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Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

In research, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies stands highest in Social Sciences (#579 of 10,521 worldwide), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#124 of 1,775 worldwide) and Economics and Econometrics (#102 of 1,272 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics, Business and International Management and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — Language and Linguistics is 16.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,030
of 28,054 · #5,688 all time
Rank in China
#754
of 3,058
Research works
7.8k
▲ 102% vs 2013–17
Citations
44k
5.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

What is Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 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 #579 of 10,521 25.3%1,385 #1117
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #124 of 1,775 42.5%221 #496
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #102 of 1,272 46.9%162 #428
Language and LinguisticsSubfield #25 of 303 20.3%152 #142
Business, Management and AccountingField #518 of 2,578 32.9%241 #1153
Social SciencesField #1,328 of 6,365 18.3%417 #1746
Literature and Literary TheorySubfield #84 of 390 20.7%80 #158
Arts and HumanitiesField #478 of 1,998 20.1%261 #623
Computer ScienceField #1,317 of 4,667 14.6%417 #1904
Physical SciencesDomain #3,858 of 12,888 15.0%645 #6410

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 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#1,117 #579
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#496 #124
  3. Economics and Econometrics#428 #102
  4. Language and Linguistics#142 #25
  5. Business, Management and Accounting#1,153 #518
  6. Social Sciences#1,746 #1,328
  7. Literature and Literary Theory#158 #84
  8. Arts and Humanities#623 #478
  9. Computer Science#1,904 #1,317
  10. Physical Sciences#6,410 #3,858
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 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 16.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 152.1 works16×
  2. Business and International ManagementSubfield · 22.7 works10×
  3. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 75.7 works7.4×
  4. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 80.5 works7.0×
  5. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 32.5 works6.0×
  6. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 51.7 works5.3×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.49× its world share, 417 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.74× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 87 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.65× its world share, 69 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.21× its world share, 30 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.35× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.50× its world share, 29 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 44 worksMedicineNursing: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.22× its world share, 262 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.48× its world share, 240 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.19× its world share, 46 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.81× its world share, 221 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.04× its world share, 199 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 417 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies?

Ranked on the composite score, Robert Shaw, Zhang Cheng and Sancheng Peng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

  1. 1 Robert Shaw China · #152,069 worldwide 102 citations · 36 works
  2. 2 Zhang Cheng China · #235,131 worldwide 0 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Sancheng Peng China · #510,272 worldwide 101 citations · 31 works
  4. 4 Xia Li China · #568,097 worldwide 81 citations · 59 works
  5. 5 Han Jing China · #715,006 worldwide 5 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Junwei Wang China · #764,009 worldwide 112 citations · 55 works
  7. 7 Deng Wei China · #799,173 worldwide 0 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Lihong Cao China · #810,725 worldwide 57 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Yabing Wang China · #827,457 worldwide 33 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Shengyi Jiang China · #830,298 worldwide 105 citations · 62 works
All ranked researchers at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Which keywords describe research at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corpus Linguistics, Globalization, Economic Growth, Deep Learning, Machine Translation, Language, Social Interaction 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. Globalization176▲ 4.2×76 topics
  2. Deep Learning165▲ 2.2×78 topics
  3. Machine Learning136▲ 1.93×72 topics
  4. Corpus Linguistics132▲ 29×5 topics
  5. Economic Growth112▲ 6.1×22 topics
  6. Neural Networks95▲ 2.9×31 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence84▲ 2.9×40 topics
  8. Machine Translation77▲ 22×2 topics
  9. Language74▲ 14×11 topics
  10. Social Interaction73▲ 8.5×11 topics
  11. Economic Development72▲ 4.1×26 topics
  12. Renewable Energy68▲ 2.2×23 topics
  13. Social Media68▲ 2.2×25 topics
  14. Innovation66▲ 2.9×37 topics
  15. Urbanization62▲ 7.0×8 topics
  16. Language Teaching61▲ 11×8 topics
  17. Internet of Things60▲ 3.2×23 topics
  18. Environmental Regulation56▲ 17×2 topics
  19. Corporate Governance56▲ 3.5×18 topics
  20. Financial Development54▲ 16×2 topics
  21. Panel Data Analysis54▲ 16×2 topics
  22. CO2 Emissions54▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Energy Consumption54▲ 11×6 topics
  24. Cross-Cultural Communication53▲ 28×3 topics
  25. Cognition52▲ 18×3 topics
  26. Kuznets Curve52▲ 22×1 topic
  27. Trade Openness52▲ 22×1 topic
  28. Neural Basis50▲ 27×3 topics
  29. Translation50▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Embodiment49▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Cultural Translation49▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Translator Competence49▲ 50×1 topic
  33. Second Language Acquisition48▲ 25×2 topics
  34. International Trade46▲ 15×8 topics
  35. Cognitive Science46▲ 36×3 topics
  36. Metaphor46▲ 50×1 topic
  37. Time46▲ 45×1 topic
  38. Information Retrieval43▲ 9.1×5 topics
  39. Text Classification39▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Pragmatics38▲ 11×7 topics

Which research topics does Guangdong University of Foreign Studies publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Translation Studies and Practices, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

Energy, Environment, Eco…52Energy, Environment, Economic Growth: 52 fractional worksTranslation Studies and …49Translation Studies and Practices: 49 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and …46Language, Metaphor, and Cognition: 46 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Lea…36EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 36 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 33 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 28 fractional worksDiscourse Analysis in La…25Discourse Analysis in Language Studies: 25 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Go…25Corporate Finance and Governance: 25 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Com…24Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 24 fractional worksSecond Language Learning…22Second Language Learning and Teaching: 22 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsLanguage and LinguisticsExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyArtificial Intelligence2 others

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

  1. 1 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 52 works
  2. 2 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 49 works
  3. 3 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 46 works
  4. 4 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 36 works
  5. 5 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 33 works
  6. 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 28 works
  7. 7 Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Literature and Literary Theory 25 works
  8. 8 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 25 works
  9. 9 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 24 works
  10. 10 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 22 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 available33.6%not open66.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Guangdong University of Foreign Studies's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 102% 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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