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Council on Foreign Relations

In research, Council on Foreign Relations stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,093 of 14,833 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,955 of 9,330 worldwide) and Political Science and International Relations (#550 of 2,238 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#11,654
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#2,430
of 7,310
Research works
1k
▼ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.77×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Council on Foreign Relations

What is Council on Foreign Relations 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 #3,093 of 14,833 11.2%829
Social SciencesField #1,955 of 9,330 12.1%573
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #550 of 2,238 11.5%258
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,158 of 4,066 13.1%199
Health SciencesDomain #14,914 of 16,688 10.4%120

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Council on Foreign Relations 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 Council on Foreign Relations work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Council on Foreign Relations is in Social Sciences, 15% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (57%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (11%), Medicine (8%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 49 fractional works · 74.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 38 fractional works · 57.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 fractional works · 22.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 20.9% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 11.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 15.1% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 7.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCouncil onForeign Relations66fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences15%Social Sciences74%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3857.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance711.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities23.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting12.1%
    5. Psychology00.5%
    6. Decision Sciences00.2%
    1. Medicine57.5%
    2. Health Professions46.8%
    3. Nursing00.5%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    1. Engineering22.9%
    2. Computer Science11.8%
    3. Energy11.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.5%
    6. Mathematics00.2%
    7. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
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: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.38× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.59× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.10× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.15× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.51× its world share, 38 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.15×7 works
  2. Social Sciences4.51×38 works
  3. Health Professions2.59×4 works
  4. Energy1.38×1 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.10×2 works
  6. Nursing1.03×0 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.72×0 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.65×1 works
  9. Dentistry0.52×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.47×2 works
  11. Medicine0.39×5 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.32×0 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.24×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.23×1 works
  15. Engineering0.19×2 works
  16. Mathematics0.19×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.17×0 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.17×0 works
  19. Psychology0.16×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×0 works
  21. Environmental Science0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Council on Foreign Relations?

Ranked on the quality score, William Diebold, Kenneth Maxwell and John C. Campbell lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Council on Foreign Relations.

  1. 1 William Diebold United States · #56,305 worldwide 48k citations · 710 works
  2. 2 Kenneth Maxwell United States · #67,916 worldwide 23k citations · 406 works
  3. 3 John C. Campbell United States · #84,302 worldwide 31k citations · 1,198 works
  4. 4 Andrew John Pierre United States · #189,342 worldwide 19k citations · 475 works
  5. 5 Walter Russell Mead United States · #233,323 worldwide 13k citations · 221 works
  6. 6 Robert D. Crassweller United States · #275,212 worldwide 6.1k citations · 199 works
  7. 7 Stephen D. Biddle United States · #431,567 worldwide 3.3k citations · 92 works
  8. 8 Erica Strecker Downs United States · #696,747 worldwide 1.1k citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Thomas J. Bollyky United States · #714,670 worldwide 1.7k citations · 73 works
  10. 10 Varun Sivaram United States · #975,599 worldwide 2.1k citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Council on Foreign Relations

What are the most cited papers from Council on Foreign Relations?

The most cited paper from Council on Foreign Relations is "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity" (William J. Baumöl, Robert E. Litan, Carl Jude Schramm, 2007), with 859 citations. Next come "Political leadership and regime formation: on the development of institutions in international society" (781) and "Dynamics of energy technologies and global change" (747).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity William J. Baumöl, Robert E. Litan, Carl Jude Schramm · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2007 859
2 Political leadership and regime formation: on the development of institutions in international society Oran R. Young · International Organization 1991 781
3 Dynamics of energy technologies and global change Arnulf Grübler, Nebojša Nakićenović, David G. Victor · Energy Policy Open access May 1999 747
4 The future mobility of the world population Andreas Schäfer, David G. Victor · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice Apr 2000 670
5 The Muddles over Outsourcing Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Nov 2004 646
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Which keywords describe research at Council on Foreign Relations?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Nationalism, Governance, Economic Growth, Global Governance, Human Rights, International Relations and Political Economy.

▲ 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. Globalization9▲ 6.8×20 topics
  2. Governance5▲ 23×4 topics
  3. Nationalism5▲ 17×11 topics
  4. Economic Growth5▲ 9.1×8 topics
  5. Human Rights5▲ 6.9×11 topics
  6. Global Governance4▲ 29×8 topics
  7. International Relations4▲ 27×8 topics
  8. Political Economy4▲ 24×8 topics
  9. Public Health4▲ 4.1×8 topics
  10. Geopolitics4▲ 39×5 topics
  11. Economic Development4▲ 7.1×8 topics
  12. NGOs4▲ 60×3 topics
  13. Colonialism3▲ 11×10 topics
  14. China3▲ 51×3 topics
  15. History3▲ 6.7×4 topics
  16. Migration3▲ 14×5 topics
  17. Development Policies3▲ 138×1 topic
  18. Foreign Aid3▲ 138×1 topic
  19. Russia3▲ 106×3 topics
  20. Religion3▲ 8.9×4 topics
  21. Security3▲ 6.2×4 topics
  22. Conflict2▲ 23×5 topics
  23. Ukraine2▲ 107×2 topics
  24. European Union2▲ 15×5 topics
  25. International Law2▲ 11×3 topics
  26. Sovereignty2▲ 37×3 topics
  27. Authoritarianism2▲ 36×4 topics
  28. Inequality2▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Monetary Policy2▲ 13×6 topics
  30. Power2▲ 41×2 topics
  31. Financial Integration2▲ 98×2 topics
  32. Gender2▲ 5.3×6 topics
  33. Philosophy2▲ 6.7×3 topics
  34. Social Determinants of Health2▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Politics2▲ 10×4 topics
  36. Democracy2▲ 7.2×5 topics
  37. Information Warfare2▲ 74×2 topics
  38. International Institutions2▲ 122×1 topic
  39. Norms2▲ 68×1 topic
  40. Primary Care2▲ 6.9×5 topics

Which research topics does Council on Foreign Relations publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: International Development and Aid, International Relations and Foreign Policy, European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies and Global Financial Crisis and Policies.

International Developmen…3International Development and Aid: 3 fractional worksInternational Relations …2International Relations and Foreign Policy: 2 fractional worksEuropean and Russian Geo…2European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies: 2 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis …2Global Financial Crisis and Policies: 2 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 1 fractional worksTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence: 1 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and P…1Healthcare Systems and Practices: 1 fractional worksChina's Socioeconomic Re…1China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance: 1 fractional worksPost-Soviet Geopolitical…1Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics: 1 fractional worksPolitical Economy and Ma…1Political Economy and Marxism: 1 fractional works
DevelopmentPolitical Science and International RelationsFinanceSociology and Political Science1 others

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

  1. 1 International Development and Aid Development 3 works
  2. 2 International Relations and Foreign Policy Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  3. 3 European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  4. 4 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 2 works
  5. 5 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 1 works
  8. 8 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  9. 9 Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  10. 10 Political Economy and Marxism Sociology and Political Science 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 available16.7%not open83.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.7%domestic only90.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Council on Foreign Relations's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% 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 Council on Foreign Relations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Council on Foreign Relations0.00022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Council on Foreign Relations 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.

10%20%30%Council on Foreign Relations16.0% in 2022all institutions10.0% in 2022200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.9% in 2020.

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