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Texas Tech University

In research, Texas Tech University stands highest in Social Sciences (#331 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Sciences (#428 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#380 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Music, Small Animals and Veterinary — Music is 4.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#580
of 28,054 · #548 all time
Rank in United States
#119
of 4,192
Research works
47k
▲ 25% vs 2013–17
Citations
1M
21.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
31%
world 28%

What is Texas Tech University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #331 of 10,521 21.5%2,355 #290
Health SciencesDomain #428 of 11,982 11.9%2,211 #568
MedicineField #380 of 10,443 11.6%1,884 #656
Social SciencesField #247 of 6,365 23.0%1,089 #281
Business, Management and AccountingField #135 of 2,578 30.4%222 #121
Physical SciencesDomain #820 of 12,888 17.3%2,531 #614
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #173 of 2,578 26.5%335 #301
Life SciencesDomain #576 of 7,800 19.9%1,219 #686
EngineeringField #792 of 6,636 15.6%965 #546
Environmental ScienceField #424 of 3,551 21.9%385 #491

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Texas Tech University 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#290 #331
  2. Health Sciences#568 #428
  3. Medicine#656 #380
  4. Social Sciences#281 #247
  5. Business, Management and Accounting#121 #135
  6. Physical Sciences#614 #820
  7. Sociology and Political Science#301 #173
  8. Life Sciences#686 #576
  9. Engineering#546 #792
  10. Environmental Science#491 #424
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Texas Tech University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Music takes 4.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MusicSubfield · 28.6 works4.2×
  2. Small AnimalsSubfield · 37.6 works3.7×
  3. VeterinaryField · 41.2 works3.6×
  4. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 60.8 works3.3×
← 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: 1.11× its world share, 440 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.15× its world share, 509 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.99× its world share, 83 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.20× its world share, 162 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.87× its world share, 26 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.88× its world share, 26 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.97× its world share, 127 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.65× its world share, 421 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 126 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.57× its world share, 44 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.77× its world share, 965 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.93× its world share, 385 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.60× its world share, 176 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.99× its world share, 96 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.89× its world share, 165 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 10 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.04× its world share, 228 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.18× its world share, 1,884 worksMedicineNursing: 1.16× its world share, 47 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.65× its world share, 41 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.16× its world share, 279 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.83× its world share, 222 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.00× its world share, 80 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.09× its world share, 193 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.94× its world share, 492 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 1,089 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Texas Tech University?

Ranked on the composite score, Shelby D. Hunt, Debabrata Mukherjee and Kimberly B. Boal lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Texas Tech University.

  1. 1 Shelby D. Hunt United States · #7,676 worldwide 5.5k citations · 51 works
  2. 2 Debabrata Mukherjee United States · #8,596 worldwide 1.1k citations · 137 works
  3. 3 Kimberly B. Boal United States · #9,125 worldwide 485 citations · 55 works
  4. 4 Michael R. Willig United States · #13,589 worldwide 1k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Peter H. Westfall United States · #21,899 worldwide 2k citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Ronald K. Mitchell United States · #22,255 worldwide 1.8k citations · 37 works
  7. 7 Susan S. Hendrick United States · #28,057 worldwide 608 citations · 40 works
  8. 8 P. Hemachandra Reddy United States · #36,057 worldwide 730 citations · 40 works
  9. 9 Roger Barnard United States · #39,240 worldwide 283 citations · 51 works
  10. 10 James G. Hunt United States · #39,568 worldwide 525 citations · 39 works
All ranked researchers at Texas Tech University

Which keywords describe research at Texas Tech University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Climate Change, Machine Learning, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Depression 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology424▲ 1.29×134 topics
  2. Machine Learning253◆ 0.93×80 topics
  3. Mental Health236▲ 1.94×41 topics
  4. Climate Change234◆ 1.05×96 topics
  5. Inflammation203▲ 1.17×81 topics
  6. Globalization183◆ 1.12×98 topics
  7. Deep Learning177▼ 0.62×74 topics
  8. Sustainability176◆ 0.87×96 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress158▲ 1.16×60 topics
  10. Risk Factors154▲ 1.68×37 topics
  11. Public Health152▲ 1.25×60 topics
  12. Treatment142▲ 1.40×50 topics
  13. Social Media138▲ 1.16×29 topics
  14. Depression133▲ 1.82×25 topics
  15. Education122▼ 0.85×82 topics
  16. Quality of Life119◆ 0.99×55 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease114▲ 1.23×38 topics
  18. Cancer111◆ 1.00×53 topics
  19. Diagnosis106▲ 1.37×41 topics
  20. Obesity104▲ 1.65×27 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome101▲ 1.49×23 topics
  22. Social Support95▲ 2.1×18 topics
  23. Identity86▲ 1.42×53 topics
  24. Resilience86▲ 2.1×14 topics
  25. Gender80▲ 1.78×43 topics
  26. Meta-Analysis77▲ 1.57×19 topics
  27. Genetics75▲ 1.29×27 topics
  28. Gene Expression72▲ 1.42×20 topics
  29. Consumer Behavior72▲ 1.36×16 topics
  30. Adolescents71▲ 2.3×11 topics
  31. Neurological Disorders70▲ 1.49×20 topics
  32. Prevalence68▲ 2.0×15 topics
  33. Student Engagement66▲ 1.97×15 topics
  34. Emotion Regulation61▲ 2.4×9 topics
  35. Neuroscience60▲ 2.4×17 topics
  36. Well-being59▲ 1.84×14 topics
  37. Cognitive Therapy38▲ 4.3×4 topics
  38. Amino Acids37▲ 4.8×3 topics
  39. Animal Welfare36▲ 4.9×4 topics
  40. Heat Stress34▲ 5.1×2 topics

Which research topics does Texas Tech University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Diet and metabolism studies, Advanced Battery Technologies Research and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Animal Nutrition and Phy…24Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 24 fractional worksDiet and metabolism stud…22Diet and metabolism studies: 22 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technologies Research: 21 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 20 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 20 fractional worksPsychological Treatments and Disorders: 19 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 19 fractional worksDigital Marketing and So…18Digital Marketing and Social Media: 18 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 18 fractional worksNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring: 18 fractional works
Animal Science and ZoologyPhysiologyAutomotive EngineeringClinical Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 24 works
  2. 2 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 22 works
  3. 3 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 21 works
  4. 4 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 20 works
  5. 5 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 20 works
  6. 6 Psychological Treatments and Disorders Clinical Psychology 19 works
  7. 7 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 19 works
  8. 8 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 18 works
  9. 9 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 18 works
  10. 10 Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring Biomedical Engineering 18 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 available31.1%not open68.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.1%domestic only87.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Texas Tech University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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