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Universidad de Panamá

In research, Universidad de Panamá stands highest in Social Sciences (#689 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#704 of 5,988 worldwide) and Education (#283 of 1,930 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science Applications, General Social Sciences and Accounting (Computer Science Applications is 11.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,347
of 22,385 · #2,422 all time
Rank in Panama
#1
of 18
Research works
4.7k
▲ 215% vs 2018-21
Citations
14k
2.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
77%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Universidad de Panamá

What is Universidad de Panamá 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 #689 of 9,585 6.7%1,272 #1275
Social SciencesField #704 of 5,988 7.7%707 #1283
EducationSubfield #283 of 1,930 9.9%237 #631
Physical SciencesDomain #2,190 of 10,670 5.2%478 #2923
Life SciencesDomain #1,428 of 6,403 3.0%243 #2646
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #338 of 1,307 5.7%164 #790
Health SciencesDomain #2,742 of 9,902 3.9%224 #4858
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #525 of 1,798 5.3%177 #1082
Business, Management and AccountingField #819 of 2,581 4.9%237 #1349
Information SystemsSubfield #433 of 1,321 7.8%111 #1060

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universidad de Panamá 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#1,275 #689
  2. Social Sciences#1,283 #704
  3. Education#631 #283
  4. Physical Sciences#2,923 #2,190
  5. Life Sciences#2,646 #1,428
  6. Economics and Econometrics#790 #338
  7. Health Sciences#4,858 #2,742
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,082 #525
  9. Business, Management and Accounting#1,349 #819
  10. Information Systems#1,060 #433
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 Universidad de Panamá work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at Universidad de Panamá is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (31%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,639 fractional works · 58.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 878 fractional works · 31.3% of its workEducation: 312 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 112 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 95 fractional works · 3.4% of its workLaw: 67 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCommunication: 59 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDemography: 49 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCultural Studies: 36 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDevelopment: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrban Studies: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 349 fractional works · 12.5% of its workAccounting: 168 fractional works · 6.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 110 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 30 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 224 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 203 fractional works · 7.2% of its workFinance: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 107 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 41 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 73 fractional works · 2.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 605 fractional works · 21.6% of its workComputer Science: 267 fractional works · 9.5% of its workInformation Systems: 149 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 82 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 184 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEcology: 43 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 32 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 57 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 32 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPaleontology: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 30 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 30 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 300 fractional works · 10.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 226 fractional works · 8.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 61 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 47 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 39 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 32 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInsect Science: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 49 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 259 fractional works · 9.2% of its workMedicine: 149 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 35 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 64 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth Professions: 91 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 54 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 21 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversidad dePanamá2,802fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences58%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences1,63958.5%
    1. Social Sciences87831.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting34912.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2248.0%
    4. Psychology1073.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities732.6%
    6. Decision Sciences90.3%
    1. Computer Science2679.5%
    2. Environmental Science1846.6%
    3. Engineering572.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences321.1%
    5. Energy301.1%
    6. Mathematics150.5%
    7. Materials Science100.3%
    8. Chemistry60.2%
    9. Physics and Astronomy40.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2268.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology491.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology100.4%
    4. Neuroscience100.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.2%
    1. Medicine1495.3%
    2. Health Professions913.3%
    3. Dentistry120.4%
    4. Nursing40.1%
    5. Veterinary30.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Universidad de Panamá specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science Applications takes 11.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Science ApplicationsSubfield · 82.4 works12×
  2. General Social SciencesSubfield · 33.9 works11×
  3. AccountingSubfield · 167.7 works9.8×
  4. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSubfield · 110.3 works8.2×
  5. CommunicationSubfield · 59.1 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: 1.70× its world share, 226 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.33× its world share, 49 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 10 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.23× its world share, 267 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 32 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.15× its world share, 30 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 57 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.32× its world share, 184 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 15 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.87× its world share, 12 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.24× its world share, 91 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 148 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.81× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.90× its world share, 73 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.86× its world share, 349 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.74× its world share, 224 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.25× its world share, 107 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.48× its world share, 878 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.86×349 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.74×224 works
  3. Social Sciences2.48×878 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.70×226 works
  5. Environmental Science1.32×184 works
  6. Psychology1.25×107 works
  7. Health Professions1.24×91 works
  8. Computer Science1.23×267 works
  9. Energy1.15×30 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.90×73 works
  11. Dentistry0.87×12 works
  12. Veterinary0.81×3 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.73×32 works
  14. Mathematics0.46×15 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.45×4 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×10 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.33×49 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.32×9 works
  19. Medicine0.28×148 works
  20. Nursing0.28×4 works
  21. Neuroscience0.21×10 works
  22. Chemistry0.14×6 works
  23. Engineering0.13×57 works
  24. Materials Science0.10×10 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.07×1 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.06×4 works

Who are the top researchers at Universidad de Panamá?

Ranked on the quality score, Luz I. Romero, Héctor Barrios and Daniel Torres‐Mendoza lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universidad de Panamá.

  1. 1 Luz I. Romero Panama · #732,410 worldwide 5.1k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Héctor Barrios Panama · #853,725 worldwide 2.3k citations · 60 works
  3. 3 Daniel Torres‐Mendoza Panama · #925,666 worldwide 5.5k citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Lorena Noriega Panama · #977,962 worldwide 1.1k citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Humberto E. Ortega Panama · #1,133,902 worldwide 824 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Rita Liss Ramos Pérez Panama · #1,142,679 worldwide 114 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 René Isaac Bracho Rivera Panama · #1,446,224 worldwide 105 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Milagros Andrea Bracho Rivera Panama · #1,513,247 worldwide 518 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Aarón Samuel Bracho Mosquera Panama · #1,661,684 worldwide 105 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Lorena Noriega Panama · #1,972,570 worldwide 195 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Universidad de Panamá

What are the most cited papers from Universidad de Panamá?

The most cited paper from Universidad de Panamá is "Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition" (Lukas Radbruch et al., 2020), with 1,291 citations. Next come "Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats" (813) and "Breast cancer early detection: A phased approach to implementation" (755).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition Lukas Radbruch et al. · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Open access 6 May 2020 1,291
2 Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats Jennifer A. Luedtke et al. · Nature Open access123 authors 4 Oct 2023 813
3 Breast cancer early detection: A phased approach to implementation Ophira Ginsburg et al. · Cancer Open access 29 Apr 2020 755
4 Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest Yves Basset et al. · Science 13 Dec 2012 641
5 Experimental evidence for high temperature stress as the cause of El Ni�o-coincident coral mortality Peter W. Glynn, Luis D’Croz · Coral Reefs Apr 1990 565
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Universidad de Panamá?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Competitiveness, Innovation, Small and Medium Enterprises, Digital Marketing, Social Responsibility, Innovation Ecosystems and Urban 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. Education410▲ 8.5×49 topics
  2. Competitiveness297▲ 134×6 topics
  3. Innovation267▲ 9.2×32 topics
  4. Small and Medium Enterprises243▲ 49×5 topics
  5. Digital Marketing243▲ 22×4 topics
  6. Social Responsibility237▲ 37×6 topics
  7. Sustainability204▲ 3.0×58 topics
  8. Innovation Ecosystems196▲ 69×2 topics
  9. Urban Development192▲ 19×7 topics
  10. Economic Impact191▲ 13×6 topics
  11. Psychopharmacology Education185▲ 106×1 topic
  12. Tourism Management185▲ 95×1 topic
  13. E-Learning183▲ 6.8×10 topics
  14. Knowledge Management173▲ 11×14 topics
  15. Teacher Training170▲ 9.9×13 topics
  16. Educational Technology169▲ 5.1×23 topics
  17. Globalization169▲ 3.1×46 topics
  18. COVID-19153▲ 4.2×21 topics
  19. Pedagogy152▲ 11×9 topics
  20. Organizational Culture146▲ 14×8 topics
  21. Sustainable Development143▲ 3.3×36 topics
  22. Risk Assessment134▲ 7.2×11 topics
  23. Distance Learning133▲ 14×7 topics
  24. Decision Making126▲ 15×4 topics
  25. Public Policy118▲ 8.9×14 topics
  26. Technology116▲ 7.9×15 topics
  27. Social Impact116▲ 11×12 topics
  28. Organizational Performance112▲ 15×5 topics
  29. Financial Reporting110▲ 32×2 topics
  30. Digital Competence108▲ 44×3 topics
  31. Digital Divide108▲ 15×5 topics
  32. Financial Analysis107▲ 34×1 topic
  33. Productivity Indicators107▲ 216×1 topic
  34. Online Education107▲ 20×2 topics
  35. ICT107▲ 28×2 topics
  36. Virtual Teaching107▲ 71×1 topic
  37. Leadership106▲ 7.7×10 topics
  38. Inclusive Education105▲ 10×11 topics
  39. Communication99▲ 11×11 topics
  40. Latin America98▲ 18×19 topics

Which research topics does Universidad de Panamá publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Business, Innovation, and Economy, Business, Education, Mathematics Research, Educational Innovations and Technology and Education and Teacher Training.

Business, Innovation, an…185Business, Innovation, and Economy: 185 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 107 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 107 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Training: 70 fractional worksEducational and Organizational Development: 60 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge…57E-Learning and Knowledge Management: 57 fractional worksDiverse Applied Research Studies: 40 fractional worksAccounting and Financial Management: 39 fractional worksPlant and soil sciences: 36 fractional worksOrganizational Management and Innovation: 35 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsAccountingInformation SystemsEducation4 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 185 works
  2. 2 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 107 works
  3. 3 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 107 works
  4. 4 Education and Teacher Training Education 70 works
  5. 5 Educational and Organizational Development Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 60 works
  6. 6 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 57 works
  7. 7 Diverse Applied Research Studies Sociology and Political Science 40 works
  8. 8 Accounting and Financial Management Accounting 39 works
  9. 9 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 works
  10. 10 Organizational Management and Innovation Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 35 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 available76.7%not open23.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.4%domestic only83.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Universidad de Panamá's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 215% 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 Universidad de Panamá as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Universidad de Panamá0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Universidad de Panamá 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Universidad de Panamá7.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.0% in 2012.

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