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The Sentencing Project

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Research works
46
▼ 56% vs 2013–17
Citations
891
19.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
18%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: The Sentencing Project is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Computer Science: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 1.20× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.97× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 5.77× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at The Sentencing Project?

Ranked on the composite score, Marc Mauer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Sentencing Project.

  1. 1 Marc Mauer United States · #144,052 worldwide 247 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at The Sentencing Project

Which keywords describe research at The Sentencing Project?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Criminal Justice, Racial Disparities, Prison System, Incarceration Effects, Mass Incarceration, Criminal Behavior, Human Rights and Youth Violence.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Criminal Justice17▲ 242×3 topics
  2. Racial Disparities17▲ 781×2 topics
  3. Prison System16▲ 656×2 topics
  4. Incarceration Effects16▲ 1158×1 topic
  5. Mass Incarceration16▲ 1158×1 topic
  6. Criminal Behavior6▲ 284×2 topics
  7. Delinquency4▲ 219×2 topics
  8. Human Rights4▲ 11×8 topics
  9. Youth Violence4▲ 209×3 topics
  10. Developmental Trajectories4▲ 67×2 topics
  11. Crime4▲ 294×1 topic
  12. Social Structure4▲ 196×1 topic
  13. Globalization3▲ 3.1×6 topics
  14. Constitutional Law2▲ 41×2 topics
  15. Intellectual Property2▲ 54×2 topics
  16. Mental Disorders2▲ 56×2 topics
  17. Public Health2▲ 3.8×3 topics
  18. Psychopathy2▲ 148×1 topic
  19. Risk Assessment2▲ 8.5×1 topic
  20. Substance Abuse2▲ 69×2 topics
  21. Health2▲ 11×1 topic
  22. Homelessness2▲ 98×1 topic
  23. Corporate Governance2▲ 6.7×2 topics
  24. Regulation2▲ 5.9×2 topics
  25. Equality2▲ 46×2 topics
  26. Environmental Governance2▲ 60×3 topics
  27. Law and Economics2▲ 248×1 topic
  28. Public Policy2▲ 7.5×1 topic
  29. Legal Semiotics1▲ 125×1 topic
  30. Media1▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Visual Jurisprudence1▲ 125×1 topic
  32. Democracy1▲ 7.1×2 topics
  33. Disproportionality1▲ 411×1 topic
  34. Public Opinion1▲ 14×2 topics
  35. School Discipline1▲ 249×1 topic
  36. Civil Rights1▲ 34×1 topic
  37. Freedom of Speech1▲ 229×1 topic
  38. Violence1▲ 17×3 topics
  39. American founding1▲ 30×1 topic
  40. Constitutional government1▲ 30×1 topic

Which research topics does The Sentencing Project publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Law in Society and Culture, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Legal case studies and regulations.

Criminal Justice and Cor…3Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis: 3 fractional worksLaw in Society and Culture1Law in Society and Culture: 1 fractional worksHuman auditory perceptio…1Human auditory perception and evaluation: 1 fractional worksLegal case studies and regulations: 1 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 1 fractional worksContemporary Sociologica…1Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice: 1 fractional worksEducational Robotics and Engineering: 0 fractional worksSociology and Norbert Elias: 0 fractional worksAnthropological Studies and Insights: 0 fractional worksWater Governance and Infrastructure: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceLawAerospace EngineeringPolitical Science and International Relations3 others

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

  1. 1 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  2. 2 Law in Society and Culture Law 1 works
  3. 3 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Legal case studies and regulations Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  5. 5 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  6. 6 Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  7. 7 Educational Robotics and Engineering Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  8. 8 Sociology and Norbert Elias Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 0 works
  10. 10 Water Governance and Infrastructure Political Science and International Relations 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 available18.3%not open81.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.0%domestic only94.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Sentencing Project's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 56% lower 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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