In spite of the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers bargaining committee’s decision to pause the union’s strike, the religion department’s graduate workers have decided to continue striking.

Amid a crashing stock market, slumping gross domestic product, and cascading unemployment, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center has suffered losses of its own that it is preparing to deal with in the months and years to come.

Columbia bills itself as a major research university, and one such measurement of this label is the number of paper citations its researchers can claim. As of 2020, Columbia had 45 scientists and social scientists ranked within the top 1 percent of the most cited researchers in their respective fields. By this metric, the University has the 18th largest number of top-cited researchers in the world, according to recognized data by Web of Science.