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Pacific University Oregon

In research, Pacific University Oregon stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,749 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,046
of 22,385 · #16,867 all time
Rank in United States
#1,222
of 3,332
Research works
2.6k
▼ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
23k
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Pacific University Oregon

What is Pacific University Oregon 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 #7,749 of 9,585 5.1%86 #12075

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Pacific University Oregon 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 Pacific University Oregon work in?

In 2022-now, 42% of research at Pacific University Oregon is in Social Sciences, 29% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (22%), Social Sciences (16%), Psychology (15%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 94 fractional works · 42.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 37 fractional works · 16.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 34 fractional works · 15.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 17 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 8 fractional works · 3.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 65 fractional works · 29.0% of its workMedicine: 50 fractional works · 22.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 5.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 40 fractional works · 17.7% of its workComputer Science: 15 fractional works · 6.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 13 fractional works · 5.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 25 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPacificUniversity Oregon225fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences29%Social Sciences42%

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
    1. Social Sciences3716.3%
    2. Psychology3415.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting83.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance73.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities52.4%
    6. Decision Sciences31.3%
    1. Medicine5022.3%
    2. Health Professions125.5%
    3. Dentistry20.9%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Computer Science156.7%
    2. Engineering135.9%
    3. Environmental Science62.6%
    4. Chemistry31.2%
    5. Mathematics10.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    8. Materials Science10.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology93.9%
    2. Neuroscience62.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics41.8%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.6%
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: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.70× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5.19× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.74× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.86× its world share, 15 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 13 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.53× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.83× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.11× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.16× its world share, 50 worksMedicineNursing: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.81× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.11× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.30× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.55× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 5.00× its world share, 34 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.29× its world share, 37 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5.19×4 works
  2. Psychology5.00×34 works
  3. Health Professions2.11×12 works
  4. Dentistry1.83×2 works
  5. Neuroscience1.70×6 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.55×7 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.30×3 works
  8. Social Sciences1.29×37 works
  9. Medicine1.16×50 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting1.11×8 works
  11. Computer Science0.86×15 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.81×5 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.74×9 works
  14. Chemistry0.74×3 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.56×1 works
  16. Environmental Science0.53×6 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×5 works
  18. Chemical Engineering0.42×0 works
  19. Engineering0.39×13 works
  20. Nursing0.35×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.29×1 works
  22. Veterinary0.27×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.15×0 works
  24. Energy0.13×0 works
  25. Physics and Astronomy0.12×1 works
  26. Materials Science0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Pacific University Oregon?

Ranked on the quality score, Matthew Hunsinger, Lee Ann Remington and Sarah W. Bowen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Pacific University Oregon.

  1. 1 Matthew Hunsinger United States · #686,522 worldwide 3.6k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Lee Ann Remington United States · #854,143 worldwide 7.3k citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Sarah W. Bowen United States · #906,523 worldwide 7.3k citations · 122 works
  4. 4 Madison J. Davis United States · #1,016,174 worldwide 734 citations · 76 works
  5. 5 Laura A. Edwards-Leeper United States · #1,018,999 worldwide 4.3k citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Deepa A. Rao United States · #1,613,495 worldwide 2k citations · 50 works
  7. 7 Michael Christopher United States · #1,782,579 worldwide 2.9k citations · 96 works
  8. 8 Emily S. Bower United States · #2,212,202 worldwide 1k citations · 50 works
  9. 9 Sigrid C. Roberts United States · #2,247,044 worldwide 1.7k citations · 49 works
  10. 10 Ashim Malhotra United States · #2,760,889 worldwide 1.6k citations · 59 works
All ranked researchers at Pacific University Oregon

What are the most cited papers from Pacific University Oregon?

The most cited paper from Pacific University Oregon is "Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8" (Eli Coleman et al., 2022), with 2,672 citations. Next come "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" (1,447) and "Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage" (1,083).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 Eli Coleman et al. · International Journal of Transgender Health Open access119 authors 19 Aug 2022 2,672
2 Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Steven B. Johnson 2001 1,447
3 Climate change and journalistic norms: A case-study of US mass-media coverage Maxwell Boykoff, Jules Boykoff · Geoforum 29 Mar 2007 1,083
4 English as a Global Language Jeffrey Barlow · Channel View Publications eBooks Book chapter 7 Jun 2016 1,052
5 Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache Sarah B Johnson, Keith H. Basso · Journal of American Folklore 1998 865
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Pacific University Oregon?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Well-being, Aging, Risk Factors, Emotion Regulation, Quality of Life and Alzheimer's Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology21▲ 2.4×42 topics
  2. Mental Health14▲ 4.5×26 topics
  3. Quality of Life8▲ 2.5×20 topics
  4. Risk Factors8▲ 3.2×15 topics
  5. Aging8▲ 6.1×9 topics
  6. Well-being7▲ 8.2×9 topics
  7. Supply Chain Management6▲ 3.2×11 topics
  8. Depression6▲ 3.2×14 topics
  9. Emotion Regulation5▲ 6.8×5 topics
  10. Resilience5▲ 4.4×10 topics
  11. Alzheimer's Disease5▲ 7.5×7 topics
  12. Stress5▲ 5.6×9 topics
  13. Job Satisfaction4▲ 4.4×8 topics
  14. Prevalence4▲ 4.7×6 topics
  15. Adolescents4▲ 5.1×5 topics
  16. Neuroimaging4▲ 6.8×4 topics
  17. Cognitive Therapy4▲ 16×3 topics
  18. Cognitive Training4▲ 19×2 topics
  19. Reflective Practice4▲ 9.1×5 topics
  20. Cognitive Decline4▲ 13×2 topics
  21. Neuroscience4▲ 5.3×6 topics
  22. Assessment Methods4▲ 15×3 topics
  23. Trauma4▲ 7.8×4 topics
  24. Dementia4▲ 16×2 topics
  25. Elderly4▲ 6.5×4 topics
  26. Caregiver Burden3▲ 14×2 topics
  27. Mild Cognitive Impairment3▲ 18×1 topic
  28. Vascular Risk Factors3▲ 18×1 topic
  29. Evidence-Based Practice3▲ 11×6 topics
  30. Health Disparities3▲ 5.6×5 topics
  31. Work-Life Balance3▲ 7.8×3 topics
  32. Mindfulness3▲ 36×1 topic
  33. Self-Compassion3▲ 36×1 topic
  34. Competency-Based Education3▲ 14×1 topic
  35. Gender Inequality3▲ 9.1×2 topics
  36. Professional Identity Formation3▲ 20×1 topic
  37. Visual Impairment3▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Workplace3▲ 14×3 topics
  39. Mental Disorders3▲ 10×3 topics
  40. Subjective Well-Being3▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Pacific University Oregon publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Innovations in Medical Education and Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies.

Dementia and Cognitive I…3Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 3 fractional worksMindfulness and Compassi…3Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions: 3 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 3 fractional worksOphthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 2 fractional worksWork-Family Balance Challenges: 2 fractional worksSuicide and Self-Harm Studies: 2 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 2 fractional worksIntimate Partner and Fam…2Intimate Partner and Family Violence: 2 fractional worksAging and Gerontology Research: 2 fractional worksOccupational Therapy Practice and Research: 2 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEpidemiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 3 works
  2. 2 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Clinical Psychology 3 works
  3. 3 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  4. 4 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Epidemiology 2 works
  5. 5 Work-Family Balance Challenges Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  6. 6 Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Clinical Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 2 works
  8. 8 Intimate Partner and Family Violence Health 2 works
  9. 9 Aging and Gerontology Research Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Occupational Therapy Practice and Research Occupational Therapy 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 available20.1%not open79.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.7%domestic only91.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Pacific University Oregon's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% 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 Pacific University Oregon as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00078% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Pacific University Oregon0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Pacific University Oregon 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Pacific University Oregon4.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.4% in 2023.

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