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Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

In research, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,472 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,162 of 6,365 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#3,906 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics — Language and Linguistics is 9.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,445
of 28,054 · #5,505 all time
Rank in South Korea
#86
of 417
Research works
5k
▼ 7% vs 2013–17
Citations
58k
11.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

What is Hankuk 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 #1,472 of 10,521 23.6%520 #2061
Social SciencesField #1,162 of 6,365 23.6%235 #1877
Physical SciencesDomain #3,906 of 12,888 15.2%381 #5091
Computer ScienceField #2,284 of 4,667 19.8%149 #2561
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,296 of 2,578 27.6%66 #1652
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,311 of 2,578 26.8%82 #1469
EngineeringField #3,593 of 6,636 15.1%98 #4442
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,277 of 1,998 23.5%85 #1521
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #1,194 of 1,775 21.1%60 #1584
Health SciencesDomain #8,358 of 11,982 16.7%60 #11593

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hankuk 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#2,061 #1,472
  2. Social Sciences#1,877 #1,162
  3. Physical Sciences#5,091 #3,906
  4. Computer Science#2,561 #2,284
  5. Business, Management and Accounting#1,652 #1,296
  6. Sociology and Political Science#1,469 #1,311
  7. Engineering#4,442 #3,593
  8. Arts and Humanities#1,521 #1,277
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,584 #1,194
  10. Health Sciences#11,593 #8,358
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 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 9.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 43.8 works9.9×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.47× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.51× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.30× its world share, 21 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.91× its world share, 149 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.04× its world share, 10 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.65× its world share, 98 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.77× its world share, 38 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.85× its world share, 30 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.54× its world share, 18 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.32× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.49× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 45 worksMedicineNursing: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.92× its world share, 85 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.05× its world share, 66 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.00× its world share, 19 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.81× its world share, 60 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.75× its world share, 54 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.85× its world share, 235 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

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

Ranked on the composite score, Muhammad Bilal, Jin-Kyung Park and Hae-Jo Kim lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

  1. 1 Muhammad Bilal South Korea · #227,667 worldwide 281 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Jin-Kyung Park South Korea · #322,565 worldwide 39 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Hae-Jo Kim South Korea · #355,091 worldwide 161 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 S. M. Kamruzzaman South Korea · #402,550 worldwide 62 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Yong Kyu Lew South Korea · #418,456 worldwide 49 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 홍은영 South Korea · #442,305 worldwide 0 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Jung Hoon Lee South Korea · #450,500 worldwide 141 citations · 47 works
  8. 8 Byung Il Park South Korea · #499,554 worldwide 115 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Taehyoung Lee South Korea · #563,660 worldwide 99 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 C. U. Jung South Korea · #578,474 worldwide 107 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Which keywords describe research at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Deep Learning, Political Economy, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Social Media, Machine Learning and Global Governance.

▲ 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. Globalization78▲ 4.0×51 topics
  2. Deep Learning65▲ 1.88×66 topics
  3. Machine Learning47▲ 1.44×60 topics
  4. Social Media36▲ 2.5×23 topics
  5. Human Rights28▲ 2.7×31 topics
  6. Neural Networks27▲ 1.76×27 topics
  7. Economic Development26▲ 3.1×22 topics
  8. Economic Growth26▲ 3.0×18 topics
  9. Political Economy25▲ 9.5×14 topics
  10. Corpus Linguistics24▲ 11×5 topics
  11. Pragmatics23▲ 14×6 topics
  12. Healthcare23▲ 2.0×19 topics
  13. Social Capital22▲ 4.2×14 topics
  14. Gender22▲ 4.0×21 topics
  15. Cultural Identity20▲ 3.8×10 topics
  16. Global Governance17▲ 7.5×12 topics
  17. Security17▲ 2.6×17 topics
  18. International Relations17▲ 7.0×14 topics
  19. Governance17▲ 5.0×12 topics
  20. Social Interaction16▲ 4.0×8 topics
  21. Language Teaching16▲ 6.2×7 topics
  22. IoT15▲ 4.0×14 topics
  23. International Law14▲ 4.6×10 topics
  24. Second Language Learning13▲ 15×3 topics
  25. Language13▲ 5.4×6 topics
  26. Machine Translation13▲ 7.7×2 topics
  27. Refugees12▲ 9.3×6 topics
  28. Cultural Diplomacy12▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Embodiment11▲ 6.1×2 topics
  30. Language Acquisition11▲ 9.8×5 topics
  31. Neural Basis11▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Bilingual Education11▲ 9.4×3 topics
  33. Language Policy11▲ 7.9×3 topics
  34. Cognition11▲ 8.0×5 topics
  35. Syntax11▲ 15×3 topics
  36. Multilingualism11▲ 6.3×3 topics
  37. Second Language Acquisition10▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Hallyu10▲ 33×1 topic
  39. Korean Wave10▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Cognitive Science10▲ 16×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Asian Culture and Media Studies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

Asian Culture and Media …10Asian Culture and Media Studies: 10 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and …9Language, Metaphor, and Cognition: 9 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 9 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Lea…8EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 8 fractional worksTranslation Studies and …8Translation Studies and Practices: 8 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 8 fractional worksInternational Relations and Foreign Policy: 7 fractional worksKorean Peninsula Histori…7Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies: 7 fractional worksSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation: 7 fractional worksSecond Language Learning and Teaching: 6 fractional works
Cultural StudiesExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyLanguage and LinguisticsArtificial Intelligence3 others

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

  1. 1 Asian Culture and Media Studies Cultural Studies 10 works
  2. 2 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 9 works
  3. 3 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 9 works
  4. 4 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 8 works
  5. 5 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 8 works
  6. 6 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  7. 7 International Relations and Foreign Policy Political Science and International Relations 7 works
  8. 8 Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  9. 9 Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language and Linguistics 7 works
  10. 10 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 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 available40.1%not open59.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.9%domestic only83.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% lower 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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