Getting Started
The DePaul Library is equipped with lots of resources and tools to help you succeed with conducting research, identifying where to publish, connecting with other researchers, and measuring your scholarly impact. Click through the tabs to see how we can support you through each step of the research process. If you need help, please contact us!
Documents Published by DePaul Scholars
The library subscribes to Scopus, a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database. Scopus is a great resource for many steps of the scholarly communication life cycle and is referenced to several times throughout this guide. See DePaul's Scopus Organization profile page to view the scholarly output of DePaul.
The table below reflects the total number of documents associated with DePaul by subject area - the numbers are the sum of documents from the institution plus documents published with affiliations.
| Subject Area | Documents |
| Social Sciences | 4,754 |
| Arts and Humanities | 2,334 |
| Computer Science | 2,122 |
| Psychology | 1,944 |
| Business, Management, and Accounting | 1,825 |
| Medicine | 1,740 |
| Mathematics | 1,332 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 979 |
| Engineering | 855 |
| Chemistry | 476 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 437 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 433 |
| Physics and Astronomy | 430 |
| Decision Sciences | 374 |
| Environmental Science | 368 |
| Nursing | 340 |
| Materials Science | 291 |
| Neuroscience | 254 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 240 |
Frequent Collaborators of DePaul
The table below is a list of the top 20 organizations DePaul researchers collaborate with most frequently identified by Scopus.
| Organization Name | Documents |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | 422 |
| Northwestern University | 355 |
| The University of Chicago | 197 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 191 |
| Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | 180 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 145 |
| Loyola University Chicago | 137 |
| Michigan State University | 111 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | 104 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 97 |
| Indiana University Bloomington | 95 |
| Texas A&M University | 93 |
| The Ohio State University | 89 |
| Argonne National Laboratory | 88 |
| Northern Illinois University | 88 |
| University of Washington | 87 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 82 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 71 |
| Arizona State University | 71 |
| Cornell University | 69 |
Librarian
Related Resources
- Open Access Publishing GuideInformation about the meaning of Open Access, OA resources, and the OA publishing process.
- Office of Research ServicesThe Office of Research Services supports DePaul faculty and students in their research and creative endeavors