FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

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 FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences 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: Psychology takes 5.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. PsychologyField · 27.3 works5.6×

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.

• Psychology 5.6×
• Health Professions 3.4×
• Social Sciences 3.0×
• Neuroscience 1.6×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.4×
• Decision Sciences 1.3×
• Medicine 0.8×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.6×
• Mathematics 0.6×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.5×
• Nursing 0.3×
• Arts and Humanities 0.3×
• Computer Science 0.3×
• Environmental Science 0.3×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.3×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.2×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.2×
• Chemistry 0.1×
• Immunology and Microbiology 0.1×
• Materials Science 0.1×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.1×
• Engineering 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Rémy Pithon, Ursina Kuhn and Oliver Lipps lead among researchers whose main affiliation is FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences.

1. 1 🇨🇭 Rémy Pithon Switzerland · #322,942 worldwide 4 citations · 26 works
2. 2 🇨🇭 Ursina Kuhn Switzerland · #750,219 worldwide 33 citations · 18 works
3. 3 🇨🇭 Oliver Lipps Switzerland · #923,662 worldwide 51 citations · 24 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Social Support, Public Health, Health Disparities, Social Relationships, Mortality Risk, Neighborhood Effects and Aging.

By volume in 2022–2025: Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.

1. 1 Health disparities and outcomes Health 8 works
2. 2 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 4 works
3. 3 Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Social Psychology 3 works
4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
5. 5 Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
6. 6 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 3 works
7. 7 Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Sociology and Political Science 2 works
8. 8 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
9. 9 Cognitive Functions and Memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
10. 10 Social Policy and Reform Studies Political Science and International Relations 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 47% higher than in 2013–2017.

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• University of Lausanne
• University Hospital of Lausanne
• Hôpital Orthopédique de la Suisse Romande
• Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
• SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• Département de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale
• Hôpital Nestlé