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Northwood

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Research works
17
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
82
4.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
65%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Northwood

Not ranked overall: Northwood is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Northwood work in?

In all years, 71% of research at Northwood is in Health Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (63%), Social Sciences (13%), Health Professions (8%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 12 fractional works · 71.4% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 63.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 15.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 11.1% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 13.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.6% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNorthwood17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences71%Social Sciences15%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1163.2%
    2. Health Professions17.6%
    3. Nursing00.6%
    1. Social Sciences213.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.6%
    3. Psychology00.6%
    4. Decision Sciences00.4%
    1. Computer Science14.7%
    2. Engineering02.0%
    3. Chemistry01.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.3%
    5. Environmental Science00.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.3%
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.

Computer Science: 1.16× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.51× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 7.67× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.31× its world share, 0 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.67×0 works
  2. Engineering1.56×0 works
  3. Environmental Science1.51×0 works
  4. Medicine1.31×0 works
  5. Computer Science1.16×0 works
  6. Social Sciences1.15×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Northwood?

Ranked on the quality score, Henry Ling Roth lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Northwood.

  1. 1 Henry Ling Roth Canada · #2,034,319 worldwide 202 citations · 98 works
All ranked researchers at Northwood

What are the most cited papers from Northwood?

The most cited paper from Northwood is "The Primary Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Role in Canada" (Faith Donald, Ruth Martin‐Misener, Denise Bryant‐Lukosius et al., 2010), with 103 citations. Next come "Health-Related Quality of Life in a UK-Based Population of Men with Erectile Dysfunction" (86) and "Palliative care treatment patterns and associated costs of healthcare resource use for specific advanced cancer patients in the UK" (74).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Primary Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Role in Canada Faith Donald, Ruth Martin‐Misener, Denise Bryant‐Lukosius et al. · Nursing leadership Open access Dec 2010 103
2 Health-Related Quality of Life in a UK-Based Population of Men with Erectile Dysfunction Julian F. Guest, Roben Das Gupta · PharmacoEconomics 2002 86
3 Palliative care treatment patterns and associated costs of healthcare resource use for specific advanced cancer patients in the UK Julian F. Guest, Francis J. Ruiz, Mark Greener et al. · European Journal of Cancer Care 6 Oct 2005 74
4 Operable Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Correlation of Volumetric Helical Dynamic Contrast-enhanced CT Parameters with Immunohistochemical Markers of Tumor Hypoxia Henry Mandeville, Quan Sing Ng, Frances M Daley et al. · Radiology 15 Jun 2012 47
5 Principal stress rotation as cause of cyclic mobility Michael G. Jefferies, Dawn A. Shuttle, Ken Been · Geotechnical Research Open access 8 Sep 2015 32
All 34 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Northwood publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility, Technology Use by Older Adults, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes and Mine drainage and remediation techniques.

Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility: 0 fractional worksTechnology Use by Older Adults: 0 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 0 fractional worksMine drainage and remediation techniques: 0 fractional worksCerebral Palsy and Movem…0Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders: 0 fractional worksMedical Imaging and Analysis: 0 fractional worksMaterials Engineering and Processing: 0 fractional worksReproductive Health and …0Reproductive Health and Contraception: 0 fractional worksMaternal and Perinatal Health Interventions: 0 fractional worksInnovative Human-Technology Interaction: 0 fractional works
Occupational TherapyDemographyGeneral Health ProfessionsEnvironmental Chemistry6 others

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

  1. 1 Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility Occupational Therapy 0 works
  2. 2 Technology Use by Older Adults Demography 0 works
  3. 3 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Mine drainage and remediation techniques Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  5. 5 Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
  6. 6 Medical Imaging and Analysis Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Materials Engineering and Processing Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Reproductive Health and Contraception Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 available65.0%not open35.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.4%domestic only80.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Northwood's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% 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 Northwood as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000086% in 2022.

0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Northwood0.000013% in 202419801990200020102020

Fractional works of Northwood over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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