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Understanding Society

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Research works
6
▲ 69% vs 2018-21
Citations
272
42.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
57%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Understanding Society

Not ranked overall: Understanding Society 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 Understanding Society work in?

In all years, 56% of research at Understanding Society is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (25%), Psychology (23%), Social Sciences (17%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 56.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 23.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 17.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 17.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 7.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 29.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 25.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 10.6% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKUnderstandingSociety6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences30%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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology123.3%
    2. Social Sciences117.0%
    3. Decision Sciences18.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities02.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting01.1%
    1. Medicine225.4%
    2. Health Professions04.6%
    1. Environmental Science19.4%
    2. Mathematics02.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.7%
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: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Environmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 5.46× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.67× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 19.95× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.20× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 6.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.35× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 19.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences19.95×0 works
  2. Psychology6.02×0 works
  3. Mathematics5.46×0 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.20×0 works
  5. Health Professions1.67×0 works
  6. Social Sciences1.35×0 works
  7. Medicine1.11×1 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.80×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.37×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Understanding Society?

The most cited paper from Understanding Society is "Low Nutrient Intake Is an Essential Component of Frailty in Older Persons" (Benedetta Bartali, Edward A. Frongillo, Stefania Bandinelli et al., 2006), with 502 citations. Next come "Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis for Epidemiology: A Practical Guide" (247) and "Cancer Incidence Among First Generation Scottish, Irish, West Indian and South Asian Migrants Living in England and Wales" (60).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low Nutrient Intake Is an Essential Component of Frailty in Older Persons Benedetta Bartali, Edward A. Frongillo, Stefania Bandinelli et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series A Open access Jun 2006 502
2 Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis for Epidemiology: A Practical Guide Leonard E. Braitman · Annals of Internal Medicine 20 Apr 2004 247
3 Cancer Incidence Among First Generation Scottish, Irish, West Indian and South Asian Migrants Living in England and Wales Seeromanie Harding, Michael Rosato · Ethnicity and Health May 1999 60
4 Are There Learning Disabilities after High School? Warren J. White, Gordon R. Alley, Donald D. Deshler et al. · Exceptional Children Open access Nov 1982 54
5 Responsiveness, Sensitivity, and Minimally Detectable Difference of the Graded and Redefined Assessment of Strength, Sensibility, and Prehension, Version 1.0 Sukhvinder Kalsi‐Ryan, Dorcas Beaton, Henry Ahn et al. · Journal of Neurotrauma 12 Nov 2015 49
All 11 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Understanding Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ethics in Clinical Research, Data Quality and Management, Income, Poverty, and Inequality and Health disparities and outcomes.

Ethics in Clinical Resea…0Ethics in Clinical Research: 0 fractional worksData Quality and Managem…0Data Quality and Management: 0 fractional worksIncome, Poverty, and Inequality: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional worksPsychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological…0COVID-19 epidemiological studies: 0 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 0 fractional worksMental Health Research Topics: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthManagement Science and Operations ResearchSociology and Political ScienceHealth6 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics in Clinical Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  2. 2 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  3. 3 Income, Poverty, and Inequality Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
  5. 5 Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Social Psychology 0 works
  6. 6 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 0 works
  7. 7 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Clinical Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  10. 10 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 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 available56.7%not open43.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.0%domestic only60.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Understanding Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 69% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Understanding Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000015% in 2023.

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Fractional works of Understanding Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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