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UK Data Service

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Research works
28
▲ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
49
1.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
98%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
UK Data Service

Not ranked overall: UK Data Service 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 Service work in?

In all years, 56% of research at UK Data Service is in Social Sciences, 40% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (37%), Decision Sciences (21%), Social Sciences (20%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 16 fractional works · 56.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 21.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 15.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 19.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 13.6% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 7.5% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 40.2% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 37.1% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 24.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 7.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKUK Data Service28fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences40%Health Sciences3%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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Decision Sciences621.0%
    2. Social Sciences619.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities27.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting13.8%
    1. Computer Science1137.1%
    2. Environmental Science01.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.8%
    4. Engineering00.4%
    5. Mathematics00.2%
    1. Medicine01.7%
    2. Health Professions01.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    2. Neuroscience00.2%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 4.16× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.39× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.60× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 22.95× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 2.06× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 22.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences22.95×4 works
  2. Computer Science4.16×6 works
  3. Arts and Humanities2.39×1 works
  4. Social Sciences2.06×5 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.60×1 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.72×0 works
  7. Health Professions0.43×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.34×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.20×0 works
  10. Neuroscience0.15×0 works
  11. Medicine0.11×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×0 works
  13. Engineering0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at UK Data Service?

Ranked on the quality score, Hervé l'Hours and Oliver Parkes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is UK Data Service.

  1. 1 Hervé l'Hours United Kingdom · #3,821,133 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Oliver Parkes United Kingdom · #4,137,509 worldwide 8 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at UK Data Service

What are the most cited papers from UK Data Service?

The most cited paper from UK Data Service is "From Conceptualization to Implementation: FAIR Assessment of Research Data Objects" (Anusuriya Devaraju, Mustapha Mokrane, Linas Čepinskas et al., 2021), with 46 citations. Next come "CoreTrustSeal: From academic collaboration to sustainable services" (23) and "Template Based Semantic Integration" (17).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 From Conceptualization to Implementation: FAIR Assessment of Research Data Objects Anusuriya Devaraju, Mustapha Mokrane, Linas Čepinskas et al. · Data Science Journal Open access 2021 46
2 CoreTrustSeal: From academic collaboration to sustainable services Hervé L’Hours, Mari Kleemola, Lisa De Leeuw · IASSIST Quarterly Open access 10 May 2019 23
3 Template Based Semantic Integration Ceri Binding, Michael Charno, Stuart Jeffrey et al. · International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems Open access 2015 17
4 Increasing the Reuse of Data through FAIR-enabling the Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories Benjamin Mathers, Hervé L’Hours · International Journal of Digital Curation Open access 1970 5
5 Developing data literacy: How data services and data fellowships are creating data skilled social researchers Vanessa Higgins, Jackie Carter · IASSIST Quarterly Open access 29 Sep 2022 3
All 49 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at UK Data Service?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Data Sharing, Digital Repositories, Open Science, Scientific Data Management, Ontologies, Workflow Management, Reproducibility and Scientific Workflows.

▲ 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 23 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Data Sharing9▲ 1585×2 topics
  2. Digital Repositories7▲ 926×2 topics
  3. Open Science6▲ 1418×1 topic
  4. Scientific Data Management6▲ 1418×1 topic
  5. Ontologies4▲ 255×2 topics
  6. Workflow Management4▲ 125×2 topics
  7. Reproducibility3▲ 348×1 topic
  8. Scientific Workflows3▲ 348×1 topic
  9. Big Data3▲ 18×5 topics
  10. Qualitative Data3▲ 2166×1 topic
  11. Secondary Analysis3▲ 2166×1 topic
  12. Machine Learning2▲ 3.6×9 topics
  13. Archives1▲ 373×1 topic
  14. Data Integration1▲ 20×3 topics
  15. Digital Preservation1▲ 321×1 topic
  16. Data Cleaning1▲ 192×1 topic
  17. Record Linkage1▲ 192×1 topic
  18. Data Quality1▲ 119×2 topics
  19. Primary Care1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  20. Health Care Spending1▲ 55×1 topic
  21. Insurance Markets1▲ 55×1 topic
  22. Response Rates1▲ 581×1 topic
  23. Survey Methodology1▲ 581×1 topic

Which research topics does UK Data Service publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research Data Management Practices, Data Analysis and Archiving, Scientific Computing and Data Management and Digital and Traditional Archives Management.

Research Data Management…4Research Data Management Practices: 4 fractional worksData Analysis and Archiving: 3 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 2 fractional worksDigital and Traditional Archives Management: 1 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 1 fractional worksSurvey Methodology and N…1Survey Methodology and Nonresponse: 1 fractional worksSoftware Engineering and Design Patterns: 1 fractional worksMathematics, Computing, and Information Processing: 1 fractional worksEducational Assessment and Improvement: 1 fractional worksOptics and Image Analysis: 1 fractional works
Information SystemsSociology and Political ScienceInformation Systems and ManagementConservation4 others

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

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 4 works
  2. 2 Data Analysis and Archiving Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  3. 3 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 2 works
  4. 4 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 1 works
  5. 5 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  6. 6 Survey Methodology and Nonresponse Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  7. 7 Software Engineering and Design Patterns Development 1 works
  8. 8 Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing Computational Theory and Mathematics 1 works
  9. 9 Educational Assessment and Improvement Information Systems and Management 1 works
  10. 10 Optics and Image Analysis Management Information Systems 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 available97.6%not open2.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.2%domestic only64.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has UK Data Service's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% 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 UK Data Service as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000030% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%UK Data Service0.000094% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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