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Constructing Excellence

In research, Constructing Excellence stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,374 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#1,984 of 5,901 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,531 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology (Paleontology is 69.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,674
of 22,385 · #4,951 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#145
of 862
Research works
1.1k
▲ 263% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.5k
3.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
71%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
Constructing Excellence

What is Constructing Excellence 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
Physical SciencesDomain #1,374 of 10,670 4.2%260 #3163
EngineeringField #1,984 of 5,901 3.1%119 #3737
Social SciencesDomain #3,531 of 9,585 9.3%188 #4243
Social SciencesField #4,955 of 5,988 8.2%105 #6583

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Constructing Excellence 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. Physical Sciences#3,163 #1,374
  2. Engineering#3,737 #1,984
  3. Social Sciences#4,243 #3,531
  4. Social Sciences#6,583 #4,955
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 Constructing Excellence work in?

In 2022-now, 55% of research at Constructing Excellence is in Physical Sciences, 37% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (25%), Social Sciences (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 302 fractional works · 55.0% of its workEngineering: 137 fractional works · 24.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 39 fractional works · 7.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 12 fractional works · 2.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 62 fractional works · 11.3% of its workPaleontology: 46 fractional works · 8.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 39 fractional works · 7.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 15 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 21 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 18 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 206 fractional works · 37.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 112 fractional works · 20.4% of its workAnthropology: 53 fractional works · 9.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArcheology: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 57 fractional works · 10.4% of its workArcheology: 25 fractional works · 4.6% of its workHistory: 22 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 23 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKConstructingExcellence549fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences55%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences37%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering13724.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences6211.3%
    3. Computer Science397.0%
    4. Environmental Science213.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy183.4%
    6. Energy81.5%
    7. Materials Science81.4%
    8. Mathematics50.9%
    9. Chemical Engineering30.5%
    10. Chemistry20.4%
    1. Social Sciences11220.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities5710.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance112.1%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting101.9%
    5. Psychology81.5%
    6. Decision Sciences71.2%
    1. Medicine142.5%
    2. Health Professions81.4%
    3. Nursing10.3%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology111.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.7%
    3. Neuroscience30.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Constructing Excellence specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Paleontology takes 69.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PaleontologySubfield · 45.9 works69×
  2. AnthropologySubfield · 52.6 works34×
  3. ArcheologySubfield · 25.3 works15×
  4. HistorySubfield · 22.4 works13×
  5. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 62.2 works7.2×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.36× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.36× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.90× its world share, 38 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.23× its world share, 62 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.64× its world share, 8 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.66× its world share, 137 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.76× its world share, 21 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.40× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.51× its world share, 18 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.53× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 14 worksMedicineNursing: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 3.59× its world share, 57 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.58× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.27× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.96× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.61× its world share, 112 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences7.23×62 works
  2. Arts and Humanities3.59×57 works
  3. Engineering1.66×137 works
  4. Energy1.64×8 works
  5. Social Sciences1.61×112 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.51×18 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.36×3 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.27×7 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.96×11 works
  10. Computer Science0.90×38 works
  11. Environmental Science0.76×21 works
  12. Mathematics0.74×5 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.58×10 works
  14. Health Professions0.53×8 works
  15. Nursing0.52×1 works
  16. Psychology0.50×8 works
  17. Materials Science0.40×8 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.36×11 works
  19. Neuroscience0.32×3 works
  20. Chemistry0.27×2 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.19×1 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×4 works
  23. Medicine0.13×14 works
  24. Dentistry0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Constructing Excellence?

Ranked on the quality score, L. J. Mensch, Simon A Savage and Christopher Finks lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Constructing Excellence.

  1. 1 L. J. Mensch United Kingdom · #2,102,389 worldwide 25 citations · 82 works
  2. 2 Simon A Savage United Kingdom · #2,759,334 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Christopher Finks United Kingdom · #2,790,882 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Peggy Dalton United Kingdom · #3,269,917 worldwide 219 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Christopher Finks United Kingdom · #3,551,538 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 G. Caton Thompson United Kingdom · #3,672,043 worldwide 159 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Chris Jarrett United Kingdom · #3,962,239 worldwide 33 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Märit Gaimster United Kingdom · #4,129,895 worldwide 85 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Michel Simonot United Kingdom · #4,304,301 worldwide 9 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Allen J. Hulshizer United Kingdom · #4,465,137 worldwide 85 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Constructing Excellence

What are the most cited papers from Constructing Excellence?

The most cited paper from Constructing Excellence is "Theory of concentration polarization in crossflow filtration" (Lianfa Song, Menachem Elimelech, 1995), with 366 citations. Next come "Kinetics of Colloid Deposition onto Heterogeneously Charged Surfaces in Porous Media" (239) and "The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future" (220).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theory of concentration polarization in crossflow filtration Lianfa Song, Menachem Elimelech · Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1995 366
2 Kinetics of Colloid Deposition onto Heterogeneously Charged Surfaces in Porous Media Lianfa Song, Philip R. S. Johnson, Menachem Elimelech · Environmental Science & Technology Jun 1994 239
3 The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future Aras Bozkurt et al. · Open Praxis Open access 2024 220
4 Impact factors of the accumulation, migration and spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment Zibo Lin, Tao Yuan, Lai Zhou et al. · Environmental Geochemistry and Health 29 Oct 2020 181
5 Neural Network Model for Estimating Construction Productivity Jason B. Portas, Simaan AbouRizk · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Dec 1997 135
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Constructing Excellence?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Identity, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Social Inequality, African Diaspora, Black Feminist Theory, Social History and Cultural History.

▲ 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. Cultural Identity45▲ 16×7 topics
  2. Agricultural Origins45▲ 250×1 topic
  3. Radiocarbon Dating45▲ 250×1 topic
  4. Social Inequality43▲ 29×6 topics
  5. African Diaspora40▲ 190×1 topic
  6. Black Feminist Theory40▲ 816×1 topic
  7. Education25▲ 2.6×32 topics
  8. Sustainability25▲ 1.85×40 topics
  9. Machine Learning21◆ 1.13×38 topics
  10. Social History17▲ 38×3 topics
  11. Cultural History16▲ 25×3 topics
  12. 19th century16▲ 362×1 topic
  13. British architecture16▲ 953×1 topic
  14. Sustainable Development16▲ 1.81×22 topics
  15. Environmental Impact14▲ 1.49×21 topics
  16. Renewable Energy13▲ 1.68×23 topics
  17. Hominin Genetics12▲ 98×1 topic
  18. Paleolithic Archaeology12▲ 98×1 topic
  19. Holocene12▲ 19×3 topics
  20. Iberian Peninsula11▲ 68×2 topics
  21. Cultural Heritage10▲ 3.6×15 topics
  22. Hydraulic Systems10▲ 34×3 topics
  23. Mediterranean10▲ 21×3 topics
  24. Medieval Architecture10▲ 97×1 topic
  25. Rural Landscapes10▲ 177×1 topic
  26. Maritime Archaeology9▲ 93×1 topic
  27. Sea-Level Change9▲ 93×1 topic
  28. Archaeological Analysis9▲ 177×1 topic
  29. Iron Production9▲ 177×1 topic
  30. Public Policy9▲ 3.4×11 topics
  31. Construction8▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Orbit Determination8▲ 31×2 topics
  33. Thermal Analysis7▲ 9.6×2 topics
  34. Network Centric Warfare6▲ 297×1 topic
  35. Organizational Design6▲ 297×1 topic
  36. CubeSat6▲ 60×1 topic
  37. small satellite6▲ 60×1 topic
  38. Trajectory Optimization6▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Archaeology6▲ 8.4×6 topics
  40. Civil Engineering5▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Constructing Excellence publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies, Historical Architecture and Urbanism and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Archaeology and ancient …45Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 45 fractional worksHistorical and Cultural …40Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 40 fractional worksHistorical Architecture and Urbanism: 16 fractional worksPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology: 12 fractional worksMedieval Architecture an…10Medieval Architecture and Archaeology: 10 fractional worksMaritime and Coastal Archaeology: 9 fractional worksMetallurgy and Cultural Artifacts: 9 fractional worksMilitary Strategy and Technology: 6 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Technology: 6 fractional worksGNSS positioning and interference: 5 fractional works
PaleontologyAnthropologyHistoryArcheology2 others

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

  1. 1 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 45 works
  2. 2 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 40 works
  3. 3 Historical Architecture and Urbanism History 16 works
  4. 4 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 12 works
  5. 5 Medieval Architecture and Archaeology Archeology 10 works
  6. 6 Maritime and Coastal Archaeology Archeology 9 works
  7. 7 Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts Archeology 9 works
  8. 8 Military Strategy and Technology Control and Systems Engineering 6 works
  9. 9 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 6 works
  10. 10 GNSS positioning and interference Aerospace Engineering 5 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 available71.1%not open28.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.7%domestic only62.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Constructing Excellence's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 263% 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 Constructing Excellence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Constructing Excellence0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Constructing Excellence 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 2025Constructing Excellence5.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.5% in 2022.

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