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Welch College

In research, Welch College stands highest in Social Sciences (#13,401 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#32,306
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#6,794
of 7,310
Research works
146
▲ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
13.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Welch College

What is Welch College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #13,401 of 14,833 12.2%123

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Welch College 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Welch College work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research at Welch College is in Social Sciences, 15% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (24%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (22%), Arts and Humanities (14%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 31 fractional works · 78.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 23.6% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 11.7% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 21.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 13.4% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 14.5% of its workReligious studies: 3 fractional works · 6.6% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 13.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 14.9% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKWelch College40fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences78%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting1023.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance921.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities614.5%
    4. Social Sciences513.3%
    5. Psychology12.6%
    6. Decision Sciences12.1%
    1. Computer Science38.1%
    2. Environmental Science12.6%
    3. Engineering12.2%
    4. Energy11.3%
    5. Mathematics00.7%
    1. Medicine23.9%
    2. Health Professions11.6%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.0%
    2. Neuroscience00.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
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: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 1.03× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 1.43× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 5.02× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.33× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.22× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10.16× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.05× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 10.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.16×9 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting7.33×10 works
  3. Arts and Humanities5.02×6 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.22×1 works
  5. Energy1.43×0 works
  6. Social Sciences1.05×5 works
  7. Computer Science1.03×3 works
  8. Psychology0.87×1 works
  9. Mathematics0.63×0 works
  10. Health Professions0.61×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.52×1 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.47×0 works
  13. Nursing0.42×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×0 works
  15. Medicine0.20×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.19×0 works
  17. Engineering0.15×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Welch College?

Ranked on the quality score, Lorán Chollete and Matthew McAffee lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Welch College.

  1. 1 Lorán Chollete United States · #2,020,185 worldwide 584 citations · 57 works
  2. 2 Matthew McAffee United States · #3,556,531 worldwide 31 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Welch College

What are the most cited papers from Welch College?

The most cited paper from Welch College is "Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Children: A Meta-analysis" (Maria Alejandra Pereda, Miguel A. Chavez, Catherine C. Hooper-Miele et al., 2015), with 486 citations. Next come "What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research" (320) and "In Vivo Detection of Apoptosis" (241).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Children: A Meta-analysis Maria Alejandra Pereda, Miguel A. Chavez, Catherine C. Hooper-Miele et al. · PEDIATRICS ReviewOpen access 16 Mar 2015 486
2 What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research Mehdi Samimi, Andres Felipe Cortes, Marc H. Anderson et al. · The Leadership Quarterly 17 Jan 2020 320
3 In Vivo Detection of Apoptosis Francis G. Blankenberg · Journal of Nuclear Medicine Open access Jun 2008 241
4 Induction of potent antitumor immunity by in situ targeting of intratumoral DCs Katsuyoshi Furumoto, Luis R. B. Soares, Edgar G. Engleman et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Mar 2004 187
5 Self-Enhancement as a Motivation for Sharing Online Advertising David George Taylor, David R. Strutton, Kenneth Neil Thompson · Journal of Interactive Advertising Mar 2012 187
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Welch College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Monetary Policy, Corporate Governance, Consumer Behavior, Stock Market, Theology, Economic Policy Uncertainty, Oil Price Shocks and Economic Growth.

▲ 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-now 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. Monetary Policy3▲ 35×5 topics
  2. Corporate Governance3▲ 10.0×8 topics
  3. Consumer Behavior2▲ 9.8×3 topics
  4. Stock Market2▲ 26×2 topics
  5. Theology2▲ 63×2 topics
  6. Economic Growth2▲ 6.4×7 topics
  7. Economic Policy Uncertainty2▲ 83×1 topic
  8. Oil Price Shocks2▲ 83×1 topic
  9. Financial Reporting2▲ 38×3 topics
  10. Investment Decisions2▲ 35×2 topics
  11. Biblical Monotheism2▲ 164×1 topic
  12. Globalization2▲ 2.1×5 topics
  13. Jewish Society2▲ 164×1 topic
  14. Social Capital2▲ 7.4×8 topics
  15. Information Asymmetry1▲ 65×2 topics
  16. Church History1▲ 78×2 topics
  17. Financial Literacy1▲ 36×1 topic
  18. Retirement Planning1▲ 98×1 topic
  19. Asset Pricing1▲ 35×2 topics
  20. Audit Committee1▲ 68×1 topic
  21. Earnings Management1▲ 31×1 topic
  22. Internet of Things1▲ 3.4×3 topics
  23. Religion1▲ 6.3×4 topics
  24. Semitic Languages1▲ 72×2 topics
  25. Firm Performance1▲ 15×2 topics
  26. Supply Chain Management1▲ 3.0×2 topics
  27. Urban Development1▲ 7.6×2 topics
  28. African Christianity1▲ 107×2 topics
  29. Arabia1▲ 90×1 topic
  30. Byzantine1▲ 90×1 topic
  31. Cultural Identity1▲ 5.0×2 topics
  32. Financial Development1▲ 17×2 topics
  33. Investor Protection1▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Market Efficiency1▲ 36×1 topic
  35. Ownership Structure1▲ 34×1 topic
  36. Panel Data Analysis1▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Regulation1▲ 4.7×3 topics
  38. Security1▲ 3.8×2 topics
  39. Social Justice1▲ 4.2×2 topics
  40. Stock Returns1▲ 57×1 topic

Which research topics does Welch College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Market Dynamics and Volatility, Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance.

Market Dynamics and Volatility: 2 fractional worksBiblical Studies and Interpretation: 2 fractional worksFinancial Literacy, Pens…1Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis: 1 fractional worksAuditing, Earnings Manag…1Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance: 1 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 1 fractional worksArchaeology and Historical Studies: 1 fractional worksFinancial Markets and In…1Financial Markets and Investment Strategies: 1 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 1 fractional worksClimate Change Policy and Economics: 1 fractional worksConsumer Behavior in Bra…1Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification: 1 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsReligious studiesAccountingArcheology3 others

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

  1. 1 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  2. 2 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 2 works
  3. 3 Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis Accounting 1 works
  4. 4 Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance Accounting 1 works
  5. 5 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 1 works
  6. 6 Archaeology and Historical Studies Archeology 1 works
  7. 7 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 1 works
  8. 8 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 1 works
  9. 9 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  10. 10 Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification Marketing 1 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 available52.9%not open47.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Welch College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Welch College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00025% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Welch College0.00014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Welch College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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