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Applied Science University

In research, Applied Science University stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,024 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,981 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,235 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research and Accounting (Management Information Systems is 9.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,451
of 22,385 · #5,523 all time
Rank in Bahrain
#1
of 13
Research works
949
▲ 147% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.6k
6.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
52%
world 18%
Applied Science University

What is Applied Science 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 #2,024 of 9,585 17.0%268 #3794
Physical SciencesDomain #2,981 of 10,670 10.8%236 #3393
Social SciencesField #2,235 of 5,988 12.9%91 #3410
EngineeringField #2,203 of 5,901 9.0%90 #2906
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,120 of 2,581 17.2%98 #1678
Computer ScienceField #1,945 of 4,417 15.0%99 #1356

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Applied Science 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#3,794 #2,024
  2. Physical Sciences#3,393 #2,981
  3. Social Sciences#3,410 #2,235
  4. Engineering#2,906 #2,203
  5. Business, Management and Accounting#1,678 #1,120
  6. Computer Science#1,356 #1,945
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 Applied Science University work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Applied Science University is in Social Sciences, 44% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (19%), Business, Management and Accounting (18%), Social Sciences (18%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 305 fractional works · 50.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 109 fractional works · 18.2% of its workAccounting: 25 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 24 fractional works · 4.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 24 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 17 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness and International Management: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 109 fractional works · 18.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 35 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEducation: 23 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety Research: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 30 fractional works · 5.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 21 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 28 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 19 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 15 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 264 fractional works · 43.8% of its workComputer Science: 113 fractional works · 18.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 53 fractional works · 8.8% of its workInformation Systems: 30 fractional works · 4.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 99 fractional works · 16.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 23 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 17 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedia Technology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 27 fractional works · 4.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 23 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKApplied ScienceUniversity603fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences51%

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 Accounting10918.2%
    2. Social Sciences10918.1%
    3. Decision Sciences305.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance284.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities152.5%
    6. Psychology132.2%
    1. Computer Science11318.7%
    2. Engineering9916.5%
    3. Environmental Science274.6%
    4. Energy71.1%
    5. Mathematics60.9%
    6. Materials Science40.6%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy30.5%
    9. Chemistry10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Medicine172.8%
    2. Health Professions71.1%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.5%
    3. Neuroscience30.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Applied Science University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Information Systems takes 9.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 24.3 works9.8×
  2. Management Science and Operations ResearchSubfield · 20.8 works7.0×
  3. AccountingSubfield · 24.9 works6.8×
  4. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 23.3 works6.2×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.41× its world share, 113 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.19× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.10× its world share, 99 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.92× its world share, 28 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.79× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 17 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.87× its world share, 15 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.63× its world share, 110 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.22× its world share, 30 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.18× its world share, 28 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.43× its world share, 109 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.63×110 works
  2. Decision Sciences5.22×30 works
  3. Computer Science2.41×113 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.18×28 works
  5. Social Sciences1.43×109 works
  6. Energy1.19×7 works
  7. Engineering1.10×99 works
  8. Environmental Science0.92×28 works
  9. Arts and Humanities0.87×15 works
  10. Mathematics0.79×6 works
  11. Psychology0.71×13 works
  12. Health Professions0.41×6 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.40×1 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.38×4 works
  15. Neuroscience0.27×3 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.23×3 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×5 works
  18. Materials Science0.17×4 works
  19. Medicine0.14×17 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×3 works
  21. Chemistry0.09×1 works
  22. Dentistry0.04×0 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.03×0 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Applied Science University?

Ranked on the quality score, Ramzi Nekhili, Marwan M. Abdeldayem and Saeed Hameed Aldulaimi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Applied Science University.

  1. 1 Ramzi Nekhili Bahrain · #205,832 worldwide 1.6k citations · 55 works
  2. 2 Marwan M. Abdeldayem Bahrain · #389,160 worldwide 1.5k citations · 153 works
  3. 3 Saeed Hameed Aldulaimi Bahrain · #420,349 worldwide 1.7k citations · 169 works
  4. 4 Basel J. A. Ali Bahrain · #455,308 worldwide 808 citations · 54 works
  5. 5 Sakher Alnajdawi Bahrain · #536,536 worldwide 448 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Rashed Alrasheed Bahrain · #1,055,548 worldwide 97 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Mohammed Abdulrazzaq Alaghbari Bahrain · #1,213,941 worldwide 389 citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Nivine Güler Bahrain · #1,250,192 worldwide 246 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Mahmoud Khalifa Bahrain · #1,316,955 worldwide 225 citations · 68 works
  10. 10 Islam A. Nassar Bahrain · #1,501,861 worldwide 817 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Applied Science University

What are the most cited papers from Applied Science University?

The most cited paper from Applied Science University is "Knowledge management processes and sustainable competitive advantage: An empirical examination in private universities" (Omar Rabeea Mahdi, Islam A. Nassar, Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir, 2018), with 430 citations. Next come "Web Scraping or Web Crawling: State of Art, Techniques, Approaches and Application" (283) and "Linkages between DeFi assets and conventional currencies: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic" (160).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Knowledge management processes and sustainable competitive advantage: An empirical examination in private universities Omar Rabeea Mahdi, Islam A. Nassar, Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir · Journal of Business Research 21 Feb 2018 430
2 Web Scraping or Web Crawling: State of Art, Techniques, Approaches and Application Moaiad Ahmad Khder · International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its Applications Open access 28 Nov 2021 283
3 Linkages between DeFi assets and conventional currencies: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Imran Yousaf, Ramzi Nekhili, Mariya Gubareva · International Review of Financial Analysis 10 Feb 2022 160
4 A new general fractional-order derivataive with Rabotnov fractional-exponential kernel applied to model the anomalous heat transfer Xiao‐Jun Yang, Mahmoud Abdel‐Aty, Carlo Cattani · Thermal Science Open access 2019 160
5 Extreme connectedness between renewable energy tokens and fossil fuel markets Imran Yousaf, Ramzi Nekhili, Muhammad Umar · Energy Economics 5 Sep 2022 159
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Applied Science University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Supply Chain Management, Machine Learning, Big Data, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Organizational Performance, Risk Management and Digital Transformation.

▲ 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 Learning83▲ 4.1×60 topics
  2. Supply Chain Management63▲ 12×20 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence49▲ 5.7×38 topics
  4. Big Data46▲ 8.0×19 topics
  5. Healthcare46▲ 6.7×16 topics
  6. Sustainability40▲ 2.7×44 topics
  7. Deep Learning39▲ 1.89×59 topics
  8. Organizational Performance35▲ 22×9 topics
  9. Risk Management33▲ 11×11 topics
  10. Digital Transformation32▲ 10.0×16 topics
  11. Customer Satisfaction31▲ 16×5 topics
  12. Knowledge Management30▲ 9.0×9 topics
  13. Smart Cities29▲ 18×7 topics
  14. Education28▲ 2.7×28 topics
  15. IoT28▲ 12×11 topics
  16. Internet of Things28▲ 5.4×21 topics
  17. Corporate Governance26▲ 5.9×20 topics
  18. Social Media Marketing23▲ 80×1 topic
  19. Innovation22▲ 3.6×32 topics
  20. Human Resource Management22▲ 24×3 topics
  21. Cultural Identity19▲ 6.4×6 topics
  22. Energy Efficiency19▲ 3.4×21 topics
  23. Leadership19▲ 6.3×13 topics
  24. Predictive Analytics16▲ 25×2 topics
  25. Social Networks16▲ 10×6 topics
  26. Social Capital16▲ 5.1×8 topics
  27. Localization15▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Guanxi15▲ 115×1 topic
  29. Islamic Banking15▲ 6.6×3 topics
  30. Wasta15▲ 115×1 topic
  31. Finance15▲ 13×3 topics
  32. Financial Stability15▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Employee Engagement14▲ 14×5 topics
  34. Entrepreneurship14▲ 5.9×11 topics
  35. Cyber-Physical Systems14▲ 8.5×7 topics
  36. Ethical Identity13▲ 19×1 topic
  37. Global Financial Crisis13▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Shariah Supervision13▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Firm Performance13▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Data Science12▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Applied Science University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Organizational and Employee Performance, Socioeconomic Development in MENA, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies and Big Data and Business Intelligence.

Organizational and Emplo…23Organizational and Employee Performance: 23 fractional worksSocioeconomic Development in MENA: 15 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 13 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 12 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 8 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, D…7FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 7 fractional worksImpact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society: 6 fractional worksOrganizational Leadership and Management Strategies: 6 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 6 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 6 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceSociology and Political ScienceAccountingManagement Information Systems5 others

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

  1. 1 Organizational and Employee Performance Artificial Intelligence 23 works
  2. 2 Socioeconomic Development in MENA Sociology and Political Science 15 works
  3. 3 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 13 works
  4. 4 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 12 works
  5. 5 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 8 works
  6. 6 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 7 works
  7. 7 Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society Management Science and Operations Research 6 works
  8. 8 Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies Strategy and Management 6 works
  9. 9 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 6 works
  10. 10 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 6 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 available44.0%not open56.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors51.9%domestic only48.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Applied Science University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 147% 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 Applied Science University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0040% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Applied Science University0.0024% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Applied Science 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%Applied Science University13.3% 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 23.7% in 2023.

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