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Geospatial Research (United Kingdom)

In research, Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,360 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Global and Planetary Change (Global and Planetary Change is 10.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,674
of 22,385 · #9,190 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#263
of 862
Research works
449
▲ 166% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.7k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.07×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
63%
world 40%
International
72%
world 18%
Geospatial Research (United Kingdom)

What is Geospatial Research (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
Physical SciencesDomain #3,360 of 10,670 6.9%144 #3510

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

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (26%), Engineering (21%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 199 fractional works · 73.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 71 fractional works · 26.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 21 fractional works · 7.9% of its workEcology: 15 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 14 fractional works · 5.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 57 fractional works · 20.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 13 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 12 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMedia Technology: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical 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 workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 31 fractional works · 11.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 10 fractional works · 3.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 3.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 31 fractional works · 11.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeophysics: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 40 fractional works · 14.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 27 fractional works · 10.1% of its workTransportation: 9 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 6.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGeospatialResearch (United…270fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences15%

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. Environmental Science7126.4%
    2. Engineering5720.9%
    3. Computer Science3111.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences3111.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy62.3%
    6. Mathematics20.8%
    7. Materials Science10.3%
    8. Energy00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences2710.1%
    2. Decision Sciences31.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities31.0%
    4. Psychology20.9%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences155.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine93.3%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Global and Planetary Change takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 21.2 works10×
← 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: 1.17× its world share, 15 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.48× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7.25× its world share, 31 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.40× its world share, 56 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.32× its world share, 71 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.02× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.28× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.80× its world share, 27 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 Sciences7.25×31 works
  2. Environmental Science5.32×71 works
  3. Computer Science1.48×31 works
  4. Engineering1.40×56 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.28×3 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.17×15 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.02×6 works
  8. Social Sciences0.80×27 works
  9. Mathematics0.69×2 works
  10. Nursing0.47×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.40×2 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.37×1 works
  13. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.35×0 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.33×3 works
  15. Health Professions0.29×2 works
  16. Psychology0.29×2 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.27×2 works
  18. Energy0.18×0 works
  19. Medicine0.17×9 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×2 works
  21. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.08×1 works
  23. Dentistry0.08×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Geospatial Research (United Kingdom)?

Ranked on the quality score, M. Hawarey, Susie E. Daniels and Thomas Bahr lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Geospatial Research (United Kingdom).

  1. 1 M. Hawarey United Kingdom · #2,153,198 worldwide 76 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Susie E. Daniels United Kingdom · #4,301,080 worldwide 48 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Thomas Bahr United Kingdom · #4,639,326 worldwide 48 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Robert United Kingdom · #6,714,476 worldwide 67 citations · 87 works
All ranked researchers at Geospatial Research (United Kingdom)

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

The most cited paper from Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) is "Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate" (Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke, Kenneth G. Hubbard et al., 2013), with 793 citations. Next come "Introduction to BeiDou‐3 navigation satellite system" (429) and "Land cover 2.0" (421).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke, Kenneth G. Hubbard et al. · International Journal of Climatology 21 Jun 2013 793
2 Introduction to BeiDou‐3 navigation satellite system Yuanxi Yang, Yuanxi Yang, Weiguang Gao et al. · NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of Navigation 2019 429
3 Land cover 2.0 Michael A. Wulder, Nicholas C. Coops, David P. Roy et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing Open access 27 Mar 2018 421
4 Estimating Ground‐Level PM 2.5 by Fusing Satellite and Station Observations: A Geo‐Intelligent Deep Learning Approach Tongwen Li, Huanfeng Shen, Qiangqiang Yuan et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 22 Nov 2017 418
5 Inference in Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression Hanchen Yu, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Ziqi Li et al. · Geographical Analysis Open access 22 Jan 2019 414
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Geospatial Research (United Kingdom)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Sustainability, Land Use Change, Biomass Estimation, Deep Learning, Ecosystem Services and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 Sensing46▲ 14×36 topics
  2. Climate Change38▲ 5.2×58 topics
  3. Deep Learning23▲ 2.5×33 topics
  4. Sustainability22▲ 3.4×39 topics
  5. Machine Learning20▲ 2.3×32 topics
  6. Land Use Change14▲ 18×7 topics
  7. Biomass Estimation14▲ 33×3 topics
  8. Ecosystem Services12▲ 11×10 topics
  9. Biodiversity Conservation11▲ 11×10 topics
  10. Hydrological Modeling10▲ 16×5 topics
  11. Support Vector Machines9▲ 10×5 topics
  12. Global Change9▲ 12×6 topics
  13. Terrestrial Laser Scanning9▲ 27×2 topics
  14. Climate8▲ 29×2 topics
  15. Phenology7▲ 39×1 topic
  16. Vegetation Monitoring7▲ 39×1 topic
  17. Satellite Imagery7▲ 20×4 topics
  18. Urbanization7▲ 6.6×6 topics
  19. Citizen Science7▲ 24×3 topics
  20. Feature Extraction7▲ 5.4×6 topics
  21. Global Warming6▲ 5.7×10 topics
  22. Urban Development6▲ 6.8×6 topics
  23. Aboveground Biomass6▲ 28×2 topics
  24. Environmental Policy6▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Geological Mapping6▲ 30×2 topics
  26. Global Impact6▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Social-Ecological Systems6▲ 17×2 topics
  28. Human-Nature Interactions6▲ 24×1 topic
  29. Spatial Dynamics6▲ 24×1 topic
  30. Hyperspectral6▲ 26×2 topics
  31. Forest Carbon Stocks6▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Lidar Remote Sensing6▲ 35×1 topic
  33. Travel Behavior6▲ 23×2 topics
  34. GIS-based Modeling6▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Change Detection5▲ 28×1 topic
  36. Image Analysis5▲ 20×1 topic
  37. Sediment Transport5▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Energy Simulation5▲ 21×2 topics
  39. BIM-GIS Integration5▲ 140×1 topic
  40. CityGML5▲ 140×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022-now: Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications and Remote-Sensing Image Classification.

Remote Sensing in Agricu…7Remote Sensing in Agriculture: 7 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem S…6Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 6 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 6 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Classification: 5 fractional works3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications: 5 fractional worksGeographic Information Systems Studies: 4 fractional worksGeological Modeling and Analysis: 4 fractional worksBIM and Construction Int…4BIM and Construction Integration: 4 fractional worksHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis: 4 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 4 fractional works
EcologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEnvironmental EngineeringMedia Technology4 others

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

  1. 1 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 7 works
  2. 2 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 6 works
  3. 3 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 6 works
  4. 4 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 5 works
  5. 5 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications Building and Construction 5 works
  6. 6 Geographic Information Systems Studies Geography, Planning and Development 4 works
  7. 7 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 4 works
  8. 8 BIM and Construction Integration Building and Construction 4 works
  9. 9 Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis Transportation 4 works
  10. 10 Flood Risk Assessment and Management 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 available63.1%not open36.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors71.5%domestic only28.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 166% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00074% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Geospatial Research (United Kingdom) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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