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International Monetary Fund

In research, International Monetary Fund stands highest in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#75 of 1,798 worldwide), Economics and Econometrics (#99 of 1,307 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#906 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (General Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 54.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,753
of 22,385 · #1,678 all time
Rank in United States
#343
of 3,332
Research works
15k
▼ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
408k
26.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.67×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
International Monetary Fund

What is International Monetary Fund 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
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #75 of 1,798 20.6%501 #48
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #99 of 1,307 17.8%249 #82
Social SciencesDomain #906 of 9,585 20.4%709 #613
General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield #14 of 85 22.8%114 #11
FinanceSubfield #31 of 152 23.8%139 #14
Business, Management and AccountingField #762 of 2,581 20.4%84 #519
Social SciencesField #2,076 of 5,988 19.1%113 #1048
Physical SciencesDomain #3,721 of 10,670 18.1%90 #5218

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where International Monetary Fund 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. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#48 #75
  2. Economics and Econometrics#82 #99
  3. Social Sciences#613 #906
  4. General Economics, Econometrics and Finance#11 #14
  5. Finance#14 #31
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#519 #762
  7. Social Sciences#1,048 #2,076
  8. Physical Sciences#5,218 #3,721
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 International Monetary Fund work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at International Monetary Fund is in Social Sciences, 11% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Economics, Econometrics and Finance (60%), Social Sciences (14%), Business, Management and Accounting (10%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 754 fractional works · 86.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 529 fractional works · 60.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 265 fractional works · 30.2% of its workFinance: 144 fractional works · 16.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 121 fractional works · 13.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 124 fractional works · 14.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 39 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 26 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDevelopment: 18 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGender Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 89 fractional works · 10.1% of its workAccounting: 44 fractional works · 5.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 30 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 96 fractional works · 11.0% of its workComputer Science: 35 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInformation Systems: 30 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 21 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Energy: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedia Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 16 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKInternationalMonetary Fund877fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences86%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance52960.4%
    2. Social Sciences12414.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting8910.1%
    4. Decision Sciences70.8%
    5. Psychology30.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.2%
    1. Computer Science354.0%
    2. Energy212.3%
    3. Environmental Science161.8%
    4. Engineering161.8%
    5. Mathematics60.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    1. Health Professions121.3%
    2. Medicine40.4%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences91.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does International Monetary Fund specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 54.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 120.6 works55×
  2. FinanceSubfield · 144.3 works54×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 529.5 works28×
  4. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 264.6 works19×
  5. AccountingSubfield · 44.4 works8.3×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.52× its world share, 35 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.55× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.56× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.14× its world share, 89 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 28.23× its world share, 530 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 124 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 28.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance28.23×530 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.14×89 works
  3. Energy2.55×20 works
  4. Social Sciences1.12×124 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.87×7 works
  6. Mathematics0.56×6 works
  7. Computer Science0.52×35 works
  8. Health Professions0.51×12 works
  9. Environmental Science0.37×16 works
  10. Veterinary0.23×0 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×9 works
  12. Engineering0.12×16 works
  13. Nursing0.12×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.10×2 works
  15. Psychology0.10×2 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.07×2 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.06×1 works
  18. Medicine0.02×4 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at International Monetary Fund?

Ranked on the quality score, María Soledad Martínez Pería, Andrea Presbitero and Chris Papageorgiou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is International Monetary Fund.

  1. 1 María Soledad Martínez Pería United States · #44,951 worldwide 13k citations · 162 works
  2. 2 Andrea Presbitero United States · #83,866 worldwide 5.7k citations · 182 works
  3. 3 Chris Papageorgiou United States · #98,552 worldwide 7.7k citations · 254 works
  4. 4 Tobias Adrian United States · #128,621 worldwide 14k citations · 279 works
  5. 5 Michèle Ruta United States · #130,758 worldwide 5.7k citations · 223 works
  6. 6 Olivier Jeanne United States · #132,116 worldwide 9.5k citations · 194 works
  7. 7 Petia B. Topalova United States · #153,086 worldwide 9.8k citations · 224 works
  8. 8 Giovanni Dell’Ariccia United States · #153,767 worldwide 10k citations · 182 works
  9. 9 Davide Furceri United States · #173,774 worldwide 8.4k citations · 316 works
  10. 10 Stanley Fischer United States · #185,862 worldwide 32k citations · 557 works
All ranked researchers at International Monetary Fund

What are the most cited papers from International Monetary Fund?

The most cited paper from International Monetary Fund is "Corruption and Growth" (Paolo Mauro, 1995), with 8,502 citations. Next come "How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth?" (6,065) and "A Theory of Demand for Products Distinguished by Place of Production (Une theorie de la demande de produits differencies d'apres leur origine) (Una teoria de la demanda de productos distinguiendolos segun el lugar de produccion)" (4,297).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Corruption and Growth Paolo Mauro · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Aug 1995 8,502
2 How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? Eduardo R. Borensztein, J De Gregorio, Jong‐Wha Lee · Journal of International Economics Jun 1998 6,065
3 A Theory of Demand for Products Distinguished by Place of Production (Une theorie de la demande de produits differencies d'apres leur origine) (Una teoria de la demanda de productos distinguiendolos segun el lugar de produccion) Paul S. Armington · Staff Papers Mar 1969 4,297
4 International R&D spillovers David T. Coe, Elhanan Helpman · European Economic Review May 1995 4,195
5 Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela Brian Aitken, Ann Harrison · American Economic Review Open access Jun 1999 3,659
All 57 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at International Monetary Fund?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Economic Development, Structural Change, Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Integration.

▲ 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 Growth221▲ 31×23 topics
  2. Monetary Policy159▲ 77×11 topics
  3. Fiscal Policy143▲ 80×6 topics
  4. Economic Development91▲ 13×22 topics
  5. Structural Change79▲ 142×2 topics
  6. Capital Flows78▲ 253×2 topics
  7. Globalization73▲ 4.3×46 topics
  8. Exchange Rate Regimes69▲ 276×1 topic
  9. Financial Integration69▲ 267×1 topic
  10. Panel Data Analysis64▲ 48×3 topics
  11. Financial Development64▲ 49×2 topics
  12. Liquidity59▲ 92×3 topics
  13. Regulation57▲ 12×9 topics
  14. Business Cycles54▲ 165×1 topic
  15. Interest Rates54▲ 165×1 topic
  16. Political Economy53▲ 23×13 topics
  17. Finance52▲ 32×4 topics
  18. Inequality50▲ 25×8 topics
  19. Innovation48▲ 5.3×15 topics
  20. Governance48▲ 17×7 topics
  21. Income Tax44▲ 67×2 topics
  22. Labor Market43▲ 18×12 topics
  23. Banking41▲ 111×1 topic
  24. Credit41▲ 111×1 topic
  25. Regional Development40▲ 13×7 topics
  26. Stock Market40▲ 20×3 topics
  27. Financial Stability38▲ 22×6 topics
  28. Taxation37▲ 53×5 topics
  29. Transport Infrastructure36▲ 51×2 topics
  30. Institutional Quality36▲ 39×3 topics
  31. Infrastructure36▲ 34×1 topic
  32. Public Investment36▲ 76×1 topic
  33. International Trade36▲ 29×5 topics
  34. Financial Crisis33▲ 34×10 topics
  35. Institutions32▲ 47×4 topics
  36. Poverty Reduction31▲ 27×4 topics
  37. Income Inequality30▲ 24×7 topics
  38. R&D29▲ 44×3 topics
  39. Financialization28▲ 34×2 topics
  40. Political Budget Cycles28▲ 212×1 topic

Which research topics does International Monetary Fund publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Global Financial Crisis and Policies, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

Global Financial Crisis and Policies: 69 fractional worksMonetary Policy and Economic Impact: 54 fractional worksBanking stability, regul…41Banking stability, regulation, efficiency: 41 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Econom…36Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 36 fractional worksFiscal Policies and Political Economy: 28 fractional worksGlobal trade and economics: 26 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy26Economic Theory and Policy: 26 fractional worksMarket Dynamics and Volatility: 24 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Development: 20 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Productivity: 19 fractional works
FinanceGeneral Economics, Econometrics and FinanceEconomics and EconometricsInformation Systems

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

  1. 1 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 69 works
  2. 2 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 54 works
  3. 3 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 41 works
  4. 4 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 36 works
  5. 5 Fiscal Policies and Political Economy Economics and Econometrics 28 works
  6. 6 Global trade and economics General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 26 works
  7. 7 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 26 works
  8. 8 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 24 works
  9. 9 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 20 works
  10. 10 Economic Growth and Productivity Economics and Econometrics 19 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 available63.5%not open36.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.5%domestic only85.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has International Monetary Fund's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% 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 International Monetary Fund as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0037% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%International Monetary Fund0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of International Monetary Fund 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%International Monetary Fund15.8% 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 23.4% in 2023.

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