Question 1

What is Princeton University known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Princeton University stands highest in Social Sciences (#16 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#28 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#20 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Decision Sciences, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics (General Decision Sciences is 10.0× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Princeton University rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Princeton University ranks #28 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#21 all time), and #11 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Princeton University?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Jon Brinkmann, Joshua D. Rabinowitz and David W. C. MacMillan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Princeton University.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Princeton University?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Princeton University is "ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database" (Jia Hao Deng, Wei Dong, Richard Socher et al., 2009), with 63,518 citations. Next come "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields" (37,882) and "QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials" (29,445).

Question 5

Which research topics does Princeton University publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Magnetic confinement fusion research, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Climate variability and models and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Princeton University?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Turbulence, Diagnostics, Tokamak, Transport, History, Solar Wind and Globalization.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Princeton University work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 55% of research at Princeton University is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (14%), Physics and Astronomy (13%), Engineering (13%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Princeton University's?

Accepted Answer

University of California, Santa Barbara has the research profile closest to Princeton University's (similarity 0.96 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Physics and Astronomy, followed by Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and Max Planck Society.

Question 9

Is Princeton University's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021.