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NHS Blood and Transplant

In research, NHS Blood and Transplant stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,181 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#1,168 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hematology (Hematology is 27.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,839
of 22,385 · #3,828 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#245
of 862
Research works
2.1k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
60k
28.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.10×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
33%
world 18%
NHS Blood and Transplant

What is NHS Blood and Transplant 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 #1,181 of 9,902 17.1%176 #1193
MedicineField #1,168 of 8,541 17.4%169 #1199

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where NHS Blood and Transplant 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 NHS Blood and Transplant work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at NHS Blood and Transplant is in Health Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (76%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 200 fractional works · 79.7% of its workMedicine: 192 fractional works · 76.5% of its workSurgery: 31 fractional works · 12.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 24 fractional works · 9.6% of its workHematology: 21 fractional works · 8.3% of its workTransplantation: 13 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBiochemistry: 13 fractional works · 5.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 9 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHepatology: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOncology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 28 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 fractional works · 3.8% of its workImmunology: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 4.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNHS Blood andTransplant251fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences80%Social Sciences7%

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. Medicine19276.5%
    2. Health Professions62.2%
    3. Nursing20.8%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology166.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology93.8%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.4%
    5. Neuroscience10.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting104.0%
    2. Psychology20.8%
    3. Social Sciences20.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    6. Decision Sciences10.3%
    1. Engineering31.2%
    2. Mathematics10.5%
    3. Environmental Science10.3%
    4. Computer Science10.2%
    5. Materials Science10.2%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does NHS Blood and Transplant specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hematology takes 27.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HematologySubfield · 20.9 works27×
← 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: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.20× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.74× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.06× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.85× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.98× its world share, 192 worksMedicineNursing: 1.68× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.25× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.98×192 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.74×10 works
  3. Nursing1.68×2 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.25×10 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.20×16 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.06×1 works
  7. Health Professions0.85×6 works
  8. Mathematics0.41×1 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.33×1 works
  10. Veterinary0.28×0 works
  11. Psychology0.26×2 works
  12. Neuroscience0.20×1 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×1 works
  14. Dentistry0.15×0 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.12×1 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×1 works
  17. Engineering0.08×3 works
  18. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.06×2 works
  20. Environmental Science0.05×1 works
  21. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  22. Computer Science0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at NHS Blood and Transplant?

Ranked on the quality score, Simon J. Stanworth, Heli Harvala and Rachel Johnson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NHS Blood and Transplant.

  1. 1 Simon J. Stanworth United Kingdom · #34,213 worldwide 36k citations · 740 works
  2. 2 Heli Harvala United Kingdom · #72,354 worldwide 7.8k citations · 209 works
  3. 3 Rachel Johnson United Kingdom · #112,019 worldwide 9.1k citations · 192 works
  4. 4 Lise J Estcourt United Kingdom · #124,440 worldwide 13k citations · 305 works
  5. 5 Claire A. Reynolds United Kingdom · #194,000 worldwide 3.4k citations · 132 works
  6. 6 Susan J Brunskill United Kingdom · #227,951 worldwide 6.2k citations · 131 works
  7. 7 David Collett United Kingdom · #251,003 worldwide 13k citations · 168 works
  8. 8 Shubha Allard United Kingdom · #257,405 worldwide 3.7k citations · 41 works
  9. 9 Ines Ushiro‐Lumb United Kingdom · #295,238 worldwide 3k citations · 82 works
  10. 10 Alison J. Deary United Kingdom · #375,753 worldwide 3k citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at NHS Blood and Transplant

What are the most cited papers from NHS Blood and Transplant?

The most cited paper from NHS Blood and Transplant is "An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes" (Gil A. McVean et al., 2012), with 8,281 citations. Next come "Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology" (4,954) and "Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index" (2,999).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes Gil A. McVean et al. · Nature Open access363 authors 31 Oct 2012 8,281
2 Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology The LifeLines Cohort Study et al. · Nature Open access487 authors 10 Feb 2015 4,954
3 Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index MAGIC et al. · Nature Genetics Open access376 authors 10 Oct 2010 2,999
4 Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research Andrew I.R. Maas et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access335 authors 6 Nov 2017 2,659
5 Genomic atlas of the human plasma proteome Benjamin B. Sun et al. · Nature Open access 29 May 2018 2,496
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NHS Blood and Transplant?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Transplantation, Kidney Transplantation, Graft Survival, Anemia, Ethical Considerations, Blood Transfusion, Hemorrhage and Living Kidney Donors.

▲ 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. Transplantation29▲ 110×4 topics
  2. Kidney Transplantation28▲ 177×2 topics
  3. Graft Survival26▲ 122×3 topics
  4. Anemia23▲ 96×4 topics
  5. Epidemiology22▲ 2.2×71 topics
  6. Ethical Considerations22▲ 25×8 topics
  7. Blood Transfusion22▲ 195×3 topics
  8. Hemorrhage18▲ 106×2 topics
  9. Living Kidney Donors17▲ 271×1 topic
  10. Organ Donation17▲ 271×1 topic
  11. Liver Transplantation16▲ 51×4 topics
  12. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury15▲ 90×3 topics
  13. Biliary Complications15▲ 139×1 topic
  14. Donor Risk Index15▲ 139×1 topic
  15. Critical Care14▲ 23×6 topics
  16. Cardiac Surgery13▲ 68×2 topics
  17. Red Blood Cell13▲ 254×1 topic
  18. Tranexamic Acid13▲ 254×1 topic
  19. Immunosuppressive Drugs11▲ 70×2 topics
  20. Risk Factors11▲ 4.0×11 topics
  21. Antibody-Mediated Rejection11▲ 115×1 topic
  22. Renal Allograft11▲ 115×1 topic
  23. Coagulopathy10▲ 51×2 topics
  24. Rejection10▲ 92×2 topics
  25. Immunosuppressive Therapy9▲ 19×7 topics
  26. Supply Chain Management9▲ 4.1×2 topics
  27. Altruism9▲ 43×2 topics
  28. Disaster Response9▲ 48×2 topics
  29. Blood Donation9▲ 219×1 topic
  30. Donor Behavior9▲ 219×1 topic
  31. SARS-CoV-29▲ 12×6 topics
  32. Thrombosis9▲ 13×7 topics
  33. Pancreatic Cancer8▲ 30×2 topics
  34. ACE2 Receptor8▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Alloimmunization8▲ 124×1 topic
  36. Blood Groups8▲ 124×1 topic
  37. Heart Transplant8▲ 89×1 topic
  38. Lung Transplant8▲ 89×1 topic
  39. Trauma7▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Sepsis6▲ 14×4 topics

Which research topics does NHS Blood and Transplant publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Organ Donation and Transplantation, Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Blood transfusion and management and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments.

Organ Donation and Transplantation: 17 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 15 fractional worksBlood transfusion and ma…13Blood transfusion and management: 13 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Ou…11Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 11 fractional worksBlood donation and transfusion practices: 9 fractional worksBlood groups and transfusion: 8 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods…8Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 8 fractional worksTrauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation: 6 fractional worksHemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders: 6 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transplantation: 4 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSurgeryBiochemistryTransplantation5 others

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

  1. 1 Organ Donation and Transplantation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 17 works
  2. 2 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 15 works
  3. 3 Blood transfusion and management Biochemistry 13 works
  4. 4 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 11 works
  5. 5 Blood donation and transfusion practices Management of Technology and Innovation 9 works
  6. 6 Blood groups and transfusion Hematology 8 works
  7. 7 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 8 works
  8. 8 Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 6 works
  9. 9 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 6 works
  10. 10 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 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 available31.1%not open68.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.3%domestic only66.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NHS Blood and Transplant's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is NHS Blood and Transplant as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00093% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%NHS Blood and Transplant0.00093% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of NHS Blood and Transplant 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 counting10%20%NHS Blood and Transplant13.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.4% in 2022.

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