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Tomás Frías Autonomous University

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,443
of 22,385 · #28,880 all time
Rank in Bolivia
#24
of 25
Research works
138
▲ 60% vs 2018-21
Citations
481
3.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
85%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Tomás Frías Autonomous University

Which fields of science does Tomás Frías Autonomous University work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at Tomás Frías Autonomous University is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Business, Management and Accounting (13%), Computer Science (9%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 46 fractional works · 64.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 35.4% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 9.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 13.3% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 16.1% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 9.3% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 13.2% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 8.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKTomás FríasAutonomous…73fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences2635.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting1013.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance45.9%
    4. Psychology45.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities33.7%
    6. Decision Sciences00.4%
    1. Computer Science79.3%
    2. Environmental Science33.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.7%
    4. Engineering00.5%
    1. Medicine68.8%
    2. Health Professions23.0%
    3. Dentistry00.7%
    4. Nursing00.6%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences34.0%
    2. Neuroscience11.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.0%
    4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.5%
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: 0.85× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.20× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.71× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.74× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 1.42× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.15× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 1.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.27× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.14× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.76× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.74× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.80× its world share, 26 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting4.14×10 works
  2. Social Sciences2.80×26 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.76×4 works
  4. Psychology1.74×4 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.71×2 works
  6. Dentistry1.42×0 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.27×3 works
  8. Computer Science1.20×7 works
  9. Health Professions1.15×2 works
  10. Nursing1.13×0 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.95×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.85×3 works
  13. Environmental Science0.74×3 works
  14. Veterinary0.68×0 works
  15. Neuroscience0.66×1 works
  16. Medicine0.46×6 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.45×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×0 works
  19. Engineering0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Tomás Frías Autonomous University?

Ranked on the quality score, Federico Anaya and Roberto Carlos Vera lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tomás Frías Autonomous University.

  1. 1 Federico Anaya Bolivia · #2,336,357 worldwide 1.6k citations · 65 works
  2. 2 Roberto Carlos Vera Bolivia · #5,447,969 worldwide 7 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Tomás Frías Autonomous University

What are the most cited papers from Tomás Frías Autonomous University?

The most cited paper from Tomás Frías Autonomous University is "Reconstructing Native American population history" (David Emil Reich et al., 2012), with 939 citations. Next come "Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance" (190) and "mtDNA and Y‐chromosome diversity in Aymaras and Quechuas from Bolivia: Different stories and special genetic traits of the Andean Altiplano populations" (108).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reconstructing Native American population history David Emil Reich et al. · Nature Open access 10 Jul 2012 939
2 Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance Juan Camilo Chacón-Duque et al. · Nature Communications Open access 13 Dec 2018 190
3 mtDNA and Y‐chromosome diversity in Aymaras and Quechuas from Bolivia: Different stories and special genetic traits of the Andean Altiplano populations Magdalena Gayà‐Vidal, Pedro Moral, Nancy Saenz‐Ruales et al. · American Journal of Physical Anthropology Open access 5 Apr 2011 108
4 New Data on Miocene Neotropical Provinciality from Cerdas, Bolivia Darin Andrew Croft, Federico Anaya, David Auerbach et al. · Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9 Jul 2009 86
5 Spatial–temporal changes in Andean plateau climate and elevation from stable isotopes of mammal teeth John Bershaw, Carmala N. Garzione, Pennilyn Higgins et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters 23 Dec 2009 73
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Which keywords describe research at Tomás Frías Autonomous University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Innovation, Small and Medium Enterprises, Competitiveness, Globalization, Digital Marketing, Social Responsibility and COVID-19.

▲ 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. Education11▲ 9.1×13 topics
  2. Innovation7▲ 9.7×10 topics
  3. Globalization7▲ 4.9×11 topics
  4. Small and Medium Enterprises6▲ 48×4 topics
  5. COVID-196▲ 6.2×6 topics
  6. Competitiveness6▲ 99×6 topics
  7. Digital Marketing6▲ 20×3 topics
  8. Social Responsibility5▲ 32×3 topics
  9. E-Learning5▲ 7.1×3 topics
  10. Human Rights5▲ 6.5×8 topics
  11. Teacher Training4▲ 10×6 topics
  12. Distance Learning4▲ 17×4 topics
  13. Sustainability4▲ 2.4×9 topics
  14. Economic Impact4▲ 11×2 topics
  15. Urban Development4▲ 16×2 topics
  16. Knowledge Management4▲ 10.0×8 topics
  17. Innovation Ecosystems4▲ 53×2 topics
  18. Pedagogy4▲ 11×2 topics
  19. Psychopharmacology Education4▲ 84×1 topic
  20. Tourism Management4▲ 75×1 topic
  21. Technology4▲ 9.5×4 topics
  22. Leadership4▲ 9.9×4 topics
  23. Online Education4▲ 25×2 topics
  24. Educational Technology3▲ 4.0×6 topics
  25. Social Justice3▲ 7.7×5 topics
  26. Sustainable Development3▲ 2.9×9 topics
  27. ICT3▲ 33×1 topic
  28. Organizational Culture3▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Virtual Teaching3▲ 82×1 topic
  30. Digital Transformation3▲ 7.5×4 topics
  31. Social Impact3▲ 10×5 topics
  32. Biodiversity3▲ 4.8×3 topics
  33. Latin America3▲ 19×6 topics
  34. Inclusive Education2▲ 9.6×4 topics
  35. Health Education2▲ 7.7×3 topics
  36. Social Networks2▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Decision Making2▲ 11×2 topics
  38. One Health2▲ 86×1 topic
  39. Zoonotic Diseases2▲ 86×1 topic
  40. Communication2▲ 8.8×3 topics

Which research topics does Tomás Frías Autonomous University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Business, Innovation, and Economy, Educational Innovations and Technology, Zoonotic diseases and public health and Organizational Management and Innovation.

Business, Innovation, and Economy: 4 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 3 fractional worksZoonotic diseases and public health: 2 fractional worksOrganizational Management and Innovation: 2 fractional worksStress and Burnout Research: 2 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 1 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Tr…1Education and Teacher Training: 1 fractional worksLogistics and Transportation Systems: 1 fractional worksAccounting and Financial Management: 1 fractional worksKnowledge Societies in the 21st Century: 1 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsInformation SystemsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management6 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  2. 2 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 3 works
  3. 3 Zoonotic diseases and public health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  4. 4 Organizational Management and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2 works
  5. 5 Stress and Burnout Research Social Psychology 2 works
  6. 6 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 1 works
  7. 7 Education and Teacher Training Education 1 works
  8. 8 Logistics and Transportation Systems Management Information Systems 1 works
  9. 9 Accounting and Financial Management Accounting 1 works
  10. 10 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century Demography 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 available85.0%not open15.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Tomás Frías Autonomous University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Tomás Frías Autonomous University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00043% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Tomás Frías Autonomous University0.00046% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Tomás Frías Autonomous University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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