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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

In research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine stands highest in Health Sciences (#242 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#229 of 10,443 worldwide) and Infectious Diseases (#8 of 345 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and Health — Infectious Diseases is 11.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#806
of 28,054 · #584 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#35
of 1,094
Research works
20k
▲ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
1000k
49.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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
Health SciencesDomain #242 of 11,982 31.3%1,739 #131
MedicineField #229 of 10,443 30.7%1,341 #169
Infectious DiseasesSubfield #8 of 345 30.8%233 #12
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #22 of 916 36.5%266 #13
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #23 of 828 36.2%272 #15
Life SciencesDomain #409 of 7,800 30.9%347 #353
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSubfield #24 of 441 40.7%128 #17
EpidemiologySubfield #75 of 976 28.6%212 #45
Health ProfessionsField #168 of 1,928 35.8%328 #31
Social SciencesDomain #1,020 of 10,521 34.8%696 #401

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#131 #242
  2. Medicine#169 #229
  3. Infectious Diseases#12 #8
  4. General Health Professions#13 #22
  5. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#15 #23
  6. Life Sciences#353 #409
  7. Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health#17 #24
  8. Epidemiology#45 #75
  9. Health Professions#31 #168
  10. Social Sciences#401 #1,020
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 11.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 233.2 works11×
  2. ParasitologySubfield · 35.1 works11×
  3. HealthSubfield · 97.0 works11×
  4. Modeling and SimulationSubfield · 43.1 works10×
  5. MicrobiologySubfield · 22.6 works7.1×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 71 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 121 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.12× its world share, 127 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.20× its world share, 13 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 28 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 20 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.95× its world share, 145 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.25× its world share, 81 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.05× its world share, 328 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.27× its world share, 1,341 worksMedicineNursing: 4.17× its world share, 63 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 20 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.43× its world share, 43 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 25 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.90× its world share, 125 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.65× its world share, 154 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 329 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine?

Ranked on the composite score, Martin McKee, Stuart Pocock and Neil Pearce lead among researchers whose main affiliation is London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom · #78 worldwide 5.4k citations · 369 works
  2. 2 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom · #122 worldwide 4.3k citations · 148 works
  3. 3 Neil Pearce United Kingdom · #220 worldwide 3.2k citations · 152 works
  4. 4 Mark Petticrew United Kingdom · #1,143 worldwide 3.1k citations · 89 works
  5. 5 Andy Haines United Kingdom · #4,163 worldwide 1.1k citations · 93 works
  6. 6 Heidi J. Larson United Kingdom · #4,211 worldwide 2.8k citations · 61 works
  7. 7 Joy E Lawn United Kingdom · #5,030 worldwide 1.3k citations · 63 works
  8. 8 Julian Peto United Kingdom · #6,565 worldwide 1.3k citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Tom Shakespeare United Kingdom · #9,471 worldwide 580 citations · 61 works
  10. 10 P. Armitage United Kingdom · #11,523 worldwide 698 citations · 66 works
All ranked researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Which keywords describe research at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Vaccine, Infectious Diseases, Immune Response, Vaccine Development, Maternal Mortality and Mental Health.

▲ 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. Epidemiology573▲ 4.7×128 topics
  2. Public Health289▲ 6.5×62 topics
  3. Mental Health168▲ 3.7×40 topics
  4. Vaccine143▲ 11×11 topics
  5. COVID-19142▲ 3.4×24 topics
  6. Infectious Diseases137▲ 14×10 topics
  7. Immune Response135▲ 7.8×22 topics
  8. Vaccine Development126▲ 16×11 topics
  9. Maternal Mortality121▲ 18×5 topics
  10. Treatment111▲ 3.0×47 topics
  11. Health Inequalities111▲ 30×5 topics
  12. Risk Factors110▲ 3.3×36 topics
  13. Global Burden109▲ 6.6×12 topics
  14. Pandemic105▲ 3.2×11 topics
  15. Mortality103▲ 5.8×12 topics
  16. Diagnosis98▲ 3.4×40 topics
  17. Pathogenesis97▲ 6.2×23 topics
  18. Community Health Workers94▲ 36×2 topics
  19. Antiretroviral Therapy91▲ 18×6 topics
  20. Socio-economic Factors91▲ 27×2 topics
  21. Child Mortality91▲ 42×1 topic
  22. Health Systems91▲ 42×1 topic
  23. Primary Care90▲ 7.8×15 topics
  24. Drug Resistance87▲ 10×9 topics
  25. Global Burden of Disease79▲ 10×4 topics
  26. SARS-CoV-277▲ 7.7×6 topics
  27. Child Development76▲ 5.9×7 topics
  28. Health Disparities72▲ 8.9×9 topics
  29. HIV Transmission64▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Mortality Rates62▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Social Determinants of Health60▲ 8.6×6 topics
  32. Risk Perception59▲ 7.2×7 topics
  33. Viral Load58▲ 24×2 topics
  34. Vector Control57▲ 16×4 topics
  35. Global Access57▲ 21×2 topics
  36. Genome Sequence57▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Vulnerability57▲ 8.2×6 topics
  38. Health Behavior56▲ 18×3 topics
  39. COVID-19 Vaccine54▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Herd Immunity54▲ 26×1 topic

Which research topics does London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Child Nutrition and Water Access and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

Global Maternal and Chil…91Global Maternal and Child Health: 91 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…54Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 54 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 51 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 49 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 46 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 45 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 43 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases …40Mosquito-borne diseases and control: 40 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 40 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 37 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthHealthNutrition and DieteticsInfectious Diseases4 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 91 works
  2. 2 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 54 works
  3. 3 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 51 works
  4. 4 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 49 works
  5. 5 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 46 works
  6. 6 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 45 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 43 works
  8. 8 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 40 works
  9. 9 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 40 works
  10. 10 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 37 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 available60.5%not open39.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.9%domestic only54.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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