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Research in Zug

Science Explorer records 24 research institutions in Zug, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Varian Medical Systems (Switzerland) and University of Teacher Education Zug.

Research institutions
24
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.9k
▲ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
31k
16.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
15.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Zug

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 Zug?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Varian Medical Systems (Switzerland)Company 541 #11,883
2University of Teacher Education ZugUniversity 277 #19,954
3RHI Magnesita (Switzerland)Company 89 not ranked
4SHL Medical (Switzerland)Company 35 not ranked
5Sucampo (Switzerland)Company 33 not ranked
6Kantonsschule ZugUniversity 14 not ranked
7Belron (Switzerland)Company 10 not ranked
8Data Fusion Research CenterCompany 9 not ranked
9Springer Nature (Switzerland)Company 9 not ranked
10Implantica (Switzerland)Company 4 not ranked
11Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Switzerland)Company 4 not ranked
12Cardiorentis (Switzerland)Company 2 not ranked
13Kunsthaus ZugArchive 2 not ranked
14Argomedical (Switzerland)Company 2 not ranked
15Institut Montana ZugerbergResearch facility 2 not ranked
16Laudes FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
17Wockhardt (Switzerland)Company 1 not ranked
18C&A Foundation (Switzerland)Company 1 not ranked
19COFRA (Switzerland)Company 1 not ranked
20EnerSys (Switzerland)Company 1 not ranked
21Alere (Switzerland)Company 1 not ranked
22EcancerNonprofit 1 not ranked
23Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland)Company 0 not ranked
24Comanis FoundationInstitution 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.

Varian Medical Systems (Switzerland): 52.0%University of Teacher Education Zug: 26.6%RHI Magnesita (Switzerland): 8.6%SHL Medical (Switzerland): 3.4%18 others listed: 9.4%52%largest
Varian Medical Systems (Switzerland)541 · 52.0%University of Teacher Education Zug277 · 26.6%RHI Magnesita (Switzerland)89 · 8.6%SHL Medical (Switzerland)35 · 3.4%18 others listed98 · 9.4%

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

Which fields of science does Zug work in?

In 2022-now, 36% of research in Zug is in Health Sciences, 33% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Social Sciences (13%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 188 fractional works · 36.0% of its workMedicine: 174 fractional works · 33.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 32 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSurgery: 17 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOncology: 14 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysiology: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 170 fractional works · 32.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 68 fractional works · 13.0% of its workEducation: 23 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 21 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 37 fractional works · 7.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 19 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 fractional works · 3.2% of its workFinance: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 20 fractional works · 3.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 17 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 100 fractional works · 19.1% of its workEngineering: 38 fractional works · 7.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 29 fractional works · 5.6% of its workInformation Systems: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCeramics and Composites: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 64 fractional works · 12.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 4.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 19 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workForestry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 fractional works · 2.4% of its workImmunology: 12 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKZug521fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences36%Social Sciences33%

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. Medicine17433.3%
    2. Health Professions122.2%
    3. Nursing10.3%
    4. Dentistry10.2%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences6813.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities377.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance224.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting203.8%
    5. Psychology173.3%
    6. Decision Sciences61.2%
    1. Engineering387.4%
    2. Computer Science295.6%
    3. Environmental Science112.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy51.0%
    5. Chemistry51.0%
    6. Mathematics30.7%
    7. Materials Science30.7%
    8. Energy20.4%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology254.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences193.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology132.4%
    4. Neuroscience51.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Zug strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Zug is most concentrated in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (3.8× the world share in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine).

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 24.9 works3.8×
← 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: 0.86× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.93× its world share, 21 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.58× its world share, 11 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.47× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.71× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.74× its world share, 24 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.52× its world share, 33 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.43× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.54× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.51× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.74× its world share, 143 worksMedicineNursing: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.05× its world share, 25 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.00× its world share, 14 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.25× its world share, 20 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.10× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 54 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 2.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology2.58×11 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.25×20 works
  3. Arts and Humanities2.05×25 works
  4. Medicine1.74×143 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.44×6 works
  6. Psychology1.10×14 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.00×14 works
  8. Social Sciences0.99×54 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.93×21 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.86×18 works
  11. Health Professions0.79×9 works
  12. Computer Science0.74×24 works
  13. Chemistry0.71×5 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.62×1 works
  15. Veterinary0.57×0 works
  16. Nursing0.56×1 works
  17. Mathematics0.54×3 works
  18. Engineering0.52×33 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.51×5 works
  20. Energy0.49×2 works
  21. Neuroscience0.47×3 works
  22. Environmental Science0.43×9 works
  23. Dentistry0.38×1 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.26×2 works
  25. Materials Science0.19×3 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.14×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Zug?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Clinical Trials, Management, Teaching and Inflammation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology30▲ 1.44×71 topics
  2. Inflammation20▲ 1.76×54 topics
  3. Treatment18▲ 2.8×30 topics
  4. Diagnosis16▲ 3.2×27 topics
  5. Education15▲ 1.64×22 topics
  6. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse14▲ 71×2 topics
  7. Management14▲ 3.4×22 topics
  8. Clinical Trials14▲ 3.9×14 topics
  9. Genetics12▲ 3.4×14 topics
  10. Precision Medicine10▲ 3.8×8 topics
  11. Learning9▲ 6.1×5 topics
  12. Teaching9▲ 14×4 topics
  13. Language Acquisition9▲ 14×2 topics
  14. Multilingualism8▲ 10×3 topics
  15. Teacher Education8▲ 13×3 topics
  16. Immunology8▲ 14×2 topics
  17. Asthma8▲ 16×2 topics
  18. Didactics8▲ 16×2 topics
  19. Governance8▲ 4.6×4 topics
  20. Treatment Guidelines8▲ 6.8×5 topics
  21. Competence8▲ 125×1 topic
  22. Curriculum8▲ 14×1 topic
  23. Monoclonal Antibodies7▲ 16×3 topics
  24. Autoantibodies7▲ 6.0×8 topics
  25. Language Learning7▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Allergic Diseases7▲ 24×1 topic
  27. Discourse Analysis7▲ 5.7×5 topics
  28. Eosinophils7▲ 24×1 topic
  29. Teaching Methods7▲ 8.5×2 topics
  30. Sociolinguistics7▲ 7.5×4 topics
  31. Intercultural Competence7▲ 37×2 topics
  32. Bildungsungleichheit7▲ 48×1 topic
  33. Digital Media7▲ 7.2×1 topic
  34. Ethnografisches Schreiben7▲ 48×1 topic
  35. German as a Foreign Language7▲ 94×1 topic
  36. Respiratory6▲ 13×2 topics
  37. COPD6▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Cost-effectiveness Analysis6▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Health Utility Measures6▲ 15×1 topic
  40. spirometry6▲ 18×1 topic

What research is done in Zug?

Health Systems, Economic…6Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 6 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory d…6Asthma and respiratory diseases: 6 fractional worksEducation Methods and Te…5Education Methods and Technologies: 5 fractional worksSociology and Education …5Sociology and Education Studies: 5 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 4 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 4 fractional worksLinguistic Education and…3Linguistic Education and Pedagogy: 3 fractional worksBiosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods: 3 fractional worksSystemic Lupus Erythematosus Research: 3 fractional worksLinguistic research and …3Linguistic research and analysis: 3 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPhysiologyEducationSociology and Political Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 6 works
  2. 2 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 6 works
  3. 3 Education Methods and Technologies Education 5 works
  4. 4 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  5. 5 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  7. 7 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy Language and Linguistics 3 works
  8. 8 Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods Immunology 3 works
  9. 9 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research Rheumatology 3 works
  10. 10 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 3 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%Zug14.6% 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 26.0% in 2009.

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