Question 1

What is Sciensano (Belgium) known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Sciensano (Belgium) stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,281 of 9,902 worldwide), Life Sciences (#1,956 of 6,403 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,772 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases (Infectious Diseases is 10.2× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Sciensano (Belgium) rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Sciensano (Belgium) ranks #4,810 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#5,290 all time), and #19 of 105 in Belgium.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Sciensano (Belgium)?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Marc Arbyn, Stefanie Vandevijvere and Johan Van der Heyden lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sciensano (Belgium).

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Sciensano (Belgium)?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Sciensano (Belgium) is "Estimates of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2018: a worldwide analysis" (Marc Arbyn, Elisabete Weiderpass, Laia Bruni et al., 2019), with 4,260 citations. Next come "The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report" (3,118) and "Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis" (3,025).

Question 5

Which research topics does Sciensano (Belgium) publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Sciensano (Belgium)?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

Which fields of science does Sciensano (Belgium) work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 46% of research at Sciensano (Belgium) is in Health Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Question 8

Is Sciensano (Belgium)'s research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021.