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University · Zabol · Iran

Zabol University

In research, Zabol University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,236 of 12,888 worldwide), Engineering (#3,950 of 6,636 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,974 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Animal Science and Zoology and Biomaterials — Animal Science and Zoology is 13.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,911
of 28,054 · #8,041 all time
Rank in Iran
#101
of 301
Research works
2.7k
▲ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
36k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
51%
world 28%

What is Zabol University 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
Physical SciencesDomain #3,236 of 12,888 17.7%322 #5705
EngineeringField #3,950 of 6,636 17.2%93 #5774
Life SciencesDomain #4,974 of 7,800 16.3%209 #6973
Social SciencesDomain #7,323 of 10,521 15.1%81 #10154
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,588 of 3,409 13.8%131 #2471
Environmental ScienceField #2,773 of 3,551 12.5%81 #3647
Health SciencesDomain #9,832 of 11,982 21.8%65 #15481

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Zabol University 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. Physical Sciences#5,705 #3,236
  2. Engineering#5,774 #3,950
  3. Life Sciences#6,973 #4,974
  4. Social Sciences#10,154 #7,323
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2,471 #2,588
  6. Environmental Science#3,647 #2,773
  7. Health Sciences#15,481 #9,832
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 Zabol University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Animal Science and Zoology takes 13.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 20.5 works14×
  2. BiomaterialsSubfield · 21.3 works7.4×
← 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: 4.08× its world share, 131 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.65× its world share, 59 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.04× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.25× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.62× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.63× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 3.21× its world share, 34 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 14 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.83× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.33× its world share, 8 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.91× its world share, 93 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.42× its world share, 81 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.45× its world share, 58 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.05× its world share, 16 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.40× its world share, 52 worksMedicineNursing: 2.20× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.64× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.62× its world share, 12 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.51× its world share, 11 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.95× its world share, 13 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.55× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Zabol University?

Ranked on the composite score, Behrooz Keshtegar, Ahmad Gharaei and Ehsan Ahmadifar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Zabol University.

  1. 1 Behrooz Keshtegar · #91,996 worldwide 330 citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Ahmad Gharaei · #567,453 worldwide 28 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Ehsan Ahmadifar · #630,839 worldwide 87 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Mohammad Reza Hajinezhad · #716,737 worldwide 22 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Abbas Rahdar · #769,202 worldwide 245 citations · 83 works
  6. 6 Ehsan Rakhshani · #822,750 worldwide 88 citations · 68 works
  7. 7 Mostafa Khajeh · #839,828 worldwide 118 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Reza Aryan · #900,956 worldwide 55 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Alireza Samzadeh‐Kermani · #950,018 worldwide 25 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Hamid Beyzaei · #1,065,151 worldwide 44 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Zabol University

Which keywords describe research at Zabol University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Drug Delivery, Biomedical Applications, Climate Change, Antioxidant, Nanoparticles, Toxicity, Gut Microbiota and Environmental Impact.

▲ 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. Climate Change50▲ 2.7×54 topics
  2. Biomedical Applications38▲ 4.8×25 topics
  3. Drug Delivery33▲ 9.1×14 topics
  4. Nanoparticles33▲ 3.8×31 topics
  5. Environmental Impact28▲ 2.5×30 topics
  6. Antioxidant27▲ 5.8×41 topics
  7. Sustainability25▲ 1.53×34 topics
  8. Nanomaterials21▲ 2.9×15 topics
  9. Toxicity20▲ 6.9×15 topics
  10. Remote Sensing20▲ 2.3×18 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress19▲ 1.76×37 topics
  12. Tissue Engineering18▲ 4.5×10 topics
  13. Cancer Therapy18▲ 4.8×12 topics
  14. Gut Microbiota18▲ 7.7×7 topics
  15. Genetic Diversity16▲ 5.4×18 topics
  16. Catalysis15▲ 3.4×21 topics
  17. Nanocomposites15▲ 2.7×20 topics
  18. Probiotics14▲ 9.1×4 topics
  19. Graphene14▲ 3.1×9 topics
  20. Antioxidant Activity13▲ 3.1×22 topics
  21. Amino Acids12▲ 20×4 topics
  22. Intestinal Barrier12▲ 23×2 topics
  23. Heat Stress12▲ 23×2 topics
  24. Tumor Targeting12▲ 9.9×3 topics
  25. Antimicrobial12▲ 6.1×11 topics
  26. Sensitivity Analysis12▲ 18×4 topics
  27. Antibiotic Alternatives12▲ 31×1 topic
  28. Poultry Production12▲ 31×1 topic
  29. Medicinal Plants11▲ 4.2×14 topics
  30. Antioxidant Properties11▲ 11×6 topics
  31. Water Resources11▲ 6.7×7 topics
  32. Magnetic Nanoparticles10▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Anticancer Agents10▲ 9.9×11 topics
  34. Surface Engineering9▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Nanocarriers9▲ 25×1 topic
  36. Polymeric Nanoparticles9▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Phylogeny9▲ 9.0×13 topics
  38. Sustainability Assessment9▲ 9.5×6 topics
  39. Biological Control8▲ 8.3×8 topics
  40. Cytotoxicity8▲ 8.8×9 topics

Which research topics does Zabol University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications.

Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 12 fractional worksNanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery: 9 fractional worksProbabilistic and Robust…7Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design: 7 fractional worksGraphene and Nanomateria…6Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications: 6 fractional worksNanoparticles: synthesis and applications: 6 fractional worksMetal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications: 6 fractional worksStatistical Distribution…5Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications: 5 fractional worksMetal complexes synthesis and properties: 5 fractional worksProtein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis: 4 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic t…4Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 4 fractional works
Animal Science and ZoologyBiomaterialsStatistics, Probability and UncertaintyBiomedical Engineering6 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Nutrition and PhysiologyAnimal Science and Zoology 12 works
  2. 2 Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryBiomaterials 9 works
  3. 3 Probabilistic and Robust Engineering DesignStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty 7 works
  4. 4 Graphene and Nanomaterials ApplicationsBiomedical Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsMaterials Chemistry 6 works
  6. 6 Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and ApplicationsInorganic Chemistry 6 works
  7. 7 Statistical Distribution Estimation and ApplicationsStatistics and Probability 5 works
  8. 8 Metal complexes synthesis and propertiesOncology 5 works
  9. 9 Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence AnalysisMolecular Biology 4 works
  10. 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestockGenetics 4 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 available50.8%not open49.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.9%domestic only81.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Zabol University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% 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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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.