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Singapore Management University

In research, Singapore Management University stands highest in Social Sciences (#492 of 9,585 worldwide), Computer Science (#235 of 4,417 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#963 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Finance and Signal Processing (Software is 21.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#937
of 22,385 · #1,053 all time
Rank in Singapore
#6
of 61
Research works
8.9k
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
182k
20.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.39×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
63%
world 40%
International
39%
world 18%
Singapore Management University

What is Singapore Management 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 #492 of 9,585 16.0%1,112 #389
Computer ScienceField #235 of 4,417 19.6%715 #309
Physical SciencesDomain #963 of 10,670 17.8%966 #1167
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #213 of 1,862 20.7%304 #287
Social SciencesField #709 of 5,988 17.0%440 #554
Business, Management and AccountingField #397 of 2,581 15.5%288 #242
Information SystemsSubfield #290 of 1,321 21.8%117 #193
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #558 of 2,526 20.1%148 #507
PsychologyField #522 of 2,121 16.9%104 #528
EngineeringField #1,453 of 5,901 14.5%155 #1681

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Singapore Management 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#389 #492
  2. Computer Science#309 #235
  3. Physical Sciences#1,167 #963
  4. Artificial Intelligence#287 #213
  5. Social Sciences#554 #709
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#242 #397
  7. Information Systems#193 #290
  8. Sociology and Political Science#507 #558
  9. Psychology#528 #522
  10. Engineering#1,681 #1,453
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 Singapore Management University work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research at Singapore Management University is in Social Sciences, 45% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (33%), Social Sciences (19%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,218 fractional works · 49.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 484 fractional works · 19.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 162 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 77 fractional works · 3.1% of its workLaw: 43 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 34 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDemography: 31 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 25 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopment: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 309 fractional works · 12.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 92 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAccounting: 90 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 41 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMarketing: 35 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 30 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 189 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 104 fractional works · 4.2% of its workFinance: 54 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 31 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPsychology: 126 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 46 fractional works · 1.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 25 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 25 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 74 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 54 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 36 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhilosophy: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,109 fractional works · 44.6% of its workComputer Science: 827 fractional works · 33.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 358 fractional works · 14.4% of its workInformation Systems: 134 fractional works · 5.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 129 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 56 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSignal Processing: 45 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSoftware: 34 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 174 fractional works · 7.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 30 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 26 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 52 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 97 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 68 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 38 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 27 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 62 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 23 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSingaporeManagement…2,486fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences45%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences49%

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 Sciences1,21849.0%
    1. Social Sciences48419.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting30912.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1897.6%
    4. Psychology1265.1%
    5. Decision Sciences743.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities361.5%
    1. Computer Science82733.3%
    2. Engineering1747.0%
    3. Environmental Science522.1%
    4. Energy150.6%
    5. Physics and Astronomy150.6%
    6. Mathematics150.6%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences70.3%
    8. Materials Science30.1%
    9. Chemistry10.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine682.7%
    2. Health Professions271.1%
    3. Dentistry20.1%
    4. Nursing10.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences241.0%
    2. Neuroscience230.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology140.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.0%
    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 Singapore Management University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Software takes 21.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 34.4 works22×
  2. FinanceSubfield · 53.8 works7.2×
  3. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 45.1 works6.0×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 357.5 works6.0×
  5. AccountingSubfield · 89.9 works5.9×
  6. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 30.7 works4.9×
← 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: 0.20× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 23 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.28× its world share, 827 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.66× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.47× its world share, 174 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.42× its world share, 52 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.51× its world share, 15 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.27× its world share, 15 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 68 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.51× its world share, 36 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.85× its world share, 309 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.09× its world share, 74 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.54× its world share, 189 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.66× its world share, 126 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 484 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.28×827 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.85×309 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.54×189 works
  4. Decision Sciences3.09×74 works
  5. Psychology1.66×126 works
  6. Social Sciences1.54×484 works
  7. Energy0.66×15 works
  8. Neuroscience0.56×23 works
  9. Mathematics0.51×15 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.51×36 works
  11. Engineering0.47×174 works
  12. Environmental Science0.42×52 works
  13. Health Professions0.41×27 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.27×15 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×24 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.19×7 works
  17. Dentistry0.14×2 works
  18. Medicine0.14×68 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×14 works
  20. Veterinary0.08×0 works
  21. Nursing0.07×1 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.05×0 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×1 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.03×3 works
  26. Chemistry0.02×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Singapore Management University?

Ranked on the quality score, Xin Xia, David Lo and Andree Hartanto lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Singapore Management University.

  1. 1 Xin Xia Singapore · #3,448 worldwide 23k citations · 582 works
  2. 2 David Lo Singapore · #10,678 worldwide 33k citations · 988 works
  3. 3 Andree Hartanto Singapore · #24,386 worldwide 3k citations · 155 works
  4. 4 Gerard George Singapore · #25,131 worldwide 41k citations · 330 works
  5. 5 Guansong Pang Singapore · #34,296 worldwide 8.8k citations · 259 works
  6. 6 Qiang Cheng Singapore · #37,122 worldwide 11k citations · 104 works
  7. 7 Ferdian Thung Singapore · #42,432 worldwide 3.7k citations · 126 works
  8. 8 Gökhan Ertug Singapore · #43,297 worldwide 4k citations · 98 works
  9. 9 Orlando Woods Singapore · #44,712 worldwide 1.6k citations · 150 works
  10. 10 M. Frei Singapore · #60,002 worldwide 10k citations · 69 works
All ranked researchers at Singapore Management University

What are the most cited papers from Singapore Management University?

The most cited paper from Singapore Management University is "New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings" (Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, William Tov et al., 2009), with 4,990 citations. Next come "A trust-based consumer decision-making model in electronic commerce: The role of trust, perceived risk, and their antecedents" (3,605) and "In Search of Attention" (3,202).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, William Tov et al. · Social Indicators Research 27 May 2009 4,990
2 A trust-based consumer decision-making model in electronic commerce: The role of trust, perceived risk, and their antecedents Dan J. Kim, Donald Lee Ferrin, H. Raghav Rao · Decision Support Systems 13 Jul 2007 3,605
3 In Search of Attention Zhi Da, Joseph Engelberg, Pengjie Gao · The Journal of Finance Open access 21 Sep 2011 3,202
4 Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?* Ulrike Malmendier, Stefan Nagel · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Feb 2011 2,588
5 Comparing Predictive Accuracy Francis X. Diebold, Roberto S. Mariano · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Jul 1995 2,444
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Singapore Management University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Corporate Governance, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Topic Modeling and Machine Translation.

▲ 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. Deep Learning319▲ 3.7×72 topics
  2. Machine Learning262▲ 3.2×70 topics
  3. Neural Networks199▲ 5.2×36 topics
  4. Corporate Governance92▲ 5.0×22 topics
  5. Globalization92▲ 1.88×64 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence85▲ 2.4×34 topics
  7. Social Media75▲ 2.2×28 topics
  8. Big Data72▲ 3.0×21 topics
  9. Security62▲ 3.7×15 topics
  10. Innovation58▲ 2.3×35 topics
  11. Information Retrieval56▲ 10×4 topics
  12. Economic Development56▲ 2.8×24 topics
  13. Human Rights54▲ 2.1×41 topics
  14. Text Classification52▲ 13×3 topics
  15. Economic Growth51▲ 2.5×23 topics
  16. Social Capital51▲ 3.9×15 topics
  17. Topic Modeling50▲ 13×2 topics
  18. Data Mining50▲ 2.7×14 topics
  19. Machine Translation49▲ 12×2 topics
  20. Semantic Similarity49▲ 16×1 topic
  21. Word Representation49▲ 16×1 topic
  22. IoT Security45▲ 5.9×3 topics
  23. Anomaly Detection44▲ 6.2×5 topics
  24. Representation Learning43▲ 11×3 topics
  25. Code Clone Detection42▲ 44×1 topic
  26. Refactoring42▲ 44×1 topic
  27. International Law40▲ 5.2×20 topics
  28. Entrepreneurship39▲ 3.9×13 topics
  29. Semi-Supervised Learning38▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Firm Performance37▲ 8.5×3 topics
  31. Surveillance37▲ 5.3×5 topics
  32. Detection34▲ 4.9×5 topics
  33. Security Analysis32▲ 7.5×4 topics
  34. Behavioral Analysis30▲ 11×2 topics
  35. Mergers and Acquisitions29▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Capital Structure29▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Financial Constraints29▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Investor Protection29▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Ownership Structure29▲ 15×1 topic
  40. Unsupervised Learning28▲ 7.4×3 topics

Which research topics does Singapore Management University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Software Engineering Research, Corporate Finance and Governance and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques.

Topic Modeling49Topic Modeling: 49 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 42 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 29 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques: 26 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 23 fractional worksSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques: 22 fractional worksNatural Language Process…22Natural Language Processing Techniques: 22 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 21 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 21 fractional worksCryptography and Data Se…20Cryptography and Data Security: 20 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsAccountingSignal Processing2 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 49 works
  2. 2 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 42 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 29 works
  4. 4 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 26 works
  5. 5 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 23 works
  6. 6 Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software 22 works
  7. 7 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  8. 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 21 works
  9. 9 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 21 works
  10. 10 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 20 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 available62.6%not open37.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.1%domestic only60.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Singapore Management University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Singapore Management University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Singapore Management University0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Singapore Management 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%Singapore Management University16.6% 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 18.3% in 2009.

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