Research in Warsaw
Science Explorer records 296 research institutions in Warsaw, Poland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology.
- Research institutions
- 296 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 415k ▼ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.4M 10.7 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 14.5% 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 Warsaw?
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 Warsaw work in?
In 2022-now, 36% of research in Warsaw is in Physical Sciences, 35% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (19%), Medicine (16%), Engineering (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social 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 Sciences25k35.9%
- Engineering8,69512.3%
- Computer Science3,5185.0%
- Environmental Science3,0934.4%
- Materials Science2,8034.0%
- Physics and Astronomy2,7323.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1,3862.0%
- Chemistry1,3161.9%
- Mathematics1,0671.5%
- Energy5110.7%
- Chemical Engineering2770.4%
- Social Sciences25k35.3%
- Social Sciences14k19.3%
- Arts and Humanities4,6656.6%
- Psychology2,2413.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2,0542.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,7992.5%
- Decision Sciences5470.8%
- Health Sciences13k17.8%
- Medicine11k15.6%
- Health Professions9891.4%
- Nursing3370.5%
- Dentistry1690.2%
- Veterinary1090.2%
- Life Sciences7,71210.9%
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3,3294.7%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences2,5133.6%
- Neuroscience1,1141.6%
- Immunology and Microbiology5770.8%
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1790.3%
What is Warsaw strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Warsaw is most concentrated in Linguistics and Language, General Social Sciences and History (11.2× the world share in Linguistics and Language).
- Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 812.8 works11×
- General Social SciencesSubfield · 446.0 works6.4×
- HistorySubfield · 1,118.8 works5.5×
- AnthropologySubfield · 772.3 works4.3×
- Religious studiesSubfield · 440.6 works4.2×
- Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 3,757.2 works4.0×
- Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 49.3 works3.9×
- ArcheologySubfield · 667.5 works3.5×
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: Arts and Humanities, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Arts and Humanities2.35×4,299 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.71×2,409 works
- Social Sciences1.58×13k works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.40×1,904 works
- Mathematics1.29×962 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.19×1,180 works
- Chemistry1.18×1,173 works
- Materials Science1.13×2,497 works
- Chemical Engineering1.09×242 works
- Veterinary1.07×92 works
- Psychology1.02×1,979 works
- Nursing0.97×302 works
- Neuroscience0.95×981 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×2,938 works
- Environmental Science0.87×2,741 works
- Engineering0.82×7,833 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.81×1,658 works
- Medicine0.79×9,638 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.78×501 works
- Decision Sciences0.78×478 works
- Energy0.77×450 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.74×2,236 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.66×147 works
- Computer Science0.63×3,109 works
- Health Professions0.54×896 works
- Dentistry0.46×140 works
Which keywords describe research in Warsaw?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: European Union, Globalization, Nationalism, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cultural Studies, Ethnography and Cultural Discourse.
- Traditional Architecture
- Anthropology
- European Union Law
- Public Administration
- Historiography
- Social Sciences
- Ethnolinguistics
- Lexicography
- Translation
- Sociolinguistics
- Ethics
- Culture
- Cultural Heritage
- Polish minority
- Cultural Discourse
- Ethnography
- Soviet Union
- Cultural Studies
- European Union
- Education
- Globalization
- Nationalism
- Human Rights
- Migration
- Eastern Europe
- Identity
- Polish history
- Literature
- Cultural Identity
- Urban Development
- Pedagogy
- Language
- Multilingualism
- Media Discourse
- National Identity
- Social Change
- Youth Development
- Memory Studies
- Digital Innovations
- Historical Linguistics
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
- Globalization2,886▲ 2.1×179 topics
- Education2,391▲ 1.97×149 topics
- Nationalism1,704▲ 5.4×34 topics
- European Union1,654▲ 10×29 topics
- Human Rights1,616▲ 2.2×87 topics
- Cultural Studies1,552▲ 5.9×41 topics
- Migration1,435▲ 6.0×34 topics
- Soviet Union1,420▲ 36×3 topics
- Eastern Europe1,415▲ 38×3 topics
- Ethnography1,354▲ 11×15 topics
- Identity1,306▲ 2.5×76 topics
- Cultural Discourse1,268▲ 49×3 topics
- Polish history1,263▲ 73×1 topic
- Polish minority1,263▲ 73×1 topic
- Literature1,244▲ 3.2×61 topics
- Cultural Heritage1,184▲ 3.1×39 topics
- Cultural Identity1,131▲ 3.2×40 topics
- Culture1,081▲ 2.9×38 topics
- Urban Development1,069▲ 4.3×23 topics
- Ethics1,064▲ 3.0×59 topics
- Pedagogy1,044▲ 2.9×30 topics
- Sociolinguistics984▲ 7.6×9 topics
- Language954▲ 5.4×14 topics
- Translation943▲ 8.1×7 topics
- Multilingualism897▲ 7.9×6 topics
- Lexicography889▲ 14×5 topics
- Media Discourse806▲ 18×3 topics
- Ethnolinguistics801▲ 38×2 topics
- National Identity750▲ 9.2×9 topics
- Social Sciences732▲ 7.2×21 topics
- Social Change708▲ 8.1×20 topics
- Historiography670▲ 7.8×14 topics
- Youth Development670▲ 10×9 topics
- Public Administration666▲ 12×6 topics
- Memory Studies665▲ 15×6 topics
- European Union Law648▲ 58×2 topics
- Digital Innovations638▲ 62×1 topic
- Anthropology636▲ 9.6×11 topics
- Historical Linguistics630▲ 27×3 topics
- Traditional Architecture629▲ 9.6×3 topics
What research is done in Warsaw?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Polish Historical and Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations 1.2k works
- 2 Language and Culture Linguistics and Language 771 works
- 3 Education and Cultural Studies Education 610 works
- 4 Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland History 589 works
- 5 Central European Literary Studies Anthropology 575 works
- 6 Polish Law and Legal System Political Science and International Relations 474 works
- 7 Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies Philosophy 446 works
- 8 Polish Legal and Social Issues Law 381 works
- 9 Theology and Canon Law Studies Religious studies 359 works
- 10 Social Issues in Poland General Social Sciences 350 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 17.1% in 2016.
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