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r/AskAcademiaUK
The base for UK academia, from undergrads to professors.
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For questions about academia specific to the United Kingdom. /r/AskAcademia is a helpful resource for finding out more about academic life, pathways into and within academia, and other general questions, it is very often centred around US based academia and therefore not always relevant outside of the US. This subreddit will therefore function as a counterpart to /r/AskAcademia, one that is specific to UK based professional academic life. WE SUPPORT THE USE OF OLD REDDIT - Please see sidebar.
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This subreddit is for discussing academic life in the United Kingdom (UK), from undergrads to professors, and for asking questions directed towards people involved in academia from any respective field.
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February 27, 2019
Earliest Comment
February 28, 2019
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 248 | 28,700 | 286.6 | 0.2 | 1197.76 | |
| #2 | 432 | 51,901 | 499.3 | 0.4 | 1153.74 | |
| #3 | 159 | 21,848 | 183.8 | 0.2 | 1008.75 | |
| #4 | 438 | 79,112 | 506.2 | 0.7 | 767.42 | |
| #5 | 168 | 42,762 | 194.2 | 0.4 | 544.57 | |
| #6 | 380 | 97,393 | 439.2 | 0.8 | 540.82 | |
| #7 | 4,259 | 1,251,438 | 4922.6 | 10.4 | 471.73 | |
| #8 | 88 | 26,189 | 101.7 | 0.2 | 465.76 | |
| #9 | 106 | 33,863 | 122.5 | 0.3 | 433.89 | |
| #10 | 149 | 51,923 | 172.2 | 0.4 | 397.76 | |
| #11 | 45 | 15,766 | 52.0 | 0.1 | 395.63 | |
| #12 | 418 | 164,669 | 483.1 | 1.4 | 351.85 | |
| #13 | 50 | 21,848 | 57.8 | 0.2 | 317.22 | |
| #14 | 404 | 182,056 | 467.0 | 1.5 | 307.59 | |
| #15 | 49 | 22,208 | 56.6 | 0.2 | 305.83 | |
| #16 | 298 | 146,289 | 344.4 | 1.2 | 282.36 | |
| #17 | 55 | 29,636 | 63.6 | 0.2 | 257.24 | |
| #18 | 52 | 29,535 | 60.1 | 0.2 | 244.04 | |
| #19 | 77 | 47,931 | 89.0 | 0.4 | 222.68 | |
| #20 | 269 | 175,105 | 310.9 | 1.5 | 212.94 | |
| #21 | 45 | 30,478 | 52.0 | 0.3 | 204.66 | |
| #22 | 45 | 30,495 | 52.0 | 0.3 | 204.54 | |
| #23 | 1,144 | 826,681 | 1322.3 | 6.9 | 191.82 | |
| #24 | 52 | 39,132 | 60.1 | 0.3 | 184.19 | |
| #25 | 433 | 327,284 | 500.5 | 2.7 | 183.38 | |
| #26 | 890 | 679,372 | 1028.7 | 5.7 | 181.59 | |
| #27 | interdisciplinary interdisciplinary | 32 | 26,915 | 37.0 | 0.2 | 164.80 |
| #28 | 53 | 44,679 | 61.3 | 0.4 | 164.43 | |
| #29 | 299 | 261,706 | 345.6 | 2.2 | 158.36 | |
| #30 | 109 | 97,175 | 126.0 | 0.8 | 155.48 | |
| #31 | 909 | 883,639 | 1050.6 | 7.4 | 142.59 | |
| #32 | 132 | 133,533 | 152.6 | 1.1 | 137.02 | |
| #33 | 236 | 250,570 | 272.8 | 2.1 | 130.55 | |
| #34 | 299 | 318,105 | 345.6 | 2.7 | 130.29 | |
| #35 | 257 | 288,545 | 297.0 | 2.4 | 123.46 | |
| #36 | 855 | 1,019,979 | 988.2 | 8.5 | 116.19 | |
| #37 | 1,736 | 2,191,798 | 2006.5 | 18.3 | 109.79 | |
| #38 | 263 | 332,887 | 304.0 | 2.8 | 109.51 | |
| #39 | 172 | 219,799 | 198.8 | 1.8 | 108.47 | |
| #40 | 282 | 373,448 | 325.9 | 3.1 | 104.67 | |
| #41 | 476 | 642,536 | 550.2 | 5.4 | 102.69 | |
| #42 | 1,202 | 1,635,538 | 1389.3 | 13.6 | 101.87 | |
| #43 | 47 | 63,965 | 54.3 | 0.5 | 101.85 | |
| #44 | 172 | 240,918 | 198.8 | 2.0 | 98.96 | |
| #45 | 59 | 84,963 | 68.2 | 0.7 | 96.25 | |
| #46 | 82 | 119,036 | 94.8 | 1.0 | 95.48 | |
| #47 | 64 | 94,170 | 74.0 | 0.8 | 94.20 | |
| #48 | 50 | 75,285 | 57.8 | 0.6 | 92.06 | |
| #49 | 36 | 55,811 | 41.6 | 0.5 | 89.41 | |
| #50 | 348 | 542,016 | 402.2 | 4.5 | 89.00 |