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Ford Foundation

In research, Ford Foundation stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,247 of 14,833 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,377 of 9,330 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,439 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,195
of 22,385 · #7,956 all time
Rank in United States
#2,344
of 3,332
Research works
1.1k
▲ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
26k
23.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
19%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Ford Foundation

What is Ford Foundation 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 #3,247 of 14,833 11.1%651
Social SciencesField #2,377 of 9,330 11.4%381
Health SciencesDomain #9,439 of 16,688 9.7%238
MedicineField #8,474 of 14,558 9.5%184
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,619 of 4,066 12.4%125
Physical SciencesDomain #13,191 of 17,446 10.9%132

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

In 2022-now, 40% of research at Ford Foundation is in Social Sciences, 33% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Medicine (23%), Psychology (8%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 42 fractional works · 39.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 23.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 10.6% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 7.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 35 fractional works · 33.4% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 22.6% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnatomy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 7.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workResearch and Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 18 fractional works · 16.9% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 7.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 9.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKFord Foundation105fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences33%Social Sciences40%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2423.1%
    2. Psychology87.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting33.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities22.1%
    6. Decision Sciences11.1%
    1. Medicine2422.6%
    2. Health Professions87.3%
    3. Nursing32.8%
    4. Dentistry10.7%
    1. Engineering87.7%
    2. Environmental Science43.6%
    3. Computer Science22.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.7%
    5. Materials Science10.6%
    6. Mathematics10.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    8. Energy00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology43.5%
    2. Neuroscience32.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.4%
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: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.67× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.75× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.17× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.52× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.72× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.47× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.75× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.18× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 5.79× its world share, 3 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.73× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.99× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.16× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.60× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.83× its world share, 24 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing5.79×3 works
  2. Health Professions2.75×8 works
  3. Psychology2.60×8 works
  4. Social Sciences1.83×24 works
  5. Neuroscience1.75×3 works
  6. Dentistry1.47×1 works
  7. Medicine1.18×24 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.17×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.16×3 works
  10. Decision Sciences1.11×1 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.08×2 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.99×3 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.73×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.72×4 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.68×1 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×4 works
  17. Engineering0.52×8 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×2 works
  19. Mathematics0.44×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.26×2 works
  21. Energy0.24×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.20×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.17×1 works
  24. Chemistry0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ford Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Philip H. Coombs, Francis X. Sutton and Lyle Saunders lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ford Foundation.

  1. 1 Philip H. Coombs United States · #596,167 worldwide 2.3k citations · 73 works
  2. 2 Francis X. Sutton United States · #968,580 worldwide 4.4k citations · 58 works
  3. 3 Lyle Saunders United States · #1,213,640 worldwide 411 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Shepard L. Forman United States · #1,611,558 worldwide 593 citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Joel E. Segall United States · #1,660,177 worldwide 217 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Elinor G. Barber United States · #1,776,381 worldwide 1.5k citations · 59 works
  7. 7 Edgar O. Edwards United States · #1,781,500 worldwide 1.5k citations · 34 works
  8. 8 David R. Smock United States · #2,029,025 worldwide 427 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Oscar Harkavy United States · #2,079,419 worldwide 542 citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Kate Gliske United States · #3,038,781 worldwide 334 citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Ford Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Ford Foundation?

The most cited paper from Ford Foundation is "A Dynamic Model of Customers’ Usage of Services: Usage as an Antecedent and Consequence of Satisfaction" (Ruth N. Bolton, Katherine N. Lemon, 1999), with 1,140 citations. Next come "The Capability‐Expectations Gap, or Conceptualizing Europe's International Role" (772) and "Remarks on the phenomenological analysis of resonances" (661).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Dynamic Model of Customers’ Usage of Services: Usage as an Antecedent and Consequence of Satisfaction Ruth N. Bolton, Katherine N. Lemon · Journal of Marketing Research May 1999 1,140
2 The Capability‐Expectations Gap, or Conceptualizing Europe's International Role Christopher Hill · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies Sep 1993 772
3 Remarks on the phenomenological analysis of resonances J.D. Jackson · Il Nuovo Cimento Dec 1964 661
4 PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS, MARKET EQUILIBRIUM AND CORPORATION FINANCE Robert S. Hamada · The Journal of Finance Mar 1969 500
5 Brazil as an intermediate state and regional power: action, choice and responsibilities María Regina Soares de Lima, Mónica Hirst · International Affairs 2006 385
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ford Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Qualitative Research, Mental Health, Job Satisfaction, Medical Education, Clinical Practice, Public Health, Heart Failure and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

▲ 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. Climate Change4▲ 1.47×17 topics
  2. Mental Health4▲ 2.8×18 topics
  3. Public Health4▲ 2.5×16 topics
  4. Qualitative Research4▲ 4.0×9 topics
  5. Sustainable Development3▲ 1.70×8 topics
  6. Job Satisfaction3▲ 5.8×8 topics
  7. Heart Failure2▲ 5.4×6 topics
  8. Resilience2▲ 4.5×9 topics
  9. Clinical Practice2▲ 14×4 topics
  10. Medical Education2▲ 8.1×6 topics
  11. Social Support2▲ 4.0×7 topics
  12. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation2▲ 26×1 topic
  13. Health2▲ 5.1×6 topics
  14. Left Ventricular Assist Device2▲ 41×1 topic
  15. Thrombosis2▲ 7.3×2 topics
  16. Social Justice2▲ 3.1×7 topics
  17. Ethical Considerations2▲ 5.1×8 topics
  18. Nursing Education2▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Racial Disparities2▲ 34×2 topics
  20. Gender Differences2▲ 4.5×8 topics
  21. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 7.1×3 topics
  22. Language Teaching2▲ 5.9×2 topics
  23. Evidence-Based Practice2▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Organizational Performance2▲ 5.8×4 topics
  25. Surgical Repair2▲ 38×1 topic
  26. Ventricular Reconstruction2▲ 38×1 topic
  27. Language Development2▲ 11×4 topics
  28. Patient Outcomes2▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Policy2▲ 6.4×2 topics
  30. Professional Identity2▲ 16×2 topics
  31. Social Inequality2▲ 5.2×2 topics
  32. Employee Engagement1▲ 7.6×3 topics
  33. Healthcare Environment1▲ 45×1 topic
  34. Nursing Staffing1▲ 45×1 topic
  35. Psychiatric Disorders1▲ 8.8×3 topics
  36. Reading Comprehension1▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Sociolinguistics1▲ 6.9×2 topics
  38. Long-Term Care1▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Neuroanatomy1▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Psychological Adjustment1▲ 8.0×3 topics

Which research topics does Ford Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, Nursing education and management and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

Mechanical Circulatory S…2Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 2 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anoma…2Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 2 fractional worksNursing education and ma…1Nursing education and management: 1 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Cor…1Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis: 1 fractional worksPluripotent Stem Cells Research: 1 fractional worksReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology: 1 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…1Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 1 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 1 fractional worksMedical and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-…1Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 1 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringSurgeryResearch and TheorySociology and Political Science6 others

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

  1. 1 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 2 works
  3. 3 Nursing education and management Research and Theory 1 works
  4. 4 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  5. 5 Pluripotent Stem Cells Research Molecular Biology 1 works
  6. 6 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology Health 1 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 1 works
  9. 9 Medical and Biological Sciences Anatomy 1 works
  10. 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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 available19.4%not open80.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.7%domestic only78.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ford Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% 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 Ford Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00028% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Ford Foundation0.00048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ford Foundation 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.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Ford Foundation9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.9% in 1993.

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