Research in Wellington
Science Explorer records 69 research institutions in Wellington, New Zealand. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Victoria University of Wellington, Ministry of Education and Statistics New Zealand.
- Research institutions
- 69 14 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 50k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 999k 20.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 18.9% 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 Wellington?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria University of WellingtonUniversity | 29,164 | #587 | |
| 2 | PharmacGovernment institution | 2,736 | #15,425 | |
| 3 | Physiotherapy New ZealandInstitution | 1,957 | #10,866 | |
| 4 | Statistics New ZealandGovernment institution | 1,742 | #6,521 | |
| 5 | Ministry of EducationGovernment institution | 1,213 | #1,861 | |
| 6 | Ministry of HealthGovernment institution | 1,045 | #10,339 all time | |
| 7 | Ministry for Primary IndustriesGovernment institution | 1,027 | #19,988 | |
| 8 | Department of ConservationGovernment institution | 708 | #19,327 | |
| 9 | Cancer Society of New ZealandNonprofit | 675 | #21,220 | |
| 10 | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaArchive | 645 | #18,455 | |
| 11 | Education New ZealandGovernment institution | 582 | #14,394 | |
| 12 | Medical Research Institute of New ZealandResearch facility | 567 | #15,737 | |
| 13 | Royal Society Te ApārangiNonprofit | 538 | #12,852 all time | |
| 14 | Capital and Coast District Health BoardHospital / health system | 467 | #21,288 | |
| 15 | Callaghan InnovationGovernment institution | 425 | #18,736 | |
| 16 | Crown Research InstitutesGovernment institution | 415 | #18,687 all time | |
| 17 | Malaghan Institute of Medical ResearchHospital / health system | 400 | #17,527 all time | |
| 18 | Motu Economic and Public Policy ResearchNonprofit | 380 | #23,288 all time | |
| 19 | TreasuryGovernment institution | 275 | #25,623 all time | |
| 20 | Accident Compensation CorporationGovernment institution | 266 | #21,364 all time | |
| 21 | Reserve Bank of New ZealandGovernment institution | 256 | #31,049 all time | |
| 22 | New Zealand Association of CounsellorsNonprofit | 235 | #18,459 | |
| 23 | Health Promotion AgencyInstitution | 228 | #24,074 all time | |
| 24 | Government of New ZealandGovernment institution | 226 | #23,583 all time | |
| 25 | Carter ObservatoryResearch facility | 216 | #32,877 all time | |
| 26 | Wakefield HospitalHospital / health system | 192 | #28,198 all time | |
| 27 | Royal New Zealand College of General PractitionersUniversity | 172 | #27,870 all time | |
| 28 | Pacific Radiology (New Zealand)Company | 142 | #29,020 all time | |
| 29 | WSP (New Zealand)Company | 127 | #30,158 all time | |
| 30 | Ministry for the EnvironmentGovernment institution | 108 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Transpower (New Zealand)Company | 104 | not ranked | |
| 32 | New Zealand Council for Educational ResearchGovernment institution | 102 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Wellington City CouncilGovernment institution | 101 | not ranked | |
| 34 | National Library of New ZealandArchive | 80 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Quest Integrity (New Zealand)Company | 75 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Ministry of Business, Innovation and EmploymentGovernment institution | 69 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Tertiary Education CommissionGovernment institution | 64 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Gillies McIndoe Research InstituteResearch facility | 60 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Department of Internal AffairsGovernment institution | 40 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Social Policy Evaluation and Research UnitGovernment institution | 26 | not ranked | |
| 41 | NZ on AirGovernment institution | 16 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Wellington Free AmbulanceNonprofit | 15 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Department of CorrectionsGovernment institution | 15 | not ranked | |
| 44 | New Zealand Association of ScientistsNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs and TradeGovernment institution | 12 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Ministry for Culture and HeritageGovernment institution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Dragonfly Data Science (New Zealand)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Asia New Zealand FoundationNonprofit | 11 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Wellington Medical Research FoundationNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 50 | New Zealand Law SocietyNonprofit | 8 | not ranked | |
| 51 | New Zealand Law FoundationNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Creative New ZealandGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama SchoolUniversity | 6 | not ranked | |
| 54 | New Horizons for Women TrustNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Maori Education TrustNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 56 | New Zealand Federation of Graduate WomenNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Tawata Productions (New Zealand)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Fulbright New ZealandInstitution | 4 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Rural Women New ZealandNonprofit | 4 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Quigley and Watts (New Zealand)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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Wellington work in?
In 2022-now, 34% of research in Wellington is in Physical Sciences, 33% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (17%), Medicine (17%), Engineering (9%). It does 1.3× 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 Sciences3,00933.8%
- Engineering7708.6%
- Computer Science6737.6%
- Environmental Science5886.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2392.7%
- Materials Science2232.5%
- Physics and Astronomy1872.1%
- Chemistry1581.8%
- Mathematics810.9%
- Energy550.6%
- Chemical Engineering330.4%
- Social Sciences2,94233.0%
- Social Sciences1,50016.8%
- Psychology4755.3%
- Arts and Humanities3674.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting2532.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2352.6%
- Decision Sciences1131.3%
- Health Sciences1,88221.1%
- Medicine1,47416.6%
- Health Professions3403.8%
- Nursing350.4%
- Dentistry190.2%
- Veterinary140.2%
- Life Sciences1,07112.0%
What is Wellington strongest at in research?
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).
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 27.6 works6.8×
- ConservationSubfield · 23.5 works3.3×
- Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 38.1 works3.1×
- 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.
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: Psychology, 1.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Psychology1.73×400 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.60×191 works
- Arts and Humanities1.48×325 works
- Health Professions1.40×280 works
- Decision Sciences1.38×101 works
- Social Sciences1.37×1,313 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.32×35 works
- Environmental Science1.30×489 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.24×202 works
- Neuroscience1.20×148 works
- Veterinary1.19×12 works
- Chemistry1.15×137 works
- Chemical Engineering1.04×28 works
- Computer Science1.01×596 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.96×388 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.93×158 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.93×228 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.84×64 works
- Medicine0.83×1,212 works
- Nursing0.83×31 works
- Mathematics0.82×73 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.78×282 works
- Materials Science0.71×189 works
- Energy0.68×47 works
- Engineering0.58×658 works
- Dentistry0.42×15 works
Which keywords describe research in Wellington?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Globalization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Vulnerability, Resilience, Decolonization and Mental Health.
- Nature-Inspired Algorithms
- Global Optimization
- Economy
- Genetic Programming
- Measurement Properties
- Ocean Acidification
- Metaheuristics
- Particle Swarm Optimization
- Chronic Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Decolonization
- Neoliberalism
- Population Dynamics
- Vulnerability
- Invasive Species
- Biodiversity
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Resilience
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Clinical Trials
- Conservation
- Ecosystem Services
- Health Equity
- Environmental Policy
- Multiobjective Optimization
- Disability
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Health Status Questionnaires
- Land Use
- Symbolic Regression
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Firefly Algorithm
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
- Climate Change458▲ 1.89×104 topics
- Epidemiology417▲ 1.17×133 topics
- Globalization289▲ 1.65×105 topics
- Machine Learning243▼ 0.82×81 topics
- Sustainability227◆ 1.04×92 topics
- Deep Learning213▼ 0.69×78 topics
- Mental Health185▲ 1.45×42 topics
- Public Health150◆ 1.15×62 topics
- Quality of Life145◆ 1.12×55 topics
- Biodiversity129▲ 1.90×32 topics
- Resilience128▲ 2.9×16 topics
- Invasive Species111▲ 2.9×21 topics
- Evolutionary Algorithms108▲ 12×5 topics
- Vulnerability100▲ 4.8×8 topics
- Clinical Trials100▲ 1.68×19 topics
- Population Dynamics84▲ 3.7×13 topics
- Conservation82▲ 2.1×23 topics
- Neoliberalism82▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Ecosystem Services81▲ 2.3×12 topics
- Decolonization77▲ 11×7 topics
- Health Equity76▲ 2.9×6 topics
- Low Back Pain67▲ 4.4×4 topics
- Environmental Policy66▲ 3.7×7 topics
- Chronic Pain65▲ 3.3×5 topics
- Multiobjective Optimization64▲ 14×2 topics
- Particle Swarm Optimization60▲ 5.7×4 topics
- Disability60▲ 6.3×3 topics
- Metaheuristics52▲ 7.1×4 topics
- Musculoskeletal Disorders50▲ 5.6×3 topics
- Ocean Acidification50▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Health Status Questionnaires49▲ 7.5×1 topic
- Measurement Properties49▲ 7.5×1 topic
- Land Use48▲ 9.9×5 topics
- Genetic Programming48▲ 26×1 topic
- Symbolic Regression48▲ 26×1 topic
- Economy46▲ 6.9×5 topics
- Ant Colony Optimization44▲ 9.2×2 topics
- Global Optimization43▲ 9.0×2 topics
- Firefly Algorithm43▲ 14×1 topic
- Nature-Inspired Algorithms43▲ 14×1 topic
What research is done in Wellington?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications Artificial Intelligence 44 works
- 2 Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research Artificial Intelligence 41 works
- 3 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 37 works
- 4 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 33 works
- 5 Island Studies and Pacific Affairs Demography 27 works
- 6 New Zealand Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 25 works
- 7 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 24 works
- 8 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 24 works
- 9 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 22 works
- 10 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 21 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 31.1% in 2010.
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