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University of Trieste

In research, University of Trieste stands highest in Physical Sciences (#628 of 12,888 worldwide), Health Sciences (#897 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#803 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics and Physics and Astronomy — Nuclear and High Energy Physics is 5.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#778
of 28,054 · #669 all time
Rank in Italy
#26
of 618
Research works
23k
▲ 20% vs 2013–17
Citations
511k
22.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

What is University of Trieste 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 #628 of 12,888 18.9%1,532 #582
Health SciencesDomain #897 of 11,982 20.2%917 #922
MedicineField #803 of 10,443 20.3%817 #1008
Social SciencesDomain #1,017 of 10,521 23.0%687 #837
Physics and AstronomyField #234 of 1,646 27.9%258 #421
Life SciencesDomain #1,286 of 7,800 22.4%400 #1267
Social SciencesField #1,447 of 6,365 22.0%289 #1007
Computer ScienceField #1,090 of 4,667 21.7%209 #1366
EngineeringField #1,678 of 6,636 14.1%444 #887
Business, Management and AccountingField #785 of 2,578 34.8%71 #943

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University of Trieste 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#582 #628
  2. Health Sciences#922 #897
  3. Medicine#1,008 #803
  4. Social Sciences#837 #1,017
  5. Physics and Astronomy#421 #234
  6. Life Sciences#1,267 #1,286
  7. Social Sciences#1,007 #1,447
  8. Computer Science#1,366 #1,090
  9. Engineering#887 #1,678
  10. Business, Management and Accounting#943 #785
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 Trieste specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 5.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 60.0 works5.4×
  2. Mathematical PhysicsSubfield · 21.0 works3.8×
  3. Physics and AstronomyField · 258.2 works3.3×
← 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: 0.48× its world share, 81 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.08× its world share, 204 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.97× its world share, 35 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.23× its world share, 70 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.85× its world share, 11 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.60× its world share, 7 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.18× its world share, 65 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 209 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.99× its world share, 110 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.12× its world share, 36 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.84× its world share, 444 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.08× its world share, 190 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.98× its world share, 122 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.14× its world share, 89 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.28× its world share, 258 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.06× its world share, 35 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.56× its world share, 52 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.20× its world share, 817 worksMedicineNursing: 0.59× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.25× its world share, 127 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.62× its world share, 71 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 26 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.98× its world share, 74 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.92× its world share, 99 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 289 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at University of Trieste?

Ranked on the composite score, D. Paneque, F. Longo and A. Gregorio lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University of Trieste.

  1. 1 D. Paneque Italy · #3,002 worldwide 2.2k citations · 94 works
  2. 2 F. Longo Italy · #5,006 worldwide 4k citations · 267 works
  3. 3 A. Gregorio Italy · #5,876 worldwide 1.8k citations · 87 works
  4. 4 V. Ivanchenko Italy · #8,319 worldwide 2.6k citations · 203 works
  5. 5 G. Barbiellini Italy · #9,588 worldwide 2.2k citations · 197 works
  6. 6 M. A. Giorgi Italy · #15,448 worldwide 1.8k citations · 137 works
  7. 7 Iris Zalaudek Italy · #16,684 worldwide 609 citations · 112 works
  8. 8 G. C. Ghirardi Italy · #16,741 worldwide 913 citations · 45 works
  9. 9 Mario D’Oria Italy · #19,624 worldwide 535 citations · 42 works
  10. 10 A. Morselli Italy · #21,294 worldwide 2.4k citations · 233 works
All ranked researchers at University of Trieste

Which keywords describe research at University of Trieste?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Environmental Impact, Maritime Transportation, Air Quality, Machine Learning, Fuel Consumption and Echocardiography.

▲ 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. Epidemiology147◆ 1.05×125 topics
  2. Climate Change113▲ 1.19×76 topics
  3. Machine Learning94▼ 0.81×70 topics
  4. Environmental Impact78▲ 1.30×47 topics
  5. Sustainability73▼ 0.84×57 topics
  6. Inflammation70◆ 0.95×74 topics
  7. Globalization64◆ 0.92×59 topics
  8. Quality of Life59▲ 1.17×51 topics
  9. Treatment57▲ 1.34×50 topics
  10. Biomedical Applications56▲ 1.35×34 topics
  11. Risk Factors49▲ 1.27×34 topics
  12. Diagnosis47▲ 1.44×41 topics
  13. Cultural Heritage42▲ 2.2×22 topics
  14. Heart Failure40▲ 2.6×14 topics
  15. Identity38▲ 1.49×37 topics
  16. Genetic Mutations37▲ 2.5×23 topics
  17. Echocardiography35▲ 3.6×8 topics
  18. Air Quality33▲ 5.1×6 topics
  19. Self-Assembly33▲ 2.9×12 topics
  20. Maritime Transportation29▲ 15×2 topics
  21. Emissions28▲ 3.9×5 topics
  22. Entanglement26▲ 5.0×4 topics
  23. Fuel Consumption25▲ 9.6×2 topics
  24. Dark Matter24▲ 5.9×4 topics
  25. Black Holes23▲ 7.0×3 topics
  26. Alternative Fuels23▲ 18×2 topics
  27. Ship Propulsion22▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Shipping22▲ 13×1 topic
  29. Quantum Gravity22▲ 7.5×4 topics
  30. Quantum Information20▲ 5.0×3 topics
  31. Evolutionary Algorithms20▲ 5.4×5 topics
  32. Blast Loading18▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Renormalization Group18▲ 9.4×2 topics
  34. Supernovae18▲ 6.2×2 topics
  35. Particle Physics17▲ 6.5×2 topics
  36. Endovascular Repair17▲ 5.7×3 topics
  37. Perception17▲ 7.1×4 topics
  38. Dynamic Response16▲ 8.8×2 topics
  39. Truth15▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Superfluidity14▲ 9.3×2 topics

Which research topics does University of Trieste publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Structural Analysis of Composite Materials and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics.

Maritime Transport Emiss…22Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 22 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …14Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 14 fractional worksStructural Analysis of Composite Materials: 14 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoreti…14Black Holes and Theoretical Physics: 14 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitatio…14Cosmology and Gravitation Theories: 14 fractional worksQuantum many-body systems: 12 fractional worksParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 11 fractional worksCardiomyopathy and Myosi…11Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies: 11 fractional worksItalian Fascism and Post-war Society: 10 fractional worksMicrogrid Control and Optimization: 9 fractional works
Environmental EngineeringCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMechanical EngineeringNuclear and High Energy Physics4 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 22 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 14 works
  3. 3 Structural Analysis of Composite Materials Mechanical Engineering 14 works
  4. 4 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 14 works
  5. 5 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 14 works
  6. 6 Quantum many-body systems Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 12 works
  7. 7 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 11 works
  8. 8 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 11 works
  9. 9 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Sociology and Political Science 10 works
  10. 10 Microgrid Control and Optimization Control and Systems Engineering 9 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 available42.1%not open57.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.4%domestic only76.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University of Trieste's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% 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.

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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.