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Impact vs Universidade da Coruña

On research quality in 2022-now, Universidade da Coruña ranks #747 in the world and Impact #748, of 22,385 institutions. Impact stands higher in 2 of the 14 fields both publish in, Universidade da Coruña in 12.

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Impact

Canada · Ottawa

World rank, 2022-now
#748
#1,016 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.3k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Biochemistry, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

Universidade da Coruña

Spain · A Coruña

World rank, 2022-now
#747
#1,014 all time
Works, 2022-now
4.1k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
53%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Architecture.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Impact leads on 6 of 8 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Universidade da Coruña leads on 2 of 8 measures: research quality and output.

Impact 62 Universidade da Coruña
  1. #748Research qualityworld rank of 22,385 institutions, 2022-now#747
  2. 1.42×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
  3. 1.3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now4.1k
  4. 14.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.9%
  5. 17.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.7
  6. 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time53%
  7. 51%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time17%
  8. -4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-17%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Impact stands higher in 2 of 14 fields, Universidade da Coruña in 12. Universidade da Coruña leads most in Social Sciences (#533 against #1,062); Impact leads most in Health Professions (#289 against #843). Each bar is that side's standing among all institutions ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Impact 212 Universidade da Coruña
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#938
  2. -Arts and Humanities#325
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,044
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#1,462
  5. -Computer Science#718
  6. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#504
  7. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#711
  8. -Engineering#921
  9. -Environmental Science#651
  10. #289Health Professions#843
  11. -Materials Science#1,331
  12. #343Medicine#825
  13. -Psychology#660
  14. #1,062Social Sciences#533

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Impact rankUniversidade da Coruña rank Impact top 10%Universidade da Coruña top 10% Impact worksUniversidade da Coruña works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #938 - 9.3% - 73
Arts and Humanities - #325 - 9.5% - 245
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #1,044 - 8.4% - 163
Business, Management and Accounting - #1,462 - 10.6% - 79
Computer Science - #718 - 10.1% - 352
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #504 - 10.0% - 61
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #711 - 7.8% - 99
Engineering - #921 - 9.0% - 402
Environmental Science - #651 - 8.6% - 240
Health Professions #289 #843 13.8% 9.9% 101 85
Materials Science - #1,331 - 7.2% - 76
Medicine #343 #825 19.2% 8.1% 434 742
Psychology - #660 - 8.1% - 128
Social Sciences #1,062 #533 10.5% 9.7% 126 651

Where does each put its research?

Not who is better, but what each side chooses to work on. A country or institution that puts twice the world's share of its research into a field sits at 2×, whatever its size.

  1. Health Professions3.4× 0.9×
  2. Nursing1.6× 0.6×
  3. Decision Sciences2.5× 0.9×
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.4× 0.6×
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.9× 0.4×
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.3× 0.7×
  7. Dentistry0.7× 0.4×
  8. Medicine1.9× 1.1×
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.1× 1.2×
  10. Mathematics0.8× 0.6×
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.9× 0.7×
  12. Psychology1.3× 1.2×
  13. Neuroscience0.5× 0.6×
  14. Environmental Science1.0× 1.3×
  15. Social Sciences1.0× 1.4×
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.5× 0.8×
  17. Energy0.5× 0.8×
  18. Veterinary0.5× 0.9×
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.5× 1.1×
  20. Engineering0.3× 0.7×
  21. Chemistry0.3× 0.8×
  22. Computer Science0.4× 1.2×
  23. Materials Science0.2× 0.6×
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.1× 0.2×
  25. Arts and Humanities0.4× 2.3×
  26. Chemical Engineering0.0× 0.7×
ImpactUniversidade da Coruña

Location quotient in 2022-now: the share of each side's research in the field over the world's share. 1× is the world's balance; the axis runs from a quarter of it to four times. Fields where Impact leans further are at the top, Universidade da Coruña's at the bottom. How research profiles are compared.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Impact

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology100▲ 1.94×123 topics
  2. Sustainability62▲ 1.94×79 topics
  3. Quality of Life53▲ 2.8×57 topics
  4. Public Health52▲ 2.7×52 topics
  5. Sustainable Development49▲ 2.4×42 topics
  6. Inflammation49▲ 1.77×68 topics
  7. Mental Health43▲ 2.3×38 topics
  8. Climate Change42▲ 1.20×86 topics
  9. COVID-1937▲ 2.2×29 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease32▲ 2.2×36 topics
  11. Risk Factors32▲ 2.2×35 topics
  12. Artificial Intelligence30▲ 1.61×24 topics
  13. Pandemic28▲ 2.2×12 topics
  14. Depression28▲ 2.4×24 topics
  15. Qualitative Research28▲ 2.5×23 topics
  16. Meta-Analysis26▲ 3.4×19 topics
  17. Quality Assessment26▲ 11×4 topics
  18. Mortality25▲ 3.3×13 topics
  19. Management24▲ 2.3×30 topics
  20. Biodiversity23▲ 2.4×19 topics
  21. Obesity23▲ 2.3×24 topics
  22. Clinical Trials23▲ 2.6×19 topics
  23. Digital Transformation22▲ 3.1×14 topics
  24. Primary Care21▲ 4.4×14 topics
  25. Policy21▲ 7.5×10 topics
  26. Aging20▲ 2.9×14 topics
  27. Publication Bias19▲ 31×3 topics
  28. Evidence-Based Practice18▲ 10×6 topics
  29. Research Methodology18▲ 22×4 topics
  30. Diagnostic Accuracy18▲ 19×3 topics
  31. Elderly Patients17▲ 7.8×4 topics
  32. Evidence Synthesis17▲ 50×1 topic
  33. PRISMA Statement17▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Mortality Risk16▲ 5.2×6 topics
  35. Behavior Change16▲ 8.2×4 topics
  36. Sepsis15▲ 6.3×7 topics
  37. Economic Evaluation13▲ 8.8×3 topics
  38. Cost-effectiveness Analysis13▲ 13×1 topic
  39. Health Utility Measures13▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Investment13▲ 8.5×3 topics

Universidade da Coruña

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology175◆ 1.07×128 topics
  2. Climate Change159▲ 1.43×90 topics
  3. Globalization143▲ 1.77×82 topics
  4. Deep Learning142◆ 1.01×65 topics
  5. Machine Learning128◆ 0.94×78 topics
  6. Sustainability117▲ 1.17×92 topics
  7. Education110▲ 1.57×78 topics
  8. Environmental Impact90▲ 1.29×46 topics
  9. COVID-1987▲ 1.64×24 topics
  10. Cultural Heritage83▲ 3.8×25 topics
  11. Quality of Life82▲ 1.38×59 topics
  12. Social Media75▲ 1.32×31 topics
  13. Human Rights68▲ 1.62×46 topics
  14. History67▲ 2.4×36 topics
  15. Innovation61▲ 1.44×37 topics
  16. Literature60▲ 2.7×41 topics
  17. Gender59▲ 2.7×30 topics
  18. Identity58▲ 1.97×49 topics
  19. Welfare State52▲ 16×4 topics
  20. Communication49▲ 3.8×18 topics
  21. Rural Development47▲ 3.4×11 topics
  22. Latin America43▲ 5.5×19 topics
  23. Gender Differences42▲ 2.7×15 topics
  24. Social Networks40▲ 3.6×12 topics
  25. European Union40▲ 4.3×10 topics
  26. Environmental Conservation35▲ 8.5×7 topics
  27. Constitutional Law34▲ 6.4×6 topics
  28. Informal Learning34▲ 6.4×5 topics
  29. Sustainable Tourism33▲ 7.0×3 topics
  30. Spain33▲ 23×5 topics
  31. Economic Crisis31▲ 6.6×3 topics
  32. Urban Planning29▲ 8.3×7 topics
  33. Public Perception29▲ 5.4×7 topics
  34. Participation29▲ 7.4×3 topics
  35. Spatial Analysis27▲ 7.1×5 topics
  36. Family Support26▲ 9.7×2 topics
  37. Social Work26▲ 9.5×2 topics
  38. Community Intervention25▲ 21×1 topic
  39. Third Sector25▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Social Rights24▲ 20×2 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Universidade da Coruña has out-published Impact every year since 1987, when it overtook it.

still counting5001k1.5kUniversidade da Coruña860 in 2025Impact233 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Universidade da Coruña0.015% in 2025Impact0.0040% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting10%20%Impact14.7% in 2025Universidade da Coruña9.9% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Which publishes more research, Impact or Universidade da Coruña?

Universidade da Coruña publishes 3.2× as much research as Impact in 2022-now (4.1k against 1.3k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Impact or Universidade da Coruña?

14.1% of Impact's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.9% for Universidade da Coruña.

Is Impact or Universidade da Coruña growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was -4% against 2018-21 for Impact, and -17% for Universidade da Coruña.

Which has more open access research, Impact or Universidade da Coruña?

65% of Impact's research is free to read, against 53% of Universidade da Coruña's.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Impact

  1. 1 Victor L. Fulgoni #409,237 worldwide 15k citations · 496 works
  2. 2 JONATHAN C. HELLER #1,071,842 worldwide 392 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Darly Dash #1,286,436 worldwide 589 citations · 47 works
  4. 4 Marla R. Orenstein #1,375,882 worldwide 1.3k citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Karl E. Wiegers #2,206,005 worldwide 2.2k citations · 53 works

Universidade da Coruña

  1. 1 Raúl Santoveña #97,492 worldwide 11k citations · 51 works
  2. 2 D. Garabato #120,221 worldwide 21k citations · 78 works
  3. 3 Paula Fraga‐Lamas #194,617 worldwide 8.2k citations · 131 works
  4. 4 M. A. Álvarez #201,783 worldwide 13k citations · 87 works
  5. 5 Tiago M. Fernández‐Caramés #215,006 worldwide 8.8k citations · 144 works