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Research in Woking

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in Woking, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are The Pirbright Institute.

Research institutions
7
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.3k
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
137k
41.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
28.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Woking

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 Woking?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1The Pirbright InstituteResearch facility 2,862 #9,984
2Woking Community HospitalHospital / health system 109 not ranked
3Mouchel (United Kingdom)Company 79 not ranked
4McLaren Honda (United Kingdom)Company 60 not ranked
5SYSTRA (United Kingdom)Company 9 not ranked
6Format International LtdCompany 3 not ranked
7Beit TrustNonprofit 0 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.

The Pirbright Institute: 91.7%Woking Community Hospital: 3.5%Mouchel (United Kingdom): 2.5%McLaren Honda (United Kingdom): 1.9%2 others listed: 0.4%92%largest
The Pirbright Institute2,862 · 91.7%Woking Community Hospital109 · 3.5%Mouchel (United Kingdom)79 · 2.5%McLaren Honda (United Kingdom)60 · 1.9%2 others listed12 · 0.4%

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

Which fields of science does Woking work in?

In 2022-now, 46% of research in Woking is in Life Sciences, 35% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (26%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 129 fractional works · 46.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 73 fractional works · 26.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 27 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 22 fractional works · 7.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 15 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 fractional works · 11.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 22 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 22 fractional works · 7.8% of its workImmunology: 15 fractional works · 5.5% of its workVirology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 97 fractional works · 34.7% of its workMedicine: 92 fractional works · 32.9% of its workEpidemiology: 28 fractional works · 10.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 28 fractional works · 10.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 15 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 fractional works · 3.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 10.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 8.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKWoking279fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences46%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences35%Social Sciences10%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7326.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3211.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology227.8%
    4. Neuroscience20.7%
    1. Medicine9232.9%
    2. Health Professions31.1%
    3. Veterinary20.6%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Social Sciences124.3%
    2. Psychology82.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting51.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.5%
    5. Decision Sciences10.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    1. Environmental Science103.5%
    2. Engineering82.7%
    3. Computer Science31.1%
    4. Materials Science10.5%
    5. Chemistry10.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    8. Energy10.2%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Woking strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Woking is most concentrated in Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Infectious Diseases (43.6× the world share in Agronomy and Crop Science).

  1. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 24.7 works44×
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 20.3 works18×
  3. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 24.3 works15×
← 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: 5.68× its world share, 64 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.02× its world share, 26 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.33× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.67× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.64× its world share, 75 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.98× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.66× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology7.33×18 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5.68×64 works
  3. Veterinary4.98×2 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.02×26 works
  5. Medicine1.64×75 works
  6. Psychology1.02×7 works
  7. Environmental Science0.67×8 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.66×5 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.53×1 works
  10. Health Professions0.48×3 works
  11. Social Sciences0.40×12 works
  12. Neuroscience0.38×2 works
  13. Energy0.26×1 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×1 works
  15. Chemistry0.22×1 works
  16. Engineering0.20×7 works
  17. Computer Science0.16×3 works
  18. Materials Science0.15×1 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.15×1 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×0 works
  21. Nursing0.09×0 works
  22. Mathematics0.07×0 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Woking?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Genetic Characterization, Vaccine, Viral Pathogenesis, Immune Response, Vaccines and Disease Control.

▲ 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. Epidemiology105▲ 9.4×39 topics
  2. Pathogenesis63▲ 44×10 topics
  3. Genetic Characterization48▲ 380×2 topics
  4. Vaccine44▲ 39×8 topics
  5. Viral Pathogenesis32▲ 184×3 topics
  6. Immune Response31▲ 20×16 topics
  7. Vaccines28▲ 181×2 topics
  8. Disease Control27▲ 214×2 topics
  9. African Swine Fever27▲ 361×1 topic
  10. Foot-and-Mouth Disease27▲ 361×1 topic
  11. Climate Change26▲ 3.5×38 topics
  12. Coronavirus21▲ 38×2 topics
  13. Bluetongue Virus21▲ 409×1 topic
  14. Culicoides Biting Midges21▲ 409×1 topic
  15. Viral Infection19▲ 95×2 topics
  16. Pandemic16▲ 5.8×5 topics
  17. Heart Failure16▲ 13×3 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance15▲ 101×1 topic
  19. Immunosuppressive Therapy15▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Myocarditis15▲ 167×1 topic
  21. Genomic Sequencing15▲ 47×2 topics
  22. Metagenomics15▲ 60×2 topics
  23. Infection15▲ 21×5 topics
  24. Circovirus14▲ 166×1 topic
  25. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus14▲ 166×1 topic
  26. Vaccine Development14▲ 19×9 topics
  27. Public Health13▲ 3.1×14 topics
  28. Viral Transmission12▲ 30×4 topics
  29. Genetic Diversity10▲ 7.9×9 topics
  30. Genomics10▲ 12×6 topics
  31. SARS-CoV-29▲ 11×4 topics
  32. Virus9▲ 34×3 topics
  33. Norovirus9▲ 74×1 topic
  34. Rotavirus9▲ 74×1 topic
  35. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers9▲ 75×1 topic
  36. Zoonotic Infections9▲ 57×1 topic
  37. Immunity8▲ 7.4×5 topics
  38. ACE2 Receptor8▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Antibodies8▲ 51×2 topics
  40. Glycosylation8▲ 26×3 topics

What research is done in Woking?

Animal Disease Managemen…25Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 25 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Diseases: 19 fractional worksViral Infections and Immunology Research: 13 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections Studies: 10 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 9 fractional worksViral Infections and Vec…8Viral Infections and Vectors: 8 fractional worksHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments: 6 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 6 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 4 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineAnimal Science and Zoology3 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 25 works
  2. 2 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 19 works
  3. 3 Viral Infections and Immunology Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 13 works
  4. 4 Animal Virus Infections Studies Animal Science and Zoology 10 works
  5. 5 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 9 works
  6. 6 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 8 works
  7. 7 Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments Epidemiology 6 works
  8. 8 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 6 works
  9. 9 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  10. 10 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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 counting20%40%60%Woking20.1% 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 50.8% in 2012.

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