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Kingdom University

In research, Kingdom University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,188 of 9,585 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#700 of 2,581 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#1,835 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Aquatic Science, Economics and Econometrics and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Aquatic Science is 24.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,472
of 22,385 · #7,377 all time
Rank in Bahrain
#2
of 13
Research works
746
▲ 265% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.9k
5.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
77%
world 40%
International
37%
world 18%
Kingdom University

What is Kingdom 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 #1,188 of 9,585 8.8%318 #2630
Business, Management and AccountingField #700 of 2,581 15.2%61 #1471
Social SciencesField #1,835 of 5,988 6.7%161 #3783
Physical SciencesDomain #4,492 of 10,670 9.8%95 #8357
EducationSubfield #952 of 1,930 4.3%78 -

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kingdom 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#2,630 #1,188
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#1,471 #700
  3. Social Sciences#3,783 #1,835
  4. Physical Sciences#8,357 #4,492
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 Kingdom University work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research at Kingdom University is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 373 fractional works · 67.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 196 fractional works · 35.6% of its workEducation: 94 fractional works · 17.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 33 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 29 fractional works · 5.3% of its workLaw: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 2 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 workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 67 fractional works · 12.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 60 fractional works · 10.9% of its workFinance: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 66 fractional works · 11.9% of its workAccounting: 18 fractional works · 3.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 17 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMarketing: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 117 fractional works · 21.3% of its workComputer Science: 54 fractional works · 9.9% of its workInformation Systems: 22 fractional works · 4.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 20 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 31 fractional works · 5.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 19 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 38 fractional works · 6.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 31 fractional works · 5.7% of its workAquatic Science: 24 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMedicine: 16 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKKingdomUniversity550fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences68%

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
    1. Social Sciences19635.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6712.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting6611.9%
    4. Arts and Humanities183.3%
    5. Decision Sciences132.4%
    6. Psychology132.3%
    1. Computer Science549.9%
    2. Engineering315.6%
    3. Environmental Science193.4%
    4. Energy40.7%
    5. Mathematics30.6%
    6. Chemistry20.4%
    7. Materials Science20.4%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences315.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.8%
    3. Neuroscience20.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine162.8%
    2. Health Professions51.0%
    3. Dentistry10.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Kingdom University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Aquatic Science takes 24.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 24.1 works24×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 59.8 works6.8×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 67.4 works5.7×
  4. EducationSubfield · 93.7 works5.6×
  5. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 33.2 works4.0×
← 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: 1.20× its world share, 31 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.27× its world share, 54 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.73× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.37× its world share, 31 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.69× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.37× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.13× its world share, 18 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.70× its world share, 66 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.53× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.72× its world share, 67 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.75× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.81× its world share, 196 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.72×67 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.70×66 works
  3. Social Sciences2.81×196 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.53×14 works
  5. Computer Science1.27×54 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.20×31 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.13×18 works
  8. Psychology0.75×12 works
  9. Energy0.73×4 works
  10. Environmental Science0.69×19 works
  11. Mathematics0.48×3 works
  12. Engineering0.37×31 works
  13. Health Professions0.37×5 works
  14. Dentistry0.26×1 works
  15. Chemistry0.25×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.23×2 works
  17. Veterinary0.22×0 works
  18. Nursing0.19×0 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.17×2 works
  20. Medicine0.15×16 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×4 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.11×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.10×2 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.07×1 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kingdom University?

Ranked on the quality score, Nishad Nawaz, Naji Mansour Nomran and Habeeb Ur Rahiman lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kingdom University.

  1. 1 Nishad Nawaz Bahrain · #69,709 worldwide 2.8k citations · 156 works
  2. 2 Naji Mansour Nomran Bahrain · #265,505 worldwide 726 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Habeeb Ur Rahiman Bahrain · #355,728 worldwide 1.2k citations · 72 works
  4. 4 Abdelrhman Ahmad Meero Bahrain · #378,866 worldwide 795 citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Shafiq Ul Rehman Bahrain · #608,869 worldwide 1k citations · 72 works
  6. 6 Adeb Qaid Bahrain · #626,289 worldwide 762 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar Bahrain · #708,758 worldwide 1.7k citations · 177 works
  8. 8 Vijayakumar Gajenderan Bahrain · #976,523 worldwide 576 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Zakir Hossen Shaikh Bahrain · #1,045,105 worldwide 283 citations · 94 works
  10. 10 Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman Bahrain · #1,251,004 worldwide 1.5k citations · 192 works
All ranked researchers at Kingdom University

What are the most cited papers from Kingdom University?

The most cited paper from Kingdom University is "Revolutionizing education: Artificial intelligence empowered learning in higher education" (Habeeb Ur Rahiman, Rashmi Kodikal, 2023), with 290 citations. Next come "Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia" (261) and "Urban heat island and thermal comfort conditions at micro-climate scale in a tropical planned city" (234).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revolutionizing education: Artificial intelligence empowered learning in higher education Habeeb Ur Rahiman, Rashmi Kodikal · Cogent Education Open access 16 Dec 2023 290
2 Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Evidence from Saudi Arabia Amina Mohammed Buallay, Allam Hamdan, Qasim Mohammad Zureigat · Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal Open access 2017 261
3 Urban heat island and thermal comfort conditions at micro-climate scale in a tropical planned city Adeb Qaid, Hussanudin Bin Lamit, Dilshan Remaz Ossen et al. · Energy and Buildings 16 Oct 2016 234
4 Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future Amir‐Homayoun Javadi, Beatrix Emo, Lorelei R. Howard et al. · Nature Communications Open access 21 Mar 2017 217
5 The adoption of artificial intelligence in human resources management practices Nishad Nawaz, Hemalatha Arunachalam, Barani Kumari Pathi et al. · International Journal of Information Management Data Insights Open access 21 Jan 2024 199
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Kingdom University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Pedagogy, Language Teaching, Digital Education, Teaching Methods, Tourism Development, Critical Thinking, Student Competencies and Entrepreneurship.

▲ 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. Pedagogy86▲ 31×10 topics
  2. Language Teaching84▲ 58×5 topics
  3. Digital Education84▲ 102×3 topics
  4. Teaching Methods84▲ 94×3 topics
  5. Tourism Development83▲ 111×2 topics
  6. Critical Thinking83▲ 129×1 topic
  7. Student Competencies83▲ 230×1 topic
  8. Sustainability53▲ 4.0×35 topics
  9. Globalization50▲ 4.6×27 topics
  10. Entrepreneurship47▲ 21×7 topics
  11. Economic Development43▲ 9.8×13 topics
  12. Investment38▲ 61×4 topics
  13. Digital Economy38▲ 34×5 topics
  14. Industrial Enterprises37▲ 200×1 topic
  15. Innovation Economics37▲ 200×1 topic
  16. Renewable Energy33▲ 4.2×24 topics
  17. Energy Consumption28▲ 22×5 topics
  18. Machine Learning27▲ 1.48×46 topics
  19. Climate Change Impact26▲ 21×4 topics
  20. Human Rights25▲ 4.5×38 topics
  21. Irrigation23▲ 217×1 topic
  22. Water Efficiency23▲ 217×1 topic
  23. Global Governance22▲ 17×14 topics
  24. Healthcare22▲ 3.5×10 topics
  25. Corporate Governance20▲ 5.0×17 topics
  26. Artificial Intelligence19▲ 2.4×29 topics
  27. International Law18▲ 11×20 topics
  28. Risk Management16▲ 6.3×11 topics
  29. Supply Chain Management16▲ 3.3×13 topics
  30. Digital Transformation13▲ 4.5×12 topics
  31. Social Capital12▲ 4.2×8 topics
  32. IoT11▲ 5.2×8 topics
  33. Crisis Management11▲ 38×4 topics
  34. Biopolitics10▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Finance10▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Postcolonialism10▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Financial Stability10▲ 9.3×3 topics
  38. Education Reform10▲ 72×1 topic
  39. Literature and Migration10▲ 144×1 topic
  40. Stock Market9▲ 7.5×3 topics

Which research topics does Kingdom University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Education, Innovation and Language Studies, Economic and Industrial Development, Engineering and Agricultural Innovations and Medical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies.

Education, Innovation an…83Education, Innovation and Language Studies: 83 fractional worksEconomic and Industrial Development: 37 fractional worksEngineering and Agricult…23Engineering and Agricultural Innovations: 23 fractional worksMedical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies: 10 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 9 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 6 fractional worksOrganizational and Employee Performance: 6 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 5 fractional worksContemporary art, education, critique: 5 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 5 fractional works
EducationEconomics and EconometricsAquatic SciencePolitical Science and International Relations6 others

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

  1. 1 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 83 works
  2. 2 Economic and Industrial Development Economics and Econometrics 37 works
  3. 3 Engineering and Agricultural Innovations Aquatic Science 23 works
  4. 4 Medical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies Political Science and International Relations 10 works
  5. 5 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 9 works
  6. 6 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  7. 7 Organizational and Employee Performance Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  8. 8 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 5 works
  9. 9 Contemporary art, education, critique Cultural Studies 5 works
  10. 10 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 5 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 available76.7%not open23.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.4%domestic only62.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kingdom University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 265% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting2010201520202025
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 Kingdom University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Kingdom University0.0020% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Kingdom 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Kingdom University6.9% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.1% in 2022.

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