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The Alan Turing Institute

In research, The Alan Turing Institute stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,763 of 10,521 worldwide), Artificial Intelligence (#543 of 1,884 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#3,856 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Artificial Intelligence — Artificial Intelligence is 6.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,451
of 28,054 · #5,696 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#136
of 1,094
Research works
1.3k
▲ 749% vs 2013–17
Citations
32k
25.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
80%
world 28%

What is The Alan Turing Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #1,763 of 10,521 37.7%164 #2553
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #543 of 1,884 30.5%87 #822
Physical SciencesDomain #3,856 of 12,888 30.0%284 #6213
Computer ScienceField #1,637 of 4,667 28.3%151 #1808
Social SciencesField #2,560 of 6,365 43.9%70 #2881

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Alan Turing Institute 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#2,553 #1,763
  2. Artificial Intelligence#822 #543
  3. Physical Sciences#6,213 #3,856
  4. Computer Science#1,808 #1,637
  5. Social Sciences#2,881 #2,560
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does The Alan Turing Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Artificial Intelligence takes 6.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 87.3 works6.6×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 29 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.49× its world share, 13 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.53× its world share, 151 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.47× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.65× its world share, 54 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 22 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.82× its world share, 18 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.80× its world share, 22 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.46× its world share, 49 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.71× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.62× its world share, 30 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.81× its world share, 33 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 70 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at The Alan Turing Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Barbara McGillivray, Kirstie Whitaker and David Leslie lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Alan Turing Institute.

  1. 1 Barbara McGillivray United Kingdom · #83,636 worldwide 210 citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Kirstie Whitaker United Kingdom · #121,158 worldwide 165 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 David Leslie United Kingdom · #165,221 worldwide 137 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Gonzalo Castañeda United Kingdom · #494,323 worldwide 15 citations · 30 works
  5. 5 Adrià Gascón United Kingdom · #539,036 worldwide 121 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Mhairi Aitken United Kingdom · #739,227 worldwide 32 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Bertie Vidgen United Kingdom · #803,064 worldwide 62 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Kaspar Beelen United Kingdom · #855,174 worldwide 19 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Ganna Pogrebna United Kingdom · #920,727 worldwide 99 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Tapabrata Chakraborti United Kingdom · #988,199 worldwide 38 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at The Alan Turing Institute

Which keywords describe research at The Alan Turing Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Fairness and Accountability.

▲ 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. Machine Learning92▲ 5.1×70 topics
  2. Deep Learning70▲ 3.7×62 topics
  3. Big Data40▲ 8.1×17 topics
  4. Neural Networks35▲ 4.1×29 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence32▲ 4.3×25 topics
  6. Surveillance21▲ 14×4 topics
  7. Social Media19▲ 2.4×19 topics
  8. Ethics16▲ 6.1×5 topics
  9. Accountability15▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Fairness15▲ 32×2 topics
  11. Transparency15▲ 22×2 topics
  12. Healthcare15▲ 2.4×12 topics
  13. Discrimination14▲ 13×2 topics
  14. Algorithmic Bias14▲ 38×1 topic
  15. Precision Medicine13▲ 5.2×7 topics
  16. Medical Imaging13▲ 4.5×6 topics
  17. Data Mining12▲ 2.9×11 topics
  18. Economic Growth12▲ 2.5×17 topics
  19. Bioinformatics11▲ 18×4 topics
  20. Topic Modeling10▲ 12×2 topics
  21. Natural Language Processing10▲ 7.5×6 topics
  22. Agent-Based Modeling10▲ 13×6 topics
  23. Deep Neural Networks9▲ 15×3 topics
  24. Information Retrieval9▲ 7.2×4 topics
  25. Network Dynamics8▲ 15×3 topics
  26. Health Equity8▲ 5.6×5 topics
  27. Workflow Management8▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Social Influence8▲ 6.5×2 topics
  29. Software Development8▲ 29×2 topics
  30. Ethical Challenges8▲ 7.1×2 topics
  31. Ontologies8▲ 27×2 topics
  32. Reproducibility8▲ 39×1 topic
  33. Scientific Workflows8▲ 39×1 topic
  34. Semantic Web Services8▲ 27×2 topics
  35. Inverse Problems7▲ 13×4 topics
  36. Clinical Decision Support7▲ 9.6×1 topic
  37. Radiology7▲ 11×1 topic
  38. Text Classification7▲ 8.3×3 topics
  39. Data Integration7▲ 7.6×6 topics
  40. Word Representation7▲ 10×1 topic

Which research topics does The Alan Turing Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education and Topic Modeling.

Ethics and Social Impact…14Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 14 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 8 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …7Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 7 fractional worksTopic Modeling7Topic Modeling: 7 fractional worksExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 6 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 5 fractional worksModel Reduction and Neur…5Model Reduction and Neural Networks: 5 fractional worksComplex Network Analysis Techniques: 5 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 5 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Techn…5Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 5 fractional works
Safety ResearchInformation Systems and ManagementHealth InformaticsArtificial Intelligence2 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 14 works
  2. 2 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 8 works
  3. 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 7 works
  4. 4 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 7 works
  5. 5 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  6. 6 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 5 works
  7. 7 Model Reduction and Neural Networks Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 5 works
  8. 8 Complex Network Analysis Techniques Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 5 works
  9. 9 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 5 works
  10. 10 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 5 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 available80.4%not open19.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.2%domestic only59.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Alan Turing Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 749% 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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