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In research, Museum of Science stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,465 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Arts and Humanities (Arts and Humanities is 12.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,940
of 22,385 · #6,580 all time
Rank in United States
#1,960
of 3,332
Research works
880
▲ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.8k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Museum of Science

What is Museum of Science 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 #7,465 of 9,585 8.4%73 #4900

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Museum of Science 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 Museum of Science work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at Museum of Science is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (36%), Social Sciences (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 124 fractional works · 63.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 70 fractional works · 36.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 17 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPhilosophy: 15 fractional works · 8.0% of its workMuseology: 10 fractional works · 4.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 9 fractional works · 4.5% of its workArcheology: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 40 fractional works · 20.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCultural Studies: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 39 fractional works · 19.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPaleontology: 8 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 3.9% of its workArchitecture: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 11.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrthodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMuseum of Science194fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences64%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities7036.1%
    2. Social Sciences4020.8%
    3. Psychology73.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.8%
    5. Decision Sciences21.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences136.8%
    2. Environmental Science94.5%
    3. Engineering73.9%
    4. Computer Science42.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy21.3%
    6. Materials Science20.9%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences126.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.2%
    3. Neuroscience42.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine63.1%
    2. Health Professions21.1%
    3. Dentistry20.9%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Museum of Science specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Arts and Humanities takes 12.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 70.0 works12×
← 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: 1.34× its world share, 12 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.35× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.34× its world share, 13 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.26× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.56× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.75× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 12.50× its world share, 70 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.13× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.84× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.17× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.65× its world share, 40 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 12.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities12.50×70 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.34×13 works
  3. Dentistry1.75×2 works
  4. Social Sciences1.65×40 works
  5. Neuroscience1.35×4 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.34×12 works
  7. Psychology1.17×7 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.13×2 works
  9. Environmental Science0.91×9 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.84×4 works
  11. Veterinary0.63×0 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.56×2 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.42×4 works
  14. Health Professions0.41×2 works
  15. Computer Science0.30×4 works
  16. Materials Science0.27×2 works
  17. Engineering0.26×8 works
  18. Mathematics0.17×0 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×1 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.16×0 works
  21. Medicine0.16×6 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  23. Nursing0.12×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Museum of Science?

Ranked on the quality score, Christine M. Cunningham, Cathy Lachapelle and C. Aaron Price lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Museum of Science.

  1. 1 Christine M. Cunningham United States · #473,036 worldwide 3k citations · 119 works
  2. 2 Cathy Lachapelle United States · #766,053 worldwide 885 citations · 184 works
  3. 3 C. Aaron Price United States · #1,253,345 worldwide 505 citations · 40 works
  4. 4 Larry Bell United States · #1,536,485 worldwide 485 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Christine A. Reich United States · #1,891,105 worldwide 1.2k citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Lauren R. Applebaum United States · #1,955,717 worldwide 386 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Ramsay Heatley Traquair United States · #2,061,186 worldwide 934 citations · 122 works
  8. 8 James Logan Lobley United States · #2,357,278 worldwide 40 citations · 49 works
  9. 9 Emile Licent United States · #2,960,451 worldwide 127 citations · 15 works
  10. 9 W. Eagle Clarke United States · #2,960,451 worldwide 57 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Museum of Science

What are the most cited papers from Museum of Science?

The most cited paper from Museum of Science is "Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution" (Daniel J. Miller, Tetyana Duka, Cheryl D. Stimpson et al., 2012), with 742 citations. Next come "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects" (599) and "Biotechnology and the European public" (424).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prolonged myelination in human neocortical evolution Daniel J. Miller, Tetyana Duka, Cheryl D. Stimpson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 24 Sep 2012 742
2 Scientists' warning on climate change and insects Jeffrey A. Harvey et al. · Ecological Monographs Open access 7 Nov 2022 599
3 Biotechnology and the European public GEORGE D. GASKELL et al. · Nature Biotechnology Sep 2000 424
4 Epistemic Practices of Engineering for Education Christine M. Cunningham, Gregory J. Kelly · Science Education 7 Mar 2017 279
5 Timing and Tracking: Unlocking Visitor Behavior Steven S. Yalowitz, Kerry Bronnenkant · Visitor Studies Open access 7 Apr 2009 239
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Museum of Science?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Aesthetics, Literature, Ethics, Philosophy, Identity, Globalization, Art and Postmodernism.

▲ 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. Aesthetics21▲ 138×7 topics
  2. Literature21▲ 19×18 topics
  3. Ethics17▲ 17×13 topics
  4. Philosophy16▲ 19×11 topics
  5. Globalization16▲ 4.1×18 topics
  6. Identity14▲ 9.7×23 topics
  7. Art11▲ 65×4 topics
  8. Postmodernism10▲ 147×3 topics
  9. Cultural Heritage9▲ 9.0×16 topics
  10. Education9▲ 2.8×24 topics
  11. Cinema9▲ 166×1 topic
  12. Moral Imagination9▲ 1364×1 topic
  13. Biodiversity9▲ 6.2×17 topics
  14. Cultural Politics9▲ 68×2 topics
  15. Contemporary Art8▲ 401×1 topic
  16. Relational Aesthetics8▲ 401×1 topic
  17. Cultural Studies8▲ 12×7 topics
  18. Cultural Sustainability8▲ 77×2 topics
  19. Pedagogy8▲ 8.2×9 topics
  20. Biogeography8▲ 14×14 topics
  21. Evolution8▲ 15×6 topics
  22. Informal Education7▲ 207×1 topic
  23. Museum Learning7▲ 207×1 topic
  24. Photography7▲ 96×4 topics
  25. History7▲ 5.3×11 topics
  26. Ecology6▲ 18×6 topics
  27. Nationalism6▲ 6.6×10 topics
  28. Conservation5▲ 6.2×13 topics
  29. Narrative5▲ 17×4 topics
  30. Religion5▲ 5.8×9 topics
  31. Molecular Phylogeny5▲ 15×10 topics
  32. Adaptation5▲ 8.0×3 topics
  33. Feminism5▲ 8.2×7 topics
  34. Cavefish5▲ 121×1 topic
  35. Memory5▲ 9.8×7 topics
  36. Subterranean5▲ 121×1 topic
  37. Visual Culture5▲ 43×4 topics
  38. Phylogeny4▲ 14×9 topics
  39. Taxonomy4▲ 16×8 topics
  40. DNA Barcoding4▲ 13×7 topics

Which research topics does Museum of Science publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art, Art, Politics, and Modernism, Museums and Cultural Heritage and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy.

Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art: 9 fractional worksArt, Politics, and Modernism: 8 fractional worksMuseums and Cultural Heritage: 7 fractional worksSubterranean biodiversity and taxonomy: 5 fractional worksArtistic and Creative Research: 4 fractional worksAesthetic Perception and…3Aesthetic Perception and Analysis: 3 fractional worksLiterature and Cultural Memory: 3 fractional worksMemory, Trauma, and Commemoration: 2 fractional worksPhotography and Visual Culture: 2 fractional worksJewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 2 fractional works
PhilosophyVisual Arts and Performing ArtsMuseologyPaleontology5 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art Philosophy 9 works
  2. 2 Art, Politics, and Modernism Visual Arts and Performing Arts 8 works
  3. 3 Museums and Cultural Heritage Museology 7 works
  4. 4 Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy Paleontology 5 works
  5. 5 Artistic and Creative Research Visual Arts and Performing Arts 4 works
  6. 6 Aesthetic Perception and Analysis Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  7. 7 Literature and Cultural Memory Literature and Literary Theory 3 works
  8. 8 Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Social Psychology 2 works
  9. 9 Photography and Visual Culture History 2 works
  10. 10 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 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 available35.6%not open64.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.1%domestic only82.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Museum of Science's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% 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 Museum of Science as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00040% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Museum of Science0.00086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Museum of Science 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%Museum of Science10.0% 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 2014.

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