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Research in Wageningen

Science Explorer records 28 research institutions in Wageningen, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Wageningen University & Research, Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences and Maritime Research Institute Netherlands.

Research institutions
28
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
57k
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
34.7%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Wageningen?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Wageningen University & ResearchUniversity 43,983 #293
2Graduate School Experimental Plant SciencesResearch facility 9,586 #9,238
3ISRIC - World Soil InformationInstitution 791 #6,427 all time
4Maritime Research Institute NetherlandsNonprofit 745 #21,985
5TiFNUniversity 538 #10,597 all time
6Centre for BioSystems GenomicsNonprofit 456 #9,646 all time
7Wetlands InternationalNonprofit 186 #37,723 all time
8Noldus Information TechnologyCompany 124 #31,825 all time
9KeyGene (Netherlands)Company 111 not ranked
10Eurofins (Netherlands)Company 91 not ranked
11Unilever Foods Innovation CentreResearch facility 87 not ranked
12Dutch Butterfly ConservationArchive 67 not ranked
13Aeres University of Applied SciencesUniversity 63 not ranked
14C.T. de Wit Graduate School for Production Ecology and Resource ConservationUniversity 46 not ranked
15Water Insight (Netherlands)Company 42 not ranked
16Stichting Hout Research (Netherlands)Company 40 not ranked
17Menzis (Netherlands)Company 27 not ranked
18Dyadic (Netherlands)Company 14 not ranked
19eLEAF (Netherlands)Company 12 not ranked
20Hydrion (Netherlands)Company 12 not ranked
21Stichting Lettinga AssociatesInstitution 12 not ranked
22NutriLeads (Netherlands)Company 10 not ranked
23NuGOInstitution 6 not ranked
24European Federation of Food Science and TechnologyNonprofit 2 not ranked
25Environmental Research InstrumentsInstitution 2 not ranked
26European Tropical Forest Research NetworkResearch facility 1 not ranked
27Kennisinstituut BierInstitution 0 not ranked
28Triqua (Netherlands)Company 0 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.

Wageningen University & Research: 77.1%Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences: 16.8%ISRIC - World Soil Information: 1.4%Maritime Research Institute Netherlands: 1.3%22 others listed: 3.4%77%largest
Wageningen University & Research44k · 77.1%Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences9,586 · 16.8%ISRIC - World Soil Information791 · 1.4%Maritime Research Institute Netherlands745 · 1.3%22 others listed1,949 · 3.4%

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

What is Wageningen strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Wageningen is most concentrated in Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals and Veterinary (10.9× the world share in Animal Science and Zoology).

  1. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 193.5 works11×
  2. Small AnimalsSubfield · 85.3 works8.6×
  3. VeterinaryField · 88.1 works8.1×
  4. Food ScienceSubfield · 449.7 works7.4×
  5. Insect ScienceSubfield · 157.2 works6.9×
  6. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 130.7 works6.9×
  7. EcologySubfield · 382.3 works6.0×
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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 Wageningen?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Sustainability, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Gut Microbiota, Biodiversity Conservation and Consumer Perception.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Climate Change980▲ 4.5×106 topics
  2. Sustainability586▲ 3.0×91 topics
  3. Environmental Impact553▲ 4.0×61 topics
  4. Biodiversity275▲ 4.6×36 topics
  5. Health Effects220▲ 4.5×22 topics
  6. Remote Sensing212▲ 2.1×37 topics
  7. Ecosystem Services211▲ 6.8×14 topics
  8. Food Security204▲ 4.6×22 topics
  9. Gut Microbiota197▲ 7.0×7 topics
  10. Biodiversity Conservation194▲ 6.5×19 topics
  11. Consumer Perception172▲ 9.7×8 topics
  12. Genetic Diversity166▲ 4.7×21 topics
  13. Greenhouse Gas Emissions166▲ 7.6×7 topics
  14. Invasive Species162▲ 4.7×20 topics
  15. Microbial Communities156▲ 4.6×10 topics
  16. Livestock Production153▲ 20×3 topics
  17. Sustainable Agriculture151▲ 5.9×16 topics
  18. Land Use Change148▲ 6.0×8 topics
  19. Waste Management147▲ 4.5×10 topics
  20. Probiotics141▲ 7.5×6 topics
  21. Lipid Oxidation140▲ 17×2 topics
  22. Health Benefits128▲ 4.8×14 topics
  23. Global Change124▲ 5.9×7 topics
  24. Smallholder Farmers123▲ 6.9×6 topics
  25. Hydrocolloids120▲ 19×2 topics
  26. Food Safety119▲ 5.1×17 topics
  27. Emulsions117▲ 22×2 topics
  28. Global Impact112▲ 8.2×4 topics
  29. Food Systems112▲ 31×1 topic
  30. Sustainable Diets112▲ 31×1 topic
  31. Heat Stress111▲ 17×2 topics
  32. Animal Welfare110▲ 16×5 topics
  33. Proteins105▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Habitat Fragmentation104▲ 5.9×5 topics
  35. Ecosystem Functioning98▲ 6.4×7 topics
  36. Stabilization95▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Digestion95▲ 27×1 topic
  38. Nanoemulsions95▲ 27×1 topic
  39. Ecosystem Resilience90▲ 7.7×5 topics
  40. Amino Acids90▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in Wageningen?

  1. 1 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 112 works
  2. 2 Proteins in Food Systems Food Science 95 works
  3. 3 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 72 works
  4. 4 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 63 works
  5. 5 Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability Food Science 61 works
  6. 6 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 54 works
  7. 7 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 53 works
  8. 8 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 53 works
  9. 9 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 50 works
  10. 10 Organic Food and Agriculture Plant Science 48 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.