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Austin Independent School District

In research, Austin Independent School District stands highest in Social Sciences (#11,979 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,721
of 22,385 · #20,174 all time
Rank in United States
#2,761
of 3,332
Research works
258
▲ 51% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2k
8.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Austin Independent School District

What is Austin Independent School District known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #11,979 of 14,833 8.8%140

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Austin Independent School District 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 Austin Independent School District work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research at Austin Independent School District is in Physical Sciences, 34% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (37%), Social Sciences (14%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 47 fractional works · 49.9% of its workComputer Science: 34 fractional works · 36.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 14 fractional works · 15.4% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 10.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 7.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 32 fractional works · 34.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 13.6% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 7.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 5.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 8.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAustinIndependent…93fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences50%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences34%

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. Computer Science3436.6%
    2. Engineering77.9%
    3. Mathematics21.9%
    4. Environmental Science21.8%
    5. Energy10.7%
    6. Materials Science00.5%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1313.6%
    2. Psychology77.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities55.8%
    4. Decision Sciences44.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting33.0%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Medicine88.6%
    2. Health Professions22.1%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.0%
    2. Neuroscience11.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
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: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 4.71× its world share, 34 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.53× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.01× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.57× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.36× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.08× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.71×34 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.57×4 works
  3. Psychology2.36×7 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.01×5 works
  5. Mathematics1.58×2 works
  6. Social Sciences1.08×13 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.94×3 works
  8. Neuroscience0.90×1 works
  9. Health Professions0.81×2 works
  10. Energy0.76×1 works
  11. Engineering0.53×7 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.51×0 works
  13. Medicine0.45×8 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.37×2 works
  15. Environmental Science0.37×2 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.35×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.28×1 works
  18. Materials Science0.15×0 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.13×0 works
  21. Nursing0.12×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Austin Independent School District?

Ranked on the quality score, Melba J. T. Vásquez, Sooraj George Thomas and Melba J. T. Vásquez lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Austin Independent School District.

  1. 1 Melba J. T. Vásquez United States · #609,957 worldwide 2.7k citations · 127 works
  2. 2 Sooraj George Thomas United States · #1,257,253 worldwide 67 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Melba J. T. Vásquez United States · #1,932,053 worldwide 829 citations · 110 works
  4. 4 Michael Lacy United States · #2,476,845 worldwide 2 citations · 38 works
  5. 5 Igor Eduardo United States · #2,776,175 worldwide 0 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Aleksey Nikolsky United States · #2,888,380 worldwide 183 citations · 47 works
  7. 7 Brian Ruh United States · #3,014,359 worldwide 106 citations · 41 works
  8. 8 Christine Hoff Kraemer United States · #3,494,803 worldwide 69 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 Pavel Pushkin United States · #3,560,229 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Bette Wyn Oliver United States · #4,055,844 worldwide 9 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Austin Independent School District

What are the most cited papers from Austin Independent School District?

The most cited paper from Austin Independent School District is "Equity Audits: A Practical Leadership Tool for Developing Equitable and Excellent Schools" (Linda Skrla, James Joseph Scheurich, Juanita Garcia et al., 2004), with 356 citations. Next come "Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide" (313) and "The Relationship Between Middle-Class Parents’ Book-Sharing Discussion and Their Preschoolers’ Abstract Language Development" (266).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Equity Audits: A Practical Leadership Tool for Developing Equitable and Excellent Schools Linda Skrla, James Joseph Scheurich, Juanita Garcia et al. · Educational Administration Quarterly Feb 2004 356
2 Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide Kenneth S. Pope, Melba J. T. Vásquez 15 Sep 1998 313
3 The Relationship Between Middle-Class Parents’ Book-Sharing Discussion and Their Preschoolers’ Abstract Language Development Anne Van Kleeck, Ronald Bradley Gillam, Lori Hamilton et al. · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research Dec 1997 266
4 Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution Yoel E. Stuart, Thor Veen, Jesse N. Weber et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution Open access 22 May 2017 254
5 African American Women Principals in Urban Schools: Realities, (Re)constructions, and Resolutions Collette M. Bloom, David A. Erlandson · Educational Administration Quarterly Aug 2003 156
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Which keywords describe research at Austin Independent School District?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, Security, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Neural Networks and Healthcare.

▲ 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. Machine Learning13▲ 4.2×30 topics
  2. Deep Learning11▲ 3.5×22 topics
  3. Big Data6▲ 6.8×10 topics
  4. Neural Networks5▲ 3.8×13 topics
  5. Security5▲ 8.6×8 topics
  6. Healthcare5▲ 4.3×8 topics
  7. Cloud Computing4▲ 17×6 topics
  8. Cybersecurity4▲ 18×4 topics
  9. Artificial Intelligence3▲ 2.5×8 topics
  10. Internet of Things3▲ 4.2×4 topics
  11. Distributed Systems3▲ 20×5 topics
  12. Energy Efficiency3▲ 3.6×5 topics
  13. Supply Chain Management3▲ 3.4×4 topics
  14. IoT Security3▲ 9.1×3 topics
  15. Information Retrieval2▲ 12×4 topics
  16. Depression2▲ 3.0×8 topics
  17. Privacy2▲ 8.2×4 topics
  18. Virtualization2▲ 29×2 topics
  19. Anxiety2▲ 4.2×4 topics
  20. Language Teaching2▲ 7.7×3 topics
  21. Emotion Recognition2▲ 9.5×3 topics
  22. Teacher Preparation2▲ 26×3 topics
  23. Multi-Agent Systems2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  24. Anomaly Detection2▲ 6.2×3 topics
  25. Electronic Health Records2▲ 17×2 topics
  26. Text Classification2▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Behavioral Analysis2▲ 14×2 topics
  28. Fabric Defect Detection2▲ 22×1 topic
  29. Machine Vision2▲ 7.7×1 topic
  30. Security Analysis2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  31. Smart Cities2▲ 6.1×3 topics
  32. Anonymity1▲ 32×2 topics
  33. Homomorphic Encryption1▲ 33×1 topic
  34. Identity-Based Encryption1▲ 33×1 topic
  35. Resource Allocation1▲ 8.6×2 topics
  36. Side-Channel Attacks1▲ 29×2 topics
  37. Topic Modeling1▲ 9.6×2 topics
  38. Information Security1▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Policy Compliance1▲ 35×1 topic
  40. Sentiment Analysis1▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Austin Independent School District publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection, Cryptography and Data Security, Information and Cyber Security and Topic Modeling.

Industrial Vision System…2Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 2 fractional worksCryptography and Data Se…1Cryptography and Data Security: 1 fractional worksInformation and Cyber Security: 1 fractional worksTopic Modeling1Topic Modeling: 1 fractional worksBig Data and Digital Eco…1Big Data and Digital Economy: 1 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 1 fractional worksQualitative Research Methods and Ethics: 1 fractional worksSecurity and Verificatio…1Security and Verification in Computing: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques: 1 fractional worksEducation Systems and Policy: 1 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsSociology and Political Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  3. 3 Information and Cyber Security Information Systems 1 works
  4. 4 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  5. 5 Big Data and Digital Economy Information Systems 1 works
  6. 6 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 1 works
  7. 7 Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 Security and Verification in Computing Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  9. 9 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 1 works
  10. 10 Education Systems and Policy Education 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.1%domestic only90.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Austin Independent School District's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Austin Independent School District as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00027% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Austin Independent School District0.00054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Austin Independent School District over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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