University College Cork (UCC)
Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh (COC)

Ireland

University College Cork (UCC) is a collegiate, progressive and dynamic university in the heart of Cork city in the south of Ireland.

Founded in 1845, UCC boasts a vibrant, modern, environmentally sustainable campus and a top-ranked student experience. We have a proud tradition of independent thinking, significant achievements and strong academic and professional leadership.

UCC is also Ireland’s first five-star University with internationally-recognised research in science, food, engineering, medicine, business, law, social sciences and the humanities.

Ranked in the top 2% of universities worldwide based on the quality of our research outputs and peer esteem indicators, UCC is an internationally competitive, globally-focused, research-led university that is focussed on creating and supporting world-leading clusters of researchers, building on the research strengths of the institution — but don’t take our word for it:

UCC is the top ranked institution in Ireland, 16th in Europe and 52nd worldwide, based on top 1% of research publications, CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015
UCC is the top performing university internationally, based on obtaining the highest number of ‘A’ scores — 21 out of 28, EU U-Multirank Exercise 2015
UCC is the world’s leading ‘green’ university — the first in the world to be awarded the esteemed ‘Green Flag’ by the Federation for Environmental Education, Copenhagen and the 2nd in the world in the Greenmetric World University Ranking Exercise 2015
UCC is the Irish University of the Year for 2016, Sunday Times Good University Guide

To discover more about UCC and our research ambitions, please visit ucc.ie/en/research.

1 December 2018 - 30 November 2019

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for University College Cork (UCC) published between 1 December 2018 - 30 November 2019 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
65	13.11

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Chemistry	16	2.49
Physical Sciences	26	3.46
Life Sciences	25	7.58
Cancer Research	2	0.39
Cell Host & Microbe	2	1.91
Journal of Biological Chemistry	1	0.36
Molecular Cell	1	0.10
Molecular Psychiatry	2	0.88
Nature	1	0.01
Nature Communications	7	1.31
Nature Genetics	2	0.01
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	2	0.41
Proceedings of the Royal Society B	2	1.50
Science Translational Medicine	1	0.03
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology	2	0.66
Earth & Environmental Sciences	10	0.82

Highlight of the month

Inflammation disrupts gut ‘virome’

People with Crohn’s disease harbour a different population of bacteria-infecting viruses in their guts than do people with healthy digestive tracts. The finding from researchers at University College Cork could aid the development of new diagnostics and treatments for inflammatory bowel disorders.

The team analysed known and unknown viral sequences in human faecal samples. They identified a core set of actively replicating viruses in the stool of healthy individuals. However, in samples taken from Crohn’s-affected guts, this core ‘virome’ was largely supplanted by viruses that can integrate themselves into their host genomes and go dormant for extended stretches of time.

The researchers propose that the environmental stress of an inflamed gut causes infectious viruses to destroy their bacterial hosts, leading to a reduction in microbial diversity with only quiescent viruses remaining.

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