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American Friends Service Committee

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Research works
47
◆ 0% vs 2013–17
Citations
591
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
6%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: American Friends Service Committee is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

What does American Friends Service Committee specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Social Sciences takes 6.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Social SciencesField · 30.5 works6.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Which keywords describe research at American Friends Service Committee?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: International Law, Genocide, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Politics, Global Governance, Nationalism and Social Capital.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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. International Law8▲ 62×4 topics
  2. Genocide7▲ 286×2 topics
  3. Humanitarian Intervention6▲ 288×1 topic
  4. Responsibility to Protect6▲ 360×1 topic
  5. Politics4▲ 34×4 topics
  6. Global Governance4▲ 35×6 topics
  7. History4▲ 9.3×4 topics
  8. Identity4▲ 9.6×4 topics
  9. Nationalism4▲ 13×4 topics
  10. Social Capital4▲ 18×4 topics
  11. Globalization3▲ 3.6×5 topics
  12. Public Health3▲ 4.7×5 topics
  13. Social Justice3▲ 12×6 topics
  14. Gender3▲ 9.8×3 topics
  15. Human Rights3▲ 6.3×7 topics
  16. Colonialism2▲ 11×3 topics
  17. Religion2▲ 8.8×4 topics
  18. Culture2▲ 9.4×2 topics
  19. Society2▲ 20×2 topics
  20. Feminism2▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Biocultural Conservation2▲ 291×1 topic
  22. Earth Stewardship2▲ 291×1 topic
  23. Social Inequality2▲ 18×4 topics
  24. Media2▲ 27×1 topic
  25. Middle East2▲ 71×1 topic
  26. Black Studies2▲ 111×1 topic
  27. Civil Rights Movement2▲ 111×1 topic
  28. Climate Consequences2▲ 262×1 topic
  29. Entrepreneurship2▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Gender Equality2▲ 16×2 topics
  31. Nuclear War2▲ 262×1 topic
  32. Private Security Companies2▲ 494×1 topic
  33. Privatized Military Industry2▲ 494×1 topic
  34. Cultural Identity1▲ 6.8×3 topics
  35. Racial Disparities1▲ 63×3 topics
  36. Conflict1▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Economy1▲ 30×1 topic
  38. Immigration1▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Vietnam1▲ 69×1 topic
  40. Violence1▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does American Friends Service Committee publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Political Developments and Conflicts, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies and Health and Conflict Studies.

Political Developments a…0Political Developments and Conflicts: 0 fractional worksJewish and Middle Easter…0Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 0 fractional worksHealth and Conflict Stud…0Health and Conflict Studies: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceGeneral Health Professions

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

  1. 1 Political Developments and Conflicts Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  2. 2 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Health and Conflict Studies General Health Professions 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available6.2%not open93.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.4%domestic only96.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has American Friends Service Committee's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 0% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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