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The Chopra Foundation

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Research works
13
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
437
34.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
The Chopra Foundation

Not ranked overall: The Chopra Foundation is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does The Chopra Foundation work in?

In all years, 41% of research at The Chopra Foundation is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (27%), Medicine (22%), Physics and Astronomy (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 40.6% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 26.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 15.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 30.2% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 22.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 17.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 11.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 11.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKThe ChopraFoundation13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences30%Social Sciences41%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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. Psychology326.8%
    2. Social Sciences18.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities03.8%
    4. Decision Sciences01.3%
    1. Medicine322.4%
    2. Nursing14.8%
    3. Health Professions03.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.0%
    3. Neuroscience03.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics03.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy211.8%
    2. Environmental Science00.1%
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: 1.30× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 17.51× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Medicine: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.27× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 6.38× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 18.22× its world share, 2 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 18.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology18.22×2 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics17.51×0 works
  3. Decision Sciences6.38×0 works
  4. Arts and Humanities4.27×0 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.30×0 works
  6. Medicine0.69×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.26×0 works

Who are the top researchers at The Chopra Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Deepak Chopra lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Chopra Foundation.

  1. 1 Deepak Chopra United States · #3,754,363 worldwide 2.1k citations · 112 works
All ranked researchers at The Chopra Foundation

What are the most cited papers from The Chopra Foundation?

The most cited paper from The Chopra Foundation is "Therapeutic Uses of Triphala in Ayurvedic Medicine" (Christine Tara Peterson, Kate Denniston, Deepak Chopra, 2017), with 366 citations. Next come "Yoga, Meditation and Mind-Body Health: Increased BDNF, Cortisol Awakening Response, and Altered Inflammatory Marker Expression after a 3-Month Yoga and Meditation Retreat" (291) and "The Zinc Dyshomeostasis Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease" (179).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Therapeutic Uses of Triphala in Ayurvedic Medicine Christine Tara Peterson, Kate Denniston, Deepak Chopra · The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Open access 11 Jul 2017 366
2 Yoga, Meditation and Mind-Body Health: Increased BDNF, Cortisol Awakening Response, and Altered Inflammatory Marker Expression after a 3-Month Yoga and Meditation Retreat B. Rael Cahn, Matthew S. Goodman, Christine Tara Peterson et al. · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Open access 26 Jun 2017 291
3 The Zinc Dyshomeostasis Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease Travis J. A. Craddock, Jack A. Tuszyński, Deepak Chopra et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 23 Mar 2012 179
4 Effects of Turmeric and Curcumin Dietary Supplementation on Human Gut Microbiota: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study Christine Tara Peterson, Alexandra R. Vaughn, Vandana Sharma et al. · Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine Open access 2018 169
5 The embodied mind: A review on functional genomic and neurological correlates of mind-body therapies David J. Muehsam, Susan K. Lutgendorf, Paul J. Mills et al. · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 23 Dec 2016 125
All 39 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does The Chopra Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications and Mental Health Research Topics.

Mindfulness and Compassi…1Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions: 1 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 0 fractional worksPsychotherapy Techniques…0Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksMental Health Research T…0Mental Health Research Topics: 0 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 0 fractional worksPsychedelics and Drug Studies: 0 fractional worksDiverse academic researc…0Diverse academic research themes: 0 fractional worksForensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis: 0 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 0 fractional worksLegume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis: 0 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyPhilosophyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyPharmacology4 others

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

  1. 1 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Clinical Psychology 1 works
  2. 2 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 0 works
  3. 3 Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Clinical Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 0 works
  6. 6 Psychedelics and Drug Studies Clinical Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Diverse academic research themes Information Systems and Management 0 works
  8. 8 Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis Toxicology 0 works
  9. 9 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 0 works
  10. 10 Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis Plant Science 0 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 available74.2%not open25.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.4%domestic only82.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Chopra Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021.

2005201020152020
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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 The Chopra Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%The Chopra Foundation0.000018% in 202420102020

Fractional works of The Chopra Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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