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Coventry University

In research, Coventry University stands highest in Social Sciences (#524 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#459 of 6,365 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#1,999 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Safety Research, Gender Studies and Management of Technology and Innovation — Safety Research is 3.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,737
of 28,054 · #1,910 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#70
of 1,094
Research works
13k
▲ 46% vs 2013–17
Citations
259k
19.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Coventry 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 #524 of 10,521 27.9%1,139 #541
Social SciencesField #459 of 6,365 27.6%544 #512
Physical SciencesDomain #1,999 of 12,888 20.4%819 #2230
Business, Management and AccountingField #407 of 2,578 35.9%195 #338
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #416 of 2,578 28.1%201 #357
Health SciencesDomain #2,069 of 11,982 21.5%415 #1764
EngineeringField #1,407 of 6,636 18.7%402 #1373
MedicineField #3,085 of 10,443 19.5%305 #3810
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #637 of 1,775 30.4%93 #798
Environmental ScienceField #1,355 of 3,551 26.4%111 #1396

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Coventry 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#541 #524
  2. Social Sciences#512 #459
  3. Physical Sciences#2,230 #1,999
  4. Business, Management and Accounting#338 #407
  5. Sociology and Political Science#357 #416
  6. Health Sciences#1,764 #2,069
  7. Engineering#1,373 #1,407
  8. Medicine#3,810 #3,085
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#798 #637
  10. Environmental Science#1,396 #1,355
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 Coventry University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Safety Research takes 3.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Safety ResearchSubfield · 26.0 works3.7×
  2. Gender StudiesSubfield · 33.6 works3.7×
  3. Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 23.6 works3.1×
← 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: 0.47× its world share, 56 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 51 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.73× its world share, 30 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.61× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.19× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.84× its world share, 164 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.53× its world share, 21 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.88× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.07× its world share, 402 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.88× its world share, 110 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.42× its world share, 36 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.60× its world share, 18 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.61× its world share, 34 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.45× its world share, 96 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.63× its world share, 305 worksMedicineNursing: 1.08× its world share, 13 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.26× its world share, 91 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.41× its world share, 195 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.50× its world share, 36 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.74× its world share, 93 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.33× its world share, 178 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.71× its world share, 544 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Coventry University?

Ranked on the composite score, Sara de Freitas, Vasile Palade and Catherine Hoskyns lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Coventry University.

  1. 1 Sara de Freitas · #52,344 worldwide 263 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Vasile Palade · #81,586 worldwide 525 citations · 86 works
  3. 3 Catherine Hoskyns · #83,380 worldwide 96 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Cain C. T. Clark · #90,171 worldwide 208 citations · 54 works
  5. 5 Cathy Bennett · #93,843 worldwide 435 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Steve Jones · #95,803 worldwide 204 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Philip J. Harris · #97,295 worldwide 288 citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Robert Smith · #97,393 worldwide 152 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 Serwan Mj Baban · #111,519 worldwide 179 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 Saad Amin · #117,862 worldwide 180 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Coventry University

Which keywords describe research at Coventry University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Social Capital, Sustainability, Neoliberalism, Mental Health, Corporate Governance, Social Media 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. Globalization115▲ 2.3×85 topics
  2. Sustainability94▲ 1.54×71 topics
  3. Machine Learning78◆ 0.94×81 topics
  4. Mental Health75▲ 2.0×38 topics
  5. Deep Learning75◆ 0.87×75 topics
  6. Climate Change60◆ 0.88×79 topics
  7. Social Capital59▲ 4.5×15 topics
  8. Social Media59▲ 1.64×29 topics
  9. Corporate Governance50▲ 2.7×18 topics
  10. Environmental Impact49◆ 1.15×44 topics
  11. Neoliberalism47▲ 5.3×23 topics
  12. Renewable Energy46▲ 1.26×41 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease45▲ 1.61×33 topics
  14. Public Health44▲ 1.21×37 topics
  15. Mechanical Properties44▲ 1.79×30 topics
  16. Economic Growth42▲ 1.97×26 topics
  17. Human Rights42▲ 1.62×43 topics
  18. Gender38▲ 2.8×31 topics
  19. Identity38▲ 2.1×39 topics
  20. Risk Management36▲ 3.0×13 topics
  21. Physical Activity36▲ 2.9×11 topics
  22. Consumer Behavior34▲ 2.1×16 topics
  23. Nationalism33▲ 2.8×23 topics
  24. Obesity33▲ 1.73×21 topics
  25. Well-being31▲ 3.2×14 topics
  26. Entrepreneurship31▲ 3.2×13 topics
  27. Lithium-ion Batteries29▲ 2.7×4 topics
  28. Feminism29▲ 4.0×17 topics
  29. Trust26▲ 3.7×11 topics
  30. Democracy25▲ 2.8×17 topics
  31. Neuroscience25▲ 3.4×12 topics
  32. Electric Vehicles25▲ 3.3×4 topics
  33. Politics24▲ 3.5×15 topics
  34. Autonomous Vehicles24▲ 4.5×5 topics
  35. Performance Analysis22▲ 4.1×4 topics
  36. Physical Fitness22▲ 6.1×4 topics
  37. Driver Behavior21▲ 11×2 topics
  38. High-Intensity Interval Training17▲ 6.3×2 topics
  39. Human Factors16▲ 8.2×3 topics
  40. Psychological Outcomes15▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does Coventry University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety and Diversity and Impact of Dance.

Advanced Battery Technol…15Advanced Battery Technologies Research: 15 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies…14Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 14 fractional worksHuman-Automation Interaction and Safety: 14 fractional worksDiversity and Impact of …13Diversity and Impact of Dance: 13 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain…13Sustainable Supply Chain Management: 13 fractional worksAcademic integrity and plagiarism: 12 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 12 fractional worksSports Performance and T…11Sports Performance and Training: 11 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 10 fractional worksSupply Chain Resilience and Risk Management: 10 fractional works
Automotive EngineeringManagement of Technology and InnovationSocial PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Battery Technologies ResearchAutomotive Engineering 15 works
  2. 2 Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesManagement of Technology and Innovation 14 works
  3. 3 Human-Automation Interaction and SafetySocial Psychology 14 works
  4. 4 Diversity and Impact of DanceExperimental and Cognitive Psychology 13 works
  5. 5 Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementStrategy and Management 13 works
  6. 6 Academic integrity and plagiarismSafety Research 12 works
  7. 7 Corporate Finance and GovernanceAccounting 12 works
  8. 8 Sports Performance and TrainingOrthopedics and Sports Medicine 11 works
  9. 9 Islamic Finance and Banking StudiesAccounting 10 works
  10. 10 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementStrategy and Management 10 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 available52.0%not open48.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.6%domestic only74.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Coventry University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 46% 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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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.