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Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University

In research, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,546 of 9,585 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#1,349 of 2,581 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#6,542 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Strategy and Management, Decision Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting (Strategy and Management is 8.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,411
of 22,385 · #13,016 all time
Rank in United Arab Emirates
#24
of 60
Research works
508
▲ 153% vs 2018-21
Citations
5k
9.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.11×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University

What is Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #4,546 of 9,585 12.7%142 #7297
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,349 of 2,581 13.9%62 #2069
Physical SciencesDomain #6,542 of 10,670 6.9%84 #11429

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#7,297 #4,546
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#2,069 #1,349
  3. Physical Sciences#11,429 #6,542
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University work in?

In 2022-now, 53% of research at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University is in Social Sciences, 34% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (23%), Computer Science (18%), Social Sciences (17%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 163 fractional works · 53.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 69 fractional works · 22.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 22 fractional works · 7.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 20 fractional works · 6.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAccounting: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 53 fractional works · 17.1% of its workEducation: 18 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 17 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 23 fractional works · 7.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 103 fractional works · 33.5% of its workComputer Science: 57 fractional works · 18.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 39 fractional works · 12.6% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 28 fractional works · 9.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 4.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Health and Safety: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 35 fractional works · 11.4% of its workMedicine: 19 fractional works · 6.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 12 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPeriodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHamdan BinMohammed Smart…307fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences34%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences53%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting6922.6%
    2. Social Sciences5317.1%
    3. Decision Sciences237.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance103.2%
    5. Psychology82.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    1. Computer Science5718.5%
    2. Engineering289.0%
    3. Environmental Science124.0%
    4. Energy30.9%
    5. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    6. Materials Science10.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Medicine196.2%
    2. Health Professions124.0%
    3. Dentistry31.0%
    4. Nursing10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.4%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Strategy and Management takes 8.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 21.7 works8.1×
  2. Decision SciencesField · 22.5 works7.6×
  3. Business, Management and AccountingField · 69.4 works7.0×
← 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: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.35× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 2.38× its world share, 57 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.96× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.60× its world share, 28 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.81× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 2.15× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.52× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 19 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.01× its world share, 69 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 7.58× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.48× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.88× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.35× its world share, 52 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 7.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences7.58×22 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting7.01×69 works
  3. Computer Science2.38×57 works
  4. Dentistry2.15×3 works
  5. Health Professions1.52×12 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.48×10 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.35×1 works
  8. Social Sciences1.35×52 works
  9. Energy0.96×3 works
  10. Psychology0.88×8 works
  11. Environmental Science0.81×12 works
  12. Engineering0.60×28 works
  13. Nursing0.39×1 works
  14. Medicine0.32×19 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.25×4 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.20×1 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.11×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.09×1 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×1 works
  21. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  22. Mathematics0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University?

Ranked on the quality score, Mounir El Khatib, Khadeegha Alzouebi and Aneeq Inam lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University.

  1. 1 Mounir El Khatib United Arab Emirates · #431,514 worldwide 1.9k citations · 115 works
  2. 2 Khadeegha Alzouebi United Arab Emirates · #920,246 worldwide 282 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Aneeq Inam United Arab Emirates · #942,004 worldwide 354 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Ahmed Ankit United Arab Emirates · #1,471,230 worldwide 284 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Ahmed Al-Nakeeb United Arab Emirates · #1,557,890 worldwide 315 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Nabil Baydoun United Arab Emirates · #1,582,098 worldwide 917 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Sanjai Kumar Parahoo United Arab Emirates · #1,739,166 worldwide 683 citations · 55 works
  8. 8 Moetaz Elsergany United Arab Emirates · #2,005,180 worldwide 764 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Md Reiazul Haque United Arab Emirates · #2,023,217 worldwide 120 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Zafar Imam Khan United Arab Emirates · #2,322,437 worldwide 50 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University

What are the most cited papers from Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University?

The most cited paper from Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University is "Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study" (Jaimie D Steinmetz et al., 2020), with 3,188 citations. Next come "Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017" (2,699) and "Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019" (2,100).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Jaimie D Steinmetz et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access243 authors Dec 2020 3,188
2 Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017 Christina Fitzmaurice et al. · JAMA Oncology Open access628 authors 27 Sep 2019 2,699
3 Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019 Jonathan Kocarnik et al. · JAMA Oncology Open access601 authors 30 Dec 2021 2,100
4 Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016 Christina Fitzmaurice et al. · JAMA Oncology Open access153 authors 2 Jun 2018 1,550
5 Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Rupert Bourne et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access164 authors Dec 2020 1,432
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Supply Chain Management, Healthcare, Customer Satisfaction, Organizational Performance, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Smart Cities and Knowledge Management.

▲ 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. Supply Chain Management71▲ 26×13 topics
  2. Machine Learning50▲ 4.9×23 topics
  3. Healthcare48▲ 14×12 topics
  4. Customer Satisfaction46▲ 47×4 topics
  5. Organizational Performance42▲ 52×7 topics
  6. Digital Transformation42▲ 25×11 topics
  7. Smart Cities40▲ 49×4 topics
  8. Knowledge Management38▲ 22×8 topics
  9. IoT35▲ 30×3 topics
  10. Social Media Marketing34▲ 230×1 topic
  11. Sustainability34▲ 4.5×31 topics
  12. Risk Management24▲ 17×9 topics
  13. Big Data22▲ 7.4×8 topics
  14. Performance Measurement17▲ 21×4 topics
  15. Internet of Things17▲ 6.5×10 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 3.5×18 topics
  17. Leadership15▲ 10×7 topics
  18. Employee Engagement14▲ 26×6 topics
  19. Organizational Culture14▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Innovation14▲ 4.3×15 topics
  21. Leadership Style12▲ 29×2 topics
  22. Construction Projects11▲ 83×2 topics
  23. Educational Technology11▲ 3.1×15 topics
  24. Project Success11▲ 91×1 topic
  25. Stakeholder Analysis11▲ 56×1 topic
  26. Competency Models10▲ 121×1 topic
  27. Strategic Thinking10▲ 121×1 topic
  28. Human Resource Management10▲ 21×4 topics
  29. Online Learning10▲ 3.8×7 topics
  30. Predictive Analytics10▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Corporate Governance10▲ 4.2×9 topics
  32. Guanxi8▲ 128×1 topic
  33. Wasta8▲ 128×1 topic
  34. Firm Performance8▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Student Satisfaction7▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Analytics7▲ 26×1 topic
  37. Business Intelligence7▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Technology Integration7▲ 7.1×7 topics
  39. Lean Manufacturing7▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Information Sharing7▲ 31×2 topics

Which research topics does Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Organizational and Employee Performance, Construction Project Management and Performance, Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies and Socioeconomic Development in MENA.

Organizational and Emplo…34Organizational and Employee Performance: 34 fractional worksConstruction Project Man…11Construction Project Management and Performance: 11 fractional worksOrganizational Leadershi…10Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies: 10 fractional worksSocioeconomic Development in MENA: 8 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 7 fractional worksQuality and Supply Manag…6Quality and Supply Management: 6 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 6 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 5 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 4 fractional worksBIM and Construction Integration: 4 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceManagement Science and Operations ResearchStrategy and ManagementSociology and Political Science5 others

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

  1. 1 Organizational and Employee Performance Artificial Intelligence 34 works
  2. 2 Construction Project Management and Performance Management Science and Operations Research 11 works
  3. 3 Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies Strategy and Management 10 works
  4. 4 Socioeconomic Development in MENA Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  5. 5 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 7 works
  6. 6 Quality and Supply Management Management Information Systems 6 works
  7. 7 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 6 works
  8. 8 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 5 works
  9. 9 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 4 works
  10. 10 BIM and Construction Integration Building and Construction 4 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 available66.8%not open33.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.8%domestic only71.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 153% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University0.0012% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University9.8% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.9% in 2022.

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