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Alberto Hurtado University

In research, Alberto Hurtado University stands highest in Social Sciences (#805 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#606 of 5,988 worldwide) and Sociology and Political Science (#669 of 2,526 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Social Sciences, Cultural Studies and Law (General Social Sciences is 27.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,135
of 22,385 · #2,639 all time
Rank in Chile
#13
of 104
Research works
3.9k
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
4.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.20×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
81%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Alberto Hurtado University

What is Alberto Hurtado 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
Social SciencesDomain #805 of 9,585 10.6%889 #847
Social SciencesField #606 of 5,988 11.8%594 #517
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #669 of 2,526 10.1%164 #612
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #369 of 1,187 10.5%90 #460
EducationSubfield #680 of 1,930 12.0%96 #592
Arts and HumanitiesField #738 of 1,896 9.2%126 #1187
PsychologyField #926 of 2,121 10.0%62 #1268
Physical SciencesDomain #7,514 of 10,670 6.6%78 #8411

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Alberto Hurtado 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. Social Sciences#847 #805
  2. Social Sciences#517 #606
  3. Sociology and Political Science#612 #669
  4. Political Science and International Relations#460 #369
  5. Education#592 #680
  6. Arts and Humanities#1,187 #738
  7. Psychology#1,268 #926
  8. Physical Sciences#8,411 #7,514
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 Alberto Hurtado University work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research at Alberto Hurtado University is in Social Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (57%), Arts and Humanities (12%), Psychology (6%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 966 fractional works · 84.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 644 fractional works · 56.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 179 fractional works · 15.7% of its workEducation: 103 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 97 fractional works · 8.5% of its workLaw: 56 fractional works · 4.9% of its workCultural Studies: 46 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 34 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSafety Research: 22 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGender Studies: 18 fractional works · 1.6% of its workUrban Studies: 18 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLinguistics and Language: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 136 fractional works · 12.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 43 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhilosophy: 25 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMusic: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMuseology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 69 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 31 fractional works · 2.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 18 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 58 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAccounting: 17 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 54 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 37 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 86 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 33 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEcology: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 29 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 52 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 30 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 22 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 34 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 20 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAlberto HurtadoUniversity1,138fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences85%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences64456.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities13612.0%
    3. Psychology696.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting585.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance544.8%
    6. Decision Sciences60.5%
    1. Environmental Science332.9%
    2. Computer Science292.6%
    3. Engineering100.9%
    4. Energy40.4%
    5. Mathematics40.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    8. Chemistry10.1%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Medicine302.7%
    2. Health Professions221.9%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences201.7%
    2. Neuroscience121.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Alberto Hurtado University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Social Sciences takes 27.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Social SciencesSubfield · 34.5 works28×
  2. Cultural StudiesSubfield · 45.8 works9.9×
  3. LawSubfield · 55.8 works8.4×
  4. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 42.6 works7.0×
← 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: 0.37× its world share, 20 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.66× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.33× its world share, 29 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.59× its world share, 33 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 30 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.14× its world share, 136 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.57× its world share, 58 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.22× its world share, 54 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.98× its world share, 69 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.47× its world share, 644 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.47×644 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.14×136 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.22×54 works
  4. Psychology1.98×69 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.57×58 works
  6. Health Professions0.72×22 works
  7. Neuroscience0.66×12 works
  8. Environmental Science0.59×33 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.50×6 works
  10. Energy0.43×4 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.37×20 works
  12. Computer Science0.33×29 works
  13. Mathematics0.28×4 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.18×3 works
  15. Medicine0.14×30 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  17. Engineering0.06×10 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.04×1 works
  20. Dentistry0.03×0 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.02×1 works
  22. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Alberto Hurtado University?

Ranked on the quality score, Mauricio Castillo‐Vergara, Andrea Riedemann and Stephen Darwin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Alberto Hurtado University.

  1. 1 Mauricio Castillo‐Vergara Chile · #418,048 worldwide 2k citations · 84 works
  2. 2 Andrea Riedemann Chile · #474,040 worldwide 387 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Stephen Darwin Chile · #494,559 worldwide 403 citations · 50 works
  4. 4 Alejandra Falabella Chile · #546,736 worldwide 790 citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Cristián Geldés Chile · #683,751 worldwide 1.4k citations · 54 works
  6. 6 Sebastián Ureta Chile · #701,044 worldwide 1.1k citations · 49 works
  7. 7 Claudia Vergara Chile · #1,079,062 worldwide 657 citations · 59 works
  8. 8 Ingrid González-Palta Chile · #1,308,470 worldwide 112 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 María Paola Sevilla Chile · #1,309,197 worldwide 319 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Mario Fergnani Chile · #1,372,106 worldwide 62 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Alberto Hurtado University

What are the most cited papers from Alberto Hurtado University?

The most cited paper from Alberto Hurtado University is "How do digital capabilities affect firm performance? The mediating role of technological capabilities in the “new normal”" (Jorge Heredia, Mauricio Castillo‐Vergara, Cristián Geldés et al., 2022), with 411 citations. Next come "The cost of diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean." (386) and "Social Theory’s Methodological Nationalism" (321).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 How do digital capabilities affect firm performance? The mediating role of technological capabilities in the “new normal” Jorge Heredia, Mauricio Castillo‐Vergara, Cristián Geldés et al. · Journal of Innovation & Knowledge Open access 3 Mar 2022 411
2 The cost of diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Alberto Barceló, Cristián Aedo, Swapnil N. Rajpathak et al. · PubMed Open access 2003 386
3 Social Theory’s Methodological Nationalism Daniel Chernilo · European Journal of Social Theory 26 Jan 2006 321
4 The Effects of Labour Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector James W. Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan B. Vroman · The Economic Journal Open access 11 Jun 2009 253
5 Technological Capabilities, Open Innovation, and Eco-Innovation: Dynamic Capabilities to Increase Corporate Performance of SMEs Luis Enrique Valdez-Juárez, Mauricio Castillo‐Vergara · Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity Open access 30 Dec 2020 211
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Alberto Hurtado University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Latin America, Human Rights, Education, Social Movements, Memory, Political Violence and Dictatorship.

▲ 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. Globalization222▲ 9.9×75 topics
  2. Latin America167▲ 77×20 topics
  3. Human Rights130▲ 11×33 topics
  4. Education110▲ 5.6×65 topics
  5. Social Movements87▲ 26×21 topics
  6. Memory68▲ 25×10 topics
  7. Political Violence64▲ 222×3 topics
  8. Dictatorship60▲ 299×2 topics
  9. Ethics59▲ 10×36 topics
  10. Colonialism54▲ 10×25 topics
  11. Welfare State54▲ 60×4 topics
  12. Social Inequality50▲ 16×9 topics
  13. Chile49▲ 460×1 topic
  14. Pinochet49▲ 460×1 topic
  15. Migrant Integration48▲ 123×2 topics
  16. Cultural Identity47▲ 8.3×16 topics
  17. Inequality43▲ 17×11 topics
  18. Community Participation39▲ 9.8×9 topics
  19. Public Policy38▲ 7.0×18 topics
  20. Philosophy37▲ 7.3×18 topics
  21. Inclusive Education35▲ 8.5×13 topics
  22. Criminal Justice35▲ 14×5 topics
  23. Gender34▲ 5.6×29 topics
  24. Social Rights34▲ 101×2 topics
  25. Democracy34▲ 8.5×16 topics
  26. Poetry33▲ 89×2 topics
  27. Gender Differences33▲ 7.7×11 topics
  28. Indigenous Knowledge32▲ 27×7 topics
  29. Neoliberalism32▲ 7.8×18 topics
  30. Economic Crisis31▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Healthcare Access31▲ 9.9×9 topics
  32. Social Work31▲ 41×2 topics
  33. Participation30▲ 28×2 topics
  34. Judicial Review30▲ 31×4 topics
  35. Family Support30▲ 40×2 topics
  36. Ethical Challenges30▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Interculturalism30▲ 221×1 topic
  38. Mapuche30▲ 221×1 topic
  39. Constitutionalism29▲ 29×3 topics
  40. Community Intervention29▲ 88×1 topic

Which research topics does Alberto Hurtado University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America, Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America, Social Sciences and Policies and Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies.

Political and Social Dyn…49Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America: 49 fractional worksCultural and Social Studies in Latin America: 30 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Poli…29Social Sciences and Policies: 29 fractional worksComparative constitution…24Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies: 24 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Training: 21 fractional worksMigration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics: 19 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Pen…17Criminal Justice and Penology: 17 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, and Economy: 16 fractional worksLegal processes and jurisprudence: 16 fractional worksReligious and Theological Studies: 14 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceLiterature and Literary TheoryGeneral Social SciencesPolitical Science and International Relations4 others

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

  1. 1 Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America Sociology and Political Science 49 works
  2. 2 Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America Literature and Literary Theory 30 works
  3. 3 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 29 works
  4. 4 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Political Science and International Relations 24 works
  5. 5 Education and Teacher Training Education 21 works
  6. 6 Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics Cultural Studies 19 works
  7. 7 Criminal Justice and Penology Law 17 works
  8. 8 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 16 works
  9. 9 Legal processes and jurisprudence Law 16 works
  10. 10 Religious and Theological Studies Sociology and Political Science 14 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 available81.0%not open19.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.5%domestic only89.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Alberto Hurtado University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Alberto Hurtado University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0044% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Alberto Hurtado University0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Alberto Hurtado 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Alberto Hurtado University9.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.9% in 2014.

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