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NHS Digital

In research, NHS Digital stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,579 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,646
of 22,385 · #8,943 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#354
of 862
Research works
436
▲ 50% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.8k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
46%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
NHS Digital

What is NHS Digital 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 #2,579 of 9,902 19.3%66 #3357

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

In 2022-now, 60% of research at NHS Digital is in Health Sciences, 26% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (43%), Health Professions (16%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 76 fractional works · 59.8% of its workMedicine: 55 fractional works · 42.9% of its workOncology: 9 fractional works · 7.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 20 fractional works · 15.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 11.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 26.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 9.6% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 8.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 8.1% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNHS Digital128fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences60%Social Sciences26%

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. Medicine5542.9%
    2. Health Professions2015.6%
    3. Dentistry10.9%
    4. Nursing10.5%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences129.6%
    2. Psychology118.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting42.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.9%
    5. Decision Sciences21.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.8%
    1. Computer Science53.9%
    2. Engineering32.2%
    3. Environmental Science11.0%
    4. Mathematics10.4%
    5. Energy00.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.9%
    2. Neuroscience10.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.9%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.8%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.50× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 1.80× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.90× its world share, 20 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.23× its world share, 55 worksMedicineNursing: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.91× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.34× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.89× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.76× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions5.90×20 works
  2. Psychology2.89×11 works
  3. Medicine2.23×55 works
  4. Dentistry1.80×1 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.34×4 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.22×2 works
  7. Nursing0.93×1 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.91×4 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.88×1 works
  10. Social Sciences0.76×12 works
  11. Veterinary0.64×0 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.61×0 works
  13. Neuroscience0.57×1 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.54×4 works
  15. Computer Science0.50×5 works
  16. Energy0.43×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.34×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.29×1 works
  19. Environmental Science0.19×1 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.16×0 works
  22. Engineering0.15×3 works
  23. Chemistry0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at NHS Digital?

Ranked on the quality score, Sam Hollings, Sean White and Daniel Schofield lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NHS Digital.

  1. 1 Sam Hollings United Kingdom · #388,733 worldwide 2.2k citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Sean White United Kingdom · #1,348,102 worldwide 435 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Daniel Schofield United Kingdom · #2,816,388 worldwide 56 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Arthur C. Yelland United Kingdom · #3,285,929 worldwide 175 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 R.A. Stanley United Kingdom · #4,877,759 worldwide 272 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 B. Barber United Kingdom · #4,947,610 worldwide 235 citations · 43 works
All ranked researchers at NHS Digital

What are the most cited papers from NHS Digital?

The most cited paper from NHS Digital is "Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics" (Simon N. Peck, 1998), with 1,056 citations. Next come "Associations of type 1 and type 2 diabetes with COVID-19-related mortality in England: a whole-population study" (973) and "Risk factors for COVID-19-related mortality in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in England: a population-based cohort study" (940).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics Simon N. Peck · Journal of the Operational Research Society Jul 1998 1,056
2 Associations of type 1 and type 2 diabetes with COVID-19-related mortality in England: a whole-population study Emma Barron, Chirag Bakhai, Partha S. Kar et al. · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Open access 13 Aug 2020 973
3 Risk factors for COVID-19-related mortality in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in England: a population-based cohort study Naomi Holman, Peter Knighton, Partha S. Kar et al. · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Open access 13 Aug 2020 940
4 COVID-19 pandemic and admission rates for and management of acute coronary syndromes in England Marion M. Mafham, Enti Spata, Raph Goldacre et al. · The Lancet Open access 14 Jul 2020 753
5 Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19 in adults: national derivation and validation cohort study Ash Kieran Clift et al. · BMJ Open access 20 Oct 2020 611
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NHS Digital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Primary Care, Healthcare, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Equity, Risk Factors, Quality of Life and Health Disparities.

▲ 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. Epidemiology11▲ 2.2×58 topics
  2. Public Health8▲ 4.4×24 topics
  3. Healthcare8▲ 5.4×13 topics
  4. Primary Care7▲ 14×13 topics
  5. Quality of Life7▲ 3.6×24 topics
  6. Risk Factors6▲ 4.4×20 topics
  7. Depression5▲ 4.6×10 topics
  8. Health Equity5▲ 14×4 topics
  9. Health Disparities4▲ 14×4 topics
  10. Anxiety4▲ 6.9×6 topics
  11. Big Data4▲ 3.5×8 topics
  12. Mortality4▲ 5.7×9 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 5.2×9 topics
  14. Immunotherapy4▲ 4.0×13 topics
  15. Survival Analysis4▲ 11×6 topics
  16. Quality Improvement3▲ 14×8 topics
  17. Social Relationships3▲ 30×2 topics
  18. Adherence3▲ 21×2 topics
  19. Chronic Disease Management3▲ 13×4 topics
  20. Mobile Health3▲ 18×2 topics
  21. Social Support3▲ 4.8×6 topics
  22. Cancer Incidence3▲ 18×4 topics
  23. Elderly Care3▲ 16×5 topics
  24. Precision Medicine3▲ 5.0×5 topics
  25. Motivation3▲ 5.6×3 topics
  26. Population-Based Study3▲ 34×2 topics
  27. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 7.0×6 topics
  28. Preventive Services3▲ 34×2 topics
  29. Ethical Challenges3▲ 9.5×2 topics
  30. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy2▲ 14×2 topics
  31. Genetic Alterations2▲ 25×2 topics
  32. Mortality Rates2▲ 20×2 topics
  33. Behavioral Activation2▲ 28×1 topic
  34. Breast Cancer Screening2▲ 41×1 topic
  35. Clinical Decision Support2▲ 12×1 topic
  36. Global Surveillance2▲ 41×1 topic
  37. Internet-based Interventions2▲ 28×1 topic
  38. Patient Engagement2▲ 14×4 topics
  39. Radiology2▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Social Policy2▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does NHS Digital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Digital Mental Health Interventions, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education and Social and Demographic Issues in Germany.

Digital Mental Health In…2Digital Mental Health Interventions: 2 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence …2Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 2 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 2 fractional worksSocial and Demographic Issues in Germany: 2 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 2 fractional worksCutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 2 fractional worksRetirement, Disability, and Employment: 2 fractional worksAging and Gerontology Re…2Aging and Gerontology Research: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 1 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional works
Applied PsychologyOncologyHealth InformaticsGeneral Health Professions4 others

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

  1. 1 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  2. 2 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 2 works
  3. 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 2 works
  4. 4 Social and Demographic Issues in Germany General Health Professions 2 works
  5. 5 Health disparities and outcomes Health 2 works
  6. 6 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 2 works
  7. 7 Retirement, Disability, and Employment Demography 2 works
  8. 8 Aging and Gerontology Research Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 2 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 1 works
  10. 10 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 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 available45.7%not open54.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.2%domestic only83.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NHS Digital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Digital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00032% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%NHS Digital0.00072% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of NHS Digital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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