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IULM University

In research, IULM University stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,071 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,053 of 5,988 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#1,104 of 1,896 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,057
of 22,385 · #8,747 all time
Rank in Italy
#169
of 475
Research works
1.3k
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
11.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
IULM University

What is IULM 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 #2,071 of 9,585 8.8%264 #2525
Social SciencesField #2,053 of 5,988 8.3%117 #2471
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,104 of 1,896 7.0%71 #2003

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where IULM 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#2,525 #2,071
  2. Social Sciences#2,471 #2,053
  3. Arts and Humanities#2,003 #1,104
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 IULM University work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at IULM University is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 313 fractional works · 77.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 142 fractional works · 35.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 61 fractional works · 15.0% of its workCommunication: 17 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 10 fractional works · 2.5% of its workUrban Studies: 9 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCultural Studies: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 85 fractional works · 21.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 16 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 12 fractional works · 3.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 12 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 11 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMuseology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 38 fractional works · 9.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 13 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMarketing: 12 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 21 fractional works · 5.3% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 21 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 2.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 63 fractional works · 15.7% of its workComputer Science: 37 fractional works · 9.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 13 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 13 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical 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 workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 15 fractional works · 3.8% of its workNeuroscience: 11 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIULM University405fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences77%

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. Social Sciences14235.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities8521.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting389.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance235.6%
    5. Psychology215.3%
    6. Decision Sciences41.1%
    1. Computer Science379.0%
    2. Engineering133.1%
    3. Environmental Science71.7%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.5%
    6. Mathematics10.2%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Neuroscience112.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine71.8%
    2. Health Professions51.3%
    3. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.71× its world share, 11 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.16× its world share, 37 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.21× its world share, 13 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.48× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 7.28× its world share, 85 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.89× its world share, 38 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.60× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.73× its world share, 21 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.77× its world share, 142 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities7.28×85 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.89×38 works
  3. Social Sciences2.77×142 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.60×23 works
  5. Psychology1.73×21 works
  6. Neuroscience1.71×11 works
  7. Computer Science1.16×37 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.12×4 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.58×4 works
  10. Health Professions0.48×5 works
  11. Environmental Science0.34×7 works
  12. Nursing0.25×0 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.23×2 works
  14. Engineering0.21×13 works
  15. Mathematics0.21×1 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×3 works
  17. Medicine0.10×7 works
  18. Chemistry0.08×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×1 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.05×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at IULM University?

Ranked on the quality score, Giorgio Tavano Blessi, Pietro Mazzola and Pier Luigi Sacco lead among researchers whose main affiliation is IULM University.

  1. 1 Giorgio Tavano Blessi Italy · #202,981 worldwide 1.4k citations · 38 works
  2. 2 Pietro Mazzola Italy · #236,052 worldwide 3.5k citations · 56 works
  3. 3 Pier Luigi Sacco Italy · #298,622 worldwide 5.1k citations · 322 works
  4. 4 Guido Ferilli Italy · #651,593 worldwide 855 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Ruggero Sainaghi Italy · #697,269 worldwide 2.5k citations · 84 works
  6. 6 Alessandra Mazzei Italy · #1,050,398 worldwide 982 citations · 61 works
  7. 7 Manuela De Carlo Italy · #1,092,439 worldwide 841 citations · 46 works
  8. 8 Grazia Murtarelli Italy · #1,144,613 worldwide 702 citations · 39 works
  9. 9 Francesca d’Angella Italy · #1,234,069 worldwide 731 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Margherita Zito Italy · #1,446,960 worldwide 2k citations · 118 works
All ranked researchers at IULM University

What are the most cited papers from IULM University?

The most cited paper from IULM University is "Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching" (Stefano Maria Iacus, Gary King, Giuseppe Porro, 2011), with 3,628 citations. Next come "Web reviews influence on expectations and purchasing intentions of hotel potential customers" (668) and "Framework for Managing the COVID-19 Infodemic: Methods and Results of an Online, Crowdsourced WHO Technical Consultation" (603).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching Stefano Maria Iacus, Gary King, Giuseppe Porro · Political Analysis Open access 25 Aug 2011 3,628
2 Web reviews influence on expectations and purchasing intentions of hotel potential customers Aurelio G. Mauri, Roberta Minazzi · International Journal of Hospitality Management 26 Mar 2013 668
3 Framework for Managing the COVID-19 Infodemic: Methods and Results of an Online, Crowdsourced WHO Technical Consultation Viroj Tangcharoensathien et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research Open access 18 Jun 2020 603
4 Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics Riccardo Gallotti, Francesco Valle, Nicola Castaldo et al. · Nature Human Behaviour Open access 29 Oct 2020 551
5 Wellbeing Costs of Technology Use during Covid-19 Remote Working: An Investigation Using the Italian Translation of the Technostress Creators Scale Monica Molino, Emanuela Ingusci, Fulvio Signore et al. · Sustainability Open access 23 Jul 2020 528
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at IULM University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Identity, Social Media, Innovation, Cultural Studies, Literature, Globalization, Cultural Heritage and Gender.

▲ 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. Social Media34▲ 6.1×23 topics
  2. Identity32▲ 11×30 topics
  3. Globalization26▲ 3.3×43 topics
  4. Innovation26▲ 6.3×23 topics
  5. Cultural Studies22▲ 14×16 topics
  6. Literature21▲ 9.4×20 topics
  7. Climate Change18▲ 1.59×18 topics
  8. Cultural Heritage17▲ 7.8×21 topics
  9. Sustainable Development17▲ 2.6×16 topics
  10. Sustainability17▲ 1.67×38 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence16▲ 2.9×21 topics
  12. Gender16▲ 7.6×20 topics
  13. Social Capital15▲ 7.2×11 topics
  14. Ethics15▲ 7.2×23 topics
  15. Education14▲ 1.99×21 topics
  16. Urban Planning14▲ 40×4 topics
  17. Colonialism14▲ 7.1×17 topics
  18. Emotional Intelligence12▲ 22×2 topics
  19. Architectural Competitions12▲ 298×1 topic
  20. Media and Communication12▲ 135×1 topic
  21. Religion11▲ 6.0×11 topics
  22. Nationalism11▲ 5.8×9 topics
  23. Urban Development10▲ 7.3×8 topics
  24. Memory10▲ 10×9 topics
  25. Economic Impact10▲ 4.4×3 topics
  26. Community Engagement10▲ 7.2×8 topics
  27. Social Justice9▲ 3.9×8 topics
  28. Narrative9▲ 15×7 topics
  29. Pedagogy9▲ 4.5×7 topics
  30. Entrepreneurship9▲ 5.5×6 topics
  31. Market Dynamics9▲ 27×3 topics
  32. Propaganda8▲ 40×3 topics
  33. Regional Growth8▲ 34×2 topics
  34. Content Analysis8▲ 15×4 topics
  35. Italy8▲ 75×2 topics
  36. Creative Economy7▲ 53×1 topic
  37. Cultural Policy7▲ 47×1 topic
  38. News Media7▲ 39×2 topics
  39. Fake News7▲ 26×1 topic
  40. Misinformation7▲ 26×1 topic

Which research topics does IULM University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Italian Literature and Culture, Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Misinformation and Its Impacts and Cinema and Media Studies.

Italian Literature and C…12Italian Literature and Culture: 12 fractional worksCultural Industries and …7Cultural Industries and Urban Development: 7 fractional worksMisinformation and Its I…7Misinformation and Its Impacts: 7 fractional worksCinema and Media Studies7Cinema and Media Studies: 7 fractional worksItalian Fascism and Post-war Society: 6 fractional worksEducational and Social Studies: 6 fractional worksMedia Studies and Commun…5Media Studies and Communication: 5 fractional worksPublic Relations and Crisis Communication: 5 fractional worksDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research: 4 fractional worksDigital Marketing and So…4Digital Marketing and Social Media: 4 fractional works
General Arts and HumanitiesUrban StudiesSociology and Political ScienceEconomics and Econometrics2 others

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

  1. 1 Italian Literature and Culture General Arts and Humanities 12 works
  2. 2 Cultural Industries and Urban Development Urban Studies 7 works
  3. 3 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  4. 4 Cinema and Media Studies Economics and Econometrics 7 works
  5. 5 Italian Fascism and Post-war Society Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  6. 6 Educational and Social Studies Education 6 works
  7. 7 Media Studies and Communication Communication 5 works
  8. 8 Public Relations and Crisis Communication Communication 5 works
  9. 9 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  10. 10 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 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 available54.5%not open45.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.6%domestic only82.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has IULM University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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 IULM University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%IULM University0.0018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of IULM 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025IULM University9.1% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.1% in 2010.

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