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Université Paris Nanterre

In research, Université Paris Nanterre stands highest in Social Sciences (#568 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#555 of 5,988 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#251 of 1,896 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Arts and Humanities, History and Philosophy of Science and History (General Arts and Humanities is 26.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,346
of 22,385 · #1,704 all time
Rank in France
#50
of 517
Research works
17k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
69k
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Université Paris Nanterre

What is Université Paris Nanterre 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 #568 of 9,585 4.7%3,433 #653
Social SciencesField #555 of 5,988 4.6%1,853 #658
Arts and HumanitiesField #251 of 1,896 4.9%1,079 #258
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #458 of 2,526 4.9%815 #451
Physical SciencesDomain #2,792 of 10,670 5.8%413 #2714
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #380 of 1,187 4.4%321 #458
PsychologyField #726 of 2,121 5.4%251 #943
Health SciencesDomain #3,955 of 9,902 6.3%297 #3767
PhilosophySubfield #141 of 307 5.9%180 #231
Life SciencesDomain #2,943 of 6,403 4.5%116 #4200

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Université Paris Nanterre 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#653 #568
  2. Social Sciences#658 #555
  3. Arts and Humanities#258 #251
  4. Sociology and Political Science#451 #458
  5. Physical Sciences#2,714 #2,792
  6. Political Science and International Relations#458 #380
  7. Psychology#943 #726
  8. Health Sciences#3,767 #3,955
  9. Philosophy#231 #141
  10. Life Sciences#4,200 #2,943
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 Université Paris Nanterre work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Université Paris Nanterre is in Social Sciences, 10% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Arts and Humanities (25%), Psychology (6%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 3,621 fractional works · 80.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,948 fractional works · 43.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 851 fractional works · 18.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 334 fractional works · 7.4% of its workAnthropology: 192 fractional works · 4.3% of its workUrban Studies: 121 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCultural Studies: 107 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEducation: 74 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLaw: 63 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 55 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 34 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 29 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 1,139 fractional works · 25.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 250 fractional works · 5.5% of its workHistory: 223 fractional works · 5.0% of its workPhilosophy: 188 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 116 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArcheology: 101 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 96 fractional works · 2.1% of its workReligious studies: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClassics: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMuseology: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 268 fractional works · 5.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 135 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 52 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 142 fractional works · 3.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 59 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAccounting: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 110 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 75 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFinance: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 442 fractional works · 9.8% of its workComputer Science: 157 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 70 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 141 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 35 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 50 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 315 fractional works · 7.0% of its workHealth Professions: 203 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 175 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 109 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 54 fractional works · 1.2% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 126 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 62 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 43 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversité ParisNanterre4,504fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences80%

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 Sciences3,62180.4%
    1. Social Sciences1,94843.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities1,13925.3%
    3. Psychology2685.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1423.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1102.4%
    6. Decision Sciences150.3%
    1. Computer Science1573.5%
    2. Engineering1413.1%
    3. Environmental Science501.1%
    4. Mathematics280.6%
    5. Materials Science220.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy210.5%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences140.3%
    8. Energy60.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.0%
    10. Chemistry10.0%
    1. Health Professions2034.5%
    2. Medicine1092.4%
    3. Veterinary20.0%
    4. Nursing10.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences621.4%
    2. Neuroscience431.0%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology180.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Université Paris Nanterre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Arts and Humanities takes 26.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 24.5 works26×
  2. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 115.5 works17×
  3. HistorySubfield · 223.3 works15×
  4. AnthropologySubfield · 191.8 works15×
  5. ClassicsSubfield · 31.1 works12×
  6. Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 54.7 works11×
← 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: 0.29× its world share, 62 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 18 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.59× its world share, 43 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.45× its world share, 157 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 141 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 50 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.14× its world share, 22 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.54× its world share, 28 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.21× its world share, 21 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.71× its world share, 203 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 109 worksMedicineNursing: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 8.76× its world share, 1,139 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.98× its world share, 142 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.14× its world share, 110 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.95× its world share, 268 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.42× its world share, 1,948 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 8.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities8.76×1,139 works
  2. Social Sciences3.42×1,948 works
  3. Psychology1.95×268 works
  4. Health Professions1.71×203 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.14×110 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.98×142 works
  7. Neuroscience0.59×43 works
  8. Mathematics0.54×28 works
  9. Computer Science0.45×157 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.35×15 works
  11. Veterinary0.32×2 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×62 works
  13. Environmental Science0.23×50 works
  14. Engineering0.21×141 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.21×21 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.20×14 works
  17. Energy0.16×6 works
  18. Materials Science0.14×22 works
  19. Medicine0.13×109 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×18 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.06×1 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.06×1 works
  23. Nursing0.04×1 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×1 works
  25. Dentistry0.02×0 works
  26. Chemistry0.01×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Université Paris Nanterre?

Ranked on the quality score, Corentin J. Gosling, Antoine Harfouche and Luc Miller lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Université Paris Nanterre.

  1. 1 Corentin J. Gosling France · #355,519 worldwide 1.4k citations · 91 works
  2. 2 Antoine Harfouche France · #400,867 worldwide 1.1k citations · 66 works
  3. 3 Luc Miller France · #728,553 worldwide 1.1k citations · 32 works
  4. 4 Anthony Lantian France · #730,190 worldwide 1.6k citations · 95 works
  5. 5 Shah Nawaz Burokur France · #928,441 worldwide 8.9k citations · 454 works
  6. 6 Boyan Sirakov France · #1,028,971 worldwide 2.2k citations · 102 works
  7. 7 Paul Ricœur France · #1,092,822 worldwide 20k citations · 476 works
  8. 8 Laurent Ruet France · #1,113,680 worldwide 3.3k citations · 125 works
  9. 9 Cyril Roberto France · #1,131,157 worldwide 1.5k citations · 83 works
  10. 10 Omar Hammouda France · #1,261,690 worldwide 8.4k citations · 179 works
All ranked researchers at Université Paris Nanterre

What are the most cited papers from Université Paris Nanterre?

The most cited paper from Université Paris Nanterre is "Relevance: Communication and Cognition" (Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson, 1986), with 6,071 citations. Next come "Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement on Eating Behaviour and Physical Activity: Results of the ECLB-COVID19 International Online Survey" (2,116) and "Density of states on fractals : « fractons »" (2,115).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Relevance: Communication and Cognition Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson 6 Mar 1986 6,071
2 Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement on Eating Behaviour and Physical Activity: Results of the ECLB-COVID19 International Online Survey Achraf Ammar et al. · Nutrients Open access 28 May 2020 2,116
3 Density of states on fractals : « fractons » S. Alexander, R. Orbach · Journal de Physique Lettres Open access 1982 2,115
4 Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Mark Jamieson, Alfred Gell · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Dec 1999 1,937
5 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya Sonia Harmand et al. · Nature Open access 19 May 2015 1,134
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Université Paris Nanterre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Community Engagement, Public Policy, Territorial Governance, Local Development, Gender, Social Justice, Identity and Colonialism.

▲ 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. Globalization374▲ 4.2×129 topics
  2. Community Engagement354▲ 24×17 topics
  3. Public Policy349▲ 16×28 topics
  4. Territorial Governance343▲ 66×4 topics
  5. Local Development341▲ 73×2 topics
  6. Gender337▲ 14×54 topics
  7. Social Justice326▲ 12×36 topics
  8. Identity303▲ 9.3×71 topics
  9. Sustainable Development291▲ 4.1×60 topics
  10. Colonialism290▲ 14×51 topics
  11. History253▲ 8.1×60 topics
  12. Citizen Participation242▲ 47×3 topics
  13. Environmental Participation239▲ 75×1 topic
  14. Proximity and Innovation239▲ 75×1 topic
  15. Literature218▲ 8.9×58 topics
  16. Gender Studies214▲ 31×15 topics
  17. Mental Health205▲ 3.2×42 topics
  18. Religion186▲ 8.9×39 topics
  19. Nationalism177▲ 8.7×31 topics
  20. Migration177▲ 11×26 topics
  21. Cultural Studies169▲ 10×34 topics
  22. Innovation162▲ 3.5×44 topics
  23. Social Movements153▲ 12×29 topics
  24. Sociolinguistics147▲ 18×8 topics
  25. Culture147▲ 6.2×33 topics
  26. Citizenship132▲ 24×12 topics
  27. Democracy131▲ 8.3×25 topics
  28. Social Determinants of Health130▲ 13×7 topics
  29. Philosophy127▲ 6.4×39 topics
  30. Cultural Identity127▲ 5.7×34 topics
  31. Ethnographic Research126▲ 56×4 topics
  32. Memory126▲ 11×23 topics
  33. Pragmatics125▲ 18×6 topics
  34. Sociological Analysis123▲ 49×2 topics
  35. Educational Policies123▲ 25×2 topics
  36. Professional Practices122▲ 76×1 topic
  37. Public Action122▲ 76×1 topic
  38. Social Change113▲ 20×16 topics
  39. Social Innovation111▲ 16×9 topics
  40. Institutionalization110▲ 26×4 topics

Which research topics does Université Paris Nanterre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: French Urban and Social Studies, Education, sociology, and vocational training, Social Sciences and Governance and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis.

French Urban and Social …239French Urban and Social Studies: 239 fractional worksEducation, sociology, and vocational training: 122 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Governance: 102 fractional worksLinguistics and Discourse Analysis: 92 fractional worksHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 87 fractional worksPsychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research: 86 fractional worksMulticulturalism, Politi…84Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender: 84 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family: 64 fractional worksFrench Historical and Cultural Studies: 64 fractional worksCultural Insights and Digital Impacts: 63 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceUrban StudiesPhilosophyHistory and Philosophy of Science4 others

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

  1. 1 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 239 works
  2. 2 Education, sociology, and vocational training Sociology and Political Science 122 works
  3. 3 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 102 works
  4. 4 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Philosophy 92 works
  5. 5 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 87 works
  6. 6 Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Clinical Psychology 86 works
  7. 7 Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender Political Science and International Relations 84 works
  8. 8 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 64 works
  9. 9 French Historical and Cultural Studies History 64 works
  10. 10 Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts Computer Networks and Communications 63 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 available35.5%not open64.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.2%domestic only90.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Université Paris Nanterre'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 Université Paris Nanterre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Université Paris Nanterre0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Université Paris Nanterre 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 2025Université Paris Nanterre7.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.9% in 1991.

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