Question 1

What is Bowdoin College known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Bowdoin College stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,063 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#6,416 of 10,670 worldwide) and Sociology and Political Science (#1,528 of 2,526 worldwide), 2022-now.

Question 2

How does Bowdoin College rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Bowdoin College ranks #7,620 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#2,495 all time), and #1,027 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Bowdoin College?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Erik J Nelson, Philip Camill and Michael M. Franz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bowdoin College.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Bowdoin College?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Bowdoin College is "Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps" (Gustaf Hugelius, Jens Strauß, Sebastian Zubrzycki et al., 2014), with 1,798 citations. Next come "The Political Relevance of Political Trust" (1,548) and "Text Chunking Using Transformation-Based Learning" (1,269).

Question 5

Which research topics does Bowdoin College publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Race, History, and American Society, Vietnamese History and Culture Studies, African history and culture studies and Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Bowdoin College?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender, Identity, Colonialism, History, Literature, Nationalism, Culture and Globalization.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Bowdoin College work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Bowdoin College is in Social Sciences, 26% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (34%), Arts and Humanities (15%), Computer Science (6%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Question 8

Is Bowdoin College's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.