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Adam Smith Institute

In research, Adam Smith Institute stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#431 of 2,581 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,640 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,203 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Finance, Accounting and Strategy and Management (Finance is 17.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,578
of 22,385 · #5,682 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#196
of 862
Research works
995
▲ 48% vs 2018-21
Citations
21k
21.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.20×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
68%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Adam Smith Institute

What is Adam Smith Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Business, Management and AccountingField #431 of 2,581 20.9%93 #748
Social SciencesDomain #1,640 of 9,585 20.1%263 #1937
Social SciencesField #2,203 of 5,988 25.7%73 #2748
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #806 of 1,798 12.3%63 #865

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Adam Smith Institute 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Business, Management and Accounting#748 #431
  2. Social Sciences#1,937 #1,640
  3. Social Sciences#2,748 #2,203
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#865 #806
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Adam Smith Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research at Adam Smith Institute is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (28%), Social Sciences (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 289 fractional works · 78.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 104 fractional works · 28.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 34 fractional works · 9.2% of its workAccounting: 30 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMarketing: 13 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 81 fractional works · 21.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 30 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Administration: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 68 fractional works · 18.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 38 fractional works · 10.2% of its workFinance: 20 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 19 fractional works · 5.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 13 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 59 fractional works · 15.8% of its workEngineering: 22 fractional works · 5.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 4.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.1% of its workHealth Professions: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAdam SmithInstitute371fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences4%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting10428.0%
    2. Social Sciences8121.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6818.3%
    4. Decision Sciences195.1%
    5. Psychology102.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities82.1%
    1. Engineering225.9%
    2. Computer Science174.5%
    3. Environmental Science123.2%
    4. Energy30.9%
    5. Mathematics30.7%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Health Professions92.5%
    2. Medicine61.5%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.2%
    2. Neuroscience20.5%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Adam Smith Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Finance takes 17.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. FinanceSubfield · 20.1 works18×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 30.3 works13×
  3. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 34.1 works11×
  4. Business, Management and AccountingField · 103.9 works8.7×
  5. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 68.0 works8.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.58× its world share, 17 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.00× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 22 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.65× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.94× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.74× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8.69× its world share, 104 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.32× its world share, 19 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8.56× its world share, 68 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 81 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting8.69×104 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8.56×68 works
  3. Decision Sciences5.32×19 works
  4. Social Sciences1.72×81 works
  5. Energy1.00×3 works
  6. Health Professions0.94×9 works
  7. Psychology0.84×10 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.74×8 works
  9. Environmental Science0.65×12 works
  10. Computer Science0.58×17 works
  11. Mathematics0.58×2 works
  12. Engineering0.39×22 works
  13. Neuroscience0.30×2 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×5 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  16. Veterinary0.17×0 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.12×1 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  20. Medicine0.08×6 works
  21. Nursing0.07×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.06×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×1 works
  24. Materials Science0.02×0 works
  25. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Adam Smith Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Chen Guo, Chi-Hsiou Daniel Hung and Yihan Zou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Adam Smith Institute.

  1. 1 Chen Guo United Kingdom · #1,056,284 worldwide 451 citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Chi-Hsiou Daniel Hung United Kingdom · #1,804,693 worldwide 932 citations · 63 works
  3. 3 Yihan Zou United Kingdom · #2,310,837 worldwide 110 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Madsen Pirie United Kingdom · #2,500,006 worldwide 131 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Martin Strieborny United Kingdom · #2,502,419 worldwide 166 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Ufuk Güçbilmez United Kingdom · #2,531,465 worldwide 203 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Hadi Movaghari United Kingdom · #3,145,774 worldwide 77 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Yehuda John Levy United Kingdom · #3,200,806 worldwide 203 citations · 41 works
  9. 9 Eamonn Butler United Kingdom · #4,571,484 worldwide 336 citations · 74 works
All ranked researchers at Adam Smith Institute

What are the most cited papers from Adam Smith Institute?

The most cited paper from Adam Smith Institute is "Consumer engagement in online brand communities: a social media perspective" (Laurence Dessart, Cleopatra A. Veloutsou, Anna Morgan‐Thomas, 2015), with 1,233 citations. Next come "Metaverse marketing: How the metaverse will shape the future of consumer research and practice" (894) and "Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems" (836).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Consumer engagement in online brand communities: a social media perspective Laurence Dessart, Cleopatra A. Veloutsou, Anna Morgan‐Thomas · Journal of Product & Brand Management 16 Mar 2015 1,233
2 Metaverse marketing: How the metaverse will shape the future of consumer research and practice Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. · Psychology and Marketing Open access 16 Dec 2022 894
3 Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems Ross Brown, Colin M. Mason · Small Business Economics Open access 2 May 2017 836
4 A new index of financial conditions Gary M. Koop, Dimitris Korobilis · European Economic Review 5 Aug 2014 688
5 Capturing consumer engagement: duality, dimensionality and measurement Laurence Dessart, Cleopatra A. Veloutsou, Anna Morgan‐Thomas · Journal of Marketing Management Open access 25 Jan 2016 580
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Adam Smith Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Corporate Governance, Consumer Behavior, Social Capital, Monetary Policy, Globalization, Innovation and Environmental Management.

▲ 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. Economic Growth30▲ 9.8×21 topics
  2. Corporate Governance29▲ 11×16 topics
  3. Globalization24▲ 3.3×46 topics
  4. Innovation18▲ 4.6×21 topics
  5. Consumer Behavior17▲ 7.5×13 topics
  6. Sustainability17▲ 1.87×39 topics
  7. Social Capital17▲ 8.7×11 topics
  8. Monetary Policy16▲ 18×9 topics
  9. Environmental Management13▲ 8.5×5 topics
  10. Entrepreneurship12▲ 8.4×6 topics
  11. Renewable Energy12▲ 2.2×19 topics
  12. Firm Performance12▲ 18×3 topics
  13. Financial Constraints11▲ 29×2 topics
  14. Mergers and Acquisitions11▲ 34×2 topics
  15. Investor Protection10▲ 37×1 topic
  16. Ownership Structure10▲ 37×1 topic
  17. Regulation10▲ 5.1×7 topics
  18. Risk Management10▲ 5.7×11 topics
  19. Institutional Theory10▲ 26×3 topics
  20. Supply Chain Management10▲ 2.9×17 topics
  21. Financial Stability9▲ 13×6 topics
  22. Asset Pricing9▲ 28×2 topics
  23. Finance9▲ 13×4 topics
  24. Liquidity9▲ 32×3 topics
  25. Financial Performance8▲ 4.0×8 topics
  26. Investment8▲ 20×4 topics
  27. Neoliberalism8▲ 5.9×12 topics
  28. Circular Economy8▲ 7.5×5 topics
  29. Financial Development8▲ 14×2 topics
  30. Panel Data Analysis8▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Performance Measurement7▲ 7.3×6 topics
  32. Political Economy7▲ 7.5×12 topics
  33. Labor Market7▲ 6.7×8 topics
  34. Stock Market7▲ 8.3×2 topics
  35. Game Theory7▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Fiscal Policy6▲ 8.4×6 topics
  37. Shareholder Value6▲ 16×3 topics
  38. Product Design6▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Financial Reporting6▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Strategic Alliances6▲ 25×3 topics

Which research topics does Adam Smith Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Corporate Finance and Governance, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies.

Corporate Finance and Go…10Corporate Finance and Governance: 10 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain…6Sustainable Supply Chain Management: 6 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Venture Capital: 5 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 5 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…5Environmental Sustainability in Business: 5 fractional worksAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance: 5 fractional worksDigital Marketing and Social Media: 5 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare S…4Employment and Welfare Studies: 4 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 4 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Economic Growth: 4 fractional works
AccountingStrategy and ManagementFinanceMarketing3 others

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

  1. 1 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 10 works
  2. 2 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 6 works
  3. 3 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 5 works
  4. 4 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 5 works
  5. 5 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 5 works
  6. 6 Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance Accounting 5 works
  7. 7 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  8. 8 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 4 works
  9. 9 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 4 works
  10. 10 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 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 available67.7%not open32.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.5%domestic only60.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Adam Smith Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% 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 Adam Smith Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Adam Smith Institute0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Adam Smith Institute16.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.2% in 2024.

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