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Hong Kong Baptist University

In research, Hong Kong Baptist University stands highest in Social Sciences (#377 of 10,521 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#640 of 12,888 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#344 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Communication and Cultural Studies — Communication is 5.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#567
of 28,054 · #988 all time
Rank in Hong Kong
#6
of 21
Research works
16k
▲ 24% vs 2013–17
Citations
442k
27.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Hong Kong Baptist 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 #377 of 10,521 27.4%1,603 #417
Physical SciencesDomain #640 of 12,888 26.8%1,426 #1000
Social SciencesField #344 of 6,365 30.9%809 #321
Computer ScienceField #262 of 4,667 26.7%581 #633
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #162 of 2,578 28.3%349 #276
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #153 of 1,884 29.2%245 #376
Health SciencesDomain #986 of 11,982 31.2%421 #2295
Life SciencesDomain #735 of 7,800 32.0%388 #1526
MedicineField #1,136 of 10,443 31.4%331 #2419
Arts and HumanitiesField #292 of 1,998 24.8%194 #448

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hong Kong Baptist 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#417 #377
  2. Physical Sciences#1,000 #640
  3. Social Sciences#321 #344
  4. Computer Science#633 #262
  5. Sociology and Political Science#276 #162
  6. Artificial Intelligence#376 #153
  7. Health Sciences#2,295 #986
  8. Life Sciences#1,526 #735
  9. Medicine#2,419 #1,136
  10. Arts and Humanities#448 #292
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 Hong Kong Baptist University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Communication takes 5.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. CommunicationSubfield · 55.8 works5.3×
  2. Cultural StudiesSubfield · 47.3 works3.0×
← 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: 0.47× its world share, 86 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.93× its world share, 191 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.56× its world share, 22 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.20× its world share, 75 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.08× its world share, 15 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.04× its world share, 62 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.94× its world share, 581 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 47 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.77× its world share, 27 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.51× its world share, 294 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.09× its world share, 207 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.73× its world share, 98 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.98× its world share, 44 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.71× its world share, 61 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.74× its world share, 75 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 331 worksMedicineNursing: 0.63× its world share, 12 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.75× its world share, 194 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.51× its world share, 187 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.77× its world share, 66 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.53× its world share, 126 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.90× its world share, 223 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.67× its world share, 809 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University?

Ranked on the composite score, Aiping Lü, Christy M.K. Cheung and Lu Zhang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hong Kong Baptist University.

  1. 1 Aiping Lü Hong Kong · #10,773 worldwide 954 citations · 89 works
  2. 2 Christy M.K. Cheung Hong Kong · #11,016 worldwide 1.2k citations · 70 works
  3. 3 Lu Zhang Hong Kong · #18,904 worldwide 659 citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Ming Hung Wong Hong Kong · #29,417 worldwide 1.1k citations · 148 works
  5. 5 Pong C. Yuen Hong Kong · #35,178 worldwide 638 citations · 74 works
  6. 6 Benjamin Luke Moorhouse Hong Kong · #37,728 worldwide 268 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Xiaoming Yuan Hong Kong · #40,097 worldwide 631 citations · 42 works
  8. 8 Yang Gao Hong Kong · #60,062 worldwide 383 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Tiejun Tong Hong Kong · #65,618 worldwide 468 citations · 32 works
  10. 10 Samuel Aryee Hong Kong · #76,466 worldwide 508 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University

Which keywords describe research at Hong Kong Baptist University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Social Media, Globalization, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Nationalism, China and Cultural Identity.

▲ 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 Learning269▲ 2.0×80 topics
  2. Machine Learning194▲ 1.54×82 topics
  3. Globalization174▲ 2.3×73 topics
  4. Social Media158▲ 2.9×28 topics
  5. Neural Networks145▲ 2.5×37 topics
  6. Nationalism90▲ 5.1×16 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence84▲ 1.59×45 topics
  8. Mental Health80▲ 1.42×34 topics
  9. Cultural Identity78▲ 3.9×13 topics
  10. Religion69▲ 3.8×22 topics
  11. History68▲ 2.5×23 topics
  12. Economic Development67▲ 2.1×27 topics
  13. China63▲ 18×5 topics
  14. Big Data59▲ 1.69×26 topics
  15. Regulation56▲ 2.7×19 topics
  16. Gender51▲ 2.4×25 topics
  17. Social Capital50▲ 2.5×14 topics
  18. Social Support50▲ 2.3×16 topics
  19. Philosophy49▲ 2.9×21 topics
  20. Urbanization44▲ 2.8×9 topics
  21. Corpus Linguistics43▲ 5.2×5 topics
  22. Political Economy41▲ 4.1×13 topics
  23. Governance40▲ 3.2×11 topics
  24. Online Communication40▲ 6.7×3 topics
  25. Emotion39▲ 4.8×12 topics
  26. Christianity38▲ 17×3 topics
  27. Representation Learning38▲ 7.1×3 topics
  28. Machine Translation37▲ 5.9×2 topics
  29. Democratization37▲ 15×3 topics
  30. Cultural Revolution37▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Confucianism37▲ 23×1 topic
  32. Falun Gong37▲ 23×1 topic
  33. Civic Education34▲ 38×2 topics
  34. Authoritarianism34▲ 10.0×4 topics
  35. Semi-Supervised Learning32▲ 7.6×3 topics
  36. Hong Kong Identity31▲ 93×1 topic
  37. Localism31▲ 93×1 topic
  38. Cultural Diplomacy30▲ 9.5×5 topics
  39. Hallyu28▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Korean Wave28▲ 24×1 topic

Which research topics does Hong Kong Baptist University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Chinese history and philosophy, Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics, Digital Marketing and Social Media and Asian Culture and Media Studies.

Chinese history and phil…37Chinese history and philosophy: 37 fractional worksHong Kong and Taiwan Pol…31Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics: 31 fractional worksDigital Marketing and So…29Digital Marketing and Social Media: 29 fractional worksAsian Culture and Media …28Asian Culture and Media Studies: 28 fractional worksChina's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance: 23 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 22 fractional worksTopic Modeling21Topic Modeling: 21 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 20 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Networks: 17 fractional worksNatural Language Process…17Natural Language Processing Techniques: 17 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceCultural StudiesPolitical Science and International RelationsCommunication1 others

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

  1. 1 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 37 works
  2. 2 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics Sociology and Political Science 31 works
  3. 3 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 29 works
  4. 4 Asian Culture and Media Studies Cultural Studies 28 works
  5. 5 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Political Science and International Relations 23 works
  6. 6 Social Media and Politics Communication 22 works
  7. 7 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 21 works
  8. 8 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 20 works
  9. 9 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 17 works
  10. 10 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 17 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 available32.1%not open67.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.4%domestic only52.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hong Kong Baptist University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% 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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