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Arizona State University

In research, Arizona State University stands highest in Sociology and Political Science (#12 of 2,578 worldwide), Social Sciences (#32 of 6,365 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#56 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Safety Research, Public Administration and Hardware and Architecture — Safety Research is 3.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#196
of 28,054 · #104 all time
Rank in United States
#53
of 4,192
Research works
99k
▲ 10% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.3M
33.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
27%
world 28%

What is Arizona State University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #12 of 2,578 29.4%916 #19
Social SciencesField #32 of 6,365 29.1%2,503 #21
Social SciencesDomain #56 of 10,521 27.4%4,889 #32
Physical SciencesDomain #219 of 12,888 19.1%6,041 #94
Social PsychologySubfield #18 of 664 26.9%308 #20
EducationSubfield #53 of 1,892 32.8%412 #6
Computer ScienceField #133 of 4,667 20.6%1,386 #85
PsychologyField #64 of 2,181 24.9%934 #31
EngineeringField #216 of 6,636 15.8%2,201 #101
Environmental ScienceField #117 of 3,551 26.7%773 #56

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Arizona State University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Sociology and Political Science#19 #12
  2. Social Sciences#21 #32
  3. Social Sciences#32 #56
  4. Physical Sciences#94 #219
  5. Social Psychology#20 #18
  6. Education#6 #53
  7. Computer Science#85 #133
  8. Psychology#31 #64
  9. Engineering#101 #216
  10. Environmental Science#56 #117
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Arizona State University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Safety Research takes 3.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Safety ResearchSubfield · 133.8 works3.6×
  2. Public AdministrationSubfield · 24.9 works3.4×
  3. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 50.8 works3.3×
  4. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 193.4 works2.7×
← 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: 0.46× its world share, 300 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.85× its world share, 614 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.40× its world share, 54 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.37× its world share, 301 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.35× its world share, 17 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.92× its world share, 44 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.64× its world share, 137 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.31× its world share, 1,386 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 222 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.96× its world share, 120 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.08× its world share, 2,201 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.15× its world share, 773 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.97× its world share, 458 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.18× its world share, 189 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.70× its world share, 512 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.00× its world share, 359 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.37× its world share, 958 worksMedicineNursing: 0.44× its world share, 29 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.37× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.27× its world share, 497 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 409 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.74× its world share, 228 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.10× its world share, 318 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.26× its world share, 934 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.46× its world share, 2,502 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 2.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Arizona State University?

Ranked on the composite score, Donald S. Siegel, Douglas C. Montgomery and Jianguo Wu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Arizona State University.

  1. 1 Donald S. Siegel · #1,182 worldwide 2.7k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Douglas C. Montgomery · #1,223 worldwide 2.7k citations · 133 works
  3. 3 Jianguo Wu · #2,833 worldwide 1.9k citations · 85 works
  4. 4 Luc Anselin · #3,683 worldwide 2.7k citations · 66 works
  5. 5 Nancy B. Grimm · #3,691 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
  6. 6 Sudhir Kumar · #3,710 worldwide 5.9k citations · 62 works
  7. 7 James Paul Gee · #5,037 worldwide 797 citations · 72 works
  8. 8 George C. Runger · #5,659 worldwide 1.5k citations · 66 works
  9. 9 Robert B. Cialdini · #5,864 worldwide 2.2k citations · 58 works
  10. 10 Ahmed Alkhateeb · #6,662 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at Arizona State University

Which keywords describe research at Arizona State University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Climate Change, Neural Networks, Globalization, Sustainability and Public Health.

▲ 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 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. Deep Learning554▲ 1.19×81 topics
  2. Machine Learning519▲ 1.17×90 topics
  3. Climate Change468▲ 1.28×108 topics
  4. Mental Health440▲ 2.2×43 topics
  5. Sustainability362◆ 1.09×102 topics
  6. Globalization345▲ 1.30×123 topics
  7. Neural Networks322▲ 1.54×40 topics
  8. Epidemiology283▼ 0.53×124 topics
  9. Public Health276▲ 1.40×55 topics
  10. Education266◆ 1.14×98 topics
  11. Renewable Energy208◆ 1.06×45 topics
  12. Social Media207◆ 1.07×35 topics
  13. Identity165▲ 1.67×60 topics
  14. Gender163▲ 2.2×48 topics
  15. Big Data158▲ 1.29×28 topics
  16. Social Support158▲ 2.1×17 topics
  17. Depression153▲ 1.29×23 topics
  18. Resilience147▲ 2.3×16 topics
  19. Religion135▲ 2.1×37 topics
  20. Ethics130▲ 1.98×37 topics
  21. Social Justice129▲ 1.62×41 topics
  22. Colonialism127▲ 1.97×40 topics
  23. Social Capital122▲ 1.70×19 topics
  24. Student Engagement116▲ 2.1×15 topics
  25. Emotion Regulation114▲ 2.7×9 topics
  26. Health Disparities108▲ 3.0×9 topics
  27. Developmental Trajectories104▲ 6.2×3 topics
  28. Neoliberalism103▲ 2.1×23 topics
  29. Intersectionality102▲ 4.1×15 topics
  30. Emotion100▲ 3.6×12 topics
  31. Neuroscience96▲ 2.4×16 topics
  32. Neighborhood Effects92▲ 6.2×3 topics
  33. Self-Regulation88▲ 3.6×6 topics
  34. Academic Achievement78▲ 3.4×10 topics
  35. Engineering Education74▲ 6.1×5 topics
  36. Social Identity69▲ 5.5×5 topics
  37. Youth Violence65▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Acculturation64▲ 6.2×2 topics
  39. Criminal Behavior56▲ 9.7×2 topics
  40. Implicit Bias56▲ 9.1×2 topics

Which research topics does Arizona State University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Topic Modeling and Astro and Planetary Science.

Child and Adolescent Psy…48Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 48 fractional worksCrime Patterns and Inter…48Crime Patterns and Interventions: 48 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 43 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 41 fractional worksCareer Development and Diversity: 36 fractional worksPolicing Practices and Perceptions: 36 fractional worksSemiconductor materials and devices: 36 fractional worksRacial and Ethnic Identi…36Racial and Ethnic Identity Research: 36 fractional worksAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing: 36 fractional worksEngineering Education and Curriculum Development: 34 fractional works
Clinical PsychologySociology and Political ScienceArtificial IntelligenceAstronomy and Astrophysics4 others

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

  1. 1 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentClinical Psychology 48 works
  2. 2 Crime Patterns and InterventionsSociology and Political Science 48 works
  3. 3 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 43 works
  4. 4 Astro and Planetary ScienceAstronomy and Astrophysics 41 works
  5. 5 Career Development and DiversitySafety Research 36 works
  6. 6 Policing Practices and PerceptionsPolitical Science and International Relations 36 works
  7. 7 Semiconductor materials and devicesElectrical and Electronic Engineering 36 works
  8. 8 Racial and Ethnic Identity ResearchSociology and Political Science 36 works
  9. 9 Advanced Memory and Neural ComputingElectrical and Electronic Engineering 36 works
  10. 10 Engineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentMedia Technology 34 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 available27.3%not open72.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.1%domestic only85.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Arizona State University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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