University College Cork (UCC)
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.
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1 November 2017 - 31 October 2018
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 November 2017 - 31 October 2018 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.
AC | FC |
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49 | 9.06 |
Outputs by subject (FC)
Subject | AC | FC | |
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Chemistry | 15 | 1.57 | |
Physical Sciences | 22 | 3.13 | |
ACS Nano | 2 | 0.02 | |
Advanced Functional Materials | 3 | 0.54 | |
Advanced Materials | 2 | 0.14 | |
Applied Physics Letters | 2 | 0.39 | |
Nano Letters | 2 | 0.24 | |
Nature Communications | 3 | 0.22 | |
Nature Nanotechnology | 1 | 0.16 | |
Nature Photonics | 1 | 0.03 | |
Physical Review B | 1 | 0.13 | |
Physical Review Letters | 1 | 0.10 | |
Science Advances | 3 | 0.15 | |
The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 1 | 1 | |
Life Sciences | 17 | 5.05 | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 7 | 0.89 |
Highlight of the month
The winner takes it all
© BSIP/Getty
Nanowire networks are promising for providing a low-energy solution to storing and processing large amounts of data on brain-inspired computer chips.
Memristors are resistors that can simultaneously store and process data. Networks of metal nanowires could be used to make memristors for artificial intelligence (AI).
A team that included researchers from University College Cork in Ireland made a random network of silver nanowires connected by junctions, similar to the way neurons are connected by synapses in the brain. They then tweaked the network until a ‘winner-takes-all’ pathway emerged, such that all the stored memory became restricted to a single connectivity pathway that required the least energy to create.
Improvements to brain-inspired computing are gradually paving the way for AI with increasing levels of seemingly natural intelligence.
- Nature Communications 9, 3219 (2018). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05517-6
See more research highlights from University College Cork (UCC)
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds
Nature Communications
2018-05-25
Fossil scales illuminate the early evolution of lepidopterans and structural colors
Science Advances
2018-04-01
1 November 2017 - 31 October 2018
International vs. domestic collaboration by FC
- 26.31% Domestic
- 73.69% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by FC (19 total)
- University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
- Domestic institution
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The University of Dublin, Ireland
(7.91)
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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Ireland
(3.56)
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University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
(2.99)
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Ireland Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (DJEI), Ireland
(1.61)
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National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland
(0.81)
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Bioplastech Ltd., Ireland
(0.36)
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Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), Ireland
(0.19)
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University of Limerick (UL), Ireland
(0.18)
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National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUI Maynooth), Ireland
(0.15)
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Institute of Technology Sligo (IT Sligo), Ireland
(0.14)
Top 10 international collaborators by FC (671 total)
- University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
- Foreign institution
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(2.20)
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University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)
(2.02)
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University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)
(1.60)
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The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)
(1.53)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(1.26)
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National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)
(1.08)
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(1.03)
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Princeton University, United States of America (USA)
(1.02)
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Bundeswehr, Germany
(1.01)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)
(0.96)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (FC), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER), Ireland
- Center for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), Ireland
- Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI), Ireland
- Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland
- Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), Ireland
- Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC), Ireland
- Molecular Medicine Ireland (MMI), Ireland
- National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform Ireland (NBIP Ireland), Ireland
- Tyndall National Institute (TNI), Ireland

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