Question 1

What is Carleton College known for?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

How does Carleton College rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Carleton College ranks #3,961 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#2,209 all time), and #563 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Carleton College?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Carleton College?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 5

Which research topics does Carleton College publish most on?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Carleton College?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Carleton College work in?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 8

Is Carleton College's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.