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Department of Health and Social Care

In research, Department of Health and Social Care stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,287 of 11,982 worldwide), Social Sciences (#5,611 of 10,521 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,408 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health — General Health Professions is 7.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,643
of 28,054 · #9,071 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#355
of 1,094
Research works
828
▲ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
30k
35.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is Department of Health and Social Care known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #6,287 of 11,982 22.4%135 #3126
Social SciencesDomain #5,611 of 10,521 32.5%68 #4833
MedicineField #6,408 of 10,443 22.3%98 #4178

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Department of Health and Social Care 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#3,126 #6,287
  2. Social Sciences#4,833 #5,611
  3. Medicine#4,178 #6,408
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Department of Health and Social Care specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 7.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 24.3 works7.3×
  2. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 21.3 works6.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.75× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.70× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.24× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.79× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.12× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.35× its world share, 34 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.11× its world share, 98 worksMedicineNursing: 0.96× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.60× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.54× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.63× its world share, 27 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.72× its world share, 22 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Department of Health and Social Care?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Mental Health, Depression, Quality of Life, Prevalence, Primary Care and COVID-19.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology37▲ 3.9×80 topics
  2. Public Health26▲ 7.3×41 topics
  3. Mental Health18▲ 5.0×30 topics
  4. Quality of Life15▲ 4.2×30 topics
  5. Depression14▲ 6.5×14 topics
  6. COVID-1912▲ 3.6×16 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease10▲ 3.6×24 topics
  8. Inflammation10▲ 1.93×29 topics
  9. Prevalence10▲ 9.8×14 topics
  10. Primary Care9▲ 10×13 topics
  11. Risk Factors9▲ 3.4×25 topics
  12. Pandemic9▲ 3.3×7 topics
  13. Obesity8▲ 4.4×14 topics
  14. Anxiety8▲ 6.9×9 topics
  15. Social Support8▲ 5.8×13 topics
  16. Adolescents8▲ 8.4×7 topics
  17. Global Burden8▲ 5.9×12 topics
  18. Treatment8▲ 2.6×22 topics
  19. Physical Activity7▲ 6.2×7 topics
  20. Health Disparities7▲ 11×8 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome7▲ 3.4×16 topics
  22. SARS-CoV-26▲ 7.9×6 topics
  23. Chronic Disease Management6▲ 13×5 topics
  24. Psychological Impact6▲ 7.4×8 topics
  25. Infectious Diseases6▲ 7.2×7 topics
  26. Health Effects6▲ 3.8×8 topics
  27. Resilience5▲ 4.6×9 topics
  28. Cost-effectiveness Analysis5▲ 25×1 topic
  29. Health Utility Measures5▲ 25×1 topic
  30. Healthcare Workers5▲ 8.1×5 topics
  31. Mortality Risk5▲ 8.4×6 topics
  32. Psychological Distress5▲ 7.9×3 topics
  33. Health Equity5▲ 7.1×4 topics
  34. Health Outcomes5▲ 7.0×6 topics
  35. Risk Perception4▲ 6.9×6 topics
  36. Chronic Diseases4▲ 6.7×7 topics
  37. Adherence4▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Mobile Health4▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Patient Engagement4▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Chronic Disease4▲ 9.1×4 topics

Which research topics does Department of Health and Social Care publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Health disparities and outcomes and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Health Systems, Economic…5Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 5 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activi…4Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 4 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 3 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 3 fractional worksGlobal Public Health Pol…3Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology: 3 fractional worksNutritional Studies and Diet: 3 fractional worksDigital Mental Health Interventions: 2 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…2Climate Change and Health Impacts: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealthOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management3 others

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

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  2. 2 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  3. 3 Health disparities and outcomes Health 3 works
  4. 4 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 3 works
  5. 5 Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 3 works
  6. 6 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  7. 7 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  8. 8 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 2 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 available60.4%not open39.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.9%domestic only71.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Department of Health and Social Care's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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