Research in Wellington

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.

Relative to its size, research in Wellington is most concentrated in Public Administration, Conservation and Condensed Matter Physics (6.8× the world share in Public Administration).

1. Public AdministrationSubfield · 27.6 works6.8×
2. ConservationSubfield · 23.5 works3.3×
3. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 38.1 works3.1×
4. Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSubfield · 45.3 works2.9×

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.

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Globalization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Vulnerability, Resilience, Decolonization and Mental Health.

1. 1 Evolutionary Algorithms and ApplicationsArtificial Intelligence 44 works
2. 2 Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms ResearchArtificial Intelligence 41 works
3. 3 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPharmacology 37 works
4. 4 Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsHealth 33 works
5. 5 Island Studies and Pacific AffairsDemography 27 works
6. 6 New Zealand Economic and Social StudiesEconomics and Econometrics 25 works
7. 7 Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryRehabilitation 24 works
8. 8 Disaster Management and ResilienceSociology and Political Science 24 works
9. 9 Sports injuries and preventionOrthopedics and Sports Medicine 22 works
10. 10 Plant and animal studiesEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 21 works