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Foundational Questions Institute

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Research works
13
▼ 66% vs 2018-21
Citations
87
6.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Foundational Questions Institute

Not ranked overall: Foundational Questions Institute is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Foundational Questions Institute work in?

In all years, 47% of research at Foundational Questions Institute is in Physical Sciences, 45% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (30%), Social Sciences (21%), Arts and Humanities (16%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 47.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 30.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 15.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 45.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 21.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 16.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workALL ITS WORKFoundationalQuestions…13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences47%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 3 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy430.2%
    2. Computer Science214.8%
    3. Mathematics01.7%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    1. Social Sciences321.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities216.2%
    3. Psychology15.3%
    4. Decision Sciences02.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.6%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Foundational Questions Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Brendan Foster and Zeeya Merali lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Foundational Questions Institute.

  1. 1 Brendan Foster United States · #899,663 worldwide 1.2k citations · 36 works
  2. 2 Zeeya Merali United States · #7,475,323 worldwide 1.2k citations · 256 works
All ranked researchers at Foundational Questions Institute

What are the most cited papers from Foundational Questions Institute?

The most cited paper from Foundational Questions Institute is "Thermally assisted quantum annealing of a 16-qubit problem" (Neil G. Dickson et al., 2013), with 235 citations. Next come "Phenomenology of gravitational aether as a solution to the old cosmological constant problem" (17) and "Relieving string tension by making baby universes in a dynamical string tension braneworld model" (3).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Thermally assisted quantum annealing of a 16-qubit problem Neil G. Dickson et al. · Nature Communications Open access 21 May 2013 235
2 Phenomenology of gravitational aether as a solution to the old cosmological constant problem Siavash Aslanbeigi, Georg Robbers, Brendan Foster et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 18 Nov 2011 17
3 Relieving string tension by making baby universes in a dynamical string tension braneworld model Eduardo I. Guendelman, Zeeya Merali · International Journal of Modern Physics D 19 Aug 2022 3
4 Mathematical cosmos: why numbers rule Max Tegmark · The New Scientist Sep 2007 3
5 Are Humans the Only Free Agents in the Universe? Zeeya Merali Book chapter 21 Nov 2012 2
All 20 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Foundational Questions Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

Scientific Research and …1Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry: 1 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 0 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics: 0 fractional worksNoncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsAstronomy and AstrophysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsStatistical and Nonlinear Physics

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

  1. 1 Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry Information Systems 1 works
  2. 2 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  3. 3 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 0 works
  4. 4 Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 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 available23.4%not open76.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.3%domestic only91.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Foundational Questions Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 66% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Foundational Questions Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

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

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