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UKOLN

In research, UKOLN stands highest in Computer Science (#3,720 of 6,336 worldwide), Social Sciences (#9,916 of 14,833 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#13,039 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Conservation, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems (Conservation is 96.8× its share of world research).

ukoln.ac.ukROR OpenAlex
World rank, all time
#21,925
of 34,923
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,133
of 1,844
Research works
364
▼ 93% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.7k
7.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
UKOLN

What is UKOLN known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Computer ScienceField #3,720 of 6,336 5.4%178
Social SciencesDomain #9,916 of 14,833 4.2%150
Physical SciencesDomain #13,039 of 17,446 5.8%205

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where UKOLN 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 UKOLN work in?

In all years, 56% of research at UKOLN is in Physical Sciences, 41% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (49%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 205 fractional works · 56.3% of its workComputer Science: 178 fractional works · 48.8% of its workInformation Systems: 114 fractional works · 31.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 27 fractional works · 7.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 14 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 4.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeology: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 150 fractional works · 41.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 48 fractional works · 13.2% of its workConservation: 24 fractional works · 6.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMuseology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 43 fractional works · 11.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCommunication: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 37 fractional works · 10.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 23 fractional works · 6.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 18 fractional works · 5.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUKOLN363fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences56%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences41%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science17848.8%
    2. Engineering164.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences92.4%
    4. Environmental Science10.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    6. Materials Science00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities4813.2%
    2. Social Sciences4311.7%
    3. Decision Sciences3710.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting185.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.0%
    6. Psychology10.3%
    1. Health Professions51.3%
    2. Medicine10.4%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does UKOLN specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Conservation takes 96.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ConservationSubfield · 24.3 works97×
  2. Information Systems and ManagementSubfield · 23.5 works26×
  3. Information SystemsSubfield · 113.6 works25×
← 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.

Who are the top researchers at UKOLN?

Ranked on the quality score, Lorcan Dempsey, Rachel Heery and R.J. Russell lead among researchers whose main affiliation is UKOLN.

  1. 1 Lorcan Dempsey United Kingdom · #1,727,595 worldwide 1.2k citations · 121 works
  2. 2 Rachel Heery United Kingdom · #1,929,092 worldwide 929 citations · 49 works
  3. 3 R.J. Russell United Kingdom · #1,984,884 worldwide 1.5k citations · 87 works
  4. 4 Elizabeth Lyon United Kingdom · #2,382,286 worldwide 296 citations · 37 works
  5. 5 Brian McIlwrath United Kingdom · #3,987,464 worldwide 96 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Catherine J. Pink United Kingdom · #4,393,482 worldwide 120 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Manjula Patel United Kingdom · #4,481,330 worldwide 861 citations · 100 works
  8. 8 Andy Powell United Kingdom · #4,523,835 worldwide 630 citations · 139 works
  9. 9 Marieke Guy United Kingdom · #4,549,584 worldwide 526 citations · 72 works
  10. 10 Monica Duke United Kingdom · #4,676,098 worldwide 185 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at UKOLN

What are the most cited papers from UKOLN?

The most cited paper from UKOLN is "Folksonomies" (Marieke Guy, Emma L. Tonkin, 2006), with 357 citations. Next come "Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas" (264) and "Metadata: a current view of practice and issues" (97).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Folksonomies Marieke Guy, Emma L. Tonkin · D-Lib Magazine Open access 2006 357
2 Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas Rachel Heery, Manjula Patel · Ariadne 24 Sep 2000 264
3 Metadata: a current view of practice and issues Lorcan Dempsey, Rachel Heery · Journal of Documentation May 1998 97
4 Review of Data Management Lifecycle Models Alexander J. Ball · The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) Open access 13 Feb 2012 96
5 Twitter, information sharing and the London riots? Emma L. Tonkin, Heather D. Pfeiffer, Gregory J. L. Tourte · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Open access 13 Jan 2012 91
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at UKOLN?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Digital Repositories, Data Citation, Data Sharing, Scientific Data Management, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Data Integration and Metadata Standards.

▲ 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. Digital Repositories69▲ 761×2 topics
  2. Data Citation47▲ 372×2 topics
  3. Data Sharing47▲ 647×1 topic
  4. Scientific Data Management47▲ 832×1 topic
  5. Semantic Web47▲ 89×5 topics
  6. Linked Data44▲ 163×2 topics
  7. Data Integration33▲ 38×5 topics
  8. Metadata Standards31▲ 306×2 topics
  9. Archives24▲ 491×1 topic
  10. Digital Preservation24▲ 423×1 topic
  11. Workflow Management23▲ 65×2 topics
  12. Ontology23▲ 36×3 topics
  13. Bibliographic Framework22▲ 644×1 topic
  14. Resource Description and Access22▲ 644×1 topic
  15. OWL22▲ 93×1 topic
  16. RDF22▲ 93×1 topic
  17. Big Data22▲ 11×7 topics
  18. Semantic Web Services22▲ 65×2 topics
  19. Academic Libraries21▲ 126×3 topics
  20. Social Media20▲ 7.1×11 topics
  21. Software Development18▲ 85×3 topics
  22. Reproducibility18▲ 148×1 topic
  23. Scientific Workflows18▲ 148×1 topic
  24. Information Quality14▲ 80×2 topics
  25. User Engagement13▲ 84×3 topics
  26. Technology Integration12▲ 17×2 topics
  27. Information Retrieval12▲ 23×5 topics
  28. Library 2.012▲ 178×1 topic
  29. Web 2.012▲ 178×1 topic
  30. Cultural Heritage12▲ 7.3×5 topics
  31. Social Network Analysis11▲ 23×3 topics
  32. Social Impact10▲ 11×3 topics
  33. Knowledge Management10▲ 6.0×8 topics
  34. Text Mining10▲ 31×2 topics
  35. Data Cleaning10▲ 115×1 topic
  36. Record Linkage10▲ 115×1 topic
  37. Digital Humanities9▲ 201×1 topic
  38. Literary History9▲ 75×1 topic
  39. Web Crawling8▲ 87×1 topic
  40. Web Data Extraction8▲ 87×1 topic

Which research topics does UKOLN publish most on?

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

Research Data Management…0Research Data Management Practices: 0 fractional worksScientific Computing and…0Scientific Computing and Data Management: 0 fractional worksDigital and Traditional …0Digital and Traditional Archives Management: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsInformation Systems and ManagementConservation

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

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 0 works
  2. 2 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 0 works
  3. 3 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 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 available58.7%not open41.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.0%domestic only97.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has UKOLN's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 93% lower than in 2018-2021.

200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 UKOLN as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2021.

0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%UKOLN0.0000037% in 2023200020102020

Fractional works of UKOLN 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.

5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2013UKOLN1.3% in 20132010

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.3% in 2004.

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