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European Medicines Agency

In research, European Medicines Agency stands highest in Medicine (#8,764 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#10,420 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,647
of 28,054 · #10,055 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#97
of 237
Research works
440
▲ 51% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
31.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
32.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is European Medicines Agency 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
MedicineField #8,764 of 17,978 29.9%157
Health SciencesDomain #10,420 of 20,462 29.9%174

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where European Medicines Agency 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).

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: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.18× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.07× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.06× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 14.72× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.47× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.59× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 4.88× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.97× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.03× its world share, 43 worksMedicineNursing: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.78× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6.25× its world share, 15 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 14.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at European Medicines Agency?

Ranked on the composite score, A. J. B. Humphreys, Patrick Waller and Francesco Pignatti lead among researchers whose main affiliation is European Medicines Agency.

  1. 1 A. J. B. Humphreys Netherlands · #149,325 worldwide 208 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Patrick Waller Netherlands · #256,586 worldwide 90 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Francesco Pignatti Netherlands · #366,466 worldwide 46 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Thomas Goedecke Netherlands · #1,141,433 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at European Medicines Agency

Which keywords describe research at European Medicines Agency?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Health Utility Measures, Clinical Trials, Quality of Life, Adverse Drug Reactions, Drug Development, Biomarkers and Pharmaceutical Industry.

▲ 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. Quality of Life9▲ 5.6×7 topics
  2. Cost-effectiveness Analysis8▲ 89×1 topic
  3. Health Utility Measures8▲ 89×1 topic
  4. Clinical Trials8▲ 11×8 topics
  5. Epidemiology8▲ 1.80×45 topics
  6. Adverse Drug Reactions8▲ 126×2 topics
  7. Drug Development7▲ 69×3 topics
  8. Public Health6▲ 3.8×15 topics
  9. Biomarkers6▲ 7.2×5 topics
  10. Pharmaceutical Industry5▲ 125×2 topics
  11. Monoclonal Antibodies5▲ 48×3 topics
  12. Immunogenicity4▲ 95×3 topics
  13. Biopharmaceuticals4▲ 78×2 topics
  14. Drug Development Costs4▲ 149×1 topic
  15. Generic Drugs4▲ 149×1 topic
  16. Bioanalytical Methods4▲ 193×1 topic
  17. Biosimilars4▲ 193×1 topic
  18. Bayesian Methods4▲ 76×2 topics
  19. SARS-CoV-24▲ 11×5 topics
  20. Adaptive Designs4▲ 174×1 topic
  21. Data Mining4▲ 4.8×2 topics
  22. False Discovery Rate4▲ 174×1 topic
  23. Vaccine4▲ 8.8×7 topics
  24. Pharmacovigilance4▲ 231×1 topic
  25. Signal Detection4▲ 231×1 topic
  26. Medication Adherence4▲ 62×2 topics
  27. Off-Label Drug Use4▲ 119×1 topic
  28. Pediatric Pharmacokinetics4▲ 119×1 topic
  29. Patient Safety4▲ 22×2 topics
  30. Regenerative Medicine4▲ 12×5 topics
  31. Ethical Considerations3▲ 8.6×5 topics
  32. ACE2 Receptor3▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Biomedical Science3▲ 145×1 topic
  34. Genomic Studies3▲ 42×2 topics
  35. Health Research3▲ 27×1 topic
  36. Immunity3▲ 6.7×2 topics
  37. Mutation3▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Coronavirus3▲ 12×1 topic
  39. spike protein3▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Risk Perception3▲ 8.9×2 topics

Which research topics does European Medicines Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials.

Health Systems, Economic…8Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 8 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 4 fractional worksBiosimilars and Bioanaly…4Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods: 4 fractional worksStatistical Methods in C…4Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 4 fractional worksPharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions: 4 fractional worksPharmaceutical studies and practices: 4 fractional worksScience, Research, and M…3Science, Research, and Medicine: 3 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 3 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Regulation: 2 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsImmunologyStatistics and ProbabilityToxicology5 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 8 works
  2. 2 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  3. 3 Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods Immunology 4 works
  4. 4 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 4 works
  5. 5 Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions Toxicology 4 works
  6. 6 Pharmaceutical studies and practices Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  7. 7 Science, Research, and Medicine Reproductive Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 3 works
  9. 9 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 2 works
  10. 10 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 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 available54.0%not open46.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.4%domestic only52.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has European Medicines Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 51% 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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