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University of Reading

In research, University of Reading stands highest in Social Sciences (#331 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#653 of 10,670 worldwide) and Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#216 of 3,157 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Paleontology (Atmospheric Science is 9.0× its share of world research).

reading.ac.ukROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#535
of 22,385 · #682 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#39
of 862
Research works
46k
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.4M
31.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.25×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
University of Reading

What is University of Reading 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
Social SciencesDomain #331 of 9,585 16.0%1,727 #366
Physical SciencesDomain #653 of 10,670 12.9%1,215 #773
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #216 of 3,157 15.7%318 #204
Social SciencesField #426 of 5,988 17.0%667 #417
Life SciencesDomain #589 of 6,403 14.2%617 #770
Business, Management and AccountingField #250 of 2,581 20.6%218 #429
Health SciencesDomain #980 of 9,902 15.0%405 #1085
Environmental ScienceField #331 of 3,334 14.2%387 #323
Arts and HumanitiesField #243 of 1,896 13.4%335 #273
MedicineField #1,131 of 8,541 14.6%288 #1184

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where University of Reading 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. Social Sciences#366 #331
  2. Physical Sciences#773 #653
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#204 #216
  4. Social Sciences#417 #426
  5. Life Sciences#770 #589
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#429 #250
  7. Health Sciences#1,085 #980
  8. Environmental Science#323 #331
  9. Arts and Humanities#273 #243
  10. Medicine#1,184 #1,131
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 University of Reading work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at University of Reading is in Social Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (16%), Environmental Science (10%), Arts and Humanities (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,916 fractional works · 42.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 740 fractional works · 16.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 248 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 130 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEducation: 77 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnthropology: 60 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGender Studies: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 376 fractional works · 8.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 85 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhilosophy: 55 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 52 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 47 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 44 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClassics: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 288 fractional works · 6.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 83 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 77 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 58 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 48 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 239 fractional works · 5.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 83 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAccounting: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 216 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 142 fractional works · 3.1% of its workFinance: 51 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 57 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,422 fractional works · 31.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 470 fractional works · 10.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 202 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 68 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 46 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 40 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 275 fractional works · 6.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 179 fractional works · 4.0% of its workOceanography: 39 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 246 fractional works · 5.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 48 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 38 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 169 fractional works · 3.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 71 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 69 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 45 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 68 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 49 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 46 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 700 fractional works · 15.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 363 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPlant Science: 96 fractional works · 2.1% of its workFood Science: 75 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 59 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInsect Science: 30 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 25 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 21 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 198 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 97 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 59 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 107 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 83 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 16 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 465 fractional works · 10.3% of its workMedicine: 332 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 70 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 36 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 70 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 77 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 51 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 45 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 45 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVeterinary: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUniversity ofReading4,503fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences43%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences1,91642.5%
    1. Social Sciences74016.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities3768.3%
    3. Psychology2886.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting2395.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2164.8%
    6. Decision Sciences571.3%
    1. Environmental Science47010.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2756.1%
    3. Engineering2465.5%
    4. Computer Science1693.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy691.5%
    6. Materials Science681.5%
    7. Chemistry491.1%
    8. Mathematics461.0%
    9. Energy230.5%
    10. Chemical Engineering70.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3638.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1984.4%
    3. Neuroscience1072.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology160.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics150.3%
    1. Medicine3327.4%
    2. Health Professions771.7%
    3. Nursing451.0%
    4. Veterinary100.2%
    5. Dentistry10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does University of Reading specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 9.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 179.5 works9.0×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 201.8 works5.9×
  3. PaleontologySubfield · 28.3 works5.2×
  4. AnthropologySubfield · 60.0 works4.7×
  5. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 32.0 works4.6×
  6. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 274.9 works3.9×
← 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: 1.70× its world share, 363 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 198 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.47× its world share, 108 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.95× its world share, 15 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.42× its world share, 7 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.70× its world share, 49 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 169 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.89× its world share, 275 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.55× its world share, 23 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.36× its world share, 246 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.10× its world share, 470 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.44× its world share, 68 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.87× its world share, 46 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.69× its world share, 69 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.65× its world share, 77 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.38× its world share, 332 worksMedicineNursing: 2.04× its world share, 45 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.61× its world share, 10 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.89× its world share, 376 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.64× its world share, 238 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.30× its world share, 57 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.24× its world share, 216 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.10× its world share, 288 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.30× its world share, 740 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.89×275 works
  2. Arts and Humanities2.89×376 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.24×216 works
  4. Environmental Science2.10×470 works
  5. Psychology2.10×288 works
  6. Nursing2.04×45 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.70×363 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.64×238 works
  9. Veterinary1.61×10 works
  10. Neuroscience1.47×108 works
  11. Decision Sciences1.30×57 works
  12. Social Sciences1.30×740 works
  13. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.95×15 works
  14. Mathematics0.87×46 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.83×198 works
  16. Chemistry0.70×49 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.69×69 works
  18. Health Professions0.65×77 works
  19. Energy0.55×23 works
  20. Computer Science0.48×169 works
  21. Materials Science0.44×68 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.42×7 works
  23. Medicine0.38×332 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×16 works
  25. Engineering0.36×246 works
  26. Dentistry0.05×1 works

Who are the top researchers at University of Reading?

Ranked on the quality score, Simon Geoffrey Potts, V. Predoi and Kou Murayama lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University of Reading.

  1. 1 Simon Geoffrey Potts United Kingdom · #4,134 worldwide 59k citations · 424 works
  2. 2 V. Predoi United Kingdom · #7,984 worldwide 61k citations · 135 works
  3. 3 Kou Murayama United Kingdom · #10,175 worldwide 21k citations · 352 works
  4. 4 Marcello M. Mariani United Kingdom · #10,969 worldwide 11k citations · 200 works
  5. 5 Nicolas Bellouin United Kingdom · #14,153 worldwide 39k citations · 401 works
  6. 6 Maksim Belitski United Kingdom · #26,169 worldwide 9.3k citations · 214 works
  7. 7 Ed Hawkins United Kingdom · #28,102 worldwide 32k citations · 356 works
  8. 8 Michael P. D. Garratt United Kingdom · #31,308 worldwide 10k citations · 153 works
  9. 9 Stuart P. M. Roberts United Kingdom · #31,550 worldwide 12k citations · 120 works
  10. 10 Lynne Murray United Kingdom · #37,203 worldwide 25k citations · 262 works
All ranked researchers at University of Reading

What are the most cited papers from University of Reading?

The most cited paper from University of Reading is "The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic" (Colin Hill, Francisco Guarner, Gregor Reid et al., 2014), with 9,518 citations. Next come "The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database" (7,973) and "The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *" (7,690).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic Colin Hill, Francisco Guarner, Gregor Reid et al. · Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology ReviewOpen access 10 Jun 2014 9,518
2 The HITRAN2016 molecular spectroscopic database Iouli E. Gordon et al. · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Open access 4 Jul 2017 7,973
3 The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package * Adrian M. Price-Whelan et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access140 authors 23 Aug 2018 7,690
4 The ERA‐40 re‐analysis S. Uppala et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access Oct 2005 7,164
5 Free radicals, metals and antioxidants in oxidative stress-induced cancer Marián Valko, Christopher J. Rhodes, Ján Moncóľ et al. · Chemico-Biological Interactions 24 Jan 2006 6,682
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Which keywords describe research at University of Reading?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ocean Circulation, Hydrological Cycle, Data Assimilation, Extreme Events and Globalization.

▲ 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. Climate Change447▲ 3.6×101 topics
  2. Global Warming175▲ 9.1×14 topics
  3. Globalization169▲ 1.91×97 topics
  4. Sustainability157▲ 1.42×88 topics
  5. Remote Sensing119▲ 2.2×31 topics
  6. Greenhouse Gas Emissions114▲ 9.2×8 topics
  7. Ocean Circulation108▲ 17×3 topics
  8. Hydrological Cycle96▲ 21×2 topics
  9. Economic Growth92▲ 2.5×24 topics
  10. Environmental Impact91▲ 1.19×50 topics
  11. Public Health90▲ 1.37×45 topics
  12. Data Assimilation89▲ 12×4 topics
  13. Extreme Events87▲ 21×2 topics
  14. Gender83▲ 3.4×39 topics
  15. Climate Modeling79▲ 23×1 topic
  16. Precipitation Extremes79▲ 23×1 topic
  17. Boundary Layer77▲ 14×3 topics
  18. Biodiversity77▲ 2.2×29 topics
  19. Identity76▲ 2.3×46 topics
  20. Human Rights74▲ 1.60×49 topics
  21. History73▲ 2.3×39 topics
  22. Probabilistic Forecasting73▲ 8.3×3 topics
  23. Corporate Governance70▲ 2.1×19 topics
  24. Ensemble Kalman Filter68▲ 15×2 topics
  25. Colonialism67▲ 3.1×33 topics
  26. Literature66▲ 2.7×40 topics
  27. Ethics66▲ 2.9×36 topics
  28. Social Capital66▲ 2.8×13 topics
  29. Convective Parameterization65▲ 25×1 topic
  30. Mesoscale Modeling65▲ 25×1 topic
  31. Nationalism62▲ 3.0×29 topics
  32. Religion62▲ 3.0×32 topics
  33. Health Effects60▲ 2.2×23 topics
  34. Ecosystem Services55▲ 3.2×13 topics
  35. Air Quality51▲ 6.0×6 topics
  36. International Law48▲ 3.4×18 topics
  37. Vulnerability46▲ 4.4×7 topics
  38. Sea Level Rise45▲ 8.0×3 topics
  39. Satellite Observations39▲ 8.6×3 topics
  40. Tropical Cyclones33▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does University of Reading publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research and Nutritional Studies and Diet.

Climate variability and …79Climate variability and models: 79 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena…65Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 65 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 29 fractional worksNutritional Studies and Diet: 27 fractional worksHistorical Economic and Social Studies: 22 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 19 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 18 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 18 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 18 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 18 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric SciencePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEconomics and Econometrics4 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 79 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 65 works
  3. 3 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 29 works
  4. 4 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 27 works
  5. 5 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 22 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 19 works
  7. 7 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 18 works
  8. 8 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 18 works
  9. 9 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 18 works
  10. 10 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 18 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 available28.3%not open71.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.0%domestic only81.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has University of Reading's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower 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 University of Reading as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%University of Reading0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of University of Reading 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%University of Reading13.8% 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 17.0% in 2019.

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