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Gama (United Kingdom)

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Research works
7
▼ 52% vs 2018-21
Citations
51
7.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Gama (United Kingdom)

Not ranked overall: Gama (United Kingdom) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Gama (United Kingdom) work in?

In all years, 53% of research at Gama (United Kingdom) is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Materials Science (29%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (24%), Medicine (20%).

Physical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 52.7% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 28.6% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 20.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 13.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 7.0% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 7.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 26.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 24.2% of its workStructural Biology: 1 fractional works · 20.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 20.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 20.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 9.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKGama (UnitedKingdom)7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences53%Health Sciences21%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Materials Science228.6%
    2. Engineering113.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy07.0%
    4. Chemistry03.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology224.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology02.4%
    1. Medicine120.0%
    2. Dentistry00.7%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Gama (United Kingdom)?

The most cited paper from Gama (United Kingdom) is "Artificial dry surface biofilm models for testing the efficacy of cleaning and disinfection" (Katarzyna Ledwoch, Jawal Said, P. Norville et al., 2019), with 37 citations. Next come "It's a trap! The development of a versatile drain biofilm model and its susceptibility to disinfection" (32) and "How dirty is your QWERTY? The risk of healthcare pathogen transmission from computer keyboards" (30).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Artificial dry surface biofilm models for testing the efficacy of cleaning and disinfection Katarzyna Ledwoch, Jawal Said, P. Norville et al. · Letters in Applied Microbiology 26 Feb 2019 37
2 It's a trap! The development of a versatile drain biofilm model and its susceptibility to disinfection Katarzyna Ledwoch, A. Robertson, J. Lauran et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection Open access 20 Aug 2020 32
3 How dirty is your QWERTY? The risk of healthcare pathogen transmission from computer keyboards Katarzyna Ledwoch, Stephanie J. Dancer, J.A. Otter et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection Open access 26 Feb 2021 30
4 Is a reduction in viability enough to determine biofilm susceptibility to a biocide? Katarzyna Ledwoch, Maddalena Magoga, Dulcie Williams et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Open access 2 Mar 2021 23
5 Unlimited Tilt for Ultra-Narrow Lenses: Tomography at Highest Resolution? Guenter Möbus, Beverley J. Inkson, Ian M. Ross et al. · Microscopy and Microanalysis Aug 2004 6
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Gama (United Kingdom) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Nosocomial Infections in ICU, Infection Control in Healthcare, Surgical site infection prevention and Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications.

Nosocomial Infections in…0Nosocomial Infections in ICU: 0 fractional worksInfection Control in Hea…0Infection Control in Healthcare: 0 fractional worksSurgical site infection …0Surgical site infection prevention: 0 fractional works
Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineInfectious DiseasesSurgery

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

  1. 1 Nosocomial Infections in ICU Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Infection Control in Healthcare Infectious Diseases 0 works
  3. 3 Surgical site infection prevention Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications Neurology 0 works
  5. 5 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment Neurology 0 works
  6. 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 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 available35.5%not open64.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.5%domestic only78.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gama (United Kingdom)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 52% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Gama (United Kingdom) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000021% in 2022.

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Fractional works of Gama (United Kingdom) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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