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Northern Ireland Office

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Research works
84
▼ 42% vs 2018-21
Citations
516
6.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Northern Ireland Office

Not ranked overall: Northern Ireland Office is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Northern Ireland Office work in?

In all years, 40% of research at Northern Ireland Office is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (22%), Computer Science (20%), Medicine (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 33 fractional works · 39.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 22.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 6.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 9.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 28 fractional works · 32.7% of its workComputer Science: 16 fractional works · 19.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 10.2% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 7.6% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 19 fractional works · 22.1% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 14.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 7.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKNorthern IrelandOffice84fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences33%Health Sciences22%Social Sciences40%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1922.4%
    2. Psychology89.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities33.5%
    4. Decision Sciences22.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.0%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.8%
    1. Computer Science1619.5%
    2. Engineering67.6%
    3. Environmental Science34.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.3%
    5. Chemistry00.2%
    6. Energy00.0%
    1. Medicine1214.4%
    2. Health Professions67.4%
    3. Dentistry00.2%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology33.1%
    2. Neuroscience11.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.59× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 3.98× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.07× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.16× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.31× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.39× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.04× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science3.98×6 works
  2. Neuroscience3.59×1 works
  3. Psychology3.04×2 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.39×1 works
  5. Health Professions1.31×1 works
  6. Environmental Science1.16×1 works
  7. Engineering1.07×3 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.71×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.68×2 works
  10. Medicine0.62×2 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.43×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.28×0 works
  13. Energy0.22×0 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Northern Ireland Office?

Ranked on the quality score, Jeffrey A. McGuire, Heather McNamee and Felicity Brand lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Northern Ireland Office.

  1. 1 Jeffrey A. McGuire United Kingdom · #2,790,882 worldwide 1 citations · 16 works
  2. 1 Heather McNamee United Kingdom · #2,790,882 worldwide 1 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Felicity Brand United Kingdom · #2,805,227 worldwide 24 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Northern Ireland Office

What are the most cited papers from Northern Ireland Office?

The most cited paper from Northern Ireland Office is "The impact of depressive symptoms and psychosocial factors on medication adherence in cardiovascular disease" (Catherine Bane, Carmel M Hughes, James C. McElnay, 2005), with 110 citations. Next come "The Prognostic Utility of the SYNTAX Score on 1-Year Outcomes After Revascularization With Zotarolimus- and Everolimus-Eluting Stents" (107) and "Avian influenza overview June – September 2022" (102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The impact of depressive symptoms and psychosocial factors on medication adherence in cardiovascular disease Catherine Bane, Carmel M Hughes, James C. McElnay · Patient Education and Counseling 26 Oct 2005 110
2 The Prognostic Utility of the SYNTAX Score on 1-Year Outcomes After Revascularization With Zotarolimus- and Everolimus-Eluting Stents Scot Garg et al. · JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions Open access Apr 2011 107
3 Avian influenza overview June – September 2022 European Food Safety Authority, Cornelia Adlhoch, Alice Fusaro et al. · EFSA Journal Open access Oct 2022 102
4 Recent Advances in the Smiles Rearrangement: New Opportunities for Arylation Michael F. Greaney, David M. Whalley · Synthesis Open access Dec 2021 73
5 Neolithic human impact on the landscapes of North-East Hungary inferred from pollen and settlement records Eniko Katalin Magyari, John C. Chapman, Andrew Stephen Fairbairn et al. · Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Open access 24 Feb 2012 66
All 69 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Northern Ireland Office?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Resilience, Identity, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Developmental Trajectories, Attachment and Child Welfare.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Mental Health7▲ 7.2×17 topics
  2. Machine Learning5▲ 2.6×11 topics
  3. Resilience4▲ 11×8 topics
  4. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 5.0×6 topics
  5. Identity4▲ 5.4×7 topics
  6. Neural Networks3▲ 3.4×2 topics
  7. Public Health3▲ 2.4×10 topics
  8. Social Support2▲ 6.4×5 topics
  9. Attachment2▲ 23×2 topics
  10. Big Data2▲ 5.2×4 topics
  11. Child Welfare2▲ 71×2 topics
  12. Conditional Cash Transfers2▲ 93×1 topic
  13. Developmental Trajectories2▲ 21×3 topics
  14. School Subsidies2▲ 93×1 topic
  15. Bioinformatics2▲ 24×2 topics
  16. Engineering Education2▲ 28×2 topics
  17. Text Classification2▲ 30×2 topics
  18. Ethics2▲ 5.5×4 topics
  19. Intervention2▲ 63×2 topics
  20. Adoption2▲ 117×1 topic
  21. Foster Care2▲ 145×1 topic
  22. Primary Care2▲ 6.0×5 topics
  23. Machine Translation2▲ 22×1 topic
  24. Music2▲ 53×3 topics
  25. Nationalism2▲ 4.1×3 topics
  26. Remote Laboratories2▲ 58×1 topic
  27. Virtual Labs2▲ 58×1 topic
  28. Word Representation2▲ 36×1 topic
  29. Statistical Modeling2▲ 55×2 topics
  30. Long-Term Care2▲ 31×2 topics
  31. Transition2▲ 21×2 topics
  32. Conflict2▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Medical Ethics2▲ 11×2 topics
  34. Training2▲ 10×2 topics
  35. Elderly Care2▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Language2▲ 7.9×3 topics
  37. Psychological Impact2▲ 8.4×4 topics
  38. Python2▲ 87×1 topic
  39. Quality Improvement2▲ 8.5×4 topics
  40. Scientific Computing2▲ 87×1 topic

Which research topics does Northern Ireland Office publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Experimental Learning in Engineering, Topic Modeling, AI in Service Interactions and Cognitive Science and Education Research.

Experimental Learning in…2Experimental Learning in Engineering: 2 fractional worksTopic Modeling2Topic Modeling: 2 fractional worksAI in Service Interactions: 1 fractional worksCognitive Science and Education Research: 1 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 1 fractional worksSpeech and dialogue syst…1Speech and dialogue systems: 1 fractional worksPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction: 0 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Management: 0 fractional worksExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 0 fractional worksInnovative Human-Technology Interaction: 0 fractional works
Media TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceCognitive NeuroscienceSafety Research3 others

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

  1. 1 Experimental Learning in Engineering Media Technology 2 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  3. 3 AI in Service Interactions Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  4. 4 Cognitive Science and Education Research Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  5. 5 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 1 works
  6. 6 Speech and dialogue systems Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  7. 7 Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Social Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  9. 9 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  10. 10 Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Human-Computer Interaction 0 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 available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.6%domestic only78.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Northern Ireland Office's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 42% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Northern Ireland Office as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00020% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Northern Ireland Office0.000053% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Northern Ireland Office over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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