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Universidad EAFIT

In research, Universidad EAFIT stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,784 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,791 of 10,670 worldwide) and Business, Management and Accounting (#1,310 of 2,581 worldwide), 2022-now.

World rank, 2022-now
#3,638
of 22,385 · #3,712 all time
Rank in Colombia
#25
of 169
Research works
5.4k
▼ 28% vs 2018-21
Citations
29k
5.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.88×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
72%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%

What is Universidad EAFIT 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 #2,784 of 9,585 11.7%384 #2125
Physical SciencesDomain #3,791 of 10,670 7.6%315 #4558
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,310 of 2,581 15.5%81 #1256
Social SciencesField #3,070 of 5,988 13.5%176 #2308
EngineeringField #3,082 of 5,901 7.1%121 #3691
Computer ScienceField #2,763 of 4,417 7.7%66 #4057

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universidad EAFIT 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#2,125 #2,784
  2. Physical Sciences#4,558 #3,791
  3. Business, Management and Accounting#1,256 #1,310
  4. Social Sciences#2,308 #3,070
  5. Engineering#3,691 #3,082
  6. Computer Science#4,057 #2,763
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 EAFIT work in?

In 2022-now, 48% of research at Universidad EAFIT is in Social Sciences, 40% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (22%), Engineering (15%), Business, Management and Accounting (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 429 fractional works · 47.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 200 fractional works · 22.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 54 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 35 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEducation: 27 fractional works · 3.0% of its workLaw: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDemography: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCommunication: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 92 fractional works · 10.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAccounting: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 18 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMarketing: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 55 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 38 fractional works · 4.2% of its workFinance: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 37 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMuseology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 28 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 360 fractional works · 40.2% of its workEngineering: 133 fractional works · 14.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 19 fractional works · 2.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedia Technology: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 74 fractional works · 8.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 59 fractional works · 6.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 27 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeophysics: 15 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 61 fractional works · 6.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 36 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPlant Science: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFood Science: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 46 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMedicine: 32 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversidad EAFIT896fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences40%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences48%

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 Sciences20022.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting9210.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance556.2%
    4. Arts and Humanities374.1%
    5. Psychology283.1%
    6. Decision Sciences171.9%
    1. Engineering13314.8%
    2. Computer Science748.3%
    3. Environmental Science596.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences273.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy222.4%
    6. Energy161.8%
    7. Mathematics121.3%
    8. Materials Science111.3%
    9. Chemistry40.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences364.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology171.9%
    3. Neuroscience70.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine323.5%
    2. Health Professions111.2%
    3. Dentistry10.2%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
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: 0.83× its world share, 36 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.35× its world share, 17 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.49× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.06× its world share, 74 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.95× its world share, 27 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.97× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.99× its world share, 133 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.32× its world share, 59 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.37× its world share, 12 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.12× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.08× its world share, 22 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.46× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 32 worksMedicineNursing: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.42× its world share, 37 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.19× its world share, 92 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.99× its world share, 17 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.89× its world share, 55 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 28 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.76× its world share, 200 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.19×92 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.89×55 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.99×17 works
  4. Energy1.97×16 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.95×27 works
  6. Social Sciences1.76×200 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.42×37 works
  8. Environmental Science1.32×59 works
  9. Mathematics1.12×12 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy1.08×22 works
  11. Computer Science1.06×74 works
  12. Psychology1.02×28 works
  13. Engineering0.99×133 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.83×36 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.75×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.49×7 works
  17. Health Professions0.46×11 works
  18. Materials Science0.37×12 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.35×17 works
  20. Dentistry0.31×1 works
  21. Veterinary0.28×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.27×4 works
  23. Nursing0.27×1 works
  24. Medicine0.18×32 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×1 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Universidad EAFIT?

Ranked on the quality score, Juan Carlos Duque, Juan P. Perez and María Alejandra González-Pérez lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universidad EAFIT.

  1. 1 Juan Carlos Duque Colombia · #657,151 worldwide 2.5k citations · 133 works
  2. 2 Juan P. Perez Colombia · #735,628 worldwide 547 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 María Alejandra González-Pérez Colombia · #785,879 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
  4. 4 Jorge E. Patiño Colombia · #826,578 worldwide 1.2k citations · 50 works
  5. 5 Santiago Tobón Colombia · #839,012 worldwide 671 citations · 97 works
  6. 6 Tatiana Nicolás López Colombia · #857,210 worldwide 307 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Izaias Martins Colombia · #1,248,058 worldwide 622 citations · 49 works
  8. 8 Juan Darío Restrepo Colombia · #1,381,104 worldwide 2.4k citations · 60 works
  9. 9 María Andrea De Villa Colombia · #1,444,821 worldwide 269 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Mario C. Vélez‐Gallego Colombia · #1,461,039 worldwide 630 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Universidad EAFIT

What are the most cited papers from Universidad EAFIT?

The most cited paper from Universidad EAFIT is "Economic Performance Through Time" (Douglass C. North, 1993), with 2,895 citations. Next come "The electric vehicle routing problem with nonlinear charging function" (624) and "Earth’s sediment cycle during the Anthropocene" (512).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Economic Performance Through Time Douglass C. North · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) 9 Dec 1993 2,895
2 The electric vehicle routing problem with nonlinear charging function Alejandro Montoya, Christelle Guéret, Jorge E. Mendoza et al. · Transportation Research Part B Methodological Mar 2017 624
3 Earth’s sediment cycle during the Anthropocene James P. M. Syvitski, Juan Restrepo Ángel, Yoshiki Saito et al. · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Review Feb 2022 512
4 Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons Alice Newton et al. · Journal for Nature Conservation Open access 23 Feb 2018 370
5 Learning Factory: The Path to Industry 4.0 Felipe Baena, Guarín Álvaro, Julian Mora Orozco et al. · Procedia Manufacturing Open access 2017 322
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Universidad EAFIT?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sustainability, Globalization, Education, Latin America, Innovation, Human Rights, Competitiveness and Colombia.

▲ 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. Sustainability55▲ 2.5×53 topics
  2. Globalization49▲ 2.8×55 topics
  3. Education45▲ 2.9×48 topics
  4. Deep Learning38▲ 1.24×52 topics
  5. Climate Change38▲ 1.56×60 topics
  6. Machine Learning34◆ 1.14×52 topics
  7. Innovation33▲ 3.6×35 topics
  8. Human Rights32▲ 3.5×28 topics
  9. Sustainable Development29▲ 2.1×41 topics
  10. Renewable Energy29▲ 2.2×30 topics
  11. Latin America25▲ 15×19 topics
  12. Economic Growth21▲ 2.9×21 topics
  13. History20▲ 3.2×18 topics
  14. Social Capital20▲ 4.2×13 topics
  15. Competitiveness18▲ 25×7 topics
  16. Knowledge Management17▲ 3.5×20 topics
  17. Colombia17▲ 114×2 topics
  18. Communication17▲ 6.0×11 topics
  19. Violence17▲ 13×7 topics
  20. Social Responsibility16▲ 8.0×6 topics
  21. Society16▲ 9.3×8 topics
  22. Technology15▲ 3.3×15 topics
  23. Social Movements14▲ 5.3×14 topics
  24. Entrepreneurship14▲ 3.9×12 topics
  25. Small and Medium Enterprises14▲ 8.5×5 topics
  26. Corporate Social Responsibility13▲ 8.9×6 topics
  27. Urban Development13▲ 4.2×6 topics
  28. Subduction12▲ 18×3 topics
  29. Discourse Analysis12▲ 5.6×5 topics
  30. Conflict11▲ 7.8×4 topics
  31. Media11▲ 8.4×7 topics
  32. Innovation Ecosystems11▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Tectonic Evolution11▲ 51×2 topics
  34. Economy10▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Power10▲ 16×2 topics
  36. land10▲ 127×1 topic
  37. Andean Geodynamics10▲ 143×1 topic
  38. Caribbean Plate Boundary10▲ 143×1 topic
  39. Globalization Effects10▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Psychopharmacology Education10▲ 18×1 topic

Which research topics does Universidad EAFIT publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: History and Politics in Latin America, Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, Business, Innovation, and Economy and Digital Holography and Microscopy.

  1. 1 History and Politics in Latin America Demography 10 works
  2. 2 Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America Geophysics 10 works
  3. 3 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 10 works
  4. 4 Digital Holography and Microscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 10 works
  5. 5 Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  6. 6 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 7 works
  7. 7 Literary and Cultural Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  8. 8 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  9. 9 Image Processing Techniques and Applications Media Technology 5 works
  10. 10 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 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 available71.9%not open28.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.2%domestic only83.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Universidad EAFIT's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% lower 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 Universidad EAFIT as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0034% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Universidad EAFIT0.0033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Universidad EAFIT 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%Universidad EAFIT10.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.7% in 1999.

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