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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

In research, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,092 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#1,730 of 5,901 worldwide) and Materials Chemistry (#595 of 1,473 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics and Astronomy and Materials Chemistry (Nuclear and High Energy Physics is 58.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,881
of 22,385 · #7,044 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#299
of 862
Research works
6.9k
▲ 90% vs 2018-21
Citations
134k
19.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.28×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

What is United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #3,092 of 10,670 17.5%390 #5639
EngineeringField #1,730 of 5,901 17.3%146 #2512
Materials ChemistrySubfield #595 of 1,473 17.2%87 #973
Materials ScienceField #1,257 of 2,276 16.5%95 #1453
Physics and AstronomyField #803 of 1,417 19.7%122 #1283
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield #189 of 254 22.7%77 #376

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#5,639 #3,092
  2. Engineering#2,512 #1,730
  3. Materials Chemistry#973 #595
  4. Materials Science#1,453 #1,257
  5. Physics and Astronomy#1,283 #803
  6. Nuclear and High Energy Physics#376 #189
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority work in?

In 2022-now, 95% of research at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (35%), Physics and Astronomy (29%), Materials Science (23%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 448 fractional works · 95.4% of its workEngineering: 163 fractional works · 34.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 51 fractional works · 10.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 28 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 23 fractional works · 4.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 20 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 139 fractional works · 29.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 87 fractional works · 18.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 20 fractional works · 4.2% of its workRadiation: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMaterials Science: 110 fractional works · 23.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 101 fractional works · 21.6% of its workMetals and Alloys: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCeramics and Composites: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 16 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUnited KingdomAtomic Energy…470fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences95%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering16334.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy13929.5%
    3. Materials Science11023.5%
    4. Computer Science163.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences81.8%
    6. Environmental Science40.9%
    7. Chemistry30.7%
    8. Energy20.5%
    9. Mathematics20.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Decision Sciences61.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting20.5%
    3. Social Sciences20.4%
    4. Psychology20.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.1%
    1. Medicine51.0%
    2. Health Professions10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    4. Neuroscience00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 58.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 86.5 works58×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 138.7 works13×
  3. Materials ChemistrySubfield · 101.4 works11×
  4. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 51.1 works9.3×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 16 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.32× its world share, 163 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 6.73× its world share, 110 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 13.26× its world share, 139 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 5 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.37× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 13.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy13.26×139 works
  2. Materials Science6.73×110 works
  3. Engineering2.32×163 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.37×6 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.12×8 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.50×1 works
  7. Energy0.50×2 works
  8. Computer Science0.44×16 works
  9. Chemistry0.43×3 works
  10. Mathematics0.32×2 works
  11. Environmental Science0.18×4 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×2 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  14. Psychology0.11×2 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×1 works
  16. Health Professions0.06×1 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.06×1 works
  18. Medicine0.05×5 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×1 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.04×1 works
  21. Neuroscience0.03×0 works
  22. Social Sciences0.03×2 works

Who are the top researchers at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority?

Ranked on the quality score, Bernard Thomas Kelly, Daniel R. Mason and Yiqiang Wang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

  1. 1 Bernard Thomas Kelly United Kingdom · #542,655 worldwide 4.4k citations · 132 works
  2. 2 Daniel R. Mason United Kingdom · #1,607,332 worldwide 2.5k citations · 117 works
  3. 3 Yiqiang Wang United Kingdom · #1,648,630 worldwide 1.7k citations · 85 works
  4. 4 D.J. Mazey United Kingdom · #2,165,686 worldwide 3.5k citations · 80 works
  5. 5 J. W. M. Paul United Kingdom · #2,541,480 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  6. 6 R. Naish United Kingdom · #2,729,138 worldwide 736 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Wm. R. Buckland United Kingdom · #2,803,354 worldwide 2.9k citations · 94 works
  8. 8 Lee Aucott United Kingdom · #2,821,674 worldwide 515 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Helen Brooks United Kingdom · #2,978,332 worldwide 1.8k citations · 35 works
  10. 10 V.M. Brown United Kingdom · #3,125,572 worldwide 919 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

What are the most cited papers from United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority?

The most cited paper from United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is "Percolation processes" (Simon Broadbent, J. M. Hammersley, 1957), with 2,045 citations. Next come "Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors" (1,377) and "Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions" (1,176).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Percolation processes Simon Broadbent, J. M. Hammersley · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Jul 1957 2,045
2 Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors G. Federici, Charles H. Skinner, J.N. Brooks et al. · Nuclear Fusion Open access Dec 2001 1,377
3 Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions T. C. Hender et al. · Nuclear Fusion Open access Jun 2007 1,176
4 Chapter 4: Power and particle control Alberto Loarte et al. · Nuclear Fusion Open access Jun 2007 1,085
5 Electrostatic solitary structures in non‐thermal plasmas R. A. Cairns, A. A. Mamum, R. Bingham et al. · Geophysical Research Letters 15 Oct 1995 930
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Turbulence, Tokamak, Transport, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, fusion materials, radiation damage, Molten Salt and Nuclear Reactor.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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. Turbulence72▲ 170×4 topics
  2. Tokamak72▲ 715×1 topic
  3. Transport72▲ 481×1 topic
  4. Molecular Dynamics Simulations58▲ 286×2 topics
  5. fusion materials58▲ 659×1 topic
  6. radiation damage58▲ 659×1 topic
  7. Molten Salt28▲ 188×1 topic
  8. Nuclear Reactor28▲ 188×1 topic
  9. Critical Current Density23▲ 199×2 topics
  10. Hydrogen Embrittlement23▲ 60×3 topics
  11. Oxidation Resistance22▲ 45×3 topics
  12. Nb3Sn Conductor22▲ 262×1 topic
  13. Superconducting Magnets22▲ 262×1 topic
  14. Density Functional Theory20▲ 42×3 topics
  15. High Temperature Behavior20▲ 78×2 topics
  16. Accident Tolerant Fuels20▲ 123×1 topic
  17. Fuel Cladding20▲ 123×1 topic
  18. Solar Wind18▲ 41×2 topics
  19. Mechanical Properties16▲ 3.6×18 topics
  20. Electron Acceleration15▲ 49×2 topics
  21. Ionosphere14▲ 56×1 topic
  22. Magnetosphere14▲ 56×1 topic
  23. Negative Ion Sources14▲ 170×1 topic
  24. Superconducting Cavities14▲ 170×1 topic
  25. Microstructure13▲ 5.4×12 topics
  26. Electron Beams12▲ 145×1 topic
  27. Laser-Plasma Accelerators12▲ 145×1 topic
  28. Tomography12▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Data Analysis11▲ 8.9×2 topics
  30. Small-Angle Scattering10▲ 43×2 topics
  31. Neutron Activation Analysis10▲ 67×1 topic
  32. Neutron Imaging10▲ 67×1 topic
  33. Grain Refinement8▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Grain Boundary Engineering8▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Plasma Etching7▲ 68×1 topic
  36. Semiconductor Industry7▲ 68×1 topic
  37. Oxidation Behavior7▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Microstructural Evolution6▲ 8.9×4 topics
  39. Thermal Properties6▲ 9.9×5 topics
  40. Sintering5▲ 8.8×2 topics

Which research topics does United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Magnetic confinement fusion research, Fusion materials and technologies, Nuclear reactor physics and engineering and Superconducting Materials and Applications.

Magnetic confinement fus…72Magnetic confinement fusion research: 72 fractional worksFusion materials and tec…58Fusion materials and technologies: 58 fractional worksNuclear reactor physics and engineering: 28 fractional worksSuperconducting Materials and Applications: 22 fractional worksNuclear Materials and Pr…20Nuclear Materials and Properties: 20 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 14 fractional worksParticle accelerators and beam dynamics: 14 fractional worksLaser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics: 12 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Applications: 10 fractional worksPlasma Diagnostics and Applications: 7 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsMaterials ChemistryAerospace EngineeringBiomedical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 72 works
  2. 2 Fusion materials and technologies Materials Chemistry 58 works
  3. 3 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 28 works
  4. 4 Superconducting Materials and Applications Biomedical Engineering 22 works
  5. 5 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 20 works
  6. 6 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 14 works
  7. 7 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 14 works
  8. 8 Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 12 works
  9. 9 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 10 works
  10. 10 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 7 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 available14.8%not open85.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.4%domestic only79.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 90% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority0.0019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 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.

still counting10%20%30%United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority11.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 23.6% in 1994.

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