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Ukrainian Catholic University

In research, Ukrainian Catholic University stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,107 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,693 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Political Science and International Relations (Political Science and International Relations is 7.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,005
of 22,385 · #12,225 all time
Rank in Ukraine
#95
of 233
Research works
512
▲ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.4k
2.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
82%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Ukrainian Catholic University

What is Ukrainian Catholic 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 #3,107 of 9,585 11.6%192 #4305
Social SciencesField #3,693 of 5,988 11.1%109 #4515

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ukrainian Catholic 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 Ukrainian Catholic University work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Ukrainian Catholic University is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (15%), Computer Science (9%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 219 fractional works · 71.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 125 fractional works · 41.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 42 fractional works · 13.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 35 fractional works · 11.4% of its workEducation: 15 fractional works · 5.0% of its workTransportation: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 47 fractional works · 15.4% of its workHistory: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhilosophy: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workClassics: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workReligious studies: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 23 fractional works · 7.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 12 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 16 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 66 fractional works · 21.7% of its workComputer Science: 28 fractional works · 9.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 18 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 10 fractional works · 3.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnatomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUkrainianCatholic…304fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences72%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences12541.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities4715.4%
    3. Psychology237.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance165.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting72.4%
    6. Decision Sciences10.3%
    1. Computer Science289.2%
    2. Environmental Science185.9%
    3. Engineering154.8%
    4. Mathematics20.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    7. Materials Science00.1%
    8. Energy00.1%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Medicine93.1%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.1%
    2. Neuroscience30.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ukrainian Catholic University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Political Science and International Relations takes 7.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 34.7 works7.7×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 3 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.18× its world share, 28 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.18× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 10 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 5.34× its world share, 47 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.76× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.40× its world share, 16 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.45× its world share, 23 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.25× its world share, 125 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities5.34×47 works
  2. Social Sciences3.25×125 works
  3. Psychology2.45×23 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.40×16 works
  5. Computer Science1.18×28 works
  6. Environmental Science1.18×18 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.76×7 works
  8. Mathematics0.62×2 works
  9. Neuroscience0.56×3 works
  10. Veterinary0.40×0 works
  11. Engineering0.32×15 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.30×2 works
  13. Health Professions0.30×2 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.29×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×3 works
  16. Medicine0.16×10 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.15×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×2 works
  19. Energy0.06×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.04×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ukrainian Catholic University?

Ranked on the quality score, OKSANA M. SENYK, Orest Suvalo and Iryna Lapshyna lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ukrainian Catholic University.

  1. 1 OKSANA M. SENYK Ukraine · #1,347,347 worldwide 699 citations · 33 works
  2. 2 Orest Suvalo Ukraine · #1,397,137 worldwide 108 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Iryna Lapshyna Ukraine · #2,604,078 worldwide 106 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Олександр Кащук Ukraine · #2,641,466 worldwide 27 citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Jeffrey Wills Ukraine · #2,705,163 worldwide 487 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Danylo Sudyn Ukraine · #2,839,615 worldwide 60 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Iryna Semkiv Ukraine · #2,970,484 worldwide 63 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Yaroslav Hrytsak Ukraine · #3,199,452 worldwide 87 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Oles Dobosevych Ukraine · #3,208,514 worldwide 115 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Bohdan Shumylovych Ukraine · #3,411,225 worldwide 6 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Ukrainian Catholic University

What are the most cited papers from Ukrainian Catholic University?

The most cited paper from Ukrainian Catholic University is "DeblurGAN-v2: Deblurring (Orders-of-Magnitude) Faster and Better" (Orest Kupyn, Tetiana Martyniuk, Junru Wu et al., 2019), with 1,110 citations. Next come "DeblurGAN: Blind Motion Deblurring Using Conditional Adversarial Networks" (141) and "FEAR: Fast, Efficient, Accurate and Robust Visual Tracker" (82).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DeblurGAN-v2: Deblurring (Orders-of-Magnitude) Faster and Better Orest Kupyn, Tetiana Martyniuk, Junru Wu et al. Conference paper Oct 2019 1,110
2 DeblurGAN: Blind Motion Deblurring Using Conditional Adversarial Networks Orest Kupyn, Volodymyr Budzan, Mykola Mykhailych et al. Conference paperOpen access Jun 2018 141
3 FEAR: Fast, Efficient, Accurate and Robust Visual Tracker Vasyl Borsuk, Roman Vei, Orest Kupyn et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2022 82
4 Human Activity Recognition based on Wi-Fi CSI Data -A Deep Neural Network Approach Andrii Zhuravchak, Oleg Kapshii, Evangelos Pournaras · Procedia Computer Science Conference paperOpen access 2022 68
5 Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries Marta Kowal et al. · Evolution and Human Behavior Open access188 authors 6 Sep 2022 66
All 65 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ukrainian Catholic University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, History, Literature, Globalization, Economic Development, Financial Security, Soviet Union and Nationalism.

▲ 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. Globalization20▲ 3.4×30 topics
  2. Human Rights19▲ 6.2×18 topics
  3. Sustainable Development17▲ 3.6×20 topics
  4. History15▲ 7.2×11 topics
  5. Economic Development15▲ 6.2×10 topics
  6. Literature14▲ 8.5×9 topics
  7. Identity14▲ 6.2×13 topics
  8. Financial Security13▲ 41×3 topics
  9. Soviet Union13▲ 77×3 topics
  10. Nationalism12▲ 8.9×10 topics
  11. Migration12▲ 11×7 topics
  12. Philosophy11▲ 8.3×7 topics
  13. Legal Regulation11▲ 16×6 topics
  14. Pedagogy11▲ 7.2×6 topics
  15. Economic Security11▲ 16×5 topics
  16. International Relations10▲ 14×11 topics
  17. Culture10▲ 6.5×6 topics
  18. Geopolitics10▲ 23×7 topics
  19. Urban Development10▲ 9.5×4 topics
  20. Eastern Europe10▲ 64×2 topics
  21. Ethnicity10▲ 8.7×4 topics
  22. Foresight10▲ 24×2 topics
  23. Modernization10▲ 18×2 topics
  24. Ethics10▲ 6.2×12 topics
  25. National Identity10▲ 27×5 topics
  26. Strategic Planning9▲ 21×2 topics
  27. Air Force9▲ 24×1 topic
  28. Warfare9▲ 24×1 topic
  29. Sharia Law9▲ 20×2 topics
  30. Islam8▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Social Influence8▲ 13×3 topics
  32. Science8▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Eastern European culture8▲ 203×1 topic
  34. Intellectual Movements8▲ 124×2 topics
  35. Polish nobility8▲ 203×1 topic
  36. Cultural History8▲ 21×4 topics
  37. European Union8▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Malay Language8▲ 18×1 topic
  39. Public Oversight8▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Transport Policy8▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does Ukrainian Catholic University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Military Technology and Strategies, Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland, Legal and Regulatory Analysis and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies.

Military Technology and …9Military Technology and Strategies: 9 fractional worksHistorical and Cultural …8Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland: 8 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 8 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…8Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 8 fractional worksEconomic Issues in Ukraine7Economic Issues in Ukraine: 7 fractional worksPolish Historical and Cultural Studies: 6 fractional worksMilitary, Security, and Education Studies: 6 fractional worksEastern European Communi…5Eastern European Communism and Reforms: 5 fractional worksDiverse Scientific Research in Ukraine: 5 fractional worksService-Learning and Community Engagement: 5 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringHistoryTransportationSociology and Political Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 9 works
  2. 2 Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland History 8 works
  3. 3 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 8 works
  4. 4 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  5. 5 Economic Issues in Ukraine General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 works
  6. 6 Polish Historical and Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  7. 7 Military, Security, and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  8. 8 Eastern European Communism and Reforms Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  9. 9 Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  10. 10 Service-Learning and Community Engagement Education 5 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 available82.5%not open17.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.2%domestic only79.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ukrainian Catholic University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% 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 Ukrainian Catholic University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Ukrainian Catholic University0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ukrainian Catholic 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 counting5%10%15%Ukrainian Catholic University11.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.4% in 2024.

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