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Educational Testing Service

In research, Educational Testing Service stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,941 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,150 of 6,365 worldwide) and Computer Science (#3,361 of 4,667 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management Science and Operations Research, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Decision Sciences — Management Science and Operations Research is 18.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,128
of 28,054 · #3,179 all time
Rank in United States
#1,511
of 4,192
Research works
5.3k
▼ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
244k
46.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Educational Testing Service known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #2,941 of 10,521 31.0%165 #455
Social SciencesField #2,150 of 6,365 38.9%78 #443
Computer ScienceField #3,361 of 4,667 18.2%69 #1399
Physical SciencesDomain #11,304 of 12,888 14.8%98 #5797

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Educational Testing Service 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#455 #2,941
  2. Social Sciences#443 #2,150
  3. Computer Science#1,399 #3,361
  4. Physical Sciences#5,797 #11,304
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Educational Testing Service specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Science and Operations Research takes 18.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management Science and Operations ResearchSubfield · 25.3 works18×
  2. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 20.8 works16×
  3. Decision SciencesField · 31.1 works12×
  4. EducationSubfield · 57.3 works6.7×
  5. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 44.6 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.24× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.18× its world share, 69 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 5.30× its world share, 17 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.88× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.37× its world share, 11 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.44× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 11.55× its world share, 31 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.77× its world share, 41 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.20× its world share, 78 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 11.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Educational Testing Service?

Ranked on the composite score, Paul W. Holland, Samuel Messick and Frederic M. Lord lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Educational Testing Service.

  1. 1 Paul W. Holland · #5,847 worldwide 1.7k citations · 58 works
  2. 2 Samuel Messick · #12,025 worldwide 1.2k citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Frederic M. Lord · #19,153 worldwide 1.6k citations · 39 works
  4. 4 Michael T. Kane · #42,423 worldwide 459 citations · 38 works
  5. 5 Irving E. Sigel · #43,407 worldwide 359 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Melvin R. Novick · #60,821 worldwide 1.5k citations · 26 works
  7. 7 John A. Centra · #61,489 worldwide 251 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Donald R. Goodenough · #64,997 worldwide 374 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Donald A. Rock · #65,116 worldwide 305 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Nathan Kogan · #68,100 worldwide 291 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Educational Testing Service

Which keywords describe research at Educational Testing Service?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Structural Equation Modeling, Learning Outcomes, Factor Analysis, Measurement Invariance, Educational Research, Student Engagement, Educational Technology and Self-Regulated Learning.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Structural Equation Modeling21▲ 38×2 topics
  2. Learning Outcomes19▲ 16×6 topics
  3. Factor Analysis19▲ 777×1 topic
  4. Measurement Invariance19▲ 777×1 topic
  5. Machine Learning18▲ 1.93×21 topics
  6. Educational Technology18▲ 5.3×13 topics
  7. Neural Networks17▲ 3.9×13 topics
  8. Educational Research16▲ 40×3 topics
  9. Student Engagement16▲ 14×12 topics
  10. Self-Regulated Learning14▲ 167×2 topics
  11. Feedback13▲ 81×1 topic
  12. Formative Assessment13▲ 69×1 topic
  13. Meta-Analysis12▲ 7.2×8 topics
  14. Motivation11▲ 9.2×5 topics
  15. Metacognition11▲ 24×4 topics
  16. Online Learning10▲ 4.4×8 topics
  17. Text Classification10▲ 22×3 topics
  18. Self-Regulation10▲ 20×3 topics
  19. Corpus Linguistics10▲ 16×3 topics
  20. Topic Modeling10▲ 23×2 topics
  21. Intelligent Tutoring Systems9▲ 71×2 topics
  22. Information Retrieval9▲ 15×4 topics
  23. Teaching Strategies9▲ 11×4 topics
  24. Collaborative Learning9▲ 44×1 topic
  25. Scaffolding9▲ 64×1 topic
  26. Higher Education8▲ 5.7×6 topics
  27. Machine Translation8▲ 18×1 topic
  28. Word Representation8▲ 25×1 topic
  29. Student Achievement8▲ 34×4 topics
  30. Academic Achievement8▲ 17×7 topics
  31. Educational Inequality8▲ 49×2 topics
  32. Bayesian Networks7▲ 30×2 topics
  33. Affective States7▲ 99×1 topic
  34. Cognitive-Affective Interaction7▲ 99×1 topic
  35. Neural Machine Translation7▲ 26×1 topic
  36. Statistical Machine Translation7▲ 26×1 topic
  37. Language Development7▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Principal Component Analysis7▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Regression Analysis7▲ 62×2 topics
  40. Teacher Professional Development6▲ 14×4 topics

Which research topics does Educational Testing Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, Student Assessment and Feedback, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Topic Modeling.

Psychometric Methodologi…19Psychometric Methodologies and Testing: 19 fractional worksStudent Assessment and Feedback: 13 fractional worksInnovative Teaching and …9Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods: 9 fractional worksTopic Modeling8Topic Modeling: 8 fractional worksIntelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning: 7 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Statistical Met…6Advanced Statistical Methods and Models: 6 fractional worksEducation and Critical Thinking Development: 5 fractional worksOnline Learning and Analytics: 5 fractional worksSchool Choice and Performance: 4 fractional works
Management Science and Operations ResearchEducationDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyArtificial Intelligence2 others

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

  1. 1 Psychometric Methodologies and TestingManagement Science and Operations Research 19 works
  2. 2 Student Assessment and FeedbackEducation 13 works
  3. 3 Innovative Teaching and Learning MethodsDevelopmental and Educational Psychology 9 works
  4. 4 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 8 works
  5. 5 Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive LearningArtificial Intelligence 7 works
  6. 6 Natural Language Processing TechniquesArtificial Intelligence 7 works
  7. 7 Advanced Statistical Methods and ModelsStatistics and Probability 6 works
  8. 8 Education and Critical Thinking DevelopmentEducation 5 works
  9. 9 Online Learning and AnalyticsComputer Science Applications 5 works
  10. 10 School Choice and PerformanceEducation 4 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 available33.0%not open67.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.9%domestic only95.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Educational Testing Service's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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