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Ahlia University

In research, Ahlia University stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#373 of 2,581 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,680 of 9,585 worldwide) and Computer Science (#1,544 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management Information Systems, Accounting and Management Science and Operations Research (Management Information Systems is 12.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,737
of 22,385 · #6,395 all time
Rank in Bahrain
#5
of 13
Research works
1.1k
▲ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Ahlia University

What is Ahlia University 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 #373 of 2,581 18.4%113 #753
Social SciencesDomain #2,680 of 9,585 16.0%260 #3187
Computer ScienceField #1,544 of 4,417 15.0%124 #2111
Physical SciencesDomain #4,265 of 10,670 13.4%194 #5836
Social SciencesField #3,958 of 5,988 10.5%78 #5206

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ahlia University 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#753 #373
  2. Social Sciences#3,187 #2,680
  3. Computer Science#2,111 #1,544
  4. Physical Sciences#5,836 #4,265
  5. Social Sciences#5,206 #3,958
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 Ahlia University work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Ahlia University is in Social Sciences, 38% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (25%), Business, Management and Accounting (22%), Social Sciences (20%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 316 fractional works · 55.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 126 fractional works · 22.2% of its workAccounting: 30 fractional works · 5.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 29 fractional works · 5.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 28 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMarketing: 19 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 112 fractional works · 19.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 46 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEducation: 22 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCommunication: 19 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 36 fractional works · 6.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 21 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 20 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 15 fractional works · 2.6% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 218 fractional works · 38.4% of its workComputer Science: 140 fractional works · 24.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 50 fractional works · 8.8% of its workInformation Systems: 46 fractional works · 8.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 26 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 49 fractional works · 8.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedia Technology: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workModeling and Simulation: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 26 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAhlia University567fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences38%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences56%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting12622.2%
    2. Social Sciences11219.8%
    3. Decision Sciences366.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance203.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities122.0%
    6. Psychology122.0%
    1. Computer Science14024.7%
    2. Engineering498.7%
    3. Environmental Science101.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy91.6%
    5. Mathematics50.8%
    6. Energy20.4%
    7. Materials Science10.3%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Medicine173.0%
    2. Health Professions71.3%
    3. Veterinary10.2%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Nursing00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.5%
    2. Neuroscience20.4%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ahlia University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Information Systems takes 12.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 28.7 works12×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 29.5 works8.5×
  3. Management Science and Operations ResearchSubfield · 20.6 works7.4×
  4. Business, Management and AccountingField · 125.7 works6.9×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.18× its world share, 140 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.58× its world share, 49 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.35× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.70× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.72× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.50× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.30× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.71× its world share, 12 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6.88× its world share, 126 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.50× its world share, 36 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.62× its world share, 20 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 112 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting6.88×126 works
  2. Decision Sciences6.50×36 works
  3. Computer Science3.18×140 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.62×20 works
  5. Social Sciences1.56×112 works
  6. Veterinary1.30×1 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.72×9 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.71×12 works
  9. Mathematics0.70×5 works
  10. Psychology0.67×12 works
  11. Engineering0.58×49 works
  12. Health Professions0.50×8 works
  13. Energy0.45×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.35×10 works
  15. Neuroscience0.26×2 works
  16. Medicine0.16×17 works
  17. Dentistry0.12×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×3 works
  19. Nursing0.10×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×1 works
  21. Materials Science0.07×2 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×2 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.02×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ahlia University?

Ranked on the quality score, Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi, Amina Mohammed Buallay and Allam Hamdan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ahlia University.

  1. 1 Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi Bahrain · #23,470 worldwide 5.3k citations · 127 works
  2. 2 Amina Mohammed Buallay Bahrain · #30,646 worldwide 4.1k citations · 66 works
  3. 3 Allam Hamdan Bahrain · #144,224 worldwide 5.5k citations · 327 works
  4. 4 Zakeya Sanad Bahrain · #188,045 worldwide 868 citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Esra Saleh AlDhaen Bahrain · #282,438 worldwide 946 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Bahaaeddin Ahmed Alareeni Bahrain · #449,063 worldwide 2k citations · 57 works
  7. 7 Sameh M. Reda Reyad Bahrain · #525,647 worldwide 748 citations · 37 works
  8. 8 Adel Mohammed Yaslam Sarea Bahrain · #784,315 worldwide 1.7k citations · 154 works
  9. 9 Reem Khamis Bahrain · #811,992 worldwide 257 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Muneer Al Mubarak Bahrain · #987,025 worldwide 495 citations · 86 works
All ranked researchers at Ahlia University

What are the most cited papers from Ahlia University?

The most cited paper from Ahlia University is "ESG impact on performance of US S&P 500-listed firms" (Bahaaeddin Ahmed Alareeni, Allam Hamdan, 2020), with 646 citations. Next come "Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia" (261) and "The role of audit committee attributes in corporate sustainability reporting" (213).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ESG impact on performance of US S&P 500-listed firms Bahaaeddin Ahmed Alareeni, Allam Hamdan · Corporate Governance 26 Oct 2020 646
2 Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia Amina Mohammed Buallay, Allam Hamdan, Qasim Mohammad Zureigat · Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal Open access 2017 261
3 The role of audit committee attributes in corporate sustainability reporting Amina Mohammed Buallay, Jasim Al‐Ajmi · Journal of Applied Accounting Research 29 Apr 2019 213
4 Sustainability reporting and bank performance after financial crisis Amina Mohammed Buallay, Sayed M. Fadel, Jasim Al‐Ajmi et al. · Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness 10 Apr 2020 211
5 Information technology governance and cybersecurity at the board level Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi · International Journal of Critical Infrastructures 2020 210
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ahlia University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Supply Chain Management, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Machine Learning, Social Media, Internet of Things, Digital Transformation and Organizational Performance.

▲ 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. Machine Learning66▲ 3.5×57 topics
  2. Supply Chain Management62▲ 12×12 topics
  3. Healthcare54▲ 8.3×11 topics
  4. Corporate Governance46▲ 11×16 topics
  5. Social Media45▲ 5.7×23 topics
  6. Internet of Things39▲ 8.0×14 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence37▲ 4.5×25 topics
  8. Digital Transformation33▲ 11×13 topics
  9. Deep Learning33▲ 1.68×52 topics
  10. Sustainability31▲ 2.2×31 topics
  11. Organizational Performance31▲ 21×9 topics
  12. Smart Cities30▲ 20×5 topics
  13. Big Data29▲ 5.3×14 topics
  14. Financial Performance28▲ 8.9×10 topics
  15. IoT28▲ 13×10 topics
  16. Social Capital28▲ 9.4×12 topics
  17. Knowledge Management28▲ 8.7×10 topics
  18. Security26▲ 6.8×15 topics
  19. Customer Satisfaction25▲ 14×4 topics
  20. Social Media Marketing22▲ 81×1 topic
  21. Higher Education22▲ 7.4×14 topics
  22. Privacy21▲ 13×5 topics
  23. Blockchain20▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Consumer Behavior19▲ 5.4×9 topics
  25. Decentralization19▲ 16×1 topic
  26. Smart Contracts19▲ 21×1 topic
  27. Entrepreneurship19▲ 8.3×10 topics
  28. Environmental Management18▲ 7.9×7 topics
  29. Risk Management16▲ 5.8×9 topics
  30. Technology Acceptance Model16▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Digitalization14▲ 12×6 topics
  32. Information Systems14▲ 14×3 topics
  33. User Satisfaction13▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Fintech13▲ 29×2 topics
  35. Firm Performance13▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Organizational Behavior13▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Online Shopping13▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Financial Reporting13▲ 18×5 topics
  39. Investment Decisions13▲ 18×2 topics
  40. Human Resource Management12▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does Ahlia University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Organizational and Employee Performance, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Organizational and Employee Performance: 22 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 19 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 12 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 12 fractional worksDigital Marketing and Social Media: 11 fractional worksInnovations and Analysis in Business and Education: 11 fractional worksCorporate Social Respons…10Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: 10 fractional worksSocioeconomic Development in MENA: 10 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability in Business: 9 fractional worksBig Data and Business In…9Big Data and Business Intelligence: 9 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsInformation Systems and ManagementManagement Information Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 Organizational and Employee Performance Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  2. 2 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 19 works
  3. 3 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 12 works
  4. 4 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 12 works
  5. 5 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  6. 6 Innovations and Analysis in Business and Education Management Science and Operations Research 11 works
  7. 7 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Strategy and Management 10 works
  8. 8 Socioeconomic Development in MENA Sociology and Political Science 10 works
  9. 9 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 9 works
  10. 10 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 9 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 available32.3%not open67.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.6%domestic only64.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ahlia University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% 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 Ahlia University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0027% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Ahlia University0.0016% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Ahlia University 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%Ahlia University11.8% 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 25.1% in 2018.

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