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Research in Xi'an

Science Explorer records 6 research institutions in Xi'an. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group and China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd..

Research institutions
6
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.6k
▲ 95% vs 2018-21
Citations
61k
17.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
13.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1993-2026
34 years on the record
Xi'an

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 Xi'an?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction GroupCompany 374 #13,665
2China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd.Research facility 308 #19,206
3China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd.Research facility 186 #33,693 all time
4State Key Laboratory of Cancer BiologyResearch facility 39 not ranked
5Northwest University First HospitalHospital / health system 6 not ranked
6Health Commission of Shaanxi ProvinceGovernment institution 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.

Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group: 40.8%China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd.: 33.6%China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd.: 20.3%State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology: 4.3%2 others listed: 1.1%41%largest
Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group374 · 40.8%China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd.308 · 33.6%China National Heavy Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd.186 · 20.3%State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology39 · 4.3%2 others listed10 · 1.1%

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

Which fields of science does Xi'an work in?

In 2022-now, 92% of research in Xi'an is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (51%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%), Materials Science (10%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,446 fractional works · 92.0% of its workEngineering: 799 fractional works · 50.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 344 fractional works · 21.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 104 fractional works · 6.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 83 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 54 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 49 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 47 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 32 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 190 fractional works · 12.1% of its workGeophysics: 96 fractional works · 6.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 32 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPaleontology: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 154 fractional works · 9.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 112 fractional works · 7.1% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 16 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCeramics and Composites: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 129 fractional works · 8.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology: 22 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 18 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 15 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 72 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 42 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 17 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 49 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 30 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 25 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 52 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSoil Science: 19 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 50 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 18 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 24 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKXi'an1,571fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences3%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering79950.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences19012.1%
    3. Materials Science1549.8%
    4. Environmental Science1298.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy724.6%
    6. Computer Science493.1%
    7. Energy251.6%
    8. Chemistry181.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering80.5%
    10. Mathematics20.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences402.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology100.6%
    3. Neuroscience20.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences291.8%
    2. Decision Sciences90.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting70.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    6. Psychology10.0%
    1. Medicine201.3%
    2. Health Professions30.2%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Xi'an strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Xi'an is most concentrated in Geophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (18.0× the world share in Geophysics).

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 94.4 works18×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 185.2 works7.9×
  3. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 326.5 works6.1×
← 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: 0.55× its world share, 39 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.46× its world share, 8 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.74× its world share, 17 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 48 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.86× its world share, 185 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.71× its world share, 24 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.37× its world share, 759 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.69× its world share, 126 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.75× its world share, 144 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.06× its world share, 69 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 19 worksMedicineNursing: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 7.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences7.86×185 works
  2. Engineering3.37×759 works
  3. Materials Science2.75×144 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy2.06×69 works
  5. Energy1.71×24 works
  6. Environmental Science1.69×126 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.46×8 works
  8. Chemistry0.74×17 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.61×9 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.55×39 works
  11. Computer Science0.41×48 works
  12. Social Sciences0.15×29 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×7 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.11×3 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×8 works
  16. Mathematics0.10×2 works
  17. Health Professions0.07×3 works
  18. Medicine0.07×19 works
  19. Neuroscience0.06×2 works
  20. Nursing0.04×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.03×1 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.02×0 works
  23. Psychology0.02×1 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Xi'an?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Power Electronics, Nanocomposites, Plate Tectonics, Renewable Energy Integration, Remote Sensing, Polymer, Interfaces and Dielectrics.

▲ 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. Power Electronics107▲ 21×8 topics
  2. Nanocomposites92▲ 7.4×18 topics
  3. Remote Sensing85▲ 4.4×36 topics
  4. Climate Change85▲ 1.99×62 topics
  5. Plate Tectonics75▲ 31×3 topics
  6. Renewable Energy Integration66▲ 13×6 topics
  7. Polymer65▲ 57×3 topics
  8. Interfaces64▲ 72×2 topics
  9. Dielectrics63▲ 129×1 topic
  10. Partial Discharge63▲ 129×1 topic
  11. Tectonics54▲ 28×3 topics
  12. Renewable Energy51▲ 2.2×34 topics
  13. Thermodynamic Modeling45▲ 25×3 topics
  14. Mechanical Properties45▲ 2.9×32 topics
  15. Geochronology44▲ 41×1 topic
  16. Zircon44▲ 41×1 topic
  17. Energy Storage44▲ 4.3×11 topics
  18. HVDC Transmission40▲ 52×2 topics
  19. Thermal Management40▲ 7.9×8 topics
  20. Photovoltaic Systems40▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Power Systems37▲ 23×2 topics
  22. Fault Detection34▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Smart Grid33▲ 5.9×9 topics
  24. Control Strategies32▲ 14×5 topics
  25. Dissolved Gas Analysis32▲ 96×1 topic
  26. Frequency Response Analysis32▲ 96×1 topic
  27. Land Use Change31▲ 6.7×7 topics
  28. Transport Properties31▲ 170×2 topics
  29. Thermal Plasma31▲ 264×1 topic
  30. Vacuum Arcs31▲ 264×1 topic
  31. Hyperspectral Imaging31▲ 7.3×5 topics
  32. Thermal Analysis31▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Voltage Control30▲ 27×2 topics
  34. Reliability27▲ 23×3 topics
  35. Smart Grid Applications26▲ 13×2 topics
  36. High-Temperature Electronics26▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Power Devices26▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Electric Vehicle Charging25▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Pore Structure25▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Offshore Wind Farms25▲ 25×2 topics

What research is done in Xi'an?

High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomena: 61 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 44 fractional worksVacuum and Plasma Arcs30Vacuum and Plasma Arcs: 30 fractional worksPower Transformer Diagnostics and Insulation: 29 fractional worksSilicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies: 24 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 23 fractional worksHVDC Systems and Fault P…23HVDC Systems and Fault Protection: 23 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 22 fractional worksHigh-pressure geophysics and materials: 21 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …21Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 21 fractional works
Materials ChemistryGeophysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsElectrical and Electronic Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomena Materials Chemistry 61 works
  2. 2 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 44 works
  3. 3 Vacuum and Plasma Arcs Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 30 works
  4. 4 Power Transformer Diagnostics and Insulation Electrical and Electronic Engineering 29 works
  5. 5 Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 24 works
  6. 6 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 23 works
  7. 7 HVDC Systems and Fault Protection Electrical and Electronic Engineering 23 works
  8. 8 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  9. 9 High-pressure geophysics and materials Geophysics 21 works
  10. 10 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 21 works

Research output over time

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%Xi'an15.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 29.6% in 2016.

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