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Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University

In research, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,314 of 5,988 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,430 of 9,585 worldwide) and Sociology and Political Science (#985 of 2,526 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Accounting, Sociology and Political Science and Education (Accounting is 13.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,359
of 22,385 · #11,508 all time
Rank in Brunei
#3
of 7
Research works
693
▲ 153% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.1k
3.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
82%
world 40%
International
44%
world 18%
Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University

What is Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic 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 SciencesField #1,314 of 5,988 13.1%242 #2287
Social SciencesDomain #2,430 of 9,585 12.1%325 #4121
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #985 of 2,526 11.6%113 #1882
EducationSubfield #884 of 1,930 13.1%77 #1561

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic 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#2,287 #1,314
  2. Social Sciences#4,121 #2,430
  3. Sociology and Political Science#1,882 #985
  4. Education#1,561 #884
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 Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (59%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 364 fractional works · 78.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 270 fractional works · 58.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 125 fractional works · 27.1% of its workEducation: 86 fractional works · 18.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 fractional works · 5.2% of its workLaw: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCultural Studies: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 50 fractional works · 10.9% of its workAccounting: 37 fractional works · 8.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 16 fractional works · 3.6% of its workReligious studies: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 55 fractional works · 11.9% of its workComputer Science: 20 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInformation Systems: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 33 fractional works · 7.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 25 fractional works · 5.3% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAquatic Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSultan Sharif AliIslamic…461fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences2%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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences27058.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting5010.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities163.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance132.9%
    5. Psychology112.4%
    6. Decision Sciences20.5%
    1. Computer Science204.3%
    2. Environmental Science173.6%
    3. Engineering143.0%
    4. Energy10.2%
    5. Mathematics10.2%
    6. Materials Science10.2%
    7. Chemistry10.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences255.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Medicine61.3%
    2. Health Professions30.7%
    3. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Accounting takes 13.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. AccountingSubfield · 36.8 works13×
  2. Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield · 125.1 works7.5×
  3. EducationSubfield · 86.4 works6.1×
  4. Social SciencesField · 270.0 works4.6×
← 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: 1.12× its world share, 25 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.25× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.56× its world share, 20 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.72× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.23× its world share, 16 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.40× its world share, 50 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.37× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.80× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.62× its world share, 270 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.62×270 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting3.40×50 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.37×14 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.23×16 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.12×25 works
  6. Psychology0.80×11 works
  7. Environmental Science0.72×16 works
  8. Computer Science0.56×20 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.47×2 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.35×2 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.35×1 works
  12. Energy0.27×1 works
  13. Health Professions0.27×3 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.25×6 works
  15. Engineering0.20×14 works
  16. Chemical Engineering0.18×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.18×1 works
  18. Chemistry0.12×1 works
  19. Medicine0.07×6 works
  20. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.06×1 works
  22. Nursing0.06×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.05×0 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University?

Ranked on the quality score, Rose Abdullah, Khairul Hidayatullah Basir and Zaki Zaini lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University.

  1. 1 Rose Abdullah Brunei · #1,439,733 worldwide 464 citations · 38 works
  2. 2 Khairul Hidayatullah Basir Brunei · #1,488,245 worldwide 281 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Zaki Zaini Brunei · #1,976,108 worldwide 332 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Azeem Khan Brunei · #2,051,677 worldwide 168 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Hakimah Binti Yaacob Brunei · #2,078,218 worldwide 451 citations · 55 works
  6. 6 Sulaiman Dorloh Brunei · #2,421,315 worldwide 88 citations · 33 works
  7. 7 Zheimie H. Zamri Brunei · #2,470,814 worldwide 13 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Gary I. Lilienthal Brunei · #2,514,179 worldwide 123 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Kamaluddin Nurdin Marjuni Brunei · #2,835,322 worldwide 26 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Muhammad Zakir Bin Husain Brunei · #2,940,110 worldwide 43 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University

What are the most cited papers from Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University?

The most cited paper from Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University is "Smartphones usage in the classrooms: Learning aid or interference?" (Muhammad Anshari, Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, Masitah Shahrıll et al., 2017), with 440 citations. Next come "The environmental impacts of palm oil in context" (398) and "Chimpanzee Use of a Tool-Set to Get Honey" (145).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Smartphones usage in the classrooms: Learning aid or interference? Muhammad Anshari, Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, Masitah Shahrıll et al. · Education and Information Technologies 19 Jan 2017 440
2 The environmental impacts of palm oil in context Erik Meijaard et al. · Nature Plants Open access 7 Dec 2020 398
3 Chimpanzee Use of a Tool-Set to Get Honey Stella M. Brewer, William C. McGrew · Folia Primatologica 14 Feb 1990 145
4 Application of waqf for social and development finance Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Abdul Ghafar Ismail, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd Shafiai · ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance Open access 10 Jul 2017 125
5 Smart farming: towards a sustainable agri-food system Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato Musa, Khairul Hidayatullah Basir · British Food Journal 12 Aug 2021 109
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Islamic Education, Curriculum Development, Islamic Banking, Teacher Training, Human Rights, Corporate Governance, Consumer Behavior and Supply Chain 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. Islamic Education56▲ 37×4 topics
  2. Curriculum Development55▲ 18×9 topics
  3. Islamic Banking54▲ 31×3 topics
  4. Teacher Training47▲ 16×5 topics
  5. Globalization41▲ 4.6×18 topics
  6. Human Rights40▲ 8.4×21 topics
  7. Corporate Governance39▲ 12×9 topics
  8. Consumer Behavior39▲ 14×10 topics
  9. Supply Chain Management38▲ 9.1×10 topics
  10. Risk Management37▲ 17×6 topics
  11. Finance36▲ 42×3 topics
  12. Religious Education36▲ 48×4 topics
  13. Financial Stability35▲ 39×2 topics
  14. Ethical Identity34▲ 64×1 topic
  15. Shariah Supervision34▲ 64×1 topic
  16. Food Safety33▲ 25×6 topics
  17. Religiosity32▲ 150×2 topics
  18. Pedagogy32▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Tourist Satisfaction32▲ 68×2 topics
  20. Madrasa32▲ 101×1 topic
  21. Muslim Students32▲ 101×1 topic
  22. Halal Products32▲ 222×1 topic
  23. Halal Tourism32▲ 222×1 topic
  24. Digital Learning27▲ 11×6 topics
  25. Social Media25▲ 3.9×10 topics
  26. Indonesia25▲ 12×5 topics
  27. Educational Technology23▲ 4.3×14 topics
  28. Community Empowerment23▲ 6.9×8 topics
  29. Online Learning23▲ 6.0×11 topics
  30. Islam22▲ 23×4 topics
  31. Ethnicity22▲ 12×5 topics
  32. Culture21▲ 8.8×4 topics
  33. History20▲ 6.1×3 topics
  34. Philosophy20▲ 9.6×3 topics
  35. Literature19▲ 7.7×3 topics
  36. Sharia Law19▲ 29×1 topic
  37. Social Influence19▲ 20×1 topic
  38. Cultural Identity19▲ 8.2×4 topics
  39. Media Literacy18▲ 7.5×4 topics
  40. Gender Equality17▲ 13×8 topics

Which research topics does Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, Education and Islamic Studies, Halal products and consumer behavior and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies.

Islamic Finance and Banking Studies: 34 fractional worksEducation and Islamic Studies: 32 fractional worksHalal products and consumer behavior: 32 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 19 fractional worksArabic Language Education Studies: 14 fractional worksIslamic Studies and Radi…13Islamic Studies and Radicalism: 13 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Communication: 13 fractional worksMarriage and Family Dynamics: 11 fractional worksEducation and Character Development: 10 fractional worksGender and Women's Rights: 9 fractional works
AccountingEducationSociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International Relations

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

  1. 1 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 34 works
  2. 2 Education and Islamic Studies Education 32 works
  3. 3 Halal products and consumer behavior Sociology and Political Science 32 works
  4. 4 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 19 works
  5. 5 Arabic Language Education Studies Education 14 works
  6. 6 Islamic Studies and Radicalism Sociology and Political Science 13 works
  7. 7 Islamic Finance and Communication Sociology and Political Science 13 works
  8. 8 Marriage and Family Dynamics Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  9. 9 Education and Character Development Education 10 works
  10. 10 Gender and Women's Rights Political Science and International Relations 9 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 available82.4%not open17.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.0%domestic only56.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 153% higher 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 Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University0.0024% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University8.8% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.1% in 2023.

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