Brigham Young University
In research, Brigham Young University stands highest in Social Sciences (#703 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#628 of 5,988 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#1,353 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry (Oceanography is 4.5× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #1,141 of 22,385 · #857 all time
- Rank in United States
- #250 of 3,332
- Research works
- 43k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 976k 22.8 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 8.0% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.70× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 37% world 40%
- International
- 7% world 18%
What is Brigham Young University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social SciencesDomain | #703 of 9,585 | 11.2% | 1,761 | #453 | |
| Social SciencesField | #628 of 5,988 | 12.2% | 804 | #445 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #1,353 of 10,670 | 5.6% | 2,103 | #772 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #1,508 of 9,902 | 9.5% | 636 | #1686 | |
| MedicineField | #1,647 of 8,541 | 8.4% | 476 | #1775 | |
| PsychologyField | #446 of 2,121 | 10.1% | 427 | #382 | |
| EngineeringField | #1,570 of 5,901 | 4.9% | 800 | #727 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #1,713 of 6,403 | 7.0% | 520 | #1627 | |
| Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield | #862 of 2,526 | 13.0% | 244 | #603 | |
| Computer ScienceField | #1,511 of 4,417 | 6.4% | 344 | #663 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Brigham Young 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 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.
- Social Sciences#453 #703
- Social Sciences#445 #628
- Physical Sciences#772 #1,353
- Health Sciences#1,686 #1,508
- Medicine#1,775 #1,647
- Psychology#382 #446
- Engineering#727 #1,570
- Life Sciences#1,627 #1,713
- Sociology and Political Science#603 #862
- Computer Science#663 #1,511
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 Brigham Young University work in?
In 2022-now, 41% of research at Brigham Young University is in Physical Sciences, 36% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (16%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences2,39541.0%
- Engineering90915.6%
- Computer Science4006.8%
- Environmental Science3095.3%
- Physics and Astronomy2033.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1883.2%
- Materials Science1372.3%
- Chemistry1152.0%
- Mathematics931.6%
- Chemical Engineering300.5%
- Energy120.2%
- Social Sciences2,09135.8%
- Social Sciences93716.0%
- Psychology5299.1%
- Arts and Humanities3365.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting1492.6%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance821.4%
- Decision Sciences581.0%
- Health Sciences73912.6%
- Medicine5589.6%
- Health Professions1532.6%
- Nursing220.4%
- Dentistry30.1%
- Veterinary20.0%
- Life Sciences61710.6%
What does Brigham Young University specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 4.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- OceanographySubfield · 73.9 works4.5×
- Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 48.2 works3.8×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Psychology2.97×529 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.05×188 works
- Arts and Humanities1.99×336 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.56×203 works
- Chemical Engineering1.47×30 works
- Mathematics1.35×93 works
- Neuroscience1.33×126 works
- Social Sciences1.27×937 works
- Chemistry1.25×115 works
- Environmental Science1.06×309 works
- Engineering1.04×909 works
- Decision Sciences1.04×58 works
- Health Professions1.00×153 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.91×282 works
- Computer Science0.88×400 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.79×150 works
- Nursing0.77×22 works
- Materials Science0.67×137 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.65×82 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×168 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.56×33 works
- Medicine0.50×558 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×8 works
- Veterinary0.31×2 works
- Energy0.23×12 works
- Dentistry0.11×3 works
- Psychology 3.0×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 2.0×
- Arts and Humanities 2.0×
- Physics and Astronomy 1.6×
- Chemical Engineering 1.5×
- Mathematics 1.4×
- Neuroscience 1.3×
- Social Sciences 1.3×
- Chemistry 1.2×
- Environmental Science 1.1×
- Engineering 1.0×
- Decision Sciences 1.0×
- Health Professions 1.0×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.9×
- Computer Science 0.9×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.8×
- Nursing 0.8×
- Materials Science 0.7×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.7×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.6×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.6×
- Medicine 0.5×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.4×
- Veterinary 0.3×
- Energy 0.2×
- Dentistry 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Brigham Young University?
Ranked on the quality score, C. Arden Pope, Sarah Marie Coyne and Julianne Holt‐Lunstad lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Brigham Young University.
- 1
C. Arden Pope
United States · #11,257 worldwide 88k citations · 221 works
- 2
Sarah Marie Coyne
United States · #12,788 worldwide 14k citations · 297 works
- 3
Julianne Holt‐Lunstad
United States · #17,609 worldwide 24k citations · 134 works
- 4
Ramona O. Hopkins
United States · #31,307 worldwide 34k citations · 365 works
- 5
Michael G. Findley
United States · #37,775 worldwide 4.1k citations · 132 works
- 6
Laura M. Padilla‐Walker
United States · #44,545 worldwide 11k citations · 179 works
- 7
Laura Stockdale
United States · #57,205 worldwide 4.1k citations · 83 works
- 8
Keith A. Crandall
United States · #60,415 worldwide 76k citations · 681 works
- 9
Benjamin W. Abbott
United States · #64,179 worldwide 11k citations · 219 works
- 10
Joshua A. Udall
United States · #67,086 worldwide 12k citations · 145 works
Which keywords describe research at Brigham Young University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Emotion Regulation, Climate Change, Social Support, Well-being, Parenting, Hydrological Modeling and Epidemiology.
- Behavioral Problems
- Marital Quality
- Turbulent Flow
- Wave Propagation
- Vibration Control
- Academic Achievement
- Psychopathology
- groundwater depletion
- Magnetosphere
- Electron Acceleration
- Sea Level Rise
- Geodetic Measurements
- Hydrological Modeling
- Identity
- Meta-Analysis
- Religion
- Well-being
- Social Support
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Mental Health
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Emotion Regulation
- Gender
- Depression
- Resilience
- Adolescents
- Parenting
- Solar Wind
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Ionosphere
- GRACE
- Attachment
- Gender Roles
- Relationships
- Developmental Trajectories
- Psychological Adjustment
- Adult Attachment
- Anxiety Disorders
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
- Mental Health221▲ 2.6×36 topics
- Climate Change214▲ 1.34×80 topics
- Epidemiology194▼ 0.83×103 topics
- Machine Learning170◆ 0.87×71 topics
- Globalization125◆ 1.09×88 topics
- Social Support115▲ 3.6×13 topics
- Emotion Regulation109▲ 5.9×9 topics
- Well-being83▲ 3.6×14 topics
- Gender80▲ 2.5×42 topics
- Religion79▲ 2.9×29 topics
- Depression79▲ 1.53×19 topics
- Meta-Analysis77▲ 2.2×15 topics
- Resilience76▲ 2.6×14 topics
- Identity72▲ 1.71×56 topics
- Adolescents71▲ 3.3×9 topics
- Hydrological Modeling68▲ 4.9×5 topics
- Parenting57▲ 7.9×2 topics
- Geodetic Measurements53▲ 8.6×2 topics
- Solar Wind52▲ 9.8×2 topics
- Sea Level Rise52▲ 7.1×3 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation52▲ 4.8×5 topics
- Electron Acceleration50▲ 13×2 topics
- Ionosphere49▲ 15×1 topic
- Magnetosphere49▲ 15×1 topic
- GRACE48▲ 17×1 topic
- groundwater depletion48▲ 17×1 topic
- Attachment46▲ 9.1×3 topics
- Psychopathology46▲ 4.4×3 topics
- Gender Roles44▲ 6.5×6 topics
- Academic Achievement44▲ 4.3×10 topics
- Relationships43▲ 18×2 topics
- Vibration Control41▲ 11×3 topics
- Developmental Trajectories41▲ 5.8×3 topics
- Wave Propagation40▲ 6.3×4 topics
- Psychological Adjustment40▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Turbulent Flow40▲ 5.8×4 topics
- Adult Attachment40▲ 23×1 topic
- Marital Quality40▲ 23×1 topic
- Anxiety Disorders37▲ 5.8×2 topics
- Behavioral Problems34▲ 7.2×1 topic
Which research topics does Brigham Young University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 49 works
- 2 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 48 works
- 3 Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Social Psychology 40 works
- 4 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 34 works
- 5 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research Biomedical Engineering 30 works
- 6 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 29 works
- 7 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 27 works
- 8 Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows Aerospace Engineering 26 works
- 9 Family Dynamics and Relationships Demography 23 works
- 10 Terahertz technology and applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 19 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Brigham Young University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021.
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 Brigham Young University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.
Fractional works of Brigham Young 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.0% in 2001.
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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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