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Stafford College

In research, Stafford College stands highest in Social Sciences (#8,486 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,277
of 22,385 · #9,100 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#445
of 862
Research works
663
▲ 167% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.4k
9.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
17%
world 18%
Stafford College

What is Stafford College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #8,486 of 9,585 1.1%61 #11362

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Stafford College 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Stafford College work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research at Stafford College is in Social Sciences, 41% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (26%), Business, Management and Accounting (21%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 64 fractional works · 50.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 26 fractional works · 20.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 19 fractional works · 14.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 11.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 6.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 4.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 40.6% of its workComputer Science: 34 fractional works · 26.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 8.4% of its workInformation Systems: 10 fractional works · 7.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 9.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 11 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKStafford College128fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences41%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences50%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting2620.6%
    2. Social Sciences1511.6%
    3. Decision Sciences96.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities64.8%
    5. Psychology53.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.6%
    1. Computer Science3426.4%
    2. Engineering129.6%
    3. Environmental Science32.0%
    4. Mathematics10.9%
    5. Chemistry10.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    7. Materials Science00.4%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Medicine65.1%
    2. Health Professions42.7%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    2. Neuroscience00.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.39× its world share, 34 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.64× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.04× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.66× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6.40× its world share, 26 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.91× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.19× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.25× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences6.91×9 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting6.40×26 works
  3. Computer Science3.39×34 works
  4. Arts and Humanities1.66×6 works
  5. Psychology1.25×5 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.19×3 works
  7. Health Professions1.04×4 works
  8. Social Sciences0.92×15 works
  9. Nursing0.88×1 works
  10. Mathematics0.77×1 works
  11. Engineering0.64×12 works
  12. Veterinary0.64×0 works
  13. Chemistry0.55×1 works
  14. Environmental Science0.40×3 works
  15. Medicine0.26×6 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.25×0 works
  17. Neuroscience0.22×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Stafford College?

Ranked on the quality score, William Butler Yeats, Adam Aspin and P. G. Morton lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Stafford College.

  1. 1 William Butler Yeats United Kingdom · #1,978,519 worldwide 3.5k citations · 489 works
  2. 2 Adam Aspin United Kingdom · #2,140,490 worldwide 65 citations · 230 works
  3. 3 P. G. Morton United Kingdom · #2,293,325 worldwide 395 citations · 26 works
  4. 4 Scotus United Kingdom · #2,461,088 worldwide 6 citations · 113 works
  5. 5 Gordon Mursell United Kingdom · #2,863,663 worldwide 39 citations · 52 works
  6. 6 T. J. M. United Kingdom · #3,079,249 worldwide 2 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Jenny Elizabeth United Kingdom · #3,123,341 worldwide 2 citations · 80 works
  8. 8 Timothy Treadwell United Kingdom · #3,132,084 worldwide 5 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 John Travlos United Kingdom · #3,453,457 worldwide 312 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Pamela Liebeck United Kingdom · #3,987,753 worldwide 22 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Stafford College

What are the most cited papers from Stafford College?

The most cited paper from Stafford College is "Greater Incidence of Delirium during Recovery from Sevoflurane Anesthesia in Preschool Boys" (Jun Aono, Wasa Ueda, Kikyo Mamiya et al., 1997), with 438 citations. Next come "Effects of Methemoglobinemia on Pulse Oximetry and Mixed Venous Oximetry" (385) and "Is the Nucleus Pulposus a Solid or a Fluid? Mechanical Behaviors of the Nucleus Pulposus of the Human Intervertebral Disc" (368).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Greater Incidence of Delirium during Recovery from Sevoflurane Anesthesia in Preschool Boys Jun Aono, Wasa Ueda, Kikyo Mamiya et al. · Anesthesiology Dec 1997 438
2 Effects of Methemoglobinemia on Pulse Oximetry and Mixed Venous Oximetry Steven J. Barker, Kevin K. Tremper, John A. Hyatt · Anesthesiology Open access 1989 385
3 Is the Nucleus Pulposus a Solid or a Fluid? Mechanical Behaviors of the Nucleus Pulposus of the Human Intervertebral Disc James C. Iatridis, Mark Weidenbaum, Lori A. Setton et al. · Spine May 1996 368
4 Spatial and non-spatial working memory at different stages of Parkinson's disease Adrian Mark Owen, Joanna L. Iddon, John R. Hodges et al. · Neuropsychologia Feb 1997 357
5 Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Regional Anesthesia Alain Borgeat, Georgios Ekatodramis, Carlo A. Schenker · Anesthesiology Feb 2003 247
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Which keywords describe research at Stafford College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Firm Performance, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Distributed Systems and Information Technology.

▲ 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-now 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. Big Data24▲ 19×8 topics
  2. Sustainability20▲ 6.4×18 topics
  3. Supply Chain Management19▲ 17×7 topics
  4. Firm Performance17▲ 73×2 topics
  5. Analytics17▲ 146×1 topic
  6. Business Intelligence17▲ 146×1 topic
  7. Machine Learning8▲ 1.90×11 topics
  8. Distributed Systems6▲ 28×2 topics
  9. Artificial Intelligence5▲ 2.6×9 topics
  10. Information Technology4▲ 7.4×5 topics
  11. Workflow Management4▲ 45×2 topics
  12. Log Analysis3▲ 60×1 topic
  13. Performance Prediction3▲ 37×1 topic
  14. Data Mining3▲ 3.4×3 topics
  15. Cyber-Physical Systems3▲ 8.2×4 topics
  16. Grid Computing3▲ 68×1 topic
  17. Resource Management3▲ 13×1 topic
  18. Semantic Web Services3▲ 38×2 topics
  19. Statistical Modeling3▲ 48×2 topics
  20. User Interaction3▲ 68×2 topics
  21. Cross-Platform Development2▲ 200×1 topic
  22. Mobile Application Development2▲ 200×1 topic
  23. Parallel Computing2▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Industrial Automation2▲ 28×2 topics
  25. Semantic Web2▲ 19×3 topics
  26. Social Impact2▲ 4.6×2 topics
  27. Data Integration2▲ 9.9×2 topics
  28. Information Visualization2▲ 81×1 topic
  29. Visual Analytics2▲ 81×1 topic
  30. Data Visualization2▲ 31×3 topics
  31. Quality Assurance2▲ 9.7×2 topics
  32. Data Management2▲ 47×2 topics
  33. Measurement Uncertainty2▲ 159×1 topic
  34. Redefinition of SI Units2▲ 159×1 topic
  35. Software Engineering2▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Data Analytics2▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Digital Age2▲ 67×1 topic
  38. Industry Transformation2▲ 121×1 topic
  39. Time Series Analysis2▲ 8.4×2 topics
  40. Python2▲ 61×1 topic

Which research topics does Stafford College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Big Data and Business Intelligence, Software System Performance and Reliability, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems and Mobile and Web Applications.

Big Data and Business In…17Big Data and Business Intelligence: 17 fractional worksSoftware System Performance and Reliability: 3 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 3 fractional worksMobile and Web Applications: 2 fractional worksData Visualization and Analytics: 2 fractional worksScientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation: 2 fractional worksBig Data Technologies and Applications: 2 fractional worksComputational Physics and Python Applications: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Data Storage Technologies: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Data Processing Techniques: 1 fractional works
Management Information SystemsComputer Networks and CommunicationsInformation SystemsComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition4 others

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

  1. 1 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 17 works
  2. 2 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 3 works
  3. 3 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 3 works
  4. 4 Mobile and Web Applications Information Systems 2 works
  5. 5 Data Visualization and Analytics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  6. 6 Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 2 works
  7. 7 Big Data Technologies and Applications Information Systems and Management 2 works
  8. 8 Computational Physics and Python Applications Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  9. 9 Advanced Data Storage Technologies Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  10. 10 Advanced Data Processing Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 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 available14.1%not open85.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.4%domestic only82.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Stafford College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 167% higher 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 Stafford College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00028% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Stafford College0.00050% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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