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Action for Children

In research, Action for Children stands highest in Social Sciences (#8,923 of 14,833 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#6,032 of 9,330 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#22,268
of 34,923
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,156
of 1,844
Research works
349
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.7k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
Action for Children

What is Action for Children known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #8,923 of 14,833 6.1%229
Social SciencesField #6,032 of 9,330 6.6%141

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Action for Children sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Action for Children work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research at Action for Children is in Social Sciences, 39% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (32%), Medicine (23%), Health Professions (16%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 21 fractional works · 53.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 31.7% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 12.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 10.0% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 14.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 12.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 38.9% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 22.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 8.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 16.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 13.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 6.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKAction forChildren38fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences1%Health Sciences39%Social Sciences54%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1231.7%
    2. Psychology614.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting13.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities11.7%
    1. Medicine922.7%
    2. Health Professions616.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences25.2%
    2. Neuroscience00.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    2. Mathematics00.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.09× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceMathematics: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 6.16× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.18× its world share, 9 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.85× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.51× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 6.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 13 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions6.16×6 works
  2. Psychology4.85×6 works
  3. Social Sciences2.51×12 works
  4. Medicine1.18×9 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.09×2 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting1.08×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.89×1 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.60×1 works
  9. Mathematics0.37×0 works
  10. Neuroscience0.36×0 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.33×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Action for Children?

Ranked on the quality score, Amanda Allard, Juliet Essen and Ruth Sinclair lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Action for Children.

  1. 1 Amanda Allard United Kingdom · #1,400,701 worldwide 517 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Juliet Essen United Kingdom · #1,870,264 worldwide 499 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Ruth Sinclair United Kingdom · #2,047,422 worldwide 1.5k citations · 48 works
  4. 4 Anna Ephgrave United Kingdom · #2,363,979 worldwide 41 citations · 50 works
  5. 5 Mia Kellmer Pringle United Kingdom · #3,678,608 worldwide 259 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Ronald Davie United Kingdom · #4,501,809 worldwide 133 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Philippa Russell United Kingdom · #4,761,698 worldwide 111 citations · 39 works
  8. 8 Mark Holmes United Kingdom · #4,881,713 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Anna Feuchtwang United Kingdom · #4,950,583 worldwide 15 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Rachael M. Harker United Kingdom · #6,327,866 worldwide 281 citations · 75 works
All ranked researchers at Action for Children

What are the most cited papers from Action for Children?

The most cited paper from Action for Children is "The KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries" (Ulrike Ravens‐Sieberer, Pascal Auquier, Michael Erhart et al., 2007), with 764 citations. Next come "Participation in practice: making it meaningful, effective and sustainable" (644) and "New systems for dental maturity based on seven and four teeth" (616).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries Ulrike Ravens‐Sieberer, Pascal Auquier, Michael Erhart et al. · Quality of Life Research Open access 31 Jul 2007 764
2 Participation in practice: making it meaningful, effective and sustainable Ruth Sinclair · Children & Society 26 Mar 2004 644
3 New systems for dental maturity based on seven and four teeth Arto Demirjian, Harvey Goldstein · Annals of Human Biology 1976 616
4 Adolescent Well-Being: A Definition and Conceptual Framework David Anthony Ross, Rachael Hinton, Meheret Melles-Brewer et al. · Journal of Adolescent Health Open access 12 Aug 2020 340
5 Marital Power, Conflict, and Violence In a Nationally Representative Sample of American Couples Diane H. Coleman, Murray A. Straus · Violence and Victims 1986 264
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Which keywords describe research at Action for Children?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Public Health, Social Support, Resilience, Social Justice, Health Care Utilization, Mental Illness and Health.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Mental Health5▲ 8.7×14 topics
  2. Public Health3▲ 5.0×5 topics
  3. Social Support2▲ 11×5 topics
  4. Resilience2▲ 11×4 topics
  5. Social Justice2▲ 9.0×5 topics
  6. Globalization2▲ 2.6×3 topics
  7. Health Care Utilization2▲ 45×3 topics
  8. Mental Illness2▲ 67×2 topics
  9. Health2▲ 11×1 topic
  10. Homelessness2▲ 113×1 topic
  11. Child Development2▲ 9.5×4 topics
  12. Intervention2▲ 94×3 topics
  13. Medical Ethics1▲ 30×1 topic
  14. Pediatric1▲ 63×1 topic
  15. Reflective Practice1▲ 20×2 topics
  16. Student Voice1▲ 124×2 topics
  17. Academic Achievement1▲ 20×3 topics
  18. Acculturation1▲ 45×2 topics
  19. Competency-Based Education1▲ 40×1 topic
  20. Developmental Trajectories1▲ 27×3 topics
  21. Ethical Considerations1▲ 9.5×3 topics
  22. Executive Functioning1▲ 27×2 topics
  23. Professional Identity Formation1▲ 56×1 topic
  24. Trauma1▲ 17×2 topics
  25. Adolescents1▲ 8.4×5 topics
  26. Caregiver Well-Being1▲ 58×1 topic
  27. Coping Strategies1▲ 13×2 topics
  28. Health Disparities1▲ 12×3 topics
  29. Parenting Stress1▲ 44×1 topic
  30. Poverty1▲ 34×2 topics
  31. Social Determinants1▲ 15×2 topics
  32. Attachment1▲ 33×3 topics
  33. Child Welfare1▲ 75×2 topics
  34. Chronic Pain1▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Disability1▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes1▲ 15×1 topic
  37. Preterm Birth1▲ 42×1 topic
  38. Primary Care1▲ 7.5×4 topics
  39. School Engagement1▲ 59×1 topic
  40. Student-Teacher Relationships1▲ 59×1 topic

Which research topics does Action for Children publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Homelessness and Social Issues, Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare, Innovations in Medical Education and Family and Disability Support Research.

Homelessness and Social …2Homelessness and Social Issues: 2 fractional worksEthics and Legal Issues …1Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare: 1 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 1 fractional worksFamily and Disability Support Research: 1 fractional worksInfant Development and Preterm Care: 1 fractional worksEarly Childhood Education and Development: 1 fractional worksHuman Resource and Talent Management: 1 fractional worksPlant Physiology and Cul…1Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies: 1 fractional worksSocial Issues and Policies: 1 fractional worksAgroforestry and silvopastoral systems: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthClinical Psychology5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 2 works
  2. 2 Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  3. 3 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  4. 4 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Infant Development and Preterm Care Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  6. 6 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 1 works
  7. 7 Human Resource and Talent Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1 works
  8. 8 Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies Plant Science 1 works
  9. 9 Social Issues and Policies Safety Research 1 works
  10. 10 Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems Forestry 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available18.3%not open81.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Action for Children's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Action for Children as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00029% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Action for Children0.00015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Action for Children over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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