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Unitelma Sapienza University

In research, Unitelma Sapienza University stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,801 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,951
of 22,385 · #8,073 all time
Rank in Italy
#147
of 475
Research works
412
▲ 40% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.9k
14.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.23×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
48%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Unitelma Sapienza University

What is Unitelma Sapienza 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 #4,801 of 9,585 18.9%94 #6408

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

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Unitelma Sapienza University is in Social Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Computer Science (14%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 107 fractional works · 51.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 49 fractional works · 23.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 14 fractional works · 6.9% of its workLaw: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 24 fractional works · 11.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 11 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMarketing: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workFinance: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 4.3% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 62 fractional works · 29.8% of its workComputer Science: 30 fractional works · 14.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 12 fractional works · 5.8% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 15 fractional works · 7.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 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: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 24 fractional works · 11.8% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 9.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 15 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUnitelma SapienzaUniversity208fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences30%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences51%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences4923.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting2411.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance136.2%
    4. Arts and Humanities94.3%
    5. Decision Sciences63.0%
    6. Psychology62.7%
    1. Computer Science3014.3%
    2. Environmental Science157.0%
    3. Engineering83.7%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences31.5%
    5. Mathematics31.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.8%
    7. Energy10.6%
    8. Chemistry10.3%
    9. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Medicine209.4%
    2. Health Professions41.7%
    3. Veterinary10.5%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Nursing00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences84.0%
    2. Neuroscience31.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
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: 0.84× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.24× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.01× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.84× its world share, 30 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.25× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.42× its world share, 15 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.03× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.66× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.49× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.53× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.49× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.60× its world share, 24 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.14× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.90× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.87× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.84× its world share, 49 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.60×24 works
  2. Veterinary3.53×1 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.14×6 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.90×13 works
  5. Computer Science1.84×30 works
  6. Social Sciences1.84×49 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.49×9 works
  8. Environmental Science1.42×15 works
  9. Mathematics1.03×2 works
  10. Neuroscience1.01×3 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.97×3 works
  12. Psychology0.87×6 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.84×8 works
  14. Health Professions0.66×4 works
  15. Energy0.64×1 works
  16. Medicine0.49×20 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.40×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.37×2 works
  19. Engineering0.25×8 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.24×3 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.23×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.18×1 works
  23. Dentistry0.16×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.07×0 works
  25. Nursing0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Unitelma Sapienza University?

Ranked on the quality score, Piergiuseppe Morone, Enrica Imbert and Annarita Colasante lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Unitelma Sapienza University.

  1. 1 Piergiuseppe Morone Italy · #42,111 worldwide 5.4k citations · 249 works
  2. 2 Enrica Imbert Italy · #158,256 worldwide 1.2k citations · 32 works
  3. 3 Annarita Colasante Italy · #498,300 worldwide 1k citations · 54 works
  4. 4 Gülşah Yılan Italy · #576,806 worldwide 471 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Alessandro Cascavilla Italy · #590,071 worldwide 109 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Nicolò Conti Italy · #865,765 worldwide 618 citations · 100 works
  7. 7 Teresa Turzo Italy · #1,033,700 worldwide 425 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Letizia Lo Presti Italy · #1,107,493 worldwide 762 citations · 55 works
  9. 9 Damiano Distante Italy · #1,227,281 worldwide 1.3k citations · 99 works
  10. 10 Carmela Gulluscio Italy · #1,368,575 worldwide 308 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Unitelma Sapienza University

What are the most cited papers from Unitelma Sapienza University?

The most cited paper from Unitelma Sapienza University is "Virtual reality in cognitive and motor rehabilitation: facts, fiction and fallacies" (Gaetano Tieri, Giovanni Morone, Stefano Paolucci et al., 2018), with 477 citations. Next come "Psychological Aspects and Eating Habits during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Results of EHLC-COVID-19 Italian Online Survey" (393) and "Food waste: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing the emerging bio-economy" (214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Virtual reality in cognitive and motor rehabilitation: facts, fiction and fallacies Gaetano Tieri, Giovanni Morone, Stefano Paolucci et al. · Expert Review of Medical Devices 9 Jan 2018 477
2 Psychological Aspects and Eating Habits during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Results of EHLC-COVID-19 Italian Online Survey Laura Di Renzo, Paola Gualtieri, Giulia Cinelli et al. · Nutrients Open access 19 Jul 2020 393
3 Food waste: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing the emerging bio-economy Piergiuseppe Morone, Apostolis Koutinas, Nicholas Gathergood et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production Open access 26 Feb 2019 214
4 Covid-19 epidemic in Italy: evolution, projections and impact of government measures Giovanni Vittorio Sebastiani, Marco Massa, Elio Ríboli · European Journal of Epidemiology Open access Apr 2020 210
5 Circular, Green, and Bio Economy: How Do Companies in Land-Use Intensive Sectors Align with Sustainability Concepts? Dalia D’Amato, Jaana E. Korhonen, Anne Toppinen · Ecological Economics Open access 9 Jan 2019 210
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Unitelma Sapienza University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Circular Economy, Environmental Management, Sustainability, Human Rights, Globalization, Innovation, Policy and Sustainable Development.

▲ 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. Sustainability12▲ 2.4×28 topics
  2. Circular Economy11▲ 19×5 topics
  3. Machine Learning11▲ 1.54×32 topics
  4. Globalization10▲ 2.4×21 topics
  5. Environmental Management9▲ 11×5 topics
  6. Deep Learning9▲ 1.22×35 topics
  7. Climate Change9▲ 1.51×21 topics
  8. Sustainable Development8▲ 2.6×13 topics
  9. Human Rights8▲ 3.8×21 topics
  10. Innovation8▲ 3.6×12 topics
  11. Social Media7▲ 2.3×11 topics
  12. Consumer Behavior6▲ 4.4×9 topics
  13. Economic Growth5▲ 3.2×14 topics
  14. Policy5▲ 11×3 topics
  15. European Union5▲ 10×6 topics
  16. Transition5▲ 25×2 topics
  17. Product Design4▲ 15×2 topics
  18. Urban Development4▲ 5.7×4 topics
  19. Bioeconomy4▲ 132×1 topic
  20. Biomass4▲ 17×1 topic
  21. Green Practices4▲ 24×1 topic
  22. Sustainable Supply Chain Management4▲ 24×1 topic
  23. Nationalism4▲ 4.3×5 topics
  24. Public Opinion4▲ 16×4 topics
  25. Ethical Consumption4▲ 18×2 topics
  26. Adaptive Reuse4▲ 49×1 topic
  27. Environmental Innovation4▲ 20×1 topic
  28. Green Consumption4▲ 20×1 topic
  29. Intangible Heritage4▲ 49×1 topic
  30. Life Cycle Assessment4▲ 6.6×5 topics
  31. Institutionalization4▲ 19×2 topics
  32. Land Use Change4▲ 5.8×4 topics
  33. Monetary Policy3▲ 7.0×7 topics
  34. Political Dynamics3▲ 61×2 topics
  35. Institutional Theory3▲ 16×3 topics
  36. Sustainability Assessment3▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Latin America3▲ 7.9×2 topics
  38. Populism3▲ 64×1 topic
  39. Right-Wing3▲ 64×1 topic
  40. Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide3▲ 32×2 topics

Which research topics does Unitelma Sapienza University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Sustainability in Business and Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation.

Bioeconomy and Sustainab…4Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development: 4 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain…4Sustainable Supply Chain Management: 4 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…4Environmental Sustainability in Business: 4 fractional worksCultural Heritage Manage…4Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation: 4 fractional worksPopulism, Right-Wing Movements: 3 fractional worksEuropean Union Policy and Governance: 3 fractional worksMigraine and Headache St…3Migraine and Headache Studies: 3 fractional worksSustainable Development …2Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy: 2 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversi…2Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 2 fractional worksElectoral Systems and Po…2Electoral Systems and Political Participation: 2 fractional works
General Agricultural and Biological SciencesStrategy and ManagementMarketingArcheology4 others

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

  1. 1 Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 works
  2. 2 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 4 works
  3. 3 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 4 works
  4. 4 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Archeology 4 works
  5. 5 Populism, Right-Wing Movements Political Science and International Relations 3 works
  6. 6 European Union Policy and Governance Political Science and International Relations 3 works
  7. 7 Migraine and Headache Studies Psychiatry and Mental health 3 works
  8. 8 Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2 works
  9. 9 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  10. 10 Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Science and International Relations 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 available47.6%not open52.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.6%domestic only80.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Unitelma Sapienza University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Unitelma Sapienza University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00076% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Unitelma Sapienza University0.00094% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Unitelma Sapienza 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%Unitelma Sapienza University19.1% 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 19.7% in 2021.

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