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Fuller Theological Seminary

In research, Fuller Theological Seminary stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,657 of 9,585 worldwide), Arts and Humanities (#1,203 of 1,896 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,331 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Religious studies and Arts and Humanities (Religious studies is 163.3× its share of world research).

fuller.eduROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#12,225
of 22,385 · #6,500 all time
Rank in United States
#1,724
of 3,332
Research works
1.9k
▼ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
22k
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
Fuller Theological Seminary

What is Fuller Theological Seminary known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #3,657 of 9,585 5.2%279 #1940
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,203 of 1,896 5.8%124 #763
Social SciencesField #4,331 of 5,988 5.0%129 #3694
Religious studiesSubfield #54 of 74 6.7%80 #57
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,877 of 2,526 4.1%74 #1810

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Fuller Theological Seminary 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Social Sciences#1,940 #3,657
  2. Arts and Humanities#763 #1,203
  3. Social Sciences#3,694 #4,331
  4. Religious studies#57 #54
  5. Sociology and Political Science#1,810 #1,877
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Fuller Theological Seminary work in?

In 2022-now, 92% of research at Fuller Theological Seminary is in Social Sciences, 4% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (42%), Social Sciences (42%), Psychology (7%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 311 fractional works · 92.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 142 fractional works · 42.0% of its workReligious studies: 92 fractional works · 27.3% of its workPhilosophy: 16 fractional works · 4.9% of its workArcheology: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHistory: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 141 fractional works · 41.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 82 fractional works · 24.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHealth: 11 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDevelopment: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 24 fractional works · 7.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 12 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFullerTheological…337fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences92%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities14242.0%
    2. Social Sciences14141.9%
    3. Psychology247.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Medicine102.8%
    2. Health Professions41.1%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    1. Computer Science20.7%
    2. Environmental Science20.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    4. Chemistry10.3%
    5. Engineering10.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Neuroscience31.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Fuller Theological Seminary specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Religious studies takes 163.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Religious studiesSubfield · 91.9 works163×
  2. Arts and HumanitiesField · 141.5 works15×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.61× its world share, 3 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 14.55× its world share, 142 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.45× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.33× its world share, 24 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.31× its world share, 141 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 14.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities14.55×142 works
  2. Social Sciences3.31×141 works
  3. Psychology2.33×24 works
  4. Neuroscience0.61×3 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.45×3 works
  6. Health Professions0.40×4 works
  7. Chemistry0.22×1 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.18×1 works
  9. Medicine0.15×10 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.15×0 works
  11. Environmental Science0.10×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.09×2 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×1 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.06×0 works
  16. Nursing0.05×0 works
  17. Engineering0.02×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works
  19. Mathematics0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Fuller Theological Seminary?

Ranked on the quality score, Richard L. Gorsuch, Justin L. Barrett and Pamela Ebstyne King lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Fuller Theological Seminary.

  1. 1 Richard L. Gorsuch United States · #258,455 worldwide 45k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Justin L. Barrett United States · #308,978 worldwide 9.4k citations · 136 works
  3. 3 Pamela Ebstyne King United States · #425,655 worldwide 3.4k citations · 91 works
  4. 4 Kenneth T. Wang United States · #581,463 worldwide 5.1k citations · 212 works
  5. 5 Paul G. Hiebert United States · #1,060,324 worldwide 1.2k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 James M. Arcadi United States · #1,072,951 worldwide 243 citations · 48 works
  7. 7 Benjamin J. Houltberg United States · #1,098,488 worldwide 2.2k citations · 62 works
  8. 8 Jeffrey P. Bjorck United States · #1,149,347 worldwide 1.8k citations · 46 works
  9. 9 William A. Dyrness United States · #1,210,369 worldwide 428 citations · 61 works
  10. 10 Ralph P. Martin United States · #1,237,640 worldwide 1.6k citations · 86 works
All ranked researchers at Fuller Theological Seminary

What are the most cited papers from Fuller Theological Seminary?

The most cited paper from Fuller Theological Seminary is "Exploratory Factor Analysis: Its Role in Item Analysis" (Richard L. Gorsuch, 1997), with 1,076 citations. Next come "Rethinking how family researchers model infrequent outcomes: A tutorial on count regression and zero-inflated models." (521) and "Component analysis versus common factor analysis: A Monte Carlo study." (354).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Exploratory Factor Analysis: Its Role in Item Analysis Richard L. Gorsuch · Journal of Personality Assessment Jun 1997 1,076
2 Rethinking how family researchers model infrequent outcomes: A tutorial on count regression and zero-inflated models. David C. Atkins, Robert Gallop · Journal of Family Psychology 2007 521
3 Component analysis versus common factor analysis: A Monte Carlo study. Steven C. Snook, Richard L. Gorsuch · Psychological Bulletin Jul 1989 354
4 Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial rotation in a virtual environment Thomas D. Parsons · Neuropsychologia 21 Nov 2003 352
5 Development of an "Age Universal" I-E Scale Richard L. Gorsuch, G. Daniel Venable · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Jun 1983 341
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Fuller Theological Seminary?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, African Christianity, Globalization, Theology, Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Social Justice and Spirituality.

▲ 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. Religion76▲ 49×19 topics
  2. African Christianity50▲ 640×2 topics
  3. Globalization47▲ 7.1×29 topics
  4. Theology42▲ 136×4 topics
  5. Biblical Monotheism38▲ 445×1 topic
  6. Jewish Society38▲ 445×1 topic
  7. Social Justice37▲ 18×17 topics
  8. Spirituality34▲ 101×4 topics
  9. Development29▲ 24×3 topics
  10. Global Christianity28▲ 565×1 topic
  11. Short-Term Missions28▲ 565×1 topic
  12. Mental Health26▲ 5.5×18 topics
  13. Church History25▲ 174×2 topics
  14. Civil Society25▲ 67×3 topics
  15. Hermeneutics24▲ 90×2 topics
  16. Community Development24▲ 39×3 topics
  17. NGOs24▲ 75×2 topics
  18. Faith-Based Organizations23▲ 234×1 topic
  19. Social Services23▲ 159×1 topic
  20. Biblical Interpretation23▲ 222×2 topics
  21. Ecclesiology22▲ 774×1 topic
  22. Pentecostalism22▲ 267×1 topic
  23. Nationalism20▲ 14×8 topics
  24. Well-being17▲ 13×9 topics
  25. Gender16▲ 8.6×14 topics
  26. Secularism15▲ 43×4 topics
  27. History14▲ 6.2×12 topics
  28. Health14▲ 10×3 topics
  29. Feminism14▲ 14×6 topics
  30. Politics14▲ 15×7 topics
  31. Christianity13▲ 68×4 topics
  32. Psychological Adjustment13▲ 27×3 topics
  33. Social Support13▲ 7.1×6 topics
  34. Identity12▲ 5.0×18 topics
  35. Coping12▲ 73×2 topics
  36. Cultural Identity11▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. End-of-Life Care11▲ 29×1 topic
  38. Ethics10▲ 6.0×12 topics
  39. Colonialism10▲ 6.3×12 topics
  40. Archaeological Evidence9▲ 57×2 topics

Which research topics does Fuller Theological Seminary publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Christian Theology and Mission, Religion, Society, and Development and Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies.

Biblical Studies and Int…38Biblical Studies and Interpretation: 38 fractional worksChristian Theology and Mission: 28 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 23 fractional worksPentecostalism and Chris…22Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies: 22 fractional worksReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology: 11 fractional worksReligion and Society Interactions: 8 fractional worksArchaeology and Historical Studies: 7 fractional worksHistorical and Linguistic Studies: 7 fractional worksTheological Perspectives and Practices: 6 fractional worksReligion, Ecology, and Ethics: 6 fractional works
Religious studiesSociology and Political ScienceHealthArcheology

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

  1. 1 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 38 works
  2. 2 Christian Theology and Mission Religious studies 28 works
  3. 3 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 23 works
  4. 4 Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies Religious studies 22 works
  5. 5 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology Health 11 works
  6. 6 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  7. 7 Archaeology and Historical Studies Archeology 7 works
  8. 8 Historical and Linguistic Studies Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  9. 9 Theological Perspectives and Practices Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  10. 10 Religion, Ecology, and Ethics Sociology and Political Science 6 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 available13.4%not open86.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.1%domestic only96.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Fuller Theological Seminary's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Fuller Theological Seminary as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Fuller Theological Seminary0.00099% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fuller Theological Seminary 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Fuller Theological Seminary4.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 26.6% in 2004.

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