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Human Rights Watch

In research, Human Rights Watch stands highest in Social Sciences (#9,543 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Business, Management and Accounting — Business, Management and Accounting is 7.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#27,025
of 28,054 · #29,409 all time
Rank in United States
#4,069
of 4,192
Research works
387
▲ 110% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.2k
10.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Human Rights Watch known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #9,543 of 10,521 10.8%64 #8369

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Human Rights Watch 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Human Rights Watch specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 7.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 20.4 works7.2×
← 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: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.81× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.39× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 3.14× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.24× its world share, 20 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.59× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.72× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.94× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.98× its world share, 33 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Human Rights Watch?

Ranked on the composite score, Cynthia Price Cohen, Anne T. Gallagher and Kenneth Roth lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Human Rights Watch.

  1. 1 Cynthia Price Cohen United States · #129,998 worldwide 231 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Anne T. Gallagher United States · #493,562 worldwide 36 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Kenneth Roth United States · #639,068 worldwide 13 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Alan S. Gutterman United States · #1,262,044 worldwide 18 citations · 98 works
All ranked researchers at Human Rights Watch

Which keywords describe research at Human Rights Watch?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Global Governance, Mental Health, Corporate Governance, Sustainable Development, International Law, Resettlement and Vulnerability.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Human Rights15▲ 16×21 topics
  2. Mental Health7▲ 5.5×11 topics
  3. Global Governance6▲ 31×5 topics
  4. Sustainable Development6▲ 4.2×11 topics
  5. Climate Change5▲ 2.1×6 topics
  6. Corporate Governance5▲ 7.5×8 topics
  7. Public Health5▲ 3.7×7 topics
  8. Innovation4▲ 4.7×15 topics
  9. International Law4▲ 14×4 topics
  10. Resettlement4▲ 50×2 topics
  11. Vulnerability4▲ 18×4 topics
  12. Institutional Theory4▲ 41×3 topics
  13. Leadership3▲ 8.2×12 topics
  14. Security3▲ 5.9×9 topics
  15. Transnational Corporations3▲ 152×2 topics
  16. Ethics3▲ 7.5×6 topics
  17. Social Inequality3▲ 13×2 topics
  18. Health Outcomes3▲ 13×3 topics
  19. Acculturation3▲ 43×2 topics
  20. Development3▲ 9.4×2 topics
  21. Economic Growth3▲ 4.0×5 topics
  22. International Cooperation3▲ 68×2 topics
  23. Sustainable Development Goals3▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Health Disparities3▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Indicators3▲ 190×1 topic
  26. Millennium Development Goals3▲ 190×1 topic
  27. Entrepreneurship3▲ 7.9×6 topics
  28. Environmental Management3▲ 7.6×6 topics
  29. Integration3▲ 20×2 topics
  30. Immigrant2▲ 41×1 topic
  31. Investment2▲ 29×3 topics
  32. Mortality2▲ 4.9×2 topics
  33. Refugee2▲ 51×1 topic
  34. Chronic Disease2▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Corporate Social Responsibility2▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Infectious Diseases2▲ 8.0×2 topics
  37. Organizational Performance2▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Heat Waves2▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Human Health2▲ 15×1 topic
  40. Performance Measurement2▲ 8.7×5 topics

Which research topics does Human Rights Watch publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Human Rights and Development, Migration, Health and Trauma, Climate Change and Health Impacts and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting.

Human Rights and Develop…3Human Rights and Development: 3 fractional worksMigration, Health and Tr…2Migration, Health and Trauma: 2 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…2Climate Change and Health Impacts: 2 fractional worksCorporate Social Respons…2Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: 2 fractional worksEnvironmental law and policy: 2 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues: 2 fractional worksCorporate Law and Human …2Corporate Law and Human Rights: 2 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Venture Capital: 1 fractional worksPolitical Conflict and Governance: 1 fractional worksSex work and related iss…1Sex work and related issues: 1 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceClinical PsychologyHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisStrategy and Management4 others

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

  1. 1 Human Rights and Development Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  2. 2 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 2 works
  3. 3 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  4. 4 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Strategy and Management 2 works
  5. 5 Environmental law and policy Law 2 works
  6. 6 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 2 works
  7. 7 Corporate Law and Human Rights Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2 works
  8. 8 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 1 works
  9. 9 Political Conflict and Governance Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  10. 10 Sex work and related issues Sociology and Political Science 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 available52.4%not open47.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.0%domestic only78.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Human Rights Watch's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 110% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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