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Center for Inquiry

In research, Center for Inquiry stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,831 of 14,833 worldwide), Social Sciences (#5,339 of 9,330 worldwide) and Education (#1,961 of 3,033 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#9,490
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#1,959
of 7,310
Research works
1.4k
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.85×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Center for Inquiry

What is Center for Inquiry 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 #6,831 of 14,833 5.8%980
Social SciencesField #5,339 of 9,330 5.8%613
EducationSubfield #1,961 of 3,033 3.8%299
Physical SciencesDomain #11,749 of 17,446 8.7%176
Health SciencesDomain #13,733 of 16,688 6.1%135
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #3,513 of 4,066 7.8%124
PsychologyField #3,049 of 3,404 3.7%165

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Center for Inquiry 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 Inquiry work in?

In 2022-now, 55% of research at Center for Inquiry is in Social Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (32%), Medicine (12%), Computer Science (11%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 40 fractional works · 54.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 31.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 12.0% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 6.7% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 8.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 6.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 6.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 22.7% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 10.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 4.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 20.1% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 11.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKCenter forInquiry72fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences20%Social Sciences55%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2331.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting68.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities46.0%
    4. Psychology46.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.3%
    6. Decision Sciences11.3%
    1. Computer Science810.8%
    2. Mathematics34.7%
    3. Environmental Science23.3%
    4. Engineering22.9%
    5. Chemistry00.6%
    6. Materials Science00.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine811.7%
    2. Health Professions45.0%
    3. Nursing23.3%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Neuroscience11.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.5%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
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: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.39× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.67× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 4.03× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.91× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.61× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 6.67× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.09× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.67× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.97× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.49× its world share, 23 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 6.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing6.67×2 works
  2. Mathematics4.03×3 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.67×6 works
  4. Social Sciences2.49×23 works
  5. Arts and Humanities2.09×4 works
  6. Psychology1.97×4 works
  7. Health Professions1.91×4 works
  8. Computer Science1.39×8 works
  9. Decision Sciences1.31×1 works
  10. Neuroscience0.69×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.67×2 works
  12. Medicine0.61×8 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×1 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.46×0 works
  15. Chemistry0.39×0 works
  16. Veterinary0.38×0 works
  17. Engineering0.19×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.09×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.08×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.03×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Center for Inquiry?

Ranked on the quality score, Susan Lee Robertson, Bruce Tisler and Frances Giampapa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Center for Inquiry.

  1. 1 Susan Lee Robertson United States · #164,447 worldwide 5.7k citations · 270 works
  2. 2 Bruce Tisler United States · #2,413,729 worldwide 71 citations · 93 works
  3. 3 Frances Giampapa United States · #2,527,155 worldwide 649 citations · 52 works
  4. 4 RL Sutton-Spence United States · #2,698,746 worldwide 409 citations · 43 works
  5. 5 Nancy L. Chick United States · #2,717,748 worldwide 750 citations · 114 works
  6. 6 F Olivero United States · #3,270,137 worldwide 1.1k citations · 57 works
  7. 7 RJ Hayter United States · #3,350,824 worldwide 212 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 IR Dale United States · #3,471,139 worldwide 130 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 M Wallace United States · #3,737,784 worldwide 254 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 B Woll United States · #3,796,716 worldwide 258 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Center for Inquiry

What are the most cited papers from Center for Inquiry?

The most cited paper from Center for Inquiry is "Financial Strain over the Life Course and Health among Older Adults" (Joan R. Kahn, Leonard I. Pearlin, 2006), with 632 citations. Next come "Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia" (501) and "Testing and Motivation for Learning" (430).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Financial Strain over the Life Course and Health among Older Adults Joan R. Kahn, Leonard I. Pearlin · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Mar 2006 632
2 Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia Merlyna Lim · Journal of Contemporary Asia 11 Feb 2013 501
3 Testing and Motivation for Learning Wynne Harlen, Ruth Deakin Crick · Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice Jul 2003 430
4 Relationships in reform: the role of teachers' social networks Alan J. Daly, Nienke M. Moolenaar, José M. Bolívar et al. · Journal of Educational Administration Open access May 2010 351
5 GATS and the Education Service Industry: The Politics of Scale and Global Reterritorialization Susan Lee Robertson, Xavier Bonal, Roger Dale · Comparative Education Review Open access Nov 2002 341
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Center for Inquiry?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Entrepreneurship, Globalization, Child Development, Social Capital, Social Justice, Student Engagement, Innovation and Maternal Mortality.

▲ 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. Globalization5▲ 3.6×17 topics
  2. Entrepreneurship4▲ 13×5 topics
  3. Child Development3▲ 10×5 topics
  4. Social Capital3▲ 7.6×4 topics
  5. Social Justice3▲ 6.5×9 topics
  6. Public Health3▲ 2.5×9 topics
  7. Innovation2▲ 3.4×9 topics
  8. Healthcare2▲ 2.6×8 topics
  9. Online Learning2▲ 3.5×6 topics
  10. Risk Factors2▲ 2.4×3 topics
  11. Student Engagement2▲ 6.8×5 topics
  12. Curriculum Development2▲ 3.8×3 topics
  13. Gender2▲ 4.6×10 topics
  14. Qualitative Research2▲ 3.0×4 topics
  15. Global Burden of Disease2▲ 9.0×2 topics
  16. Lifelong Learning2▲ 10×4 topics
  17. Maternal Mortality2▲ 10×3 topics
  18. Urban Development2▲ 6.3×4 topics
  19. Assessment Methods2▲ 20×2 topics
  20. Academic Achievement1▲ 11×2 topics
  21. Maternal and Child Undernutrition1▲ 24×1 topic
  22. Self-Regulation1▲ 11×2 topics
  23. Water Sanitation Hygiene1▲ 24×1 topic
  24. Feminism1▲ 6.2×5 topics
  25. Knowledge Representation1▲ 22×2 topics
  26. School Engagement1▲ 40×1 topic
  27. Semantic Web1▲ 19×2 topics
  28. Student-Teacher Relationships1▲ 40×1 topic
  29. Community Health Workers1▲ 19×2 topics
  30. Crowdfunding1▲ 23×1 topic
  31. Engineering Education1▲ 19×1 topic
  32. Fintech1▲ 21×1 topic
  33. Linked Data1▲ 41×1 topic
  34. Logistic Regression1▲ 17×2 topics
  35. Ontology1▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Outcome-Based Education1▲ 66×1 topic
  37. Employability1▲ 38×2 topics
  38. Gender Inequality1▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Intrinsic Motivation1▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Reflexivity1▲ 44×2 topics

Which research topics does Center for Inquiry publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Child Nutrition and Water Access, Early Childhood Education and Development, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance and Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Child Nutrition and Wate…1Child Nutrition and Water Access: 1 fractional worksEarly Childhood Educatio…1Early Childhood Education and Development: 1 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 1 fractional worksSemantic Web and Ontolog…1Semantic Web and Ontologies: 1 fractional worksEngineering Education an…1Engineering Education and Curriculum Development: 1 fractional worksStatistical Methods in Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksCultural Industries and Urban Development: 1 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …1Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 1 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Venture Capital: 1 fractional worksUrban Green Space and Health: 1 fractional works
Nutrition and DieteticsEducationManagement Information SystemsArtificial Intelligence6 others

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

  1. 1 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 1 works
  2. 2 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 1 works
  3. 3 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 1 works
  4. 4 Semantic Web and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  5. 5 Engineering Education and Curriculum Development Media Technology 1 works
  6. 6 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology Statistics and Probability 1 works
  7. 7 Cultural Industries and Urban Development Urban Studies 1 works
  8. 8 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 1 works
  9. 9 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 1 works
  10. 10 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 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 available12.9%not open87.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.1%domestic only90.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Center for Inquiry's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Center for Inquiry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Center for Inquiry0.00029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Center for Inquiry 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.

5%10%15%Center for Inquiry10.0% in 2013all institutions10.0% in 201320002010

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.0% in 2013.

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