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USDA Rural Development

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Research works
30
▼ 60% vs 2013–17
Citations
33
1.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
71.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: USDA Rural Development 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.

Which keywords describe research at USDA Rural Development?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Rural Development, Sustainability, Experiential Learning, Agricultural Education, Governance, School Gardens, Sustainable Agriculture and Cooperatives.

▲ 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 36 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Rural Development4▲ 49×5 topics
  2. Sustainability4▲ 6.8×9 topics
  3. Experiential Learning3▲ 183×2 topics
  4. Agricultural Education3▲ 412×1 topic
  5. Governance3▲ 30×3 topics
  6. School Gardens3▲ 412×1 topic
  7. Education2▲ 6.0×5 topics
  8. Biodiversity2▲ 9.7×5 topics
  9. Cooperatives2▲ 89×1 topic
  10. Globalization2▲ 4.1×7 topics
  11. Ownership2▲ 646×1 topic
  12. Sustainable Agriculture2▲ 28×5 topics
  13. Complexity Theory2▲ 125×3 topics
  14. Leadership2▲ 20×5 topics
  15. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 47×3 topics
  16. Climate Change2▲ 2.1×7 topics
  17. Economic Development2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  18. Consumer Behavior2▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Social Networks1▲ 23×2 topics
  20. Environmental Impact1▲ 3.2×3 topics
  21. Social Capital1▲ 11×3 topics
  22. Agricultural Innovation1▲ 146×1 topic
  23. Livelihood Diversification1▲ 196×1 topic
  24. Food Security1▲ 9.4×4 topics
  25. Innovation1▲ 4.1×4 topics
  26. Adult Education1▲ 112×2 topics
  27. Biodiversity Conservation1▲ 12×2 topics
  28. Community Engagement1▲ 11×2 topics
  29. Concept Mapping1▲ 61×1 topic
  30. Food Quality1▲ 64×1 topic
  31. Institutional Theory1▲ 42×1 topic
  32. Lifelong Learning1▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Organic Agriculture1▲ 178×1 topic
  34. Organizational Change1▲ 40×1 topic
  35. Social Innovation1▲ 28×2 topics
  36. Theory-Based Evaluation1▲ 141×1 topic

Which research topics does USDA Rural Development publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: ICT Impact and Policies, Work-Family Balance Challenges, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics and Income, Poverty, and Inequality.

ICT Impact and Policies0ICT Impact and Policies: 0 fractional worksWork-Family Balance Chal…0Work-Family Balance Challenges: 0 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Famil…0Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 0 fractional worksIncome, Poverty, and Ine…0Income, Poverty, and Inequality: 0 fractional worksAgricultural risk and re…0Agricultural risk and resilience: 0 fractional worksInsurance and Financial Risk Management: 0 fractional works
Media TechnologySociology and Political ScienceGender StudiesSoil Science1 others

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

  1. 1 ICT Impact and Policies Media Technology 0 works
  2. 2 Work-Family Balance Challenges Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 0 works
  4. 4 Income, Poverty, and Inequality Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 0 works
  6. 6 Insurance and Financial Risk Management Economics and Econometrics 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 available37.4%not open62.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.5%domestic only93.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has USDA Rural Development's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 60% 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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