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Montpellier Business School

In research, Montpellier Business School stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#519 of 2,581 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,823 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Strategy and Management (Strategy and Management is 12.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,471
of 22,385 · #6,000 all time
Rank in France
#214
of 517
Research works
1.4k
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
48k
33.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
27%
world 18%
Montpellier Business School

What is Montpellier Business School 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
Business, Management and AccountingField #519 of 2,581 25.1%103 #397
Social SciencesDomain #3,823 of 9,585 21.0%233 #3142

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Montpellier Business School 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 Montpellier Business School work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Montpellier Business School is in Social Sciences, 10% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (35%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (17%), Social Sciences (17%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 251 fractional works · 79.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 110 fractional works · 34.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 36 fractional works · 11.2% of its workAccounting: 15 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMarketing: 14 fractional works · 4.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 13 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 13 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 13 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBusiness and International Management: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 54 fractional works · 16.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 33 fractional works · 10.3% of its workFinance: 16 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 53 fractional works · 16.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 25 fractional works · 7.8% of its workUrban Studies: 10 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 19 fractional works · 5.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 13 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 33 fractional works · 10.3% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 24 fractional works · 7.4% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMontpellierBusiness School318fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences79%

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. Business, Management and Accounting11034.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5416.9%
    3. Social Sciences5316.5%
    4. Decision Sciences195.8%
    5. Psychology134.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities41.2%
    1. Engineering103.2%
    2. Computer Science103.2%
    3. Environmental Science61.9%
    4. Energy30.9%
    5. Mathematics10.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Health Professions113.6%
    2. Medicine113.5%
    3. Dentistry10.3%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.5%
    2. Neuroscience20.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Montpellier Business School specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Strategy and Management takes 12.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 35.5 works13×
← 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: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.41× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.00× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.35× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10.72× its world share, 110 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.04× its world share, 19 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.90× its world share, 54 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.34× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 52 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 10.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting10.72×110 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7.90×54 works
  3. Decision Sciences6.04×19 works
  4. Health Professions1.35×11 works
  5. Psychology1.34×13 works
  6. Social Sciences1.31×52 works
  7. Energy1.00×3 works
  8. Dentistry0.59×1 works
  9. Neuroscience0.46×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.41×10 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.41×4 works
  12. Environmental Science0.38×6 works
  13. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.36×0 works
  14. Mathematics0.36×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.32×5 works
  16. Engineering0.22×10 works
  17. Medicine0.18×11 works
  18. Nursing0.17×0 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.15×1 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×2 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.11×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.07×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  24. Veterinary0.06×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Montpellier Business School?

Ranked on the quality score, David Roubaud, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad and Cyril R. H. Foropon lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Montpellier Business School.

  1. 1 David Roubaud France · #953 worldwide 25k citations · 236 works
  2. 2 Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad France · #18,859 worldwide 17k citations · 308 works
  3. 3 Cyril R. H. Foropon France · #20,829 worldwide 7.7k citations · 66 works
  4. 4 Venkatesh Mani France · #24,769 worldwide 7.3k citations · 79 works
  5. 5 Victoria‐Sophie Osburg France · #92,695 worldwide 2.7k citations · 57 works
  6. 6 Johanna Gast France · #109,488 worldwide 5k citations · 62 works
  7. 7 Oksana Grebinevych France · #127,112 worldwide 1.3k citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Léo‐Paul Dana France · #168,596 worldwide 18k citations · 831 works
  9. 9 Issam Laguir France · #184,710 worldwide 1.9k citations · 72 works
  10. 10 Dante I. Leyva‐de la Hiz France · #270,940 worldwide 1.5k citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Montpellier Business School

What are the most cited papers from Montpellier Business School?

The most cited paper from Montpellier Business School is "Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy" (Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al., 2023), with 4,365 citations. Next come "Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy" (2,732) and "Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment" (1,500).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. · International Journal of Information Management Open access 11 Mar 2023 4,365
2 Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi et al. · International Journal of Information Management Open access 15 Jul 2022 2,732
3 Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment Aysu Okbay et al. · Nature Open access256 authors 10 May 2016 1,500
4 How economic growth, renewable electricity and natural resources contribute to CO2 emissions? Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, David Roubaud et al. · Energy Policy Open access 22 Nov 2017 1,499
5 On the hedge and safe haven properties of Bitcoin: Is it really more than a diversifier? Elie I. Bouri, Péter Molnár, Georges Azzi et al. · Finance research letters 30 Sep 2016 1,469
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Montpellier Business School?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Capital, Corporate Governance, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Behavior, Economic Development, Environmental Management and Risk Management.

▲ 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 Capital26▲ 16×13 topics
  2. Innovation22▲ 6.6×18 topics
  3. Corporate Governance21▲ 8.9×13 topics
  4. Sustainability20▲ 2.6×34 topics
  5. Entrepreneurship17▲ 14×6 topics
  6. Consumer Behavior17▲ 8.6×11 topics
  7. Economic Development15▲ 6.0×11 topics
  8. Supply Chain Management15▲ 5.2×13 topics
  9. Environmental Management13▲ 10×3 topics
  10. Monetary Policy13▲ 17×6 topics
  11. Risk Management13▲ 8.6×8 topics
  12. Community Engagement13▲ 12×5 topics
  13. Economic Growth12▲ 4.8×13 topics
  14. Local Development12▲ 36×2 topics
  15. Territorial Governance12▲ 33×2 topics
  16. Strategic Alliances11▲ 54×3 topics
  17. Social Entrepreneurship10▲ 32×2 topics
  18. Entrepreneurial Orientation10▲ 40×1 topic
  19. Opportunity Recognition10▲ 40×1 topic
  20. Competition9▲ 57×3 topics
  21. Stock Market9▲ 13×2 topics
  22. Cooperatives9▲ 40×3 topics
  23. Social Innovation9▲ 19×3 topics
  24. Institutionalization9▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Citizenship9▲ 23×1 topic
  26. Participative Evaluation9▲ 87×1 topic
  27. Solidarity Economy9▲ 50×2 topics
  28. Knowledge Sharing9▲ 18×4 topics
  29. Emotion9▲ 13×6 topics
  30. Value Creation8▲ 69×2 topics
  31. Product Design8▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Circular Economy8▲ 9.0×3 topics
  33. Collaboration8▲ 50×2 topics
  34. Decision Making8▲ 8.1×2 topics
  35. Firm Performance8▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Business Networks7▲ 133×1 topic
  37. Coopetition7▲ 133×1 topic
  38. Financialization7▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Institutional Theory7▲ 23×2 topics
  40. Asset Pricing7▲ 26×2 topics

Which research topics does Montpellier Business School publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Social Sciences and Governance, Business Strategy and Innovation and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Entrepreneurship Studies…10Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 10 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Gove…9Social Sciences and Governance: 9 fractional worksBusiness Strategy and Innovation: 7 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain Management: 7 fractional worksMarket Dynamics and Volatility: 7 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability in Business: 6 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 6 fractional worksDecision-Making and Beha…6Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics: 6 fractional worksSupply Chain Resilience and Risk Management: 6 fractional worksInnovation and Socioeconomic Development: 5 fractional works
Management of Technology and InnovationUrban StudiesStrategy and ManagementEconomics and Econometrics4 others

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

  1. 1 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 10 works
  2. 2 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 9 works
  3. 3 Business Strategy and Innovation Strategy and Management 7 works
  4. 4 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 7 works
  5. 5 Market Dynamics and Volatility Economics and Econometrics 7 works
  6. 6 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 6 works
  7. 7 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 6 works
  8. 8 Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics General Decision Sciences 6 works
  9. 9 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management Strategy and Management 6 works
  10. 10 Innovation and Socioeconomic Development Business and International 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 available28.4%not open71.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.6%domestic only73.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Montpellier Business School's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% lower 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 Montpellier Business School as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Montpellier Business School0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Montpellier Business School 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%Montpellier Business School19.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.3% in 2018.

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