In research, California State University, Chico stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,231 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#6,087 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,932 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now.
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where California State University, Chico 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.
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 California State University, Chico work in?
In 2022-now, 47% of research at California State University, Chico is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Engineering (10%), Psychology (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences47%
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.
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.
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
Earth and Planetary Sciences3.01×24 works
Psychology2.59×40 works
Mathematics2.22×13 works
Arts and Humanities2.19×32 works
Social Sciences2.01×130 works
Health Professions1.60×22 works
Environmental Science1.43×36 works
Decision Sciences1.41×7 works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.22×30 works
Veterinary1.20×1 works
Business, Management and Accounting1.19×20 works
Nursing1.14×3 works
Neuroscience0.86×7 works
Computer Science0.77×31 works
Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.75×8 works
Engineering0.66×50 works
Chemistry0.49×4 works
Dentistry0.46×1 works
Physics and Astronomy0.45×5 works
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.38×10 works
Medicine0.32×31 works
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.28×0 works
What are the most cited papers from California State University, Chico?
The most cited paper from California State University, Chico is "Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8" (Eli Coleman et al., 2022), with 2,672 citations. Next come "Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Individualism and Collectivism: A Theoretical and Measurement Refinement" (2,323) and "Choosing among Alternative Service Delivery Modes: An Investigation of Customer Trial of Self-Service Technologies" (1,742).
Which keywords describe research at California State University, Chico?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Climate Change, Identity, Gender, Student Engagement, Community Engagement, EngineeringEducation and Social Media.
▲ 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
Climate Change27▲ 1.94×48 topics
Globalization25▲ 2.5×35 topics
Sustainability19▲ 1.49×34 topics
Identity16▲ 4.3×16 topics
Social Media16▲ 2.2×20 topics
Mental Health15▲ 2.1×26 topics
Gender14▲ 5.3×17 topics
Education14▲ 1.58×20 topics
Student Engagement11▲ 5.6×13 topics
Biodiversity10▲ 2.6×19 topics
Community Engagement10▲ 5.9×11 topics
Resilience10▲ 3.9×9 topics
Social Capital10▲ 3.7×11 topics
Culture9▲ 3.5×9 topics
Invasive Species9▲ 4.1×15 topics
Social Justice9▲ 2.9×14 topics
History8▲ 2.4×7 topics
Engineering Education8▲ 19×4 topics
Colonialism8▲ 3.4×11 topics
Literature8▲ 2.7×9 topics
Ethics7▲ 2.8×14 topics
Conservation7▲ 3.1×11 topics
Politics7▲ 5.0×7 topics
Gender Differences7▲ 3.5×8 topics
Neoliberalism6▲ 3.5×9 topics
Entrepreneurship6▲ 3.2×7 topics
Health6▲ 3.1×10 topics
Vulnerability6▲ 5.1×5 topics
Feminism6▲ 4.0×6 topics
Geological Mapping6▲ 14×2 topics
Community6▲ 9.2×4 topics
Diversity5▲ 5.9×7 topics
Youth5▲ 7.0×5 topics
Teacher Education5▲ 7.4×3 topics
Biological Control5▲ 6.2×7 topics
Metacognition5▲ 6.0×2 topics
Tectonics5▲ 7.5×2 topics
Teacher Preparation4▲ 11×4 topics
Assessment Methods4▲ 7.5×3 topics
Disaster4▲ 15×1 topic
Which research topics does California State University, Chico publish most on?
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.
21%79%
openly available21.4%not open78.6%
World: 40% of research is openly available.
93%
with international co-authors6.9%domestic only93.1%
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has California State University, Chico's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021.
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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 California State University, Chico as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.
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