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Epilepsy Action

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World rank, all time
#31,020
of 34,923
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,674
of 1,844
Research works
145
▲ 82% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.8k
26.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
39%
world 18%
Epilepsy Action

Which fields of science does Epilepsy Action work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at Epilepsy Action is in Health Sciences, 31% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (62%), Neuroscience (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 18 fractional works · 63.6% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 62.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 8 fractional works · 27.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 11.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 30.6% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 16.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 13.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 12.7% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 7.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEpilepsy Action28fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences31%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences64%Social Sciences4%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1862.1%
    2. Health Professions01.2%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    1. Neuroscience516.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology412.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.3%
    2. Social Sciences01.2%
    3. Psychology01.1%
    1. Computer Science01.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    3. Chemistry00.3%
    4. Engineering00.0%
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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.39× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 10.36× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksComputer SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.23× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 10.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Neuroscience10.36×5 works
  2. Medicine3.23×18 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.39×4 works
  4. Nursing0.80×0 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.60×0 works
  6. Health Professions0.45×0 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.43×0 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.36×0 works
  9. Psychology0.34×0 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  11. Chemistry0.19×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.15×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Epilepsy Action?

Ranked on the quality score, Angie Pullen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Epilepsy Action.

  1. 1 Angie Pullen United Kingdom · #1,077,645 worldwide 263 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Epilepsy Action

What are the most cited papers from Epilepsy Action?

The most cited paper from Epilepsy Action is "Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsy: Definitions Proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)" (Robert S. Fisher, W. van Emde Boas, Warren T. Blume et al., 2005), with 3,682 citations. Next come "ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology" (513) and "Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus – approach to clinical application" (473).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsy: Definitions Proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) Robert S. Fisher, W. van Emde Boas, Warren T. Blume et al. · Epilepsia Open access 29 Mar 2005 3,682
2 ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology Ingrid Eileen Scheffer, Samuel Frank Berkovic, Giuseppe Capovilla et al. · てんかん研究 Open access 30 Jun 2019 513
3 Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus – approach to clinical application Markus Leitinger, Sándor Beniczky, Alexandra Rohracher et al. · Epilepsy & Behavior 17 Jun 2015 473
4 The phenotypic spectrum of SCN8A encephalopathy Jan Larsen et al. · Neurology Open access 8 Jan 2015 289
5 The landscape of epilepsy-related GATOR1 variants Sara Baldassari et al. · Genetics in Medicine Open access 9 Aug 2018 241
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Which keywords describe research at Epilepsy Action?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiepileptic Drugs, Inflammation, Epilepsy, Genetics, Classification, Drug Resistance, Neurobiology and Seizures.

▲ 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 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiepileptic Drugs8▲ 370×2 topics
  2. Inflammation8▲ 13×7 topics
  3. Epilepsy7▲ 221×4 topics
  4. Genetics7▲ 33×5 topics
  5. Classification6▲ 51×2 topics
  6. Drug Resistance6▲ 76×2 topics
  7. Neurobiology6▲ 83×2 topics
  8. Seizures6▲ 352×1 topic
  9. Status Epilepticus6▲ 459×1 topic
  10. Neurological Disorders4▲ 22×12 topics
  11. Brain-Computer Interfaces2▲ 89×1 topic
  12. EEG Analysis2▲ 89×1 topic
  13. Cognitive Function2▲ 40×5 topics
  14. Fetal Development2▲ 78×2 topics
  15. Neurodevelopmental Disorders2▲ 52×2 topics
  16. Oxidative Stress2▲ 4.1×3 topics
  17. Teratogenicity2▲ 124×2 topics
  18. Anxiety2▲ 13×3 topics
  19. Malformations2▲ 224×1 topic
  20. Prenatal Exposure2▲ 224×1 topic
  21. Interoception2▲ 183×1 topic
  22. Somatic Symptoms2▲ 183×1 topic
  23. Genetic Mutations1▲ 11×8 topics
  24. Epidemiology1◆ 1.11×14 topics
  25. Default Mode Network1▲ 52×1 topic
  26. Dendritic Spines1▲ 48×2 topics
  27. Functional Connectivity1▲ 29×2 topics
  28. Metabolic Syndrome1▲ 4.8×3 topics
  29. Resting-State fMRI1▲ 52×1 topic
  30. Cancer Therapy1▲ 6.4×3 topics

Which research topics does Epilepsy Action publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Epilepsy research and treatment, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments.

Epilepsy research and tr…6Epilepsy research and treatment: 6 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 2 fractional worksPharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies: 2 fractional worksPsychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments: 2 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connect…1Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 1 fractional worksDiet and metabolism studies: 1 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 1 fractional worksCardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders: 0 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research: 0 fractional worksNeurological disorders and treatments: 0 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthCognitive NeurosciencePediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPhysiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Epilepsy research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 6 works
  2. 2 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  3. 3 Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works
  4. 4 Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  5. 5 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  6. 6 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 1 works
  7. 7 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 1 works
  8. 8 Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders Surgery 0 works
  9. 9 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0 works
  10. 10 Neurological disorders and treatments Neurology 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 available36.6%not open63.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.8%domestic only61.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Epilepsy Action's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 82% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Epilepsy Action as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00011% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Epilepsy Action0.00016% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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