  The vast amount of research produced at institutions world-wide is extremely
diverse, and coarse-grained quantitative measures of impact often obscure the
individual contributions of these institutions to specific research fields and
topics. We show that by applying an information retrieval model to index
research articles which are faceted by institution and time, we can develop
tools to rank institutions given a keyword query. We present an interactive
atlas, Quoka, designed to enable a user to explore these rankings contextually
by geography and over time. Through a set of use cases we demonstrate that the
atlas can be used to perform sensemaking tasks to learn and collect information
about the relationships between institutions and scholarly knowledge
production.
