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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

In research, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,275 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Religious studies and Arts and Humanities (Religious studies is 159.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#22,059
of 22,385 · #25,691 all time
Rank in ??
#476
of 487
Research works
359
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
609
1.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
19%
world 40%
International
1%
world 18%
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

What is Southern Baptist 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 #7,275 of 9,585 12.3%73 #5642

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Southern Baptist 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 fields of science does Southern Baptist Theological Seminary work in?

In 2022-now, 97% of research at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is in Social Sciences, 2% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (49%), Social Sciences (40%), Psychology (5%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 77 fractional works · 96.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 39 fractional works · 48.7% of its workReligious studies: 21 fractional works · 26.7% of its workPhilosophy: 5 fractional works · 6.1% of its workHistory: 5 fractional works · 5.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 32 fractional works · 40.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 13 fractional works · 15.7% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 7.6% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSouthern BaptistTheological…80fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences97%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities3948.7%
    2. Social Sciences3240.3%
    3. Psychology44.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting11.8%
    5. Decision Sciences11.0%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Chemistry00.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy00.6%
    3. Computer Science00.3%
    1. Health Professions10.8%
    2. Medicine00.3%
    1. Neuroscience00.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Southern Baptist Theological Seminary specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Religious studies takes 159.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Religious studiesSubfield · 21.3 works160×
  2. Arts and HumanitiesField · 38.9 works17×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 16.85× its world share, 39 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.08× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.50× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.19× its world share, 32 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 16.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities16.85×39 works
  2. Social Sciences3.19×32 works
  3. Psychology1.50×4 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.08×1 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting0.54×1 works
  6. Chemistry0.40×0 works
  7. Health Professions0.29×1 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.28×0 works
  9. Neuroscience0.26×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.19×0 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.04×0 works
  13. Medicine0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary?

Ranked on the quality score, Philip Suciadi Chia, W. O. Carver and Diana S. Richmond Garland lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  1. 1 Philip Suciadi Chia #883,840 worldwide 209 citations · 105 works
  2. 2 W. O. Carver #1,384,158 worldwide 87 citations · 1,716 works
  3. 3 Diana S. Richmond Garland #1,438,113 worldwide 1.9k citations · 177 works
  4. 4 Tyler R. Wittman #1,444,677 worldwide 65 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 A. T. Robertson #1,633,105 worldwide 521 citations · 1,169 works
  6. 6 Gaines S. Dobbins #1,992,614 worldwide 79 citations · 901 works
  7. 7 Edward A. Mcdowell #2,048,219 worldwide 56 citations · 198 works
  8. 8 John David Trentham #2,155,219 worldwide 33 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Charles A. McGlon #2,268,160 worldwide 8 citations · 292 works
  10. 10 Thomas R. Schreiner #2,379,061 worldwide 389 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

What are the most cited papers from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary?

The most cited paper from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is "On being a “Workaholic”" (Wayne E. Oates, 1968), with 149 citations. Next come "Jesus and the Kingdom of God" (44) and "Education for Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice" (30).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On being a “Workaholic” Wayne E. Oates · Pastoral Psychology Oct 1968 149
2 Jesus and the Kingdom of God George R. Beasley-Murray · Baptist Quarterly 1987 44
3 Education for Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice Diana R. Garland, Donoso Escobar · Journal of Social Work Education Sep 1988 30
4 Understanding The Relationship Between Faith and Knowledge Philip Suciadi Chia, Juanda Juanda · Journal Didaskalia Open access 8 Apr 2020 20
5 ‘His Favourite People’: John Gill on the Jews, National Israel, and the Latter-Day Glory of the Church Ivan E. Mesa · Baptist Quarterly 29 Aug 2023 15
All 65 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Theology, Religion, Social Justice, Biblical Monotheism, Jewish Society, Globalization, African Christianity and Church History.

▲ 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. Theology14▲ 185×4 topics
  2. Religion12▲ 33×12 topics
  3. Social Justice10▲ 20×11 topics
  4. Biblical Monotheism9▲ 462×1 topic
  5. Jewish Society9▲ 462×1 topic
  6. Globalization8▲ 5.3×12 topics
  7. African Christianity7▲ 366×2 topics
  8. Church History6▲ 191×3 topics
  9. Biblical Interpretation6▲ 224×2 topics
  10. Spirituality6▲ 71×5 topics
  11. Development5▲ 18×3 topics
  12. Nationalism5▲ 14×2 topics
  13. Political Philosophy4▲ 104×2 topics
  14. American founding4▲ 188×1 topic
  15. Constitutional government4▲ 188×1 topic
  16. Faith-Based Organizations4▲ 175×1 topic
  17. Gender4▲ 9.9×6 topics
  18. Social Services4▲ 119×1 topic
  19. Cultural Identity4▲ 9.9×2 topics
  20. Global Christianity4▲ 324×1 topic
  21. Short-Term Missions4▲ 324×1 topic
  22. Feminism4▲ 16×5 topics
  23. History4▲ 6.3×7 topics
  24. Mental Health4▲ 3.1×4 topics
  25. Identity3▲ 5.9×6 topics
  26. Calvinism3▲ 181×1 topic
  27. Reformation3▲ 146×1 topic
  28. Hermeneutics3▲ 48×2 topics
  29. Multiculturalism3▲ 21×3 topics
  30. Ecclesiology3▲ 442×1 topic
  31. Pentecostalism3▲ 152×1 topic
  32. Colonialism3▲ 7.5×5 topics
  33. Secularism3▲ 33×3 topics
  34. Social Support3▲ 6.2×3 topics
  35. Christian Education3▲ 145×1 topic
  36. Church Leadership3▲ 145×1 topic
  37. Philosophy2▲ 7.0×7 topics
  38. Urban Development2▲ 8.7×3 topics
  39. Health2▲ 7.3×2 topics
  40. Equality2▲ 48×2 topics

Which research topics does Southern Baptist Theological Seminary publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Biblical Studies and Interpretation, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Religion, Society, and Development and Christian Theology and Mission.

Biblical Studies and Int…9Biblical Studies and Interpretation: 9 fractional worksAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics: 4 fractional worksReligion, Society, and D…4Religion, Society, and Development: 4 fractional worksChristian Theology and M…4Christian Theology and Mission: 4 fractional worksReformation and Early Modern Christianity: 3 fractional worksPentecostalism and Christianity Studies: 3 fractional worksContemporary Christian L…3Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education: 3 fractional worksReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology: 2 fractional worksReligious Education and Schools: 2 fractional worksHistorical and Linguistic Studies: 2 fractional works
Religious studiesPolitical Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceHistory2 others

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

  1. 1 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 9 works
  2. 2 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  3. 3 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  4. 4 Christian Theology and Mission Religious studies 4 works
  5. 5 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 3 works
  6. 6 Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies Religious studies 3 works
  7. 7 Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education Religious studies 3 works
  8. 8 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology Health 2 works
  9. 9 Religious Education and Schools Education 2 works
  10. 10 Historical and Linguistic 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 available19.2%not open80.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors0.9%domestic only99.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% 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 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Southern Baptist Theological Seminary0.00020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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