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GeoInformation (United Kingdom)

In research, GeoInformation (United Kingdom) stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,553 of 3,334 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#5,131 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Environmental Engineering is 13.9× its share of world research).

geoinformationgroup.co.ukROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#7,610
of 22,385 · #6,904 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#261
of 862
Research works
931
▲ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
11k
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
71%
world 40%
International
69%
world 18%
GeoInformation (United Kingdom)

What is GeoInformation (United Kingdom) 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
Environmental ScienceField #1,553 of 3,334 7.2%62 #2393
Physical SciencesDomain #5,131 of 10,670 7.1%165 #4922

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where GeoInformation (United Kingdom) 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 GeoInformation (United Kingdom) work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at GeoInformation (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (27%), Engineering (16%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 256 fractional works · 70.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 100 fractional works · 27.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 27 fractional works · 7.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 25 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEcology: 17 fractional works · 4.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 59 fractional works · 16.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 16 fractional works · 4.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 52 fractional works · 14.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 15 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOceanography: 12 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeophysics: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeology: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 26 fractional works · 7.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 73 fractional works · 20.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 48 fractional works · 13.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workTransportation: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workUrban Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGeoInformation(United Kingdom)366fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences20%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science10027.5%
    2. Engineering5916.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences5214.2%
    4. Computer Science267.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy92.4%
    6. Mathematics61.7%
    7. Chemistry20.6%
    8. Energy10.4%
    9. Materials Science10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences4813.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities102.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting51.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.1%
    5. Decision Sciences30.9%
    6. Psychology30.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences133.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology41.1%
    3. Neuroscience30.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine112.9%
    2. Health Professions41.2%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does GeoInformation (United Kingdom) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Engineering takes 13.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 27.4 works14×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 25.4 works9.2×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 52.0 works9.1×
← 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: 0.77× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.90× its world share, 26 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9.07× its world share, 52 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.07× its world share, 59 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.53× its world share, 100 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.45× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.07× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.99× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.41× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.52× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 48 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences9.07×52 works
  2. Environmental Science5.53×100 works
  3. Mathematics1.45×6 works
  4. Engineering1.07×59 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.07×9 works
  6. Social Sciences1.03×48 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.99×10 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.95×3 works
  9. Computer Science0.90×26 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.77×13 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.52×4 works
  12. Neuroscience0.50×3 works
  13. Health Professions0.45×4 works
  14. Energy0.42×1 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.41×5 works
  16. Chemistry0.40×2 works
  17. Psychology0.23×3 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.22×4 works
  19. Medicine0.15×11 works
  20. Nursing0.15×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.11×0 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.09×0 works
  23. Dentistry0.08×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.05×1 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at GeoInformation (United Kingdom)?

Ranked on the quality score, H. Theodoor Verstappen and Soo Hong Park lead among researchers whose main affiliation is GeoInformation (United Kingdom).

  1. 1 H. Theodoor Verstappen United Kingdom · #3,719,224 worldwide 251 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Soo Hong Park United Kingdom · #5,158,384 worldwide 20 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at GeoInformation (United Kingdom)

What are the most cited papers from GeoInformation (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from GeoInformation (United Kingdom) is "Review article Multisensor image fusion in remote sensing: Concepts, methods and applications" (Christine Pohl, J.L. van Genderen, 1998), with 2,216 citations. Next come "A survey of uncertainty in deep neural networks" (1,368) and "Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change" (1,106).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Review article Multisensor image fusion in remote sensing: Concepts, methods and applications Christine Pohl, J.L. van Genderen · International Journal of Remote Sensing Open access 1998 2,216
2 A survey of uncertainty in deep neural networks Jakob Gawlikowski, Cedrique Rovile Njieutcheu Tassi, Mohsin Ali et al. · Artificial Intelligence Review Open access 29 Jul 2023 1,368
3 Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change Byron D. Tapley et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 15 Apr 2019 1,106
4 The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications Wolfgang Eric Wagner et al. · Meteorologische Zeitschrift Open access Feb 2013 698
5 GPT2: Empirical slant delay model for radio space geodetic techniques K. Lagler, Michael Schindelegger, Johannes Böhm et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 4 Mar 2013 622
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at GeoInformation (United Kingdom)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Biomass Estimation, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Machine Learning, Sustainability and Global Change.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing64▲ 14×33 topics
  2. Climate Change60▲ 6.0×69 topics
  3. Machine Learning27▲ 2.2×39 topics
  4. Hydrological Modeling24▲ 27×5 topics
  5. Sustainability22▲ 2.4×48 topics
  6. Biomass Estimation20▲ 35×3 topics
  7. Terrestrial Laser Scanning15▲ 34×2 topics
  8. Sustainable Development12▲ 2.1×30 topics
  9. Global Change11▲ 12×6 topics
  10. Land Use Change11▲ 10×7 topics
  11. Data Assimilation11▲ 18×4 topics
  12. Sea Level Rise10▲ 23×3 topics
  13. Climate10▲ 29×2 topics
  14. Aboveground Biomass10▲ 33×2 topics
  15. Biodiversity10▲ 3.5×17 topics
  16. Global Warming10▲ 6.3×10 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services10▲ 6.9×13 topics
  18. Forest Carbon Stocks10▲ 44×1 topic
  19. Lidar Remote Sensing10▲ 44×1 topic
  20. Phenology10▲ 38×1 topic
  21. Vegetation Monitoring10▲ 38×1 topic
  22. Cultural Heritage10▲ 4.9×12 topics
  23. Satellite Observations8▲ 22×3 topics
  24. Satellite Imagery8▲ 16×4 topics
  25. Validation8▲ 24×2 topics
  26. Biodiversity Conservation8▲ 5.6×8 topics
  27. Citizen Science7▲ 20×3 topics
  28. Geodetic Measurements7▲ 19×2 topics
  29. Risk Perception7▲ 7.4×6 topics
  30. Sediment Transport7▲ 12×6 topics
  31. GIS7▲ 25×5 topics
  32. Model Evaluation7▲ 15×2 topics
  33. Soil Moisture7▲ 25×3 topics
  34. Water Resources7▲ 7.4×8 topics
  35. GRACE6▲ 36×1 topic
  36. Hydrology6▲ 13×4 topics
  37. groundwater depletion6▲ 36×1 topic
  38. Ecosystem Resilience6▲ 11×5 topics
  39. Orbit Determination6▲ 37×2 topics
  40. Disaster Management6▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does GeoInformation (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements and GNSS positioning and interference.

Remote Sensing in Agriculture: 10 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 10 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 6 fractional worksGNSS positioning and interference: 6 fractional worksSoil Moisture and Remote Sensing: 6 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 6 fractional works3D Surveying and Cultura…53D Surveying and Cultural Heritage: 5 fractional worksGeographic Information Systems Studies: 4 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 4 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 4 fractional works
EcologyEnvironmental EngineeringOceanographyAerospace Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 10 works
  2. 2 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 10 works
  3. 3 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 6 works
  4. 4 GNSS positioning and interference Aerospace Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 6 works
  6. 6 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 6 works
  7. 7 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Geology 5 works
  8. 8 Geographic Information Systems Studies Geography, Planning and Development 4 works
  9. 9 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 4 works
  10. 10 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 4 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-authors69.3%domestic only30.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has GeoInformation (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 GeoInformation (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00097% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%GeoInformation (United Kingdom)0.0023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of GeoInformation (United Kingdom) 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 2025GeoInformation (United Kingdom)8.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.8% in 2010.

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