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Research in Zvolen

Science Explorer records 8 research institutions in Zvolen, Slovakia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Technická univerzita vo Zvolene and National Forest Centre.

Research institutions
8
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.2k
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
39k
12.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
15.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Zvolen

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 Zvolen?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Technická univerzita vo ZvoleneUniversity 2,008 #7,158
2National Forest CentreResearch facility 266 #21,269
3Railway Repair and Engineering Works (Slovakia)Company 36 not ranked
4Matador (Slovakia)Company 17 not ranked
5Betamont (Slovakia)Company 5 not ranked
6IPM Engineering (Slovakia)Company 2 not ranked
7Maspoma (Slovakia)Company 1 not ranked
8Calibrium (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.

Technická univerzita vo Zvolene: 86.0%National Forest Centre: 11.4%Railway Repair and Engineering Works (Slovakia): 1.5%Matador (Slovakia): 0.7%3 others listed: 0.3%86%largest
Technická univerzita vo Zvolene2,008 · 86.0%National Forest Centre266 · 11.4%Railway Repair and Engineering Works (Slovakia)36 · 1.5%Matador (Slovakia)17 · 0.7%3 others listed8 · 0.3%

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

Which fields of science does Zvolen work in?

In 2022-now, 61% of research in Zvolen is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (29%), Engineering (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (21%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 505 fractional works · 61.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 244 fractional works · 29.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 63 fractional works · 7.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 53 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEcology: 49 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 25 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 178 fractional works · 21.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 41 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 38 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 22 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 15 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 29 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiomaterials: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 29 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 17 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 208 fractional works · 25.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 171 fractional works · 20.6% of its workPlant Science: 65 fractional works · 7.8% of its workInsect Science: 38 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 23 fractional works · 2.8% of its workForestry: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoil Science: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHorticulture: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 89 fractional works · 10.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 32 fractional works · 3.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArcheology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 27 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMedicine: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKZvolen828fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences25%Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences11%

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. Environmental Science24429.5%
    2. Engineering17821.4%
    3. Materials Science293.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences293.5%
    5. Chemistry111.3%
    6. Computer Science101.2%
    7. Energy30.3%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences17120.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology323.9%
    3. Neuroscience30.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting323.9%
    2. Social Sciences192.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities131.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance121.5%
    5. Psychology80.9%
    6. Decision Sciences50.6%
    1. Medicine192.3%
    2. Nursing30.4%
    3. Health Professions30.4%
    4. Veterinary10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Zvolen strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Zvolen is most concentrated in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science and Global and Planetary Change (27.4× the world share in Nature and Landscape Conservation).

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 46.6 works27×
  2. Insect ScienceSubfield · 31.3 works16×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 53.0 works9.8×
  4. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 35.4 works8.0×
  5. EcologySubfield · 39.1 works7.0×
← 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: 4.20× its world share, 142 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 26 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.86× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.01× its world share, 22 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.49× its world share, 159 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.85× its world share, 207 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.00× its world share, 25 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 0.93× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.61× its world share, 13 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.21× its world share, 28 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.77× its world share, 12 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.34× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science5.85×207 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.20×142 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.01×22 works
  4. Engineering1.49×159 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.21×28 works
  6. Materials Science1.00×25 works
  7. Nursing0.93×3 works
  8. Chemistry0.86×10 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.77×12 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.68×26 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.63×4 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.61×13 works
  13. Veterinary0.58×1 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.44×1 works
  15. Psychology0.34×7 works
  16. Energy0.29×2 works
  17. Neuroscience0.26×3 works
  18. Social Sciences0.19×17 works
  19. Health Professions0.17×3 works
  20. Computer Science0.16×9 works
  21. Medicine0.12×17 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.06×1 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.03×0 works
  25. Mathematics0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Zvolen?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Mechanical Properties, Biomass Estimation, Forest Management and Ecosystem Functioning.

▲ 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. Climate Change130▲ 5.8×73 topics
  2. Biodiversity Conservation72▲ 23×16 topics
  3. Sustainability62▲ 3.1×47 topics
  4. Biodiversity61▲ 9.7×23 topics
  5. Invasive Species60▲ 17×19 topics
  6. Mechanical Properties58▲ 7.1×17 topics
  7. Biomass Estimation44▲ 34×3 topics
  8. Forest Management43▲ 86×4 topics
  9. Ecosystem Functioning41▲ 24×6 topics
  10. Conservation41▲ 12×16 topics
  11. Aboveground Biomass40▲ 56×2 topics
  12. Microstructure37▲ 8.5×5 topics
  13. Remote Sensing35▲ 3.4×28 topics
  14. FTIR Analysis32▲ 222×1 topic
  15. Wood Chemistry32▲ 222×1 topic
  16. Climate Change Impact30▲ 16×5 topics
  17. Vegetation30▲ 34×3 topics
  18. Ecosystem Services29▲ 9.2×8 topics
  19. Global Warming29▲ 8.2×12 topics
  20. Tropical Forests28▲ 101×2 topics
  21. Allometric Models28▲ 71×2 topics
  22. Biological Invasions28▲ 37×2 topics
  23. Carbon Stocks28▲ 130×1 topic
  24. Tree Allometry28▲ 130×1 topic
  25. Life Cycle Assessment26▲ 11×8 topics
  26. Biomass25▲ 26×3 topics
  27. Climate Change Impacts25▲ 25×7 topics
  28. Dead Wood25▲ 173×1 topic
  29. Saproxylic Beetles25▲ 173×1 topic
  30. Bioenergy25▲ 54×3 topics
  31. Optimization25▲ 6.6×6 topics
  32. Supply Chain23▲ 14×5 topics
  33. Forest Carbon Sequestration23▲ 137×1 topic
  34. Sustainable Forest Management23▲ 137×1 topic
  35. Logistics23▲ 18×3 topics
  36. Global Change22▲ 10×6 topics
  37. Ecosystem Resilience22▲ 17×5 topics
  38. Soil Properties21▲ 15×5 topics
  39. Habitat Fragmentation21▲ 12×5 topics
  40. GIS20▲ 31×4 topics

What research is done in Zvolen?

Wood Treatment and Properties: 28 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 26 fractional worksForest Management and Po…21Forest Management and Policy: 21 fractional worksForest Ecology and Biodi…21Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies: 21 fractional worksForest Biomass Utilization and Management: 17 fractional worksBotany and Plant Ecology Studies: 16 fractional worksForest Insect Ecology an…11Forest Insect Ecology and Management: 11 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 11 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 10 fractional worksTree Root and Stability Studies: 10 fractional works
Building and ConstructionNature and Landscape ConservationGlobal and Planetary ChangeInsect Science5 others

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

  1. 1 Wood Treatment and Properties Building and Construction 28 works
  2. 2 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 26 works
  3. 3 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 21 works
  4. 4 Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Insect Science 21 works
  5. 5 Forest Biomass Utilization and Management Mechanics of Materials 17 works
  6. 6 Botany and Plant Ecology Studies Plant Science 16 works
  7. 7 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 11 works
  8. 8 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 11 works
  9. 9 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 10 works
  10. 10 Tree Root and Stability Studies Mechanical Engineering 10 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%Zvolen17.8% 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 25.1% in 2015.

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