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Research in Boone

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Boone, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Appalachian State University.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
8.3k
▲ 24% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
21.9%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Boone?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Appalachian State UniversityUniversity 8,247 #2,353
2Watauga Medical CenterHospital / health system 26 not ranked
3Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese MedicineUniversity 1 not ranked
4Watauga County Office of Economic DevelopmentGovernment institution 1 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Appalachian State University: 99.7%Watauga Medical Center: 0.3%Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine: 0.0%Watauga County Office of Economic Development: 0.0%100%largest
Appalachian State University8,247 · 99.7%Watauga Medical Center26 · 0.3%Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine1 · 0.0%Watauga County Office of Economic Development1 · 0.0%

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What is Boone strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Boone is most concentrated in Gender Studies (5.0× the world share in Gender Studies).

  1. Gender StudiesSubfield · 23.8 works5.0×
← less than its size predictsmore →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in Boone?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Globalization, Climate Change, Identity, Reflective Practice, Emotion, Gender and Education.

▲ 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 city'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. Mental Health62▲ 3.2×33 topics
  2. Climate Change61▲ 1.69×70 topics
  3. Globalization56▲ 2.1×65 topics
  4. Sustainability43▲ 1.34×47 topics
  5. Education42▲ 1.85×43 topics
  6. Public Health40▲ 2.0×32 topics
  7. Social Media37▲ 1.96×27 topics
  8. Identity36▲ 3.8×36 topics
  9. Gender29▲ 4.0×26 topics
  10. Literature28▲ 3.9×25 topics
  11. Social Support25▲ 3.4×15 topics
  12. Human Rights25▲ 1.83×24 topics
  13. Cultural Studies23▲ 4.6×15 topics
  14. Emotion23▲ 8.4×12 topics
  15. Reflective Practice23▲ 9.4×7 topics
  16. Social Justice23▲ 3.0×23 topics
  17. Ethics23▲ 3.6×21 topics
  18. Nationalism23▲ 3.8×14 topics
  19. Technology Integration22▲ 5.5×9 topics
  20. History22▲ 2.4×27 topics
  21. Physical Activity20▲ 3.1×11 topics
  22. Religion20▲ 3.2×19 topics
  23. Higher Education20▲ 2.7×17 topics
  24. Colonialism18▲ 2.9×23 topics
  25. Community Engagement18▲ 4.0×10 topics
  26. Job Satisfaction17▲ 3.0×12 topics
  27. Student Engagement17▲ 3.2×12 topics
  28. Adolescents17▲ 3.4×9 topics
  29. Well-being16▲ 3.2×12 topics
  30. Politics16▲ 4.5×12 topics
  31. Democracy16▲ 3.4×14 topics
  32. Feminism16▲ 4.2×13 topics
  33. Health Outcomes15▲ 4.2×8 topics
  34. Race15▲ 10×11 topics
  35. Narrative14▲ 6.8×7 topics
  36. Teacher Professional Development12▲ 5.8×4 topics
  37. Secularism12▲ 8.5×5 topics
  38. Evidence-Based Practice12▲ 6.8×7 topics
  39. Social Identity11▲ 9.0×5 topics
  40. Neighborhood Effects11▲ 7.5×3 topics

What research is done in Boone?

  1. 1 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 9 works
  2. 2 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 9 works
  3. 3 Media Studies and Communication Communication 6 works
  4. 4 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 6 works
  5. 5 Digital Storytelling and Education Speech and Hearing 6 works
  6. 6 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 6 works
  7. 7 Geographies of human-animal interactions Geography, Planning and Development 6 works
  8. 8 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 6 works
  9. 9 Economic and Environmental Valuation Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  10. 10 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 5 works

Research output over time

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