Question 1

What is Royal Observatory known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Royal Observatory stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#537 of 1,417 worldwide), Astronomy and Astrophysics (#228 of 400 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#6,472 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics and Astronomy (Instrumentation is 285.1× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Royal Observatory rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Royal Observatory ranks #18,893 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#6,396 all time), and #676 of 862 in the United Kingdom.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Royal Observatory?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Rob J. Ivison, John A. Peacock and R. K. Cochrane lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Observatory.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Royal Observatory?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Royal Observatory is "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary" (Donald G. York et al., 2000), with 10,547 citations. Next come "Gaia Data Release 2" (8,734) and "The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *" (7,690).

Question 5

Which research topics does Royal Observatory publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Royal Observatory?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Galaxies, Stellar Populations, Astronomical Instrumentation and Spectrograph.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Royal Observatory work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 97% of research at Royal Observatory is in Physical Sciences, 2% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (83%), Engineering (6%), Computer Science (3%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is Royal Observatory's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021.