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University of Notre Dame

In research, University of Notre Dame stands highest in Computer Science (#138 of 4,667 worldwide), Social Sciences (#347 of 10,521 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#485 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Classics, History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy — Classics is 9.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#553
of 28,054 · #202 all time
Rank in United States
#114
of 4,192
Research works
53k
▼ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.6M
29.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
31%
world 28%

What is University of Notre Dame 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
Computer ScienceField #138 of 4,667 23.5%619 #163
Social SciencesDomain #347 of 10,521 21.2%2,298 #129
Physical SciencesDomain #485 of 12,888 19.1%2,877 #155
Social SciencesField #307 of 6,365 22.7%1,070 #173
Arts and HumanitiesField #127 of 1,998 15.4%571 #48
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #188 of 2,578 23.3%406 #135
PhilosophySubfield #32 of 290 21.2%150 #28
EngineeringField #767 of 6,636 18.0%918 #199
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #220 of 1,884 25.2%237 —
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #151 of 1,201 21.0%225 #94

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University of Notre Dame 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. Computer Science#163 #138
  2. Social Sciences#129 #347
  3. Physical Sciences#155 #485
  4. Social Sciences#173 #307
  5. Arts and Humanities#48 #127
  6. Sociology and Political Science#135 #188
  7. Philosophy#28 #32
  8. Engineering#199 #767
  9. Political Science and International Relations#94 #151
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 Notre Dame specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Classics takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ClassicsSubfield · 34.5 works9.3×
  2. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 56.4 works5.9×
  3. PhilosophySubfield · 150.3 works5.6×
  4. HistorySubfield · 99.8 works5.0×
  5. Religious studiesSubfield · 50.1 works4.8×
  6. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 47.7 works4.7×
← 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: 0.20× its world share, 58 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.02× its world share, 337 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.59× its world share, 37 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.99× its world share, 100 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.47× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.91× its world share, 42 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.61× its world share, 157 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.28× its world share, 618 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 81 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.63× its world share, 36 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.99× its world share, 918 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.74× its world share, 228 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.15× its world share, 249 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.01× its world share, 220 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.39× its world share, 329 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 73 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.34× its world share, 401 worksMedicineNursing: 0.38× its world share, 11 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.19× its world share, 571 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.80× its world share, 159 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.45× its world share, 87 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.27× its world share, 169 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.28× its world share, 243 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.36× its world share, 1,070 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at University of Notre Dame?

Ranked on the composite score, Alasdair MacIntyre, Kevin W. Bowyer and Patrick J. Flynn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University of Notre Dame.

  1. 1 Alasdair MacIntyre United States · #1,605 worldwide 844 citations · 102 works
  2. 2 Kevin W. Bowyer United States · #7,796 worldwide 2k citations · 162 works
  3. 3 Patrick J. Flynn United States · #7,916 worldwide 1.5k citations · 87 works
  4. 4 David M. Lodge United States · #8,076 worldwide 1.4k citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Scott Morris United States · #8,673 worldwide 751 citations · 63 works
  6. 6 Scott Mainwaring United States · #9,884 worldwide 545 citations · 53 works
  7. 7 Prashant V. Kamat United States · #10,125 worldwide 2.3k citations · 168 works
  8. 8 Joan F. Brennecke United States · #10,171 worldwide 1.4k citations · 72 works
  9. 9 Dean A. Shepherd United States · #14,899 worldwide 1.4k citations · 111 works
  10. 10 Ernán McMullin United States · #16,022 worldwide 400 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at University of Notre Dame

Which keywords describe research at University of Notre Dame?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, Nationalism, Machine Learning, Globalization, Ethics, Democracy, Public Opinion and Deep Learning.

▲ 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. Machine Learning248▲ 1.22×79 topics
  2. Deep Learning220◆ 1.03×75 topics
  3. Globalization198▲ 1.62×102 topics
  4. Religion145▲ 4.9×36 topics
  5. Neural Networks144▲ 1.50×36 topics
  6. Climate Change140▼ 0.84×92 topics
  7. Nationalism140▲ 4.9×30 topics
  8. Human Rights136▲ 2.1×59 topics
  9. Ethics114▲ 3.8×42 topics
  10. History113▲ 2.6×51 topics
  11. Identity111▲ 2.5×54 topics
  12. Democracy97▲ 4.4×23 topics
  13. Colonialism90▲ 3.1×40 topics
  14. Philosophy88▲ 3.2×34 topics
  15. Gender86▲ 2.6×48 topics
  16. Literature86▲ 2.5×46 topics
  17. Culture81▲ 2.5×29 topics
  18. Public Opinion73▲ 9.4×6 topics
  19. International Law72▲ 3.8×20 topics
  20. Heat Transfer67▲ 2.2×14 topics
  21. Large-Eddy Simulation65▲ 5.5×5 topics
  22. Politics64▲ 3.8×20 topics
  23. Theology56▲ 9.5×6 topics
  24. Political Philosophy54▲ 15×4 topics
  25. Society53▲ 4.5×17 topics
  26. Secularism50▲ 7.7×5 topics
  27. Multiculturalism49▲ 4.1×7 topics
  28. Molecular Dynamics47▲ 4.6×6 topics
  29. Federalism45▲ 11×3 topics
  30. NGOs44▲ 7.2×4 topics
  31. American founding44▲ 23×1 topic
  32. Constitutional government44▲ 23×1 topic
  33. Cosmopolitanism43▲ 6.3×7 topics
  34. Church History40▲ 15×3 topics
  35. Equality40▲ 11×7 topics
  36. Vortex Dynamics40▲ 5.5×4 topics
  37. Adaptive Mesh Refinement38▲ 9.9×2 topics
  38. High-Order Schemes38▲ 9.9×2 topics
  39. Cultural Transmission36▲ 7.3×5 topics
  40. Metaphysics35▲ 13×5 topics

Which research topics does University of Notre Dame publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: American Constitutional Law and Politics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Political Philosophy and Ethics and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics.

American Constitutional …44American Constitutional Law and Politics: 44 fractional worksFluid Dynamics and Turbu…34Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows: 34 fractional worksPolitical Philosophy and Ethics: 29 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 27 fractional worksTopic Modeling27Topic Modeling: 27 fractional worksReligion and Society Interactions: 26 fractional worksPerovskite Materials and Applications: 24 fractional worksReformation and Early Mo…24Reformation and Early Modern Christianity: 24 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 23 fractional worksMachine Learning in Materials Science: 22 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsComputational MechanicsArtificial IntelligenceSociology and Political Science3 others

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

  1. 1 American Constitutional Law and Politics Political Science and International Relations 44 works
  2. 2 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 34 works
  3. 3 Political Philosophy and Ethics Political Science and International Relations 29 works
  4. 4 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 27 works
  5. 5 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 27 works
  6. 6 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 26 works
  7. 7 Perovskite Materials and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 24 works
  8. 8 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 24 works
  9. 9 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 23 works
  10. 10 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 22 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 available31.3%not open68.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.2%domestic only87.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University of Notre Dame's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% 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.

Other research institutions in Notre Dame

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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.