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RAND report confirms that UCL is the leading UK university for research in Psychology, Neuroscience and Language Sciences

8 January 2016

An independent report by RAND confirms that UCL is the leading university in the UK for research in Psychology, Neuroscience and Language Sciences. The report examines highly-cited research, that is, research publications falling into the top 20% for citations in their year and field.

UCL researchers contributed to 18.5% of the UK’s highly-cited publications in Experimental Psychology, more than double that of the next UK institution (Oxford, 9.1%). In Neuroscience UCL’s share was 18.1%, again double that of the next UK institution (Cambridge, 9.2%). In Audiology/Speech-Language Pathology UCL’s share was again the highest amongst UK universities, at 14.7%.

The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest - rand.org