Question 1

What is Brown University known for?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 2

How does Brown University rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Brown University ranks #232 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#153 all time), and #65 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Brown University?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Brown University?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 5

Which research topics does Brown University publish most on?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Brown University?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Brown University work in?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Brown University's?

Accepted Answer

Johns Hopkins University has the research profile closest to Brown University's (similarity 0.91 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Medicine, followed by Dartmouth College and McGill University.

Question 9

Is Brown University's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021.