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Brookings Institution

In research, Brookings Institution stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,065 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,081 of 5,988 worldwide) and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#766 of 1,798 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Political Science and International Relations (Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 12.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,888
of 22,385 · #1,814 all time
Rank in United States
#924
of 3,332
Research works
2.9k
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
92k
31.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Brookings Institution

What is Brookings Institution 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 #2,065 of 9,585 18.8%190 #572
Social SciencesField #2,081 of 5,988 20.3%80 #551
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #766 of 1,798 18.3%72 #266

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Brookings Institution 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#572 #2,065
  2. Social Sciences#551 #2,081
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#266 #766
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 Brookings Institution work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Brookings Institution is in Social Sciences, 12% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (32%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (27%), Health Professions (8%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 205 fractional works · 75.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 87 fractional works · 32.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 23 fractional works · 8.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 21 fractional works · 7.8% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 5.3% of its workDemography: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 74 fractional works · 27.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 45 fractional works · 16.6% of its workFinance: 15 fractional works · 5.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 20 fractional works · 7.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 17 fractional works · 6.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 32 fractional works · 11.8% of its workHealth Professions: 21 fractional works · 7.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 18 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 29 fractional works · 10.8% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBrookingsInstitution271fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences75%

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 Sciences8732.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7427.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting207.3%
    4. Psychology176.2%
    5. Decision Sciences41.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities31.1%
    1. Health Professions217.7%
    2. Medicine113.9%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Computer Science93.4%
    2. Engineering62.4%
    3. Environmental Science62.1%
    4. Mathematics20.8%
    5. Energy20.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.6%
    3. Neuroscience10.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Brookings Institution specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 12.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 74.2 works13×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 45.0 works10×
  3. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 22.6 works5.6×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.44× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.42× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.91× its world share, 21 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.26× its world share, 20 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12.79× its world share, 74 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.04× its world share, 17 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.53× its world share, 87 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 12.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.79×74 works
  2. Health Professions2.91×21 works
  3. Social Sciences2.53×87 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting2.26×20 works
  5. Psychology2.04×17 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.54×4 works
  7. Energy0.80×2 works
  8. Mathematics0.70×2 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.62×1 works
  10. Veterinary0.45×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.44×9 works
  12. Environmental Science0.42×6 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.40×3 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.33×2 works
  15. Nursing0.32×0 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.26×1 works
  17. Medicine0.20×11 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×2 works
  19. Neuroscience0.16×1 works
  20. Engineering0.16×6 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×2 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.10×0 works
  23. Dentistry0.06×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Brookings Institution?

Ranked on the quality score, M. Ayhan Köse, Martin Neil Baily and Daniel Kaufmann lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Brookings Institution.

  1. 1 M. Ayhan Köse United States · #102,701 worldwide 16k citations · 279 works
  2. 2 Martin Neil Baily United States · #141,519 worldwide 8.5k citations · 176 works
  3. 3 Daniel Kaufmann United States · #207,268 worldwide 26k citations · 213 works
  4. 4 Joshua M. Epstein United States · #209,967 worldwide 12k citations · 162 works
  5. 5 Clifford M. Winston United States · #211,395 worldwide 7.9k citations · 166 works
  6. 6 Carol Graham United States · #226,887 worldwide 6.9k citations · 238 works
  7. 7 Ross A. Hammond United States · #232,466 worldwide 9k citations · 144 works
  8. 8 Donald R. Matthews United States · #334,299 worldwide 2.8k citations · 50 works
  9. 9 Dany Bahar United States · #365,568 worldwide 1.5k citations · 94 works
  10. 10 Brad Olsen United States · #371,341 worldwide 1.7k citations · 53 works
All ranked researchers at Brookings Institution

What are the most cited papers from Brookings Institution?

The most cited paper from Brookings Institution is "Economics and Identity*" (George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), with 5,719 citations. Next come "ShinyGO: a graphical gene-set enrichment tool for animals and plants" (5,631) and "The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report" (3,118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Economics and Identity* George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Aug 2000 5,719
2 ShinyGO: a graphical gene-set enrichment tool for animals and plants Xijin Ge, Dongmin Jung, Runan Yao · Bioinformatics Open access 23 Dec 2019 5,631
3 The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report Boyd Anthony Swinburn et al. · The Lancet Open access 27 Jan 2019 3,118
4 Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists David Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa Schettini Kearney · The Review of Economics and Statistics 18 Apr 2008 2,433
5 Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser · Journal of Political Economy Oct 1997 2,151
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Brookings Institution?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Mental Health, Political Economy, Economic Development, Health Outcomes and Primary Care.

▲ 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. Economic Growth28▲ 13×16 topics
  2. Monetary Policy16▲ 26×8 topics
  3. Mental Health16▲ 4.1×19 topics
  4. Globalization14▲ 2.7×34 topics
  5. Fiscal Policy13▲ 24×6 topics
  6. Economic Development12▲ 5.8×18 topics
  7. Political Economy11▲ 16×10 topics
  8. Health Outcomes10▲ 14×6 topics
  9. Primary Care10▲ 10×8 topics
  10. Labor Market10▲ 13×9 topics
  11. Regulation9▲ 6.1×9 topics
  12. Inequality9▲ 14×9 topics
  13. Neoliberalism8▲ 8.6×11 topics
  14. Democracy8▲ 8.8×10 topics
  15. Structural Change8▲ 45×2 topics
  16. Consumer Behavior8▲ 4.6×7 topics
  17. Governance8▲ 8.8×11 topics
  18. Financial Crisis8▲ 25×5 topics
  19. Income Tax7▲ 36×2 topics
  20. Academic Achievement7▲ 16×8 topics
  21. Gender Inequality7▲ 19×6 topics
  22. Income Inequality7▲ 18×5 topics
  23. Health Care Utilization7▲ 24×2 topics
  24. Social Support7▲ 4.6×6 topics
  25. Chronic Disease7▲ 15×3 topics
  26. Health Care Spending6▲ 61×1 topic
  27. Insurance Markets6▲ 61×1 topic
  28. Capital Flows6▲ 63×2 topics
  29. Health Equity6▲ 7.5×5 topics
  30. Student Achievement6▲ 24×4 topics
  31. Labor Force Participation6▲ 47×2 topics
  32. Aggregate Demand5▲ 75×1 topic
  33. Income Distribution5▲ 63×1 topic
  34. Stock Market5▲ 8.8×2 topics
  35. Unemployment5▲ 23×2 topics
  36. Corruption5▲ 12×5 topics
  37. Exchange Rate Regimes5▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Financial Integration5▲ 62×1 topic
  39. Transparency5▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Behavioral Economics5▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Brookings Institution publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Healthcare Policy and Management, Economic Theory and Policy, Global Financial Crisis and Policies and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

Healthcare Policy and Ma…6Healthcare Policy and Management: 6 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy5Economic Theory and Policy: 5 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis and Policies: 5 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 4 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 4 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 4 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare S…4Employment and Welfare Studies: 4 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 3 fractional worksFiscal Policies and Political Economy: 3 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Economics, Econometrics and FinanceFinanceGeneral Health Professions1 others

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

  1. 1 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 6 works
  2. 2 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 works
  3. 3 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 5 works
  4. 4 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  5. 5 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 4 works
  6. 6 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 4 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  8. 8 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 4 works
  9. 9 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 3 works
  10. 10 Fiscal Policies and Political Economy Economics and Econometrics 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 available36.7%not open63.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.7%domestic only86.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Brookings Institution's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% 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 Brookings Institution as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Brookings Institution0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brookings Institution 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 counting20%40%60%Brookings Institution13.9% 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 46.4% in 1992.

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