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Dalian University of Foreign Languages

In research, Dalian University of Foreign Languages stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,383 of 10,521 worldwide), Computer Science (#1,806 of 4,667 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,790 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics — Language and Linguistics is 19.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,735
of 28,054 · #19,480 all time
Rank in China
#1,803
of 3,058
Research works
1.4k
▲ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.2k
3.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

What is Dalian University of Foreign Languages 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 #3,383 of 10,521 20.2%234 #6199
Computer ScienceField #1,806 of 4,667 10.1%123 #3356
Physical SciencesDomain #7,790 of 12,888 9.8%220 #15023
Social SciencesField #4,080 of 6,365 10.0%82 #6280
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,416 of 1,998 30.0%70 #2726
EngineeringField #6,164 of 6,636 8.5%61 #10821

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Dalian University of Foreign Languages 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#6,199 #3,383
  2. Computer Science#3,356 #1,806
  3. Physical Sciences#15,023 #7,790
  4. Social Sciences#6,280 #4,080
  5. Arts and Humanities#2,726 #1,416
  6. Engineering#10,821 #6,164
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 Dalian University of Foreign Languages specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 19.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 43.2 works20×
← 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: 0.20× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.25× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.92× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.45× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.13× its world share, 123 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.81× its world share, 61 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.72× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.20× its world share, 19 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.77× its world share, 70 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.57× its world share, 26 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.86× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.96× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.43× its world share, 37 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.28× its world share, 82 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Dalian University of Foreign Languages?

Ranked on the composite score, Dániel Z. Kádár and R. Cowen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dalian University of Foreign Languages.

  1. 1 Dániel Z. Kádár China · #732,637 worldwide 128 citations · 85 works
  2. 2 R. Cowen China · #1,372,257 worldwide 3 citations · 91 works
All ranked researchers at Dalian University of Foreign Languages

Which keywords describe research at Dalian University of Foreign Languages?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Globalization, Machine Translation and Social Interaction.

▲ 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 Learning64▲ 3.7×68 topics
  2. Artificial Intelligence48▲ 7.0×32 topics
  3. Machine Learning44▲ 2.7×58 topics
  4. Corpus Linguistics35▲ 32×5 topics
  5. Globalization34▲ 3.5×30 topics
  6. Internet of Things29▲ 6.5×18 topics
  7. Neural Networks24▲ 3.1×31 topics
  8. Data Mining22▲ 6.0×12 topics
  9. Machine Translation22▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Social Interaction21▲ 11×7 topics
  11. Cloud Computing20▲ 14×7 topics
  12. Language19▲ 15×8 topics
  13. Big Data17▲ 3.7×17 topics
  14. Cross-Cultural Communication17▲ 37×3 topics
  15. Embodiment16▲ 17×4 topics
  16. Virtual Reality15▲ 6.1×11 topics
  17. Translation15▲ 18×3 topics
  18. Pragmatics15▲ 18×7 topics
  19. Online Education15▲ 16×5 topics
  20. Cultural Translation15▲ 64×1 topic
  21. Translator Competence15▲ 64×1 topic
  22. Physical Education14▲ 23×3 topics
  23. Language Teaching14▲ 11×5 topics
  24. Logistics14▲ 17×4 topics
  25. Cognition14▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Neural Basis14▲ 32×2 topics
  27. Multimedia Teaching13▲ 79×1 topic
  28. Teaching Evaluation13▲ 79×1 topic
  29. Multimedia Technology13▲ 39×2 topics
  30. Cognitive Science13▲ 43×2 topics
  31. Wireless Sensor Networks13▲ 5.6×13 topics
  32. Metaphor13▲ 59×1 topic
  33. Time13▲ 54×1 topic
  34. Second Language Acquisition12▲ 26×2 topics
  35. Big Data Analytics11▲ 10×4 topics
  36. Conversation Analysis10▲ 70×1 topic
  37. Interactional Linguistics10▲ 70×1 topic
  38. Information Retrieval10▲ 8.8×4 topics
  39. Neural Machine Translation10▲ 20×1 topic
  40. Statistical Machine Translation10▲ 20×1 topic

Which research topics does Dalian University of Foreign Languages publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Translation Studies and Practices, Educational Technology and Pedagogy, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

Translation Studies and …15Translation Studies and Practices: 15 fractional worksEducational Technology a…13Educational Technology and Pedagogy: 13 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and …13Language, Metaphor, and Cognition: 13 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Com…10Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 10 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 10 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 9 fractional worksE-commerce and Technolog…7E-commerce and Technology Innovations: 7 fractional worksTopic Modeling7Topic Modeling: 7 fractional worksIdeological and Politica…7Ideological and Political Education: 7 fractional worksDigital Media and Visual…6Digital Media and Visual Art: 6 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsArtificial IntelligenceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyBusiness and International Management2 others

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

  1. 1 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 15 works
  2. 2 Educational Technology and Pedagogy Artificial Intelligence 13 works
  3. 3 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 13 works
  4. 4 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 10 works
  5. 5 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 10 works
  6. 6 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 9 works
  7. 7 E-commerce and Technology Innovations Business and International Management 7 works
  8. 8 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 7 works
  9. 9 Ideological and Political Education Education 7 works
  10. 10 Digital Media and Visual Art Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 6 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 available37.4%not open62.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.1%domestic only89.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Dalian University of Foreign Languages's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher 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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