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California University of Pennsylvania

In research, California University of Pennsylvania stands highest in Computer Science (#273 of 4,667 worldwide), Social Sciences (#739 of 10,521 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#1,270 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Decision Sciences, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science — General Decision Sciences is 45.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,551
of 28,054 · #710 all time
Rank in United States
#246
of 4,192
Research works
25k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
727k
29.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

What is California University of Pennsylvania known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #273 of 4,667 19.7%283 #265
Social SciencesDomain #739 of 10,521 17.0%1,387 #140
Physical SciencesDomain #1,270 of 12,888 17.4%686 #1251
Social SciencesField #770 of 6,365 20.2%711 #194
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #560 of 2,578 20.6%233 #159
Arts and HumanitiesField #584 of 1,998 11.7%274 #160
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #386 of 1,201 16.9%138 #124
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #611 of 1,884 17.4%140 #224
Health SciencesDomain #4,006 of 11,982 7.1%422 #655
MedicineField #3,954 of 10,443 5.7%339 #808

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where California University of Pennsylvania 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Computer Science#265 #273
  2. Social Sciences#140 #739
  3. Physical Sciences#1,251 #1,270
  4. Social Sciences#194 #770
  5. Sociology and Political Science#159 #560
  6. Arts and Humanities#160 #584
  7. Political Science and International Relations#124 #386
  8. Artificial Intelligence#224 #611
  9. Health Sciences#655 #4,006
  10. Medicine#808 #3,954
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does California University of Pennsylvania specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Decision Sciences takes 45.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Decision SciencesSubfield · 23.6 works46×
  2. ClassicsSubfield · 21.3 works13×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 30.2 works7.2×
  4. AnthropologySubfield · 44.8 works5.9×
  5. HistorySubfield · 42.4 works4.9×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.61× its world share, 89 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.59× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.98× its world share, 87 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.65× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.45× its world share, 19 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.34× its world share, 283 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 18 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.28× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.41× its world share, 168 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.30× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.42× its world share, 40 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.84× its world share, 27 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.36× its world share, 82 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.03× its world share, 74 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.65× its world share, 339 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.50× its world share, 274 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.86× its world share, 75 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.46× its world share, 65 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.75× its world share, 102 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.95× its world share, 161 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.07× its world share, 711 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at California University of Pennsylvania?

Ranked on the composite score, Immanuel Kant, Randall Collins and George W. Stocking lead among researchers whose main affiliation is California University of Pennsylvania.

  1. 1 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
  2. 2 Randall Collins United States · #2,636 worldwide 844 citations · 106 works
  3. 3 George W. Stocking United States · #2,703 worldwide 619 citations · 87 works
  4. 4 Thorsten Sellin United States · #3,763 worldwide 550 citations · 82 works
  5. 5 Nelson Goodman United States · #5,115 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Gary Hatfield United States · #9,729 worldwide 523 citations · 55 works
  7. 7 Thomas Donaldson United States · #11,790 worldwide 1.2k citations · 47 works
  8. 8 William Labov United States · #11,939 worldwide 358 citations · 70 works
  9. 9 Dell Hymes United States · #13,100 worldwide 309 citations · 78 works
  10. 10 Roland G. Kent United States · #16,093 worldwide 201 citations · 64 works
All ranked researchers at California University of Pennsylvania

Which keywords describe research at California University of Pennsylvania?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, History, Nationalism, Religion, Culture, Identity, Society and Gender.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Globalization143▲ 2.7×97 topics
  2. Machine Learning100◆ 1.12×65 topics
  3. Deep Learning94◆ 1.02×67 topics
  4. History83▲ 4.3×40 topics
  5. Epidemiology81▼ 0.75×98 topics
  6. Neural Networks74▲ 1.77×31 topics
  7. Nationalism68▲ 5.4×29 topics
  8. Religion67▲ 5.2×28 topics
  9. Identity67▲ 3.4×53 topics
  10. Culture61▲ 4.2×30 topics
  11. Gender60▲ 4.1×40 topics
  12. Mental Health59▲ 1.48×36 topics
  13. Literature58▲ 3.9×43 topics
  14. Education58▲ 1.24×59 topics
  15. Colonialism56▲ 4.4×37 topics
  16. Human Rights56▲ 2.0×47 topics
  17. Innovation49▲ 1.72×39 topics
  18. Philosophy46▲ 3.8×28 topics
  19. Society45▲ 8.6×21 topics
  20. Feminism45▲ 5.8×18 topics
  21. Emotion42▲ 7.5×12 topics
  22. Neoliberalism40▲ 4.2×23 topics
  23. Politics38▲ 5.2×20 topics
  24. Decision Making34▲ 4.2×6 topics
  25. Ethics34▲ 2.6×31 topics
  26. Democracy32▲ 3.3×19 topics
  27. Corpus Linguistics30▲ 5.0×5 topics
  28. Intersectionality29▲ 5.8×13 topics
  29. Secularism26▲ 9.3×5 topics
  30. Empire25▲ 11×5 topics
  31. Topic Modeling25▲ 6.3×2 topics
  32. Machine Translation24▲ 5.4×2 topics
  33. Cosmopolitanism24▲ 8.2×8 topics
  34. Risk Aversion24▲ 47×1 topic
  35. Time Discounting24▲ 47×1 topic
  36. Semantic Similarity22▲ 6.6×1 topic
  37. Word Representation22▲ 6.6×1 topic
  38. Neural Machine Translation21▲ 8.2×1 topic
  39. Statistical Machine Translation21▲ 8.2×1 topic
  40. Middle East20▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does California University of Pennsylvania publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques and Islamic Studies and History.

Decision-Making and Beha…24Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics: 24 fractional worksTopic Modeling22Topic Modeling: 22 fractional worksNatural Language Process…21Natural Language Processing Techniques: 21 fractional worksIslamic Studies and Hist…17Islamic Studies and History: 17 fractional worksMedieval Literature and History: 13 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 12 fractional worksHistorical Studies and S…12Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 12 fractional worksOnline Learning and Anal…11Online Learning and Analytics: 11 fractional worksChinese history and phil…11Chinese history and philosophy: 11 fractional worksMultilingual Education a…10Multilingual Education and Policy: 10 fractional works
General Decision SciencesArtificial IntelligencePolitical Science and International RelationsClassics5 others

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

  1. 1 Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics General Decision Sciences 24 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 21 works
  4. 4 Islamic Studies and History Political Science and International Relations 17 works
  5. 5 Medieval Literature and History Classics 13 works
  6. 6 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 12 works
  7. 7 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 12 works
  8. 8 Online Learning and Analytics Computer Science Applications 11 works
  9. 9 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  10. 10 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 10 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 available34.5%not open65.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.3%domestic only89.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has California University of Pennsylvania's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.