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National Centre for Atmospheric Science

In research, National Centre for Atmospheric Science stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,752 of 10,670 worldwide), Environmental Science (#684 of 3,334 worldwide) and Atmospheric Science (#77 of 294 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 77.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,839
of 22,385 · #2,296 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#223
of 862
Research works
1.2k
▼ 29% vs 2018-21
Citations
58k
49.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.15×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
79%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
National Centre for Atmospheric Science

What is National Centre for Atmospheric Science 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 #1,752 of 10,670 15.8%205 #1245
Environmental ScienceField #684 of 3,334 15.5%89 #524
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #77 of 294 15.9%77 #49
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #303 of 1,088 16.4%89 #200
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #188 of 544 14.5%61 #105

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Centre for Atmospheric Science 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#1,245 #1,752
  2. Environmental Science#524 #684
  3. Atmospheric Science#49 #77
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#200 #303
  5. Global and Planetary Change#105 #188
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 National Centre for Atmospheric Science work in?

In 2022-now, 92% of research at National Centre for Atmospheric Science is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (40%), Environmental Science (40%), Engineering (4%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 264 fractional works · 91.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 114 fractional works · 39.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 99 fractional works · 34.2% of its workOceanography: 14 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 114 fractional works · 39.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 78 fractional works · 27.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 17 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 11 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 13 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNational Centrefor Atmospheric…289fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences92%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences4%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences11439.5%
    2. Environmental Science11439.5%
    3. Engineering134.5%
    4. Computer Science82.9%
    5. Physics and Astronomy72.3%
    6. Chemistry31.2%
    7. Chemical Engineering20.6%
    8. Energy20.5%
    9. Materials Science10.4%
    10. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences51.9%
    2. Decision Sciences20.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities20.6%
    4. Psychology20.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Medicine31.2%
    2. Health Professions10.4%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    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 National Centre for Atmospheric Science specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 77.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 98.8 works77×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 78.4 works36×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 114.1 works25×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 114.1 works8.0×
← 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: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.63× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.75× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 25.21× its world share, 114 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 13 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.96× its world share, 114 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.04× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 25.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences25.21×114 works
  2. Environmental Science7.96×114 works
  3. Chemical Engineering1.63×2 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.04×7 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.77×2 works
  6. Chemistry0.75×3 works
  7. Energy0.57×2 works
  8. Veterinary0.43×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.38×8 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×5 works
  11. Engineering0.30×13 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.20×2 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.20×1 works
  14. Psychology0.18×2 works
  15. Health Professions0.15×1 works
  16. Social Sciences0.15×5 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×2 works
  18. Nursing0.13×0 works
  19. Materials Science0.12×1 works
  20. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  21. Neuroscience0.09×0 works
  22. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  23. Medicine0.06×3 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at National Centre for Atmospheric Science?

Ranked on the quality score, Michael E. Jenkin, Paul‐Arthur Monerie and G. Capes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

  1. 1 Michael E. Jenkin United Kingdom · #50,070 worldwide 31k citations · 246 works
  2. 2 Paul‐Arthur Monerie United Kingdom · #466,036 worldwide 2k citations · 108 works
  3. 3 G. Capes United Kingdom · #531,509 worldwide 2.3k citations · 36 works
  4. 4 E. Fuentes United Kingdom · #673,590 worldwide 1.8k citations · 38 works
  5. 5 Gillian Young United Kingdom · #1,422,092 worldwide 643 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 Christopher J. Walden United Kingdom · #2,252,528 worldwide 307 citations · 326 works
  7. 7 Fangxing Tian United Kingdom · #2,266,054 worldwide 2.9k citations · 36 works
  8. 8 Maryna Lukach United Kingdom · #2,318,479 worldwide 276 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Matthew Rowlinson United Kingdom · #2,572,135 worldwide 306 citations · 40 works
  10. 10 Ioana Colfescu United Kingdom · #2,785,880 worldwide 437 citations · 51 works
All ranked researchers at National Centre for Atmospheric Science

What are the most cited papers from National Centre for Atmospheric Science?

The most cited paper from National Centre for Atmospheric Science is "Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere" (Jose Luis Jimenez et al., 2009), with 4,903 citations. Next come "The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues" (4,585) and "Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models" (1,867).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere Jose Luis Jimenez et al. · Science 10 Dec 2009 4,903
2 The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues Mattias Hallquist et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics Open access 29 Jul 2009 4,585
3 Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models Mark D. Zelinka, Timothy A. Myers, Daniel Thompson McCoy et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 3 Jan 2020 1,867
4 Global risk of deadly heat Camilo Mora, Bénédicte Dousset, Iain R. Caldwell et al. · Nature Climate Change Open access 19 Jun 2017 1,751
5 Global Carbon Budget 2019 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access 3 Dec 2019 1,731
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at National Centre for Atmospheric Science?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Hydrological Cycle, Extreme Events, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Quality and Climate Modeling.

▲ 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. Climate Change97▲ 12×61 topics
  2. Global Warming68▲ 55×12 topics
  3. Ocean Circulation53▲ 134×3 topics
  4. Hydrological Cycle52▲ 176×2 topics
  5. Extreme Events43▲ 161×2 topics
  6. Greenhouse Gas Emissions42▲ 53×8 topics
  7. Air Quality41▲ 76×6 topics
  8. Climate Modeling41▲ 189×1 topic
  9. Precipitation Extremes41▲ 189×1 topic
  10. Data Assimilation35▲ 74×3 topics
  11. Boundary Layer28▲ 77×2 topics
  12. Remote Sensing28▲ 7.8×17 topics
  13. Probabilistic Forecasting28▲ 49×2 topics
  14. Convective Parameterization26▲ 157×1 topic
  15. Ensemble Kalman Filter26▲ 88×1 topic
  16. Atmospheric Aerosols26▲ 157×1 topic
  17. Black Carbon26▲ 157×1 topic
  18. Satellite Observations24▲ 82×3 topics
  19. Sea Level Rise18▲ 50×3 topics
  20. Ozone Depletion17▲ 193×1 topic
  21. Stratospheric Water Vapor17▲ 193×1 topic
  22. Particulate Matter16▲ 38×2 topics
  23. Tropical Cyclones16▲ 97×2 topics
  24. Health Effects14▲ 8.3×13 topics
  25. Hurricanes14▲ 143×1 topic
  26. Storm Surge14▲ 143×1 topic
  27. Emissions14▲ 24×6 topics
  28. Mortality13▲ 7.8×2 topics
  29. Natural Gas12▲ 47×3 topics
  30. Water Quality12▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Carbon Dioxide12▲ 26×2 topics
  32. Shale Gas12▲ 35×2 topics
  33. Atmospheric12▲ 89×1 topic
  34. Methane12▲ 89×1 topic
  35. Climate12▲ 43×2 topics
  36. Aerosols11▲ 55×1 topic
  37. Atmospheric Dust11▲ 142×1 topic
  38. Air Pollution11▲ 30×2 topics
  39. Global Burden of Disease10▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Fine Particulate Air Pollution10▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does National Centre for Atmospheric Science publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Climate variability and …41Climate variability and models: 41 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 26 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 26 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 17 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 14 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environm…12Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 12 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and clouds: 11 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 10 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 9 fractional worksAir Quality Monitoring and Forecasting: 6 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisOceanography1 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 41 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 26 works
  3. 3 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 26 works
  4. 4 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 17 works
  5. 5 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 14 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 12 works
  7. 7 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 11 works
  8. 8 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 10 works
  9. 9 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 9 works
  10. 10 Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting Environmental Engineering 6 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 available78.8%not open21.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.5%domestic only54.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Centre for Atmospheric Science's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% lower 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 National Centre for Atmospheric Science as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00094% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%National Centre for Atmospheric Science0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Centre for Atmospheric Science 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%National Centre for Atmospheric Science15.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.4% in 2013.

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