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Ashland University

In research, Ashland University stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,371 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,491
of 22,385 · #8,768 all time
Rank in United States
#2,048
of 3,332
Research works
974
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Ashland University

What is Ashland University 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 #7,371 of 9,585 10.2%71 #3476

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ashland 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Ashland University work in?

In 2022-now, 62% of research at Ashland University is in Social Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (33%), Arts and Humanities (11%), Computer Science (9%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 77 fractional works · 62.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 41 fractional works · 33.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEducation: 10 fractional works · 8.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 14 fractional works · 11.2% of its workPhilosophy: 5 fractional works · 4.2% of its workReligious studies: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 6.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 5.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 23 fractional works · 18.7% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 8.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 10.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 7.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAshlandUniversity124fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences62%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences4133.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities1411.2%
    3. Psychology86.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting75.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance53.6%
    6. Decision Sciences21.9%
    1. Computer Science118.6%
    2. Environmental Science65.0%
    3. Engineering43.5%
    4. Chemistry11.0%
    5. Materials Science00.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    8. Energy00.1%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences75.8%
    2. Neuroscience32.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine97.0%
    2. Health Professions21.7%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 1.21× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.29× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.10× its world share, 11 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.00× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.88× its world share, 14 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.79× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.95× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.70× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.15× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.61× its world share, 41 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.88×14 works
  2. Social Sciences2.61×41 works
  3. Psychology2.15×8 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.95×2 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.79×7 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.70×4 works
  7. Neuroscience1.29×3 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.21×7 works
  9. Computer Science1.10×11 works
  10. Environmental Science1.00×6 works
  11. Nursing0.66×0 works
  12. Health Professions0.64×2 works
  13. Chemistry0.61×1 works
  14. Veterinary0.49×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×3 works
  16. Medicine0.36×9 works
  17. Engineering0.24×4 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.15×0 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.10×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.08×0 works
  22. Energy0.07×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.06×0 works
  24. Mathematics0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ashland University?

Ranked on the quality score, Christopher R. Chartier, Paul L. Hyman and Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ashland University.

  1. 1 Christopher R. Chartier United States · #264,938 worldwide 2.5k citations · 128 works
  2. 2 Paul L. Hyman United States · #712,351 worldwide 14k citations · 116 works
  3. 3 Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer United States · #912,774 worldwide 4k citations · 85 works
  4. 4 Christopher R. Chartier United States · #996,416 worldwide 653 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Sunday Abayomi Joseph United States · #1,069,954 worldwide 126 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Diane B. V. Bonfiglio United States · #1,578,401 worldwide 804 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 John Byron United States · #1,814,998 worldwide 244 citations · 81 works
  8. 8 Erik Kormos United States · #1,942,799 worldwide 250 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Perry Gottesfeld United States · #2,007,186 worldwide 923 citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Judy A. Alston United States · #2,015,598 worldwide 550 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Ashland University

What are the most cited papers from Ashland University?

The most cited paper from Ashland University is "Phages for Phage Therapy: Isolation, Characterization, and Host Range Breadth" (Paul L. Hyman, 2019), with 556 citations. Next come "Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication" (498) and "A survey and taxonomy of approaches for mining software repositories in the context of software evolution" (414).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Phages for Phage Therapy: Isolation, Characterization, and Host Range Breadth Paul L. Hyman · Pharmaceuticals Open access 11 Mar 2019 556
2 Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication Charles R. Ebersole et al. · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Open access 18 Sep 2016 498
3 A survey and taxonomy of approaches for mining software repositories in the context of software evolution Huzefa Kagdi, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic · Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and Practice Mar 2007 414
4 Direct and Indirect Effects of Invasive Plants on Soil Chemistry and Ecosystem Function Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer, Ragan M. Callaway · Journal of Chemical Ecology 2010 398
5 The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network Hannah Moshontz et al. · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science Open access Oct 2018 393
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ashland University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nationalism, Religion, Ethics, Deep Learning, Globalization, American founding, Constitutional government and Education.

▲ 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. Deep Learning9▲ 2.1×22 topics
  2. Machine Learning7▲ 1.79×20 topics
  3. Globalization7▲ 2.9×19 topics
  4. Nationalism7▲ 12×6 topics
  5. Education6▲ 2.8×19 topics
  6. Religion6▲ 9.8×10 topics
  7. Ethics5▲ 8.2×10 topics
  8. Sustainability5▲ 1.58×8 topics
  9. Mental Health4▲ 2.5×12 topics
  10. American founding4▲ 126×1 topic
  11. Constitutional government4▲ 126×1 topic
  12. Big Data4▲ 3.5×6 topics
  13. Gender4▲ 6.0×8 topics
  14. Social Capital4▲ 5.5×4 topics
  15. History3▲ 4.0×9 topics
  16. Literature3▲ 4.9×8 topics
  17. Theology3▲ 29×3 topics
  18. Colonialism3▲ 5.4×5 topics
  19. Social Justice3▲ 4.3×7 topics
  20. Supply Chain Management3▲ 2.8×3 topics
  21. Identity3▲ 3.3×7 topics
  22. Genomics3▲ 7.2×6 topics
  23. Feminism2▲ 6.9×7 topics
  24. Philosophy2▲ 4.5×6 topics
  25. Firm Performance2▲ 10×2 topics
  26. Trust2▲ 6.6×4 topics
  27. Analytics2▲ 20×1 topic
  28. Business Intelligence2▲ 20×1 topic
  29. Diabetic Retinopathy2▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Entrepreneurial Orientation2▲ 20×1 topic
  31. Macular Degeneration2▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Muscle Mass2▲ 14×2 topics
  33. Opportunity Recognition2▲ 20×1 topic
  34. Surveillance2▲ 5.7×4 topics
  35. Cyberbullying2▲ 23×2 topics
  36. Public Sphere2▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Retinal Disease2▲ 30×1 topic
  38. Vessel Segmentation2▲ 32×1 topic
  39. Postcolonialism2▲ 9.4×5 topics
  40. Psychological Adjustment2▲ 9.4×4 topics

Which research topics does Ashland University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: American Constitutional Law and Politics, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences and Retinal Imaging and Analysis.

American Constitutional …4American Constitutional Law and Politics: 4 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 2 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies…2Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 2 fractional worksRetinal Imaging and Anal…2Retinal Imaging and Analysis: 2 fractional worksBacteriophages and microbial interactions: 2 fractional worksSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought: 2 fractional worksBiblical Studies and Int…1Biblical Studies and Interpretation: 1 fractional worksClassical Antiquity Studies: 1 fractional worksReligion and Society Interactions: 1 fractional worksGender Diversity and Inequality: 1 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsManagement Information SystemsManagement of Technology and InnovationRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6 others

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

  1. 1 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  2. 2 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 2 works
  3. 3 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 2 works
  4. 4 Retinal Imaging and Analysis Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  5. 5 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Ecology 2 works
  6. 6 Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought Philosophy 2 works
  7. 7 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 1 works
  8. 8 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 1 works
  9. 9 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  10. 10 Gender Diversity and Inequality Gender Studies 1 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 available29.2%not open70.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.7%domestic only93.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ashland University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ashland University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00060% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Ashland University0.00048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ashland University 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Ashland University6.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.0% in 2023.

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