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National Oceanography Centre

In research, National Oceanography Centre stands highest in Earth and Planetary Sciences (#102 of 1,088 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,070 of 10,670 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#427 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Atmospheric Science (Oceanography is 93.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,832
of 22,385 · #1,353 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#153
of 862
Research works
4k
▼ 29% vs 2018-21
Citations
181k
45.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.22×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
43%
world 18%
National Oceanography Centre

What is National Oceanography Centre 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
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #102 of 1,088 14.3%207 #59
Physical SciencesDomain #1,070 of 10,670 13.6%405 #820
Environmental ScienceField #427 of 3,334 13.0%139 #286
OceanographySubfield #31 of 158 13.8%115 #18

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Oceanography Centre 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. Earth and Planetary Sciences#59 #102
  2. Physical Sciences#820 #1,070
  3. Environmental Science#286 #427
  4. Oceanography#18 #31
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 Oceanography Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research at National Oceanography Centre is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (49%), Environmental Science (31%), Engineering (8%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 490 fractional works · 92.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 259 fractional works · 49.0% of its workOceanography: 139 fractional works · 26.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 57 fractional works · 10.8% of its workGeophysics: 22 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPaleontology: 15 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeology: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 163 fractional works · 30.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 57 fractional works · 10.8% of its workEcology: 44 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPollution: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 43 fractional works · 8.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 17 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBioengineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 4.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiotechnology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNationalOceanography…529fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences93%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 Sciences25949.0%
    2. Environmental Science16330.8%
    3. Engineering438.2%
    4. Computer Science102.0%
    5. Materials Science40.8%
    6. Energy30.6%
    7. Chemistry30.5%
    8. Physics and Astronomy20.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.4%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology112.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences112.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Social Sciences51.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities30.6%
    3. Decision Sciences30.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    5. Psychology10.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Medicine20.3%
    2. Health Professions10.3%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does National Oceanography Centre specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 93.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 139.0 works94×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 259.1 works31×
  3. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 57.0 works24×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 57.2 works14×
  5. GeophysicsSubfield · 21.6 works12×
← 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: 0.42× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.06× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.25× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 31.25× its world share, 259 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.66× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.55× its world share, 43 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.19× its world share, 163 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× 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, 31.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences31.25×259 works
  2. Environmental Science6.19×163 works
  3. Chemical Engineering1.06×2 works
  4. Energy0.66×3 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.58×3 works
  6. Engineering0.55×43 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.42×11 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.38×11 works
  9. Chemistry0.31×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.25×10 works
  11. Materials Science0.22×4 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.20×3 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.19×2 works
  14. Mathematics0.10×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.10×1 works
  16. Nursing0.09×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×1 works
  18. Social Sciences0.08×5 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  20. Veterinary0.04×0 works
  21. Neuroscience0.03×0 works
  22. Psychology0.03×0 works
  23. Medicine0.02×2 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at National Oceanography Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Eelco J. Rohling, Stephanie Anne Henson and Andrew Yool lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Oceanography Centre.

  1. 1 Eelco J. Rohling United Kingdom · #31,592 worldwide 29k citations · 484 works
  2. 2 Stephanie Anne Henson United Kingdom · #38,425 worldwide 10k citations · 218 works
  3. 3 Andrew Yool United Kingdom · #51,862 worldwide 20k citations · 284 works
  4. 4 Paul A. Wilson United Kingdom · #95,543 worldwide 21k citations · 519 works
  5. 5 Peter J. Talling United Kingdom · #102,817 worldwide 12k citations · 318 works
  6. 6 Richard S. Lampitt United Kingdom · #104,036 worldwide 12k citations · 239 works
  7. 7 Michael Andrew Clare United Kingdom · #115,152 worldwide 8.2k citations · 266 works
  8. 8 Svetlana Jevrejeva United Kingdom · #119,119 worldwide 15k citations · 193 works
  9. 9 C. Mark Moore United Kingdom · #126,288 worldwide 12k citations · 167 works
  10. 10 John Thomson United Kingdom · #127,752 worldwide 9.5k citations · 191 works
All ranked researchers at National Oceanography Centre

What are the most cited papers from National Oceanography Centre?

The most cited paper from National Oceanography Centre is "Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century" (Nick A Rayner, D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton et al., 2003), with 11,470 citations. Next come "Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms" (4,738) and "Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model" (4,273).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century Nick A Rayner, D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 17 Jul 2003 11,470
2 Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms James C. Orr et al. · Nature Sep 2005 4,738
3 Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts, CHRIS D. JONES et al. · Nature 9 Nov 2000 4,273
4 Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being GT Pecl et al. · Science Open access 30 Mar 2017 3,714
5 Global Carbon Budget 2020 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access 10 Dec 2020 2,578
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at National Oceanography Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming, Data Assimilation, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis, Harmful Algal Blooms and Eutrophication.

▲ 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 Change171▲ 12×60 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation83▲ 115×3 topics
  3. Global Warming66▲ 29×11 topics
  4. Data Assimilation54▲ 62×4 topics
  5. Oceanic Modeling47▲ 246×1 topic
  6. Tidal Analysis47▲ 246×1 topic
  7. Remote Sensing37▲ 5.7×24 topics
  8. Harmful Algal Blooms35▲ 79×3 topics
  9. Eutrophication33▲ 56×3 topics
  10. Nutrient Limitation31▲ 53×2 topics
  11. Dissolved Organic Matter31▲ 130×1 topic
  12. Oceanic Carbon Cycle31▲ 130×1 topic
  13. Holocene26▲ 45×3 topics
  14. Ocean Acidification26▲ 66×3 topics
  15. Benthic Communities25▲ 78×2 topics
  16. Marine Biodiversity25▲ 78×2 topics
  17. Greenhouse Gas Emissions24▲ 17×3 topics
  18. Sea Level24▲ 50×2 topics
  19. Extreme Events24▲ 49×2 topics
  20. Hydrological Cycle24▲ 45×2 topics
  21. Climate Modeling23▲ 59×1 topic
  22. Precipitation Extremes23▲ 59×1 topic
  23. Biogeography23▲ 15×11 topics
  24. Paleoclimatology22▲ 51×2 topics
  25. Solar Influence22▲ 59×2 topics
  26. Ecosystem Functioning22▲ 20×6 topics
  27. Glacial Cycles22▲ 63×1 topic
  28. Monsoon Dynamics22▲ 63×1 topic
  29. Sea Level Rise19▲ 29×3 topics
  30. Hydrothermal Vents18▲ 85×2 topics
  31. Phylogenetic Relationships18▲ 50×2 topics
  32. Deep-Sea Ecology18▲ 112×1 topic
  33. Estuarine Quality18▲ 112×1 topic
  34. Tropical Cyclones18▲ 58×2 topics
  35. Arctic17▲ 28×4 topics
  36. Fisheries Sustainability15▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Wave Modeling14▲ 53×2 topics
  38. Marine Sediments14▲ 42×2 topics
  39. Tectonics14▲ 23×3 topics
  40. Trophic Cascades14▲ 29×2 topics

Which research topics does National Oceanography Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Climate variability and models and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Oceanographic and Atmosp…47Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 47 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 31 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 23 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 22 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 18 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…13Marine and fisheries research: 13 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 13 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 11 fractional worksOcean Acidification Effects and Responses: 10 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 9 fractional works
OceanographyGlobal and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceEnvironmental Chemistry1 others

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

  1. 1 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 47 works
  2. 2 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 31 works
  3. 3 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 23 works
  4. 4 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 22 works
  5. 5 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 18 works
  6. 6 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 13 works
  7. 7 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 13 works
  8. 8 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 11 works
  9. 9 Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses Oceanography 10 works
  10. 10 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 9 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 available53.1%not open46.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.7%domestic only57.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has National Oceanography Centre'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 Oceanography Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%National Oceanography Centre0.0020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of National Oceanography Centre 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 Oceanography Centre10.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.4% in 2008.

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