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Bournemouth University

In research, Bournemouth University stands highest in Social Sciences (#639 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#479 of 6,365 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#1,142 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Communication, Gender Studies and Human-Computer Interaction — Communication is 7.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,209
of 28,054 · #1,811 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#92
of 1,094
Research works
10k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
213k
20.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

What is Bournemouth University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #639 of 10,521 28.0%937 #377
Social SciencesField #479 of 6,365 29.7%482 #333
Health SciencesDomain #1,142 of 11,982 19.3%390 #1362
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #292 of 2,578 33.6%201 #200
Business, Management and AccountingField #352 of 2,578 33.9%121 #123
Computer ScienceField #921 of 4,667 18.7%199 #486
Physical SciencesDomain #3,334 of 12,888 20.3%554 #2695
MedicineField #3,518 of 10,443 16.9%270 #3571
EngineeringField #2,644 of 6,636 21.1%148 #2753
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #416 of 916 26.6%63 #497

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bournemouth 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#377 #639
  2. Social Sciences#333 #479
  3. Health Sciences#1,362 #1,142
  4. Sociology and Political Science#200 #292
  5. Business, Management and Accounting#123 #352
  6. Computer Science#486 #921
  7. Physical Sciences#2,695 #3,334
  8. Medicine#3,571 #3,518
  9. Engineering#2,753 #2,644
  10. General Health Professions#497 #416
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Bournemouth University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Communication takes 7.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. CommunicationSubfield · 40.9 works7.5×
  2. Gender StudiesSubfield · 50.2 works6.9×
  3. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 20.8 works5.0×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 35 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 29 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.77× its world share, 58 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.27× its world share, 199 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.14× its world share, 36 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.60× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.49× its world share, 148 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.94× its world share, 94 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 16 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.40× its world share, 33 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.94× its world share, 103 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.70× its world share, 270 worksMedicineNursing: 1.63× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.55× its world share, 90 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.87× its world share, 121 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.13× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.52× its world share, 65 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.58× its world share, 158 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.90× its world share, 482 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 2.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Bournemouth University?

Ranked on the composite score, Dimitrios Buhalis, Wei Koong Chai and Adrian C. Newton lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bournemouth University.

  1. 1 Dimitrios Buhalis United Kingdom · #1,916 worldwide 2k citations · 152 works
  2. 2 Wei Koong Chai United Kingdom · #31,154 worldwide 985 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Adrian C. Newton United Kingdom · #41,560 worldwide 682 citations · 47 works
  4. 4 Aminur Rahman United Kingdom · #60,836 worldwide 202 citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Adele Ladkin United Kingdom · #62,897 worldwide 315 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Roger Baker United Kingdom · #101,112 worldwide 181 citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Duncan Light United Kingdom · #115,062 worldwide 141 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Richard Southern United Kingdom · #133,899 worldwide 123 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Lorraine Brown United Kingdom · #154,284 worldwide 185 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Thomas W. Wainwright United Kingdom · #155,526 worldwide 185 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Bournemouth University

Which keywords describe research at Bournemouth University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Media, Mental Health, Deep Learning, Gender, Sustainability, Identity, Globalization and Machine Learning.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Social Media102▲ 3.5×29 topics
  2. Deep Learning84▲ 1.23×70 topics
  3. Epidemiology68▼ 0.86×76 topics
  4. Machine Learning66◆ 1.00×68 topics
  5. Sustainability65▲ 1.32×55 topics
  6. Mental Health61▲ 2.1×35 topics
  7. Globalization55▲ 1.40×70 topics
  8. Climate Change55◆ 1.02×67 topics
  9. Public Health47▲ 1.62×40 topics
  10. Gender40▲ 3.7×26 topics
  11. Identity39▲ 2.6×28 topics
  12. Economic Growth38▲ 2.2×20 topics
  13. Risk Factors35▲ 1.60×28 topics
  14. Consumer Behavior33▲ 2.6×16 topics
  15. Social Capital28▲ 2.7×14 topics
  16. Prevalence27▲ 3.3×12 topics
  17. Well-being26▲ 3.4×13 topics
  18. Social Interaction25▲ 3.1×10 topics
  19. Child Development25▲ 2.9×7 topics
  20. Psychological Impact24▲ 3.7×8 topics
  21. Emotion22▲ 5.2×11 topics
  22. Online Communication21▲ 6.6×3 topics
  23. Social Cognition21▲ 6.1×7 topics
  24. COVID-19 Impact20▲ 6.0×4 topics
  25. Content Analysis20▲ 7.9×6 topics
  26. Political Communication19▲ 17×2 topics
  27. User-Generated Content19▲ 6.7×2 topics
  28. Consumer Engagement18▲ 6.9×1 topic
  29. Electronic Word-of-Mouth18▲ 6.9×1 topic
  30. Teaching Methods18▲ 6.1×5 topics
  31. Neural Mechanisms17▲ 9.3×4 topics
  32. News Media16▲ 18×2 topics
  33. Patient Engagement16▲ 6.3×4 topics
  34. Stereotypes16▲ 8.2×3 topics
  35. Masculinity16▲ 9.3×2 topics
  36. Mediatization16▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Social Identity15▲ 8.2×5 topics
  38. Digital Journalism15▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Agenda Setting15▲ 22×1 topic
  40. Media Framing15▲ 22×1 topic

Which research topics does Bournemouth University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Digital Marketing and Social Media, Media Studies and Communication, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts and Sports, Gender, and Society.

Digital Marketing and So…18Digital Marketing and Social Media: 18 fractional worksMedia Studies and Commun…15Media Studies and Communication: 15 fractional worksSport and Mega-Event Impacts: 13 fractional worksSports, Gender, and Society: 13 fractional worksHistory and Theory of Mathematics: 12 fractional worksChild Development and Digital Technology: 12 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 11 fractional worksDiverse Aspects of Touri…11Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research: 11 fractional worksFace Recognition and Perception: 10 fractional worksVirtual Reality Applications and Impacts: 9 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceCommunicationGender StudiesTheoretical Computer Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 18 works
  2. 2 Media Studies and Communication Communication 15 works
  3. 3 Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sociology and Political Science 13 works
  4. 4 Sports, Gender, and Society Gender Studies 13 works
  5. 5 History and Theory of Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science 12 works
  6. 6 Child Development and Digital Technology Education 12 works
  7. 7 Social Media and Politics Communication 11 works
  8. 8 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  9. 9 Face Recognition and Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 10 works
  10. 10 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 9 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 available47.7%not open52.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.3%domestic only78.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Bournemouth University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.

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