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Royal College of Music

In research, Royal College of Music stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,683 of 16,945 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#2,606 of 3,836 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Arts and Humanities — Arts and Humanities is 17.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#25,710
of 28,054 · #24,010 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#992
of 1,094
Research works
289
▲ 60% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.2k
18.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Royal College of Music 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
Social SciencesDomain #5,683 of 16,945 25.2%202
Arts and HumanitiesField #2,606 of 3,836 22.2%135

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal College of Music 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).

What does Royal College of Music specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Arts and Humanities takes 17.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 32.8 works17×
← 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.

Neuroscience: 3.74× its world share, 4 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.28× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.96× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 17.25× its world share, 33 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.12× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.96× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 17.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal College of Music?

Ranked on the composite score, Aaron Williamon, Trevor Herbert and Janet Mills lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal College of Music.

  1. 1 Aaron Williamon United Kingdom · #121,736 worldwide 165 citations · 47 works
  2. 2 Trevor Herbert United Kingdom · #136,336 worldwide 30 citations · 48 works
  3. 3 Janet Mills United Kingdom · #273,607 worldwide 53 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Richard Langham Smith United Kingdom · #366,639 worldwide 14 citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Natasha Loges United Kingdom · #695,964 worldwide 1 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Rosie Perkins United Kingdom · #863,961 worldwide 43 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 George Waddell United Kingdom · #1,168,273 worldwide 17 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Royal College of Music

Which keywords describe research at Royal College of Music?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Informal Learning, Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Pain Management, History, Social Justice, Interactive Evolutionary Computation and Music Generation.

▲ 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 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. Informal Learning9▲ 106×1 topic
  2. Music Education9▲ 436×1 topic
  3. Ethnomusicology7▲ 272×2 topics
  4. Pain Management5▲ 35×2 topics
  5. History5▲ 11×10 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 4.9×2 topics
  7. Interactive Evolutionary Computation4▲ 307×1 topic
  8. Music Generation4▲ 307×1 topic
  9. Social Justice4▲ 11×4 topics
  10. Musical Theory4▲ 392×1 topic
  11. Musicology4▲ 392×1 topic
  12. Literature4▲ 11×8 topics
  13. Gender4▲ 9.8×7 topics
  14. Anxiety3▲ 10×3 topics
  15. Culture3▲ 8.9×8 topics
  16. Emotional Responses3▲ 41×4 topics
  17. Identity3▲ 6.5×7 topics
  18. Psychological Outcomes3▲ 115×2 topics
  19. Ecomusicology3▲ 189×1 topic
  20. Environmental Sustainability3▲ 28×1 topic
  21. Health Promotion3▲ 14×2 topics
  22. Music Therapy3▲ 157×1 topic
  23. Philosophy3▲ 9.7×8 topics
  24. Stress Reduction3▲ 70×1 topic
  25. Colonialism3▲ 8.3×6 topics
  26. Auditory Cortex2▲ 121×1 topic
  27. Musculoskeletal Problems2▲ 612×1 topic
  28. Neuroscience2▲ 13×4 topics
  29. Playing-Related Disorders2▲ 612×1 topic
  30. Temporal Processing2▲ 164×1 topic
  31. Cultural Identity2▲ 6.4×2 topics
  32. Nationalism2▲ 7.4×5 topics
  33. Technology2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  34. Conservation2▲ 6.5×3 topics
  35. Authenticity2▲ 103×2 topics
  36. Empire2▲ 30×2 topics
  37. Sociology2▲ 19×2 topics
  38. National Identity2▲ 20×1 topic
  39. Renaissance2▲ 89×3 topics
  40. Scotland2▲ 287×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal College of Music publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Diverse Music Education Insights, Music Technology and Sound Studies, Musicology and Musical Analysis and Diverse Musicological Studies.

Diverse Music Education …9Diverse Music Education Insights: 9 fractional worksMusic Technology and Sou…4Music Technology and Sound Studies: 4 fractional worksMusicology and Musical A…4Musicology and Musical Analysis: 4 fractional worksDiverse Musicological Studies: 3 fractional worksMusic Therapy and Health: 3 fractional worksNeuroscience and Music P…2Neuroscience and Music Perception: 2 fractional worksMusicians’ Health and Performance: 2 fractional worksHistorical Studies of British Isles: 2 fractional worksScottish History and National Identity: 2 fractional worksMusic History and Culture: 1 fractional works
MusicComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSocial PsychologyCognitive Neuroscience2 others

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

  1. 1 Diverse Music Education Insights Music 9 works
  2. 2 Music Technology and Sound Studies Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  3. 3 Musicology and Musical Analysis Music 4 works
  4. 4 Diverse Musicological Studies Music 3 works
  5. 5 Music Therapy and Health Social Psychology 3 works
  6. 6 Neuroscience and Music Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  7. 7 Musicians’ Health and Performance Rehabilitation 2 works
  8. 8 Historical Studies of British Isles History 2 works
  9. 9 Scottish History and National Identity History 2 works
  10. 10 Music History and Culture Music 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 available33.1%not open66.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.3%domestic only85.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal College of Music's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 60% 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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