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Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety

ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_food-safety/index_en.htmROR OpenAlex
World rank, all time
#26,547
of 42,892
Rank in Belgium
#168
of 267
Research works
168
▲ 53% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.7k
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

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: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.36× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.72× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 4.68× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.78× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.90× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 3.59× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.69× its world share, 10 worksMedicineVeterinary: 4.45× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.49× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.60× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.00× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Healthcare, Epidemiology, Corporate Political Activity, Non-Communicable Diseases, Precision Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Toxicity and Public 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 2022–2025 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 29 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3▲ 2.2×15 topics
  2. Machine Learning2▲ 2.2×4 topics
  3. Healthcare2▲ 6.2×5 topics
  4. Public Health2▲ 3.8×9 topics
  5. Environmental Impact2▲ 2.6×8 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence1▲ 3.2×3 topics
  7. Corporate Political Activity1▲ 125×1 topic
  8. Non-Communicable Diseases1▲ 15×1 topic
  9. Quality of Life1▲ 3.0×3 topics
  10. Big Data1▲ 4.5×2 topics
  11. Infectious Diseases1▲ 12×5 topics
  12. Precision Medicine1▲ 8.6×2 topics
  13. Toxicity1▲ 9.1×7 topics
  14. Counterfeit Drugs1▲ 422×1 topic
  15. Health Effects1▲ 6.2×7 topics
  16. Patient Safety1▲ 26×2 topics
  17. Primary Care1▲ 9.8×5 topics
  18. Substandard Medicines1▲ 422×1 topic
  19. Volatile Organic Compounds1▲ 35×2 topics
  20. Data Mining1▲ 4.6×2 topics
  21. Medical Imaging1▲ 6.5×2 topics
  22. Quality Assessment1▲ 19×2 topics
  23. Big Data Analytics1▲ 14×1 topic
  24. Clinical Decision Support1▲ 23×1 topic
  25. Ethical Challenges1▲ 16×2 topics
  26. Lung Cancer1▲ 19×2 topics
  27. Medical Diagnosis1▲ 32×1 topic
  28. Oxidative Stress1▲ 1.90×6 topics
  29. Radiology1▲ 26×1 topic

Which research topics does Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education.

Global Public Health Pol…1Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksPharmaceutical Quality a…1Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting: 1 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …1Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 1 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …1Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Chemical Sensor Technologies: 1 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resis…1Antibiotic Use and Resistance: 1 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses: 1 fractional worksAnalytical Chemistry and Chromatography: 1 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 0 fractional works
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth Information ManagementHealth Informatics5 others

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

  1. 1 Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1 works
  2. 2 Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  3. 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 1 works
  4. 4 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 1 works
  5. 5 Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  7. 7 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 1 works
  8. 8 Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses Analytical Chemistry 1 works
  9. 9 Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography Spectroscopy 1 works
  10. 10 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 0 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 available48.0%not open52.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.8%domestic only65.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 53% 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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