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Northwest Indian College

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Research works
32
▼ 47% vs 2018-21
Citations
489
15.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Northwest Indian College

Not ranked overall: Northwest Indian College is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Northwest Indian College work in?

In all years, 37% of research at Northwest Indian College is in Social Sciences, 34% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Health Professions (18%), Environmental Science (16%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 12 fractional works · 37.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 26.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 8.6% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 34.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 16.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 20.8% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 18.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 16.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNorthwest IndianCollege32fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences34%Health Sciences21%Social Sciences37%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences826.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities38.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    4. Decision Sciences00.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.4%
    6. Psychology00.4%
    1. Environmental Science516.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences26.4%
    3. Computer Science14.4%
    4. Engineering14.2%
    5. Materials Science01.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy01.0%
    7. Chemistry00.7%
    1. Health Professions618.2%
    2. Medicine12.4%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.3%
    3. Neuroscience01.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.95× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 4.19× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.14× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.38× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 7.67× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 6.25× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 1.09× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.67×1 works
  2. Decision Sciences6.25×0 works
  3. Chemistry4.19×0 works
  4. Environmental Science4.14×1 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.03×0 works
  6. Materials Science2.38×0 works
  7. Neuroscience1.95×0 works
  8. Psychology1.09×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.68×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.62×0 works
  11. Medicine0.54×0 works
  12. Engineering0.25×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Northwest Indian College?

Ranked on the quality score, Emma S. Norman and Rachel J. Arnold lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Northwest Indian College.

  1. 1 Emma S. Norman United States · #643,647 worldwide 1.5k citations · 67 works
  2. 2 Rachel J. Arnold United States · #3,275,739 worldwide 283 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Northwest Indian College

What are the most cited papers from Northwest Indian College?

The most cited paper from Northwest Indian College is "Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach" (Wendy E. Jepson, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger et al., 2017), with 275 citations. Next come "Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies" (179) and "Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance" (137).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach Wendy E. Jepson, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger et al. · Water Security Open access Jul 2017 275
2 Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies Marisa Elena Duarte, Miranda Belarde‐Lewis · Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 4 Jul 2015 179
3 Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance Amber Wutich, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger et al. · Water Security Open access Nov 2017 137
4 Evidence of freshwater algal toxins in marine shellfish: Implications for human and aquatic health Corinne M. Gibble, Melissa B. Peacock, Raphael M. Kudela · Harmful Algae Open access 3 Oct 2016 98
5 Blurred lines: Multiple freshwater and marine algal toxins at the land-sea interface of San Francisco Bay, California Melissa B. Peacock, Corinne M. Gibble, David B. Senn et al. · Harmful Algae Open access Mar 2018 87
All 69 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Northwest Indian College?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Social Justice, Community Engagement, Environmental Impact, Health Equity, Public Health, Health Promotion 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 all years 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 33 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 33 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change5▲ 6.2×18 topics
  2. Social Justice3▲ 17×6 topics
  3. Environmental Impact2▲ 5.7×5 topics
  4. Public Health2▲ 5.3×5 topics
  5. Community Engagement2▲ 23×4 topics
  6. Health Equity2▲ 34×2 topics
  7. Sustainability2▲ 3.5×9 topics
  8. Health Promotion2▲ 21×2 topics
  9. Arctic Indigenous Peoples2▲ 279×1 topic
  10. Sustainable Development2▲ 4.8×4 topics
  11. Traditional Knowledge2▲ 129×1 topic
  12. Vulnerability2▲ 35×2 topics
  13. Urban Development2▲ 16×2 topics
  14. Archaeology1▲ 29×2 topics
  15. Ethics1▲ 9.5×3 topics
  16. Genetic Diversity1▲ 8.7×3 topics
  17. Global Warming1▲ 11×7 topics
  18. Harmful Algal Blooms1▲ 38×3 topics
  19. Indigenous Knowledge Systems1▲ 135×2 topics
  20. Civic Education1▲ 150×1 topic
  21. Conservation1▲ 7.2×4 topics
  22. Service-Learning1▲ 253×1 topic
  23. Water Resources1▲ 15×3 topics
  24. Adaptive Reuse1▲ 111×1 topic
  25. Decolonization1▲ 40×1 topic
  26. Geographic Information Systems1▲ 46×2 topics
  27. Health System Performance1▲ 204×1 topic
  28. Indigenous Health1▲ 260×1 topic
  29. Intangible Heritage1▲ 111×1 topic
  30. Pacific Islands1▲ 204×1 topic
  31. Policy1▲ 19×2 topics
  32. Population Health1▲ 103×1 topic
  33. settlement1▲ 204×1 topic

Which research topics does Northwest Indian College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Cancer Research and Treatment and Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights.

Indigenous Studies and E…0Indigenous Studies and Ecology: 0 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 0 fractional worksCancer Research and Treatment: 0 fractional worksIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights: 0 fractional worksEvaluation and Performance Assessment: 0 fractional worksOccupational Therapy Practice and Research: 0 fractional worksAdsorption and biosorpti…0Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal: 0 fractional worksNanocomposite Films for Food Packaging: 0 fractional worksMarine Toxins and Detection Methods: 0 fractional worksBone Tissue Engineering Materials: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsEnvironmental ChemistryOncologyHealth5 others

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

  1. 1 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Cancer Research and Treatment Oncology 0 works
  4. 4 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 0 works
  5. 5 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  6. 6 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research Occupational Therapy 0 works
  7. 7 Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal Water Science and Technology 0 works
  8. 8 Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging Biomaterials 0 works
  9. 9 Marine Toxins and Detection Methods Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  10. 10 Bone Tissue Engineering Materials Biomedical Engineering 0 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 available43.7%not open56.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.5%domestic only77.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Northwest Indian College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Northwest Indian College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000036% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Northwest Indian College0.0000082% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Northwest Indian College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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