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ILMA University

In research, ILMA University stands highest in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#555 of 1,798 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,071 of 9,585 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#4,127 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics and Econometrics and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Economics and Econometrics is 10.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,494
of 22,385 · #8,519 all time
Rank in Pakistan
#43
of 231
Research works
602
▲ 133% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
21.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.26×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
63%
world 40%
International
58%
world 18%
ILMA University

What is ILMA 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
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #555 of 1,798 37.5%63 -
Social SciencesDomain #3,071 of 9,585 27.2%175 #5580
Physical SciencesDomain #4,127 of 10,670 28.2%105 #7734

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ILMA 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 fields of science does ILMA University work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at ILMA University is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Economics, Econometrics and Finance (20%), Social Sciences (19%), Business, Management and Accounting (14%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 203 fractional works · 58.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 69 fractional works · 19.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 59 fractional works · 17.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 66 fractional works · 19.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 24 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 3.6% of its workTransportation: 12 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 48 fractional works · 14.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 15 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMarketing: 12 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAccounting: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 116 fractional works · 33.4% of its workEngineering: 38 fractional works · 10.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 27 fractional works · 7.7% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 26 fractional works · 7.6% of its workPollution: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 18 fractional works · 5.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 16 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 19 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 3.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAquatic Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKILMA University347fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences58%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6919.8%
    2. Social Sciences6619.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting4814.0%
    4. Decision Sciences92.5%
    5. Psychology82.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities30.9%
    1. Engineering3810.9%
    2. Computer Science277.7%
    3. Environmental Science267.6%
    4. Energy185.1%
    5. Materials Science20.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.5%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    8. Chemistry10.3%
    9. Mathematics10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine123.4%
    2. Health Professions51.5%
    3. Dentistry10.3%
    4. Nursing10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences82.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ILMA University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics and Econometrics takes 10.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 59.0 works11×
  2. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 68.5 works9.2×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.99× its world share, 27 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 5.51× its world share, 18 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.73× its world share, 38 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.54× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.56× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 12 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.33× its world share, 48 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.60× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9.23× its world share, 68 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.75× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.50× its world share, 66 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 9.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance9.23×68 works
  2. Energy5.51×18 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting4.33×48 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.60×9 works
  5. Environmental Science1.54×26 works
  6. Social Sciences1.50×66 works
  7. Computer Science0.99×27 works
  8. Psychology0.75×8 works
  9. Engineering0.73×38 works
  10. Health Professions0.56×5 works
  11. Dentistry0.52×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×8 works
  13. Nursing0.47×1 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.34×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.30×3 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.27×2 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.24×2 works
  18. Chemistry0.18×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.18×2 works
  20. Medicine0.18×12 works
  21. Mathematics0.14×1 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.07×0 works
  23. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  24. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×1 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at ILMA University?

Ranked on the quality score, Muhammad Faisal Irfan, Asif Razzaq and Kashif Raza Abbasi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ILMA University.

  1. 1 Muhammad Faisal Irfan Pakistan · #968 worldwide 22k citations · 340 works
  2. 2 Asif Razzaq Pakistan · #2,269 worldwide 14k citations · 130 works
  3. 3 Kashif Raza Abbasi Pakistan · #21,957 worldwide 5.3k citations · 55 works
  4. 4 Irfan Ullah Pakistan · #137,543 worldwide 1.6k citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Mubeen Abdur Rehman Pakistan · #226,258 worldwide 1.5k citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Yongrong Xin Pakistan · #778,828 worldwide 554 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Awais Khan Jumani Pakistan · #905,602 worldwide 1.1k citations · 66 works
  8. 8 Asad Ali Shaikh Pakistan · #1,858,035 worldwide 425 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Farooq-E-Azam Cheema Pakistan · #3,451,575 worldwide 133 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Тетяна Василівна Момонт Pakistan · #4,159,680 worldwide 21 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at ILMA University

What are the most cited papers from ILMA University?

The most cited paper from ILMA University is "Corporate social responsibility and environmental performance: The mediating role of environmental strategy and green innovation" (Sascha Kraus, Shafique Ur Rehman, Fabienne Garcia, 2020), with 1,111 citations. Next come "Analyze the environmental sustainability factors of China: The role of fossil fuel energy and renewable energy" (843) and "Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China?" (834).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Corporate social responsibility and environmental performance: The mediating role of environmental strategy and green innovation Sascha Kraus, Shafique Ur Rehman, Fabienne Garcia · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 21 Aug 2020 1,111
2 Analyze the environmental sustainability factors of China: The role of fossil fuel energy and renewable energy Kashif Raza Abbasi, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Jinjun Zhang et al. · Renewable Energy 22 Jan 2022 843
3 Digitalization and sustainable development: How could digital economy development improve green innovation in China? Shiyue Luo, Nafisa Yimamu, Yueran Li et al. · Business Strategy and the Environment 23 Aug 2022 834
4 Influence mechanism between green finance and green innovation: Exploring regional policy intervention effects in China Muhammad Faisal Irfan, Asif Razzaq, Arshian Sharif et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change 19 Jul 2022 811
5 Analyzing the relationship between green innovation and environmental performance in large manufacturing firms Shafique Ur Rehman, Sascha Kraus, Syed Asim Shah et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 24 Nov 2020 763
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ILMA University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Energy, Economic Growth, Energy Consumption, Financial Development, Panel Data Analysis, Urbanization, CO2 Emissions and Environmental Regulation.

▲ 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. Renewable Energy47▲ 9.3×26 topics
  2. Economic Growth37▲ 13×17 topics
  3. Energy Consumption30▲ 38×4 topics
  4. Financial Development29▲ 56×2 topics
  5. Panel Data Analysis29▲ 54×2 topics
  6. Urbanization29▲ 21×4 topics
  7. CO2 Emissions28▲ 46×2 topics
  8. Environmental Regulation28▲ 55×1 topic
  9. Kuznets Curve28▲ 75×1 topic
  10. Environmental Impact28▲ 4.7×16 topics
  11. Sustainability18▲ 2.2×39 topics
  12. Energy Efficiency18▲ 5.7×15 topics
  13. Environmental Management17▲ 12×8 topics
  14. Household Behavior14▲ 44×2 topics
  15. Consumption14▲ 71×1 topic
  16. Economic Security14▲ 19×4 topics
  17. Rebound Effect14▲ 71×1 topic
  18. Greenhouse Gas Emissions14▲ 14×5 topics
  19. Consumer Behavior13▲ 6.0×10 topics
  20. Ethnicity13▲ 10×4 topics
  21. History13▲ 5.2×3 topics
  22. Philosophy13▲ 8.2×2 topics
  23. Legal Regulation12▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Strategic Planning12▲ 24×2 topics
  25. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles12▲ 19×3 topics
  26. Islam12▲ 17×2 topics
  27. Air Force12▲ 30×1 topic
  28. Culture12▲ 6.7×1 topic
  29. Modernization12▲ 19×1 topic
  30. Social Influence12▲ 17×1 topic
  31. Public Oversight12▲ 28×1 topic
  32. Transport Policy12▲ 28×1 topic
  33. Economic Development11▲ 4.1×15 topics
  34. Life Cycle Assessment10▲ 10×5 topics
  35. Monetary Policy9▲ 11×4 topics
  36. Sustainability Assessment9▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Health Impacts9▲ 30×2 topics
  38. Stock Market9▲ 11×3 topics
  39. Household Fuel Use8▲ 36×1 topic
  40. Indoor Air Pollution8▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does ILMA University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Military Technology and Strategies.

Energy, Environment, Eco…28Energy, Environment, Economic Growth: 28 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, and Transportation Policies: 14 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…12Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 12 fractional worksMilitary Technology and …12Military Technology and Strategies: 12 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 12 fractional worksEnergy and Environment Impacts: 8 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…8Environmental Sustainability in Business: 8 fractional worksEnvironmental Impact and Sustainability: 8 fractional worksMarket Dynamics and Volatility: 7 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain Management: 6 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentSociology and Political ScienceAerospace Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 28 works
  2. 2 Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 14 works
  3. 3 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 12 works
  4. 4 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 12 works
  5. 5 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 12 works
  6. 6 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 8 works
  7. 7 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 8 works
  8. 8 Environmental Impact and Sustainability Environmental Engineering 8 works
  9. 9 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 7 works
  10. 10 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 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 available63.0%not open37.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors58.2%domestic only41.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ILMA University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 133% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 ILMA University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%ILMA University0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of ILMA 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 counting20%40%60%ILMA University20.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 40.3% in 2022.

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