Hong Kong Baptist University
In research, Hong Kong Baptist University stands highest in Social Sciences (#255 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#325 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#280 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Communication, Applied Psychology and Language and Linguistics (Communication is 5.0× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #355 of 22,385 · #459 all time
- Rank in China
- #82 of 2,481
- Research works
- 16k ▲ 39% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 442k 27.5 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 15.5% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.37× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 32% world 40%
- International
- 47% world 18%
What is Hong Kong Baptist University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social SciencesDomain | #255 of 9,585 | 14.1% | 1,603 | #309 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #325 of 10,670 | 16.9% | 1,426 | #516 | |
| Social SciencesField | #280 of 5,988 | 14.8% | 809 | #259 | |
| Computer ScienceField | #241 of 4,417 | 17.0% | 581 | #261 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #637 of 9,902 | 19.6% | 421 | #622 | |
| Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield | #206 of 2,526 | 12.0% | 349 | #159 | |
| MedicineField | #703 of 8,541 | 20.6% | 331 | #716 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #547 of 6,403 | 17.3% | 388 | #534 | |
| Environmental ScienceField | #298 of 3,334 | 18.2% | 207 | #379 | |
| Artificial IntelligenceSubfield | #176 of 1,862 | 16.6% | 245 | #288 |
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 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.
- Social Sciences#309 #255
- Physical Sciences#516 #325
- Social Sciences#259 #280
- Computer Science#261 #241
- Health Sciences#622 #637
- Sociology and Political Science#159 #206
- Medicine#716 #703
- Life Sciences#534 #547
- Environmental Science#379 #298
- Artificial Intelligence#288 #176
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 Hong Kong Baptist University work in?
In 2022-now, 42% of research at Hong Kong Baptist University is in Social Sciences, 37% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Computer Science (15%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences1,86141.7%
- Social Sciences92320.7%
- Psychology2595.8%
- Arts and Humanities2345.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting2265.1%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1473.3%
- Decision Sciences721.6%
- Physical Sciences1,65737.1%
- Computer Science68415.3%
- Engineering3397.6%
- Environmental Science2335.2%
- Materials Science1072.4%
- Physics and Astronomy751.7%
- Chemistry731.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences551.2%
- Mathematics531.2%
- Energy320.7%
- Chemical Engineering70.2%
- Health Sciences48810.9%
- Medicine3838.6%
- Health Professions861.9%
- Nursing130.3%
- Dentistry40.1%
- Veterinary10.0%
- Life Sciences46010.3%
What does Hong Kong Baptist University specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Communication takes 5.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- CommunicationSubfield · 61.0 works5.0×
- Applied PsychologySubfield · 20.0 works3.1×
- Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 56.1 works2.9×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Computer Science1.97×684 works
- Psychology1.90×259 works
- Arts and Humanities1.81×234 works
- Decision Sciences1.67×72 works
- Social Sciences1.63×924 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.57×226 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.54×147 works
- Neuroscience1.22×89 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.09×17 works
- Environmental Science1.05×233 works
- Chemistry1.04×73 works
- Mathematics1.00×53 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.96×228 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.79×55 works
- Energy0.79×32 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.75×75 works
- Health Professions0.73×86 works
- Materials Science0.69×107 works
- Nursing0.60×13 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.56×25 works
- Engineering0.51×339 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.48×101 works
- Medicine0.45×383 works
- Chemical Engineering0.44×7 works
- Dentistry0.21×4 works
- Veterinary0.09×0 works
- Computer Science 2.0×
- Psychology 1.9×
- Arts and Humanities 1.8×
- Decision Sciences 1.7×
- Social Sciences 1.6×
- Business, Management and Accounting 1.6×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.5×
- Neuroscience 1.2×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1.1×
- Environmental Science 1.1×
- Chemistry 1.0×
- Mathematics 1.0×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.0×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.8×
- Energy 0.8×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.8×
- Health Professions 0.7×
- Materials Science 0.7×
- Nursing 0.6×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.6×
- Engineering 0.5×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.5×
- Medicine 0.5×
- Chemical Engineering 0.4×
- Dentistry 0.2×
- Veterinary 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University?
Ranked on the quality score, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse, Christy M.K. Cheung and Kevin Lo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hong Kong Baptist University.
- 1
Benjamin Luke Moorhouse
China · #8,262 worldwide 6.5k citations · 137 works
- 2
Christy M.K. Cheung
China · #28,602 worldwide 26k citations · 279 works
- 3
Kevin Lo
China · #34,906 worldwide 5.2k citations · 164 works
- 4
Donggen Wang
China · #37,567 worldwide 6.6k citations · 158 works
- 5
Samuel Aryee
China · #38,231 worldwide 14k citations · 140 works
- 6
Ricky Lam
China · #42,094 worldwide 1.8k citations · 95 works
- 7
Guancong Ma
China · #44,654 worldwide 10k citations · 127 works
- 8
Jianfeng Li
China · #45,349 worldwide 6.9k citations · 218 works
- 9
Ju‐Xian Song
China · #45,737 worldwide 13k citations · 89 works
- 10
Meng Chun Gao
China · #55,213 worldwide 12k citations · 368 works
Which keywords describe research at Hong Kong Baptist University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Globalization, Social Media, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Nationalism, China and Cultural Identity.
- Cultural Diplomacy
- Localism
- Authoritarianism
- Falun Gong
- Cultural Revolution
- Christianity
- Machine Translation
- Democratization
- Representation Learning
- Social Interaction
- Corpus Linguistics
- Social Support
- Gender
- China
- Religion
- Economic Development
- Cultural Identity
- Nationalism
- Social Media
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Globalization
- Neural Networks
- Artificial Intelligence
- Mental Health
- History
- Big Data
- Regulation
- Philosophy
- Social Capital
- Urbanization
- Political Economy
- Emotion
- Social Movements
- Online Communication
- Civic Education
- Confucianism
- Semi-Supervised Learning
- Hong Kong Identity
- Unsupervised Learning
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
- Deep Learning324▲ 2.1×81 topics
- Machine Learning231▲ 1.55×84 topics
- Globalization207▲ 2.4×83 topics
- Social Media174▲ 2.8×29 topics
- Neural Networks171▲ 2.5×37 topics
- Nationalism106▲ 5.3×22 topics
- Artificial Intelligence100▲ 1.57×48 topics
- Cultural Identity92▲ 4.1×17 topics
- Mental Health89▲ 1.39×36 topics
- Economic Development80▲ 2.2×30 topics
- History77▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Religion75▲ 3.6×25 topics
- Big Data71▲ 1.66×26 topics
- China70▲ 17×6 topics
- Regulation65▲ 2.7×23 topics
- Gender61▲ 2.5×30 topics
- Philosophy55▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Social Support55▲ 2.3×16 topics
- Social Capital55▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Corpus Linguistics50▲ 5.2×5 topics
- Urbanization49▲ 2.7×10 topics
- Social Interaction49▲ 2.8×10 topics
- Political Economy49▲ 4.3×14 topics
- Representation Learning49▲ 6.9×3 topics
- Emotion47▲ 5.0×12 topics
- Democratization46▲ 16×4 topics
- Social Movements46▲ 3.5×9 topics
- Machine Translation44▲ 6.0×2 topics
- Online Communication43▲ 6.3×3 topics
- Christianity42▲ 16×3 topics
- Civic Education42▲ 40×2 topics
- Cultural Revolution40▲ 22×2 topics
- Confucianism40▲ 23×1 topic
- Falun Gong40▲ 23×1 topic
- Semi-Supervised Learning39▲ 7.2×3 topics
- Authoritarianism38▲ 9.8×5 topics
- Hong Kong Identity38▲ 97×1 topic
- Localism38▲ 97×1 topic
- Unsupervised Learning37▲ 5.4×3 topics
- Cultural Diplomacy31▲ 8.5×5 topics
Which research topics does Hong Kong Baptist University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Chinese history and philosophy, Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics, Digital Marketing and Social Media and Asian Culture and Media Studies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 40 works
- 2 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics Sociology and Political Science 38 works
- 3 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 31 works
- 4 Asian Culture and Media Studies Cultural Studies 28 works
- 5 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Political Science and International Relations 25 works
- 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 24 works
- 7 Social Media and Politics Communication 23 works
- 8 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 22 works
- 9 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 20 works
- 10 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 20 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Hong Kong Baptist University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Hong Kong Baptist University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.
Fractional works of Hong Kong Baptist 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.5% in 2013.
Other research institutions in Hong Kong
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- City University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Queen Mary Hospital
- Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Integrated Chinese Medicine (China)
Which institutions have research most like Hong Kong Baptist University's?
Among the world's leading institutions, Macau University of Science and Technology has the research profile closest to Hong Kong Baptist University's, with both strong in Computer Science.
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Macau University of Science and Technology
China · Both strong in Computer Science, Decision Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting 0.80 Compare
- 2
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg · Both strong in Computer Science, Arts and Humanities, Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.80 Compare
- 3
University of Macau
China · Both strong in Psychology, Computer Science, Decision Sciences 0.77 Compare
- 4
Simon Fraser University
Canada · Both strong in Psychology, Computer Science, Social Sciences 0.75 Compare
- 5
Boston College
United States · Both strong in Psychology, Arts and Humanities, Decision Sciences 0.75 Compare
Similarity is the correlation of each side's location quotients across every field it publishes in, on a log scale: 1 is the same shape of research, 0 is unrelated. It ignores size. How it is measured.
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