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Central American Adventist University

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,787
of 22,385 · #26,124 all time
Rank in Costa Rica
#22
of 26
Research works
152
▲ 54% vs 2018-21
Citations
359
2.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Central American Adventist University

Which fields of science does Central American Adventist University work in?

In 2022-now, 29% of research at Central American Adventist University is in Social Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (23%), Social Sciences (15%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Social Sciences: 24 fractional works · 29.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 15.2% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 26.6% of its workMedicine: 19 fractional works · 22.6% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 20 fractional works · 23.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 12.5% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 17 fractional works · 20.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 14.9% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHorticulture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCentral AmericanAdventist…83fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences27%Social Sciences29%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1315.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance44.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting33.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities33.3%
    5. Psychology22.5%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine1922.6%
    2. Health Professions33.6%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Environmental Science1012.5%
    2. Engineering33.9%
    3. Computer Science33.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.7%
    5. Materials Science00.6%
    6. Chemistry00.5%
    7. Energy00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1214.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology55.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 3.13× its world share, 12 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.04× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.53× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.36× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.17× its world share, 19 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.17× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.15× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.06× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.16× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.83× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.20× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.13×12 works
  2. Environmental Science2.53×10 works
  3. Veterinary2.17×0 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.16×4 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.72×2 works
  6. Health Professions1.36×3 works
  7. Social Sciences1.20×13 works
  8. Medicine1.17×19 works
  9. Arts and Humanities1.15×3 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting1.06×3 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.04×5 works
  12. Psychology0.83×2 works
  13. Computer Science0.39×2 works
  14. Chemistry0.33×0 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  16. Engineering0.26×3 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.25×0 works
  18. Energy0.22×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.21×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.16×0 works
  21. Nursing0.14×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Central American Adventist University?

The most cited paper from Central American Adventist University is "Resilient forest faunal communities in South Africa: a legacy of palaeoclimatic change and extinction filtering?" (Michael John Lawes, Harriet A.C. Eeley, Nicola J. Findlay et al., 2007), with 109 citations. Next come "Birds as agents of seed dispersal in a human-dominated landscape in southern Costa Rica" (100) and "Characteristics of bird species using forest and agricultural land covers in southern Costa Rica" (60).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Resilient forest faunal communities in South Africa: a legacy of palaeoclimatic change and extinction filtering? Michael John Lawes, Harriet A.C. Eeley, Nicola J. Findlay et al. · Journal of Biogeography 12 Apr 2007 109
2 Birds as agents of seed dispersal in a human-dominated landscape in southern Costa Rica Liba Pejchar, Robert M. Pringle, Jai Ranganathan et al. · Biological Conservation 11 Jan 2008 100
3 Characteristics of bird species using forest and agricultural land covers in southern Costa Rica Catherine A. Lindell, Walter H. Chomentowski, Jim R. Zook · Biodiversity and Conservation 18 Nov 2004 60
4 Quantifying the Effects of Prior Acetyl-Salicylic Acid on Sepsis-Related Deaths: An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis Using Propensity Matching* James McCracken Trauer et al. · Critical Care Medicine ReviewOpen access 10 Aug 2017 54
5 Restoration of genetic diversity in the dry forest treeSwietenia macrophylla(Meliaceae) after pasture abandonment in Costa Rica M. Céspedes, Marco Gutiérrez, N. Michèle Holbrook et al. · Molecular Ecology 31 Oct 2003 50
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Central American Adventist University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Population Dynamics, Climate Change, Epidemiology, Invasive Species, Diagnosis, Evolution and Conservation Biology.

▲ 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. Epidemiology8▲ 2.6×30 topics
  2. Climate Change8▲ 3.5×18 topics
  3. Biodiversity7▲ 12×13 topics
  4. Population Dynamics6▲ 26×10 topics
  5. Invasive Species4▲ 13×14 topics
  6. Diagnosis4▲ 5.3×10 topics
  7. Sustainability4▲ 1.77×11 topics
  8. Evolution4▲ 16×9 topics
  9. Conservation Biology3▲ 38×3 topics
  10. Treatment3▲ 3.4×10 topics
  11. Conservation3▲ 8.9×11 topics
  12. Education3▲ 2.1×13 topics
  13. Habitat Fragmentation3▲ 16×2 topics
  14. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 11×5 topics
  15. Quality of Life3▲ 2.2×9 topics
  16. Taxonomy2▲ 19×7 topics
  17. Health Promotion2▲ 8.5×6 topics
  18. Biogeography2▲ 8.3×6 topics
  19. Complications2▲ 4.6×3 topics
  20. Habitat Selection2▲ 32×2 topics
  21. Knowledge Management2▲ 4.1×5 topics
  22. Phylogeny2▲ 14×7 topics
  23. Teacher Training2▲ 3.8×5 topics
  24. Amphibian Declines2▲ 84×1 topic
  25. Children2▲ 9.7×3 topics
  26. Chytridiomycosis2▲ 84×1 topic
  27. Adults2▲ 35×2 topics
  28. Ecosystem Services2▲ 4.9×3 topics
  29. Global Change2▲ 6.8×2 topics
  30. Health Financing2▲ 50×1 topic
  31. Universal Coverage2▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Climate Change Adaptation1▲ 9.3×2 topics
  33. DNA Barcoding1▲ 10.0×4 topics
  34. Rural Communities1▲ 29×2 topics
  35. Agroecology1▲ 11×1 topic
  36. Healthy Lifestyles1▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Intussusception1▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Meckel's Diverticulum1▲ 49×1 topic
  39. Molecular Phylogeny1▲ 9.8×6 topics
  40. Surgical Treatment1▲ 8.3×3 topics

Which research topics does Central American Adventist University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments and Plant and soil sciences.

Amphibian and Reptile Bi…2Amphibian and Reptile Biology: 2 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and R…2Healthcare Systems and Reforms: 2 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 1 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences1Plant and soil sciences: 1 fractional worksHealth and Lifestyle Stu…1Health and Lifestyle Studies: 1 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 1 fractional worksBotany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean: 1 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…1Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 1 fractional worksCutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 1 fractional worksEndometriosis Research and Treatment: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeFinanceSurgeryGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences5 others

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

  1. 1 Amphibian and Reptile Biology Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  2. 2 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 2 works
  3. 3 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 1 works
  4. 4 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 works
  5. 5 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 1 works
  6. 6 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  7. 7 Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  8. 8 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 1 works
  9. 9 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 1 works
  10. 10 Endometriosis Research and Treatment Reproductive Medicine 1 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 available74.3%not open25.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.2%domestic only68.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Central American Adventist University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Central American Adventist University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00024% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Central American Adventist University0.00042% in 20251990200020102020

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