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NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre

In research, NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre stands highest in Health Sciences (#436 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#439 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#749 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now.

World rank, 2022-now
#1,032
of 22,385 · #788 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#66
of 862
Research works
1.5k
▲ 35% vs 2018-21
Citations
65k
44.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.32×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
57%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%

What is NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre 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 #436 of 9,902 21.8%160 #392
MedicineField #439 of 8,541 21.6%138 #395
Life SciencesDomain #749 of 6,403 20.4%65 #753
Physical SciencesDomain #1,351 of 10,670 17.1%93 #886

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Health Sciences#392 #436
  2. Medicine#395 #439
  3. Life Sciences#753 #749
  4. Physical Sciences#886 #1,351
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre is in Health Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (37%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Engineering (9%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 201 fractional works · 43.1% of its workMedicine: 174 fractional works · 37.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 19 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEpidemiology: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSurgery: 16 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPhysiology: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 24 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 137 fractional works · 29.5% of its workEngineering: 41 fractional works · 8.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 3.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 39 fractional works · 8.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 22 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 27 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 84 fractional works · 18.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 49 fractional works · 10.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 29 fractional works · 6.3% of its workGenetics: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workImmunology: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workVirology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 9.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKNIHR ImperialBiomedical…466fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences43%Social Sciences9%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine17437.4%
    2. Health Professions245.1%
    3. Nursing20.4%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Engineering418.7%
    2. Computer Science398.3%
    3. Environmental Science275.7%
    4. Mathematics71.6%
    5. Materials Science71.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy71.4%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.9%
    8. Chemistry30.7%
    9. Energy10.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4910.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology153.2%
    3. Neuroscience132.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences61.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    1. Social Sciences183.8%
    2. Psychology92.0%
    3. Decision Sciences61.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting30.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.5%
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: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.98× its world share, 49 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.16× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.69× its world share, 13 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.80× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.07× its world share, 39 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.58× its world share, 41 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.15× its world share, 27 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.43× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.34× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.64× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.92× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.95× its world share, 174 worksMedicineNursing: 0.90× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.29× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.55× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology3.16×15 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.98×49 works
  3. Medicine1.95×174 works
  4. Health Professions1.92×24 works
  5. Neuroscience1.69×13 works
  6. Mathematics1.34×7 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.29×6 works
  8. Environmental Science1.15×27 works
  9. Computer Science1.07×39 works
  10. Nursing0.90×2 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.80×1 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.77×1 works
  13. Psychology0.67×9 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.64×7 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.58×4 works
  16. Engineering0.58×41 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.55×6 works
  18. Chemistry0.46×3 works
  19. Materials Science0.43×7 works
  20. Veterinary0.33×0 works
  21. Energy0.31×1 works
  22. Social Sciences0.30×18 works
  23. Dentistry0.28×1 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×6 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×3 works
  26. Arts and Humanities0.16×2 works

Who are the top researchers at NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre?

Ranked on the quality score, Dimitri Papadimitriou and Alessandra Lacetera lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.

  1. 1 Dimitri Papadimitriou United Kingdom · #1,746,532 worldwide 440 citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Alessandra Lacetera United Kingdom · #2,583,466 worldwide 309 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre

What are the most cited papers from NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre?

The most cited paper from NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre is "Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans" (Monkol Lek et al., 2016), with 10,439 citations. Next come "Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms" (6,313) and "Machine learning for molecular and materials science" (5,033).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans Monkol Lek et al. · Nature Open access Aug 2016 10,439
2 Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms Keld Laursen, Ammon J. Salter · Strategic Management Journal Open access 21 Nov 2005 6,313
3 Machine learning for molecular and materials science Keith T. Butler, Daniel W. Davies, Hugh Cartwright et al. · Nature Open access Jul 2018 5,033
4 Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK Merryn Voysey et al. · The Lancet Open access765 authors 8 Dec 2020 5,030
5 Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008* Jean Bousquet et al. · Allergy Open access 7 Mar 2008 4,764
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Deep Learning, Vaccine, Inflammation, Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, Infectious Diseases and SARS-CoV-2.

▲ 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. Epidemiology49▲ 2.6×94 topics
  2. Deep Learning29▲ 1.81×53 topics
  3. Machine Learning19▲ 1.22×41 topics
  4. Inflammation19▲ 1.89×57 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease14▲ 2.5×30 topics
  6. Public Health14▲ 1.98×36 topics
  7. Treatment13▲ 2.3×32 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress13▲ 1.70×33 topics
  9. Diagnosis12▲ 2.8×29 topics
  10. Healthcare12▲ 2.2×15 topics
  11. Pandemic12▲ 2.5×8 topics
  12. Mortality11▲ 4.3×12 topics
  13. COVID-1911▲ 1.87×20 topics
  14. Neural Networks11▲ 1.57×26 topics
  15. Genetics11▲ 3.3×15 topics
  16. Vaccine11▲ 5.8×10 topics
  17. Immune Response10▲ 4.0×17 topics
  18. Management10▲ 2.6×19 topics
  19. Infectious Diseases9▲ 5.8×8 topics
  20. Precision Medicine9▲ 3.7×7 topics
  21. SARS-CoV-29▲ 6.1×6 topics
  22. Pathogenesis8▲ 3.5×16 topics
  23. Health Effects8▲ 2.9×16 topics
  24. Global Burden8▲ 3.1×10 topics
  25. Antibiotic Resistance7▲ 3.7×12 topics
  26. ACE2 Receptor7▲ 6.3×3 topics
  27. Global Burden of Disease7▲ 5.7×4 topics
  28. Immunology6▲ 13×2 topics
  29. Particulate Matter6▲ 9.3×2 topics
  30. Asthma6▲ 14×2 topics
  31. Antiretroviral Therapy6▲ 7.8×6 topics
  32. Epidemiological Studies6▲ 9.0×2 topics
  33. Air Pollution5▲ 9.2×1 topic
  34. Fine Particulate Air Pollution5▲ 13×1 topic
  35. Electronic Health Records5▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Allergic Diseases5▲ 18×1 topic
  37. Eosinophils5▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Mutation5▲ 5.9×5 topics
  39. Respiratory5▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Viral Transmission4▲ 6.8×3 topics

Which research topics does NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Air Quality and Health Impacts, Asthma and respiratory diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research and Machine Learning in Healthcare.

  1. 1 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 5 works
  2. 2 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 5 works
  3. 3 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works
  4. 4 Machine Learning in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  5. 5 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
  8. 8 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 2 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 2 works
  10. 10 Delphi Technique in Research Sociology and Political Science 2 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 available57.3%not open42.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.2%domestic only61.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% 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 NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre 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%30%NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre16.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 29.1% in 2020.

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