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Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute

In research, Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#1,339 of 2,917 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#9,992 of 17,446 worldwide) and Astronomy and Astrophysics (#601 of 954 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics and Astronomy (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 95.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#22,315
of 22,385 · #27,475 all time
Rank in Uzbekistan
#63
of 63
Research works
238
▲ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.3k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
55%
world 18%
Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute

What is Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physics and AstronomyField #1,339 of 2,917 11.3%165
Physical SciencesDomain #9,992 of 17,446 10.1%221
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #601 of 954 9.7%122

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute 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 Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 89% of research at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (70%), Engineering (8%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 64 fractional works · 89.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 50 fractional works · 69.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 36 fractional works · 49.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 8 fractional works · 11.0% of its workInstrumentation: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 7.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 6.8% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 6.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAquatic Science: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUlugh BegAstronomical…72fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences89%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences7%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy5069.6%
    2. Engineering57.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences56.8%
    4. Environmental Science23.3%
    5. Mathematics10.8%
    6. Computer Science00.7%
    7. Chemistry00.5%
    1. Social Sciences34.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.5%
    3. Decision Sciences00.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.3%
    1. Medicine00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 95.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 35.9 works96×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 50.3 works31×
← 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: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemistry: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.31× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.50× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 31.31× its world share, 50 worksPhysics and AstronomyBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 31.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy31.31×50 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.31×5 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×1 works
  4. Environmental Science0.66×2 works
  5. Mathematics0.65×1 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×2 works
  7. Engineering0.50×5 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.48×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.36×3 works
  10. Chemistry0.29×0 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.24×1 works
  12. Computer Science0.09×0 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Bobomurat J. Ahmedov, Furkat Sarikulov and Bobir Toshmatov lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute.

  1. 1 Bobomurat J. Ahmedov Uzbekistan · #76,306 worldwide 8.6k citations · 318 works
  2. 2 Furkat Sarikulov Uzbekistan · #443,574 worldwide 381 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Bobir Toshmatov Uzbekistan · #523,203 worldwide 1.7k citations · 42 works
  4. 4 D. O. Mirzaqulov Uzbekistan · #735,392 worldwide 1.1k citations · 54 works
  5. 5 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego Uzbekistan · #992,074 worldwide 362 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Ozodbek Rahimov Uzbekistan · #1,238,476 worldwide 290 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 О. Бурхонов Uzbekistan · #1,428,313 worldwide 1.1k citations · 93 works
  8. 8 Yodgor Rajabov Uzbekistan · #1,657,170 worldwide 106 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 I. M. Asfandiyarov Uzbekistan · #1,808,427 worldwide 760 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 Yusufjon A. Tillayev Uzbekistan · #1,818,451 worldwide 512 citations · 68 works
All ranked researchers at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute

What are the most cited papers from Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute?

The most cited paper from Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute is "Shadow of rotating regular black holes" (Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov, M. Jamil Amir, Bobomurat J. Ahmedov et al., 2016), with 412 citations. Next come "THE AFTERGLOWS OFSWIFT-ERA GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. I. COMPARING PRE-SWIFTANDSWIFT-ERA LONG/SOFT (TYPE II) GRB OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS" (359) and "Shadow of rotating non-Kerr black hole" (330).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Shadow of rotating regular black holes Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov, M. Jamil Amir, Bobomurat J. Ahmedov et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access 3 May 2016 412
2 THE AFTERGLOWS OFSWIFT-ERA GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. I. COMPARING PRE-SWIFTANDSWIFT-ERA LONG/SOFT (TYPE II) GRB OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS David Alexander Kann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 23 Aug 2010 359
3 Shadow of rotating non-Kerr black hole Farruh Atamurotov, Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov, Bobomurat J. Ahmedov · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 3 Sep 2013 330
4 Magnetospheric accretion-ejection processes in the classical T Tauri star AA Tauri Jérôme Bouvier, S. H. P. Alencar, T. Boutelier et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access 5 Dec 2006 272
5 Shadow of five-dimensional rotating Myers-Perry black hole Uma Papnoi, Farruh Atamurotov, Sushant G. Ghosh et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields Open access 30 Jul 2014 260
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Black Holes, Magnetic Fields, Accretion Disks, Galactic Center, Event Horizon Telescope, X-Ray Astronomy, Gravitational Waves and Binary Black Hole.

▲ 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. Black Holes16▲ 230×3 topics
  2. Magnetic Fields14▲ 284×3 topics
  3. Accretion Disks14▲ 373×2 topics
  4. Galactic Center12▲ 347×2 topics
  5. Event Horizon Telescope11▲ 673×1 topic
  6. X-Ray Astronomy11▲ 673×1 topic
  7. Gravitational Waves9▲ 227×2 topics
  8. Binary Black Hole8▲ 355×1 topic
  9. Neutron Star8▲ 355×1 topic
  10. Quantum Gravity5▲ 83×3 topics
  11. Climate Change4▲ 2.3×13 topics
  12. Supernovae4▲ 77×2 topics
  13. Exoplanets4▲ 148×1 topic
  14. Stellar Astrophysics4▲ 148×1 topic
  15. Cosmic Rays4▲ 117×2 topics
  16. Neutrinos4▲ 117×2 topics
  17. Field Theories4▲ 113×1 topic
  18. High-Energy Astrophysics4▲ 198×1 topic
  19. Holographic4▲ 113×1 topic
  20. Particle Acceleration4▲ 198×1 topic
  21. Star Formation4▲ 90×2 topics
  22. General Relativity3▲ 64×2 topics
  23. Cosmological Parameters3▲ 74×1 topic
  24. Dark Energy3▲ 63×1 topic
  25. Remote Sensing3▲ 3.2×10 topics
  26. Astronomical Instrumentation3▲ 119×1 topic
  27. Spectrograph3▲ 119×1 topic
  28. Molecular Clouds2▲ 120×1 topic
  29. Protoplanetary Disks2▲ 120×1 topic
  30. Sea Level Rise2▲ 26×2 topics
  31. Optical 3D Laser Measurement2▲ 222×1 topic
  32. Position-Sensitive Detector2▲ 222×1 topic
  33. Irrigation2▲ 141×1 topic
  34. Water Efficiency2▲ 141×1 topic
  35. Cosmology2▲ 39×3 topics
  36. Geodetic Measurements2▲ 25×2 topics
  37. Hydrological Modeling2▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Dark Matter2▲ 22×3 topics
  39. GRACE2▲ 53×1 topic
  40. groundwater depletion2▲ 53×1 topic

Which research topics does Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics.

Astrophysical Phenomena …11Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations: 11 fractional worksPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research: 8 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 4 fractional worksBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics: 4 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 4 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitatio…3Cosmology and Gravitation Theories: 3 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysical Research: 3 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 2 fractional worksAstronomical Observations and Instrumentation: 2 fractional worksEngineering and Agricultural Innovations: 2 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsInstrumentationComputational Mechanics1 others

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

  1. 1 Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Astronomy and Astrophysics 11 works
  2. 2 Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Astronomy and Astrophysics 8 works
  3. 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
  4. 4 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 4 works
  5. 5 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 4 works
  6. 6 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 works
  7. 7 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 3 works
  8. 8 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  9. 9 Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation Computational Mechanics 2 works
  10. 10 Engineering and Agricultural Innovations Aquatic Science 2 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 available62.1%not open37.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors55.3%domestic only44.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute0.00024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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