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Foreign Service Institute

In research, Foreign Service Institute stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,095 of 9,330 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#8,390 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Political Science and International Relations, Social Sciences and Social Sciences (Political Science and International Relations is 34.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#27,827
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,830
of 7,310
Research works
270
▲ 125% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.5k
16.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Foreign Service Institute

What is Foreign Service Institute 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 SciencesField #5,095 of 9,330 8.1%168
Social SciencesDomain #8,390 of 14,833 10.0%238

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Foreign Service Institute 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 Foreign Service Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Foreign Service Institute is in Social Sciences, 5% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (76%), Business, Management and Accounting (7%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 37 fractional works · 90.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 75.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 fractional works · 51.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 11.7% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 6.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKForeign ServiceInstitute41fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences90%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3175.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting36.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance36.4%
    4. Psychology00.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Computer Science12.9%
    2. Engineering11.6%
    3. Environmental Science00.8%
    1. Health Professions12.2%
    2. Medicine11.5%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Foreign Service Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Political Science and International Relations takes 34.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 21.0 works35×
  2. Social SciencesField · 30.8 works6.0×
  3. Social SciencesDomain · 36.6 works3.6×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.83× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.06× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.00× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 6.00× its world share, 31 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences6.00×31 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.00×3 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.06×3 works
  4. Health Professions0.83×1 works
  5. Nursing0.56×0 works
  6. Computer Science0.38×1 works
  7. Psychology0.20×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.17×0 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.14×0 works
  10. Engineering0.11×1 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.11×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  13. Medicine0.08×1 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Foreign Service Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Madeline E. Ehrman, George L. Trager and Earl W. Stevick lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Foreign Service Institute.

  1. 1 Madeline E. Ehrman United States · #116,740 worldwide 6.6k citations · 55 works
  2. 2 George L. Trager United States · #534,430 worldwide 5.7k citations · 122 works
  3. 3 Earl W. Stevick United States · #634,533 worldwide 1.9k citations · 83 works
  4. 4 Joseph V. Montville United States · #1,719,367 worldwide 718 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Anthony Eames United States · #2,125,178 worldwide 17 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Yale Richmond United States · #2,765,102 worldwide 338 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Marian Schibsby United States · #2,807,449 worldwide 6 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Élisabeth Copet-Rougier United States · #2,871,623 worldwide 135 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Judith Stalpers United States · #2,976,931 worldwide 77 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 Josef Herbert Furth United States · #3,124,719 worldwide 119 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Foreign Service Institute

What are the most cited papers from Foreign Service Institute?

The most cited paper from Foreign Service Institute is "A brief overview of individual differences in second language learning" (Madeline E. Ehrman, Betty Lou Leaver, Rebecca L. Oxford, 2003), with 589 citations. Next come "Cognition Plus: Correlates Of Language Learning Success" (571) and "Adult Language Learning Styles and Strategies in an Intensive Training Setting" (502).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A brief overview of individual differences in second language learning Madeline E. Ehrman, Betty Lou Leaver, Rebecca L. Oxford · System 12 Aug 2003 589
2 Cognition Plus: Correlates Of Language Learning Success Madeline E. Ehrman, Rebecca L. Oxford · Modern Language Journal Mar 1995 571
3 Adult Language Learning Styles and Strategies in an Intensive Training Setting Madeline E. Ehrman, Rebecca L. Oxford · Modern Language Journal Sep 1990 502
4 Effects of Sex Differences, Career Choice, and Psychological Type on Adult Language Learning Strategies Madeline E. Ehrman, Rebecca L. Oxford · Modern Language Journal Sep 1988 430
5 Adults' language learning strategies in an intensive foreign language program in the United States Rebecca L. Oxford, Madeline E. Ehrman · System Aug 1995 371
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Foreign Service Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nation-Building, Sovereignty, State-Building, International Law, De Facto States, Unrecognized Quasi-States, Security Council and Humanitarian Intervention.

▲ 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. Nation-Building7▲ 340×3 topics
  2. Sovereignty7▲ 191×2 topics
  3. State-Building7▲ 487×2 topics
  4. International Law7▲ 54×2 topics
  5. De Facto States7▲ 1411×1 topic
  6. Unrecognized Quasi-States7▲ 1411×1 topic
  7. Security Council5▲ 248×2 topics
  8. Humanitarian Intervention5▲ 327×1 topic
  9. Responsibility to Protect5▲ 416×1 topic
  10. Security4▲ 17×5 topics
  11. Globalization4▲ 4.9×7 topics
  12. Russia4▲ 205×2 topics
  13. Ukraine4▲ 250×2 topics
  14. International Relations3▲ 33×5 topics
  15. Human Rights3▲ 7.6×6 topics
  16. Peacebuilding3▲ 110×2 topics
  17. Local Turn3▲ 473×1 topic
  18. Resilience Governance3▲ 473×1 topic
  19. Global Governance3▲ 28×3 topics
  20. European Union2▲ 28×2 topics
  21. Migration2▲ 18×2 topics
  22. Balkans2▲ 230×1 topic
  23. Eastern Partnership2▲ 465×1 topic
  24. International Institutions2▲ 270×1 topic
  25. Power2▲ 76×1 topic
  26. Business Strategy2▲ 120×3 topics
  27. Social Media2▲ 3.7×8 topics
  28. Democracy2▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Data Mining2▲ 6.0×2 topics
  30. Competitive Intelligence2▲ 553×1 topic
  31. Conflict2▲ 26×3 topics
  32. Identity2▲ 5.7×2 topics
  33. Information Management2▲ 174×1 topic
  34. Hybrid Warfare1▲ 190×1 topic
  35. Military Strategy1▲ 190×1 topic
  36. Political Economy1▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Labor Market1▲ 9.7×3 topics
  38. NGOs1▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Nationalism1▲ 5.5×1 topic
  40. Philippines1▲ 180×1 topic

Which research topics does Foreign Service Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, Peacebuilding and International Security and International Relations and Foreign Policy.

Post-Soviet Geopolitical…7Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics: 7 fractional worksGlobal Peace and Security Dynamics: 5 fractional worksPeacebuilding and International Security: 3 fractional worksInternational Relations and Foreign Policy: 2 fractional worksEuropean Politics and Security: 2 fractional worksCompetitive and Knowledg…2Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence: 2 fractional worksEuropean and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies: 1 fractional worksPhilippine History and Culture: 1 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 1 fractional worksEconomic Sanctions and International Relations: 1 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceStrategy and ManagementAnthropology1 others

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

  1. 1 Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 7 works
  2. 2 Global Peace and Security Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 5 works
  3. 3 Peacebuilding and International Security Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  4. 4 International Relations and Foreign Policy Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  5. 5 European Politics and Security Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  6. 6 Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence Strategy and Management 2 works
  7. 7 European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  8. 8 Philippine History and Culture Anthropology 1 works
  9. 9 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  10. 10 Economic Sanctions and International Relations Economics and Econometrics 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 available19.8%not open80.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.3%domestic only92.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Foreign Service Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 125% 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 Foreign Service Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000020% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Foreign Service Institute0.00046% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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