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UK Data Archive

data-archive.ac.ukROR OpenAlex
Research works
76
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
405
5.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
79%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
UK Data Archive

Not ranked overall: UK Data Archive is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does UK Data Archive work in?

In all years, 56% of research at UK Data Archive is in Social Sciences, 35% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (29%), Social Sciences (25%), Decision Sciences (16%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 42 fractional works · 55.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 25.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 16.4% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 5.6% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 12 fractional works · 15.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 8 fractional works · 10.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 7.9% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 26 fractional works · 34.5% of its workComputer Science: 22 fractional works · 29.3% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 15.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 8.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 5.8% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKUK Data Archive76fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences35%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences56%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1925.2%
    2. Decision Sciences1215.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities67.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance33.9%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting22.2%
    6. Psychology10.8%
    1. Computer Science2229.3%
    2. Environmental Science22.5%
    3. Mathematics11.1%
    4. Engineering11.0%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
    6. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Medicine45.8%
    2. Health Professions22.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
    3. Neuroscience00.3%
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.

Computer Science: 4.25× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.27× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMedicine: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.71× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.91× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 12.53× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 2.25× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 12.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences12.53×1 works
  2. Computer Science4.25×4 works
  3. Arts and Humanities3.71×1 works
  4. Social Sciences2.25×3 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.91×1 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.27×0 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.35×0 works
  8. Materials Science0.34×0 works
  9. Medicine0.19×0 works
  10. Engineering0.12×0 works

Who are the top researchers at UK Data Archive?

Ranked on the quality score, Hervé L’Hours and Darren Bell lead among researchers whose main affiliation is UK Data Archive.

  1. 1 Hervé L’Hours United Kingdom · #3,998,441 worldwide 607 citations · 98 works
  2. 2 Darren Bell United Kingdom · #4,360,720 worldwide 0 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at UK Data Archive

What are the most cited papers from UK Data Archive?

The most cited paper from UK Data Archive is "Revisiting Qualitative Data Reuse" (Libby Bishop, Arja Kuula, 2017), with 174 citations. Next come "Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives" (132) and "Use of the Edinburgh geoparser for georeferencing digitized historical collections" (119).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Revisiting Qualitative Data Reuse Libby Bishop, Arja Kuula · SAGE Open Open access 2017 174
2 Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives Louise Corti, Annette Day, G. W. Backhouse · Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) Open access 25 Aug 2008 132
3 Use of the Edinburgh geoparser for georeferencing digitized historical collections Claire Grover, Richard Francis Tobin, Kate G. Byrne et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 19 Jul 2010 119
4 Pediatric Respiratory Disease. Diagnosis and Treatment Suzanne Helen McKenzie · Archives of Disease in Childhood Open access May 1994 99
5 Re-using archived qualitative data – where, how, why? Louise Corti · Archives and Museum Informatics Mar 2007 65
All 94 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at UK Data Archive?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Data Sharing, Ethical Issues, Research Methodology, Qualitative Data, Secondary Analysis, Digital Repositories, Data Integration and Big Data.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Data Sharing17▲ 1109×2 topics
  2. Ethical Issues10▲ 138×2 topics
  3. Research Methodology10▲ 233×2 topics
  4. Qualitative Data10▲ 2875×1 topic
  5. Secondary Analysis10▲ 2875×1 topic
  6. Digital Repositories9▲ 470×2 topics
  7. Data Integration9▲ 48×5 topics
  8. Big Data8▲ 21×7 topics
  9. Ecology7▲ 47×2 topics
  10. Open Science7▲ 602×1 topic
  11. Scientific Data Management7▲ 602×1 topic
  12. Data Cleaning6▲ 359×1 topic
  13. Record Linkage6▲ 359×1 topic
  14. Machine Learning6▲ 3.6×13 topics
  15. Semantic Web4▲ 36×5 topics
  16. Workflow Management4▲ 51×2 topics
  17. Metadata Standards3▲ 161×2 topics
  18. Ontologies3▲ 90×2 topics
  19. Semantic Web Services3▲ 48×2 topics
  20. Linked Data3▲ 58×2 topics
  21. Reproducibility3▲ 130×1 topic
  22. Scientific Workflows3▲ 130×1 topic
  23. Health3▲ 9.5×3 topics
  24. Data Mining2▲ 7.2×4 topics
  25. Surveillance2▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Online Learning2▲ 6.7×2 topics
  27. Archives2▲ 208×1 topic
  28. Digital Preservation2▲ 179×1 topic
  29. Differential Privacy2▲ 84×1 topic
  30. Federated Learning2▲ 84×1 topic
  31. Ontology2▲ 15×2 topics
  32. Qualitative Research2▲ 4.6×3 topics
  33. Corpus Linguistics2▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Bibliographic Framework2▲ 255×1 topic
  35. Instructional Design2▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Resource Description and Access2▲ 255×1 topic
  37. Knowledge Representation2▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Training Pathways2▲ 58×1 topic
  39. Vocational Education2▲ 31×1 topic
  40. Colorectal Cancer2▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does UK Data Archive publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research Data Management Practices, Data Analysis and Archiving, Digital and Traditional Archives Management and Qualitative Research Methods and Applications.

Research Data Management…3Research Data Management Practices: 3 fractional worksData Analysis and Archiv…1Data Analysis and Archiving: 1 fractional worksDigital and Traditional …1Digital and Traditional Archives Management: 1 fractional worksQualitative Research Methods and Applications: 1 fractional worksOptics and Image Analysis: 1 fractional worksScientific Computing and…1Scientific Computing and Data Management: 1 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Information Systems: 0 fractional worksFocus Groups and Qualitative Methods: 0 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsSociology and Political ScienceConservationEducation4 others

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

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 3 works
  2. 2 Data Analysis and Archiving Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 1 works
  4. 4 Qualitative Research Methods and Applications Education 1 works
  5. 5 Optics and Image Analysis Management Information Systems 1 works
  6. 6 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 1 works
  7. 7 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  8. 8 Library Science and Information Systems Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 0 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 available79.3%not open20.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.8%domestic only82.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has UK Data Archive's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% lower 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 UK Data Archive as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000039% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%UK Data Archive0.000051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of UK Data Archive over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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