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Lingnan University

In research, Lingnan University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,291 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,214 of 5,988 worldwide) and Computer Science (#1,917 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Accounting (Accounting is 4.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,465
of 22,385 · #4,158 all time
Rank in China
#555
of 2,481
Research works
2.6k
▲ 49% vs 2018-21
Citations
28k
10.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
Lingnan University

What is Lingnan 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 #1,291 of 9,585 11.4%424 #1650
Social SciencesField #1,214 of 5,988 11.0%201 #1479
Computer ScienceField #1,917 of 4,417 16.5%75 #2626
Physical SciencesDomain #4,862 of 10,670 14.6%147 #6216
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,397 of 2,526 7.8%81 #1762
Business, Management and AccountingField #2,005 of 2,581 11.9%66 #2006

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Lingnan 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#1,650 #1,291
  2. Social Sciences#1,479 #1,214
  3. Computer Science#2,626 #1,917
  4. Physical Sciences#6,216 #4,862
  5. Sociology and Political Science#1,762 #1,397
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#2,006 #2,005
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 Lingnan University work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Lingnan University is in Social Sciences, 25% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Computer Science (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 509 fractional works · 65.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 244 fractional works · 31.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 97 fractional works · 12.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 35 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEducation: 27 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCultural Studies: 15 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGender Studies: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCommunication: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workUrban Studies: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLinguistics and Language: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 82 fractional works · 10.6% of its workAccounting: 22 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 21 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMarketing: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 61 fractional works · 7.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 41 fractional works · 5.3% of its workFinance: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 55 fractional works · 7.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 16 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 13 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhilosophy: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 52 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 19 fractional works · 2.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 15 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 194 fractional works · 24.9% of its workComputer Science: 91 fractional works · 11.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 39 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInformation Systems: 19 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 52 fractional works · 6.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 27 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 46 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 22 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 31 fractional works · 3.9% of its workNeuroscience: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKLingnanUniversity781fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences25%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences65%

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 Sciences24431.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting8210.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance617.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities557.1%
    5. Psychology526.6%
    6. Decision Sciences151.9%
    1. Computer Science9111.7%
    2. Engineering526.7%
    3. Environmental Science273.4%
    4. Materials Science60.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy40.6%
    6. Mathematics40.5%
    7. Energy40.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.5%
    9. Chemistry10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Medicine243.0%
    2. Health Professions222.8%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Neuroscience141.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences101.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology50.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Lingnan University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Accounting takes 4.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. AccountingSubfield · 22.4 works4.7×
← 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: 0.28× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.09× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.50× its world share, 91 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.53× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.45× its world share, 52 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.68× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.43× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.05× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.45× its world share, 55 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.28× its world share, 82 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.95× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.66× its world share, 61 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.17× its world share, 52 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.47× its world share, 244 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.66×61 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.28×82 works
  3. Social Sciences2.47×244 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.45×55 works
  5. Psychology2.17×52 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.95×15 works
  7. Computer Science1.50×91 works
  8. Neuroscience1.09×14 works
  9. Health Professions1.05×22 works
  10. Environmental Science0.68×26 works
  11. Energy0.53×4 works
  12. Engineering0.45×52 works
  13. Mathematics0.43×4 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.30×1 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.30×4 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.28×10 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.25×4 works
  18. Nursing0.25×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.23×6 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.21×2 works
  21. Medicine0.16×24 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×5 works
  23. Chemistry0.10×1 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  25. Veterinary0.04×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Lingnan University?

Ranked on the quality score, Mingming Leng, Oi Ling Siu and Victoria Wai Lan Yeung lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lingnan University.

  1. 1 Mingming Leng China · #161,921 worldwide 3k citations · 85 works
  2. 2 Oi Ling Siu China · #198,022 worldwide 9.7k citations · 213 works
  3. 3 Victoria Wai Lan Yeung China · #339,303 worldwide 1.7k citations · 106 works
  4. 4 Geng Cui China · #456,534 worldwide 4k citations · 112 works
  5. 5 Francis Yue-Lok Cheung China · #464,387 worldwide 2.3k citations · 67 works
  6. 6 Sam Kwong China · #555,133 worldwide 24 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Dean Tjosvold China · #724,274 worldwide 15k citations · 410 works
  8. 8 William E. Shafer China · #733,748 worldwide 2.2k citations · 52 works
  9. 9 Chi Kwok China · #734,027 worldwide 381 citations · 42 works
  10. 10 Tat Chor Au‐Yeung China · #804,273 worldwide 320 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Lingnan University

What are the most cited papers from Lingnan University?

The most cited paper from Lingnan University is "Creditor rights, information sharing, and bank risk taking" (Joel F. Houston, Chen Lin, Ping Lin et al., 2010), with 976 citations. Next come "The Impact of Natural Culture and Economic Ideology on Managerial Work Values: A Study of the United States, Russia, Japan, and China" (884) and "Political Connections and the Cost of Bank Loans" (715).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Creditor rights, information sharing, and bank risk taking Joel F. Houston, Chen Lin, Ping Lin et al. · Journal of Financial Economics 12 Feb 2010 976
2 The Impact of Natural Culture and Economic Ideology on Managerial Work Values: A Study of the United States, Russia, Japan, and China David A. Ralston, David Harms Holt, Robert H. Terpstra et al. · Journal of International Business Studies Mar 1997 884
3 Political Connections and the Cost of Bank Loans Joel F. Houston, Liangliang Jiang, Chen Lin et al. · Journal of Accounting Research Open access 13 Dec 2013 715
4 The Effect of Online Consumer Reviews on New Product Sales Geng Cui, Hon‐Kwong Lui, Xiaoning Guo · International Journal of Electronic Commerce 21 Sep 2012 620
5 Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world C. Simon Fan, Chen Lin, Daniel S. Treisman · Journal of Public Economics Open access 17 Sep 2008 549
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Lingnan University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Cultural Identity, Nationalism, History, Economic Growth, Political Economy, China and Corporate Governance.

▲ 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. Globalization60▲ 3.9×57 topics
  2. Deep Learning36▲ 1.32×66 topics
  3. Machine Learning33▲ 1.28×63 topics
  4. Cultural Identity31▲ 8.0×8 topics
  5. Nationalism29▲ 8.3×14 topics
  6. Economic Growth28▲ 4.4×23 topics
  7. History27▲ 5.0×15 topics
  8. Corporate Governance24▲ 4.1×19 topics
  9. Social Media23▲ 2.1×22 topics
  10. Economic Development23▲ 3.7×17 topics
  11. Mental Health23▲ 2.0×25 topics
  12. Identity22▲ 3.8×23 topics
  13. Political Economy20▲ 10×12 topics
  14. Social Capital20▲ 4.8×17 topics
  15. Regulation19▲ 4.5×11 topics
  16. China18▲ 25×3 topics
  17. Urbanization17▲ 5.4×6 topics
  18. Gender17▲ 4.0×17 topics
  19. Governance16▲ 6.5×8 topics
  20. Migration16▲ 6.1×9 topics
  21. Colonialism16▲ 4.3×17 topics
  22. Inequality15▲ 8.6×8 topics
  23. Culture15▲ 3.7×10 topics
  24. Religion15▲ 4.2×9 topics
  25. Democratization15▲ 29×3 topics
  26. Social Movements15▲ 6.4×4 topics
  27. Consumer Behavior15▲ 3.0×11 topics
  28. Social Support14▲ 3.3×14 topics
  29. Authoritarianism14▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Civic Education13▲ 73×2 topics
  31. Philosophy13▲ 3.7×7 topics
  32. Hong Kong Identity12▲ 181×1 topic
  33. Localism12▲ 181×1 topic
  34. Neoliberalism12▲ 4.3×12 topics
  35. Labor Market12▲ 5.3×9 topics
  36. Monetary Policy10▲ 5.7×6 topics
  37. Firm Performance10▲ 7.0×3 topics
  38. Income Inequality10▲ 8.8×5 topics
  39. Perception9▲ 17×4 topics
  40. Christianity9▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Lingnan University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics, Chinese history and philosophy, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance and Corporate Finance and Governance.

Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics: 12 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 9 fractional worksChina's Socioeconomic Re…9China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance: 9 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Go…7Corporate Finance and Governance: 7 fractional worksAsian Culture and Media Studies: 6 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 5 fractional worksJapanese History and Cul…5Japanese History and Culture: 5 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Eco…5Energy, Environment, Economic Growth: 5 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Org…5Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 5 fractional worksDigital Economy and Work…4Digital Economy and Work Transformation: 4 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsAccountingCultural Studies3 others

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

  1. 1 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics Sociology and Political Science 12 works
  2. 2 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 9 works
  3. 3 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Political Science and International Relations 9 works
  4. 4 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 7 works
  5. 5 Asian Culture and Media Studies Cultural Studies 6 works
  6. 6 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 5 works
  7. 7 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 5 works
  8. 8 Energy, Environment, Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  9. 9 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 5 works
  10. 10 Digital Economy and Work Transformation 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 available36.2%not open63.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.2%domestic only70.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Lingnan University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% 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 Lingnan University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0026% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Lingnan University0.0051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Lingnan 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%Lingnan University13.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.8% in 2009.

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