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English Heritage

In research, English Heritage stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,972 of 9,585 worldwide), Arts and Humanities (#1,194 of 1,896 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,309 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology (Paleontology is 38.5× its share of world research).

english-heritage.org.ukROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#7,741
of 22,385 · #8,878 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#267
of 862
Research works
1.5k
▲ 74% vs 2018-21
Citations
14k
9.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.86×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
48%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
English Heritage

What is English Heritage 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 #3,972 of 9,585 10.5%256 #3594
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,194 of 1,896 13.0%126 #1179
Social SciencesField #4,309 of 5,988 8.8%109 #3946
Physical SciencesDomain #7,734 of 10,670 6.4%115 #11282

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where English Heritage 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#3,594 #3,972
  2. Arts and Humanities#1,179 #1,194
  3. Social Sciences#3,946 #4,309
  4. Physical Sciences#11,282 #7,734
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 English Heritage work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at English Heritage is in Social Sciences, 28% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (34%), Social Sciences (25%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 332 fractional works · 65.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 171 fractional works · 34.0% of its workArcheology: 55 fractional works · 10.9% of its workHistory: 45 fractional works · 8.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 25 fractional works · 4.9% of its workConservation: 15 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhilosophy: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workReligious studies: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 128 fractional works · 25.3% of its workAnthropology: 53 fractional works · 10.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 25 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCultural Studies: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArcheology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 13 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 140 fractional works · 27.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 49 fractional works · 9.8% of its workPaleontology: 23 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 43 fractional works · 8.5% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 15 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 25 fractional works · 5.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 14 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEnglish Heritage504fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences28%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences66%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities17134.0%
    2. Social Sciences12825.3%
    3. Decision Sciences132.6%
    4. Psychology71.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.4%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting61.1%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences499.8%
    2. Computer Science438.5%
    3. Engineering255.0%
    4. Environmental Science142.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy30.6%
    6. Materials Science20.4%
    7. Chemistry20.4%
    8. Mathematics10.2%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences132.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.6%
    3. Neuroscience30.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine91.7%
    2. Health Professions20.4%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does English Heritage specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Paleontology takes 38.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PaleontologySubfield · 23.4 works39×
  2. AnthropologySubfield · 53.2 works38×
  3. ArcheologySubfield · 55.0 works36×
  4. HistorySubfield · 44.8 works28×
← 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: 0.56× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.09× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.23× its world share, 49 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.33× its world share, 25 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.54× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 11.76× its world share, 171 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.34× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.72× its world share, 13 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.47× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.00× its world share, 128 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 11.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities11.76×171 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.23×49 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.72×13 works
  4. Social Sciences2.00×128 works
  5. Computer Science1.09×43 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.66×7 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.56×13 works
  8. Environmental Science0.54×14 works
  9. Psychology0.47×7 works
  10. Veterinary0.41×0 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.34×6 works
  12. Neuroscience0.33×3 works
  13. Engineering0.33×25 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.29×3 works
  15. Nursing0.27×1 works
  16. Chemistry0.26×2 works
  17. Mathematics0.18×1 works
  18. Energy0.17×1 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.16×0 works
  20. Health Professions0.16×2 works
  21. Materials Science0.13×2 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×3 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×0 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.09×0 works
  25. Medicine0.09×9 works
  26. Dentistry0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at English Heritage?

Ranked on the quality score, Sebastian Payne, Simon A. Mays and Matthew G. Canti lead among researchers whose main affiliation is English Heritage.

  1. 1 Sebastian Payne United Kingdom · #706,505 worldwide 4.2k citations · 54 works
  2. 2 Simon A. Mays United Kingdom · #975,791 worldwide 4k citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Matthew G. Canti United Kingdom · #1,080,398 worldwide 2.4k citations · 67 works
  4. 4 Durga Das Basu United Kingdom · #1,478,979 worldwide 195 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Paul G. Bryan United Kingdom · #1,841,896 worldwide 1.1k citations · 61 works
  6. 6 Paul Lankester United Kingdom · #2,030,277 worldwide 245 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Justine Bayley United Kingdom · #2,250,445 worldwide 617 citations · 40 works
  8. 8 David Thickett United Kingdom · #2,438,202 worldwide 65 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 Michelle Gamble United Kingdom · #2,721,979 worldwide 318 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Stephanie Rátkai United Kingdom · #2,845,089 worldwide 27 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at English Heritage

What are the most cited papers from English Heritage?

The most cited paper from English Heritage is "IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP" (Paula J Reimer et al., 2010), with 10,058 citations. Next come "IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP" (4,333) and "Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding" (676).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access 2010 10,058
2 IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access 2009 4,333
3 Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding Richard P. Evershed et al. · Nature Open access 6 Aug 2008 676
4 Direct chemical evidence for widespread dairying in prehistoric Britain Mark S. Copley, Robert Berstan, Stephanie N. Dudd et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 6 Feb 2003 494
5 Measurements and Relationships of Diagenetic Alteration of Bone from Three Archaeological Sites Robert E. M. Hedges, Andrew R. Millard, Alistair W. G. Pike · Journal of Archaeological Science Open access Mar 1995 432
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at English Heritage?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Cultural Identity, Social Inequality, Intersectionality, African Diaspora, Archaeology of Resistance, Black Feminist Theory 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 Heritage55▲ 20×26 topics
  2. Cultural Identity51▲ 20×13 topics
  3. Social Inequality44▲ 33×5 topics
  4. Intersectionality43▲ 45×3 topics
  5. African Diaspora43▲ 218×4 topics
  6. Archaeology of Resistance42▲ 931×1 topic
  7. Black Feminist Theory42▲ 931×1 topic
  8. Sustainable Development34▲ 4.3×17 topics
  9. Education33▲ 3.9×20 topics
  10. Cultural History32▲ 53×6 topics
  11. Urban Development29▲ 16×12 topics
  12. Machine Learning27▲ 1.59×26 topics
  13. Conservation25▲ 12×10 topics
  14. Climate Change25▲ 1.84×33 topics
  15. Social History25▲ 62×4 topics
  16. Literature25▲ 9.1×16 topics
  17. Urban Sustainability24▲ 231×2 topics
  18. Cultural Sustainability24▲ 84×2 topics
  19. Art and Architecture24▲ 206×2 topics
  20. 19th century23▲ 570×1 topic
  21. British architecture23▲ 1501×1 topic
  22. Community Participation23▲ 13×6 topics
  23. Agricultural Origins22▲ 136×1 topic
  24. History22▲ 6.4×19 topics
  25. Radiocarbon Dating22▲ 136×1 topic
  26. Adaptive Reuse22▲ 115×1 topic
  27. Intangible Heritage22▲ 115×1 topic
  28. Archaeology20▲ 30×8 topics
  29. Innovation18▲ 3.4×8 topics
  30. Environmental Monitoring14▲ 7.4×4 topics
  31. Sea-Level Rise13▲ 22×3 topics
  32. Semantic Web Services13▲ 47×2 topics
  33. Microclimate Control12▲ 129×1 topic
  34. Museum Environments12▲ 129×1 topic
  35. Reproducibility12▲ 62×1 topic
  36. Scientific Workflows12▲ 62×1 topic
  37. Open Source Software11▲ 59×2 topics
  38. User-Generated Content11▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Satellite Imagery11▲ 17×3 topics
  40. Collaboration11▲ 44×1 topic

Which research topics does English Heritage publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies, Historical Architecture and Urbanism, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation.

Historical and Cultural …42Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 42 fractional worksHistorical Architecture and Urbanism: 23 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 22 fractional worksCultural Heritage Management and Preservation: 22 fractional worksConservation Techniques and Studies: 12 fractional worksScientific Computing and…12Scientific Computing and Data Management: 12 fractional worksOpen Source Software Innovations: 11 fractional worksArchaeological Research and Protection: 11 fractional worksScottish History and National Identity: 8 fractional worksMedieval Architecture and Archaeology: 7 fractional works
AnthropologyHistoryPaleontologyArcheology4 others

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

  1. 1 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 42 works
  2. 2 Historical Architecture and Urbanism History 23 works
  3. 3 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 22 works
  4. 4 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Archeology 22 works
  5. 5 Conservation Techniques and Studies Conservation 12 works
  6. 6 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 12 works
  7. 7 Open Source Software Innovations Computer Science Applications 11 works
  8. 8 Archaeological Research and Protection Space and Planetary Science 11 works
  9. 9 Scottish History and National Identity History 8 works
  10. 10 Medieval Architecture and Archaeology Archeology 7 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 available47.5%not open52.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.3%domestic only79.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has English Heritage's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 74% 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 English Heritage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%English Heritage0.0027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of English Heritage 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 counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025English Heritage9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.2% in 2006.

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