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Princeton Theological Seminary

In research, Princeton Theological Seminary stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,246 of 9,585 worldwide), Arts and Humanities (#1,492 of 1,896 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,375 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Religious studies, Philosophy and Arts and Humanities (Religious studies is 140.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,622
of 22,385 · #10,793 all time
Rank in United States
#2,405
of 3,332
Research works
2.2k
▲ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.4k
2.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.83×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
9%
world 40%
International
1%
world 18%
Princeton Theological Seminary

What is Princeton Theological Seminary 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 #5,246 of 9,585 4.0%226 #2857
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,492 of 1,896 3.9%104 #906
Social SciencesField #5,375 of 5,988 4.2%114 #4635
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,365 of 2,526 4.0%67 #2006

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Princeton Theological Seminary 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.

  1. Social Sciences#2,857 #5,246
  2. Arts and Humanities#906 #1,492
  3. Social Sciences#4,635 #5,375
  4. Sociology and Political Science#2,006 #2,365
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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 Princeton Theological Seminary work in?

In 2022-now, 95% of research at Princeton Theological Seminary is in Social Sciences, 2% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (46%), Social Sciences (46%), Psychology (2%). It does 3.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 250 fractional works · 95.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 121 fractional works · 46.2% of its workReligious studies: 62 fractional works · 23.5% of its workPhilosophy: 21 fractional works · 8.0% of its workHistory: 18 fractional works · 6.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClassics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 120 fractional works · 45.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 71 fractional works · 27.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 20 fractional works · 7.6% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCultural Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPrincetonTheological…262fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences95%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities12146.2%
    2. Social Sciences12045.6%
    3. Psychology62.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Computer Science31.2%
    2. Environmental Science20.8%
    3. Chemistry00.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    5. Engineering00.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Medicine20.9%
    2. Health Professions10.5%
    1. Neuroscience10.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Princeton Theological Seminary specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Religious studies takes 140.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Religious studiesSubfield · 61.6 works141×
  2. PhilosophySubfield · 21.0 works19×
  3. Arts and HumanitiesField · 121.0 works16×
  4. Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield · 70.9 works7.5×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 15.99× its world share, 121 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.79× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.61× its world share, 120 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 16.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities15.99×121 works
  2. Social Sciences3.61×120 works
  3. Psychology0.79×6 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.39×2 works
  5. Neuroscience0.20×1 works
  6. Health Professions0.19×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.17×2 works
  8. Computer Science0.16×3 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.13×0 works
  10. Chemistry0.12×0 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×1 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×1 works
  15. Medicine0.05×2 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.02×0 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Princeton Theological Seminary?

Ranked on the quality score, Bruce M. Metzger, J. J. M. Roberts and James Hamilton Charlesworth lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Princeton Theological Seminary.

  1. 1 Bruce M. Metzger United States · #390,890 worldwide 4.1k citations · 353 works
  2. 2 J. J. M. Roberts United States · #651,320 worldwide 1k citations · 78 works
  3. 3 James Hamilton Charlesworth United States · #692,646 worldwide 1.6k citations · 220 works
  4. 4 C. L. Seow United States · #745,152 worldwide 642 citations · 38 works
  5. 5 Paul Rorem United States · #745,917 worldwide 779 citations · 64 works
  6. 6 Richard K. Fenn United States · #799,673 worldwide 20k citations · 110 works
  7. 7 F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp United States · #844,983 worldwide 643 citations · 54 works
  8. 8 Beverly Roberts Gaventa United States · #979,736 worldwide 833 citations · 80 works
  9. 9 Bernhard W. Anderson United States · #1,218,421 worldwide 817 citations · 76 works
  10. 10 Donald H. Juel United States · #1,228,058 worldwide 540 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Princeton Theological Seminary

What are the most cited papers from Princeton Theological Seminary?

The most cited paper from Princeton Theological Seminary is "On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 260 pp. New York, Macmillan, 1969. $5.95" (James N. Lapsley, 1970), with 261 citations. Next come "Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics" (176) and "Slack and Cyclically Sensitive Inflation" (143).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 260 pp. New York, Macmillan, 1969. $5.95 James N. Lapsley · Theology Today Apr 1970 261
2 Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics Gordon Graham 6 Nov 1997 176
3 Slack and Cyclically Sensitive Inflation James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson · Journal of money credit and banking Open access Dec 2020 143
4 Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life Richard K. Fenn, Barbara W. Hargrove, Dean R. Hoge et al. · Sociological Analysis 1986 104
5 Facing Shame: Families in Recovery J. Randall Nichols · Journal of Pastoral Care Jun 1987 104
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Princeton Theological Seminary?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, African Christianity, Theology, Social Justice, Global Christianity, Short-Term Missions, Gender and Globalization.

▲ 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. Religion59▲ 49×21 topics
  2. African Christianity40▲ 656×2 topics
  3. Theology29▲ 122×5 topics
  4. Globalization29▲ 5.6×18 topics
  5. Social Justice28▲ 18×8 topics
  6. Global Christianity26▲ 665×1 topic
  7. Short-Term Missions26▲ 665×1 topic
  8. Gender25▲ 18×16 topics
  9. Nationalism24▲ 20×9 topics
  10. Church History23▲ 209×3 topics
  11. History21▲ 12×15 topics
  12. Feminism19▲ 25×9 topics
  13. Civil Society19▲ 66×4 topics
  14. Community Development19▲ 39×3 topics
  15. Humanitarianism19▲ 118×2 topics
  16. International Aid19▲ 155×2 topics
  17. Development18▲ 19×3 topics
  18. Biblical Monotheism18▲ 269×1 topic
  19. Jewish Society18▲ 269×1 topic
  20. Faith-Based Organizations18▲ 226×1 topic
  21. Social Services18▲ 154×1 topic
  22. Politics17▲ 25×7 topics
  23. Pentecostalism17▲ 267×2 topics
  24. Spirituality16▲ 61×3 topics
  25. Colonialism16▲ 13×11 topics
  26. Human Rights16▲ 5.8×16 topics
  27. Identity15▲ 8.1×11 topics
  28. Biblical Interpretation15▲ 180×2 topics
  29. Hermeneutics14▲ 68×2 topics
  30. Ecclesiology14▲ 639×1 topic
  31. Missionary Activities14▲ 639×1 topic
  32. Philosophy14▲ 12×14 topics
  33. Cultural Identity14▲ 11×8 topics
  34. Race13▲ 43×9 topics
  35. Culture12▲ 9.0×10 topics
  36. Ethics12▲ 9.2×15 topics
  37. Literature12▲ 8.5×13 topics
  38. Reformation11▲ 150×2 topics
  39. Secularism11▲ 41×5 topics
  40. Society10▲ 20×6 topics

Which research topics does Princeton Theological Seminary publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Christian Theology and Mission, Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Religion, Society, and Development and Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies.

Christian Theology and M…26Christian Theology and Mission: 26 fractional worksBiblical Studies and Interpretation: 18 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 18 fractional worksPentecostalism and Christianity Studies: 14 fractional worksAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics: 9 fractional worksReformation and Early Mo…9Reformation and Early Modern Christianity: 9 fractional worksTheological Perspectives and Practices: 8 fractional worksVietnamese History and Culture Studies: 6 fractional worksRace, History, and American Society: 5 fractional worksReligion and Society Interactions: 5 fractional works
Religious studiesSociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsHistory

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

  1. 1 Christian Theology and Mission Religious studies 26 works
  2. 2 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 18 works
  3. 3 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 18 works
  4. 4 Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies Religious studies 14 works
  5. 5 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 9 works
  6. 6 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 9 works
  7. 7 Theological Perspectives and Practices Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  8. 8 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  9. 9 Race, History, and American Society Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  10. 10 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 5 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 available8.8%not open91.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors1.4%domestic only98.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Princeton Theological Seminary's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% 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 Princeton Theological Seminary as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Princeton Theological Seminary0.0012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Princeton Theological Seminary 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Princeton Theological Seminary3.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.7% in 2007.

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