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American Institutes for Research

In research, American Institutes for Research stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,503 of 9,585 worldwide), Education (#612 of 1,930 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,099 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Education (Education is 9.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,167
of 22,385 · #3,026 all time
Rank in United States
#699
of 3,332
Research works
1.6k
▲ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
51k
32.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.15×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
American Institutes for Research

What is American Institutes for Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #2,503 of 9,585 14.3%189 #1452
EducationSubfield #612 of 1,930 17.1%80 #554
Social SciencesField #2,099 of 5,988 14.2%135 #1851

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where American Institutes for Research sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#1,452 #2,503
  2. Education#554 #612
  3. Social Sciences#1,851 #2,099
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does American Institutes for Research work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at American Institutes for Research is in Social Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (47%), Psychology (10%), Computer Science (8%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 207 fractional works · 66.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 147 fractional works · 47.1% of its workEducation: 86 fractional works · 27.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 24 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSafety Research: 18 fractional works · 5.9% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 33 fractional works · 10.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 fractional works · 4.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 11 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 56 fractional works · 18.0% of its workComputer Science: 25 fractional works · 8.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 41 fractional works · 13.0% of its workMedicine: 22 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAmericanInstitutes for…313fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences66%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences14747.1%
    2. Psychology3310.5%
    3. Decision Sciences134.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance62.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities41.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting41.2%
    1. Computer Science258.1%
    2. Engineering123.7%
    3. Mathematics92.9%
    4. Environmental Science61.9%
    5. Chemistry20.7%
    6. Materials Science20.6%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    9. Energy00.0%
    1. Medicine227.0%
    2. Health Professions165.2%
    3. Nursing20.5%
    4. Dentistry10.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.6%
    2. Neuroscience20.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does American Institutes for Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Education takes 9.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EducationSubfield · 86.2 works9.0×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.04× its world share, 25 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.25× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.44× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.96× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.37× its world share, 22 worksMedicineNursing: 1.06× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.43× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.46× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.93× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.44× its world share, 33 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.72× its world share, 147 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences4.46×14 works
  2. Social Sciences3.72×147 works
  3. Psychology3.44×33 works
  4. Mathematics2.44×9 works
  5. Health Professions1.96×16 works
  6. Nursing1.06×2 works
  7. Computer Science1.04×25 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.93×6 works
  9. Dentistry0.55×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.43×4 works
  11. Chemistry0.42×2 works
  12. Neuroscience0.39×2 works
  13. Environmental Science0.38×6 works
  14. Medicine0.37×22 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.37×4 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.33×5 works
  17. Engineering0.25×12 works
  18. Materials Science0.18×2 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.07×0 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
  23. Energy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at American Institutes for Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Roddy J. Theobald, Kwang Suk Yoon and Michael S. Garet lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Institutes for Research.

  1. 1 Roddy J. Theobald United States · #116,033 worldwide 2.5k citations · 150 works
  2. 2 Kwang Suk Yoon United States · #294,367 worldwide 11k citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Michael S. Garet United States · #333,921 worldwide 11k citations · 103 works
  4. 4 Amy M. Windham United States · #398,428 worldwide 2.2k citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Kristin L. Carman United States · #437,124 worldwide 3.7k citations · 43 works
  6. 6 Allison B. Dymnicki United States · #500,839 worldwide 11k citations · 47 works
  7. 7 Stephen Provasnik United States · #502,017 worldwide 1.6k citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Fred A. Mael United States · #528,841 worldwide 22k citations · 57 works
  9. 9 James H Cowan United States · #557,494 worldwide 1.3k citations · 61 works
  10. 10 Daniel Jason Potter United States · #651,101 worldwide 1.3k citations · 39 works
All ranked researchers at American Institutes for Research

What are the most cited papers from American Institutes for Research?

The most cited paper from American Institutes for Research is "What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers" (Michael S. Garet, Andrew C. Porter, Laura M. Desimone et al., 2001), with 5,053 citations. Next come "What is job satisfaction?" (2,756) and "Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development" (2,676).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers Michael S. Garet, Andrew C. Porter, Laura M. Desimone et al. · American Educational Research Journal 2001 5,053
2 What is job satisfaction? Edwin A. Locke · Organizational Behavior and Human Performance Nov 1969 2,756
3 Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development Linda Darling‐Hammond, Lisa Flook, Channa M. Cook-Harvey et al. · Applied Developmental Science Open access 17 Feb 2019 2,676
4 Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives Edwin A. Locke · Organizational Behavior and Human Performance May 1968 2,420
5 Patient And Family Engagement: A Framework For Understanding The Elements And Developing Interventions And Policies Kristin L. Carman, Pam Dardess, Maureen E. Maurer et al. · Health Affairs Feb 2013 1,824
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at American Institutes for Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Academic Achievement, Student Achievement, Educational Inequality, Education Policy, Socioeconomic Status, School Segregation, Teacher Quality and Professional Learning Communities.

▲ 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 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. Academic Achievement32▲ 60×9 topics
  2. Student Achievement29▲ 104×5 topics
  3. Educational Inequality22▲ 119×3 topics
  4. Education Policy16▲ 76×2 topics
  5. Socioeconomic Status15▲ 94×2 topics
  6. School Segregation15▲ 355×1 topic
  7. Teacher Quality15▲ 307×1 topic
  8. Education15▲ 2.8×17 topics
  9. Professional Learning Communities14▲ 89×2 topics
  10. Mental Health14▲ 3.1×21 topics
  11. Student Engagement13▲ 11×9 topics
  12. Academic Performance13▲ 49×3 topics
  13. Child Development13▲ 10×7 topics
  14. STEM Education12▲ 8.2×6 topics
  15. Self-Regulation11▲ 20×4 topics
  16. Special Education11▲ 59×4 topics
  17. Social Support11▲ 6.5×8 topics
  18. Teacher Professional Development10▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Parental Involvement10▲ 18×3 topics
  20. Early Childhood Education10▲ 38×2 topics
  21. Learning Analytics10▲ 26×2 topics
  22. Reflective Practice10▲ 16×6 topics
  23. Technology Integration10▲ 9.6×7 topics
  24. Gender Differences9▲ 7.8×6 topics
  25. School Engagement9▲ 62×1 topic
  26. Student-Teacher Relationships9▲ 62×1 topic
  27. Language Development8▲ 22×4 topics
  28. Evidence-Based Practice8▲ 20×6 topics
  29. Diversity8▲ 15×4 topics
  30. Professional Development8▲ 12×9 topics
  31. Qualitative Research Methods7▲ 56×1 topic
  32. Teacher Identity7▲ 57×1 topic
  33. Cultural Capital7▲ 37×2 topics
  34. Computational Thinking7▲ 66×1 topic
  35. Programming Education7▲ 66×1 topic
  36. Data Use7▲ 214×1 topic
  37. Educational Improvement7▲ 214×1 topic
  38. Socioeconomic Factors7▲ 18×3 topics
  39. Adolescent Development7▲ 18×4 topics
  40. Family Engagement6▲ 51×2 topics

Which research topics does American Institutes for Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: School Choice and Performance, Early Childhood Education and Development, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Teaching and Learning Programming.

School Choice and Perfor…15School Choice and Performance: 15 fractional worksEarly Childhood Education and Development: 9 fractional worksTeacher Education and Leadership Studies: 7 fractional worksTeaching and Learning Programming: 7 fractional worksEducational Assessment and Improvement: 7 fractional worksParental Involvement in Education: 6 fractional worksHigher Education Researc…6Higher Education Research Studies: 6 fractional worksEducation Systems and Policy: 6 fractional worksReading and Literacy Development: 5 fractional worksDisability Education and…5Disability Education and Employment: 5 fractional works
EducationComputer Science ApplicationsInformation Systems and ManagementDevelopmental and Educational Psychology1 others

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

  1. 1 School Choice and Performance Education 15 works
  2. 2 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 9 works
  3. 3 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 7 works
  4. 4 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 7 works
  5. 5 Educational Assessment and Improvement Information Systems and Management 7 works
  6. 6 Parental Involvement in Education Education 6 works
  7. 7 Higher Education Research Studies Education 6 works
  8. 8 Education Systems and Policy Education 6 works
  9. 9 Reading and Literacy Development Developmental and Educational Psychology 5 works
  10. 10 Disability Education and Employment Safety Research 5 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 available25.3%not open74.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.8%domestic only92.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Institutes for Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American Institutes for Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%American Institutes for Research0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Institutes for Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting10%20%American Institutes for Research10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.6% in 2014.

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