Leading 50 science cities in physical sciences
The leading 50 science cities and metropolitan areas in physical sciences ranked by article Share (Share) in the subject in 2022. Also listed are each city’s article count (Count) in physical sciences in 2022, and its contritution to the location’s total subject Share of the year.
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1 | Beijing | China mainland | 1,416.84 | 3,027 | 21.5% |
2 | Shanghai | China mainland | 639.78 | 1,583 | 9.7% |
3 | New York MA | United States of America (USA) | 481.24 | 1,352 | 11.0% |
4 | Boston MA | United States of America (USA) | 438.51 | 1,156 | 10.0% |
5 | Nanjing | China mainland | 432.49 | 1,027 | 6.6% |
6 | Seoul MA | South Korea | 425.85 | 886 | 53.8% |
7 | San Francisco Bay Area | United States of America (USA) | 420.88 | 1,200 | 9.6% |
8 | Tokyo MA | Japan | 364.83 | 947 | 40.9% |
9 | Hefei | China mainland | 356.40 | 908 | 5.4% |
10 | Paris MA | France | 329.13 | 1,000 | 52.1% |
11 | Wuhan | China mainland | 316.84 | 714 | 4.8% |
12 | Guangzhou | China mainland | 307.29 | 777 | 4.7% |
13 | Xi’an | China mainland | 265.45 | 551 | 4.0% |
14 | Chicago MA | United States of America (USA) | 251.80 | 761 | 5.7% |
15 | Baltimore - Washington | United States of America (USA) | 250.59 | 843 | 5.7% |
16 | Hong Kong | China mainland | 246.01 | 664 | 3.7% |
17 | Singapore* | Singapore | 245.93 | 564 | 100.0% |
18 | Los Angeles MA | United States of America (USA) | 223.36 | 719 | 5.1% |
19 | Tianjin | China mainland | 222.20 | 471 | 3.4% |
20 | Shenzhen | China mainland | 221.64 | 668 | 3.4% |
21 | Hangzhou | China mainland | 217.68 | 607 | 3.3% |
22 | Munich | Germany | 215.31 | 597 | 14.4% |
23 | London MA | United Kingdom (UK) | 212.81 | 682 | 23.6% |
24 | Zürich | Switzerland | 186.06 | 509 | 41.9% |
25 | Changsha | China mainland | 171.10 | 396 | 2.6% |
26 | Chengdu | China mainland | 167.25 | 394 | 2.5% |
27 | Berlin MA | Germany | 157.84 | 466 | 10.6% |
28 | Daejeon | South Korea | 156.22 | 414 | 19.7% |
29 | Changchun | China mainland | 154.65 | 339 | 2.3% |
30 | Suzhou | China mainland | 149.28 | 404 | 2.3% |
31 | Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 149.10 | 434 | 16.5% |
32 | Moscow | Russia | 121.76 | 470 | 48.5% |
33 | Barcelona MA | Spain | 115.07 | 378 | 29.2% |
34 | Jinan | China mainland | 114.83 | 330 | 1.7% |
35 | Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 107.73 | 519 | 11.9% |
36 | Harbin | China mainland | 107.19 | 215 | 1.6% |
37 | Tsukuba | Japan | 104.51 | 490 | 11.7% |
38 | Dresden | Germany | 102.23 | 324 | 6.9% |
39 | Philadelphia MA | United States of America (USA) | 98.78 | 299 | 2.3% |
40 | Madrid | Spain | 98.34 | 381 | 24.9% |
41 | Chongqing | China mainland | 92.92 | 211 | 1.4% |
42 | Hamburg | Germany | 91.47 | 358 | 6.1% |
43 | Genève | Switzerland | 87.69 | 423 | 19.8% |
44 | Lausanne | Switzerland | 85.75 | 283 | 19.3% |
45 | Kyoto | Japan | 83.92 | 236 | 9.4% |
46 | Rome | Italy | 83.48 | 449 | 15.5% |
47 | Heidelberg | Germany | 81.91 | 306 | 5.5% |
48 | Austin | United States of America (USA) | 80.58 | 238 | 1.8% |
49 | Grenoble | France | 80.00 | 320 | 12.7% |
50 | Santa Barbara | United States of America (USA) | 79.86 | 246 | 1.8% |
Footnote
* Singapore is a city-state.