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University of Kansas

In research, University of Kansas stands highest in Social Sciences (#484 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Sciences (#840 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#806 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Chemistry, Geography, Planning and Development and Paleontology — Environmental Chemistry is 7.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,004
of 28,054 · #383 all time
Rank in United States
#176
of 4,192
Research works
55k
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.5M
27.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

What is University of Kansas 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 #484 of 10,521 26.0%2,219 #151
Health SciencesDomain #840 of 11,982 13.6%1,339 #427
MedicineField #806 of 10,443 12.9%1,116 #589
Social SciencesField #503 of 6,365 28.5%1,145 #187
Physical SciencesDomain #1,020 of 12,888 15.4%1,974 #411
Decision SciencesField #83 of 703 16.4%77 #109
PsychologyField #275 of 2,181 21.1%465 #68
Life SciencesDomain #1,004 of 7,800 19.5%704 #497
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #368 of 2,578 34.1%344 #162
EngineeringField #983 of 6,636 17.2%571 #366

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University of Kansas 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#151 #484
  2. Health Sciences#427 #840
  3. Medicine#589 #806
  4. Social Sciences#187 #503
  5. Physical Sciences#411 #1,020
  6. Decision Sciences#109 #83
  7. Psychology#68 #275
  8. Life Sciences#497 #1,004
  9. Sociology and Political Science#162 #368
  10. Engineering#366 #983
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 University of Kansas specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Chemistry takes 7.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 104.9 works7.7×
  2. Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSubfield · 75.2 works5.9×
  3. PaleontologySubfield · 33.9 works4.5×
  4. Safety ResearchSubfield · 69.6 works4.0×
← 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: 0.57× its world share, 169 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.98× its world share, 326 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.81× its world share, 51 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.38× its world share, 140 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.84× its world share, 18 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.63× its world share, 36 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.26× its world share, 123 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.59× its world share, 285 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.41× its world share, 236 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.46× its world share, 26 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.61× its world share, 571 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.13× its world share, 351 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.42× its world share, 92 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.04× its world share, 76 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.29× its world share, 178 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.19× its world share, 196 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.93× its world share, 1,116 worksMedicineNursing: 0.54× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.52× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.35× its world share, 242 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.71× its world share, 143 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.27× its world share, 77 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.10× its world share, 147 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.45× its world share, 465 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.45× its world share, 1,145 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at University of Kansas?

Ranked on the composite score, James A. Brundage, Todd D. Little and Jerzy W. Grzymala‐Busse lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University of Kansas.

  1. 1 James A. Brundage United States · #2,930 worldwide 361 citations · 99 works
  2. 2 Todd D. Little United States · #4,437 worldwide 1.5k citations · 72 works
  3. 3 Jerzy W. Grzymala‐Busse United States · #4,581 worldwide 1.3k citations · 75 works
  4. 4 C. R. Snyder United States · #5,444 worldwide 1.5k citations · 62 works
  5. 5 C. Daniel Batson United States · #6,043 worldwide 1.7k citations · 57 works
  6. 6 A. Townsend Peterson United States · #9,437 worldwide 2.1k citations · 148 works
  7. 7 Michael L. Wehmeyer United States · #12,039 worldwide 710 citations · 97 works
  8. 8 Donald Worster United States · #12,323 worldwide 395 citations · 51 works
  9. 9 Robert DeYoung United States · #13,532 worldwide 1.3k citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Charles D. Michener United States · #16,956 worldwide 1.2k citations · 132 works
All ranked researchers at University of Kansas

Which keywords describe research at University of Kansas?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Globalization, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Mental Health and Microbial Communities.

▲ 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. Epidemiology280◆ 1.13×127 topics
  2. Climate Change240▲ 1.43×94 topics
  3. Globalization211▲ 1.72×99 topics
  4. Mental Health172▲ 1.89×41 topics
  5. Quality of Life134▲ 1.49×52 topics
  6. Identity105▲ 2.3×51 topics
  7. Microbial Communities104▲ 3.9×9 topics
  8. Methane Oxidation92▲ 18×2 topics
  9. Anaerobic92▲ 21×1 topic
  10. Gas Hydrates92▲ 21×1 topic
  11. Risk Factors90▲ 1.32×33 topics
  12. Gender88▲ 2.6×44 topics
  13. Depression82▲ 1.50×21 topics
  14. Biodiversity76▲ 1.63×29 topics
  15. Genetics75▲ 1.72×25 topics
  16. Resilience75▲ 2.5×15 topics
  17. Neoliberalism71▲ 3.2×23 topics
  18. Colonialism68▲ 2.3×33 topics
  19. Adolescents68▲ 2.9×7 topics
  20. Tomography60▲ 5.3×4 topics
  21. Hydrological Modeling59▲ 4.0×5 topics
  22. Feminism58▲ 3.3×22 topics
  23. Seismic Noise54▲ 18×1 topic
  24. Surface Wave54▲ 18×1 topic
  25. Evidence-Based Practice54▲ 6.7×7 topics
  26. Intersectionality52▲ 4.6×13 topics
  27. Emotion50▲ 3.8×11 topics
  28. Sea Level Rise48▲ 6.0×3 topics
  29. Geodetic Measurements45▲ 6.6×2 topics
  30. Geography45▲ 22×3 topics
  31. Special Education44▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Electron Acceleration41▲ 9.7×2 topics
  33. Behavioral Interventions41▲ 8.3×3 topics
  34. Solar Wind40▲ 7.0×2 topics
  35. GRACE40▲ 12×1 topic
  36. groundwater depletion40▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Ionosphere40▲ 11×1 topic
  38. Magnetosphere40▲ 11×1 topic
  39. Self-Determination38▲ 35×1 topic
  40. Universal Design for Learning38▲ 35×1 topic

Which research topics does University of Kansas publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements and Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Methane Hydrates and Rel…92Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 92 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis: 54 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 40 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 40 fractional worksDisability Education and Employment: 38 fractional worksFamily and Disability Support Research: 32 fractional worksBehavioral and Psycholog…31Behavioral and Psychological Studies: 31 fractional worksHistorical Geography and Geographical Thought: 30 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 26 fractional worksAutism Spectrum Disorder Research: 25 fractional works
Environmental ChemistryGeophysicsOceanographyAstronomy and Astrophysics5 others

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

  1. 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 92 works
  2. 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 54 works
  3. 3 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 40 works
  4. 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 40 works
  5. 5 Disability Education and Employment Safety Research 38 works
  6. 6 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 32 works
  7. 7 Behavioral and Psychological Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology 31 works
  8. 8 Historical Geography and Geographical Thought Geography, Planning and Development 30 works
  9. 9 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 26 works
  10. 10 Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Cognitive Neuroscience 25 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 available29.6%not open70.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.1%domestic only89.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University of Kansas's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

Other research institutions in Lawrence

All research institutions in Lawrence

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.