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Hoover Institution

In research, Hoover Institution stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,426 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics and Econometrics (Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 12.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,526
of 22,385 · #5,693 all time
Rank in United States
#1,453
of 3,332
Research works
1.4k
▲ 31% vs 2018-21
Citations
59k
42.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Hoover Institution

What is Hoover Institution 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 #3,426 of 9,585 16.6%137 #1685

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

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Hoover Institution is in Social Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (27%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 147 fractional works · 80.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 65 fractional works · 35.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 20 fractional works · 10.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 19 fractional works · 10.6% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 48 fractional works · 26.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 32 fractional works · 17.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 5.1% of its workFinance: 7 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 16 fractional works · 8.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 5.1% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 16 fractional works · 8.7% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 14 fractional works · 7.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKHooverInstitution182fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences81%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences6535.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4826.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting168.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities95.1%
    5. Psychology52.7%
    6. Decision Sciences42.0%
    1. Medicine115.8%
    2. Health Professions52.7%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science42.3%
    2. Environmental Science42.0%
    3. Engineering31.7%
    4. Mathematics20.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    6. Energy00.2%
    7. Materials Science00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    4. Neuroscience00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hoover Institution specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 12.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 48.4 works12×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 31.6 works11×
← 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: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.04× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.30× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.76× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.65× its world share, 16 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.11× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12.43× its world share, 48 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.88× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.83× its world share, 65 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 12.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.43×48 works
  2. Social Sciences2.83×65 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.65×16 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.11×4 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.76×9 works
  6. Health Professions1.04×5 works
  7. Psychology0.88×5 works
  8. Mathematics0.70×2 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.65×0 works
  10. Environmental Science0.40×4 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×1 works
  12. Medicine0.30×11 works
  13. Computer Science0.29×4 works
  14. Energy0.25×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×2 works
  16. Nursing0.23×0 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×2 works
  18. Neuroscience0.16×0 works
  19. Engineering0.11×3 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.04×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hoover Institution?

Ranked on the quality score, Eric Alan Hanushek, Larry Jay Diamond and Kenneth L. Judd lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hoover Institution.

  1. 1 Eric Alan Hanushek United States · #25,587 worldwide 52k citations · 598 works
  2. 2 Larry Jay Diamond United States · #86,609 worldwide 21k citations · 328 works
  3. 3 Kenneth L. Judd United States · #96,425 worldwide 14k citations · 227 works
  4. 4 Milton R. Friedman United States · #612,011 worldwide 22k citations · 114 works
  5. 5 Thomas Gale Moore United States · #751,466 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
  6. 6 Ramon H. Myers United States · #886,589 worldwide 2.4k citations · 259 works
  7. 7 ROBERT A. CONQUEST United States · #1,137,382 worldwide 2.1k citations · 137 works
  8. 8 John F. Cogan United States · #1,166,400 worldwide 2.6k citations · 67 works
  9. 9 Tim Kane United States · #1,257,067 worldwide 1.7k citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Susan E. Woodward United States · #1,291,287 worldwide 1.7k citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Hoover Institution

What are the most cited papers from Hoover Institution?

The most cited paper from Hoover Institution is "Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?" (Robert Ernest Hall, Chris I. Jones, 1999), with 8,031 citations. Next come "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England" (5,349) and "Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement" (4,426).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others? Robert Ernest Hall, Chris I. Jones · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Feb 1999 8,031
2 Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast · The Journal of Economic History Dec 1989 5,349
3 Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement Steven G. Rivkin, Eric Alan Hanushek, John F. Kain · Econometrica 4 Feb 2005 4,426
4 Performance Pay and Productivity Edward P. Lazear · American Economic Review Dec 2000 2,557
5 Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations Eric Alan Hanushek, Dennis D Kimko · American Economic Review Dec 2000 2,186
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hoover Institution?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Monetary Policy, Globalization, Fiscal Policy, Inequality, Political Economy, Structural Change and Labor Market.

▲ 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. Economic Growth23▲ 16×17 topics
  2. Globalization17▲ 4.8×40 topics
  3. Monetary Policy14▲ 33×9 topics
  4. Fiscal Policy11▲ 30×6 topics
  5. Inequality9▲ 23×6 topics
  6. Political Economy8▲ 17×11 topics
  7. Structural Change8▲ 66×2 topics
  8. Labor Market8▲ 15×7 topics
  9. Democracy6▲ 9.6×10 topics
  10. Innovation6▲ 3.3×15 topics
  11. Corporate Governance6▲ 4.2×10 topics
  12. Economic Development6▲ 3.9×14 topics
  13. Human Rights5▲ 2.9×18 topics
  14. Regulation5▲ 5.6×8 topics
  15. Panel Data Analysis5▲ 19×3 topics
  16. International Relations5▲ 12×10 topics
  17. Academic Achievement5▲ 16×5 topics
  18. Unemployment5▲ 34×2 topics
  19. Nationalism5▲ 6.2×11 topics
  20. Public Opinion5▲ 23×6 topics
  21. Financial Development5▲ 18×2 topics
  22. Economic Policy5▲ 52×3 topics
  23. Health5▲ 6.7×5 topics
  24. Business Cycles5▲ 68×1 topic
  25. Interest Rates5▲ 68×1 topic
  26. Liquidity4▲ 33×3 topics
  27. Regional Development4▲ 6.9×5 topics
  28. Europe4▲ 39×2 topics
  29. Financial Crisis4▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Height4▲ 114×1 topic
  31. Wages4▲ 114×1 topic
  32. Technological Change4▲ 53×2 topics
  33. Income Inequality4▲ 14×5 topics
  34. Income Tax4▲ 27×2 topics
  35. Student Achievement4▲ 22×5 topics
  36. Firm Performance3▲ 10×2 topics
  37. Financial Stability3▲ 9.2×5 topics
  38. Educational Inequality3▲ 28×2 topics
  39. Industrialization3▲ 30×2 topics
  40. Taxation3▲ 21×3 topics

Which research topics does Hoover Institution publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Historical Economic and Social Studies, Economic Theory and Policy and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Monetary Policy and Econ…5Monetary Policy and Economic Impact: 5 fractional worksHistorical Economic and …4Historical Economic and Social Studies: 4 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy: 3 fractional worksLabor market dynamics and wage inequality: 3 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Econom…3Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 3 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis and Policies: 3 fractional worksSchool Choice and Performance: 2 fractional worksFiscal Policies and Poli…2Fiscal Policies and Political Economy: 2 fractional worksHealthcare Policy and Management: 2 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare Studies: 2 fractional works
General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceEconomics and EconometricsFinanceEducation1 others

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

  1. 1 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 works
  2. 2 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  3. 3 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 works
  4. 4 Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  5. 5 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  6. 6 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 3 works
  7. 7 School Choice and Performance Education 2 works
  8. 8 Fiscal Policies and Political Economy Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  9. 9 Healthcare Policy and Management Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  10. 10 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 2 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 available36.8%not open63.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.1%domestic only83.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hoover Institution's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher 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 Hoover Institution as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00080% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Hoover Institution0.00078% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hoover Institution 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 counting20%40%Hoover Institution11.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.9% in 2005.

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