UK Psychology Research Output
UPDATE: These tables were updated on 1 June 2012 using publications from 2008-2012.
This table gives the number of articles published in leading psychology journals by UK universities. For objectivity, leading journals were considered those categorised as A* in the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. Psychology was defined by considering those journals in the ERA "1701 Psychology" category. Articles with multiple affiliations are shared over affiliations to ensure that each article receives an overall weight of 1. Article counts were calculated from Web of Science searches for articles published since 2008. This table adjusts for the number of psychologists in each university, as reported in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise.
If you are interested in this table, then you might like to look at a more detailed analysis of UK and world psychology.
This table was prepared by Neil Stewart. All comments and corrections most welcome. Please e-mail comments or corrections to Neil.Stewart@warwick.ac.uk.
University | No. academics |
No. articles |
No. articles per academic |
Rank |
Univ Cambridge | 24.0 | 125.66 | 5.236 | 1 |
UCL | 56.4 | 239.14 | 4.239 | 2 |
Univ Oxford | 39.1 | 121.99 | 3.120 | 3 |
Univ Warwick | 18.0 | 50.50 | 2.805 | 4 |
Coventry Univ | 1.0 | 2.42 | 2.417 | 5 |
Univ Edinburgh | 38.5 | 82.42 | 2.140 | 6 |
Univ Manchester | 31.2 | 65.70 | 2.106 | 7 |
Univ Bristol | 31.1 | 65.14 | 2.095 | 8 |
Univ Newcastle upon Tyne | 21.0 | 41.97 | 1.999 | 9 |
Anglia Ruskin Univ | 4.0 | 7.83 | 1.958 | 10 |
Univ Birmingham | 45.1 | 86.91 | 1.926 | 11 |
Cardiff Univ | 59.4 | 101.57 | 1.711 | 12 |
Univ Glasgow | 26.0 | 43.33 | 1.666 | 13 |
Univ Nottingham | 35.0 | 57.22 | 1.635 | 14 |
City Univ London | 10.8 | 16.12 | 1.492 | 15 |
Univ York | 29.0 | 39.72 | 1.370 | 16 |
Univ Aberdeen | 26.0 | 29.50 | 1.135 | 17 |
Univ Essex | 22.0 | 24.65 | 1.120 | 18 |
Birkbeck Coll | 23.7 | 26.31 | 1.110 | 19 |
Univ Southampton | 39.1 | 40.28 | 1.030 | 20 |
Univ Exeter | 33.5 | 32.75 | 0.977 | 21 |
Univ Sheffield | 40.5 | 37.57 | 0.929 | 22 |
Univ Sussex | 45.0 | 40.17 | 0.893 | 23 |
Bangor Univ | 39.0 | 32.83 | 0.842 | 24 |
Univ Plymouth | 34.5 | 26.92 | 0.779 | 25 |
Univ Leeds | 37.4 | 28.10 | 0.751 | 26 |
Univ Leicester | 26.0 | 19.08 | 0.734 | 27 |
Univ Durham | 31.0 | 21.88 | 0.706 | 28 |
Univ Liverpool | 28.0 | 19.71 | 0.704 | 29 |
Univ Kent | 31.0 | 21.50 | 0.694 | 30 |
Keele Univ | 14.2 | 9.83 | 0.692 | 31 |
Univ Dundee | 22.0 | 13.62 | 0.619 | 32 |
Univ Hull | 20.7 | 12.79 | 0.618 | 33 |
Queens Univ Belfast | 19.5 | 9.76 | 0.501 | 34 |
Univ Reading | 28.8 | 13.83 | 0.480 | 35 |
Swansea Univ | 26.0 | 11.12 | 0.428 | 36 |
Univ Strathclyde | 17.0 | 7.00 | 0.412 | 37 |
Univ Stirling | 24.2 | 9.96 | 0.412 | 38 |
Univ St Andrews | 33.9 | 13.09 | 0.386 | 39 |
Univ E Anglia | 12.0 | 4.20 | 0.350 | 40 |
Heriot Watt Univ | 9.2 | 3.17 | 0.344 | 41 |
Univ E London | 10.2 | 3.50 | 0.343 | 42 |
Univ Surrey | 34.8 | 11.75 | 0.338 | 43 |
Univ Portsmouth | 16.0 | 5.15 | 0.322 | 44 |
Napier Univ | 6.8 | 2.18 | 0.321 | 45 |
Univ Hertfordshire | 17.0 | 4.89 | 0.288 | 46 |
Roehampton Univ | 20.1 | 5.67 | 0.282 | 47 |
Oxford Brookes Univ | 13.2 | 3.33 | 0.253 | 48 |
Kingston Univ | 8.0 | 2.00 | 0.250 | 49 |
Northumbria Univ | 16.0 | 3.95 | 0.247 | 50 |
S Bank Univ | 9.5 | 2.33 | 0.246 | 51 |
Brunel Univ | 25.6 | 5.98 | 0.234 | 52 |
Glasgow Caledonian Univ | 18.7 | 3.31 | 0.177 | 53 |
Univ Ulster | 27.0 | 4.63 | 0.171 | 54 |
Middlesex Univ | 14.5 | 2.25 | 0.155 | 55 |
London Metropolitan Univ | 11.0 | 1.67 | 0.152 | 56 |
Royal Holloway | 28.0 | 4.12 | 0.147 | 57 |
Sheffield Hallam Univ | 12.0 | 1.50 | 0.125 | 58 |
Nottingham Trent Univ | 25.0 | 2.83 | 0.113 | 59 |
Univ Bolton | 5.5 | 0.50 | 0.091 | 60 |
Univ Westminster | 9.5 | 0.54 | 0.057 | 61 |
York St John Univ | 6.0 | 0.33 | 0.056 | 62 |
Univ Gloucestershire | 7.0 | 0.33 | 0.048 | 63 |
Univ Glamorgan | 12.7 | 0.20 | 0.016 | 64 |