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North Hertfordshire College

In research, North Hertfordshire College stands highest in Physical Sciences (#14,951 of 21,541 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#19,772
of 42,892
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,077
of 2,253
Research works
298
▲ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.2k
20.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
20%
world 28%

What is North Hertfordshire College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #14,951 of 21,541 13.5%158

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where North Hertfordshire College 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.73× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.82× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.51× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.57× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.46× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.73× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.00× its world share, 6 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.54× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at North Hertfordshire College?

Ranked on the composite score, P. D. T. O’Connor lead among researchers whose main affiliation is North Hertfordshire College.

  1. 1 P. D. T. O’Connor United Kingdom · #1,048,402 worldwide 56 citations · 104 works
All ranked researchers at North Hertfordshire College

Which keywords describe research at North Hertfordshire College?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Fault Tolerance, Embedded Systems, Radiation Effects, Soft Errors, High-Level Synthesis, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing and Reconfigurable Computing.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 14 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 14 words, with their numbers
  1. Fault Tolerance3▲ 54×4 topics
  2. Embedded Systems2▲ 129×2 topics
  3. Machine Learning2▲ 1.57×6 topics
  4. Radiation Effects2▲ 111×1 topic
  5. Soft Errors2▲ 268×1 topic
  6. Treatment1▲ 3.7×8 topics
  7. High-Level Synthesis1▲ 182×1 topic
  8. High-Performance Computing1▲ 45×2 topics
  9. Parallel Computing1▲ 31×2 topics
  10. Reconfigurable Computing1▲ 150×1 topic
  11. Curriculum Development1▲ 4.5×1 topic
  12. Engineering Education1▲ 36×1 topic
  13. GPU Computing1▲ 84×1 topic
  14. Performance Optimization1▲ 50×1 topic

Which research topics does North Hertfordshire College publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Radiation Effects in Electronics, Embedded Systems Design Techniques, Engineering Education and Pedagogy and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques.

Radiation Effects in Ele…2Radiation Effects in Electronics: 2 fractional worksEmbedded Systems Design …1Embedded Systems Design Techniques: 1 fractional worksEngineering Education an…1Engineering Education and Pedagogy: 1 fractional worksParallel Computing and O…1Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques: 1 fractional worksReliability and Maintenance Optimization: 1 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis: 1 fractional worksSoftware Reliability and…1Software Reliability and Analysis Research: 1 fractional worksReal-time simulation and control systems: 1 fractional worksAir Traffic Management and Optimization: 1 fractional worksReal-Time Systems Schedu…1Real-Time Systems Scheduling: 1 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringHardware and ArchitectureArchitectureSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality4 others

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

  1. 1 Radiation Effects in Electronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Embedded Systems Design Techniques Hardware and Architecture 1 works
  3. 3 Engineering Education and Pedagogy Architecture 1 works
  4. 4 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 1 works
  5. 5 Reliability and Maintenance Optimization Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 1 works
  6. 6 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1 works
  7. 7 Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software 1 works
  8. 8 Real-time simulation and control systems Control and Systems Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  10. 10 Real-Time Systems Scheduling Hardware and Architecture 1 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 available20.2%not open79.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.8%domestic only83.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has North Hertfordshire College's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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