Air University
In research, Air University stands highest in Computer Science (#706 of 4,417 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,808 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#1,358 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Signal Processing (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 6.2× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #2,311 of 22,385 · #4,008 all time
- Rank in Pakistan
- #6 of 231
- Research works
- 2.4k ▲ 67% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 32k 13.7 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 14.9% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.18× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 49% world 40%
- International
- 36% world 18%
What is Air University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer ScienceField | #706 of 4,417 | 25.0% | 298 | #1392 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #1,808 of 10,670 | 17.7% | 753 | #3011 | |
| EngineeringField | #1,358 of 5,901 | 14.0% | 309 | #2312 | |
| Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield | #252 of 963 | 33.6% | 95 | #563 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #5,089 of 9,902 | 10.8% | 128 | #8807 | |
| Artificial IntelligenceSubfield | #962 of 1,862 | 21.9% | 67 | - | |
| MedicineField | #4,744 of 8,541 | 10.0% | 107 | #8168 | |
| Social SciencesDomain | #5,416 of 9,585 | 10.5% | 274 | #7697 | |
| Biomedical EngineeringSubfield | #937 of 1,539 | 11.4% | 63 | #1567 | |
| Business, Management and AccountingField | #2,160 of 2,581 | 13.5% | 61 | #2887 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Air 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.
- Computer Science#1,392 #706
- Physical Sciences#3,011 #1,808
- Engineering#2,312 #1,358
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#563 #252
- Health Sciences#8,807 #5,089
- Medicine#8,168 #4,744
- Social Sciences#7,697 #5,416
- Biomedical Engineering#1,567 #937
- Business, Management and Accounting#2,887 #2,160
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 Air University work in?
In 2022-now, 62% of research at Air University is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (25%), Computer Science (25%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences80761.6%
- Engineering32825.1%
- Computer Science32124.5%
- Materials Science453.4%
- Environmental Science272.1%
- Mathematics272.1%
- Physics and Astronomy211.6%
- Chemistry131.0%
- Energy100.7%
- Chemical Engineering80.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences70.5%
- Social Sciences30323.1%
- Social Sciences1007.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting685.2%
- Psychology423.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance352.7%
- Arts and Humanities322.4%
- Decision Sciences251.9%
- Health Sciences14110.8%
- Medicine1189.0%
- Health Professions191.4%
- Nursing20.2%
- Dentistry20.2%
- Veterinary00.0%
- Life Sciences594.5%
What does Air University specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 6.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 101.8 works6.2×
- Computational MechanicsSubfield · 43.4 works5.7×
- Signal ProcessingSubfield · 21.0 works5.3×
- Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 45.9 works3.9×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Computer Science3.16×322 works
- Decision Sciences2.01×26 works
- Mathematics1.78×27 works
- Engineering1.67×328 works
- Chemical Engineering1.65×8 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.62×68 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.27×36 works
- Psychology1.04×42 works
- Materials Science0.98×45 works
- Neuroscience0.92×20 works
- Arts and Humanities0.85×32 works
- Energy0.81×10 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.71×21 works
- Chemistry0.63×13 works
- Social Sciences0.60×100 works
- Health Professions0.54×19 works
- Medicine0.47×118 works
- Environmental Science0.42×28 works
- Nursing0.37×2 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.33×7 works
- Dentistry0.32×2 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×18 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.25×17 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.23×3 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.20×1 works
- Veterinary0.04×0 works
- Computer Science 3.2×
- Decision Sciences 2.0×
- Mathematics 1.8×
- Engineering 1.7×
- Chemical Engineering 1.6×
- Business, Management and Accounting 1.6×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.3×
- Psychology 1.0×
- Materials Science 1.0×
- Neuroscience 0.9×
- Arts and Humanities 0.8×
- Energy 0.8×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.7×
- Chemistry 0.6×
- Social Sciences 0.6×
- Health Professions 0.5×
- Medicine 0.5×
- Environmental Science 0.4×
- Nursing 0.4×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.3×
- Dentistry 0.3×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.3×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.2×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.2×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.2×
- Veterinary 0.0×
Who are the top researchers at Air University?
Ranked on the quality score, Abdul Rehman Javed, Ahmad Jalal and Ahmad Jalal lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Air University.
- 1
Abdul Rehman Javed
Pakistan · #4,600 worldwide 9.6k citations · 132 works
- 2
Ahmad Jalal
Pakistan · #45,577 worldwide 3.4k citations · 91 works
- 3
Ahmad Jalal
Pakistan · #67,229 worldwide 5.2k citations · 83 works
- 4
Ahmad Jalal
Pakistan · #93,228 worldwide 4.5k citations · 120 works
- 5
Shoaib Ali
Pakistan · #105,817 worldwide 3.1k citations · 133 works
- 6
Zunera Jalil
Pakistan · #115,326 worldwide 4.1k citations · 72 works
- 7
Noshina Tariq
Pakistan · #193,048 worldwide 2k citations · 85 works
- 8
Adnan Ahmed Sheikh
Pakistan · #259,364 worldwide 1.3k citations · 53 works
- 9
Azhar Imran
Pakistan · #417,849 worldwide 2.9k citations · 101 works
- 10
Kaleem Razzaq Malik
Pakistan · #461,310 worldwide 917 citations · 42 works
Which keywords describe research at Air University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Heat Transfer, Machine Learning, Experimental Investigation, IoT Security, Convolutional Neural Networks, Anomaly Detection and Applications.
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Action Recognition
- Time Series
- DDoS Attacks
- Pose Estimation
- Object Tracking
- Convolutional Networks
- Intrusion Detection
- Numerical Simulation
- Detection
- Real-time Tracking
- Convective Transport
- Viscosity
- Thermal Conductivity
- Healthcare
- Anomaly Detection
- Security
- Experimental Investigation
- Neural Networks
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Heat Transfer
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- IoT Security
- Internet of Things
- Applications
- Data Mining
- Review
- Nanofluids
- Enhancement
- Cybersecurity
- Security Analysis
- Wearable Sensors
- Health Monitoring
- Visual Tracking
- Person Re-identification
- Behavioral Analysis
- Network Security
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Spatiotemporal Features
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
- Deep Learning237▲ 5.2×75 topics
- Machine Learning129▲ 3.0×72 topics
- Heat Transfer82▲ 13×17 topics
- Neural Networks52▲ 2.6×32 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks48▲ 5.0×14 topics
- Experimental Investigation43▲ 32×3 topics
- IoT Security42▲ 10×3 topics
- Security38▲ 4.3×20 topics
- Internet of Things36▲ 3.2×18 topics
- Anomaly Detection36▲ 9.6×4 topics
- Applications36▲ 10×8 topics
- Healthcare35▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Data Mining34▲ 3.5×16 topics
- Thermal Conductivity32▲ 16×5 topics
- Review28▲ 18×3 topics
- Viscosity28▲ 30×3 topics
- Nanofluids28▲ 26×2 topics
- Convective Transport28▲ 47×1 topic
- Enhancement28▲ 47×1 topic
- Real-time Tracking27▲ 21×2 topics
- Cybersecurity25▲ 7.8×4 topics
- Detection24▲ 6.7×8 topics
- Security Analysis24▲ 11×4 topics
- Numerical Simulation23▲ 6.0×10 topics
- Wearable Sensors22▲ 15×3 topics
- Intrusion Detection20▲ 11×3 topics
- Health Monitoring20▲ 7.4×5 topics
- Convolutional Networks19▲ 11×3 topics
- Visual Tracking19▲ 21×2 topics
- Object Tracking19▲ 23×1 topic
- Person Re-identification19▲ 23×1 topic
- Pose Estimation19▲ 13×3 topics
- Behavioral Analysis19▲ 13×2 topics
- DDoS Attacks18▲ 12×1 topic
- Network Security18▲ 11×1 topic
- Time Series18▲ 8.0×3 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation18▲ 7.2×5 topics
- Action Recognition18▲ 27×1 topic
- Spatiotemporal Features18▲ 27×1 topic
- Fluid-Structure Interaction17▲ 8.5×6 topics
Which research topics does Air University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, Network Security and Intrusion Detection and Human Pose and Action Recognition.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer Biomedical Engineering 28 works
- 2 Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 19 works
- 3 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 18 works
- 4 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 18 works
- 5 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 15 works
- 6 Heat Transfer Mechanisms Mechanical Engineering 15 works
- 7 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 15 works
- 8 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 14 works
- 9 Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 14 works
- 10 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 11 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Air University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 67% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Air University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.
Fractional works of Air 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.2% in 2024.
Other research institutions in Islamabad
- Quaid-i-Azam University
- COMSATS University Islamabad
- National University of Sciences and Technology
- International Islamic University, Islamabad
- Bahria University
- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
- Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
- National University of Modern Languages
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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