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Edinboro University

In research, Edinboro University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#9,653 of 17,446 worldwide), Social Sciences (#9,151 of 14,833 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#6,856 of 9,330 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#12,290
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#2,550
of 7,310
Research works
683
▼ 60% vs 2018-21
Citations
7k
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.79×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Edinboro University

What is Edinboro University 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
Physical SciencesDomain #9,653 of 17,446 5.9%188
Social SciencesDomain #9,151 of 14,833 5.9%309
Social SciencesField #6,856 of 9,330 6.7%146
Health SciencesDomain #13,743 of 16,688 5.5%125

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Edinboro University 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 Edinboro University work in?

In 2022-now, 46% of research at Edinboro University is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (22%), Psychology (17%), Medicine (12%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 19 fractional works · 46.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 22.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 17.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 24.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 8.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 21.2% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 12.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 8.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 8.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEdinboroUniversity40fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences21%Social Sciences46%

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 Sciences922.2%
    2. Psychology717.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting13.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities12.2%
    5. Decision Sciences11.9%
    1. Environmental Science48.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences25.8%
    3. Engineering24.5%
    4. Computer Science12.3%
    5. Materials Science00.9%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    7. Mathematics00.5%
    8. Chemistry00.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    1. Medicine512.4%
    2. Health Professions38.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology12.4%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.5%
    4. Neuroscience11.4%
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: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.41× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.67× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.80× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 3.32× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.65× its world share, 5 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.94× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 5.60× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.76× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology5.60×7 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.67×2 works
  3. Health Professions3.32×4 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology2.41×1 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.94×1 works
  6. Environmental Science1.80×4 works
  7. Social Sciences1.76×9 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.94×1 works
  9. Neuroscience0.87×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.77×1 works
  11. Medicine0.65×5 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×1 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.48×0 works
  14. Mathematics0.41×0 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.38×0 works
  16. Computer Science0.30×1 works
  17. Engineering0.30×2 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.26×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.21×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Edinboro University?

Ranked on the quality score, Elisabeth Joyce, Gregory D. Morrow and Ulf Sörhannus lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Edinboro University.

  1. 1 Elisabeth Joyce United States · #1,151,212 worldwide 1.3k citations · 39 works
  2. 2 Gregory D. Morrow United States · #1,941,581 worldwide 952 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Ulf Sörhannus United States · #2,216,357 worldwide 1.4k citations · 40 works
  4. 4 John A. Polo United States · #2,301,104 worldwide 1.1k citations · 59 works
  5. 5 Molly R. Wolf United States · #2,669,460 worldwide 297 citations · 151 works
  6. 6 Henry W. Lawrence United States · #2,763,587 worldwide 285 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 J. H. Alexander United States · #2,820,109 worldwide 1 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Harry Drinkwater United States · #2,979,435 worldwide 171 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 William J. Mackay United States · #3,062,908 worldwide 725 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Ivan Chompalov United States · #3,108,457 worldwide 884 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Edinboro University

What are the most cited papers from Edinboro University?

The most cited paper from Edinboro University is "Moses : open source toolkit for statistical machine translation" (Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch et al., 2007), with 1,457 citations. Next come "Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble" (379) and "Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups" (376).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Moses : open source toolkit for statistical machine translation Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch et al. · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) Conference paperOpen access 2007 1,457
2 Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble Craig B. Stanford et al. · Current Biology Open access Jun 2020 379
3 Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups Elisabeth Joyce, Robert E. Kraut · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Apr 2006 376
4 Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States William H. Romme, Craig D. Allen, John Duff Bailey et al. · Rangeland Ecology & Management Open access May 2009 371
5 Talk to me Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce et al. Conference paper 22 Apr 2006 339
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Edinboro University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Mental Health, Violence, Well-being, Holocene, Sea Level, Gender and Conservation.

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

All 37 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Health3▲ 4.9×9 topics
  2. Epidemiology3▲ 1.66×8 topics
  3. Climate Change2▲ 2.0×11 topics
  4. Mental Health2▲ 3.9×8 topics
  5. Sustainability2▲ 2.2×8 topics
  6. Gender2▲ 7.0×4 topics
  7. Violence2▲ 26×4 topics
  8. Healthcare1▲ 3.1×4 topics
  9. Holocene1▲ 32×2 topics
  10. Sea Level1▲ 39×2 topics
  11. Social Media1▲ 2.6×8 topics
  12. Well-being1▲ 9.3×6 topics
  13. Conservation1▲ 7.8×4 topics
  14. Depression1▲ 3.6×4 topics
  15. Environmental Impact1▲ 1.96×3 topics
  16. Globalization1▲ 1.63×3 topics
  17. Biodiversity1▲ 3.9×8 topics
  18. Consumer Behavior1▲ 4.7×5 topics
  19. Cultural Competence1▲ 23×3 topics
  20. Health1▲ 7.3×2 topics
  21. Migration1▲ 8.6×2 topics
  22. Neuroscience1▲ 10.0×6 topics
  23. Quality of Life1▲ 2.0×6 topics
  24. Renewable Energy1▲ 2.0×3 topics
  25. Testosterone1▲ 68×2 topics
  26. Glacial Cycles1▲ 43×1 topic
  27. Paleoclimatology1▲ 34×1 topic
  28. Conflict1▲ 15×1 topic
  29. Habitat Connectivity1▲ 141×1 topic
  30. Mortality1▲ 4.4×1 topic
  31. Muscle Injuries1▲ 39×1 topic
  32. North Korea1▲ 374×1 topic
  33. Qualitative Research1▲ 2.9×3 topics
  34. Refugees1▲ 20×1 topic
  35. Road Ecology1▲ 141×1 topic
  36. Social Cognition1▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Sports Injury1▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does Edinboro University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Sports injuries and prevention, Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies and Health and Conflict Studies.

Geology and Paleoclimato…1Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksSports injuries and prev…1Sports injuries and prevention: 1 fractional worksKorean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies: 1 fractional worksHealth and Conflict Stud…1Health and Conflict Studies: 1 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactio…1Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 1 fractional worksAmerican Environmental and Regional History: 1 fractional worksHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management: 1 fractional worksVector-borne infectious …1Vector-borne infectious diseases: 1 fractional worksEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior: 1 fractional worksChild Abuse and Trauma: 1 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceOrthopedics and Sports MedicineSociology and Political ScienceGeneral Health Professions6 others

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

  1. 1 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  2. 2 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  4. 4 Health and Conflict Studies General Health Professions 1 works
  5. 5 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 1 works
  6. 6 American Environmental and Regional History Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  7. 7 Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  8. 8 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 1 works
  9. 9 Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1 works
  10. 10 Child Abuse and Trauma Clinical Psychology 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 available17.1%not open82.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.9%domestic only94.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Edinboro University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Edinboro University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000076% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Edinboro University0.00012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Edinboro University 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%all institutions10.0% in 2021Edinboro University0.9% in 20212020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 7.2% in 2018.

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