Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation

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

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation 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).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 45.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 32.7 works45×

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

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.

• Immunology and Microbiology 7.7×
• Health Professions 4.6×
• Medicine 3.3×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1.4×
• Nursing 0.8×
• Psychology 0.8×
• Dentistry 0.7×
• Mathematics 0.7×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.7×
• Social Sciences 0.6×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.2×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.2×
• Environmental Science 0.1×
• Energy 0.1×
• Arts and Humanities 0.1×
• Neuroscience 0.1×
• Chemistry 0.1×
• Decision Sciences 0.1×
• Computer Science 0.1×
• Engineering 0.1×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.0×
• Materials Science 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Philip Smith and Catherine Orrell lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation.

1. 1 🇿🇦 Philip Smith South Africa · #611,276 worldwide 46 citations · 17 works
2. 2 🇿🇦 Catherine Orrell South Africa · #1,394,738 worldwide 29 citations · 32 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, Epidemiology, Vaccine, Immune Response, HIV Transmission, Drug Resistance, Diagnosis and Viral Load.

By volume in 2022–2025: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment.

1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 14 works
2. 2 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 11 works
3. 3 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 7 works
4. 4 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 4 works
5. 5 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 3 works
6. 6 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 3 works
7. 7 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 2 works
8. 8 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Epidemiology 2 works
9. 9 Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis Surgery 2 works
10. 10 Pharmaceutical studies and practices Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017.

• University of the Western Cape
• Cape Peninsula University of Technology
• South African Medical Research Council
• Groote Schuur Hospital
• Tygerberg Hospital
• Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa
• Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
• South African Radio Astronomy Observatory