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University of Houston

In research, University of Houston stands highest in Physical Sciences (#325 of 12,888 worldwide), Social Sciences (#334 of 10,521 worldwide) and Engineering (#225 of 6,636 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics, Ocean Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics — Geophysics is 4.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#424
of 28,054 · #258 all time
Rank in United States
#86
of 4,192
Research works
55k
▲ 7% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.4M
25.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
25%
world 28%

What is University of Houston known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #325 of 12,888 20.4%3,053 #203
Social SciencesDomain #334 of 10,521 25.5%1,929 #193
EngineeringField #225 of 6,636 20.3%1,265 #195
Business, Management and AccountingField #105 of 2,578 31.9%209 #82
Computer ScienceField #287 of 4,667 22.7%574 #280
Social SciencesField #404 of 6,365 27.9%859 #191
MedicineField #883 of 10,443 14.3%1,023 #834
Health SciencesDomain #1,064 of 11,982 15.1%1,205 #805
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #233 of 2,578 31.3%269 #192
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #228 of 2,318 20.9%342 #171

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University of Houston sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#203 #325
  2. Social Sciences#193 #334
  3. Engineering#195 #225
  4. Business, Management and Accounting#82 #105
  5. Computer Science#280 #287
  6. Social Sciences#191 #404
  7. Medicine#834 #883
  8. Health Sciences#805 #1,064
  9. Sociology and Political Science#192 #233
  10. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#171 #228
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does University of Houston specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Geophysics takes 4.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 112.0 works4.7×
  2. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 114.9 works3.2×
  3. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 34.9 works3.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 88 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.94× its world share, 344 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.69× its world share, 48 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.71× its world share, 191 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.78× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.38× its world share, 33 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.27× its world share, 137 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.07× its world share, 574 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.19× its world share, 237 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.96× its world share, 61 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.23× its world share, 1,265 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.68× its world share, 231 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.02× its world share, 245 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.98× its world share, 79 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.25× its world share, 191 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.20× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.88× its world share, 160 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.77× its world share, 1,023 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 13 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.98× its world share, 194 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 209 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.94× its world share, 62 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.15× its world share, 169 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.07× its world share, 434 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 859 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at University of Houston?

Ranked on the composite score, George E. Fox, Rudy Hirschheim and Jack Μ. Fletcher lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University of Houston.

  1. 1 George E. Fox · #12,795 worldwide 719 citations · 57 works
  2. 2 Rudy Hirschheim · #18,347 worldwide 622 citations · 56 works
  3. 3 Jack Μ. Fletcher · #19,038 worldwide 908 citations · 92 works
  4. 4 L. Pinsky · #19,607 worldwide 1.6k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 J. W. Rabalais · #20,885 worldwide 821 citations · 83 works
  6. 6 Paul R. Gregory · #21,064 worldwide 296 citations · 94 works
  7. 7 George M. Zinkhan · #25,245 worldwide 631 citations · 68 works
  8. 8 Kaushik Rajashekara · #25,521 worldwide 864 citations · 66 works
  9. 9 Paul A. Pavlou · #33,063 worldwide 699 citations · 74 works
  10. 10 Barbara R. Foorman · #33,675 worldwide 314 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at University of Houston

Which keywords describe research at University of Houston?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Epidemiology, Emotion Regulation, Hydraulic Fracturing, Inverse Problems and Elastic Properties.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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. Deep Learning263◆ 1.12×83 topics
  2. Machine Learning261▲ 1.16×89 topics
  3. Epidemiology231▼ 0.85×118 topics
  4. Mental Health212▲ 2.1×41 topics
  5. Climate Change122▼ 0.66×83 topics
  6. Neural Networks102◆ 0.96×36 topics
  7. Public Health97◆ 0.97×51 topics
  8. Nanoparticles97◆ 1.12×43 topics
  9. Social Media94◆ 0.96×27 topics
  10. Risk Factors94▲ 1.24×34 topics
  11. Depression92▲ 1.52×21 topics
  12. Biomedical Applications86◆ 1.05×31 topics
  13. Catalysis79▲ 1.72×28 topics
  14. Emotion Regulation73▲ 3.4×9 topics
  15. Social Support71▲ 1.86×16 topics
  16. Gender70▲ 1.89×43 topics
  17. Resilience64▲ 1.94×13 topics
  18. Adolescents62▲ 2.4×9 topics
  19. Renewable Energy Integration55▲ 2.4×5 topics
  20. Power Electronics52▲ 2.3×8 topics
  21. Hydraulic Fracturing51▲ 6.7×2 topics
  22. Psychopathology50▲ 4.0×3 topics
  23. Inverse Problems49▲ 6.8×4 topics
  24. Public Opinion49▲ 5.7×6 topics
  25. Health Disparities48▲ 2.7×8 topics
  26. Wireless Communications46▲ 3.8×5 topics
  27. Elastic Properties45▲ 8.5×3 topics
  28. Psychiatric Disorders42▲ 4.6×4 topics
  29. Geophysical Imaging41▲ 11×2 topics
  30. Anxiety Disorders39▲ 5.1×2 topics
  31. Fracture Propagation39▲ 9.3×1 topic
  32. Shale Gas39▲ 4.5×2 topics
  33. Shale Gas Reservoirs39▲ 9.3×1 topic
  34. Full-Waveform Tomography39▲ 13×1 topic
  35. Seismic Waveform Inversion39▲ 13×1 topic
  36. Acculturation37▲ 7.2×2 topics
  37. Developmental Trajectories37▲ 4.4×3 topics
  38. Neurobiological Correlates34▲ 5.0×3 topics
  39. Intraocular Pressure33▲ 5.6×2 topics
  40. Substance Use Disorders32▲ 6.4×2 topics

Which research topics does University of Houston publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Hydraulic Fracturing and…39Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 39 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inve…39Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 39 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 27 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 27 fractional worksOphthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 25 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 25 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 25 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer I…20EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 20 fractional worksMicrogrid Control and Optimization: 19 fractional worksMigration, Health and Trauma: 19 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringGeophysicsClinical PsychologyMechanics of Materials4 others

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

  1. 1 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir AnalysisMechanical Engineering 39 works
  2. 2 Seismic Imaging and Inversion TechniquesGeophysics 39 works
  3. 3 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentClinical Psychology 27 works
  4. 4 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysisMechanics of Materials 27 works
  5. 5 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment StudiesEpidemiology 25 works
  6. 6 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation MethodsOcean Engineering 25 works
  7. 7 Drilling and Well EngineeringOcean Engineering 25 works
  8. 8 EEG and Brain-Computer InterfacesCognitive Neuroscience 20 works
  9. 9 Microgrid Control and OptimizationControl and Systems Engineering 19 works
  10. 10 Migration, Health and TraumaClinical Psychology 19 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available25.2%not open74.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.4%domestic only84.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University of Houston's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Other research institutions in Houston

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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.