"The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranks Emory University in the Top 10 globally in seven subject areas based on the number of research articles in top-tier journals over the last 10 years. The CWUR rankings feature the top global universities in 227 subjects covering all academic disciplines in the sciences and social sciences.
Emory achieved Top-10 rankings in cardiac & cardiovascular systems (10); immunology (8); microbiology (6); pathology (10); social sciences, biomedical (10); virology (6); and women’s studies (10)."
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/04/center_for_world_university_rankings/index.html
It’s fairly obvious why Emory ranks highly in biomedical fields - particularly in immunology, microbiology, pathology and virology - given its proximity to the Centers for Disease Control and its work on HIV (specifically on an HIV vaccine) and other infectious diseases.
Emory has been an innovator in undergraduate education in the social sciences. There was an earlier linked article to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of Emory’s quantitative sciences. However, this ranking is based on “research articles in top-tier journals over the last 10 years.” It’s a pleasant surprise that Emory ranks so highly in faculty publications in the social sciences.
The same can be said of Emory’s #10 overall world ranking in women’s studies.
Very Impressive, this is good as many prospective students, counselors, and Dean’s of other institutions don’t realize Emory’s high research output probably due to lower marketing.
@VANDEMORY1342 : Yes, Emory is actually doing extremely well in some very broad and important areas in life sciences. I was expecting them all to be super niche fields (as in a much smaller sub-field inside of a broad field of life science for example) but there it is hanging with the big boys in microbiology (which surprised me) and immunology (not as much of a surprise that it would do well, but I didn’t expect it to do that well).
Also, I do not know if I mentioned this in the other thread this was posted, but Emory can punch above its weight in social sciences and humanities at times because apparently it has a much higher percentage of non-STEM research dollars coming in than peers.
It should be very proud of itself, because it isn’t like Laney Graduate School is super well funded and what this reflects (outside of say, pathology) is that the biosciences/life sciences arm of Laney along with some social sciences and humanities are pushing themselves to limits that the endowment of Laney would not predict.
@bernie12
Emory’s proximity to the CDC makes it a natural for research into infectious diseases. That would explain Emory’s high ranking in microbiology, immunology and virology, no?
Exactly what specialties within “social sciences” accounts for Emory’s scholarly productivity? Political science?
@BiffBrown : Probably not just soc. sciences but some humanities, political science, history, African American Studies, Women Studies, English. Think about Emory’s library and how serious it is beyond just a place to study. Most of the conferences and special events in there are related to those disciplines. There is a lot of scholarly and intellectual energy coming from those.