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Drexel University vs Smithsonian Institution

On research quality in 2022-now, Smithsonian Institution ranks #754 in the world and Drexel University #756, of 22,385 institutions. Drexel University stands higher in 10 of the 15 fields both publish in, Smithsonian Institution in 5.

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Drexel University

United States · Philadelphia

World rank, 2022-now
#756
#643 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.8k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
26%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Library and Information Sciences, Issues, ethics and legal aspects, Microbiology.

Smithsonian Institution

United States · Washington

World rank, 2022-now
#754
#515 all time
Works, 2022-now
2.8k
fractional
Top-10% rate
11.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
36%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Smithsonian Institution leads on 6 of 8 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. Drexel University leads on 1 of 8 measures: output. The two are level on growth.

Drexel University 11 level6 Smithsonian Institution
  1. #756Research qualityworld rank of 22,385 institutions, 2022-now#754
  2. 0.76×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.20×
  3. 6.8kOutputfractional works, 2022-now2.8k
  4. 9.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited11.4%
  5. 27.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work37.4
  6. 26%Open accessof its works free to read, all time36%
  7. 11%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time32%
  8. -12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-12%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Drexel University stands higher in 10 of 15 fields, Smithsonian Institution in 5. Drexel University leads most in Medicine (#768 against #2,545); Smithsonian Institution leads most in Environmental Science (#169 against #923). Each bar is that side's standing among all institutions ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Drexel University 105 Smithsonian Institution
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#231
  2. #674Arts and Humanities#503
  3. #683Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#584
  4. #1,080Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #886Computer Science-
  6. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#112
  7. #429Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  8. #954Engineering-
  9. #923Environmental Science#169
  10. #354Health Professions-
  11. #648Materials Science-
  12. #768Medicine#2,545
  13. #306Neuroscience-
  14. #488Psychology-
  15. #746Social Sciences#1,352

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Drexel University rankSmithsonian Institution rank Drexel University top 10%Smithsonian Institution top 10% Drexel University worksSmithsonian Institution works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #231 - 10.8% - 507
Arts and Humanities #674 #503 15.8% 14.1% 93 125
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #683 #584 9.2% 12.8% 327 250
Business, Management and Accounting #1,080 - 12.2% - 124 -
Computer Science #886 - 9.7% - 337 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #112 - 11.5% - 352
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #429 - 16.1% - 137 -
Engineering #954 - 9.8% - 515 -
Environmental Science #923 #169 9.9% 11.7% 154 637
Health Professions #354 - 10.5% - 281 -
Materials Science #648 - 17.1% - 184 -
Medicine #768 #2,545 7.4% 10.4% 2.2k 101
Neuroscience #306 - 9.1% - 226 -
Psychology #488 - 10.4% - 367 -
Social Sciences #746 #1,352 14.0% 12.6% 539 177

Where does each put its research?

Not who is better, but what each side chooses to work on. A country or institution that puts twice the world's share of its research into a field sits at 2×, whatever its size.

  1. Medicine2.0× 0.2×
  2. Health Professions1.7× 0.2×
  3. Neuroscience2.4× 0.4×
  4. Business, Management and Accounting0.6× 0.1×
  5. Materials Science0.8× 0.2×
  6. Computer Science0.7× 0.1×
  7. Dentistry0.4× 0.1×
  8. Nursing0.9× 0.2×
  9. Engineering0.6× 0.1×
  10. Decision Sciences0.9× 0.2×
  11. Psychology2.0× 0.5×
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.9× 0.3×
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.0× 0.3×
  14. Mathematics0.7× 0.3×
  15. Chemical Engineering0.2× 0.1×
  16. Energy0.6× 0.2×
  17. Chemistry0.5× 0.3×
  18. Social Sciences0.7× 0.5×
  19. Immunology and Microbiology1.5× 1.2×
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.1× 1.9×
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.5× 1.1×
  22. Arts and Humanities0.6× 1.7×
  23. Veterinary0.6× 4.1×
  24. Environmental Science0.5× 5.1×
  25. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.2× 4.4×
  26. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.3× 8.9×
Drexel UniversitySmithsonian Institution

Location quotient in 2022-now: the share of each side's research in the field over the world's share. 1× is the world's balance; the axis runs from a quarter of it to four times. Fields where Drexel University leans further are at the top, Smithsonian Institution's at the bottom. How research profiles are compared.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Drexel University

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology562▲ 2.1×133 topics
  2. Treatment225▲ 2.7×50 topics
  3. Public Health219▲ 2.2×63 topics
  4. Inflammation216▲ 1.49×81 topics
  5. Machine Learning185▼ 0.82×75 topics
  6. Risk Factors175▲ 2.3×36 topics
  7. Mental Health171▲ 1.75×39 topics
  8. Quality of Life168▲ 1.71×54 topics
  9. Diagnosis166▲ 2.6×41 topics
  10. Deep Learning158▼ 0.67×71 topics
  11. Genetics139▲ 2.9×25 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease128▲ 1.65×37 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress128◆ 1.14×59 topics
  14. Depression122▲ 2.0×22 topics
  15. Obesity113▲ 2.1×25 topics
  16. Management105▲ 1.93×33 topics
  17. Prevalence94▲ 3.4×15 topics
  18. Mortality92▲ 2.4×13 topics
  19. Neurological Disorders90▲ 2.3×19 topics
  20. Clinical Trials89▲ 1.95×19 topics
  21. Heart Failure86▲ 2.8×13 topics
  22. Adolescents86▲ 3.4×9 topics
  23. Complications85▲ 2.5×17 topics
  24. Immunotherapy84▲ 1.71×19 topics
  25. Guidelines81▲ 2.5×12 topics
  26. Energy Storage80▲ 1.81×10 topics
  27. Anxiety78▲ 2.4×12 topics
  28. Two-Dimensional Materials73▲ 4.7×4 topics
  29. Health Disparities68▲ 3.9×8 topics
  30. Echocardiography65▲ 3.5×8 topics
  31. Health Outcomes60▲ 3.2×8 topics
  32. Health Equity59▲ 3.0×6 topics
  33. Synaptic Plasticity59▲ 4.0×6 topics
  34. MXenes49▲ 7.3×2 topics
  35. Neurodevelopmental Disorders47▲ 5.2×6 topics
  36. Nanosheets45▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Electrochemical Properties45▲ 8.9×2 topics
  38. Autism Spectrum Disorders45▲ 6.5×2 topics
  39. batteries45▲ 9.7×1 topic
  40. capacitance45▲ 9.7×1 topic

Smithsonian Institution

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change558▲ 7.2×88 topics
  2. Biodiversity359▲ 17×31 topics
  3. Invasive Species276▲ 23×21 topics
  4. Biogeography274▲ 35×20 topics
  5. Conservation254▲ 21×23 topics
  6. Population Dynamics213▲ 29×12 topics
  7. Molecular Phylogeny204▲ 44×12 topics
  8. Phylogeny195▲ 41×17 topics
  9. Evolution184▲ 24×16 topics
  10. Phylogenetic Analysis168▲ 19×16 topics
  11. Habitat Fragmentation165▲ 27×5 topics
  12. Global Change149▲ 20×7 topics
  13. DNA Barcoding140▲ 28×9 topics
  14. Taxonomy136▲ 33×14 topics
  15. Ecosystem Services122▲ 11×12 topics
  16. Morphology119▲ 23×9 topics
  17. Cretaceous96▲ 137×2 topics
  18. Marine Ecosystems95▲ 61×2 topics
  19. Conservation Biology92▲ 30×4 topics
  20. Ecosystem Functioning91▲ 16×7 topics
  21. Ecology86▲ 18×9 topics
  22. Phylogenetics82▲ 58×3 topics
  23. Ocean Acidification81▲ 38×3 topics
  24. Genetic Diversity76▲ 6.2×19 topics
  25. Biological Invasions76▲ 29×3 topics
  26. Plant-Animal Interactions74▲ 33×1 topic
  27. Pollinator Decline74▲ 33×1 topic
  28. Ecosystem72▲ 24×4 topics
  29. Trophic Cascades71▲ 27×2 topics
  30. Adaptive Radiation68▲ 75×2 topics
  31. Benthic Communities68▲ 39×2 topics
  32. Marine Biodiversity68▲ 39×2 topics
  33. Habitat Selection68▲ 33×2 topics
  34. Fisheries65▲ 52×2 topics
  35. Community Ecology63▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Diversification60▲ 48×2 topics
  37. Biological Control60▲ 14×9 topics
  38. Dinosaur54▲ 135×1 topic
  39. Paleontology54▲ 135×1 topic
  40. Ecosystem Resilience54▲ 12×5 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Drexel University has out-published Smithsonian Institution every year since 1980.

still counting1k2kDrexel University1,486 in 2025Smithsonian Institution725 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Drexel University0.025% in 2025Smithsonian Institution0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting10%20%Drexel University10.2% in 2025Smithsonian Institution9.7% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Which publishes more research, Drexel University or Smithsonian Institution?

Drexel University publishes 2.4× as much research as Smithsonian Institution in 2022-now (6.8k against 2.8k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Drexel University or Smithsonian Institution?

11.4% of Smithsonian Institution's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.6% for Drexel University.

Is Drexel University or Smithsonian Institution growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was -12% against 2018-21 for Smithsonian Institution, and -12% for Drexel University.

Which has more open access research, Drexel University or Smithsonian Institution?

36% of Smithsonian Institution's research is free to read, against 26% of Drexel University's.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Drexel University

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi #76 worldwide 313k citations · 1,599 works
  2. 2 Babak Anasori #633 worldwide 75k citations · 311 works
  3. 3 Michel W. Barsoum #7,579 worldwide 129k citations · 828 works
  4. 4 Kathleen Maleski #15,008 worldwide 22k citations · 67 works
  5. 5 Shawkat M. Hammoudeh #16,166 worldwide 22k citations · 433 works

Smithsonian Institution

  1. 1 Nancy Knowlton #15,939 worldwide 42k citations · 214 works
  2. 2 Anna K. Behrensmeyer #35,146 worldwide 15k citations · 215 works
  3. 3 Scott L. Wing #66,738 worldwide 20k citations · 302 works
  4. 4 David L. Swofford #66,949 worldwide 26k citations · 76 works
  5. 5 Ted R. Schultz #77,919 worldwide 11k citations · 152 works