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Gates Foundation

In research, Gates Foundation stands highest in Medicine (#3,966 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,013 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases — Infectious Diseases is 18.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,002
of 28,054 · #6,163 all time
Rank in United States
#810
of 4,192
Research works
907
▲ 42% vs 2013–17
Citations
36k
39.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
37.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
76%
world 28%

What is Gates Foundation known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #3,966 of 10,443 39.3%91 #3587
Health SciencesDomain #5,013 of 11,982 36.8%110 #4019

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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Gates Foundation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 18.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 23.1 works18×
← 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, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.03× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.56× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.31× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.76× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.61× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.50× its world share, 91 worksMedicineNursing: 6.53× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.61× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.98× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Gates Foundation?

Ranked on the composite score, Bill Gates, Ananda S Bandyopadhyay and Alix Peterson Zwane lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gates Foundation.

  1. 1 Bill Gates · #181,785 worldwide 176 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Ananda S Bandyopadhyay · #473,103 worldwide 76 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Alix Peterson Zwane · #611,980 worldwide 87 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 David Bergvinson · #744,697 worldwide 39 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Harry Kleanthous · #1,156,698 worldwide 52 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Gates Foundation

Which keywords describe research at Gates Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology51▲ 6.9×57 topics
  2. Vaccine24▲ 31×11 topics
  3. Pathogenesis16▲ 16×13 topics
  4. Maternal Mortality12▲ 28×5 topics
  5. Community Health Workers11▲ 70×2 topics
  6. Immune Response11▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Public Health10▲ 3.8×30 topics
  8. Health Inequalities10▲ 45×2 topics
  9. Child Mortality10▲ 77×1 topic
  10. Health Systems10▲ 77×1 topic
  11. Vaccine Development10▲ 21×9 topics
  12. Infection10▲ 21×4 topics
  13. COVID-198▲ 3.2×15 topics
  14. Social Media8▲ 3.0×4 topics
  15. Norovirus8▲ 92×1 topic
  16. Pandemic8▲ 3.9×9 topics
  17. Rotavirus8▲ 92×1 topic
  18. Risk Perception8▲ 15×3 topics
  19. Global Access8▲ 46×2 topics
  20. COVID-19 Vaccine8▲ 55×1 topic
  21. Infectious Diseases8▲ 12×7 topics
  22. Vaccine Hesitancy8▲ 60×1 topic
  23. Immunosuppressive Therapy6▲ 18×2 topics
  24. SARS-CoV-26▲ 9.6×5 topics
  25. Heart Failure6▲ 7.2×4 topics
  26. Viral Infection6▲ 44×2 topics
  27. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance6▲ 55×1 topic
  28. Myocarditis6▲ 91×1 topic
  29. Immunity5▲ 7.1×4 topics
  30. Antiretroviral Therapy5▲ 17×6 topics
  31. Child Development5▲ 6.6×6 topics
  32. Global Burden of Disease5▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Genetic Diversity5▲ 6.2×7 topics
  34. Disease Burden5▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Viral Infections5▲ 46×2 topics
  36. Antimicrobial Resistance5▲ 13×7 topics
  37. Drug Resistance5▲ 9.1×7 topics
  38. Human Metapneumovirus4▲ 53×1 topic
  39. Maternal and Child Undernutrition4▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Respiratory Syncytial Virus4▲ 53×1 topic

Which research topics does Gates Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Viral Infections and Immunology Research.

Global Maternal and Child Health: 10 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 8 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…8Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 8 fractional worksViral Infections and Imm…6Viral Infections and Immunology Research: 6 fractional worksRespiratory viral infections research: 4 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 4 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 HealthInfectious DiseasesHealthCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child HealthPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 10 works
  2. 2 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyInfectious Diseases 8 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and HesitancyHealth 8 works
  4. 4 Viral Infections and Immunology ResearchCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  5. 5 Respiratory viral infections researchEpidemiology 4 works
  6. 6 Child Nutrition and Water AccessNutrition and Dietetics 4 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchInfectious Diseases 4 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 epidemiological studiesModeling and Simulation 3 works
  9. 9 Tuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyInfectious Diseases 3 works
  10. 10 Healthcare Systems and ReformsFinance 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Gates Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 42% 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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