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Goucher College

In research, Goucher College stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,532 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,584
of 22,385 · #10,318 all time
Rank in United States
#2,236
of 3,332
Research works
1.1k
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
14k
13.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Goucher College

What is Goucher College 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 #7,532 of 9,585 7.1%62 #4582

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

In 2022-now, 61% of research at Goucher College is in Social Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (39%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 71 fractional works · 60.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 45 fractional works · 38.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 16 fractional works · 13.5% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 15 fractional works · 13.2% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 21 fractional works · 17.9% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 5.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 17 fractional works · 14.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 7.8% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMedical Terminology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKGoucher College116fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences61%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences4538.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities1513.2%
    3. Psychology43.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting21.9%
    6. Decision Sciences10.5%
    1. Engineering65.2%
    2. Environmental Science54.4%
    3. Computer Science32.6%
    4. Mathematics21.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.7%
    6. Chemistry10.8%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.8%
    8. Energy00.3%
    9. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences97.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology76.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.4%
    1. Medicine54.5%
    2. Health Professions21.9%
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: 1.65× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.13× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.09× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.35× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.89× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.65× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.73× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 5 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.57× its world share, 15 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.33× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.23× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.06× its world share, 45 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities4.57×15 works
  2. Social Sciences3.06×45 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.65×9 works
  4. Mathematics1.65×2 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.33×3 works
  6. Psychology1.23×4 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.13×7 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.09×2 works
  9. Environmental Science0.89×5 works
  10. Health Professions0.73×2 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.58×2 works
  12. Chemistry0.54×1 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.52×1 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.47×0 works
  15. Engineering0.35×6 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.34×1 works
  17. Computer Science0.33×3 works
  18. Energy0.31×0 works
  19. Medicine0.23×5 works
  20. Neuroscience0.22×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Goucher College?

Ranked on the quality score, Esther J. Gibbs, William Longley and Mark A. McKibben lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Goucher College.

  1. 1 Esther J. Gibbs United States · #322,458 worldwide 4.5k citations · 41 works
  2. 2 William Longley United States · #920,361 worldwide 1.4k citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Mark A. McKibben United States · #1,398,628 worldwide 936 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Emily Billo United States · #1,458,634 worldwide 512 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Jean Harvey Baker United States · #1,493,135 worldwide 1.8k citations · 117 works
  6. 6 Scott P. Sibley United States · #1,697,787 worldwide 8.2k citations · 31 works
  7. 7 Teresa Romano United States · #1,789,078 worldwide 346 citations · 44 works
  8. 8 Marianne Githens United States · #1,843,800 worldwide 335 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Ella Lonn United States · #1,861,299 worldwide 325 citations · 50 works
  10. 10 Julie Chernov Hwang United States · #1,890,923 worldwide 496 citations · 72 works
All ranked researchers at Goucher College

What are the most cited papers from Goucher College?

The most cited paper from Goucher College is "Highly efficient phosphorescent emission from organic electroluminescent devices" (Marc A. Baldo, Diarmuid F. O’Brien, Yujian You et al., 1998), with 7,240 citations. Next come "The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States" (761) and "“What's Everybody So Excited About?”: The Effects of Teacher Enthusiasm on Student Intrinsic Motivation and Vitality" (431).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Highly efficient phosphorescent emission from organic electroluminescent devices Marc A. Baldo, Diarmuid F. O’Brien, Yujian You et al. · Nature Sep 1998 7,240
2 The Geographic Sources of Innovation: Technological Infrastructure and Product Innovation in the United States Maryann P. Feldman, Richard L. Florida · Annals of the Association of American Geographers Jun 1994 761
3 “What's Everybody So Excited About?”: The Effects of Teacher Enthusiasm on Student Intrinsic Motivation and Vitality Brian C. Patrick, Jennifer Hisley, Toni M. Kempler · The Journal of Experimental Education 2000 431
4 Dielectric laser accelerators R. J. England et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 23 Dec 2014 382
5 Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation Carlos Alberto Jaramillo et al. · Science Open access 11 Nov 2010 361
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Goucher College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender, Religion, Social Justice, Colonialism, History, Feminism, Identity and Culture.

▲ 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. Gender9▲ 15×15 topics
  2. Religion7▲ 13×13 topics
  3. Climate Change6▲ 1.92×17 topics
  4. History5▲ 6.7×9 topics
  5. Social Justice5▲ 7.9×10 topics
  6. Colonialism5▲ 9.6×9 topics
  7. Globalization5▲ 2.2×17 topics
  8. Identity5▲ 6.0×12 topics
  9. Feminism5▲ 14×9 topics
  10. Culture4▲ 7.2×6 topics
  11. Human Rights4▲ 3.6×11 topics
  12. Literature4▲ 6.8×8 topics
  13. Nationalism4▲ 7.7×7 topics
  14. Philosophy4▲ 7.8×6 topics
  15. Migration4▲ 8.8×6 topics
  16. Social Movements3▲ 8.8×4 topics
  17. Ethics3▲ 4.8×6 topics
  18. Community Engagement3▲ 7.3×3 topics
  19. Community3▲ 19×3 topics
  20. Urban Development2▲ 6.0×4 topics
  21. Civic Engagement2▲ 14×2 topics
  22. Pedagogy2▲ 4.2×2 topics
  23. Cultural Studies2▲ 5.1×4 topics
  24. Ecosystem Services2▲ 4.8×5 topics
  25. Political Economy2▲ 7.3×6 topics
  26. Politics2▲ 7.4×5 topics
  27. Social Inequality2▲ 7.3×3 topics
  28. Civic Education2▲ 78×1 topic
  29. Neoliberalism2▲ 5.0×6 topics
  30. Service-Learning2▲ 126×1 topic
  31. Racial Disparities2▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Gender Equality2▲ 5.7×5 topics
  33. Race2▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Cosmopolitanism2▲ 15×4 topics
  35. Islam2▲ 7.7×3 topics
  36. Vulnerability2▲ 6.6×5 topics
  37. Occupation2▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Sociopolitical2▲ 42×2 topics
  39. Hydrology2▲ 10×2 topics
  40. Mass Incarceration2▲ 47×1 topic

Which research topics does Goucher College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Climate change and permafrost and French Historical and Cultural Studies.

Service-Learning and Com…2Service-Learning and Community Engagement: 2 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Cor…2Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis: 2 fractional worksClimate change and permafrost: 2 fractional worksFrench Historical and Cultural Studies: 1 fractional worksCinema and Media Studies1Cinema and Media Studies: 1 fractional worksLatin American and Latino Studies: 1 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 1 fractional worksAfrican history and cult…1African history and culture studies: 1 fractional worksFractional Differential Equations Solutions: 1 fractional worksShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism: 1 fractional works
EducationSociology and Political ScienceAtmospheric ScienceHistory5 others

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

  1. 1 Service-Learning and Community Engagement Education 2 works
  2. 2 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  3. 3 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 2 works
  4. 4 French Historical and Cultural Studies History 1 works
  5. 5 Cinema and Media Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  6. 6 Latin American and Latino Studies Cultural Studies 1 works
  7. 7 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 African history and culture studies Anthropology 1 works
  9. 9 Fractional Differential Equations Solutions Modeling and Simulation 1 works
  10. 10 Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 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 available23.7%not open76.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.8%domestic only92.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Goucher College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% 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 Goucher College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00053% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Goucher College0.00045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Goucher College 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 2025Goucher College6.9% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.9% in 2010.

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