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Universidad Indoamérica

In research, Universidad Indoamérica stands highest in Law (#4 of 445 worldwide), Social Sciences (#704 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#513 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Law, Computer Science Applications and Occupational Therapy (Law is 34.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,764
of 22,385 · #3,516 all time
Rank in Ecuador
#9
of 71
Research works
2.3k
▲ 208% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.2k
2.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Universidad Indoamérica

What is Universidad Indoamérica 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
LawSubfield #4 of 445 16.3%306 #44
Social SciencesDomain #704 of 9,585 14.2%1,025 #1394
Social SciencesField #513 of 5,988 14.7%761 #851
Physical SciencesDomain #2,220 of 10,670 10.7%273 #4923
EducationSubfield #507 of 1,930 18.6%161 #876
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #462 of 1,187 11.1%124 #1052
Computer ScienceField #1,786 of 4,417 13.1%134 #3533
Health SciencesDomain #4,478 of 9,902 10.1%128 #8314
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #903 of 1,798 9.2%91 #1832
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #660 of 1,307 9.3%88 #1350

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universidad Indoamérica 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. Law#44 #4
  2. Social Sciences#1,394 #704
  3. Social Sciences#851 #513
  4. Physical Sciences#4,923 #2,220
  5. Education#876 #507
  6. Political Science and International Relations#1,052 #462
  7. Computer Science#3,533 #1,786
  8. Health Sciences#8,314 #4,478
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#1,832 #903
  10. Economics and Econometrics#1,350 #660
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 Indoamérica work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at Universidad Indoamérica is in Social Sciences, 19% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (51%), Computer Science (9%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,163 fractional works · 68.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 861 fractional works · 50.9% of its workLaw: 343 fractional works · 20.3% of its workEducation: 185 fractional works · 10.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 137 fractional works · 8.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 82 fractional works · 4.8% of its workCommunication: 21 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 18 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 102 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 98 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 95 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAccounting: 29 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 24 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 84 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 30 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 26 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 15 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 318 fractional works · 18.8% of its workComputer Science: 153 fractional works · 9.1% of its workInformation Systems: 76 fractional works · 4.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 39 fractional works · 2.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 77 fractional works · 4.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 19 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 66 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 32 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 154 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMedicine: 82 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 34 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 66 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 24 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 22 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 57 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 30 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 14 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 13 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversidadIndoamérica1,692fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences1,16368.7%
    1. Social Sciences86150.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1026.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting955.6%
    4. Psychology845.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities150.9%
    6. Decision Sciences70.4%
    1. Computer Science1539.1%
    2. Engineering774.6%
    3. Environmental Science663.9%
    4. Energy70.4%
    5. Materials Science50.3%
    6. Mathematics30.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.1%
    8. Physics and Astronomy20.1%
    9. Chemistry10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine824.9%
    2. Health Professions663.9%
    3. Dentistry30.2%
    4. Nursing20.1%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences301.8%
    2. Neuroscience140.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology90.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology40.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Universidad Indoamérica specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 34.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. LawSubfield · 343.2 works35×
  2. Computer Science ApplicationsSubfield · 39.0 works9.3×
  3. Occupational TherapySubfield · 24.4 works8.6×
  4. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 136.7 works5.4×
  5. CommunicationSubfield · 20.8 works4.5×
← 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: 0.37× its world share, 30 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.10× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.52× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.17× its world share, 154 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 77 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.79× its world share, 66 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.47× its world share, 66 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 82 worksMedicineNursing: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 15 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.74× its world share, 95 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.81× its world share, 102 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.63× its world share, 84 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.02× its world share, 861 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.02×861 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.81×102 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting1.74×95 works
  4. Psychology1.63×84 works
  5. Health Professions1.47×66 works
  6. Computer Science1.17×154 works
  7. Environmental Science0.79×66 works
  8. Neuroscience0.52×14 works
  9. Energy0.48×7 works
  10. Veterinary0.41×1 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.41×7 works
  12. Dentistry0.39×3 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.37×30 works
  14. Engineering0.30×77 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.30×15 works
  16. Medicine0.25×82 works
  17. Nursing0.22×2 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.21×4 works
  19. Mathematics0.16×3 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.10×9 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.08×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×2 works
  23. Materials Science0.08×5 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  25. Chemistry0.05×1 works
  26. Physics and Astronomy0.05×2 works

Who are the top researchers at Universidad Indoamérica?

Ranked on the quality score, Claudia Reytor-González, Parvaneh Saeidi and Aracelly Fernanda Núñez-Naranjo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universidad Indoamérica.

  1. 1 Claudia Reytor-González Ecuador · #326,058 worldwide 60 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Parvaneh Saeidi Ecuador · #429,889 worldwide 2.6k citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Aracelly Fernanda Núñez-Naranjo Ecuador · #526,875 worldwide 274 citations · 80 works
  4. 4 Fátima Avilés-Castillo Ecuador · #1,414,076 worldwide 133 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Nora H. Oleas Ecuador · #1,848,281 worldwide 960 citations · 80 works
  6. 6 Laura Salazar Ecuador · #1,864,298 worldwide 488 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 David Salazar‐Valenzuela Ecuador · #1,888,662 worldwide 888 citations · 72 works
  8. 8 Daniela Fernanda López Moya Ecuador · #2,018,699 worldwide 69 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 José Clemente Mora-Rosales Ecuador · #2,056,435 worldwide 33 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 David Ricardo Castillo-Salazar Ecuador · #2,057,026 worldwide 30 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Universidad Indoamérica

What are the most cited papers from Universidad Indoamérica?

The most cited paper from Universidad Indoamérica is "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity" (Ben C. Scheele et al., 2019), with 1,411 citations. Next come "Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands" (426) and "High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus" (303).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity Ben C. Scheele et al. · Science Open access 28 Mar 2019 1,411
2 Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands Fernando T. Maestre et al. · Science Open access131 authors 24 Nov 2022 426
3 High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus Marcelo Gehara et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 10 Sep 2014 303
4 COVID-19, consumer behavior, technology, and society: A literature review and bibliometric analysis Jorge Cruz‐Cárdenas, Екатерина Забелина, Jorge Guadalupe-Lanas et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 31 Aug 2021 281
5 Real-time DNA barcoding in a rainforest using nanopore sequencing: opportunities for rapid biodiversity assessments and local capacity building Aaron F. Pomerantz, Nicolás Peñafiel, Alejandro Arteaga et al. · GigaScience Open access Apr 2018 281
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Universidad Indoamérica?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Education, Globalization, Human Rights, Inclusive Education, Social Justice, Criminal Justice, Ethics and Youth Offenders.

▲ 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. Education316▲ 11×41 topics
  2. Globalization281▲ 8.4×36 topics
  3. Human Rights271▲ 16×28 topics
  4. Inclusive Education200▲ 33×12 topics
  5. Social Justice163▲ 16×13 topics
  6. Criminal Justice157▲ 41×6 topics
  7. Ethics146▲ 17×6 topics
  8. Youth Offenders144▲ 188×2 topics
  9. Criminal Law144▲ 54×2 topics
  10. Legal Reform144▲ 281×2 topics
  11. Drug Policy143▲ 300×1 topic
  12. Innovation123▲ 7.1×34 topics
  13. Sustainable Development109▲ 4.1×38 topics
  14. Digital Marketing103▲ 16×3 topics
  15. Educational Technology98▲ 4.9×32 topics
  16. Knowledge Management97▲ 10×20 topics
  17. Small and Medium Enterprises95▲ 32×4 topics
  18. Social Responsibility92▲ 23×8 topics
  19. Competitiveness91▲ 68×6 topics
  20. Globalization Effects87▲ 74×3 topics
  21. Innovation Ecosystems86▲ 50×2 topics
  22. Economic Impact86▲ 9.5×5 topics
  23. Urban Development85▲ 14×6 topics
  24. Psychopharmacology Education82▲ 78×1 topic
  25. Tourism Management82▲ 70×1 topic
  26. E-Learning82▲ 5.0×14 topics
  27. Technology80▲ 9.1×12 topics
  28. Prison System79▲ 85×2 topics
  29. Delinquency78▲ 108×2 topics
  30. Restorative Justice78▲ 33×2 topics
  31. Penal System77▲ 282×1 topic
  32. Social Control77▲ 199×1 topic
  33. Social Impact76▲ 12×10 topics
  34. International Law69▲ 13×14 topics
  35. Pedagogy66▲ 7.8×11 topics
  36. Research66▲ 31×5 topics
  37. Latin America62▲ 19×12 topics
  38. Legal Evidence60▲ 283×1 topic
  39. Standards of Proof60▲ 283×1 topic
  40. Teaching Strategies57▲ 12×6 topics

Which research topics does Universidad Indoamérica publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social Issues and Policies in Latin America, Business, Innovation, and Economy, Criminal Justice and Penology and Legal processes and jurisprudence.

Social Issues and Polici…143Social Issues and Policies in Latin America: 143 fractional worksBusiness, Innovation, and Economy: 82 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Penology: 77 fractional worksLegal processes and jurisprudence: 60 fractional worksViolence, Education, and Gender Studies: 45 fractional worksEducational Innovations …41Educational Innovations and Technology: 41 fractional worksComparative International Legal Studies: 41 fractional worksComparative constitutional jurisprudence studies: 39 fractional worksPublic Health and Environmental Issues: 27 fractional worksData Privacy and Cybersecurity: 26 fractional works
LawEconomics and EconometricsEducationInformation Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 Social Issues and Policies in Latin America Law 143 works
  2. 2 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 82 works
  3. 3 Criminal Justice and Penology Law 77 works
  4. 4 Legal processes and jurisprudence Law 60 works
  5. 5 Violence, Education, and Gender Studies Education 45 works
  6. 6 Educational Innovations and Technology Information Systems 41 works
  7. 7 Comparative International Legal Studies Political Science and International Relations 41 works
  8. 8 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Political Science and International Relations 39 works
  9. 9 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 27 works
  10. 10 Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Law 26 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 available75.3%not open24.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.0%domestic only85.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Universidad Indoamérica's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 208% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Universidad Indoamérica as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0061% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Universidad Indoamérica0.0094% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Universidad Indoamérica 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%Universidad Indoamérica15.3% 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 15.3% in 2025.

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