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Center for American Progress

In research, Center for American Progress stands highest in Social Sciences (#9,429 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#16,332
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#3,388
of 7,310
Research works
237
▼ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.5k
10.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.30×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Center for American Progress

What is Center for American Progress known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #9,429 of 14,833 8.5%162

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Center for American Progress 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 fields of science does Center for American Progress work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Center for American Progress is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Business, Management and Accounting (10%), Medicine (10%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 24 fractional works · 57.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 35.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 14.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 9.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 20.6% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 7.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 6.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 17.1% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCenter forAmerican Progress41fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences17%Social Sciences57%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1535.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting49.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance25.3%
    4. Psychology24.0%
    5. Decision Sciences11.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    1. Engineering37.3%
    2. Computer Science36.1%
    3. Environmental Science36.1%
    4. Mathematics00.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
    1. Medicine49.6%
    2. Health Professions37.0%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.3%
    2. Neuroscience12.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
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: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.28× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.78× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 2.66× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.54× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.04× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.97× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.49× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.32× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.82× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.04×4 works
  2. Social Sciences2.82×15 works
  3. Health Professions2.66×3 works
  4. Veterinary2.54×0 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.49×2 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.97×1 works
  7. Psychology1.32×2 works
  8. Neuroscience1.28×1 works
  9. Environmental Science1.22×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.78×2 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×0 works
  12. Mathematics0.51×0 works
  13. Medicine0.50×4 works
  14. Engineering0.49×3 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.48×1 works
  16. Nursing0.41×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.40×0 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.36×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.15×0 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Center for American Progress?

Ranked on the quality score, Alan Mallach, Joseph Romm and Ruy Teixeira lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Center for American Progress.

  1. 1 Alan Mallach United States · #820,438 worldwide 1.1k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Joseph Romm United States · #1,173,670 worldwide 1.2k citations · 46 works
  3. 3 Ruy Teixeira United States · #1,448,082 worldwide 2k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 John D. Podesta United States · #1,559,710 worldwide 702 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Nina Hachigian United States · #2,944,011 worldwide 288 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Tom Daschle United States · #3,124,250 worldwide 299 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Brian Katulis United States · #3,129,291 worldwide 44 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 David Madland United States · #3,578,827 worldwide 87 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Cindy A. Buckmaster United States · #3,783,635 worldwide 444 citations · 24 works
  10. 10 Glen S. Fukushima United States · #5,053,258 worldwide 52 citations · 39 works
All ranked researchers at Center for American Progress

What are the most cited papers from Center for American Progress?

The most cited paper from Center for American Progress is "Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs" (Emily Oshima Lee, Ezekiel Emanuel, 2013), with 765 citations. Next come "Do Ask, Do Tell: High Levels of Acceptability by Patients of Routine Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Four Diverse American Community Health Centers" (289) and "Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: resolving conceptual challenges" (253).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs Emily Oshima Lee, Ezekiel Emanuel · New England Journal of Medicine 2 Jan 2013 765
2 Do Ask, Do Tell: High Levels of Acceptability by Patients of Routine Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Four Diverse American Community Health Centers Seán Cahill, Robbie Singal, Chris Grasso et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 8 Sep 2014 289
3 Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: resolving conceptual challenges Mathis Wackernagel, Chad Monfreda, Niels B. Schulz et al. · Land Use Policy 10 Feb 2004 253
4 Inclusion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Stage 3 Meaningful Use Guidelines: A Huge Step Forward for LGBT Health Seán Cahill, Kellan Baker, Madeline B. Deutsch et al. · LGBT Health 24 Dec 2015 190
5 A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care Spending Ezekiel Emanuel et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access Aug 2012 177
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Which keywords describe research at Center for American Progress?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neighborhood Effects, Neoliberalism, Digital Transformation, Urban Poverty, Globalization, Information Technology, Community Development and Residential Segregation.

▲ 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 28 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 28 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization3▲ 3.3×16 topics
  2. Mental Health2▲ 3.4×9 topics
  3. Neighborhood Effects2▲ 46×2 topics
  4. Neoliberalism2▲ 13×5 topics
  5. Digital Transformation2▲ 8.2×5 topics
  6. Information Technology2▲ 8.9×2 topics
  7. Sustainable Development2▲ 2.9×8 topics
  8. Urban Poverty2▲ 102×2 topics
  9. Community Development2▲ 23×2 topics
  10. Corporate Governance2▲ 5.6×5 topics
  11. Renewable Energy2▲ 2.9×5 topics
  12. Residential Segregation2▲ 261×1 topic
  13. Social Mobility2▲ 143×1 topic
  14. Big Data2▲ 4.2×3 topics
  15. Climate Change2▲ 1.43×13 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence1▲ 2.4×3 topics
  17. Digital Capital1▲ 196×1 topic
  18. Value Chains1▲ 196×1 topic
  19. Epidemiology1▼ 0.82×14 topics
  20. Qualitative Research1▲ 3.6×5 topics
  21. Latin America1▲ 16×2 topics
  22. Public Health1▲ 1.98×10 topics
  23. Gender1▲ 4.8×5 topics
  24. Economic Integration1▲ 89×1 topic
  25. Income Inequality1▲ 17×2 topics
  26. Leadership1▲ 5.0×3 topics
  27. Public Opinion1▲ 21×4 topics
  28. Regionalism1▲ 134×1 topic

Which research topics does Center for American Progress publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Corporate Governance and Management, International Relations in Latin America and Digital Innovation in Industries.

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies: 2 fractional worksCorporate Governance and Management: 1 fractional worksInternational Relations …1International Relations in Latin America: 1 fractional worksDigital Innovation in In…1Digital Innovation in Industries: 1 fractional worksHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism: 1 fractional worksFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 1 fractional worksUrbanization and City Pl…1Urbanization and City Planning: 1 fractional worksBusiness and Management Studies: 1 fractional worksCorporate Management and Leadership: 0 fractional worksUrban Planning and Governance: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceStrategy and ManagementPolitical Science and International RelationsManagement of Technology and Innovation5 others

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

  1. 1 Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  2. 2 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 1 works
  3. 3 International Relations in Latin America Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  4. 4 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 1 works
  5. 5 Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism Finance 1 works
  6. 6 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 1 works
  7. 7 Urbanization and City Planning Urban Studies 1 works
  8. 8 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 1 works
  9. 9 Corporate Management and Leadership Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0 works
  10. 10 Urban Planning and Governance Urban Studies 0 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.5%domestic only82.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Center for American Progress's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Center for American Progress as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Center for American Progress0.00014% in 202519801990200020102020

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