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Oniris

In research, Oniris stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,173 of 11,982 worldwide), Life Sciences (#5,496 of 7,800 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,355 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Veterinary and Small Animals — Veterinary is 58.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,558
of 28,054 · #12,500 all time
Rank in France
#329
of 1,422
Research works
1.1k
▲ 25% vs 2013–17
Citations
23k
21.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

What is Oniris 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
Health SciencesDomain #5,173 of 11,982 10.9%130 #6589
Life SciencesDomain #5,496 of 7,800 15.2%103 #6505
MedicineField #8,355 of 10,443 10.7%89 #12388
Physical SciencesDomain #10,895 of 12,888 14.4%63 #17535

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Oniris 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. Health Sciences#6,589 #5,173
  2. Life Sciences#6,505 #5,496
  3. Medicine#12,388 #8,355
  4. Physical Sciences#17,535 #10,895
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 Oniris specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Veterinary takes 58.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. VeterinaryField · 25.1 works59×
  2. Small AnimalsSubfield · 20.6 works53×
← 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: 3.36× its world share, 50 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.05× its world share, 34 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.66× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.44× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.09× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.20× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.38× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.46× its world share, 23 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.93× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.73× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.47× its world share, 89 worksMedicineNursing: 3.04× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 58.63× its world share, 25 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.36× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 58.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Oniris?

Ranked on the composite score, Michel Fédérighi, Yan Chérel and H. Dumon lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Oniris.

  1. 1 Michel Fédérighi France · #203,501 worldwide 67 citations · 36 works
  2. 2 Yan Chérel France · #356,802 worldwide 40 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 H. Dumon France · #398,295 worldwide 87 citations · 39 works
  4. 4 Claude Rispe France · #419,912 worldwide 79 citations · 41 works
  5. 5 Jack‐Yves Deschamps France · #428,808 worldwide 56 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Lydie Guigand France · #521,047 worldwide 32 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Patrick Nguyen France · #550,769 worldwide 41 citations · 37 works
  8. 8 Alain Le Bail France · #639,217 worldwide 53 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Sandrine Guillou France · #668,272 worldwide 25 citations · 34 works
  10. 10 Évelyne Vigneau France · #698,387 worldwide 61 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Oniris

Which keywords describe research at Oniris?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Animal Welfare, Consumer Perception, Inflammation, Genetic Characterization, Antimicrobial Resistance and Genomic Analysis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology35▲ 2.8×84 topics
  2. Inflammation15▲ 2.2×47 topics
  3. Climate Change14▲ 1.69×33 topics
  4. Pathogenesis12▲ 7.7×22 topics
  5. Environmental Impact11▲ 2.1×23 topics
  6. Public Health11▲ 2.4×21 topics
  7. Animal Welfare10▲ 35×4 topics
  8. Health Effects9▲ 4.6×13 topics
  9. Consumer Perception8▲ 11×5 topics
  10. Genetic Characterization7▲ 49×2 topics
  11. Antimicrobial Resistance7▲ 11×9 topics
  12. Biomarkers7▲ 3.2×10 topics
  13. Environmental Exposure7▲ 21×3 topics
  14. Genomic Analysis7▲ 8.7×10 topics
  15. Obesity7▲ 2.9×10 topics
  16. Pain Assessment6▲ 98×2 topics
  17. Host-Pathogen Interactions6▲ 23×5 topics
  18. Gut Microbiota6▲ 5.1×6 topics
  19. Toxicity6▲ 4.2×11 topics
  20. Food Safety5▲ 5.8×11 topics
  21. Osteoarthritis5▲ 13×3 topics
  22. Vaccine Development5▲ 6.5×10 topics
  23. Diabetes Mellitus5▲ 7.8×4 topics
  24. Dairy Cattle5▲ 29×2 topics
  25. Cancer Treatment5▲ 6.2×3 topics
  26. Treatment Outcomes5▲ 23×3 topics
  27. Equine Health4▲ 110×1 topic
  28. Molecular Pathology4▲ 13×2 topics
  29. Urinary Tract Infections4▲ 34×2 topics
  30. Viral Pathogenesis4▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Welfare Assessment4▲ 110×1 topic
  32. African Swine Fever4▲ 50×1 topic
  33. Foot-and-Mouth Disease4▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Genomic Sequencing4▲ 12×5 topics
  35. Virulence Factors4▲ 9.4×8 topics
  36. Laparoscopic Surgery4▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Translational Research4▲ 38×2 topics
  38. Canine Cancer4▲ 102×1 topic
  39. Comparative Oncology4▲ 102×1 topic
  40. Global Distribution4▲ 20×3 topics

Which research topics does Oniris publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Veterinary Equine Medical Research, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Veterinary Oncology Research and Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology.

Veterinary Equine Medica…4Veterinary Equine Medical Research: 4 fractional worksAnimal Disease Managemen…4Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 4 fractional worksVeterinary Oncology Research: 4 fractional worksVeterinary Orthopedics a…4Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology: 4 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welf…4Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 4 fractional worksVeterinary Medicine and Surgery: 4 fractional worksEffects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals: 3 fractional worksMicrobial infections and…3Microbial infections and disease research: 3 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 3 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Diseases: 3 fractional works
EquineAgronomy and Crop SciencePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSmall Animals3 others

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

  1. 1 Veterinary Equine Medical Research Equine 4 works
  2. 2 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 4 works
  3. 3 Veterinary Oncology Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology Small Animals 4 works
  5. 5 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 4 works
  6. 6 Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Small Animals 4 works
  7. 7 Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 works
  8. 8 Microbial infections and disease research Microbiology 3 works
  9. 9 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 works
  10. 10 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 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 available37.0%not open63.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.4%domestic only75.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Oniris's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% 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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