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Understanding Society

understandingsociety.ac.ukROR OpenAlex
Research works
6
▲ 1065% vs 2013–17
Citations
272
42.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
30.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
57%
world 28%

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.

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.

Which research topics does Understanding Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: 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 worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 0 fractional worksPsychological Well-being…0Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 0 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare Studies: 0 fractional worksPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology: 0 fractional worksDigital Mental Health Interventions: 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 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 0 works
  6. 6 Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Social Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  8. 8 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  9. 9 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Clinical Psychology 0 works
  10. 10 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Understanding Society's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1065% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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