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Research in Žilina

Science Explorer records 15 research institutions in Žilina, Slovakia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Žilina.

Research institutions
15
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
11k
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
74k
6.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
13.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Žilina

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 Žilina?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of ŽilinaUniversity 10,913 #3,307
2Vyskumny Ústav DopravnyInstitution 116 not ranked
3Mechanical Design (Slovakia)Company 94 not ranked
4Fakultná nemocnica s poliklinikou ŽilinaHospital / health system 32 not ranked
5Research - Development Application Services (Slovakia)Company 16 not ranked
6CEIT Consulting (Slovakia)Company 8 not ranked
7Geoexperts (Slovakia)Company 6 not ranked
8Centrum Pedagogicko Psychologického Poradenstva a PrevencieHospital / health system 5 not ranked
9Výskumný Ústav MliekarenskýResearch facility 3 not ranked
10Vutch-Chemitex (Slovakia)Company 3 not ranked
11Enviconsult (Slovakia)Company 1 not ranked
12International Security and Emergency Management InstituteNonprofit 1 not ranked
13Elteco (Slovakia)Company 1 not ranked
14Cestné stavby Žilina (Slovakia)Company 1 not ranked
15Ekospol (Slovakia)Company 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.

University of Žilina: 97.4%Vyskumny Ústav Dopravny: 1.0%Mechanical Design (Slovakia): 0.8%Fakultná nemocnica s poliklinikou Žilina: 0.3%10 others listed: 0.4%97%largest
University of Žilina11k · 97.4%Vyskumny Ústav Dopravny116 · 1.0%Mechanical Design (Slovakia)94 · 0.8%Fakultná nemocnica s poliklinikou Žilina32 · 0.3%10 others listed45 · 0.4%

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

Which fields of science does Žilina work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research in Žilina is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (52%), Computer Science (10%), Business, Management and Accounting (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,030 fractional works · 74.8% of its workEngineering: 1,414 fractional works · 52.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 256 fractional works · 9.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 224 fractional works · 8.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 182 fractional works · 6.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 159 fractional works · 5.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 119 fractional works · 4.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 78 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 75 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 70 fractional works · 2.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 66 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 56 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 41 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedia Technology: 34 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 31 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 270 fractional works · 9.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 62 fractional works · 2.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 52 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems: 46 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 44 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSignal Processing: 22 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 140 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 26 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 26 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 124 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 66 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMetals and Alloys: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 520 fractional works · 19.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 192 fractional works · 7.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 56 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAccounting: 43 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMarketing: 28 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 146 fractional works · 5.4% of its workTransportation: 41 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 38 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 23 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 68 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 45 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 62 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 41 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 37 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 99 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMedicine: 69 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 29 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 66 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 26 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 23 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiophysics: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKŽilina2,715fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences19%

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. Engineering1,41452.1%
    2. Computer Science2709.9%
    3. Environmental Science1405.2%
    4. Materials Science1244.6%
    5. Physics and Astronomy240.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences190.7%
    7. Energy170.6%
    8. Chemical Engineering90.3%
    9. Mathematics80.3%
    10. Chemistry70.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting1927.1%
    2. Social Sciences1465.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance682.5%
    4. Decision Sciences622.3%
    5. Psychology371.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities140.5%
    1. Medicine692.5%
    2. Health Professions291.1%
    3. Nursing10.0%
    4. Dentistry10.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences261.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology230.9%
    3. Neuroscience130.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Žilina strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Žilina is most concentrated in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (12.7× the world share in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering).

  1. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 157.5 works13×
  2. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 102.4 works7.9×
  3. Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualitySubfield · 35.3 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: 0.21× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.17× its world share, 22 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.31× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.90× its world share, 8 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.18× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.33× its world share, 249 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 17 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.66× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.42× its world share, 1,240 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.04× its world share, 124 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.29× its world share, 109 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.26× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.39× its world share, 21 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 26 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 63 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 13 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.24× its world share, 174 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.48× its world share, 58 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.19× its world share, 61 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.42× its world share, 31 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 129 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.42×1,240 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.48×58 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.24×174 works
  4. Computer Science1.33×249 works
  5. Materials Science1.29×109 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.19×61 works
  7. Environmental Science1.04×124 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.90×8 works
  9. Energy0.66×15 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.44×17 works
  11. Psychology0.42×31 works
  12. Social Sciences0.42×129 works
  13. Health Professions0.41×26 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.39×21 works
  15. Neuroscience0.31×12 works
  16. Mathematics0.26×7 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.21×24 works
  18. Chemistry0.18×7 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.18×13 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.17×22 works
  21. Veterinary0.15×0 works
  22. Medicine0.14×63 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.12×1 works
  24. Nursing0.06×1 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Žilina?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sustainability, Mechanical Properties, Simulation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Energy Efficiency, Efficiency and Digitalization.

▲ 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. Sustainability220▲ 3.3×50 topics
  2. Deep Learning160▲ 1.71×73 topics
  3. Mechanical Properties154▲ 5.8×36 topics
  4. Energy Efficiency131▲ 5.2×39 topics
  5. Simulation121▲ 17×12 topics
  6. Machine Learning116▲ 1.28×76 topics
  7. Logistics112▲ 27×9 topics
  8. Supply Chain109▲ 20×10 topics
  9. Environmental Impact102▲ 2.2×44 topics
  10. Sustainable Development94▲ 2.2×51 topics
  11. Supply Chain Management93▲ 3.8×20 topics
  12. Efficiency90▲ 11×5 topics
  13. Neural Networks89▲ 2.1×33 topics
  14. Renewable Energy86▲ 2.2×40 topics
  15. Management85▲ 3.9×11 topics
  16. Internet of Things84▲ 3.6×17 topics
  17. Digitalization81▲ 15×7 topics
  18. Human Resource78▲ 119×1 topic
  19. Transport78▲ 90×1 topic
  20. Artificial Intelligence75▲ 1.94×35 topics
  21. Microstructure72▲ 5.1×17 topics
  22. Big Data69▲ 2.7×20 topics
  23. Optimization61▲ 5.0×21 topics
  24. Cyber-Physical Systems61▲ 8.5×9 topics
  25. Heat Transfer57▲ 4.3×16 topics
  26. Environmental Management54▲ 4.9×13 topics
  27. Model Predictive Control52▲ 7.5×6 topics
  28. Electric Vehicles51▲ 6.5×4 topics
  29. Intelligent Transportation Systems51▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Thermal Analysis50▲ 14×8 topics
  31. Renewable Energy Integration49▲ 5.5×5 topics
  32. Power Electronics48▲ 5.5×8 topics
  33. Traffic Management43▲ 35×3 topics
  34. Vibration Analysis43▲ 5.8×9 topics
  35. Digital Twin42▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Finite Element Method40▲ 15×6 topics
  37. Dynamic Interaction36▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Analysis36▲ 15×5 topics
  39. Vehicle Diagnostics36▲ 91×2 topics
  40. Digital Technologies35▲ 9.6×4 topics

What research is done in Žilina?

Transport and Logistics …66Transport and Logistics Innovations: 66 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 26 fractional worksTransportation Systems and Logistics: 26 fractional worksMechanical and Thermal Properties Analysis: 24 fractional worksRailway Engineering and Dynamics: 22 fractional worksImpact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society: 22 fractional worksBusiness and Economic De…18Business and Economic Development: 18 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technologies Research: 18 fractional worksAluminum Alloys Composites Properties: 17 fractional worksBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization: 16 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringCivil and Structural EngineeringMechanical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Transport and Logistics Innovations Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 66 works
  2. 2 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 26 works
  3. 3 Transportation Systems and Logistics Civil and Structural Engineering 26 works
  4. 4 Mechanical and Thermal Properties Analysis Mechanical Engineering 24 works
  5. 5 Railway Engineering and Dynamics Mechanical Engineering 22 works
  6. 6 Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society Management Science and Operations Research 22 works
  7. 7 Business and Economic Development Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 18 works
  8. 8 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 18 works
  9. 9 Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties Mechanical Engineering 17 works
  10. 10 Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Building and Construction 16 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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%Žilina15.0% 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 22.3% in 2013.

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