Mitchell Institute
In research, Mitchell Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#889 of 10,670 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,710 of 9,585 worldwide) and Engineering (#1,234 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Soil Science is 7.0× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #1,310 of 22,385 · #634 all time
- Rank in United States
- #283 of 3,332
- Research works
- 14k ▼ 9% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 333k 24.4 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 5.7% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.71× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 29% world 40%
- International
- 15% world 18%
What is Mitchell Institute known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical SciencesDomain | #889 of 10,670 | 5.3% | 955 | #431 | |
| Social SciencesDomain | #1,710 of 9,585 | 7.6% | 543 | #435 | |
| EngineeringField | #1,234 of 5,901 | 3.8% | 416 | #447 | |
| Social SciencesField | #1,281 of 5,988 | 7.4% | 278 | #444 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #2,986 of 9,902 | 4.3% | 129 | #1843 | |
| Physics and AstronomyField | #450 of 1,417 | 10.2% | 134 | #473 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #2,060 of 6,403 | 2.1% | 248 | #1611 | |
| MedicineField | #3,033 of 8,541 | 5.2% | 78 | #1938 | |
| Computer ScienceField | #1,953 of 4,417 | 4.9% | 121 | #680 | |
| Environmental ScienceField | #1,552 of 3,334 | 3.5% | 103 | #1092 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mitchell Institute 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.
- Physical Sciences#431 #889
- Social Sciences#435 #1,710
- Engineering#447 #1,234
- Social Sciences#444 #1,281
- Health Sciences#1,843 #2,986
- Physics and Astronomy#473 #450
- Life Sciences#1,611 #2,060
- Medicine#1,938 #3,033
- Computer Science#680 #1,953
- Environmental Science#1,092 #1,552
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 Mitchell Institute work in?
In 2022-now, 51% of research at Mitchell Institute is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (22%), Social Sciences (15%), Physics and Astronomy (7%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences1,11651.0%
- Engineering48322.1%
- Physics and Astronomy1547.0%
- Computer Science1396.4%
- Environmental Science1205.5%
- Materials Science552.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences542.5%
- Mathematics512.3%
- Chemistry361.6%
- Energy150.7%
- Chemical Engineering100.4%
- Social Sciences63729.1%
- Social Sciences33015.1%
- Psychology884.0%
- Arts and Humanities843.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting582.6%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance452.1%
- Decision Sciences301.4%
- Life Sciences27912.7%
- Health Sciences1597.3%
- Medicine984.5%
- Health Professions432.0%
- Veterinary90.4%
- Nursing80.4%
- Dentistry10.0%
What does Mitchell Institute specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Soil Science takes 7.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Soil ScienceSubfield · 46.0 works7.0×
- Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 32.6 works6.3×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 41.7 works6.1×
- Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 25.2 works5.4×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 50.7 works4.5×
- Computational MechanicsSubfield · 50.2 works4.0×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy3.16×154 works
- Veterinary3.12×9 works
- Mathematics1.99×51 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.56×54 works
- Engineering1.47×483 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.45×151 works
- Decision Sciences1.43×30 works
- Neuroscience1.37×49 works
- Arts and Humanities1.33×84 works
- Psychology1.33×88 works
- Chemical Engineering1.26×10 works
- Social Sciences1.19×330 works
- Environmental Science1.10×120 works
- Chemistry1.04×36 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.97×45 works
- Computer Science0.82×139 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.82×58 works
- Energy0.74×15 works
- Health Professions0.74×43 works
- Nursing0.73×8 works
- Materials Science0.72×55 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.57×67 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.45×4 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.41×9 works
- Medicine0.23×98 works
- Dentistry0.07×1 works
- Physics and Astronomy 3.2×
- Veterinary 3.1×
- Mathematics 2.0×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 1.6×
- Engineering 1.5×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.4×
- Decision Sciences 1.4×
- Neuroscience 1.4×
- Arts and Humanities 1.3×
- Psychology 1.3×
- Chemical Engineering 1.3×
- Social Sciences 1.2×
- Environmental Science 1.1×
- Chemistry 1.0×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.0×
- Computer Science 0.8×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.8×
- Energy 0.7×
- Health Professions 0.7×
- Nursing 0.7×
- Materials Science 0.7×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.6×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.5×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.4×
- Medicine 0.2×
- Dentistry 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Mitchell Institute?
Ranked on the quality score, Nikko J. Cleri, Louis E. Strigari and B. Dan Wood lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mitchell Institute.
- 1
Nikko J. Cleri
United States · #3,183 worldwide 5.4k citations · 153 works
- 2
Louis E. Strigari
United States · #87,507 worldwide 12k citations · 271 works
- 3
B. Dan Wood
United States · #133,862 worldwide 4.8k citations · 90 works
- 4
Guy D. Whitten
United States · #181,119 worldwide 4.7k citations · 275 works
- 5
Kim‐Vy Tran
United States · #355,435 worldwide 7.1k citations · 269 works
- 6
Paul M. Kellstedt
United States · #360,559 worldwide 3k citations · 195 works
- 7
Jonelle L. Walsh
United States · #368,105 worldwide 4.1k citations · 126 works
- 8
Peter J. Brown
United States · #425,343 worldwide 35k citations · 561 works
- 9
Melanie Becker
United States · #524,176 worldwide 4.6k citations · 81 works
- 10
Robert A. Wattenbarger
United States · #529,193 worldwide 4.2k citations · 131 works
Which keywords describe research at Mitchell Institute?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Soil Moisture, Water Scarcity, Crop Productivity, Water Use Efficiency, Deficit Irrigation, Mulching, Engineering Education and Climate Change.
- Statistics Anxiety
- Music
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- School Gardens
- Agricultural Education
- Vortex Dynamics
- Ruminant Nutrition
- Data Science
- Microbial Community
- Milk Composition
- Experiential Learning
- Teaching Methods
- Optimization
- Student Engagement
- Mulching
- Water Use Efficiency
- Water Scarcity
- Heat Transfer
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Education
- Soil Moisture
- Crop Productivity
- Deficit Irrigation
- Engineering Education
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Dark Matter
- Teacher Preparation
- Educational Reform
- Assessment Methods
- Cognition
- Methane Production
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Emotions
- Particle Physics
- Consciousness
- Dairy Cattle
- Statistical Reasoning
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
- Climate Change85▲ 1.43×87 topics
- Machine Learning74◆ 1.01×72 topics
- Globalization61▲ 1.41×83 topics
- Sustainability58◆ 1.09×77 topics
- Education46▲ 1.22×60 topics
- Heat Transfer39▲ 3.7×17 topics
- Soil Moisture39▲ 24×5 topics
- Water Scarcity38▲ 22×3 topics
- Crop Productivity38▲ 26×2 topics
- Water Use Efficiency38▲ 52×2 topics
- Deficit Irrigation38▲ 72×1 topic
- Mulching38▲ 72×1 topic
- Engineering Education36▲ 19×4 topics
- Student Engagement32▲ 3.6×13 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation29▲ 7.0×5 topics
- Optimization27▲ 2.7×17 topics
- Dark Matter25▲ 10.0×4 topics
- Teaching Methods22▲ 6.1×8 topics
- Teacher Preparation21▲ 13×4 topics
- Experiential Learning21▲ 18×6 topics
- Educational Reform20▲ 7.4×4 topics
- Milk Composition20▲ 21×2 topics
- Assessment Methods20▲ 8.4×3 topics
- Microbial Community19▲ 10×5 topics
- Cognition19▲ 6.0×6 topics
- Data Science18▲ 8.3×2 topics
- Methane Production18▲ 29×1 topic
- Ruminant Nutrition18▲ 29×1 topic
- Hydraulic Fracturing18▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Vortex Dynamics18▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Emotions18▲ 16×2 topics
- Agricultural Education17▲ 51×1 topic
- Particle Physics17▲ 11×2 topics
- School Gardens17▲ 51×1 topic
- Consciousness17▲ 10×4 topics
- Ensemble Kalman Filter17▲ 7.4×2 topics
- Dairy Cattle16▲ 14×2 topics
- Music16▲ 14×4 topics
- Statistical Reasoning16▲ 53×1 topic
- Statistics Anxiety16▲ 53×1 topic
Which research topics does Mitchell Institute publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Irrigation Practices and Water Management, Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Diverse Educational Innovations Studies and Statistics Education and Methodologies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Irrigation Practices and Water Management Soil Science 38 works
- 2 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 18 works
- 3 Diverse Educational Innovations Studies General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 works
- 4 Statistics Education and Methodologies Statistics and Probability 16 works
- 5 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 15 works
- 6 Engineering Education and Curriculum Development Media Technology 14 works
- 7 Cognitive Science and Education Research Cognitive Neuroscience 14 works
- 8 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 14 works
- 9 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 12 works
- 10 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 12 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Mitchell Institute's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021.
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 Mitchell Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.
Fractional works of Mitchell Institute 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.0% in 1995.
Other research institutions in Portland
- University of Southern Maine
- MaineHealth
- University of Maine School of Law
- Biodiversity Research Institute
- Microwave Medical Systems (United States)
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute
- Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
- Gulf of Maine Association
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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