Question 1

What is Lafayette College known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Lafayette College stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,384 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#4,515 of 5,988 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#9,388 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now.

Question 2

How does Lafayette College rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Lafayette College ranks #9,813 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#11,290 all time), and #1,336 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Lafayette College?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, K. T. Lawrence, David Stifel and Lanre Akinyemi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lafayette College.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Lafayette College?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Lafayette College is "Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar" (H. T. Cromartie et al., 2019), with 1,658 citations. Next come "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background" (1,553) and "Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans" (1,537).

Question 5

Which research topics does Lafayette College publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Design Education and Practice, Nonlinear Waves and Solitons, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience and Nonlinear Photonic Systems.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Lafayette College?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender, History, Innovation, Globalization, Nationalism, Identity, Literature and Colonialism.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Lafayette College work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 43% of research at Lafayette College is in Social Sciences, 42% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (22%), Engineering (13%), Arts and Humanities (11%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Question 8

Is Lafayette College's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.