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Beijing Foreign Studies University

In research, Beijing Foreign Studies University stands highest in Social Sciences (#925 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,014 of 5,988 worldwide) and Computer Science (#1,443 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Communication (Language and Linguistics is 19.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,397
of 22,385 · #4,794 all time
Rank in China
#434
of 2,481
Research works
2.7k
▲ 200% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
4.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
41%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Beijing Foreign Studies University

What is Beijing Foreign Studies 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 #925 of 9,585 10.5%938 #1691
Social SciencesField #1,014 of 5,988 9.4%436 #1824
Computer ScienceField #1,443 of 4,417 12.6%112 #2636
Physical SciencesDomain #3,737 of 10,670 11.1%189 #6251
EducationSubfield #695 of 1,930 16.3%74 #1147
Arts and HumanitiesField #769 of 1,896 11.5%208 #1375
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,043 of 2,526 7.5%131 #1886
Language and LinguisticsSubfield #134 of 321 11.6%100 #344
PsychologyField #1,020 of 2,121 10.5%105 #1687
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #918 of 1,798 11.0%68 #1905

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Beijing Foreign Studies 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#1,691 #925
  2. Social Sciences#1,824 #1,014
  3. Computer Science#2,636 #1,443
  4. Physical Sciences#6,251 #3,737
  5. Education#1,147 #695
  6. Arts and Humanities#1,375 #769
  7. Sociology and Political Science#1,886 #1,043
  8. Language and Linguistics#344 #134
  9. Psychology#1,687 #1,020
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,905 #918
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 Beijing Foreign Studies University work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research at Beijing Foreign Studies University is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Computer Science (9%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,059 fractional works · 77.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 487 fractional works · 35.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 147 fractional works · 10.8% of its workEducation: 81 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 80 fractional works · 5.9% of its workCommunication: 41 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCultural Studies: 33 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 24 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGender Studies: 18 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 236 fractional works · 17.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 115 fractional works · 8.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 75 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPhilosophy: 14 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 127 fractional works · 9.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 53 fractional works · 3.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 47 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 105 fractional works · 7.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 34 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAccounting: 29 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMarketing: 14 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 75 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 47 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFinance: 15 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 29 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 15 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 11 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 215 fractional works · 15.8% of its workComputer Science: 129 fractional works · 9.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 56 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems: 26 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 41 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedia Technology: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 25 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Energy: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 46 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 21 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 18 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 42 fractional works · 3.1% of its workNeuroscience: 27 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 24 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBeijing ForeignStudies…1,363fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences78%

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
  1. Social Sciences1,05977.7%
    1. Social Sciences48735.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities23617.3%
    3. Psychology1279.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1057.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance755.5%
    6. Decision Sciences292.2%
    1. Computer Science1299.5%
    2. Engineering413.0%
    3. Environmental Science251.9%
    4. Energy70.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy40.3%
    6. Mathematics40.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.1%
    8. Materials Science20.1%
    9. Chemistry10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine241.8%
    2. Health Professions211.5%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Neuroscience272.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences100.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    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 Beijing Foreign Studies University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 19.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 114.9 works19×
  2. Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 23.9 works15×
  3. CommunicationSubfield · 40.8 works11×
  4. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 75.1 works10×
  5. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 52.6 works8.4×
  6. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 47.0 works7.2×
  7. Arts and HumanitiesField · 235.9 works6.0×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.21× its world share, 27 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.22× its world share, 129 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.52× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 41 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 21 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 5.99× its world share, 236 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.38× its world share, 104 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.24× its world share, 30 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.57× its world share, 75 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.07× its world share, 127 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.82× its world share, 487 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities5.99×236 works
  2. Psychology3.07×127 works
  3. Social Sciences2.82×487 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.57×75 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting2.38×104 works
  6. Decision Sciences2.24×30 works
  7. Computer Science1.22×129 works
  8. Neuroscience1.21×27 works
  9. Health Professions0.58×21 works
  10. Energy0.52×6 works
  11. Environmental Science0.38×26 works
  12. Mathematics0.23×4 works
  13. Engineering0.20×41 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×10 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.14×4 works
  16. Nursing0.12×1 works
  17. Veterinary0.12×0 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×2 works
  19. Medicine0.09×24 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.08×1 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.07×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×4 works
  24. Chemistry0.04×1 works
  25. Materials Science0.03×2 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Beijing Foreign Studies University?

Ranked on the quality score, Adam J. Poole, Meng Liu and Hao Xu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Beijing Foreign Studies University.

  1. 1 Adam J. Poole China · #93,582 worldwide 1.1k citations · 121 works
  2. 2 Meng Liu China · #290,132 worldwide 1.4k citations · 87 works
  3. 3 Hao Xu China · #364,812 worldwide 697 citations · 73 works
  4. 4 Huijie Cui China · #458,687 worldwide 714 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Leticia-Tian Zhang China · #469,573 worldwide 443 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Yuhao Niu China · #540,282 worldwide 496 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Luxin Yang China · #559,913 worldwide 696 citations · 46 works
  8. 8 Zongzheng Liang China · #567,272 worldwide 1.5k citations · 38 works
  9. 9 Danni Yu China · #659,497 worldwide 348 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Sifei Li China · #719,288 worldwide 1.1k citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Beijing Foreign Studies University

What are the most cited papers from Beijing Foreign Studies University?

The most cited paper from Beijing Foreign Studies University is "The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic" (Zhonggen Yu, 2021), with 344 citations. Next come "A meta-analysis of the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour" (310) and "COVID-19 pandemic and firm performance: Cross-country evidence" (263).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic Zhonggen Yu · International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education Open access Apr 2021 344
2 A meta-analysis of the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour Ahmad Daryanto, Zening Song · Journal of Business Research Review 8 Oct 2020 310
3 COVID-19 pandemic and firm performance: Cross-country evidence Shiwei Hu, Yuyao Zhang · International Review of Economics & Finance Open access 25 Mar 2021 263
4 Directors with foreign experience and corporate tax avoidance Wen Wen, Huijie Cui, Yun Ke · Journal of Corporate Finance 4 Apr 2020 261
5 Psychometric Evaluation of Chinese-Language 44-Item and 10-Item Big Five Personality Inventories, Including Correlations with Chronotype, Mindfulness and Mind Wandering Richard Carciofo, Jiaoyan Yang, Nan Song et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 26 Feb 2016 252
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Beijing Foreign Studies University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Corpus Linguistics, Nationalism, History, Religion, Language Teaching, Social Interaction and Language Policy.

▲ 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. Globalization168▲ 6.3×81 topics
  2. Corpus Linguistics75▲ 26×5 topics
  3. Nationalism72▲ 12×25 topics
  4. History63▲ 6.7×26 topics
  5. Religion58▲ 9.2×28 topics
  6. Language Teaching58▲ 16×7 topics
  7. Social Media56▲ 3.0×28 topics
  8. Social Interaction54▲ 10×10 topics
  9. Language Policy52▲ 27×6 topics
  10. Bilingual Education51▲ 32×3 topics
  11. Philosophy48▲ 7.9×18 topics
  12. Regulation45▲ 6.2×9 topics
  13. Second Language Acquisition45▲ 36×3 topics
  14. Multilingualism45▲ 20×6 topics
  15. Higher Education42▲ 5.9×14 topics
  16. China42▲ 34×3 topics
  17. Identity42▲ 4.2×42 topics
  18. Language42▲ 12×10 topics
  19. Corrective Feedback39▲ 39×1 topic
  20. L2 Motivation39▲ 39×1 topic
  21. Cultural Identity37▲ 5.5×19 topics
  22. Neural Basis37▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Christianity37▲ 46×2 topics
  24. Cultural Revolution37▲ 65×2 topics
  25. Confucianism36▲ 68×1 topic
  26. Falun Gong36▲ 68×1 topic
  27. Sociolinguistics34▲ 14×7 topics
  28. Machine Translation34▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Cultural Competence34▲ 19×3 topics
  30. Discourse Analysis33▲ 10.0×7 topics
  31. Cognition31▲ 16×3 topics
  32. Cross-Cultural Communication30▲ 24×3 topics
  33. Embodiment30▲ 12×6 topics
  34. Student Perceptions30▲ 12×6 topics
  35. Translation30▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Cultural Translation27▲ 46×1 topic
  37. Translator Competence27▲ 46×1 topic
  38. Cognitive Science27▲ 32×3 topics
  39. Pragmatics27▲ 12×6 topics
  40. Multimodality26▲ 37×2 topics

Which research topics does Beijing Foreign Studies University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Chinese history and philosophy, Translation Studies and Practices and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition.

EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 39 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 36 fractional worksTranslation Studies and …27Translation Studies and Practices: 27 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and …25Language, Metaphor, and Cognition: 25 fractional worksSecond Language Learning and Teaching: 24 fractional worksDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies: 22 fractional worksGlobal Education and Mul…19Global Education and Multiculturalism: 19 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 17 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 15 fractional worksSecond Language Acquisition and Learning: 15 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsSociology and Political ScienceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyLiterature and Literary Theory3 others

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

  1. 1 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 39 works
  2. 2 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 36 works
  3. 3 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 27 works
  4. 4 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 25 works
  5. 5 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 24 works
  6. 6 Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Literature and Literary Theory 22 works
  7. 7 Global Education and Multiculturalism Education 19 works
  8. 8 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 17 works
  9. 9 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 15 works
  10. 10 Second Language Acquisition and Learning Developmental and Educational Psychology 15 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 available40.8%not open59.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.4%domestic only89.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Beijing Foreign Studies University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 200% 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 Beijing Foreign Studies University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Beijing Foreign Studies University0.0057% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Beijing Foreign Studies 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 counting5%10%15%Beijing Foreign Studies University11.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.9% in 2020.

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