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Research in Elizabethtown

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Elizabethtown, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Elizabethtown College.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.5k
▲ 72% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
6.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
6.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1951-2026
76 years on the record
Elizabethtown

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Elizabethtown?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Elizabethtown CollegeUniversity 1,497 #7,453

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

Which fields of science does Elizabethtown work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research in Elizabethtown is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (36%), Social Sciences (31%), Psychology (5%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 240 fractional works · 75.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 114 fractional works · 35.6% of its workReligious studies: 50 fractional works · 15.6% of its workPhilosophy: 27 fractional works · 8.5% of its workMusic: 12 fractional works · 3.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArcheology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 99 fractional works · 30.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 25 fractional works · 7.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 fractional works · 7.6% of its workAnthropology: 20 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCultural Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 39 fractional works · 12.4% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 19 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKElizabethtown319fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences75%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities11435.6%
    2. Social Sciences9930.9%
    3. Psychology154.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting72.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.4%
    6. Decision Sciences10.3%
    1. Engineering113.6%
    2. Computer Science103.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy82.5%
    4. Environmental Science51.5%
    5. Mathematics31.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences113.5%
    2. Neuroscience61.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Medicine134.1%
    2. Health Professions61.7%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Elizabethtown strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Elizabethtown is most concentrated in Religious studies, Philosophy and Arts and Humanities (97.8× the world share in Religious studies).

  1. Religious studiesSubfield · 49.7 works98×
  2. PhilosophySubfield · 27.1 works21×
  3. Arts and HumanitiesField · 111.7 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.01× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.37× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.78× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.19× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.19× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 12.72× its world share, 112 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.63× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.60× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.43× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.49× its world share, 96 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 12.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities12.72×112 works
  2. Social Sciences2.49×96 works
  3. Psychology1.43×13 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.19×8 works
  5. Neuroscience1.01×5 works
  6. Mathematics0.78×3 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.67×10 works
  8. Health Professions0.64×5 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.63×6 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.60×4 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.47×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.37×9 works
  13. Environmental Science0.29×4 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.28×1 works
  15. Engineering0.25×11 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.24×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.19×3 works
  18. Medicine0.19×11 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.16×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.07×0 works
  21. Nursing0.06×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Elizabethtown?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Philosophy, Religion, History, Culture, Modernization, Buddhism, South Asia and Human Rights.

▲ 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-now 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. Philosophy67▲ 47×14 topics
  2. Religion60▲ 41×17 topics
  3. History58▲ 26×17 topics
  4. Culture56▲ 34×12 topics
  5. Modernization48▲ 83×3 topics
  6. Buddhism48▲ 814×1 topic
  7. South Asia48▲ 814×1 topic
  8. Human Rights25▲ 7.5×12 topics
  9. Globalization24▲ 3.9×33 topics
  10. Social Justice18▲ 9.4×8 topics
  11. Environmental Ethics16▲ 78×4 topics
  12. Peacebuilding15▲ 69×4 topics
  13. Identity15▲ 6.3×20 topics
  14. Gandhi14▲ 249×1 topic
  15. Nonviolence14▲ 249×1 topic
  16. Central Asia14▲ 62×2 topics
  17. Eurasian Exchange13▲ 196×1 topic
  18. Silk Roads13▲ 196×1 topic
  19. Climate Change12▲ 1.42×30 topics
  20. Conflict12▲ 24×7 topics
  21. Colonialism12▲ 8.0×14 topics
  22. Ethnicity11▲ 9.4×10 topics
  23. Nationalism10▲ 7.2×11 topics
  24. Feminism9▲ 9.2×11 topics
  25. Gender8▲ 4.5×17 topics
  26. Federalism7▲ 34×2 topics
  27. Ethnomusicology6▲ 49×2 topics
  28. International Relations6▲ 7.7×7 topics
  29. Democracy6▲ 5.2×8 topics
  30. Music6▲ 34×3 topics
  31. Sociology6▲ 12×7 topics
  32. Secularism5▲ 16×4 topics
  33. Engineering Education5▲ 18×4 topics
  34. Refugees5▲ 12×3 topics
  35. Geopolitics5▲ 9.6×3 topics
  36. Insurgency5▲ 64×1 topic
  37. Kashmir5▲ 64×1 topic
  38. Musical Theory5▲ 90×1 topic
  39. Musicology5▲ 90×1 topic
  40. Religious Studies5▲ 58×2 topics

What research is done in Elizabethtown?

Indian and Buddhist Stud…48Indian and Buddhist Studies: 48 fractional worksIndian History and Philosophy: 14 fractional worksEurasian Exchange Networks13Eurasian Exchange Networks: 13 fractional worksMusicology and Musical Analysis: 5 fractional worksSouth Asian Studies and Conflicts: 5 fractional worksAsian Geopolitics and Ethnography: 4 fractional worksArctic and Russian Policy Studies: 4 fractional worksLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis: 4 fractional worksMusic History and Culture: 3 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 3 fractional works
Religious studiesPhilosophyAnthropologyMusic3 others

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

  1. 1 Indian and Buddhist Studies Religious studies 48 works
  2. 2 Indian History and Philosophy Philosophy 14 works
  3. 3 Eurasian Exchange Networks Anthropology 13 works
  4. 4 Musicology and Musical Analysis Music 5 works
  5. 5 South Asian Studies and Conflicts Political Science and International Relations 5 works
  6. 6 Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  7. 7 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  8. 8 Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis Language and Linguistics 4 works
  9. 9 Music History and Culture Music 3 works
  10. 10 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 3 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Elizabethtown9.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.4% in 2019.

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