Research in Reading
Science Explorer records 38 research institutions in Reading, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Reading, Intelligent Health (United Kingdom) and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
- Research institutions
- 38 10 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 61k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.8M 29.4 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.7% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Reading?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Reading work in?
In 2022-now, 43% of research in Reading is in Physical Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (13%), Social Sciences (12%), Medicine (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences3,30942.9%
- Engineering96712.6%
- Environmental Science6969.0%
- Computer Science6578.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences5036.5%
- Physics and Astronomy1491.9%
- Materials Science1461.9%
- Chemistry781.0%
- Mathematics610.8%
- Energy380.5%
- Chemical Engineering140.2%
- Social Sciences2,46432.0%
- Social Sciences95812.4%
- Arts and Humanities4666.0%
- Psychology3614.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting3084.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2743.6%
- Decision Sciences971.3%
- Health Sciences1,03313.4%
- Medicine81210.5%
- Health Professions1461.9%
- Nursing550.7%
- Veterinary150.2%
- Dentistry60.1%
- Life Sciences89911.7%
What is Reading strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Reading is most concentrated in Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Anthropology (8.4× the world share in Paleontology).
- PaleontologySubfield · 66.2 works8.4×
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 223.7 works7.7×
- AnthropologySubfield · 100.8 works5.5×
- Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 232.3 works4.7×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 397.6 works3.9×
- HistorySubfield · 74.0 works3.5×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3.87×398 works
- Arts and Humanities2.20×416 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.82×255 works
- Environmental Science1.69×549 works
- Psychology1.60×319 works
- Nursing1.49×48 works
- Veterinary1.48×13 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.33×280 works
- Decision Sciences1.29×81 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.16×360 works
- Neuroscience1.12×119 works
- Computer Science1.05×532 works
- Social Sciences1.04×863 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.86×125 works
- Engineering0.78×766 works
- Health Professions0.75×130 works
- Mathematics0.74×57 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.72×16 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.71×249 works
- Chemistry0.67×68 works
- Medicine0.56×704 works
- Materials Science0.52×119 works
- Energy0.51×30 works
- Chemical Engineering0.49×11 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.41×27 works
- Dentistry0.15×5 works
Which keywords describe research in Reading?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Data Assimilation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydrological Cycle, Deep Learning and Probabilistic Forecasting.
- Black Feminist Theory
- Storm Surge
- Tropical Cyclones
- Intersectionality
- Agricultural Origins
- Sea Level Rise
- Hydrological Modeling
- Corporate Governance
- Gender
- Mesoscale Modeling
- Public Health
- Climate Modeling
- Environmental Impact
- Boundary Layer
- Hydrological Cycle
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Neural Networks
- Sustainability
- Global Warming
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Remote Sensing
- Globalization
- Ocean Circulation
- Data Assimilation
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Extreme Events
- Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Precipitation Extremes
- Convective Parameterization
- Economic Growth
- History
- Literature
- Air Quality
- Satellite Observations
- Radiocarbon Dating
- African Diaspora
- Hurricanes
- Archaeology of Resistance
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city'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
- Climate Change612▲ 2.9×106 topics
- Deep Learning366▲ 1.38×82 topics
- Machine Learning283◆ 1.10×90 topics
- Global Warming250▲ 7.6×15 topics
- Remote Sensing224▲ 2.4×38 topics
- Sustainability216◆ 1.15×100 topics
- Globalization194▲ 1.28×115 topics
- Neural Networks175▲ 1.47×37 topics
- Ocean Circulation168▲ 16×3 topics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions164▲ 7.7×9 topics
- Data Assimilation163▲ 13×4 topics
- Hydrological Cycle153▲ 20×2 topics
- Probabilistic Forecasting138▲ 9.3×3 topics
- Boundary Layer136▲ 14×4 topics
- Extreme Events133▲ 19×2 topics
- Environmental Impact128◆ 0.98×65 topics
- Ensemble Kalman Filter128▲ 16×2 topics
- Climate Modeling124▲ 22×1 topic
- Precipitation Extremes124▲ 22×1 topic
- Public Health122◆ 1.09×62 topics
- Convective Parameterization120▲ 27×1 topic
- Mesoscale Modeling120▲ 27×1 topic
- Economic Growth103▲ 1.64×26 topics
- Gender90▲ 2.2×42 topics
- History89▲ 1.66×46 topics
- Corporate Governance88▲ 1.56×24 topics
- Literature80▲ 1.89×46 topics
- Hydrological Modeling78▲ 4.3×5 topics
- Air Quality77▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Sea Level Rise71▲ 7.3×3 topics
- Satellite Observations66▲ 8.6×3 topics
- Agricultural Origins62▲ 25×1 topic
- Radiocarbon Dating62▲ 25×1 topic
- Intersectionality58▲ 4.0×13 topics
- African Diaspora55▲ 18×4 topics
- Tropical Cyclones50▲ 11×2 topics
- Hurricanes42▲ 16×1 topic
- Storm Surge42▲ 16×1 topic
- Archaeology of Resistance41▲ 59×1 topic
- Black Feminist Theory41▲ 59×1 topic
What research is done in Reading?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 93 works
- 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 87 works
- 3 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 57 works
- 4 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 38 works
- 5 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 29 works
- 6 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 29 works
- 7 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 26 works
- 8 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 22 works
- 9 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 20 works
- 10 Historical Architecture and Urbanism History 20 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.2% in 2016.
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