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Fetzer Institute

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Research works
20
▲ 397% vs 2018-21
Citations
945
47.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
38%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Fetzer Institute

Not ranked overall: Fetzer Institute is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Fetzer Institute work in?

In all years, 45% of research at Fetzer Institute is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (20%), Psychology (17%), Medicine (17%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 9 fractional works · 44.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 20.4% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 8.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 17.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 29.9% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 16.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 12.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 11.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 19.1% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 10.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 10.7% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKFetzer Institute20fractional works, all years
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences30%Social Sciences45%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences420.4%
    2. Psychology317.2%
    3. Decision Sciences02.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities01.9%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting01.7%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.1%
    1. Medicine316.7%
    2. Health Professions212.6%
    3. Nursing00.6%
    1. Engineering210.7%
    2. Chemistry16.7%
    3. Mathematics00.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.4%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics01.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    4. Neuroscience00.6%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Fetzer Institute?

The most cited paper from Fetzer Institute is "The daily spiritual experience scale: development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data" (Lynn G. Underwood, Jeanne A. Teresi, 2002), with 1,212 citations. Next come "Assessing Competence in Communication and Interpersonal Skills: The Kalamazoo II Report" (677) and "Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research" (618).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The daily spiritual experience scale: development, theoretical description, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data Lynn G. Underwood, Jeanne A. Teresi · Annals of Behavioral Medicine Feb 2002 1,212
2 Assessing Competence in Communication and Interpersonal Skills: The Kalamazoo II Report F. Daniel Duffy, Geoffrey H. Gordon, Gerald P. Whelan et al. · Academic Medicine Jun 2004 677
3 Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research Ellen L. Idler, Marc A. Musick, Christopher G. Ellison et al. · Research on Aging Jul 2003 618
4 The Expression of Emotion Through Nonverbal Behavior in Medical Visits. Mechanisms and Outcomes DEBRA L. ROTER, Richard M. Frankel, Judith Allen Hall et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine Open access 2006 472
5 Living with rheumatoid arthritis: The role of daily spirituality and daily religious and spiritual coping Francis J. Keefe, Glenn G. Affleck, John Lefebvre et al. · Journal of Pain Open access Apr 2001 203
All 44 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Fetzer Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Religion, Society, and Development, Religion and Society Interactions and Workplace Spirituality and Leadership.

Religion, Spirituality, …0Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology: 0 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 0 fractional worksReligion and Society Int…0Religion and Society Interactions: 0 fractional worksWorkplace Spirituality a…0Workplace Spirituality and Leadership: 0 fractional worksMedia Influence and Health0Media Influence and Health: 0 fractional worksMedia, Religion, Digital…0Media, Religion, Digital Communication: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health0COVID-19 and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksReligious Tourism and Sp…0Religious Tourism and Spaces: 0 fractional works
HealthSociology and Political ScienceDemographyLiterature and Literary Theory3 others

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

  1. 1 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology Health 0 works
  2. 2 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Workplace Spirituality and Leadership Demography 0 works
  5. 5 Media Influence and Health Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  6. 6 Media, Religion, Digital Communication Philosophy 0 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Religious Tourism and Spaces Geography, Planning and Development 0 works
  9. 9 Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 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 available38.1%not open61.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.0%domestic only83.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Fetzer Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 397% higher 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 Fetzer Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000067% in 2020.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Fetzer Institute0.000028% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Fetzer Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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