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Universidad Hispanoamerica

In research, Universidad Hispanoamerica stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,117 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,106
of 22,385 · #9,850 all time
Rank in Costa Rica
#10
of 26
Research works
519
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.6k
5.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Universidad Hispanoamerica

What is Universidad Hispanoamerica 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 #7,117 of 9,585 5.6%61 #9070

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universidad Hispanoamerica 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 Universidad Hispanoamerica work in?

In 2022-now, 40% of research at Universidad Hispanoamerica is in Social Sciences, 35% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (23%), Social Sciences (22%), Health Professions (11%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 68 fractional works · 39.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 38 fractional works · 22.1% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 60 fractional works · 35.1% of its workMedicine: 39 fractional works · 22.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 19 fractional works · 11.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 15 fractional works · 8.6% of its workPharmacy: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 14.5% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 7.3% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 4.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 10.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversidadHispanoamerica170fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences35%Social Sciences40%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3822.1%
    2. Psychology127.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance84.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting74.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities31.6%
    6. Decision Sciences00.2%
    1. Medicine3922.9%
    2. Health Professions1911.4%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
    5. Dentistry00.2%
    1. Computer Science127.3%
    2. Environmental Science84.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.1%
    4. Engineering10.7%
    5. Mathematics10.6%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences106.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.1%
    3. Neuroscience21.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.9%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
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: 1.26× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.91× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.39× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.93× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.94× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.32× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.19× its world share, 39 worksMedicineNursing: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.49× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.56× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.36× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.12× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.31× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 38 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions4.32×19 works
  2. Psychology2.31×12 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.12×8 works
  4. Social Sciences1.75×38 works
  5. Veterinary1.49×0 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.39×1 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.36×7 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.26×10 works
  9. Medicine1.19×39 works
  10. Environmental Science0.94×8 works
  11. Computer Science0.93×12 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.91×2 works
  13. Nursing0.88×1 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.71×2 works
  15. Neuroscience0.69×2 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.56×3 works
  17. Mathematics0.50×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×4 works
  19. Dentistry0.35×0 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.20×0 works
  21. Engineering0.05×1 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Universidad Hispanoamerica?

Ranked on the quality score, David Flikier, Erick Hernández-Bogantes and Antón Zamora lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universidad Hispanoamerica.

  1. 1 David Flikier Costa Rica · #2,974,330 worldwide 291 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Erick Hernández-Bogantes Costa Rica · #3,131,043 worldwide 419 citations · 44 works
  3. 3 Antón Zamora Costa Rica · #3,796,679 worldwide 23 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Ronald Evans-Meza Costa Rica · #5,588,053 worldwide 25 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Edén Galán-Rodas Costa Rica · #5,815,683 worldwide 276 citations · 87 works
  6. 6 Roger Enrique Bonilla-Carrión Costa Rica · #5,889,198 worldwide 139 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Catalina Capitán-Jiménez Costa Rica · #6,645,757 worldwide 159 citations · 58 works
All ranked researchers at Universidad Hispanoamerica

What are the most cited papers from Universidad Hispanoamerica?

The most cited paper from Universidad Hispanoamerica is "Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions" (Roldán Muradian et al., 2012), with 563 citations. Next come "Twelve-month safety of intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (Avastin®): results of the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES)" (458) and "Tractional retinal detachment following intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) in patients with severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy" (410).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions Roldán Muradian et al. · Conservation Letters Open access 26 Nov 2012 563
2 Twelve-month safety of intravitreal injections of bevacizumab (Avastin®): results of the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES) Lihteh Wu, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos, Hugo Quiroz–Mercado et al. · Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 2 Aug 2007 458
3 Tractional retinal detachment following intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) in patients with severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy J. Fernando Arévalo, Maurício Maia, Harry W. Flynn et al. · British Journal of Ophthalmology 26 Oct 2007 410
4 Primary Intravitreal Bevacizumab (Avastin) for Diabetic Macular Edema J. Fernando Arévalo, Jans Fromow-Guerra, Hugo Quiroz–Mercado et al. · Ophthalmology Open access 31 Mar 2007 335
5 Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: A single suite of Caribbean oceanic plateau magmas Christopher W. Sinton, Robert A. Duncan, Percy Denyer · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Open access 10 Jul 1997 142
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Universidad Hispanoamerica?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Health Promotion, Public Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Risk Factors, COVID-19, Educational Interventions and University Students.

▲ 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. Health Promotion18▲ 34×8 topics
  2. Epidemiology16▲ 2.3×38 topics
  3. Public Health14▲ 5.6×23 topics
  4. Mental Health12▲ 5.2×7 topics
  5. COVID-1911▲ 5.1×8 topics
  6. Education11▲ 3.9×16 topics
  7. Risk Factors11▲ 6.0×11 topics
  8. Nutrition10▲ 14×7 topics
  9. Educational Interventions9▲ 55×2 topics
  10. University Students9▲ 91×2 topics
  11. Chronic Diseases8▲ 20×2 topics
  12. Obesity8▲ 6.5×5 topics
  13. Globalization8▲ 2.5×16 topics
  14. Knowledge Management8▲ 8.9×8 topics
  15. Educational Technology8▲ 4.1×12 topics
  16. Healthy Lifestyles8▲ 117×1 topic
  17. Physical Activity8▲ 9.8×1 topic
  18. E-Learning8▲ 4.9×4 topics
  19. Quality of Life8▲ 3.1×9 topics
  20. Innovation8▲ 4.3×9 topics
  21. Health Education7▲ 10.0×4 topics
  22. Social Networks7▲ 15×4 topics
  23. Pandemic7▲ 4.0×6 topics
  24. Digital Marketing6▲ 9.9×2 topics
  25. Global Health6▲ 24×3 topics
  26. Communication6▲ 12×7 topics
  27. Social Support6▲ 6.8×4 topics
  28. Distance Learning6▲ 10×3 topics
  29. Digital Transformation6▲ 6.5×4 topics
  30. Aging Population6▲ 39×2 topics
  31. Technology6▲ 6.5×5 topics
  32. Medical Education5▲ 12×3 topics
  33. Pedagogy5▲ 6.2×4 topics
  34. Occupational Health5▲ 27×3 topics
  35. Informal Learning5▲ 22×3 topics
  36. Community Health5▲ 16×4 topics
  37. Social Determinants of Health5▲ 12×4 topics
  38. ICT4▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Social Responsibility4▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Virtual Teaching4▲ 47×1 topic

Which research topics does Universidad Hispanoamerica publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health and Lifestyle Studies, Educational Innovations and Technology, Communication and COVID-19 Impact and Health and Medical Education.

Health and Lifestyle Stu…8Health and Lifestyle Studies: 8 fractional worksEducational Innovations and Technology: 4 fractional worksCommunication and COVID-19 Impact: 4 fractional worksHealth and Medical Education: 4 fractional worksE-Learning and Knowledge Management: 3 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, and Economy: 3 fractional worksAging, Health, and Disab…3Aging, Health, and Disability: 3 fractional worksStress and Burnout Resea…3Stress and Burnout Research: 3 fractional worksPsychology Research and …2Psychology Research and Bibliometrics: 2 fractional worksNursing care and research2Nursing care and research: 2 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsInformation SystemsCommunicationComputer Science Applications5 others

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

  1. 1 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 8 works
  2. 2 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 4 works
  3. 3 Communication and COVID-19 Impact Communication 4 works
  4. 4 Health and Medical Education General Health Professions 4 works
  5. 5 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 3 works
  6. 6 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  7. 7 Aging, Health, and Disability Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  8. 8 Stress and Burnout Research Social Psychology 3 works
  9. 9 Psychology Research and Bibliometrics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Nursing care and research Pharmacy 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 available66.6%not open33.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.3%domestic only82.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Universidad Hispanoamerica's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower 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 Hispanoamerica as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00079% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Universidad Hispanoamerica0.00069% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Universidad Hispanoamerica 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 Hispanoamerica3.5% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 4.7% in 2019.

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