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Public Health Wales

In research, Public Health Wales stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,149 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,894 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions (General Health Professions is 9.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,530
of 22,385 · #6,193 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#288
of 862
Research works
859
▼ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
23.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
66%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Public Health Wales

What is Public Health Wales 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 #3,149 of 9,902 10.1%120 #2854
MedicineField #3,894 of 8,541 11.6%79 #3325

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Public Health Wales 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 Public Health Wales work in?

In 2022-now, 58% of research at Public Health Wales is in Health Sciences, 25% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Health Professions (16%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 136 fractional works · 57.6% of its workMedicine: 90 fractional works · 38.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 18 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEpidemiology: 17 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 13 fractional works · 5.5% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 39 fractional works · 16.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 31 fractional works · 13.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPeriodontics: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrthodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 60 fractional works · 25.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 12.0% of its workHealth: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 7.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 14 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 24 fractional works · 10.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 fractional works · 4.1% of its workParasitology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPublic HealthWales237fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences58%Social Sciences25%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine9038.1%
    2. Health Professions3916.4%
    3. Dentistry62.4%
    4. Nursing10.5%
    5. Veterinary10.3%
    1. Social Sciences2812.0%
    2. Psychology197.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance62.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting41.7%
    5. Decision Sciences20.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology114.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology104.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Environmental Science104.2%
    2. Mathematics31.2%
    3. Engineering20.9%
    4. Computer Science10.3%
    5. Chemistry00.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Public Health Wales specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 9.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 30.8 works9.4×
← 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: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.06× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.85× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.05× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsDentistry: 4.86× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 6.22× its world share, 39 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.98× its world share, 90 worksMedicineNursing: 1.08× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.95× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.51× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.22× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.57× its world share, 19 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 6.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions6.22×39 works
  2. Dentistry4.86×6 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology4.06×10 works
  4. Psychology2.57×19 works
  5. Medicine1.98×90 works
  6. Veterinary1.95×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.22×6 works
  8. Nursing1.08×1 works
  9. Mathematics1.05×3 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.97×2 works
  11. Social Sciences0.95×28 works
  12. Environmental Science0.85×10 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.83×10 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.52×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.51×4 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.30×3 works
  17. Neuroscience0.10×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.09×1 works
  19. Engineering0.06×2 works
  20. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  21. Computer Science0.04×1 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Public Health Wales?

Ranked on the quality score, Dyfed Huws, Philip Lewis White and David F. B. Tucker lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Public Health Wales.

  1. 1 Dyfed Huws United Kingdom · #50,863 worldwide 6.1k citations · 88 works
  2. 2 Philip Lewis White United Kingdom · #68,752 worldwide 14k citations · 166 works
  3. 3 David F. B. Tucker United Kingdom · #100,878 worldwide 7.3k citations · 221 works
  4. 4 Simon L. Cottrell United Kingdom · #136,108 worldwide 10k citations · 118 works
  5. 5 Catherine Moore United Kingdom · #149,204 worldwide 11k citations · 153 works
  6. 6 Kat Ford United Kingdom · #157,535 worldwide 3.1k citations · 79 works
  7. 7 Sara M. Rey United Kingdom · #253,655 worldwide 6.4k citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Ian Blyth United Kingdom · #269,986 worldwide 3.2k citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Elen De Lacy United Kingdom · #280,376 worldwide 5.8k citations · 30 works
  10. 10 Laura Gifford United Kingdom · #289,652 worldwide 4.9k citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Public Health Wales

What are the most cited papers from Public Health Wales?

The most cited paper from Public Health Wales is "The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (Karen E Hughes, Mark A Bellis, Katherine A. Hardcastle et al., 2017), with 5,313 citations. Next come "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" (5,030) and "Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium" (2,973).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis Karen E Hughes, Mark A Bellis, Katherine A. Hardcastle et al. · The Lancet Public Health ReviewOpen access 31 Jul 2017 5,313
2 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
3 Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium J. Peter Donnelly et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases Open access 8 Oct 2019 2,973
4 Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium Oliver A. Cornely et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access 4 Nov 2019 1,841
5 Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance Joshua C Quick et al. · Nature Open access102 authors Feb 2016 1,600
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Public Health Wales?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Mental Health, COVID-19, Primary Care, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 and Health Equity.

▲ 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. Epidemiology46▲ 4.9×84 topics
  2. Public Health34▲ 9.9×38 topics
  3. Mental Health20▲ 5.9×23 topics
  4. COVID-1916▲ 5.1×18 topics
  5. Quality of Life12▲ 3.5×25 topics
  6. Pandemic12▲ 5.0×8 topics
  7. Risk Factors11▲ 4.2×18 topics
  8. Primary Care10▲ 12×11 topics
  9. SARS-CoV-29▲ 13×6 topics
  10. Health Equity9▲ 13×4 topics
  11. Mortality9▲ 6.5×9 topics
  12. Infectious Diseases8▲ 11×7 topics
  13. Health Disparities8▲ 13×7 topics
  14. Pathogenesis8▲ 6.3×16 topics
  15. Diagnosis8▲ 3.4×23 topics
  16. Vaccine7▲ 7.4×10 topics
  17. Health Outcomes7▲ 11×6 topics
  18. Depression7▲ 3.3×11 topics
  19. Immune Response7▲ 5.0×14 topics
  20. Psychiatric Disorders7▲ 21×4 topics
  21. Social Support7▲ 5.3×6 topics
  22. Resilience6▲ 5.3×6 topics
  23. Mortality Risk6▲ 10×6 topics
  24. Health Promotion6▲ 7.4×7 topics
  25. Antifungal Therapy5▲ 25×3 topics
  26. Prevalence5▲ 5.5×9 topics
  27. Social Determinants5▲ 11×5 topics
  28. Adolescents5▲ 6.0×6 topics
  29. Psychological Impact5▲ 6.7×7 topics
  30. Quality Improvement5▲ 11×7 topics
  31. ACE2 Receptor5▲ 8.8×3 topics
  32. Social Determinants of Health5▲ 9.1×4 topics
  33. Healthcare Workers5▲ 8.2×5 topics
  34. Neighborhood Effects5▲ 19×2 topics
  35. Patient Engagement4▲ 14×4 topics
  36. Adverse Experiences4▲ 46×1 topic
  37. Childhood Trauma4▲ 30×1 topic
  38. Community Health4▲ 11×3 topics
  39. Social Relationships4▲ 20×1 topic
  40. Virulence Factors4▲ 13×8 topics

Which research topics does Public Health Wales publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Child Abuse and Trauma, Health disparities and outcomes, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Child Abuse and Trauma4Child Abuse and Trauma: 4 fractional worksHealth disparities and o…4Health disparities and outcomes: 4 fractional worksGlobal Public Health Policies and Epidemiology: 4 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 3 fractional worksParasitic Infections and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksEnvironmental and Social Impact Assessments: 3 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare …3COVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 3 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues: 3 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyHealthOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementEconomics and Econometrics6 others

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

  1. 1 Child Abuse and Trauma Clinical Psychology 4 works
  2. 2 Health disparities and outcomes Health 4 works
  3. 3 Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 4 works
  4. 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  5. 5 Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics Parasitology 3 works
  6. 6 Environmental and Social Impact Assessments Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 3 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 3 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 3 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 3 works
  10. 10 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 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 available66.5%not open33.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Public Health Wales's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower 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 Public Health Wales as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00084% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Public Health Wales0.00081% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Public Health Wales 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 counting5%10%15%Public Health Wales10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.5% in 2015.

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