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Bentley University

In research, Bentley University stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,097 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,675 of 5,988 worldwide) and Business, Management and Accounting (#1,227 of 2,581 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Accounting and Business, Management and Accounting (Accounting is 10.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,030
of 22,385 · #2,536 all time
Rank in United States
#685
of 3,332
Research works
3.9k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
82k
21.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Bentley University

What is Bentley 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 #2,097 of 9,585 13.5%372 #1151
Social SciencesField #2,675 of 5,988 14.1%139 #1423
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,227 of 2,581 14.1%98 #419
Physical SciencesDomain #7,318 of 10,670 13.0%102 #3185

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bentley 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#1,151 #2,097
  2. Social Sciences#1,423 #2,675
  3. Business, Management and Accounting#419 #1,227
  4. Physical Sciences#3,185 #7,318
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 Bentley University work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research at Bentley University is in Social Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Business, Management and Accounting (18%), Computer Science (9%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 422 fractional works · 68.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 158 fractional works · 25.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 60 fractional works · 9.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSafety Research: 13 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEducation: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGender Studies: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCommunication: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 110 fractional works · 17.7% of its workAccounting: 39 fractional works · 6.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 23 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMarketing: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 55 fractional works · 8.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 40 fractional works · 6.4% of its workFinance: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 41 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPhilosophy: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMusic: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 38 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 15 fractional works · 2.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 20 fractional works · 3.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 11 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 118 fractional works · 19.0% of its workComputer Science: 58 fractional works · 9.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 21 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInformation Systems: 17 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 25 fractional works · 4.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 14 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 11 fractional works · 1.8% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 51 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedicine: 31 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 19 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 29 fractional works · 4.7% of its workNeuroscience: 17 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 16 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBentleyUniversity620fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences68%

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. Social Sciences15825.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting11017.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance558.9%
    4. Arts and Humanities416.6%
    5. Psychology386.1%
    6. Decision Sciences203.3%
    1. Computer Science589.4%
    2. Engineering254.1%
    3. Mathematics142.3%
    4. Environmental Science101.5%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences60.9%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.4%
    7. Materials Science10.2%
    8. Energy00.1%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Medicine315.1%
    2. Health Professions193.0%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Neuroscience172.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Bentley University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Accounting takes 10.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. AccountingSubfield · 38.6 works10×
  2. Business, Management and AccountingField · 109.8 works5.5×
← 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: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.66× its world share, 17 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.21× its world share, 58 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 25 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.94× its world share, 14 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.15× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 31 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.30× its world share, 41 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.50× its world share, 110 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.38× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.15× its world share, 55 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.99× its world share, 38 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.01× its world share, 158 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.50×110 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.15×55 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.38×20 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.30×41 works
  5. Social Sciences2.01×158 works
  6. Psychology1.99×38 works
  7. Mathematics1.94×14 works
  8. Neuroscience1.66×17 works
  9. Computer Science1.21×58 works
  10. Health Professions1.15×19 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.59×6 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.33×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.31×10 works
  14. Engineering0.27×25 works
  15. Medicine0.26×31 works
  16. Nursing0.21×1 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.19×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×6 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×5 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.16×2 works
  21. Materials Science0.07×2 works
  22. Energy0.06×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.03×0 works
  24. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Bentley University?

Ranked on the quality score, Udi Hoitash, Tatiana S. Manolova and Gopal V. Krishnan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bentley University.

  1. 1 Udi Hoitash United States · #45,265 worldwide 4.4k citations · 75 works
  2. 2 Tatiana S. Manolova United States · #48,189 worldwide 7.4k citations · 122 works
  3. 3 Gopal V. Krishnan United States · #53,503 worldwide 7.8k citations · 137 works
  4. 4 Rani Hoitash United States · #57,894 worldwide 5k citations · 91 works
  5. 5 Linda F. Edelman United States · #74,101 worldwide 7.2k citations · 123 works
  6. 6 M. Lynne Markus United States · #79,484 worldwide 24k citations · 234 works
  7. 7 Martin J. Conyon United States · #139,759 worldwide 9.4k citations · 175 works
  8. 8 Mary J. Culnan United States · #174,469 worldwide 8.7k citations · 67 works
  9. 9 Danielle Blanch‐Hartigan United States · #195,782 worldwide 3.5k citations · 87 works
  10. 10 Kristina Minnick United States · #221,358 worldwide 2.1k citations · 80 works
All ranked researchers at Bentley University

What are the most cited papers from Bentley University?

The most cited paper from Bentley University is "The Price is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions" (Lan Xia, Kent B. Monroe, Jennifer L. Cox, 2004), with 1,468 citations. Next come "Captivating company: dimensions of attractiveness in employer branding" (1,219) and "Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories" (1,212).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Price is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions Lan Xia, Kent B. Monroe, Jennifer L. Cox · Journal of Marketing Open access 13 Sep 2004 1,468
2 Captivating company: dimensions of attractiveness in employer branding Pierre R. Berthon, Michael Thomas Ewing, Li Lian Hah · International Journal of Advertising Open access 2005 1,219
3 Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories Deanne N. Den Hartog et al. · The Leadership Quarterly Open access144 authors 1999 1,212
4 Liquidity risk management and credit supply in the financial crisis Marcia Millon Cornett, Jamie John McNutt, Philip E. Strahan et al. · Journal of Financial Economics 9 Mar 2011 1,113
5 Marketing meets Web 2.0, social media, and creative consumers: Implications for international marketing strategy Pierre R. Berthon, LEYLAND F. PITT, Kirk A. Plangger et al. · Business Horizons Open access 21 Feb 2012 1,097
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Bentley University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, Financial Reporting, Social Capital, Big Data, Information Asymmetry, Earnings Management and International Financial Reporting Standards.

▲ 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. Corporate Governance39▲ 8.7×17 topics
  2. Machine Learning29▲ 1.41×36 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence23▲ 2.6×18 topics
  4. Big Data22▲ 3.8×15 topics
  5. Globalization21▲ 1.73×44 topics
  6. Social Capital18▲ 5.8×12 topics
  7. Financial Reporting17▲ 23×6 topics
  8. Firm Performance17▲ 16×3 topics
  9. Mental Health17▲ 1.95×25 topics
  10. Supply Chain Management17▲ 3.0×13 topics
  11. Social Media17▲ 1.96×19 topics
  12. Innovation17▲ 2.6×21 topics
  13. Ethics15▲ 4.8×14 topics
  14. Economic Growth15▲ 2.9×17 topics
  15. Information Asymmetry14▲ 44×2 topics
  16. Earnings Management14▲ 23×2 topics
  17. Gender14▲ 4.2×20 topics
  18. International Financial Reporting Standards14▲ 45×2 topics
  19. Accounting Quality14▲ 50×1 topic
  20. Audit Committee14▲ 50×1 topic
  21. Consumer Behavior13▲ 3.5×10 topics
  22. Identity13▲ 2.9×20 topics
  23. Financial Constraints12▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Social Support12▲ 3.6×12 topics
  25. Social Interaction12▲ 4.8×7 topics
  26. Democracy11▲ 5.2×11 topics
  27. Mergers and Acquisitions11▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Investor Protection11▲ 24×1 topic
  29. Ownership Structure11▲ 24×1 topic
  30. Leadership11▲ 3.7×13 topics
  31. Feminism11▲ 6.0×11 topics
  32. Monetary Policy11▲ 7.4×8 topics
  33. Accountability10▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Discrimination10▲ 7.8×6 topics
  35. Surveillance10▲ 5.7×5 topics
  36. Fiscal Policy10▲ 7.8×5 topics
  37. Fairness9▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Transparency8▲ 9.5×3 topics
  39. Emotion8▲ 6.4×10 topics
  40. Shareholder Value7▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does Bentley University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Corporate Finance and Governance, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security.

Auditing, Earnings Manag…14Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance: 14 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 11 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 7 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 6 fractional worksStatistical Distribution Estimation and Applications: 5 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 5 fractional worksGender Diversity and Ine…5Gender Diversity and Inequality: 5 fractional worksTactile and Sensory Interactions: 4 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 4 fractional worksMonetary Policy and Economic Impact: 4 fractional works
AccountingSafety ResearchInformation SystemsStatistics and Probability5 others

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

  1. 1 Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance Accounting 14 works
  2. 2 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 11 works
  3. 3 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 7 works
  4. 4 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 6 works
  5. 5 Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications Statistics and Probability 5 works
  6. 6 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 5 works
  7. 7 Gender Diversity and Inequality Gender Studies 5 works
  8. 8 Tactile and Sensory Interactions Cognitive Neuroscience 4 works
  9. 9 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 4 works
  10. 10 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 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 available29.1%not open70.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.9%domestic only84.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bentley University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% 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 Bentley University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0025% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Bentley University0.0024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bentley 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%Bentley University13.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.7% in 2004.

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