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Research in Wilkes-Barre

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in Wilkes-Barre, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Wilkes University.

Research institutions
7
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.4k
▲ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
32k
13.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Wilkes-Barre

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 Wilkes-Barre?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Wilkes UniversityUniversity 1,504 #10,188
2King's College - PennsylvaniaUniversity 371 #26,439 all time
3Community Health Systems - Wilkes-Barre General HospitalHospital / health system 59 not ranked
4Bucci Laser Vision InstituteHospital / health system 35 not ranked
5Angeline Elizabeth Kirby Memorial Health CenterHospital / health system 3 not ranked
6Luzerne County LibrariesArchive 2 not ranked
7Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug ServicesNonprofit 1 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.

Wilkes University: 76.2%King's College - Pennsylvania: 18.8%Community Health Systems - Wilkes-Barre General Hospital: 3.0%Bucci Laser Vision Institute: 1.8%3 others listed: 0.3%76%largest
Wilkes University1,504 · 76.2%King's College - Pennsylvania371 · 18.8%Community Health Systems - Wilkes-Barre General Hospital59 · 3.0%Bucci Laser Vision Institute35 · 1.8%3 others listed6 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Wilkes-Barre work in?

In 2022-now, 45% of research in Wilkes-Barre is in Health Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 211 fractional works · 45.3% of its workMedicine: 191 fractional works · 41.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 34 fractional works · 7.4% of its workSurgery: 30 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEpidemiology: 16 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOncology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInternal Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 134 fractional works · 28.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 67 fractional works · 14.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 18 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEducation: 18 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 25 fractional works · 5.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 23 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPhilosophy: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 83 fractional works · 17.8% of its workEngineering: 32 fractional works · 6.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 37 fractional works · 8.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWilkes-Barre465fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences45%Social Sciences29%

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
    1. Medicine19141.0%
    2. Health Professions173.6%
    3. Nursing30.5%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences6714.4%
    2. Psychology255.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities234.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting112.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.1%
    6. Decision Sciences30.6%
    1. Engineering326.9%
    2. Environmental Science143.1%
    3. Computer Science112.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences81.7%
    5. Chemistry61.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy40.9%
    7. Materials Science40.8%
    8. Mathematics20.5%
    9. Energy10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology163.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences81.8%
    3. Neuroscience51.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology51.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Wilkes-Barre strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Wilkes-Barre is most concentrated in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (6.3× the world share in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine).

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 26.3 works6.3×
← 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.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.77× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 30 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.63× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.47× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.23× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.98× its world share, 151 worksMedicineNursing: 0.79× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.93× its world share, 22 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.85× its world share, 11 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.83× its world share, 22 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.26× its world share, 63 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine1.98×151 works
  2. Arts and Humanities1.93×22 works
  3. Psychology1.83×22 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.58×2 works
  5. Social Sciences1.26×63 works
  6. Health Professions1.23×13 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.12×7 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.85×11 works
  9. Nursing0.79×2 works
  10. Neuroscience0.77×5 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.68×14 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.63×2 works
  13. Environmental Science0.63×12 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×5 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.60×2 works
  16. Chemistry0.58×4 works
  17. Engineering0.50×30 works
  18. Mathematics0.49×2 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.47×4 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.42×8 works
  21. Dentistry0.35×1 works
  22. Computer Science0.31×10 works
  23. Materials Science0.21×3 works
  24. Energy0.18×1 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.12×0 works
  26. Veterinary0.12×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Wilkes-Barre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heart Failure, Epidemiology, Echocardiography, Sudden Cardiac Death, Diagnosis, Catheter Ablation, Arrhythmias and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.

▲ 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-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
  1. Epidemiology32▲ 1.71×75 topics
  2. Heart Failure16▲ 7.6×11 topics
  3. Diagnosis15▲ 3.4×30 topics
  4. Echocardiography14▲ 11×7 topics
  5. Treatment11▲ 2.0×27 topics
  6. Globalization11▲ 1.17×25 topics
  7. Mental Health10▲ 1.57×25 topics
  8. Sudden Cardiac Death10▲ 26×2 topics
  9. Guidelines10▲ 4.7×11 topics
  10. Risk Factors10▲ 2.0×22 topics
  11. Quality of Life10▲ 1.48×26 topics
  12. Catheter Ablation10▲ 17×2 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease10▲ 1.78×24 topics
  14. Arrhythmias8▲ 19×2 topics
  15. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy8▲ 44×1 topic
  16. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator8▲ 44×1 topic
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 3.1×12 topics
  18. Social Support8▲ 3.0×13 topics
  19. Mortality Risk7▲ 6.7×5 topics
  20. Social Justice7▲ 2.6×10 topics
  21. Cardiomyopathy6▲ 15×2 topics
  22. Complications6▲ 2.8×12 topics
  23. Radiofrequency Ablation6▲ 13×2 topics
  24. Electroanatomic Mapping6▲ 28×1 topic
  25. Ventricular Tachycardia6▲ 28×1 topic
  26. Ethics6▲ 2.6×9 topics
  27. Myocardial Infarction6▲ 5.4×7 topics
  28. Elderly6▲ 5.0×3 topics
  29. Clinical Outcomes5▲ 5.3×6 topics
  30. Diversity5▲ 6.1×7 topics
  31. Memory5▲ 4.3×8 topics
  32. Responsibility5▲ 23×3 topics
  33. Cultural Competence5▲ 7.7×5 topics
  34. Anticoagulant Therapy4▲ 7.5×4 topics
  35. Inappropriate Medication Use4▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Polypharmacy4▲ 22×1 topic
  37. Stroke Prevention4▲ 7.7×2 topics
  38. Engineering Education4▲ 10×3 topics
  39. Atrial Fibrillation4▲ 8.4×2 topics
  40. Social Relationships4▲ 8.7×2 topics

What research is done in Wilkes-Barre?

Cardiac pacing and defib…7Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 7 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 5 fractional worksPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 4 fractional worksTheology and Philosophy of Evil: 2 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 2 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 2 fractional worksWar, Ethics, and Justification: 2 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineGeriatrics and GerontologyPhilosophyInternal Medicine3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  3. 3 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 4 works
  4. 4 Theology and Philosophy of Evil Philosophy 2 works
  5. 5 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 2 works
  7. 7 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 War, Ethics, and Justification Philosophy 2 works
  10. 10 Health disparities and outcomes Health 2 works

Research output over time

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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.

still counting10%20%30%Wilkes-Barre11.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.6% in 2008.

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