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Civil Service

In research, Civil Service stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,809 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,066 of 5,988 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,012 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Philosophy, General Health Professions and Health Professions (Philosophy is 19.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,986
of 22,385 · #6,421 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#300
of 862
Research works
845
▲ 193% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.2k
10.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
Civil Service

What is Civil Service 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 #3,809 of 9,585 6.3%122 #5207
Social SciencesField #3,066 of 5,988 7.6%73 #3082
Health SciencesDomain #8,012 of 9,902 2.6%63 #5286

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Civil Service 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#5,207 #3,809
  2. Social Sciences#3,082 #3,066
  3. Health Sciences#5,286 #8,012
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 Civil Service work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Civil Service is in Social Sciences, 28% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Health Professions (19%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 132 fractional works · 56.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 81 fractional works · 34.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 28 fractional works · 11.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 fractional works · 6.7% of its workTransportation: 12 fractional works · 5.2% of its workLaw: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workDevelopment: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 22 fractional works · 9.2% of its workPhilosophy: 20 fractional works · 8.5% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 67 fractional works · 28.3% of its workHealth Professions: 45 fractional works · 19.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 44 fractional works · 18.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 21 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 14.3% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 12 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCivil Service235fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences28%Social Sciences56%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences8134.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities229.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance125.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting83.2%
    5. Psychology52.3%
    6. Decision Sciences41.7%
    1. Health Professions4519.4%
    2. Medicine218.8%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    1. Engineering187.8%
    2. Computer Science83.6%
    3. Environmental Science41.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy31.1%
    5. Materials Science00.2%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Civil Service specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Philosophy takes 19.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PhilosophySubfield · 20.0 works20×
  2. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 44.4 works14×
  3. Health ProfessionsField · 45.5 works7.3×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.46× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.52× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 7.35× its world share, 46 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 21 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 3.17× its world share, 22 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.00× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.76× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.48× its world share, 12 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.74× its world share, 81 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.35×46 works
  2. Arts and Humanities3.17×22 works
  3. Social Sciences2.74×81 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.48×12 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.76×4 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.00×8 works
  7. Psychology0.74×5 works
  8. Engineering0.52×18 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.49×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.46×8 works
  11. Medicine0.46×21 works
  12. Environmental Science0.31×4 works
  13. Dentistry0.27×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×1 works
  15. Neuroscience0.10×0 works
  16. Nursing0.07×0 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  18. Energy0.06×0 works
  19. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.05×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works
  22. Mathematics0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Civil Service?

Ranked on the quality score, Edward Thomas, Milton M. Mandell and Edna Trull lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Civil Service.

  1. 1 Edward Thomas United Kingdom · #1,385,216 worldwide 401 citations · 128 works
  2. 2 Milton M. Mandell United Kingdom · #2,478,418 worldwide 102 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Edna Trull United Kingdom · #2,556,606 worldwide 5 citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Ronald McGill United Kingdom · #2,733,578 worldwide 122 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 William Edward Maxwell United Kingdom · #2,928,459 worldwide 119 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 H. Eliot Kaplan United Kingdom · #3,167,758 worldwide 8 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 J. K. Stanford United Kingdom · #3,409,262 worldwide 58 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 S.V. Dulewicz United Kingdom · #3,819,614 worldwide 199 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Ronald McGill United Kingdom · #3,826,546 worldwide 336 citations · 30 works
  10. 10 Edgar Anstey United Kingdom · #4,008,107 worldwide 69 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Civil Service

What are the most cited papers from Civil Service?

The most cited paper from Civil Service is "MET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib" (James M. Bean et al., 2007), with 1,598 citations. Next come "Endothelial cell injury due to copper-catalyzed hydrogen peroxide generation from homocysteine." (825) and "VIGOROUS EXERCISE IN LEISURE-TIME: PROTECTION AGAINST CORONARY HEART DISEASE" (729).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib James M. Bean et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 18 Dec 2007 1,598
2 Endothelial cell injury due to copper-catalyzed hydrogen peroxide generation from homocysteine. Gordon A. Starkebaum, John M. Harlan · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access Apr 1986 825
3 VIGOROUS EXERCISE IN LEISURE-TIME: PROTECTION AGAINST CORONARY HEART DISEASE J.N. Morris, Rebecca Pollard, M G Everitt et al. · The Lancet Dec 1980 729
4 Increased density of tumor-associated macrophages is associated with decreased survival in advanced thyroid cancer Marcia A. Ryder, Ronald A. Ghossein, Julio C. Ricarte‐Filho et al. · Endocrine Related Cancer Open access 21 Aug 2008 464
5 VIGOROUS EXERCISE IN LEISURE-TIME AND THE INCIDENCE OF CORONARY HEART-DISEASE J.N. Morris, S. P. W. Chave, Cécile J. M. Adam et al. · The Lancet Feb 1973 460
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Which keywords describe research at Civil Service?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: History, Philosophy, Identity, Religion, Mental Health, Ethics, Aging and Public Health Policy.

▲ 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. History33▲ 20×5 topics
  2. Philosophy32▲ 30×2 topics
  3. Identity26▲ 15×4 topics
  4. Mental Health23▲ 6.8×11 topics
  5. Religion22▲ 20×5 topics
  6. Quality of Life21▲ 6.2×13 topics
  7. Ethics21▲ 18×4 topics
  8. Aging21▲ 16×6 topics
  9. Healthcare21▲ 7.7×6 topics
  10. Public Health Policy21▲ 34×2 topics
  11. Social Support21▲ 16×6 topics
  12. Retirement20▲ 139×2 topics
  13. Cultural Studies20▲ 23×2 topics
  14. Medical Ethics20▲ 69×2 topics
  15. Narrative20▲ 56×2 topics
  16. Elderly20▲ 36×4 topics
  17. Healthcare Legislation20▲ 154×1 topic
  18. Patient Rights20▲ 125×1 topic
  19. Caregiving20▲ 124×1 topic
  20. Community Living20▲ 208×1 topic
  21. Hermeneutics20▲ 107×1 topic
  22. Interpretation20▲ 226×1 topic
  23. Globalization17▲ 3.8×26 topics
  24. Economic Security17▲ 35×6 topics
  25. Legal Regulation16▲ 31×5 topics
  26. Ethnicity16▲ 18×3 topics
  27. Sustainable Development16▲ 4.2×24 topics
  28. Artificial Intelligence13▲ 3.9×15 topics
  29. Social Influence13▲ 26×3 topics
  30. Culture12▲ 10×3 topics
  31. Public Oversight12▲ 42×1 topic
  32. Transport Policy12▲ 42×1 topic
  33. Foresight12▲ 39×2 topics
  34. Air Force12▲ 42×1 topic
  35. Islam12▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Modernization12▲ 28×1 topic
  37. Literature12▲ 9.0×1 topic
  38. Sharia Law12▲ 34×1 topic
  39. Economic Development11▲ 5.7×12 topics
  40. Digital Transformation9▲ 7.0×13 topics

Which research topics does Civil Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health, Medicine and Society, Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues and Legal and Regulatory Analysis.

Health, Medicine and Society: 20 fractional worksHermeneutics and Narrative Identity: 20 fractional worksAging, Elder Care, and Social Issues: 20 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…12Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 12 fractional worksMilitary Technology and …12Military Technology and Strategies: 12 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 12 fractional worksLegal and Policy Issues: 6 fractional worksSociopolitical Dynamics in Russia: 4 fractional worksEconomic and Technological Developments in Russia: 4 fractional worksSecurity, Politics, and Digital Transformation: 3 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPhilosophyTransportationAerospace Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 20 works
  2. 2 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity Philosophy 20 works
  3. 3 Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues General Health Professions 20 works
  4. 4 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 12 works
  5. 5 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 12 works
  6. 6 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 12 works
  7. 7 Legal and Policy Issues Law 6 works
  8. 8 Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia Sociology and Political Science 4 works
  9. 9 Economic and Technological Developments in Russia Development 4 works
  10. 10 Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation Political Science and International Relations 3 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 available42.1%not open57.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.9%domestic only62.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Civil Service's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 193% higher 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 Civil Service as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00055% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Civil Service0.00056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Civil Service 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 2025Civil Service9.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.2% in 2025.

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