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Brown University

In research, Brown University stands highest in Health Sciences (#163 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#161 of 8,541 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#257 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental health and Obstetrics and Gynecology (Emergency Medicine is 3.8× its share of world research).

brown.eduROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#232
of 22,385 · #153 all time
Rank in United States
#65
of 3,332
Research works
74k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
3M
40.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Brown University

What is Brown University 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
Health SciencesDomain #163 of 9,902 11.4%4,897 #140
MedicineField #161 of 8,541 11.3%4,328 #138
Physical SciencesDomain #257 of 10,670 13.9%1,778 #163
Social SciencesDomain #256 of 9,585 12.1%1,779 #167
Health ProfessionsField #75 of 1,895 12.1%499 #71
Computer ScienceField #192 of 4,417 13.4%299 #96
Life SciencesDomain #289 of 6,403 9.7%1,269 #239
Social SciencesField #277 of 5,988 13.2%745 #203
SurgerySubfield #77 of 1,532 14.0%605 #99
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #57 of 944 12.2%351 #60

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Brown 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.

  1. Health Sciences#140 #163
  2. Medicine#138 #161
  3. Physical Sciences#163 #257
  4. Social Sciences#167 #256
  5. Health Professions#71 #75
  6. Computer Science#96 #192
  7. Life Sciences#239 #289
  8. Social Sciences#203 #277
  9. Surgery#99 #77
  10. General Health Professions#60 #57
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 Brown University work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Brown University is in Health Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (45%), Social Sciences (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 5,520 fractional works · 50.6% of its workMedicine: 4,886 fractional works · 44.8% of its workSurgery: 678 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEpidemiology: 463 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 415 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 372 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 262 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOncology: 256 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 206 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysiology: 198 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 190 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeurology: 169 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 166 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 154 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 133 fractional works · 1.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 109 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 105 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 102 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 96 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 72 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 71 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 65 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 58 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 53 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 52 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 47 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 46 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 36 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 34 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 131 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 557 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 389 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 56 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 27 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 55 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 53 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 45 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 12 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,974 fractional works · 18.1% of its workEngineering: 498 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 159 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 97 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 76 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 35 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 27 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 77 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 344 fractional works · 3.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 156 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 50 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 45 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 26 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 293 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 84 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 68 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 57 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 51 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 237 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 76 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 44 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 57 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 221 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 50 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 44 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 174 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 59 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 48 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 121 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 74 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 58 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 13 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,973 fractional works · 18.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 819 fractional works · 7.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 294 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHealth: 94 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 92 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 87 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 71 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 33 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 30 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 61 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 669 fractional works · 6.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 328 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 133 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 116 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 53 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 31 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 198 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhilosophy: 48 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 24 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArcheology: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 49 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 189 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 166 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 61 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 22 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 39 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1,432 fractional works · 13.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 762 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 426 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGenetics: 120 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 79 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 40 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 97 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 368 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 190 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 67 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 60 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 52 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 174 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 115 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 59 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 92 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 29 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 26 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 36 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKBrown University11kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences51%Social Sciences18%

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
  1. Health Sciences5,52050.6%
    1. Medicine4,88644.8%
    2. Health Professions5575.1%
    3. Nursing530.5%
    4. Dentistry130.1%
    5. Veterinary120.1%
    1. Engineering4984.6%
    2. Computer Science3443.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy2932.7%
    4. Environmental Science2372.2%
    5. Mathematics2212.0%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1741.6%
    7. Materials Science1211.1%
    8. Chemistry580.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering140.1%
    10. Energy130.1%
  3. Social Sciences1,97318.1%
    1. Social Sciences8197.5%
    2. Psychology6696.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities1981.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1891.7%
    5. Decision Sciences610.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting390.4%
  4. Life Sciences1,43213.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7627.0%
    2. Neuroscience3683.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology1741.6%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences920.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics360.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Brown University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Emergency Medicine takes 3.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Emergency MedicineSubfield · 101.7 works3.8×
  2. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 189.8 works3.5×
  3. Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 108.9 works3.5×
  4. Applied PsychologySubfield · 53.1 works3.4×
  5. Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineSubfield · 52.1 works3.2×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 92 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.31× its world share, 762 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.58× its world share, 174 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.08× its world share, 368 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.95× its world share, 36 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.36× its world share, 14 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.34× its world share, 58 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 344 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.02× its world share, 174 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 13 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 498 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 237 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.32× its world share, 121 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.73× its world share, 221 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.21× its world share, 293 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 13 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.94× its world share, 557 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.33× its world share, 4,886 worksMedicineNursing: 0.99× its world share, 53 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.78× its world share, 12 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 198 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 39 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 61 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.81× its world share, 189 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.01× its world share, 669 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 818 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 2.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine2.33×4,886 works
  2. Neuroscience2.08×368 works
  3. Psychology2.01×669 works
  4. Health Professions1.94×557 works
  5. Mathematics1.73×221 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.58×174 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.31×762 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy1.21×293 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.02×174 works
  10. Nursing0.99×53 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.95×36 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.81×189 works
  13. Veterinary0.78×12 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.63×198 works
  15. Social Sciences0.59×818 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.58×61 works
  17. Environmental Science0.44×237 works
  18. Computer Science0.41×344 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.36×14 works
  20. Chemistry0.34×58 works
  21. Materials Science0.32×121 works
  22. Engineering0.30×498 works
  23. Dentistry0.24×13 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×92 works
  25. Energy0.13×13 works
  26. Business, Management and Accounting0.11×39 works

Who are the top researchers at Brown University?

Ranked on the quality score, Shouheng Sun, Michael J. Frank and George Em Karniadakis lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Brown University.

  1. 1 Shouheng Sun United States · #2,076 worldwide 75k citations · 432 works
  2. 2 Michael J. Frank United States · #4,674 worldwide 40k citations · 455 works
  3. 3 George Em Karniadakis United States · #4,976 worldwide 113k citations · 1,244 works
  4. 4 Nitin P. Padture United States · #5,103 worldwide 37k citations · 326 works
  5. 5 Huajian Gao United States · #10,142 worldwide 76k citations · 990 works
  6. 6 Stephen Salloway United States · #13,207 worldwide 63k citations · 608 works
  7. 7 JOHN R. LOGAN United States · #13,287 worldwide 24k citations · 626 works
  8. 8 Mark D. Bertness United States · #13,946 worldwide 31k citations · 257 works
  9. 9 T. Serre United States · #14,372 worldwide 38k citations · 547 works
  10. 10 Tim Kraska United States · #15,996 worldwide 11k citations · 263 works
All ranked researchers at Brown University

What are the most cited papers from Brown University?

The most cited paper from Brown University is "The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)" (Mervyn Singer, Clifford Scott Deutschman, Christopher W. Seymour et al., 2016), with 29,012 citations. Next come "The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis" (19,994) and "Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations" (19,776).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) Mervyn Singer, Clifford Scott Deutschman, Christopher W. Seymour et al. · JAMA Open access 22 Feb 2016 29,012
2 The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis Frank C. Arnett, Steven M. Edworthy, Daniel A. Bloch et al. · Arthritis & Rheumatism Mar 1988 19,994
3 Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations Maziar Raissi, Paris Perdikaris, George Em Karniadakis · Journal of Computational Physics Open access 3 Nov 2018 19,776
4 Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Nov 1984 18,093
5 A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Nathan Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics May 1992 15,301
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Brown University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Mental Health, Public Health, Depression, Treatment and Substance Use Disorders.

▲ 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. Epidemiology959▲ 2.2×133 topics
  2. Inflammation417▲ 1.80×81 topics
  3. Mental Health343▲ 2.2×41 topics
  4. Risk Factors324▲ 2.7×37 topics
  5. Public Health316▲ 1.99×62 topics
  6. Quality of Life275▲ 1.74×53 topics
  7. Treatment267▲ 2.0×51 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress262▲ 1.46×59 topics
  9. Depression240▲ 2.5×25 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease225▲ 1.81×39 topics
  11. Cancer210▲ 1.43×55 topics
  12. Biomarkers208▲ 2.7×18 topics
  13. Diagnosis185▲ 1.82×40 topics
  14. Mortality168▲ 2.7×13 topics
  15. Metabolic Syndrome167▲ 1.90×23 topics
  16. Primary Care167▲ 4.1×15 topics
  17. Immunotherapy167▲ 2.1×19 topics
  18. Complications164▲ 3.0×17 topics
  19. Aging163▲ 2.7×17 topics
  20. Clinical Trials162▲ 2.2×18 topics
  21. Obesity158▲ 1.88×25 topics
  22. Chemotherapy153▲ 1.98×25 topics
  23. Adolescents151▲ 3.8×9 topics
  24. Anxiety146▲ 2.8×12 topics
  25. Global Burden140▲ 2.4×12 topics
  26. Prevalence138▲ 3.1×15 topics
  27. Mortality Risk137▲ 5.2×6 topics
  28. Emotion Regulation136▲ 3.9×9 topics
  29. Substance Use Disorders132▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Psychiatric Disorders128▲ 8.7×4 topics
  31. Neuroimaging120▲ 4.0×11 topics
  32. Neuroprotection117▲ 3.0×17 topics
  33. Clinical Outcomes115▲ 4.9×6 topics
  34. Global Burden of Disease111▲ 4.1×4 topics
  35. Health Care Utilization101▲ 8.5×3 topics
  36. Quality Improvement97▲ 4.6×8 topics
  37. Quality of Care86▲ 9.4×4 topics
  38. Long-Term Care81▲ 10.0×2 topics
  39. Behavioral Interventions78▲ 8.8×3 topics
  40. Impulsivity75▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Brown University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and Healthcare Policy and Management.

Substance Abuse Treatmen…73Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes: 73 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursi…70Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 70 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 65 fractional worksHealthcare Policy and Ma…63Healthcare Policy and Management: 63 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Trea…59Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: 59 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 46 fractional worksMaternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum: 44 fractional worksSpine and Intervertebral…44Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 44 fractional worksDiversity and Career in Medicine: 43 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 43 fractional works
EpidemiologyGeneral Health ProfessionsPsychiatry and Mental healthEconomics and Econometrics5 others

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

  1. 1 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 73 works
  2. 2 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 70 works
  3. 3 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 65 works
  4. 4 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 63 works
  5. 5 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 59 works
  6. 6 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 46 works
  7. 7 Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 44 works
  8. 8 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 44 works
  9. 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 43 works
  10. 10 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 43 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 available31.9%not open68.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.1%domestic only86.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Brown University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher 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 Brown University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.044% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Brown University0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brown 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.

still counting10%20%Brown University11.6% 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 17.1% in 1994.

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Which institutions have research most like Brown University's?

Among the world's leading institutions, Johns Hopkins University has the research profile closest to Brown University's, with both strong in Medicine.

  1. 1 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Both strong in Medicine, Neuroscience, Health Professions 0.91 Compare
  2. 2 Dartmouth CollegeUnited States · Both strong in Neuroscience, Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology 0.89 Compare
  3. 3 McGill UniversityCanada · Both strong in Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine 0.87 Compare
  4. 4 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · Both strong in Medicine, Neuroscience, Immunology and Microbiology 0.87 Compare
  5. 5 Université Paris CitéFrance · Both strong in Medicine, Psychology, Health Professions 0.87 Compare

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