City · New Zealand
Research in Wellington
Science Explorer records 72 research institutions in Wellington, New Zealand. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Victoria University of Wellington, Ministry of Education and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.
- Research institutions
- 72 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 50k ▲ 10% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.9% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 | 27,756 | #1,092 | |
| 2 | PharmacGovernment institution | 2,736 | #12,010 | |
| 3 | Wellington HospitalHospital / health system | 2,130 | #17,751 | |
| 4 | Physiotherapy New ZealandInstitution | 1,957 | #19,214 | |
| 5 | Statistics New ZealandGovernment institution | 1,742 | #8,582 | |
| 6 | MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and NanotechnologyResearch facility | 1,383 | #3,989 | |
| 7 | Ministry of EducationGovernment institution | 1,213 | #2,165 | |
| 8 | Ministry of HealthGovernment institution | 1,045 | #18,170 all time | |
| 9 | Ministry for Primary IndustriesGovernment institution | 1,027 | #20,725 | |
| 10 | Department of ConservationGovernment institution | 708 | #21,822 | |
| 11 | Cancer Society of New ZealandNonprofit | 675 | #15,226 | |
| 12 | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaArchive | 645 | #23,543 | |
| 13 | Education New ZealandGovernment institution | 582 | #24,533 | |
| 14 | Medical Research Institute of New ZealandResearch facility | 567 | #17,509 | |
| 15 | Royal Society Te ApārangiNonprofit | 538 | #28,920 all time | |
| 16 | Capital and Coast District Health BoardHospital / health system | 467 | #22,734 | |
| 17 | Crown Research InstitutesGovernment institution | 415 | #24,090 all time | |
| 18 | Malaghan Institute of Medical ResearchHospital / health system | 400 | #8,495 all time | |
| 19 | Motu Economic and Public Policy ResearchNonprofit | 380 | #29,414 all time | |
| 20 | Callaghan InnovationGovernment institution | 322 | #17,950 all time | |
| 21 | TreasuryGovernment institution | 275 | #34,759 all time | |
| 22 | Accident Compensation CorporationGovernment institution | 266 | #39,700 all time | |
| 23 | Reserve Bank of New ZealandGovernment institution | 256 | #37,902 all time | |
| 24 | New Zealand Association of CounsellorsNonprofit | 235 | #24,592 | |
| 25 | Health Promotion AgencyInstitution | 228 | #24,123 all time | |
| 26 | Government of New ZealandGovernment institution | 226 | #35,210 all time | |
| 27 | Carter ObservatoryResearch facility | 216 | #31,811 all time | |
| 28 | Wakefield HospitalHospital / health system | 192 | #30,924 all time | |
| 29 | Royal New Zealand College of General PractitionersUniversity | 172 | #29,314 all time | |
| 30 | Pacific Radiology (New Zealand)Company | 142 | #37,655 all time | |
| 31 | WSP (New Zealand)Company | 127 | #37,528 all time | |
| 32 | Ministry for the EnvironmentGovernment institution | 108 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Transpower (New Zealand)Company | 104 | not ranked | |
| 34 | New Zealand Council for Educational ResearchGovernment institution | 102 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Wellington City CouncilGovernment institution | 101 | not ranked | |
| 36 | National Library of New ZealandArchive | 80 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Quest Integrity (New Zealand)Company | 75 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Ministry of Business, Innovation and EmploymentGovernment institution | 69 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Tertiary Education CommissionGovernment institution | 64 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Gillies McIndoe Research InstituteResearch facility | 60 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Department of Internal AffairsGovernment institution | 40 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Social Policy Evaluation and Research UnitGovernment institution | 26 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Wellington UniVentures (New Zealand)Company | 24 | not ranked | |
| 44 | NZ on AirGovernment institution | 16 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Wellington Free AmbulanceNonprofit | 15 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Department of CorrectionsGovernment institution | 15 | not ranked | |
| 47 | New Zealand Association of ScientistsNonprofit | 12 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs and TradeGovernment institution | 12 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Ministry for Culture and HeritageGovernment institution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Dragonfly Data Science (New Zealand)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Asia New Zealand FoundationNonprofit | 11 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Wellington Medical Research FoundationNonprofit | 9 | not ranked | |
| 53 | New Zealand Law SocietyNonprofit | 8 | not ranked | |
| 54 | New Zealand Law FoundationNonprofit | 7 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Creative New ZealandGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama SchoolUniversity | 6 | not ranked | |
| 57 | New Horizons for Women TrustNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Maori Education TrustNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 59 | New Zealand Federation of Graduate WomenNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Tawata Productions (New Zealand)Company | 5 | 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.
Victoria University of Wellington28k · 55.5%Pharmac2,736 · 5.5%Wellington Hospital2,130 · 4.3%Physiotherapy New Zealand1,957 · 3.9%56 others listed15k · 30.9%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
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×
← 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.
Which keywords describe research in Wellington?
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.
- Land Use
- Nature-Inspired Algorithms
- Global Optimization
- Ocean Acidification
- Symbolic Regression
- Constraint Handling
- Metaheuristics
- Particle Swarm Optimization
- Feature Selection
- Health Equity
- Neoliberalism
- Population Dynamics
- Social Capital
- Vulnerability
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Resilience
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Biodiversity
- Invasive Species
- Classification
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Ecosystem Services
- International Law
- Multiobjective Optimization
- Low Back Pain
- Disability
- Genetic Programming
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Differential Evolution
- Firefly Algorithm
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
▲ 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
- Climate Change380▲ 1.86×100 topics
- Epidemiology337◆ 1.12×132 topics
- Globalization249▲ 1.67×101 topics
- Machine Learning207▼ 0.83×80 topics
- Sustainability194◆ 1.05×90 topics
- Deep Learning183▼ 0.70×77 topics
- Mental Health163▲ 1.47×42 topics
- Public Health128▲ 1.16×60 topics
- Quality of Life120◆ 1.09×54 topics
- Resilience112▲ 3.0×16 topics
- Biodiversity105▲ 1.84×32 topics
- Evolutionary Algorithms101▲ 13×5 topics
- Invasive Species94▲ 2.9×21 topics
- Vulnerability90▲ 5.2×8 topics
- Classification76▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Social Capital73▲ 1.83×19 topics
- Colonialism73▲ 2.0×38 topics
- Population Dynamics72▲ 3.7×13 topics
- Decolonization70▲ 11×7 topics
- Neoliberalism69▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Ecosystem Services68▲ 2.3×11 topics
- Health Equity65▲ 3.1×6 topics
- International Law61▲ 2.6×20 topics
- Feature Selection59▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Multiobjective Optimization59▲ 14×2 topics
- Particle Swarm Optimization56▲ 6.0×4 topics
- Low Back Pain52▲ 4.0×4 topics
- Metaheuristics48▲ 7.7×4 topics
- Disability45▲ 5.6×3 topics
- Constraint Handling44▲ 7.0×2 topics
- Genetic Programming44▲ 27×1 topic
- Symbolic Regression44▲ 27×1 topic
- Ant Colony Optimization42▲ 10×2 topics
- Ocean Acidification42▲ 7.5×3 topics
- Differential Evolution42▲ 7.4×2 topics
- Global Optimization41▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Firefly Algorithm41▲ 15×1 topic
- Nature-Inspired Algorithms41▲ 15×1 topic
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge37▲ 12×2 topics
- Land Use35▲ 9.4×5 topics
What research is done in Wellington?
Artificial IntelligencePharmacologyHealthDemography5 others
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
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.