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Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

In research, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit stands highest in Medicine (#2,789 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,574 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,563 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases — Parasitology is 50.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,054
of 28,054 · #5,073 all time
Rank in Thailand
#24
of 156
Research works
1.9k
▲ 58% vs 2013–17
Citations
65k
34.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
61%
world 28%

What is Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit 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 #2,789 of 10,443 30.6%200 #2422
Health SciencesDomain #3,574 of 11,982 30.4%217 #3099
Life SciencesDomain #2,563 of 7,800 25.5%112 #2331
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #356 of 828 36.9%65 #173

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit 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. Medicine#2,422 #2,789
  2. Health Sciences#3,099 #3,574
  3. Life Sciences#2,331 #2,563
  4. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#173 #356
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 Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Parasitology takes 50.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ParasitologySubfield · 20.7 works51×
  2. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 65.2 works13×
  3. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 32.2 works12×
  4. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 39.2 works10×
← 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: 1.30× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 41 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 10.07× its world share, 39 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.52× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.25× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.99× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.01× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.69× its world share, 200 worksMedicineNursing: 2.69× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 9.29× its world share, 5 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 10.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit?

Ranked on the composite score, Richard J. Maude, T Harinasuta and Ben S. Cooper lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.

  1. 1 Richard J. Maude Thailand · #17,567 worldwide 656 citations · 43 works
  2. 2 T Harinasuta Thailand · #98,345 worldwide 221 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Ben S. Cooper Thailand · #140,704 worldwide 136 citations · 38 works
  4. 4 Nicholas Day Thailand · #190,258 worldwide 303 citations · 79 works
  5. 5 Direk Limmathurotsakul Thailand · #207,757 worldwide 168 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 Joel Tärning Thailand · #258,932 worldwide 112 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Sasithon Pukrittayakamee Thailand · #379,454 worldwide 95 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Stuart D. Blacksell Thailand · #408,213 worldwide 115 citations · 41 works
  9. 9 C Harinasuta Thailand · #418,444 worldwide 67 citations · 33 works
  10. 10 Rashan Haniffa Thailand · #443,391 worldwide 115 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

Which keywords describe research at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Global Burden, Genome Sequence, Pathogenesis, Insecticide Resistance, Public Health and Artemisinin Resistance.

▲ 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. Epidemiology129▲ 8.4×89 topics
  2. Vaccine Development62▲ 63×11 topics
  3. Public Health33▲ 5.8×34 topics
  4. Global Burden30▲ 14×10 topics
  5. Genome Sequence29▲ 90×3 topics
  6. Pathogenesis29▲ 15×21 topics
  7. Insecticide Resistance29▲ 95×4 topics
  8. Artemisinin Resistance27▲ 224×1 topic
  9. Plasmodium falciparum27▲ 224×1 topic
  10. Vector Control25▲ 56×4 topics
  11. Arboviral Diseases21▲ 84×1 topic
  12. Zika Virus21▲ 84×1 topic
  13. Immune Response19▲ 8.7×21 topics
  14. Antibiotic Resistance18▲ 13×13 topics
  15. Treatment18▲ 3.9×32 topics
  16. Vaccine16▲ 10×11 topics
  17. Inflammation16▲ 1.94×59 topics
  18. Infectious Diseases16▲ 12×8 topics
  19. Oxidative Stress15▲ 2.4×42 topics
  20. Diagnosis15▲ 4.2×32 topics
  21. Helminth Infections14▲ 96×2 topics
  22. Pandemic13▲ 3.1×10 topics
  23. Drug Resistance13▲ 12×8 topics
  24. Disease Burden12▲ 43×2 topics
  25. SARS-CoV-211▲ 8.9×6 topics
  26. Immune Regulation11▲ 25×4 topics
  27. Immunomodulation11▲ 22×3 topics
  28. Global Epidemiology10▲ 62×2 topics
  29. Schistosomiasis10▲ 99×1 topic
  30. Soil-Transmitted Helminths10▲ 99×1 topic
  31. Zoonotic Infections10▲ 47×2 topics
  32. Genetic Diversity10▲ 5.8×11 topics
  33. Virulence9▲ 37×5 topics
  34. Immunity9▲ 5.8×9 topics
  35. Pathogen Transmission9▲ 35×3 topics
  36. ACE2 Receptor8▲ 9.0×2 topics
  37. Infection8▲ 9.0×10 topics
  38. Host-Pathogen Interactions8▲ 26×4 topics
  39. Type III Secretion System8▲ 36×3 topics
  40. Respiratory Infections7▲ 15×3 topics

Which research topics does Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Parasites and Host Interactions and Burkholderia infections and melioidosis.

Malaria Research and Con…27Malaria Research and Control: 27 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases …21Mosquito-borne diseases and control: 21 fractional worksParasites and Host Interactions: 10 fractional worksBurkholderia infections and melioidosis: 6 fractional worksViral Infections and Vectors: 6 fractional worksVector-borne infectious diseases: 6 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 5 fractional worksTravel-related health issues: 4 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resistance: 4 fractional worksParasite Biology and Host Interactions: 4 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthParasitologyEpidemiologyInfectious Diseases2 others

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

  1. 1 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 27 works
  2. 2 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 21 works
  3. 3 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 10 works
  4. 4 Burkholderia infections and melioidosis Epidemiology 6 works
  5. 5 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 6 works
  6. 6 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 6 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 5 works
  8. 8 Travel-related health issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  9. 9 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 4 works
  10. 10 Parasite Biology and Host Interactions Ecology 4 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 available61.1%not open38.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors52.3%domestic only47.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 58% 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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