valledupar is in Social Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (22%), Psychology (9%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 297 fractional works · 45.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 167 fractional works · 25.4% of its workEducation: 75 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 29 fractional works · 4.5% of its workDemography: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCultural Studies: 11 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 60 fractional works · 9.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 46 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 33 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAccounting: 13 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 25 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 24 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 240 fractional works · 36.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 147 fractional works · 22.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 79 fractional works · 11.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 37 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 43 fractional works · 6.6% of its workInformation Systems: 24 fractional works · 3.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 20 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 15 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 15 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 63 fractional works · 9.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 52 fractional works · 7.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 26 fractional works · 4.0% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHorticulture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 59 fractional works · 8.9% of its workMedicine: 32 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 25 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 13 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKValledupar659fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences45%

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 Sciences16725.4%
    2. Psychology609.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting334.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance253.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities91.4%
    6. Decision Sciences30.5%
    1. Environmental Science14722.3%
    2. Computer Science436.6%
    3. Engineering203.0%
    4. Energy152.3%
    5. Materials Science71.0%
    6. Chemistry30.4%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.4%
    8. Mathematics20.3%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences527.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology60.8%
    3. Neuroscience30.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine324.9%
    2. Health Professions253.9%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Valledupar strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Valledupar is most concentrated in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Water Science and Technology (21.2× the world share in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law).

  1. Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawSubfield · 71.5 works21×
  2. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 42.2 works16×
  3. Water Science and TechnologySubfield · 35.0 works12×
  4. General Agricultural and Biological SciencesSubfield · 22.1 works8.7×
← 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: 1.65× its world share, 45 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.81× its world share, 36 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.81× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.70× its world share, 134 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.57× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 26 worksMedicineNursing: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.48× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.51× its world share, 28 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.86× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.07× its world share, 54 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.97× its world share, 143 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science4.70×134 works
  2. Psychology3.07×54 works
  3. Energy2.81×15 works
  4. Social Sciences1.97×143 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.86×23 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.65×45 works
  7. Health Professions1.57×24 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.51×28 works
  9. Computer Science0.81×36 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.48×8 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.45×2 works
  12. Mathematics0.34×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.27×2 works
  14. Materials Science0.24×5 works
  15. Medicine0.24×26 works
  16. Nursing0.24×1 works
  17. Neuroscience0.23×2 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.19×1 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.18×2 works
  20. Engineering0.17×15 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×4 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.11×1 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.05×0 works
  24. Veterinary0.05×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.04×0 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Valledupar?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Education, Sustainable Development, Globalization, Social Responsibility, Climate Change and Innovation.

▲ 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. Sustainability144▲ 8.9×38 topics
  2. Environmental Education122▲ 121×7 topics
  3. Education122▲ 11×30 topics
  4. Sustainable Development108▲ 11×23 topics
  5. Climate Change99▲ 5.5×27 topics
  6. Globalization94▲ 7.2×24 topics
  7. Social Responsibility87▲ 57×3 topics
  8. Innovation84▲ 12×19 topics
  9. Teacher Training77▲ 19×8 topics
  10. Community Engagement70▲ 33×7 topics
  11. Biodiversity Conservation66▲ 27×9 topics
  12. Educational Technology66▲ 8.5×17 topics
  13. Ecological Economics62▲ 196×1 topic
  14. Ecosystem Management62▲ 160×1 topic
  15. Research55▲ 67×4 topics
  16. Student Achievement50▲ 84×2 topics
  17. Public Policy50▲ 16×10 topics
  18. Human Rights47▲ 7.0×16 topics
  19. Curriculum Development46▲ 10×4 topics
  20. Teaching Methods45▲ 42×3 topics
  21. Community Participation44▲ 19×8 topics
  22. Learning Processes44▲ 625×1 topic
  23. Latin America41▲ 33×13 topics
  24. Environmental Health34▲ 70×3 topics
  25. Pedagogy34▲ 10×5 topics
  26. Competitiveness34▲ 65×6 topics
  27. Resource Management34▲ 30×5 topics
  28. Ecosystem Conservation33▲ 548×1 topic
  29. Water Governance33▲ 548×1 topic
  30. Small and Medium Enterprises32▲ 27×3 topics
  31. Digital Marketing28▲ 11×2 topics
  32. Social Impact28▲ 11×10 topics
  33. Biodiversity28▲ 5.5×7 topics
  34. Knowledge Management27▲ 7.3×14 topics
  35. Innovation Ecosystems25▲ 37×3 topics
  36. Food Security24▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. Sustainable Agriculture23▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Urban Development22▲ 9.7×4 topics
  39. Globalization Effects22▲ 48×2 topics
  40. Psychopharmacology Education22▲ 53×1 topic

What research is done in Valledupar?

Environmental and sustai…57Environmental and sustainability education: 57 fractional worksEducational methodologies and cognitive development: 40 fractional worksWater Resource Management and Quality: 32 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, and Economy: 20 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences: 18 fractional worksEnvironmental and Ecolog…14Environmental and Ecological Studies: 14 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 13 fractional worksSocial Skills and Education: 12 fractional worksPublic Health and Environmental Issues: 9 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 9 fractional works
Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyWater Science and TechnologyEconomics and Econometrics6 others

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

  1. 1 Environmental and sustainability education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 57 works
  2. 2 Educational methodologies and cognitive development Developmental and Educational Psychology 40 works
  3. 3 Water Resource Management and Quality Water Science and Technology 32 works
  4. 4 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 20 works
  5. 5 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 works
  6. 6 Environmental and Ecological Studies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 14 works
  7. 7 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 13 works
  8. 8 Social Skills and Education Education 12 works
  9. 9 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 9 works
  10. 10 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 9 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Valledupar3.6% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.2% in 2020.

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