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Renmin University of China

In research, Renmin University of China stands highest in Social Sciences (#48 of 10,521 worldwide), Accounting (#2 of 389 worldwide) and Business, Management and Accounting (#17 of 2,578 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Finance, Statistics and Probability and Economics, Econometrics and Finance — Finance is 8.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#342
of 28,054 · #946 all time
Rank in China
#118
of 3,058
Research works
26k
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
275k
10.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
23%
world 28%

What is Renmin University of China known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #48 of 10,521 32.0%3,517 #349
AccountingSubfield #2 of 389 40.3%183 #53
Business, Management and AccountingField #17 of 2,578 35.5%689 #246
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #14 of 1,775 37.1%759 #130
PsychologyField #20 of 2,181 32.3%394 #320
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #14 of 1,272 44.1%507 #120
Strategy and ManagementSubfield #8 of 635 32.0%179 #202
Physical SciencesDomain #285 of 12,888 22.9%2,627 #802
Social SciencesField #142 of 6,365 29.4%1,346 #415
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #46 of 1,884 24.6%474 #214

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Renmin University of China 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#349 #48
  2. Accounting#53 #2
  3. Business, Management and Accounting#246 #17
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#130 #14
  5. Psychology#320 #20
  6. Economics and Econometrics#120 #14
  7. Strategy and Management#202 #8
  8. Physical Sciences#802 #285
  9. Social Sciences#415 #142
  10. Artificial Intelligence#214 #46
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Renmin University of China specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Finance takes 8.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. FinanceSubfield · 168.1 works8.2×
  2. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 77.5 works5.4×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 758.6 works5.2×
  4. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 83.6 works4.9×
  5. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 506.8 works4.7×
  6. AccountingSubfield · 183.2 works4.4×
← 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: 0.35× its world share, 112 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.31× its world share, 111 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 83 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.49× its world share, 12 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.05× its world share, 25 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.04× its world share, 111 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.94× its world share, 1,025 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 47 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.39× its world share, 87 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.43× its world share, 439 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.97× its world share, 328 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.78× its world share, 184 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.58× its world share, 206 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.17× its world share, 176 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 104 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 193 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.78× its world share, 152 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.16× its world share, 690 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.70× its world share, 176 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.23× its world share, 759 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.91× its world share, 394 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.57× its world share, 1,346 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Renmin University of China?

Ranked on the composite score, Wayne Xin Zhao, Li Lei and Qin Jin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Renmin University of China.

  1. 1 Wayne Xin Zhao · #20,439 worldwide 1.2k citations · 108 works
  2. 2 Li Lei · #67,246 worldwide 260 citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Qin Jin · #79,441 worldwide 423 citations · 53 works
  4. 4 Ji-Rong Wen · #85,833 worldwide 1.4k citations · 198 works
  5. 5 Jiaheng Lu · #95,931 worldwide 230 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Hao Sun · #100,059 worldwide 213 citations · 38 works
  7. 7 Ju Fan · #117,832 worldwide 192 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Hong Chen · #144,494 worldwide 268 citations · 41 works
  9. 9 Lei Zhang · #164,114 worldwide 79 citations · 29 works
  10. 10 Jun Xu · #169,366 worldwide 674 citations · 141 works
All ranked researchers at Renmin University of China

Which keywords describe research at Renmin University of China?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Urbanization, Deep Learning, China, Neural Networks, Economic Development, Regulation and Political Economy.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Deep Learning425▲ 1.83×75 topics
  2. Economic Growth334▲ 5.8×27 topics
  3. Neural Networks307▲ 2.9×36 topics
  4. Machine Learning264▲ 1.19×85 topics
  5. Globalization255▲ 1.92×88 topics
  6. Urbanization237▲ 8.5×12 topics
  7. Economic Development225▲ 4.1×31 topics
  8. China196▲ 31×7 topics
  9. Renewable Energy195▲ 2.0×38 topics
  10. Regulation194▲ 5.3×20 topics
  11. Corporate Governance180▲ 3.6×23 topics
  12. Religion153▲ 4.8×22 topics
  13. Social Capital149▲ 4.2×16 topics
  14. History146▲ 3.1×28 topics
  15. Governance143▲ 6.4×14 topics
  16. Political Economy143▲ 8.2×14 topics
  17. Nationalism142▲ 4.5×19 topics
  18. Inequality135▲ 8.7×10 topics
  19. Panel Data Analysis125▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Social Support124▲ 3.3×16 topics
  21. Financial Development123▲ 12×3 topics
  22. Philosophy121▲ 4.0×20 topics
  23. Information Retrieval118▲ 8.0×6 topics
  24. Energy Consumption113▲ 7.4×5 topics
  25. CO2 Emissions111▲ 8.9×4 topics
  26. Christianity110▲ 27×3 topics
  27. Monetary Policy108▲ 6.6×12 topics
  28. Confucianism108▲ 38×1 topic
  29. Falun Gong108▲ 38×1 topic
  30. Environmental Regulation106▲ 10×3 topics
  31. Kuznets Curve102▲ 13×1 topic
  32. Trade Openness102▲ 13×1 topic
  33. Text Classification96▲ 8.9×3 topics
  34. Topic Modeling93▲ 9.3×3 topics
  35. Machine Translation90▲ 8.0×2 topics
  36. Firm Performance89▲ 7.0×3 topics
  37. Authoritarianism87▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Semantic Similarity84▲ 10×1 topic
  39. Word Representation84▲ 10×1 topic
  40. Financial Constraints81▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does Renmin University of China publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Chinese history and philosophy, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Topic Modeling and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance.

Chinese history and phil…108Chinese history and philosophy: 108 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Eco…102Energy, Environment, Economic Growth: 102 fractional worksTopic Modeling84Topic Modeling: 84 fractional worksChina's Socioeconomic Re…80China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance: 80 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 72 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 66 fractional worksRecommender Systems and …48Recommender Systems and Techniques: 48 fractional worksMarket Dynamics and Volatility: 43 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 43 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Networks: 43 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceEconomics and EconometricsArtificial IntelligencePolitical Science and International Relations4 others

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

  1. 1 Chinese history and philosophySociology and Political Science 108 works
  2. 2 Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthEconomics and Econometrics 102 works
  3. 3 Topic ModelingArtificial Intelligence 84 works
  4. 4 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and GovernancePolitical Science and International Relations 80 works
  5. 5 Corporate Finance and GovernanceAccounting 72 works
  6. 6 Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 66 works
  7. 7 Recommender Systems and TechniquesInformation Systems 48 works
  8. 8 Market Dynamics and VolatilityEconomics and Econometrics 43 works
  9. 9 Financial Markets and Investment StrategiesFinance 43 works
  10. 10 Advanced Graph Neural NetworksArtificial Intelligence 43 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 available23.3%not open76.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.5%domestic only85.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Renmin University of China's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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