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Berkshire Community College

In research, Berkshire Community College stands highest in General Health Professions (#847 of 1,886 worldwide), Health Professions (#2,063 of 3,315 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#12,723 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions, Health Professions and Health Sciences (General Health Professions is 38.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#18,144
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#3,778
of 7,310
Research works
429
▼ 73% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
4.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.84×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
71%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Berkshire Community College

What is Berkshire Community College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #847 of 1,886 4.8%215
Health ProfessionsField #2,063 of 3,315 4.4%237
Health SciencesDomain #12,723 of 16,688 4.2%298

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Berkshire Community College 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 fields of science does Berkshire Community College work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Berkshire Community College is in Health Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Health Professions (55%), Medicine (10%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 37 fractional works · 65.0% of its workHealth Professions: 31 fractional works · 55.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 30 fractional works · 52.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 16.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 11.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.6% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKBerkshireCommunity College57fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences65%Social Sciences16%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions3155.0%
    2. Medicine69.9%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences47.0%
    2. Psychology23.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23.0%
    4. Decision Sciences11.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    1. Computer Science35.0%
    2. Engineering24.2%
    3. Environmental Science11.1%
    4. Materials Science00.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    1. Neuroscience12.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Berkshire Community College specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 38.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 29.7 works38×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 31.2 works21×
  3. Health SciencesDomain · 36.9 works2.8×
← 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: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.67× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.64× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 20.88× its world share, 31 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.52× its world share, 6 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.82× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.40× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 20.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions20.88×31 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.82×1 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.67×0 works
  4. Neuroscience1.48×1 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.40×2 works
  6. Psychology1.00×2 works
  7. Computer Science0.64×3 works
  8. Social Sciences0.56×4 works
  9. Medicine0.52×6 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.47×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.44×1 works
  12. Engineering0.28×2 works
  13. Environmental Science0.22×1 works
  14. Materials Science0.22×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.20×0 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.18×0 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.11×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  19. Dentistry0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Berkshire Community College?

Ranked on the quality score, Howard Tomlinson and David Oliver lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Berkshire Community College.

  1. 1 Howard Tomlinson United States · #2,739,006 worldwide 118 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 David Oliver United States · #7,667,527 worldwide 1k citations · 349 works
All ranked researchers at Berkshire Community College

What are the most cited papers from Berkshire Community College?

The most cited paper from Berkshire Community College is "The thermal and boron-catalysed direct amide formation reactions: mechanistically understudied yet important processes" (Hayley Charville, David Adam Jackson, George R. Hodges et al., 2010), with 256 citations. Next come "Cholinesterase inhibitors in the treatment of dementia." (158) and "Fluoride degradable and thermally debondable polyurethane based adhesive" (62).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The thermal and boron-catalysed direct amide formation reactions: mechanistically understudied yet important processes Hayley Charville, David Adam Jackson, George R. Hodges et al. · Chemical Communications 2010 256
2 Cholinesterase inhibitors in the treatment of dementia. Jay M. Ellis · PubMed Mar 2005 158
3 Fluoride degradable and thermally debondable polyurethane based adhesive Tahkur S. Babra, Akash R. Trivedi, C.N. Warriner et al. · Polymer Chemistry Open access 2017 62
4 Are general practitioners ready to prevent the spread of HIV? Ruairidh Milne, Steven Keen · BMJ Open access 20 Feb 1988 58
5 SOCIAL ATTITUDE CORRELATES OF EYSENCK'S PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS Glenn D. Wilson, Anthony H. Brazendale · Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal Open access 1973 52
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Berkshire Community College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Primary Care, Public Health, NHS, COVID-19, doctors' strikes, Healthcare Workers, Healthcare and Patient Care.

▲ 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. Primary Care25▲ 121×8 topics
  2. Public Health25▲ 30×5 topics
  3. NHS22▲ 2708×2 topics
  4. COVID-1917▲ 23×4 topics
  5. Healthcare Workers16▲ 119×1 topic
  6. doctors' strikes16▲ 2438×1 topic
  7. Healthcare8▲ 12×4 topics
  8. Patient Care7▲ 101×3 topics
  9. Policy6▲ 52×1 topic
  10. Reform6▲ 176×1 topic
  11. Health Care Costs2▲ 46×2 topics
  12. Quality of Care2▲ 42×3 topics
  13. Community Health2▲ 18×1 topic
  14. Palliative Care2▲ 20×3 topics
  15. Pediatrics2▲ 109×1 topic
  16. Social Determinants2▲ 14×2 topics
  17. Ethical Considerations2▲ 7.9×3 topics
  18. End-of-Life1▲ 28×2 topics
  19. Elderly Care1▲ 15×2 topics
  20. Medical Ethics1▲ 19×3 topics
  21. Quality Improvement1▲ 12×2 topics
  22. Patient Experience1▲ 19×2 topics
  23. Advance Care Planning1▲ 33×1 topic
  24. Elderly Patients1▲ 11×3 topics
  25. Family Perspectives1▲ 33×1 topic
  26. Patient Engagement1▲ 14×2 topics
  27. Architecture-Based Approach1▲ 83×1 topic
  28. Choosing Wisely1▲ 83×1 topic
  29. Concept Mapping1▲ 49×1 topic
  30. Direct Payments1▲ 182×1 topic
  31. Financial Analysis1▲ 16×1 topic
  32. Health Policy1▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Hypersonic Effect1▲ 128×1 topic
  34. Low-Value Care1▲ 83×1 topic
  35. Monetary Policy1▲ 7.8×1 topic
  36. Nursing Home1▲ 45×1 topic
  37. Person-Centered Care1▲ 45×1 topic
  38. Personalisation1▲ 182×1 topic
  39. Robotics Programming1▲ 182×1 topic
  40. Ultrasonic Perception1▲ 128×1 topic

Which research topics does Berkshire Community College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Healthcare Systems and Challenges, Health Services Management and Policy, Child and Adolescent Health and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.

Healthcare Systems and C…16Healthcare Systems and Challenges: 16 fractional worksHealth Services Manageme…6Health Services Management and Policy: 6 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Hea…2Child and Adolescent Health: 2 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 1 fractional worksHuman auditory perception and evaluation: 1 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 1 fractional worksHealthcare cost, quality, practices: 1 fractional worksHealthcare innovation and challenges: 1 fractional worksEvaluation and Performance Assessment: 1 fractional worksSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthAerospace EngineeringEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 Healthcare Systems and Challenges General Health Professions 16 works
  2. 2 Health Services Management and Policy General Health Professions 6 works
  3. 3 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 2 works
  4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  5. 5 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  7. 7 Healthcare cost, quality, practices General Health Professions 1 works
  8. 8 Healthcare innovation and challenges Education 1 works
  9. 9 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  10. 10 Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software 1 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 available70.9%not open29.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.1%domestic only95.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Berkshire Community College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 73% 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 Berkshire Community College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Berkshire Community College0.000077% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Berkshire Community College 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.

5%10%all institutions10.0% in 2022Berkshire Community College8.0% in 20222020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.0% in 2022.

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