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Gates Foundation

In research, Gates Foundation stands highest in Health Sciences (#904 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#1,196 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases (Infectious Diseases is 16.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,355
of 22,385 · #1,018 all time
Rank in United States
#514
of 3,332
Research works
907
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
36k
39.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.31×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
76%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Gates Foundation

What is Gates Foundation known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #904 of 9,902 20.3%110 #342
MedicineField #1,196 of 8,541 22.0%91 #513

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gates Foundation 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Gates Foundation work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Gates Foundation is in Health Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (47%), Social Sciences (9%), Health Professions (7%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 121 fractional works · 56.8% of its workMedicine: 99 fractional works · 46.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 24 fractional works · 11.3% of its workEpidemiology: 19 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 14 fractional works · 6.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 14 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 39 fractional works · 18.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 9.3% of its workHealth: 10 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 34 fractional works · 15.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEndocrinology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 fractional works · 4.9% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 9.1% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGates Foundation213fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences57%Social Sciences18%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine9946.6%
    2. Health Professions146.8%
    3. Nursing63.0%
    4. Dentistry10.3%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences209.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance94.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting41.9%
    4. Psychology31.3%
    5. Decision Sciences21.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology115.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology104.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences104.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
    5. Neuroscience10.5%
    1. Computer Science73.1%
    2. Environmental Science52.3%
    3. Mathematics41.9%
    4. Engineering21.0%
    5. Chemistry10.4%
    6. Materials Science10.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Gates Foundation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 16.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 24.0 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.96× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.86× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.54× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.40× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.60× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.57× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.43× its world share, 99 worksMedicineNursing: 6.14× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.86× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.92× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.44× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing6.14×6 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology4.86×10 works
  3. Health Professions2.57×14 works
  4. Medicine2.43×99 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.92×9 works
  6. Mathematics1.60×4 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.54×1 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.12×2 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.99×11 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.96×10 works
  11. Veterinary0.86×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.74×20 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.58×4 works
  14. Dentistry0.53×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.45×5 works
  16. Psychology0.44×3 works
  17. Computer Science0.40×7 works
  18. Neuroscience0.31×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.25×1 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.19×1 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.09×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.08×1 works
  23. Engineering0.07×2 works

Who are the top researchers at Gates Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Ananda Sankar Bandyopadhyay, Daniel P. Chin and Peter D Ehrenkranz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gates Foundation.

  1. 1 Ananda Sankar Bandyopadhyay United States · #128,050 worldwide 3.3k citations · 105 works
  2. 2 Daniel P. Chin United States · #147,313 worldwide 5.8k citations · 51 works
  3. 3 Peter D Ehrenkranz United States · #177,084 worldwide 3.1k citations · 62 works
  4. 4 Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen United States · #185,093 worldwide 4.1k citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Padmini Srikantiah United States · #203,231 worldwide 2.6k citations · 62 works
  6. 6 Ellen Piwoz United States · #270,444 worldwide 10k citations · 112 works
  7. 7 France A Donnay United States · #271,211 worldwide 2.2k citations · 39 works
  8. 8 Kristen A. Earle United States · #349,632 worldwide 3.4k citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Murray Lumpkin United States · #481,468 worldwide 1.9k citations · 43 works
  10. 10 Wenfeng Gong United States · #483,262 worldwide 2.6k citations · 164 works
All ranked researchers at Gates Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Gates Foundation?

The most cited paper from Gates Foundation is "Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world" (Julio M. Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al., 2010), with 6,031 citations. Next come "High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution" (4,136) and "Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?" (3,034).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world Julio M. Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta et al. · The Lancet Open access 30 Nov 2010 6,031
2 High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution Margaret E. Kruk et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 5 Sep 2018 4,136
3 Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? Nigel Campbell Rollins, Nita Bhandari, Nemat Hajeebhoy et al. · The Lancet 2016 3,034
4 Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead Prabhu Pingali · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 24 Jul 2012 2,450
5 Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E. Black et al. · The Lancet Open access 28 Jun 2016 1,765
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Gates Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine, Pathogenesis, Maternal Mortality, Community Health Workers, Immune Response, Health Inequalities and Child Mortality.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology54▲ 6.4×57 topics
  2. Vaccine25▲ 30×11 topics
  3. Pathogenesis16▲ 15×13 topics
  4. Maternal Mortality13▲ 27×5 topics
  5. Community Health Workers12▲ 66×2 topics
  6. Immune Response12▲ 9.6×11 topics
  7. Health Inequalities12▲ 45×3 topics
  8. Child Mortality11▲ 74×1 topic
  9. Health Systems11▲ 74×1 topic
  10. Public Health11▲ 3.6×33 topics
  11. Vaccine Development11▲ 20×9 topics
  12. Infection10▲ 19×4 topics
  13. Social Media9▲ 3.1×4 topics
  14. Risk Perception9▲ 16×3 topics
  15. Global Access9▲ 49×2 topics
  16. COVID-199▲ 3.1×15 topics
  17. COVID-19 Vaccine9▲ 58×1 topic
  18. Vaccine Hesitancy9▲ 64×1 topic
  19. Norovirus8▲ 91×1 topic
  20. Rotavirus8▲ 91×1 topic
  21. Pandemic8▲ 3.8×9 topics
  22. Infectious Diseases8▲ 11×7 topics
  23. Immunosuppressive Therapy6▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Heart Failure6▲ 6.5×4 topics
  25. SARS-CoV-26▲ 9.4×5 topics
  26. Viral Infection6▲ 40×2 topics
  27. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance6▲ 51×1 topic
  28. Genetic Diversity6▲ 6.4×7 topics
  29. Myocarditis6▲ 85×1 topic
  30. Global Burden6▲ 5.0×9 topics
  31. Child Development6▲ 6.5×6 topics
  32. Immunity6▲ 6.6×4 topics
  33. Global Burden of Disease6▲ 10×2 topics
  34. Drug Resistance5▲ 8.9×7 topics
  35. Antiretroviral Therapy5▲ 15×6 topics
  36. Antimicrobial Resistance5▲ 12×7 topics
  37. Disease Burden5▲ 33×2 topics
  38. Viral Infections5▲ 41×2 topics
  39. Maternal and Child Undernutrition5▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Water Sanitation Hygiene5▲ 28×1 topic

Which research topics does Gates Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Global Maternal and Child Health, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology and Viral Infections and Immunology Research.

Global Maternal and Child Health: 11 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 9 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis re…8Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 8 fractional worksViral Infections and Imm…6Viral Infections and Immunology Research: 6 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 5 fractional worksRespiratory viral infections research: 5 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …4SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 3 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 3 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Reforms: 3 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthHealthInfectious DiseasesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 11 works
  2. 2 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 9 works
  3. 3 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 8 works
  4. 4 Viral Infections and Immunology Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  5. 5 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 5 works
  6. 6 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 5 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 3 works
  9. 9 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 3 works
  10. 10 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 3 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 available75.5%not open24.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.8%domestic only52.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gates Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Gates Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00092% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Gates Foundation0.00077% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Gates Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Gates Foundation14.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.2% in 2012.

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