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Nottingham Contemporary

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Research works
81
▼ 94% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.4k
17.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Nottingham Contemporary

Not ranked overall: Nottingham Contemporary 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 Nottingham Contemporary work in?

In all years, 86% of research at Nottingham Contemporary is in Social Sciences, 9% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (47%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (22%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 69 fractional works · 85.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 38 fractional works · 46.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 13 fractional works · 15.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 12 fractional works · 14.7% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 22.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 fractional works · 14.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 8.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNottinghamContemporary81fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences86%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3846.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1822.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting78.6%
    4. Arts and Humanities45.3%
    5. Psychology22.7%
    6. Decision Sciences00.6%
    1. Environmental Science33.5%
    2. Energy23.0%
    3. Computer Science11.3%
    4. Engineering11.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Medicine11.6%
    2. Health Professions11.1%
    1. Neuroscience11.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.8%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Nottingham Contemporary?

The most cited paper from Nottingham Contemporary is "China's innovation policies: Evolution, institutional structure, and trajectory" (Liu Feng-chao, Denis Fred Simon, Yu-tao Sun et al., 2011), with 331 citations. Next come "Bank ownership, privatization, and performance: Evidence from a transition country" (227) and "The effects of governance changes on bank efficiency in China: A stochastic distance function approach" (166).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 China's innovation policies: Evolution, institutional structure, and trajectory Liu Feng-chao, Denis Fred Simon, Yu-tao Sun et al. · Research Policy 19 Jun 2011 331
2 Bank ownership, privatization, and performance: Evidence from a transition country Chunxia Jiang, Shujie Yao, Gen‐Fu Feng · Journal of Banking & Finance Open access 14 May 2013 227
3 The effects of governance changes on bank efficiency in China: A stochastic distance function approach Chunxia Jiang, Shujie Yao, Zongyi Zhang · China Economic Review 22 May 2009 166
4 Short- and long-run causality between energy consumption and economic growth: Evidence across regions in China M.J. Herrerías, Roselyne Joyeux, Eric P Girardin · Applied Energy 10 May 2013 150
5 Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces M.J. Herrerías, Ana Cuadros, Vicente Orts · Energy Economics Open access 7 Sep 2012 146
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Which keywords describe research at Nottingham Contemporary?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Development, Urbanization, Globalization, China, Political Economy, Inequality, Governance and Nationalism.

▲ 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. Economic Development15▲ 27×16 topics
  2. Urbanization11▲ 44×5 topics
  3. Globalization11▲ 7.2×26 topics
  4. China10▲ 65×5 topics
  5. Political Economy9▲ 43×7 topics
  6. Inequality9▲ 43×6 topics
  7. Governance8▲ 32×4 topics
  8. Nationalism8▲ 16×9 topics
  9. Migration7▲ 29×4 topics
  10. Authoritarianism7▲ 100×3 topics
  11. Economic Growth7▲ 11×9 topics
  12. Reform7▲ 117×1 topic
  13. land policy7▲ 349×1 topic
  14. Innovation5▲ 7.0×11 topics
  15. History5▲ 7.6×6 topics
  16. Renewable Energy4▲ 5.3×4 topics
  17. Cultural Identity4▲ 12×6 topics
  18. Religion4▲ 8.6×4 topics
  19. Sustainability4▲ 2.6×10 topics
  20. Colonialism4▲ 9.0×7 topics
  21. Identity4▲ 5.7×9 topics
  22. Social Capital4▲ 11×8 topics
  23. Environmental Impact3▲ 3.2×5 topics
  24. Gender3▲ 7.3×9 topics
  25. Regulation3▲ 6.8×2 topics
  26. Financial Development3▲ 38×2 topics
  27. Panel Data Analysis3▲ 35×2 topics
  28. Regional Development3▲ 15×4 topics
  29. Global Trade3▲ 26×3 topics
  30. Corporate Governance3▲ 6.6×6 topics
  31. Philosophy3▲ 8.0×2 topics
  32. CO2 Emissions3▲ 28×1 topic
  33. Christianity3▲ 28×1 topic
  34. Confucianism3▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Energy Consumption3▲ 25×1 topic
  36. International Trade2▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Democratization2▲ 54×2 topics
  38. Greenhouse Gas Emissions2▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Human Capital2▲ 21×4 topics
  40. Social Movements2▲ 8.8×2 topics

Which research topics does Nottingham Contemporary publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Indian History and Philosophy, South Asian Studies and Diaspora, Education, Philosophy, and Society and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Indian History and Philosophy: 0 fractional worksSouth Asian Studies and Diaspora: 0 fractional worksEducation, Philosophy, a…0Education, Philosophy, and Society: 0 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare S…0Employment and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksHousing, Finance, and Ne…0Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism: 0 fractional worksPolitical Economy and Ma…0Political Economy and Marxism: 0 fractional worksNames, Identity, and Discrimination Research: 0 fractional worksHigher Education and Employability: 0 fractional worksDemographic Trends and Gender Preferences: 0 fractional worksFermentation and Sensory Analysis: 0 fractional works
PhilosophyGeneral Health ProfessionsFinanceSociology and Political Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Indian History and Philosophy Philosophy 0 works
  2. 2 South Asian Studies and Diaspora Philosophy 0 works
  3. 3 Education, Philosophy, and Society Philosophy 0 works
  4. 4 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism Finance 0 works
  6. 6 Political Economy and Marxism Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  8. 8 Higher Education and Employability Education 0 works
  9. 9 Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Gender Studies 0 works
  10. 10 Fermentation and Sensory Analysis Food Science 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 available30.0%not open70.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.8%domestic only77.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Nottingham Contemporary's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 94% 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 Nottingham Contemporary as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000036% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Nottingham Contemporary0.0000043% in 20251990200020102020

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

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