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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

In research, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology stands highest in Environmental Science (#278 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,651 of 10,670 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,124 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology (Nature and Landscape Conservation is 19.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,815
of 22,385 · #1,720 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#151
of 862
Research works
4.8k
▼ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
264k
54.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.22×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
51%
world 40%
International
32%
world 18%
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

What is UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 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
Environmental ScienceField #278 of 3,334 16.0%275 #190
Physical SciencesDomain #1,651 of 10,670 16.2%350 #1448
Life SciencesDomain #1,124 of 6,403 17.2%106 #889
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #608 of 3,157 18.2%82 #351
EcologySubfield #174 of 600 18.8%61 #142
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #260 of 544 11.8%64 #175

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Environmental Science#190 #278
  2. Physical Sciences#1,448 #1,651
  3. Life Sciences#889 #1,124
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#351 #608
  5. Ecology#142 #174
  6. Global and Planetary Change#175 #260
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (55%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 440 fractional works · 70.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 342 fractional works · 54.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 83 fractional works · 13.4% of its workEcology: 77 fractional works · 12.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 30 fractional works · 4.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 28 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 26 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 26 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 19 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 19 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPollution: 18 fractional works · 2.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 47 fractional works · 7.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 28 fractional works · 4.5% of its workOceanography: 11 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 23 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 15 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 125 fractional works · 20.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 95 fractional works · 15.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPlant Science: 23 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSoil Science: 19 fractional works · 3.0% of its workInsect Science: 13 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workParasitology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 35 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKUK Centre forEcology &…623fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences6%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science34254.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences477.6%
    3. Engineering233.7%
    4. Computer Science152.5%
    5. Materials Science50.8%
    6. Mathematics20.3%
    7. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    8. Energy20.3%
    9. Chemistry10.2%
    10. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9515.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology264.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology40.6%
    4. Neuroscience10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences132.1%
    2. Decision Sciences91.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.7%
    4. Psychology40.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities40.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.3%
    1. Medicine172.7%
    2. Health Professions40.6%
    3. Nursing20.2%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nature and Landscape Conservation takes 19.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 28.1 works19×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 83.2 works18×
  3. EcologySubfield · 77.2 works16×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 342.0 works11×
  5. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 28.3 works10×
← 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: 3.20× its world share, 95 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.78× its world share, 26 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.60× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.32× its world share, 15 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.86× its world share, 48 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 23 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 11.06× its world share, 342 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.45× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 11.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science11.06×342 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4.86×48 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3.20×95 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.45×9 works
  5. Chemical Engineering0.87×2 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.78×26 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.60×4 works
  8. Veterinary0.55×0 works
  9. Nursing0.50×2 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.34×4 works
  11. Computer Science0.32×15 works
  12. Energy0.32×2 works
  13. Mathematics0.27×2 works
  14. Engineering0.24×23 works
  15. Materials Science0.22×5 works
  16. Health Professions0.22×4 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.19×4 works
  18. Psychology0.19×4 works
  19. Social Sciences0.16×13 works
  20. Medicine0.14×17 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.11×2 works
  22. Chemistry0.10×1 works
  23. Neuroscience0.08×1 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology?

Ranked on the quality score, James M. Bullock, David B. Roy and Chris Huntingford lead among researchers whose main affiliation is UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

  1. 1 James M. Bullock United Kingdom · #18,904 worldwide 35k citations · 464 works
  2. 2 David B. Roy United Kingdom · #22,290 worldwide 38k citations · 358 works
  3. 3 Chris Huntingford United Kingdom · #22,656 worldwide 37k citations · 406 works
  4. 4 Nick J. B. Isaac United Kingdom · #28,631 worldwide 19k citations · 191 works
  5. 5 Jill F. Thompson United Kingdom · #30,134 worldwide 15k citations · 248 works
  6. 6 Michael J. O. Pocock United Kingdom · #31,031 worldwide 8.2k citations · 150 works
  7. 7 Paula A. Harrison United Kingdom · #32,895 worldwide 13k citations · 222 works
  8. 8 David A. Robinson United Kingdom · #34,686 worldwide 41k citations · 539 works
  9. 9 Lindsay F. Banin United Kingdom · #37,951 worldwide 6.9k citations · 71 works
  10. 10 Ben Alex Woodcock United Kingdom · #37,975 worldwide 13k citations · 206 works
All ranked researchers at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

What are the most cited papers from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology?

The most cited paper from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is "Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges" (David Dudgeon, Angela H. Arthington, Mark O. Gessner et al., 2005), with 8,498 citations. Next come "Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming" (5,619) and "How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world" (4,691).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges David Dudgeon, Angela H. Arthington, Mark O. Gessner et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Review 12 Dec 2005 8,498
2 Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming I‐Ching Chen, Jane K. Hill, Ralf Ohlemüller et al. · Science 18 Aug 2011 5,619
3 How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world Jan Willem Erisman, Mark A. Sutton, James N. Galloway et al. · Nature Geoscience 28 Sep 2008 4,691
4 Defaunation in the Anthropocene Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti et al. · Science Open access 24 Jul 2014 4,270
5 Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities Alice A. Horton, Alexander Walton, David J. Spurgeon et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 4 Feb 2017 3,757
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, Invasive Species, Global Warming, Hydrological Modeling, Model Evaluation and Land Use Change.

▲ 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. Climate Change220▲ 13×81 topics
  2. Biodiversity66▲ 14×26 topics
  3. Remote Sensing55▲ 7.2×28 topics
  4. Invasive Species51▲ 19×20 topics
  5. Global Warming46▲ 17×13 topics
  6. Hydrological Modeling40▲ 27×5 topics
  7. Model Evaluation39▲ 49×2 topics
  8. Land Use Change37▲ 20×8 topics
  9. Global Change36▲ 22×6 topics
  10. Habitat Fragmentation36▲ 26×5 topics
  11. Sustainability34▲ 2.2×47 topics
  12. Ecosystem Services32▲ 13×11 topics
  13. Environmental Impact31▲ 3.0×39 topics
  14. Water Resources29▲ 19×9 topics
  15. Conservation29▲ 11×15 topics
  16. Ecosystem Resilience29▲ 30×5 topics
  17. Water Quality28▲ 11×13 topics
  18. Sediment Transport24▲ 24×6 topics
  19. Conservation Biology23▲ 34×4 topics
  20. Greenhouse Gas Emissions23▲ 13×7 topics
  21. Biodiversity Conservation22▲ 9.5×17 topics
  22. Ecosystem22▲ 33×4 topics
  23. Ecosystem Functioning21▲ 17×7 topics
  24. Health Effects20▲ 5.4×17 topics
  25. Global Hydrology20▲ 48×1 topic
  26. Uncertainty Assessment20▲ 48×1 topic
  27. Microbial Communities20▲ 7.4×10 topics
  28. Biological Invasions20▲ 35×3 topics
  29. Citizen Science20▲ 31×2 topics
  30. Eutrophication20▲ 28×4 topics
  31. Ecological Niche19▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Species Distribution Modeling19▲ 51×1 topic
  33. Community Ecology18▲ 35×2 topics
  34. Drought18▲ 30×3 topics
  35. Species Richness18▲ 46×2 topics
  36. Evapotranspiration18▲ 35×2 topics
  37. Population Dynamics18▲ 11×12 topics
  38. Nutrient Limitation18▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Functional Diversity17▲ 51×1 topic
  40. Extreme Events17▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies and Climate variability and models.

Hydrology and Watershed …20Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 20 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…19Species Distribution and Climate Change: 19 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…17Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 17 fractional worksClimate variability and …16Climate variability and models: 16 fractional worksSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 12 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 12 fractional worksPlant and animal studies11Plant and animal studies: 11 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 10 fractional worksPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology: 10 fractional worksHydrology and Drought An…9Hydrology and Drought Analysis: 9 fractional works
Water Science and TechnologyEcological ModelingNature and Landscape ConservationGlobal and Planetary Change3 others

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

  1. 1 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 20 works
  2. 2 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 19 works
  3. 3 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 17 works
  4. 4 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 16 works
  5. 5 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 12 works
  6. 6 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 12 works
  7. 7 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 11 works
  8. 8 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 10 works
  9. 9 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 10 works
  10. 10 Hydrology and Drought Analysis Global and Planetary Change 9 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 available50.8%not open49.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.9%domestic only68.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's research output changed?

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

still counting1990200020102020
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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 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology0.0022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology14.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 23.2% in 2017.

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