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Médecins Sans Frontières

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World rank, all time
#36,450
of 42,892
Rank in Spain
#828
of 927
Research works
159
▲ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
3k
18.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

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: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.44× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.47× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.11× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.94× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 4.24× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.76× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.77× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 2 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 Médecins Sans Frontières?

Ranked on the composite score, Sakib Burza lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Médecins Sans Frontières.

  1. 1 Sakib Burza Spain · #728,612 worldwide 54 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Médecins Sans Frontières

Which keywords describe research at Médecins Sans Frontières?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Public Health, Trauma, Health Disparities, Epidemiology, Immigrant, Refugee and Competitiveness.

▲ 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 8 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 8 words, with their numbers
  1. Mental Health3▲ 8.2×9 topics
  2. Epidemiology3▲ 2.9×17 topics
  3. Public Health3▲ 7.9×13 topics
  4. Trauma2▲ 42×3 topics
  5. Health Disparities2▲ 30×4 topics
  6. Immigrant2▲ 99×1 topic
  7. Refugee2▲ 122×1 topic
  8. Competitiveness1▲ 56×4 topics

Which research topics does Médecins Sans Frontières publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Migration, Health and Trauma, Global Maternal and Child Health, Biotechnology and Related Fields and Child and Adolescent Health.

Migration, Health and Tr…2Migration, Health and Trauma: 2 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Chil…1Global Maternal and Child Health: 1 fractional worksBiotechnology and Relate…0Biotechnology and Related Fields: 0 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Health: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 0 fractional worksMalaria Research and Con…0Malaria Research and Control: 0 fractional worksBusiness, Education, Mathematics Research: 0 fractional worksPublic Health and Environmental Issues: 0 fractional worksLiteracy, Media, and Education: 0 fractional worksCensus and Population Estimation: 0 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthGeneral Health Professions5 others

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

  1. 1 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 2 works
  2. 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  3. 3 Biotechnology and Related Fields Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  4. 4 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  6. 6 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  7. 7 Business, Education, Mathematics Research Accounting 0 works
  8. 8 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  9. 9 Literacy, Media, and Education Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  10. 10 Census and Population Estimation Statistics and Probability 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 available69.7%not open30.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.1%domestic only63.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Médecins Sans Frontières's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% 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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