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Research in Swarthmore

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Swarthmore, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Swarthmore College.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
5.3k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
18.7%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Swarthmore?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Swarthmore CollegeUniversity 5,282 #8,082
2Waksman Foundation for MicrobiologyNonprofit 3 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.

What is Swarthmore strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Swarthmore is most concentrated in Cognitive Neuroscience (6.6× the world share in Cognitive Neuroscience).

  1. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 22.9 works6.6×
← 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.

Which keywords describe research in Swarthmore?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Gender, Colonialism, History, Identity, Nationalism, Feminism and Neoliberalism.

▲ 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. Globalization30▲ 3.2×54 topics
  2. History18▲ 5.5×25 topics
  3. Identity18▲ 5.3×29 topics
  4. Education18▲ 2.2×37 topics
  5. Gender18▲ 6.9×26 topics
  6. Colonialism17▲ 7.5×24 topics
  7. Nationalism16▲ 7.1×17 topics
  8. Human Rights14▲ 2.8×27 topics
  9. Feminism13▲ 9.6×15 topics
  10. Literature12▲ 4.7×16 topics
  11. Culture12▲ 4.7×16 topics
  12. Ethics11▲ 4.9×14 topics
  13. Neoliberalism11▲ 6.6×13 topics
  14. Race10▲ 18×13 topics
  15. Social Justice9▲ 3.3×18 topics
  16. Politics9▲ 6.9×11 topics
  17. Working Memory9▲ 21×3 topics
  18. Philosophy8▲ 3.9×12 topics
  19. Public Opinion8▲ 13×4 topics
  20. Democracy8▲ 4.6×11 topics
  21. Cold War8▲ 25×3 topics
  22. Perception7▲ 22×4 topics
  23. Cognitive Development7▲ 12×2 topics
  24. Ethnicity7▲ 3.7×10 topics
  25. Postcolonialism7▲ 11×8 topics
  26. International Relations7▲ 5.8×7 topics
  27. Neuroscience6▲ 4.5×7 topics
  28. Activism6▲ 31×4 topics
  29. Anthropocene6▲ 22×3 topics
  30. Emotion6▲ 5.9×9 topics
  31. Empathy6▲ 10×5 topics
  32. Executive Functioning6▲ 9.3×3 topics
  33. Spatial Representation6▲ 29×2 topics
  34. Society6▲ 6.0×6 topics
  35. Brain-Computer Interfaces5▲ 12×1 topic
  36. EEG Analysis5▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Mathematical Achievement5▲ 63×1 topic
  38. Numerical Cognition5▲ 63×1 topic
  39. Transnational5▲ 44×2 topics
  40. Imperialism5▲ 13×4 topics

What research is done in Swarthmore?

EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 5 fractional worksCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills: 5 fractional worksHistorical Gender and Fe…4Historical Gender and Feminism Studies: 4 fractional worksAmerican Constitutional …4American Constitutional Law and Politics: 4 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brain function: 3 fractional worksVisual perception and processing mechanisms: 3 fractional worksDNA and Nucleic Acid Che…3DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry: 3 fractional worksGender Studies in Language: 3 fractional worksLinguistic Variation and Morphology: 3 fractional worksEpistemology, Ethics, an…3Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics: 3 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceStatistics and ProbabilitySociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International Relations4 others

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

  1. 1 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  2. 2 Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills Statistics and Probability 5 works
  3. 3 Historical Gender and Feminism Studies Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  4. 4 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  5. 5 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  6. 6 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  7. 7 DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Molecular Biology 3 works
  8. 8 Gender Studies in Language Gender Studies 3 works
  9. 9 Linguistic Variation and Morphology Linguistics and Language 3 works
  10. 10 Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Philosophy 3 works

Research output over time

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