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Council for British Archaeology

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Research works
30
▼ 57% vs 2018-21
Citations
250
8.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
26%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Council for British Archaeology

Not ranked overall: Council for British Archaeology is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Council for British Archaeology work in?

In all years, 65% of research at Council for British Archaeology is in Social Sciences, 34% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (47%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (28%), Social Sciences (16%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 20 fractional works · 64.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 14 fractional works · 47.4% of its workArcheology: 7 fractional works · 24.2% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 10.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 15.8% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 12.2% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 34.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 27.6% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 5 fractional works · 16.6% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCouncil forBritish…30fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences34%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences65%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1447.4%
    2. Social Sciences515.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.7%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences827.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy13.3%
    3. Computer Science12.8%
    4. Engineering00.6%
    5. Environmental Science00.1%
    1. Medicine00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Who are the top researchers at Council for British Archaeology?

Ranked on the quality score, Don Henson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Council for British Archaeology.

  1. 1 Don Henson United Kingdom · #3,576,491 worldwide 122 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Council for British Archaeology

What are the most cited papers from Council for British Archaeology?

The most cited paper from Council for British Archaeology is "The dead of Stonehenge" (Christie Willis, Peter D. Marshall, Jacqueline I. McKinley et al., 2016), with 57 citations. Next come "Searching for answers: a survey of metal-detector users in the UK" (53) and "Monuments of war: defining England's 20th-century defence heritage" (38).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The dead of Stonehenge Christie Willis, Peter D. Marshall, Jacqueline I. McKinley et al. · Antiquity Open access Apr 2016 57
2 Searching for answers: a survey of metal-detector users in the UK Suzie Thomas · International Journal of Heritage Studies 22 Nov 2011 53
3 Monuments of war: defining England's 20th-century defence heritage Colin Dobinson, Justin Lake, John Schofield · Antiquity Jun 1997 38
4 Anglo-Saxon Pottery: A Symposium G. C. Dunning, John G. Hurst, J. N. L. Myres et al. · Medieval Archaeology 1959 34
5 Community Archaeology in the UK: Recent Findings Suzie Thomas 2010 31
All 32 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Council for British Archaeology?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Satellite Imagery, Urban Development, Cultural Sustainability and Adaptive Reuse.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology8▲ 165×6 topics
  2. Cultural Heritage7▲ 52×8 topics
  3. Remote Sensing5▲ 16×2 topics
  4. LiDAR5▲ 437×1 topic
  5. Satellite Imagery5▲ 176×1 topic
  6. Urban Development4▲ 42×2 topics
  7. Cultural Sustainability4▲ 301×2 topics
  8. Adaptive Reuse4▲ 442×1 topic
  9. Intangible Heritage4▲ 442×1 topic
  10. Cultural Identity4▲ 28×2 topics
  11. African Diaspora3▲ 221×1 topic
  12. Black Feminist Theory3▲ 1020×1 topic
  13. Agricultural Origins2▲ 219×1 topic
  14. Radiocarbon Dating2▲ 219×1 topic
  15. Academic Writing2▲ 136×1 topic
  16. Cultural Exchange2▲ 38×2 topics
  17. History2▲ 6.2×2 topics
  18. Religion2▲ 8.7×2 topics
  19. Scholarly Publishing2▲ 773×1 topic
  20. Bronze Age1▲ 99×2 topics
  21. Scandinavia1▲ 200×1 topic
  22. Viking Age1▲ 200×1 topic
  23. Archaeological Finds1▲ 211×1 topic
  24. Astrobiology1▲ 96×1 topic
  25. Corded Ware Culture1▲ 211×1 topic
  26. Extraterrestrial Life1▲ 151×1 topic
  27. National Identity1▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Scotland1▲ 187×1 topic
  29. Wales1▲ 350×1 topic
  30. Welsh literature1▲ 350×1 topic

Which research topics does Council for British Archaeology publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation.

  1. 1 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Archeology 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 available26.4%not open73.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.8%domestic only96.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Council for British Archaeology's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Council for British Archaeology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000020% in 2020.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Council for British Archaeology0.000017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Council for British Archaeology over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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