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Gustavus Adolphus College

In research, Gustavus Adolphus College stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,850 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,291
of 22,385 · #6,360 all time
Rank in United States
#1,732
of 3,332
Research works
1.2k
▼ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
12.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
Gustavus Adolphus College

What is Gustavus Adolphus 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 #4,850 of 9,585 7.8%72 #3022

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

In 2022-now, 53% of research at Gustavus Adolphus College is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Chemistry (11%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 78 fractional works · 52.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 29.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 10.4% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCultural Studies: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 20 fractional works · 13.3% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 43 fractional works · 28.9% of its workChemistry: 16 fractional works · 10.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 11 fractional works · 7.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 13.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 7.2% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGustavus AdolphusCollege148fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences4429.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities2013.3%
    3. Psychology74.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting32.0%
    6. Decision Sciences10.6%
    1. Chemistry1610.8%
    2. Engineering106.6%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences63.9%
    4. Computer Science42.4%
    5. Environmental Science21.4%
    6. Mathematics21.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy21.2%
    8. Materials Science10.8%
    9. Energy10.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences117.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology74.9%
    3. Neuroscience21.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine53.3%
    2. Health Professions21.6%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
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: 1.51× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.91× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 6.89× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.46× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.44× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.53× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.60× its world share, 20 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.13× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.58× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.35× its world share, 44 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry6.89×16 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.60×20 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.46×6 works
  4. Social Sciences2.35×44 works
  5. Psychology1.58×7 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.51×11 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.13×4 works
  8. Mathematics1.00×2 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.91×7 works
  10. Neuroscience0.81×2 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.61×3 works
  12. Health Professions0.60×2 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.60×1 works
  14. Energy0.57×1 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.53×2 works
  16. Engineering0.44×10 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.43×0 works
  18. Veterinary0.33×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.31×4 works
  20. Environmental Science0.27×2 works
  21. Materials Science0.23×1 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×0 works
  23. Medicine0.17×5 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Gustavus Adolphus College?

Ranked on the quality score, Daniel C. Moos, Dwight R. Stoll and Kathy Lund Dean lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gustavus Adolphus College.

  1. 1 Daniel C. Moos United States · #399,961 worldwide 3.2k citations · 45 works
  2. 2 Dwight R. Stoll United States · #721,571 worldwide 5.7k citations · 210 works
  3. 3 Kathy Lund Dean United States · #735,699 worldwide 1.1k citations · 72 works
  4. 4 Stewart Flory United States · #798,814 worldwide 1.2k citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Thomas M. Huber United States · #1,041,022 worldwide 1.1k citations · 83 works
  6. 6 Kathy Lund Dean United States · #1,203,420 worldwide 819 citations · 89 works
  7. 7 Christopher P. Gilbert United States · #1,211,218 worldwide 951 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 R. Kent Greenawalt United States · #1,312,582 worldwide 268 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Jeff D. Jeremiason United States · #1,322,633 worldwide 1.4k citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Richard A. Hilbert United States · #1,461,677 worldwide 2.7k citations · 58 works
All ranked researchers at Gustavus Adolphus College

What are the most cited papers from Gustavus Adolphus College?

The most cited paper from Gustavus Adolphus College is "Factors for Success in Rural Tourism Development" (Suzanne M. Wilson, Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Julie Fesenmaier et al., 2001), with 618 citations. Next come "The Pummerer Reaction: Methodology and Strategy for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds" (519) and "The domino way to heterocycles" (414).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Factors for Success in Rural Tourism Development Suzanne M. Wilson, Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Julie Fesenmaier et al. · Journal of Travel Research Nov 2001 618
2 The Pummerer Reaction: Methodology and Strategy for the Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds Scott K. Bur, Albert Padwa · Chemical Reviews Review 12 Mar 2004 519
3 The domino way to heterocycles Albert Padwa, Scott K. Bur · Tetrahedron Open access 6 Apr 2007 414
4 Processing of Invisible Stimuli: Advantage of Upright Faces and Recognizable Words in Overcoming Interocular Suppression Yi Jiang, Patricia A Costello, Sheng He · Psychological Science Apr 2007 405
5 A gender- and sexual orientation-dependent spatial attentional effect of invisible images Yi Jiang, Patricia A Costello, Fang Fang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Oct 2006 388
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Gustavus Adolphus College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Liquid Chromatography, Identity, Chiral Separation, Gas Chromatography, Gender, Colonialism, Globalization and History.

▲ 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. Liquid Chromatography15▲ 165×2 topics
  2. Identity11▲ 11×19 topics
  3. Globalization10▲ 3.6×25 topics
  4. Chiral Separation10▲ 165×1 topic
  5. Gas Chromatography10▲ 165×1 topic
  6. Gender9▲ 11×18 topics
  7. Colonialism7▲ 11×13 topics
  8. History7▲ 7.0×13 topics
  9. 3D Printing7▲ 20×2 topics
  10. Nationalism6▲ 9.6×12 topics
  11. Literature6▲ 7.7×11 topics
  12. Mass Spectrometry6▲ 27×3 topics
  13. Lab-on-a-Chip6▲ 33×1 topic
  14. Poly(dimethylsiloxane)6▲ 163×1 topic
  15. Religion6▲ 8.3×12 topics
  16. Method Validation5▲ 59×2 topics
  17. Feminism5▲ 11×7 topics
  18. Multiresidue Method4▲ 164×1 topic
  19. Pesticide Residues4▲ 164×1 topic
  20. Culture4▲ 5.6×9 topics
  21. Democracy4▲ 8.0×11 topics
  22. Race4▲ 24×8 topics
  23. Biopharmaceuticals4▲ 51×1 topic
  24. Protein Aggregation4▲ 49×1 topic
  25. Human Rights4▲ 2.4×9 topics
  26. Ethnicity4▲ 6.5×6 topics
  27. Student Engagement3▲ 5.5×7 topics
  28. Politics3▲ 8.3×7 topics
  29. Intersectionality3▲ 11×4 topics
  30. Cultural Identity3▲ 4.0×8 topics
  31. Postcolonialism3▲ 14×6 topics
  32. Memory3▲ 7.3×4 topics
  33. Society3▲ 9.4×6 topics
  34. Social Movements3▲ 6.0×4 topics
  35. Truth2▲ 51×3 topics
  36. Active Learning2▲ 7.8×3 topics
  37. Cold War2▲ 23×4 topics
  38. Masculinity2▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Cultural History2▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Diaspora2▲ 23×3 topics

Which research topics does Gustavus Adolphus College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety and Protein purification and stability.

Analytical Chemistry and…10Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography: 10 fractional worksMicrofluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications: 6 fractional worksPesticide Residue Analysis and Safety: 4 fractional worksProtein purification and…4Protein purification and stability: 4 fractional worksChromatography in Natural Products: 2 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksAmerican Sports and Literature: 1 fractional worksCaribbean and African Literature and Culture: 1 fractional worksEthics in medical practice: 1 fractional worksMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications: 1 fractional works
SpectroscopyBiomedical EngineeringFood ScienceMolecular Biology5 others

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

  1. 1 Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography Spectroscopy 10 works
  2. 2 Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications Biomedical Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety Food Science 4 works
  4. 4 Protein purification and stability Molecular Biology 4 works
  5. 5 Chromatography in Natural Products Analytical Chemistry 2 works
  6. 6 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  7. 7 American Sports and Literature History 1 works
  8. 8 Caribbean and African Literature and Culture Religious studies 1 works
  9. 9 Ethics in medical practice General Health Professions 1 works
  10. 10 Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 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 available21.9%not open78.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.2%domestic only94.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gustavus Adolphus College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Gustavus Adolphus College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00047% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Gustavus Adolphus College0.00051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gustavus Adolphus 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 2025Gustavus Adolphus College8.1% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.6% in 2005.

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