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Carleton College

In research, Carleton College stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,969 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,086 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#1,933 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now.

World rank, 2022-now
#3,961
of 22,385 · #2,209 all time
Rank in United States
#563
of 3,332
Research works
3.4k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
46k
13.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.81×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%

What is Carleton College 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 #1,969 of 9,585 10.6%227 #1178
Physical SciencesDomain #3,086 of 10,670 6.1%147 #2070
Social SciencesField #1,933 of 5,988 11.7%118 #1100

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Carleton College 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#1,178 #1,969
  2. Physical Sciences#2,070 #3,086
  3. Social Sciences#1,100 #1,933
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 Carleton College work in?

In 2022-now, 48% of research at Carleton College is in Social Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Arts and Humanities (12%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 251 fractional works · 47.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 129 fractional works · 24.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 39 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEducation: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAnthropology: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCultural Studies: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLaw: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 64 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPhilosophy: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMusic: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClassics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 32 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 165 fractional works · 31.2% of its workComputer Science: 58 fractional works · 10.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 15 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 15 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 25 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 21 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 20 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 20 fractional works · 3.7% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 63 fractional works · 12.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 25 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 14 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 49 fractional works · 9.3% of its workMedicine: 36 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCarleton College528fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences48%

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. Social Sciences12924.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities6412.2%
    3. Psychology326.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance142.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting61.2%
    6. Decision Sciences61.2%
    1. Computer Science5810.9%
    2. Environmental Science254.6%
    3. Engineering214.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences203.8%
    5. Mathematics203.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy112.1%
    7. Chemistry81.5%
    8. Materials Science20.4%
    9. Energy10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology254.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences224.1%
    3. Neuroscience142.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine366.8%
    2. Health Professions112.1%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.86× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.88× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.69× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.97× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.40× its world share, 58 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.39× its world share, 20 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 21 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.94× its world share, 24 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.17× its world share, 20 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.94× its world share, 11 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.78× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.36× its world share, 36 worksMedicineNursing: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.21× its world share, 64 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.37× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.21× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.99× its world share, 32 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.93× its world share, 129 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities4.21×64 works
  2. Mathematics3.17×20 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.39×20 works
  4. Psychology1.99×32 works
  5. Social Sciences1.93×129 works
  6. Neuroscience1.69×14 works
  7. Computer Science1.40×58 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.23×6 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.21×14 works
  10. Chemistry0.97×8 works
  11. Environmental Science0.94×24 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.94×11 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.88×25 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.86×22 works
  15. Health Professions0.78×11 works
  16. Veterinary0.70×0 works
  17. Nursing0.50×1 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.39×2 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.37×6 works
  20. Medicine0.36×36 works
  21. Engineering0.27×21 works
  22. Energy0.13×1 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.12×0 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.11×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.10×2 works
  26. Dentistry0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Carleton College?

Ranked on the quality score, Nelson L Christensen, Layla Oesper and Jay D. Tasson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Carleton College.

  1. 1 Nelson L Christensen United States · #3,962 worldwide 110k citations · 666 works
  2. 2 Layla Oesper United States · #47,358 worldwide 18k citations · 83 works
  3. 3 Jay D. Tasson United States · #66,436 worldwide 5.8k citations · 106 works
  4. 4 David Liben‐Nowell United States · #371,768 worldwide 13k citations · 61 works
  5. 5 Matthew T. Whited United States · #385,323 worldwide 3.4k citations · 154 works
  6. 6 Ian G. Barbour United States · #486,392 worldwide 2k citations · 72 works
  7. 7 Rika E. Anderson United States · #521,940 worldwide 4.1k citations · 138 works
  8. 8 David R. Musicant United States · #570,757 worldwide 1.6k citations · 43 works
  9. 9 Christina E. Farhart United States · #604,810 worldwide 2.1k citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Anna N. Rafferty United States · #634,912 worldwide 1.8k citations · 95 works
All ranked researchers at Carleton College

What are the most cited papers from Carleton College?

The most cited paper from Carleton College is "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (B. P. Abbott et al., 2016), with 14,545 citations. Next come "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" (9,794) and "Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope" (6,449).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,011 authors 11 Feb 2016 14,545
2 GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,124 authors 16 Oct 2017 9,794
3 Modeling the Shape of the Scene: A Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope Aude Oliva, Antonio B. Torralba · International Journal of Computer Vision May 2001 6,449
4 The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al. · Nature Open access1,384 authors 5 Feb 2020 3,854
5 GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,149 authors 4 Sep 2019 3,658
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Carleton College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Gender Differences, Colonialism, Learning Analytics, STEM Education, Culture, Computational Thinking and Programming Education.

▲ 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. Globalization29▲ 2.8×54 topics
  2. Machine Learning18◆ 1.04×41 topics
  3. Gender Differences16▲ 8.3×10 topics
  4. Colonialism16▲ 6.3×21 topics
  5. Climate Change15◆ 1.05×49 topics
  6. Culture15▲ 5.3×16 topics
  7. STEM Education14▲ 6.1×6 topics
  8. Identity14▲ 3.6×22 topics
  9. Learning Analytics14▲ 21×2 topics
  10. Ethics13▲ 5.0×16 topics
  11. Gender13▲ 4.6×19 topics
  12. Education12▲ 1.37×31 topics
  13. Computational Thinking12▲ 67×1 topic
  14. Programming Education12▲ 67×1 topic
  15. History12▲ 3.1×14 topics
  16. Nationalism11▲ 4.7×17 topics
  17. Religion11▲ 4.6×17 topics
  18. Innovation10▲ 1.92×17 topics
  19. Neoliberalism10▲ 5.4×15 topics
  20. Higher Education10▲ 3.4×14 topics
  21. Society10▲ 9.4×8 topics
  22. Literature9▲ 3.1×13 topics
  23. Philosophy9▲ 3.9×8 topics
  24. Feminism8▲ 5.4×11 topics
  25. Politics8▲ 5.9×9 topics
  26. Teaching Methods8▲ 9.6×5 topics
  27. Technology8▲ 2.8×11 topics
  28. Neuroscience8▲ 4.6×9 topics
  29. Mathematics Education7▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Democracy6▲ 3.5×14 topics
  31. Cultural Transmission6▲ 16×4 topics
  32. Imperialism6▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Historical Sources6▲ 62×1 topic
  34. Mathematical Concepts6▲ 62×1 topic
  35. Modal Logic5▲ 33×2 topics
  36. Empathy5▲ 8.0×6 topics
  37. Perception5▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Aristotle4▲ 34×2 topics
  39. Fractal Dimension4▲ 23×2 topics
  40. Grammar4▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does Carleton College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Teaching and Learning Programming, History and Theory of Mathematics, Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms and Classical Philosophy and Thought.

  1. 1 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 12 works
  2. 2 History and Theory of Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science 6 works
  3. 3 Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms Computational Theory and Mathematics 4 works
  4. 4 Classical Philosophy and Thought Philosophy 3 works
  5. 5 Philosophy and Theoretical Science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 3 works
  6. 6 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 3 works
  7. 7 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 3 works
  8. 8 Botanical Research and Applications Food Science 3 works
  9. 9 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  10. 10 Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications Philosophy 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 available25.7%not open74.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Carleton College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% 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 Carleton College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Carleton College0.0021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Carleton College 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Carleton College5.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.4% in 1993.

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