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Saint Thomas Aquinas North University

In research, Saint Thomas Aquinas North University stands highest in Social Sciences (#9,906 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#25,611
of 34,923
Rank in Argentina
#143
of 178
Research works
214
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
784
3.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
78%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Saint Thomas Aquinas North University

What is Saint Thomas Aquinas North University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #9,906 of 14,833 3.0%158

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Saint Thomas Aquinas North 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 fields of science does Saint Thomas Aquinas North University work in?

In 2022-now, 73% of research at Saint Thomas Aquinas North University is in Social Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (38%), Arts and Humanities (21%), Medicine (12%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 44 fractional works · 73.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 38.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 16.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 13 fractional works · 20.9% of its workPhilosophy: 5 fractional works · 7.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 9.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial relations: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 4.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 13.9% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 11.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSaint ThomasAquinas North…60fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences73%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2338.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities1320.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting69.4%
    4. Psychology34.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.0%
    1. Medicine711.8%
    2. Health Professions11.7%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science12.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy11.3%
    3. Engineering11.2%
    4. Environmental Science11.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.7%
    6. Chemistry00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.3%
    2. Neuroscience11.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
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: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.09× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.61× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.04× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 7.24× its world share, 13 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.92× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.57× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.02× its world share, 23 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities7.24×13 works
  2. Social Sciences3.02×23 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting2.92×6 works
  4. Veterinary2.04×0 works
  5. Psychology1.57×3 works
  6. Neuroscience1.09×1 works
  7. Health Professions0.64×1 works
  8. Medicine0.61×7 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.58×1 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×1 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.45×0 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.44×0 works
  13. Chemistry0.35×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.32×2 works
  15. Nursing0.32×0 works
  16. Environmental Science0.23×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×0 works
  18. Engineering0.08×1 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Saint Thomas Aquinas North University?

Ranked on the quality score, Marcelo Bianchi Bustos, Rafael R. Cúnsulo and Juan José Herrera lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Saint Thomas Aquinas North University.

  1. 1 Marcelo Bianchi Bustos Argentina · #4,163,652 worldwide 4 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Rafael R. Cúnsulo Argentina · #4,239,656 worldwide 2 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Juan José Herrera Argentina · #4,294,513 worldwide 61 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Jorge A. Scampini Argentina · #4,799,238 worldwide 6 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Cynthia Folquer Argentina · #4,877,628 worldwide 9 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Silvia Julia Campana Argentina · #4,901,003 worldwide 2 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Patricia Eugenia Kreibohm Argentina · #5,065,502 worldwide 10 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Saint Thomas Aquinas North University

What are the most cited papers from Saint Thomas Aquinas North University?

The most cited paper from Saint Thomas Aquinas North University is "Properties of different lactic acid bacteria isolated from Apis mellifera L. bee-gut" (Marcela Carina Audisio, María Julia Torres, Daniela C. Sabaté et al., 2010), with 188 citations. Next come "Simultaneous bioremediation of Cr(VI) and lindane in soil by actinobacteria" (157) and "Isolation of pesticide-degrading actinomycetes from a contaminated site: Bacterial growth, removal and dechlorination of organochlorine pesticides" (156).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Properties of different lactic acid bacteria isolated from Apis mellifera L. bee-gut Marcela Carina Audisio, María Julia Torres, Daniela C. Sabaté et al. · Microbiological Research Open access 30 Jan 2010 188
2 Simultaneous bioremediation of Cr(VI) and lindane in soil by actinobacteria Marta Alejandra Polti, Juan Daniel Aparicio, Claudia S. Benimeli et al. · International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Open access 3 Jan 2014 157
3 Isolation of pesticide-degrading actinomycetes from a contaminated site: Bacterial growth, removal and dechlorination of organochlorine pesticides María S. Fuentes, Claudia S. Benimeli, Sergio A. Cuozzo et al. · International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Open access 8 Jun 2010 156
4 Indigenous microorganisms as potential bioremediators for environments contaminated with heavy metals Verónica Leticia Colin, Liliana Beatriz Villegas, Carlos Mauricio Abate · International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Open access 3 Feb 2012 132
5 Lindane Biodegradation by Defined Consortia of Indigenous Streptomyces Strains María S. Fuentes, Juliana Maria Saez, Claudia S. Benimeli et al. · Water Air & Soil Pollution 10 May 2011 111
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Which keywords describe research at Saint Thomas Aquinas North University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, Education, Philosophy, Catholicism, Ethics, Latin America, History and Theology.

▲ 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. Religion10▲ 36×6 topics
  2. Education10▲ 9.6×12 topics
  3. Philosophy9▲ 33×8 topics
  4. Catholicism8▲ 374×3 topics
  5. Ethics8▲ 26×9 topics
  6. Latin America7▲ 59×3 topics
  7. History6▲ 15×11 topics
  8. Theology6▲ 107×2 topics
  9. Liberation6▲ 582×1 topic
  10. Social Dynamics6▲ 159×1 topic
  11. Politics5▲ 33×4 topics
  12. Society4▲ 33×6 topics
  13. Identity4▲ 8.0×8 topics
  14. Culture3▲ 11×5 topics
  15. Entrepreneurship3▲ 13×2 topics
  16. Gender3▲ 9.8×6 topics
  17. Metaphysics3▲ 119×2 topics
  18. Innovation3▲ 4.6×2 topics
  19. Cultural Studies3▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Literature3▲ 8.1×6 topics
  21. Internationalization2▲ 70×2 topics
  22. Virtue Ethics2▲ 205×2 topics
  23. Aquinas2▲ 722×1 topic
  24. Boethius2▲ 722×1 topic
  25. Brazil2▲ 42×1 topic
  26. Pentecostalism2▲ 160×1 topic
  27. Constitutionalism2▲ 41×2 topics
  28. End-of-Life Care2▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Human Dignity2▲ 89×2 topics
  30. Political Power2▲ 76×3 topics
  31. Cultural Identity2▲ 7.1×4 topics
  32. Consent2▲ 207×1 topic
  33. Family Firms2▲ 138×1 topic
  34. Patient Autonomy2▲ 96×1 topic
  35. Socioemotional Wealth2▲ 138×1 topic
  36. Economy2▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Historiography2▲ 25×2 topics
  38. Social Movements2▲ 10×2 topics
  39. Cultural Exchange2▲ 22×2 topics
  40. Migration2▲ 8.1×2 topics

Which research topics does Saint Thomas Aquinas North University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Religious and Theological Studies, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Religion and Society in Latin America and Family Business Performance and Succession.

Religious and Theologica…6Religious and Theological Studies: 6 fractional worksMedieval Philosophy and Theology: 2 fractional worksReligion and Society in …2Religion and Society in Latin America: 2 fractional worksFamily Business Performa…2Family Business Performance and Succession: 2 fractional worksEthics and bioethics in healthcare: 2 fractional worksHistorical Studies in Latin America: 2 fractional worksLiteracy and Educational…1Literacy and Educational Practices: 1 fractional worksArgentine historical studies: 1 fractional worksPhilosophy, Health, and Society: 1 fractional worksLiterary and Cultural Studies: 1 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePhilosophyOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Religious and Theological Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  2. 2 Medieval Philosophy and Theology Philosophy 2 works
  3. 3 Religion and Society in Latin America Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  4. 4 Family Business Performance and Succession Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2 works
  5. 5 Ethics and bioethics in healthcare Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  6. 6 Historical Studies in Latin America Demography 2 works
  7. 7 Literacy and Educational Practices Education 1 works
  8. 8 Argentine historical studies Cultural Studies 1 works
  9. 9 Philosophy, Health, and Society Pharmacology 1 works
  10. 10 Literary and Cultural Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 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 available78.0%not open22.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.9%domestic only88.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Saint Thomas Aquinas North University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Saint Thomas Aquinas North University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00030% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Saint Thomas Aquinas North University0.00023% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Saint Thomas Aquinas North University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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