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California Southern University

In research, California Southern University stands highest in Computer Science (#637 of 4,667 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,529 of 10,521 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#2,606 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Artificial Intelligence — Artificial Intelligence is 3.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,033
of 28,054 · #1,263 all time
Rank in United States
#433
of 4,192
Research works
12k
▼ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
337k
27.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is California Southern 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
Computer ScienceField #637 of 4,667 21.6%216 #285
Social SciencesDomain #1,529 of 10,521 16.8%588 #376
Physical SciencesDomain #2,606 of 12,888 15.3%547 #1430
Social SciencesField #1,525 of 6,365 18.2%298 #459
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,150 of 2,578 18.0%106 #371
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #847 of 1,884 24.5%110 #505
Health SciencesDomain #5,609 of 11,982 10.9%175 #1529
MedicineField #5,235 of 10,443 9.1%133 #1779
EngineeringField #4,139 of 6,636 10.1%156 #1193
PsychologyField #1,536 of 2,181 12.3%75 #455

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where California Southern 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. Computer Science#285 #637
  2. Social Sciences#376 #1,529
  3. Physical Sciences#1,430 #2,606
  4. Social Sciences#459 #1,525
  5. Sociology and Political Science#371 #1,150
  6. Artificial Intelligence#505 #847
  7. Health Sciences#1,529 #5,609
  8. Medicine#1,779 #5,235
  9. Engineering#1,193 #4,139
  10. Psychology#455 #1,536
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 California Southern University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Artificial Intelligence takes 3.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 110.4 works3.3×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 14 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.53× its world share, 40 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.42× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.36× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.68× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.45× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.98× its world share, 216 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 23 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.37× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.74× its world share, 156 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.68× its world share, 47 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.41× its world share, 20 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.32× its world share, 22 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.44× its world share, 45 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.03× its world share, 38 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.49× its world share, 133 worksMedicineNursing: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.01× its world share, 81 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.15× its world share, 52 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.98× its world share, 27 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.83× its world share, 55 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.76× its world share, 75 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.68× its world share, 298 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at California Southern University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Globalization, Colonialism, Identity, Gender and History.

▲ 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. Deep Learning77▲ 1.61×68 topics
  2. Machine Learning68▲ 1.49×71 topics
  3. Neural Networks54▲ 2.5×29 topics
  4. Globalization49▲ 1.79×83 topics
  5. Identity33▲ 3.2×44 topics
  6. Public Health32▲ 1.55×34 topics
  7. Social Media31▲ 1.55×30 topics
  8. Sustainability30◆ 0.87×64 topics
  9. Mental Health30▲ 1.44×34 topics
  10. Colonialism29▲ 4.4×32 topics
  11. Education29▲ 1.19×53 topics
  12. Gender28▲ 3.7×34 topics
  13. History28▲ 2.8×33 topics
  14. Human Rights25▲ 1.73×35 topics
  15. Culture24▲ 3.2×26 topics
  16. Social Support21▲ 2.7×16 topics
  17. Nationalism21▲ 3.2×24 topics
  18. Innovation20▲ 1.39×30 topics
  19. Big Data20▲ 1.58×19 topics
  20. Religion20▲ 3.0×21 topics
  21. Literature18▲ 2.4×30 topics
  22. Ethics18▲ 2.6×26 topics
  23. Student Engagement17▲ 3.1×12 topics
  24. Text Classification16▲ 7.2×3 topics
  25. Information Retrieval16▲ 5.2×3 topics
  26. Topic Modeling16▲ 7.7×3 topics
  27. Politics16▲ 4.1×14 topics
  28. Machine Translation15▲ 6.5×2 topics
  29. Corpus Linguistics15▲ 5.0×5 topics
  30. Semantic Similarity14▲ 8.5×1 topic
  31. Word Representation14▲ 8.5×1 topic
  32. Global Governance14▲ 4.4×12 topics
  33. Neoliberalism14▲ 2.8×20 topics
  34. Feminism14▲ 3.5×16 topics
  35. Society14▲ 5.1×13 topics
  36. Neural Machine Translation13▲ 9.3×1 topic
  37. Statistical Machine Translation13▲ 9.3×1 topic
  38. Race10▲ 6.7×15 topics
  39. Stereotypes9▲ 6.4×3 topics
  40. Educational Inequality8▲ 10.0×3 topics

Which research topics does California Southern University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications and Homelessness and Social Issues.

Topic Modeling14Topic Modeling: 14 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 13 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 6 fractional worksHomelessness and Social Issues: 6 fractional worksHigher Education Research Studies: 6 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 5 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Al…5Robotic Path Planning Algorithms: 5 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 5 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 5 fractional worksDigital Games and Media5Digital Games and Media: 5 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionGeneral Health ProfessionsEducation3 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 14 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 13 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 works
  4. 4 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 6 works
  5. 5 Higher Education Research Studies Education 6 works
  6. 6 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 5 works
  8. 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 5 works
  9. 9 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 5 works
  10. 10 Digital Games and Media Sociology and Political Science 5 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 available31.7%not open68.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.7%domestic only86.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has California Southern University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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