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Arab Open University

In research, Arab Open University stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,502 of 9,585 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#6,319 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Business, Management and Accounting (Business, Management and Accounting is 5.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,021
of 22,385 · #15,319 all time
Rank in Saudi Arabia
#43
of 91
Research works
324
▲ 387% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9k
5.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.15×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
45%
world 18%
Arab Open University

What is Arab Open 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 #4,502 of 9,585 21.8%106 #8961
Physical SciencesDomain #6,319 of 10,670 17.1%91 #11519

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Arab Open 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 fields of science does Arab Open University work in?

In 2022-now, 47% of research at Arab Open University is in Social Sciences, 43% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (27%), Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 120 fractional works · 46.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 49 fractional works · 19.1% of its workAccounting: 15 fractional works · 5.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 10 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMarketing: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 11.6% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 4.8% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 19 fractional works · 7.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 5.5% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 110 fractional works · 43.0% of its workComputer Science: 69 fractional works · 26.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 29 fractional works · 11.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 fractional works · 5.1% of its workInformation Systems: 13 fractional works · 5.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 7.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 10 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 18 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 5.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKArab OpenUniversity257fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences47%

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. Business, Management and Accounting4919.1%
    2. Social Sciences3011.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance197.2%
    4. Decision Sciences114.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities72.8%
    6. Psychology52.0%
    1. Computer Science6926.8%
    2. Engineering187.2%
    3. Mathematics103.7%
    4. Environmental Science62.4%
    5. Energy31.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy31.1%
    7. Materials Science10.3%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine135.0%
    2. Health Professions51.8%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.4%
    2. Neuroscience21.0%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Arab Open University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 5.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 49.1 works5.9×
← 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: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.45× its world share, 69 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.36× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.48× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.16× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 13 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.98× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.93× its world share, 49 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.27× its world share, 11 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.38× its world share, 19 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 30 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.93×49 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.27×11 works
  3. Computer Science3.45×69 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.38×19 works
  5. Mathematics3.16×10 works
  6. Energy1.36×3 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.98×7 works
  8. Social Sciences0.91×30 works
  9. Health Professions0.67×5 works
  10. Psychology0.67×5 works
  11. Neuroscience0.60×2 works
  12. Environmental Science0.49×6 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.49×3 works
  14. Engineering0.48×18 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×4 works
  16. Medicine0.26×13 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×2 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.14×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.13×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.08×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Arab Open University?

Ranked on the quality score, Sura I. Al-Ayed, Marwan Altarawneh and Saman Iftikhar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Arab Open University.

  1. 1 Sura I. Al-Ayed Saudi Arabia · #486,347 worldwide 722 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Marwan Altarawneh Saudi Arabia · #731,638 worldwide 214 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Saman Iftikhar Saudi Arabia · #1,108,266 worldwide 623 citations · 53 works
  4. 4 Heba Mousa Mousa Hikal Saudi Arabia · #1,316,854 worldwide 72 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Fadi Al‐Asfour Saudi Arabia · #1,491,051 worldwide 185 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Sulaiman Althuwaini Saudi Arabia · #1,720,827 worldwide 161 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Fozi Ali Belhaj Saudi Arabia · #1,817,331 worldwide 100 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 Sally Almanasra Saudi Arabia · #2,289,888 worldwide 113 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Ahmad A. Abubaker Saudi Arabia · #2,298,443 worldwide 239 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Hussein Abdel-Jaber Saudi Arabia · #2,592,720 worldwide 737 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Arab Open University

What are the most cited papers from Arab Open University?

The most cited paper from Arab Open University is "A Review of Deep Learning Algorithms and Their Applications in Healthcare" (Hussein Abdel-Jaber, Disha Devassy, Azhar Al Salam et al., 2022), with 151 citations. Next come "Secure and imperceptible digital image steganographic algorithm based on diamond encoding in DWT domain" (138) and "The Impact of Employee Development Practices on Human Capital and Social Capital: The Mediating Contribution of Knowledge Management" (120).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Review of Deep Learning Algorithms and Their Applications in Healthcare Hussein Abdel-Jaber, Disha Devassy, Azhar Al Salam et al. · Algorithms Open access 21 Feb 2022 151
2 Secure and imperceptible digital image steganographic algorithm based on diamond encoding in DWT domain Samer Atawneh, Ammar Almomani, Hussein Al Bazar et al. · Multimedia Tools and Applications 16 Sep 2016 138
3 The Impact of Employee Development Practices on Human Capital and Social Capital: The Mediating Contribution of Knowledge Management Ahmad Adnan Al-Tit, Sura I. Al-Ayed, Abdulaziz Alhammadi et al. · Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity Open access Dec 2022 120
4 Phishing detection: A recent intelligent machine learning comparison based on models content and features Neda Abdelhamid, Fadi Thabtah, Hussein Abdel-Jaber Conference paper Jul 2017 110
5 Sport analytics for cricket game results using machine learning: An experimental study Kumash Kapadia, Hussein Abdel-Jaber, Fadi Thabtah et al. · Applied Computing and Informatics Open access 26 Nov 2019 90
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Arab Open University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Healthcare, Supply Chain Management, Deep Learning, Corporate Governance, Smart Cities, IoT and Customer Satisfaction.

▲ 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 Learning38▲ 4.4×53 topics
  2. Deep Learning31▲ 3.5×51 topics
  3. Healthcare23▲ 7.9×9 topics
  4. Supply Chain Management22▲ 9.6×11 topics
  5. Corporate Governance15▲ 8.0×13 topics
  6. Smart Cities14▲ 21×6 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence14▲ 3.9×17 topics
  8. Internet of Things13▲ 6.0×17 topics
  9. IoT13▲ 13×11 topics
  10. Customer Satisfaction13▲ 16×5 topics
  11. Digital Transformation12▲ 8.9×6 topics
  12. Organizational Performance12▲ 18×7 topics
  13. Knowledge Management11▲ 7.9×6 topics
  14. Risk Management11▲ 8.8×8 topics
  15. Social Media Marketing10▲ 78×1 topic
  16. Convolutional Neural Networks9▲ 5.0×10 topics
  17. Online Learning9▲ 4.0×8 topics
  18. Financial Performance8▲ 5.9×10 topics
  19. Big Data8▲ 3.4×12 topics
  20. Data Mining8▲ 4.2×11 topics
  21. Medical Imaging8▲ 5.9×5 topics
  22. Economic Growth7▲ 3.5×9 topics
  23. IoT Security7▲ 9.3×3 topics
  24. Firm Performance7▲ 15×2 topics
  25. Environmental Management6▲ 6.3×4 topics
  26. Finance6▲ 13×2 topics
  27. Financial Stability6▲ 13×4 topics
  28. Financial Constraints6▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Student Satisfaction6▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Big Data Analytics6▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Performance Analysis6▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Social Networks6▲ 7.9×7 topics
  33. Transfer Learning5▲ 11×3 topics
  34. 5G Networks5▲ 10×3 topics
  35. Ethical Identity5▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Security Analysis5▲ 12×4 topics
  37. Capital Structure5▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Blended Learning5▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Energy Consumption5▲ 8.0×3 topics
  40. CO2 Emissions5▲ 10.0×2 topics

Which research topics does Arab Open University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Organizational and Employee Performance, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, Corporate Finance and Governance and Online and Blended Learning.

Organizational and Emplo…10Organizational and Employee Performance: 10 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 5 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 4 fractional worksOnline and Blended Learning: 4 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Economic Growth: 4 fractional worksAnalytic and geometric function theory: 4 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing4IoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 4 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability in Business: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI: 3 fractional worksSocioeconomic Developmen…3Socioeconomic Development in MENA: 3 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceAccountingEducationEconomics and Econometrics5 others

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

  1. 1 Organizational and Employee Performance Artificial Intelligence 10 works
  2. 2 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 5 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 4 works
  4. 4 Online and Blended Learning Education 4 works
  5. 5 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  6. 6 Analytic and geometric function theory Geometry and Topology 4 works
  7. 7 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  8. 8 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 4 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 diagnosis using AI Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  10. 10 Socioeconomic Development in MENA Sociology and Political Science 3 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 available69.6%not open30.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.8%domestic only55.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Arab Open University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 387% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting2010201520202025
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 Arab Open University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Arab Open University0.0015% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Arab Open University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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