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Singapore Management University

In research, Singapore Management University stands highest in Computer Science (#115 of 4,667 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#114 of 1,884 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#650 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Finance and Accounting — Software is 22.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,972
of 28,054 · #2,431 all time
Rank in Singapore
#8
of 84
Research works
8.9k
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
182k
20.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
29.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
63%
world 28%

What is Singapore Management University 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
Computer ScienceField #115 of 4,667 33.5%715 #226
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #114 of 1,884 35.8%304 #249
Social SciencesDomain #650 of 10,521 28.5%1,112 #528
Information SystemsSubfield #141 of 1,291 41.3%117 #87
Social SciencesField #813 of 6,365 32.0%440 #762
Physical SciencesDomain #1,707 of 12,888 30.6%966 #2473
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #348 of 1,775 26.8%182 #258
Business, Management and AccountingField #541 of 2,578 23.9%288 #290
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #592 of 2,578 36.4%148 #555
PsychologyField #557 of 2,181 34.2%104 #597

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 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. Computer Science#226 #115
  2. Artificial Intelligence#249 #114
  3. Social Sciences#528 #650
  4. Information Systems#87 #141
  5. Social Sciences#762 #813
  6. Physical Sciences#2,473 #1,707
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#258 #348
  8. Business, Management and Accounting#290 #541
  9. Sociology and Political Science#555 #592
  10. Psychology#597 #557
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 Singapore Management University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Software takes 22.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 31.2 works22×
  2. FinanceSubfield · 51.6 works7.7×
  3. AccountingSubfield · 86.8 works6.5×
  4. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 41.7 works6.2×
  5. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 304.1 works5.7×
  6. General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 29.7 works5.3×
  7. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 86.7 works4.5×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 19 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.17× its world share, 715 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.73× its world share, 15 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.47× its world share, 155 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.41× its world share, 44 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.53× its world share, 14 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.27× its world share, 14 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 55 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.52× its world share, 33 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.05× its world share, 288 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.09× its world share, 66 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.86× its world share, 182 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.54× its world share, 104 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.57× its world share, 440 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Singapore Management University?

Ranked on the composite score, Gerard George, Steven C. H. Hoi and Howard Thomas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Singapore Management University.

  1. 1 Gerard George Singapore · #3,817 worldwide 1.5k citations · 78 works
  2. 2 Steven C. H. Hoi Singapore · #14,390 worldwide 1.9k citations · 134 works
  3. 3 Howard Thomas Singapore · #36,308 worldwide 832 citations · 142 works
  4. 4 Jing Jiang Singapore · #40,084 worldwide 661 citations · 72 works
  5. 5 Robert J. Kauffman Singapore · #41,672 worldwide 698 citations · 137 works
  6. 6 Heli Wang Singapore · #41,870 worldwide 718 citations · 37 works
  7. 7 David Lo Singapore · #84,973 worldwide 1.6k citations · 230 works
  8. 8 Jun Yu Singapore · #87,303 worldwide 606 citations · 93 works
  9. 9 Robert H. Deng Singapore · #88,146 worldwide 1.4k citations · 213 works
  10. 10 Norman P. Li Singapore · #90,187 worldwide 382 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Singapore Management University

Which keywords describe research at Singapore Management University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 2022–2025 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 Learning278▲ 3.7×72 topics
  2. Machine Learning223▲ 3.1×69 topics
  3. Neural Networks171▲ 5.0×36 topics
  4. Corporate Governance88▲ 5.4×21 topics
  5. Globalization84▲ 1.95×58 topics
  6. Sustainability68▲ 1.26×44 topics
  7. Social Media67▲ 2.1×28 topics
  8. Artificial Intelligence65▲ 2.1×33 topics
  9. Big Data57▲ 2.8×20 topics
  10. Innovation54▲ 2.3×32 topics
  11. Security52▲ 3.6×14 topics
  12. Economic Development52▲ 2.9×21 topics
  13. Human Rights50▲ 2.2×37 topics
  14. Information Retrieval50▲ 10×4 topics
  15. Social Capital49▲ 4.2×15 topics
  16. Economic Growth48▲ 2.6×22 topics
  17. Text Classification46▲ 13×2 topics
  18. Data Mining45▲ 2.7×14 topics
  19. Topic Modeling44▲ 14×2 topics
  20. Machine Translation43▲ 12×2 topics
  21. Semantic Similarity43▲ 16×1 topic
  22. Word Representation43▲ 16×1 topic
  23. IoT Security43▲ 6.0×3 topics
  24. Anomaly Detection42▲ 6.5×5 topics
  25. Code Clone Detection38▲ 43×1 topic
  26. Refactoring38▲ 43×1 topic
  27. International Law37▲ 5.5×17 topics
  28. Firm Performance36▲ 8.7×3 topics
  29. Entrepreneurship36▲ 4.2×11 topics
  30. Representation Learning35▲ 12×3 topics
  31. Semi-Supervised Learning32▲ 13×3 topics
  32. Monetary Policy32▲ 5.9×8 topics
  33. Surveillance31▲ 5.2×5 topics
  34. Mergers and Acquisitions29▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Capital Structure28▲ 8.1×2 topics
  36. Financial Constraints28▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Security Analysis28▲ 7.5×4 topics
  38. Investor Protection28▲ 16×1 topic
  39. Ownership Structure28▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Behavioral Analysis27▲ 10×2 topics

Which research topics does Singapore Management University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Software Engineering Research, Corporate Finance and Governance and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques.

Topic Modeling43Topic Modeling: 43 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 38 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Go…28Corporate Finance and Governance: 28 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detecti…23Advanced Malware Detection Techniques: 23 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 21 fractional worksSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques: 20 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, D…19FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 19 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 19 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 18 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Ne…17Advanced Graph Neural Networks: 17 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 43 works
  2. 2 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 38 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 28 works
  4. 4 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 23 works
  5. 5 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 21 works
  6. 6 Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software 20 works
  7. 7 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 19 works
  8. 8 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 19 works
  9. 9 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 18 works
  10. 10 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 17 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Singapore Management University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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