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Universitat Pompeu Fabra

In research, Universitat Pompeu Fabra stands highest in Social Sciences (#483 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#318 of 6,365 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#888 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Communication, Language and Linguistics and History — Communication is 9.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,256
of 28,054 · #1,139 all time
Rank in Spain
#27
of 658
Research works
17k
▲ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
412k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
62%
world 28%

What is Universitat Pompeu Fabra known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #483 of 10,521 26.2%1,752 #291
Social SciencesField #318 of 6,365 29.4%926 #304
Health SciencesDomain #888 of 11,982 22.7%482 #1301
Life SciencesDomain #819 of 7,800 28.3%367 #736
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #153 of 1,201 31.6%190 #193
Arts and HumanitiesField #285 of 1,998 19.6%424 #288
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #372 of 2,578 30.6%249 #286
MedicineField #1,592 of 10,443 22.2%388 #1618
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #656 of 3,579 29.1%198 #573
Computer ScienceField #897 of 4,667 22.4%315 #552

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universitat Pompeu Fabra 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#291 #483
  2. Social Sciences#304 #318
  3. Health Sciences#1,301 #888
  4. Life Sciences#736 #819
  5. Political Science and International Relations#193 #153
  6. Arts and Humanities#288 #285
  7. Sociology and Political Science#286 #372
  8. Medicine#1,618 #1,592
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#573 #656
  10. Computer Science#552 #897
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Universitat Pompeu Fabra specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Communication takes 9.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. CommunicationSubfield · 80.9 works9.2×
  2. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 120.9 works8.6×
  3. HistorySubfield · 67.6 works6.5×
  4. Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 29.4 works5.5×
← 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: 0.26× its world share, 40 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.15× its world share, 198 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.61× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.00× its world share, 105 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.41× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.25× its world share, 315 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 16 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 124 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.68× its world share, 109 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.57× its world share, 22 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 21 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.01× its world share, 86 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.63× its world share, 388 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.55× its world share, 424 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.81× its world share, 84 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.05× its world share, 33 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.70× its world share, 117 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.71× its world share, 168 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.27× its world share, 926 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Universitat Pompeu Fabra?

Ranked on the composite score, Teun A. van Dijk, Jordi Galı́ and Angel Lozano lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

  1. 1 Teun A. van Dijk Spain · #680 worldwide 2.5k citations · 107 works
  2. 2 Jordi Galı́ Spain · #2,625 worldwide 2.2k citations · 71 works
  3. 3 Angel Lozano Spain · #4,353 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
  4. 4 Carlos Castillo Spain · #8,506 worldwide 1.5k citations · 127 works
  5. 5 Roderic Guigó Spain · #10,421 worldwide 2.6k citations · 47 works
  6. 6 Nicholas T. Longford Spain · #11,184 worldwide 3.1k citations · 46 works
  7. 7 Robin M. Hogarth Spain · #11,853 worldwide 1.2k citations · 51 works
  8. 8 Michael Greenacre Spain · #12,106 worldwide 737 citations · 48 works
  9. 9 Miguel Ballesteros Spain · #18,689 worldwide 1.3k citations · 41 works
  10. 10 Ferrán Sanz Spain · #19,136 worldwide 579 citations · 51 works
All ranked researchers at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Which keywords describe research at Universitat Pompeu Fabra?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, History, Gender, Human Rights, Corpus Linguistics, Identity, Social Media and Literature.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Globalization202▲ 3.2×108 topics
  2. Social Media113▲ 2.5×34 topics
  3. History106▲ 4.7×48 topics
  4. Human Rights104▲ 3.1×59 topics
  5. Education91▲ 1.65×84 topics
  6. Gender91▲ 5.2×45 topics
  7. Identity90▲ 3.8×57 topics
  8. Literature81▲ 4.6×44 topics
  9. Public Health80▲ 1.71×56 topics
  10. Nationalism71▲ 4.8×28 topics
  11. COVID-1969▲ 1.57×28 topics
  12. Corpus Linguistics66▲ 9.4×5 topics
  13. Ethics63▲ 4.1×33 topics
  14. Culture62▲ 3.7×32 topics
  15. Colonialism55▲ 3.6×40 topics
  16. Latin America55▲ 8.8×19 topics
  17. Democracy54▲ 4.7×19 topics
  18. Welfare State52▲ 19×4 topics
  19. Social Networks49▲ 5.7×10 topics
  20. European Union48▲ 6.5×19 topics
  21. Historiography47▲ 12×11 topics
  22. Communication47▲ 4.7×18 topics
  23. Cultural Studies45▲ 3.7×28 topics
  24. Labor Market44▲ 4.7×15 topics
  25. Pragmatics44▲ 8.5×6 topics
  26. Social Movements44▲ 4.5×26 topics
  27. Public Opinion43▲ 11×6 topics
  28. Bilingualism42▲ 9.6×7 topics
  29. Society42▲ 6.8×21 topics
  30. Sociolinguistics35▲ 5.8×8 topics
  31. Spain35▲ 29×5 topics
  32. Machine Translation34▲ 6.4×2 topics
  33. Social Rights34▲ 33×2 topics
  34. Propaganda34▲ 20×4 topics
  35. Public Perception33▲ 8.1×8 topics
  36. Economic Crisis32▲ 8.3×4 topics
  37. Judicial Review32▲ 11×5 topics
  38. Spanish Civil War32▲ 62×2 topics
  39. Language Policy32▲ 6.9×5 topics
  40. Constitutionalism30▲ 9.8×5 topics

Which research topics does Universitat Pompeu Fabra publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Translation Studies and Practices, Communication and COVID-19 Impact, Human Rights and Immigration and Social Media and Politics.

Translation Studies and …25Translation Studies and Practices: 25 fractional worksCommunication and COVID-…23Communication and COVID-19 Impact: 23 fractional worksHuman Rights and Immigration: 18 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 18 fractional worksSpanish Linguistics and Language Studies: 17 fractional worksSpanish Culture and Identity: 17 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 16 fractional worksComparative constitution…16Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies: 16 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare Studies: 16 fractional workslinguistics and terminology studies: 15 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsCommunicationSociology and Political SciencePhilosophy3 others

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

  1. 1 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 25 works
  2. 2 Communication and COVID-19 Impact Communication 23 works
  3. 3 Human Rights and Immigration Sociology and Political Science 18 works
  4. 4 Social Media and Politics Communication 18 works
  5. 5 Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies Language and Linguistics 17 works
  6. 6 Spanish Culture and Identity Philosophy 17 works
  7. 7 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 16 works
  8. 8 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Political Science and International Relations 16 works
  9. 9 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 16 works
  10. 10 linguistics and terminology studies Language and Linguistics 15 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 available61.8%not open38.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.2%domestic only70.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Universitat Pompeu Fabra's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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