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UCLouvain vs Université de Bordeaux

On research quality in 2022-now, UCLouvain ranks #318 in the world and Université de Bordeaux #364, of 22,385 institutions. UCLouvain stands higher in 11 of the 17 fields both publish in, Université de Bordeaux in 6.

Research profiles alike: 0.80very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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UCLouvain

Belgium · Louvain-la-Neuve

World rank, 2022-now
#318
#393 all time
Works, 2022-now
8.3k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
42%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Theoretical Computer Science, Classics, History and Philosophy of Science.

Université de Bordeaux

France · Bordeaux

World rank, 2022-now
#364
#407 all time
Works, 2022-now
4.6k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
42%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Industrial relations, Archeology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

UCLouvain leads on 6 of 8 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Université de Bordeaux leads on 1 of 8 measures: citation excellence for its fields. The two are level on open access.

UCLouvain 61 level1 Université de Bordeaux
  1. #318Research qualityworld rank of 22,385 institutions, 2022-now#364
  2. 1.05×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.10×
  3. 8.3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now4.6k
  4. 10.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.4%
  5. 26.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work20.9
  6. 42%Open accessof its works free to read, all time42%
  7. 27%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time24%
  8. -12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-34%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

UCLouvain stands higher in 11 of 17 fields, Université de Bordeaux in 6. UCLouvain leads most in Computer Science (#378 against #914); Université de Bordeaux leads most in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#370 against #488). Each bar is that side's standing among all institutions ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

UCLouvain 116 Université de Bordeaux
  1. #282Agricultural and Biological Sciences#370
  2. #238Arts and Humanities#320
  3. #488Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#370
  4. #407Business, Management and Accounting#584
  5. #378Computer Science#914
  6. #333Earth and Planetary Sciences#327
  7. #352Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  8. #538Engineering#659
  9. #498Environmental Science#630
  10. #398Health Professions#457
  11. -Materials Science#546
  12. -Mathematics#308
  13. #339Medicine#325
  14. -Neuroscience#253
  15. #276Physics and Astronomy#332
  16. #295Psychology#471
  17. #263Social Sciences#282

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field UCLouvain rankUniversité de Bordeaux rank UCLouvain top 10%Université de Bordeaux top 10% UCLouvain worksUniversité de Bordeaux works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #282 #370 14.6% 10.2% 189 153
Arts and Humanities #238 #320 9.9% 7.4% 450 264
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #488 #370 9.2% 10.7% 353 244
Business, Management and Accounting #407 #584 13.6% 6.2% 147 97
Computer Science #378 #914 8.6% 7.8% 435 220
Earth and Planetary Sciences #333 #327 14.0% 10.7% 92 100
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #352 - 6.5% - 211 -
Engineering #538 #659 7.6% 7.1% 715 433
Environmental Science #498 #630 10.8% 9.9% 252 152
Health Professions #398 #457 11.4% 10.6% 226 150
Materials Science - #546 - 5.8% - 133
Mathematics - #308 - 8.2% - 94
Medicine #339 #325 10.8% 13.3% 1.9k 719
Neuroscience - #253 - 8.0% - 127
Physics and Astronomy #276 #332 10.1% 10.5% 214 159
Psychology #295 #471 10.2% 8.8% 281 136
Social Sciences #263 #282 11.3% 8.3% 1.1k 655

Where does each put its research?

Not who is better, but what each side chooses to work on. A country or institution that puts twice the world's share of its research into a field sits at 2×, whatever its size.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.3× 0.7×
  2. Nursing0.7× 0.5×
  3. Medicine1.3× 0.9×
  4. Decision Sciences0.9× 0.7×
  5. Psychology1.3× 1.1×
  6. Computer Science0.8× 0.7×
  7. Energy0.4× 0.4×
  8. Arts and Humanities2.1× 2.1×
  9. Environmental Science0.7× 0.8×
  10. Engineering0.7× 0.7×
  11. Social Sciences1.1× 1.2×
  12. Mathematics1.7× 1.9×
  13. Chemical Engineering0.8× 0.9×
  14. Health Professions1.2× 1.4×
  15. Veterinary0.3× 0.3×
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.6× 0.7×
  17. Immunology and Microbiology1.0× 1.2×
  18. Neuroscience1.6× 2.0×
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.9× 1.1×
  20. Physics and Astronomy1.4× 1.8×
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.7× 0.9×
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.6× 0.8×
  23. Materials Science0.6× 0.9×
  24. Chemistry0.8× 1.2×
  25. Dentistry0.4× 0.7×
  26. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.8× 1.6×
UCLouvainUniversité de Bordeaux

Location quotient in 2022-now: the share of each side's research in the field over the world's share. 1× is the world's balance; the axis runs from a quarter of it to four times. Fields where UCLouvain leans further are at the top, Université de Bordeaux's at the bottom. How research profiles are compared.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

UCLouvain

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology366◆ 1.11×131 topics
  2. Climate Change246◆ 1.09×99 topics
  3. Globalization221▲ 1.36×126 topics
  4. Inflammation191◆ 1.09×82 topics
  5. Machine Learning160▼ 0.58×79 topics
  6. Mental Health155▲ 1.31×46 topics
  7. Quality of Life135◆ 1.13×56 topics
  8. Treatment131▲ 1.31×49 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress130◆ 0.96×61 topics
  10. Public Health122◆ 1.01×57 topics
  11. Diagnosis121▲ 1.57×40 topics
  12. Social Justice112▲ 2.3×43 topics
  13. Religion108▲ 2.8×37 topics
  14. Community Engagement107▲ 4.0×17 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease100◆ 1.07×38 topics
  16. Gender98▲ 2.2×47 topics
  17. Management96▲ 1.45×36 topics
  18. Ethics94▲ 2.2×51 topics
  19. Territorial Governance92▲ 9.7×3 topics
  20. History91▲ 1.58×52 topics
  21. Local Development90▲ 11×2 topics
  22. Public Policy86▲ 2.2×17 topics
  23. Gender Studies80▲ 6.4×12 topics
  24. Colonialism78▲ 2.0×41 topics
  25. Social Determinants of Health63▲ 3.5×8 topics
  26. Democracy62▲ 2.1×24 topics
  27. Citizen Participation60▲ 6.3×3 topics
  28. Environmental Participation57▲ 9.7×1 topic
  29. Proximity and Innovation57▲ 9.7×1 topic
  30. Sociological Analysis56▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Educational Policies56▲ 6.3×2 topics
  32. Ethnographic Research56▲ 14×2 topics
  33. Professional Practices56▲ 19×1 topic
  34. Public Action56▲ 19×1 topic
  35. Sociolinguistics53▲ 3.5×8 topics
  36. Corpus Linguistics52▲ 3.0×5 topics
  37. Citizenship48▲ 4.8×11 topics
  38. Institutionalization48▲ 6.2×4 topics
  39. Solidarity Economy34▲ 7.2×2 topics
  40. Participative Evaluation34▲ 12×1 topic

Université de Bordeaux

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology159◆ 0.87×132 topics
  2. Climate Change143◆ 1.14×98 topics
  3. Globalization114▲ 1.26×108 topics
  4. Community Engagement111▲ 7.4×14 topics
  5. Territorial Governance104▲ 20×3 topics
  6. Local Development104▲ 22×2 topics
  7. Social Justice96▲ 3.5×30 topics
  8. Mental Health95▲ 1.44×37 topics
  9. Public Policy86▲ 3.9×23 topics
  10. Gender Studies83▲ 12×11 topics
  11. Gender70▲ 2.8×44 topics
  12. Social Determinants of Health67▲ 6.8×7 topics
  13. Educational Policies66▲ 13×3 topics
  14. Sociological Analysis66▲ 26×2 topics
  15. Ethnographic Research66▲ 29×2 topics
  16. Professional Practices66▲ 40×1 topic
  17. Public Action66▲ 40×1 topic
  18. Citizenship56▲ 10×11 topics
  19. Citizen Participation54▲ 10×2 topics
  20. Social Innovation54▲ 7.6×8 topics
  21. Institutionalization53▲ 12×4 topics
  22. Cooperatives53▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Environmental Participation53▲ 16×1 topic
  24. Proximity and Innovation53▲ 16×1 topic
  25. Solidarity Economy52▲ 20×2 topics
  26. Participative Evaluation52▲ 34×1 topic
  27. Palliative Care50▲ 7.1×6 topics
  28. Cultural Diversity49▲ 4.8×16 topics
  29. Sociolinguistics46▲ 5.4×7 topics
  30. End-of-Life Care43▲ 8.3×3 topics
  31. Medical Ethics43▲ 7.5×6 topics
  32. Psychological Trauma42▲ 15×2 topics
  33. Healthcare Legislation42▲ 17×1 topic
  34. Patient Rights42▲ 13×1 topic
  35. Digital Health42▲ 8.0×4 topics
  36. Healthcare Quality Indicators40▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Healthcare Management39▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Healthcare Policy39▲ 9.4×2 topics
  39. Inequalities39▲ 26×1 topic
  40. Universal Health Coverage39▲ 26×1 topic

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

UCLouvain has out-published Université de Bordeaux every year since 1980.

still counting1k2k3kUCLouvain1,857 in 2025Université de Bordeaux951 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%UCLouvain0.032% in 2025Université de Bordeaux0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%15%UCLouvain9.8% in 2025Université de Bordeaux9.5% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Which publishes more research, UCLouvain or Université de Bordeaux?

UCLouvain publishes 1.8× as much research as Université de Bordeaux in 2022-now (8.3k against 4.6k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, UCLouvain or Université de Bordeaux?

10.2% of UCLouvain's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.4% for Université de Bordeaux.

Is UCLouvain or Université de Bordeaux growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was -12% against 2018-21 for UCLouvain, and -34% for Université de Bordeaux.

Which has more open access research, UCLouvain or Université de Bordeaux?

42% of Université de Bordeaux's research is free to read, against 42% of UCLouvain's.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

UCLouvain

  1. 1 P. Petrov #6,511 worldwide 23k citations · 205 works
  2. 2 R. Volpe #6,745 worldwide 59k citations · 715 works
  3. 3 Patrice D. Cani #7,383 worldwide 94k citations · 601 works
  4. 4 V. Lemaı̂tre #7,447 worldwide 86k citations · 952 works
  5. 5 Fabio Maltoni #7,542 worldwide 55k citations · 290 works

Université de Bordeaux

  1. 1 Daniel Choquet #20,390 worldwide 24k citations · 273 works
  2. 2 Aniket Mishra #64,896 worldwide 8.8k citations · 112 works
  3. 3 Jean‐Louis Turon #69,483 worldwide 9.3k citations · 151 works
  4. 4 E. do Couto e Silva #81,366 worldwide 3.9k citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Jan A. Veenstra #113,699 worldwide 15k citations · 272 works