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Babson College

In research, Babson College stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,671 of 9,585 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#1,004 of 2,581 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,859 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management of Technology and Innovation (Management of Technology and Innovation is 21.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,921
of 22,385 · #3,436 all time
Rank in United States
#671
of 3,332
Research works
2.5k
▼ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
90k
36.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.29×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Babson College

What is Babson College 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 #2,671 of 9,585 19.4%211 #1616
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,004 of 2,581 24.9%81 #494
Social SciencesField #2,859 of 5,988 19.3%63 #1838

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Babson College 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#1,616 #2,671
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#494 #1,004
  3. Social Sciences#1,838 #2,859
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 Babson College work in?

In 2022-now, 76% of research at Babson College is in Social Sciences, 15% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (27%), Social Sciences (25%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 249 fractional works · 75.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 89 fractional works · 26.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 21 fractional works · 6.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 18 fractional works · 5.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 15 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMarketing: 14 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAccounting: 9 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBusiness and International Management: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 81 fractional works · 24.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 26 fractional works · 7.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 33 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 16 fractional works · 4.7% of its workFinance: 11 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 21 fractional works · 6.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 50 fractional works · 15.2% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 6.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBabson College329fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences76%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting8926.9%
    2. Social Sciences8124.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3310.0%
    4. Arts and Humanities216.3%
    5. Psychology133.9%
    6. Decision Sciences123.7%
    1. Computer Science216.5%
    2. Engineering123.5%
    3. Environmental Science92.8%
    4. Mathematics30.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.5%
    6. Chemistry20.5%
    7. Energy10.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    9. Materials Science00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine134.0%
    2. Health Professions82.4%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.8%
    2. Neuroscience20.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Babson College specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management of Technology and Innovation takes 21.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 21.5 works21×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.83× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.57× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.76× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.91× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.20× its world share, 21 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8.34× its world share, 88 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.86× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.69× its world share, 33 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.28× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.96× its world share, 82 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 8.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting8.34×88 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.69×33 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.86×12 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.20×21 works
  5. Social Sciences1.96×82 works
  6. Psychology1.28×13 works
  7. Health Professions0.91×8 works
  8. Computer Science0.83×21 works
  9. Mathematics0.76×3 works
  10. Environmental Science0.57×9 works
  11. Neuroscience0.47×2 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.43×0 works
  13. Nursing0.38×1 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.35×2 works
  15. Chemistry0.29×2 works
  16. Energy0.24×1 works
  17. Engineering0.23×12 works
  18. Medicine0.21×13 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×3 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×2 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.12×0 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.07×0 works
  24. Dentistry0.05×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Babson College?

Ranked on the quality score, Dhruv Grewal, Candida G. Brush and William B. Gartner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Babson College.

  1. 1 Dhruv Grewal United States · #16,385 worldwide 64k citations · 358 works
  2. 2 Candida G. Brush United States · #23,070 worldwide 23k citations · 245 works
  3. 3 William B. Gartner United States · #52,179 worldwide 27k citations · 256 works
  4. 4 Phillip H. Kim United States · #80,532 worldwide 3.3k citations · 75 works
  5. 5 Andrew C. Corbett United States · #120,860 worldwide 5.7k citations · 92 works
  6. 6 Thomas H. Davenport United States · #121,735 worldwide 31k citations · 322 works
  7. 7 Patricia Gene Greene United States · #135,817 worldwide 11k citations · 121 works
  8. 8 Michael A. Goldstein United States · #137,785 worldwide 7.6k citations · 161 works
  9. 9 Anne L. Roggeveen United States · #159,504 worldwide 11k citations · 125 works
  10. 10 Jeff Seaman United States · #172,785 worldwide 13k citations · 96 works
All ranked researchers at Babson College

What are the most cited papers from Babson College?

The most cited paper from Babson College is "The potential for artificial intelligence in healthcare" (Thomas H. Davenport, Ravi Kalakota, 2019), with 3,846 citations. Next come "Customer Experience Creation: Determinants, Dynamics and Management Strategies" (3,111) and "A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges" (2,784).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The potential for artificial intelligence in healthcare Thomas H. Davenport, Ravi Kalakota · Future Healthcare Journal Open access Jun 2019 3,846
2 Customer Experience Creation: Determinants, Dynamics and Management Strategies Peter C. Verhoef, Katherine N. Lemon, Anitha Parasuraman et al. · Journal of Retailing 14 Jan 2009 3,111
3 A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges Shaker A. Zahra, Eric R. Gedajlovic, Donald O. Neubaum et al. · Journal of Business Venturing Open access 24 Dec 2008 2,784
4 How artificial intelligence will change the future of marketing Thomas H. Davenport, Abhijit Ranjan Guha, Dhruv Grewal et al. · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science Open access 10 Oct 2019 2,735
5 Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Relationship Marketing: A Meta-Analysis Robert W. Palmatier, Rajiv P. Dant, Dhruv Grewal et al. · Journal of Marketing Review Oct 2006 2,573
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Babson College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Capital, Entrepreneurship, Globalization, Corporate Governance, Innovation, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Opportunity Recognition and Big Data.

▲ 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. Social Capital28▲ 16×11 topics
  2. Globalization25▲ 3.9×39 topics
  3. Entrepreneurship18▲ 14×12 topics
  4. Innovation18▲ 5.1×16 topics
  5. Corporate Governance16▲ 6.6×11 topics
  6. Sustainability15▲ 1.87×21 topics
  7. Entrepreneurial Orientation13▲ 50×1 topic
  8. Opportunity Recognition13▲ 50×1 topic
  9. Big Data13▲ 4.2×13 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence13▲ 2.7×16 topics
  11. Social Media11▲ 2.4×17 topics
  12. Economic Growth11▲ 4.0×15 topics
  13. Human Rights10▲ 3.0×14 topics
  14. Identity10▲ 4.2×17 topics
  15. Leadership10▲ 5.9×11 topics
  16. Monetary Policy9▲ 12×7 topics
  17. Consumer Behavior8▲ 4.0×10 topics
  18. Regulation8▲ 4.6×7 topics
  19. Nationalism8▲ 5.4×7 topics
  20. Neoliberalism8▲ 6.6×12 topics
  21. Customer Experience8▲ 14×4 topics
  22. Teaching Methods7▲ 14×3 topics
  23. Market Dynamics7▲ 27×3 topics
  24. Social Movements7▲ 7.2×5 topics
  25. Organizational Performance7▲ 8.1×8 topics
  26. Investment7▲ 18×4 topics
  27. Firm Performance6▲ 11×3 topics
  28. Global Governance6▲ 8.1×10 topics
  29. Professionalism6▲ 11×4 topics
  30. Institutional Theory6▲ 18×3 topics
  31. Organizational Identity6▲ 50×2 topics
  32. Organizational Change6▲ 22×3 topics
  33. Discrimination6▲ 8.0×4 topics
  34. Ethical Behavior6▲ 44×2 topics
  35. Marketing5▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Institutional Entrepreneurship5▲ 60×1 topic
  37. Sensemaking5▲ 60×1 topic
  38. Organizational Learning5▲ 24×5 topics
  39. Strategic Alliances5▲ 24×3 topics
  40. Financial Crisis5▲ 13×5 topics

Which research topics does Babson College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Management and Organizational Studies, Management and Marketing Education and Ethics in Business and Education.

Entrepreneurship Studies…13Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 13 fractional worksManagement and Organizational Studies: 5 fractional worksManagement and Marketing Education: 4 fractional worksEthics in Business and Education: 4 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 4 fractional worksArt History and Market Analysis: 3 fractional worksFamily Business Performa…3Family Business Performance and Succession: 3 fractional worksInnovation and Socioeconomic Development: 3 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Venture Capital: 3 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 3 fractional works
Management of Technology and InnovationOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementInformation Systems and ManagementFinance3 others

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

  1. 1 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 13 works
  2. 2 Management and Organizational Studies Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 5 works
  3. 3 Management and Marketing Education Management of Technology and Innovation 4 works
  4. 4 Ethics in Business and Education Information Systems and Management 4 works
  5. 5 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 4 works
  6. 6 Art History and Market Analysis Visual Arts and Performing Arts 3 works
  7. 7 Family Business Performance and Succession Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 3 works
  8. 8 Innovation and Socioeconomic Development Business and International Management 3 works
  9. 9 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 3 works
  10. 10 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 3 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 available23.9%not open76.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.5%domestic only82.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Babson College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% lower 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 Babson College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Babson College0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Babson College 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%30%Babson College15.4% 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 24.8% in 1992.

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