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Statistics Belgium

In research, Statistics Belgium stands highest in Medicine (#4,085 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#4,812 of 11,982 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#8,099 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,362
of 28,054 · #10,275 all time
Rank in Belgium
#63
of 138
Research works
1.2k
▲ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
31k
24.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
46%
world 28%

What is Statistics Belgium 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
MedicineField #4,085 of 10,443 17.4%76 #5259
Health SciencesDomain #4,812 of 11,982 18.4%87 #5803
Social SciencesDomain #8,099 of 10,521 18.3%82 #4094
Physical SciencesDomain #10,070 of 12,888 14.5%64 #14128

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Statistics Belgium 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. Medicine#5,259 #4,085
  2. Health Sciences#5,803 #4,812
  3. Social Sciences#4,094 #8,099
  4. Physical Sciences#14,128 #10,070
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.

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: 0.49× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.82× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.01× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.34× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.22× its world share, 25 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.33× its world share, 13 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 5.90× its world share, 18 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.18× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.91× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.53× its world share, 76 worksMedicineNursing: 1.42× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.07× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.82× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.29× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.90× its world share, 16 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.00× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.13× its world share, 37 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

Who are the top researchers at Statistics Belgium?

Ranked on the composite score, Anna Korba lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Statistics Belgium.

  1. 1 Anna Korba Belgium · #1,531,934 worldwide 9 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Statistics Belgium

Which keywords describe research at Statistics Belgium?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Democracy, Model Selection, Bayesian Methods, Survival Analysis, Epidemiology, High-Dimensional Data, Regularization and Variable Selection.

▲ 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. Epidemiology14▲ 1.42×63 topics
  2. Machine Learning10▲ 1.17×36 topics
  3. Democracy8▲ 8.1×11 topics
  4. Globalization7▲ 1.35×16 topics
  5. Inflammation6▲ 1.19×37 topics
  6. Bayesian Methods6▲ 49×2 topics
  7. Model Selection6▲ 29×5 topics
  8. Survival Analysis6▲ 8.6×6 topics
  9. Quality of Life6▲ 1.57×31 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence6▲ 1.62×13 topics
  11. Big Data6▲ 2.5×16 topics
  12. Economic Growth6▲ 2.6×13 topics
  13. Neural Networks6▲ 1.42×18 topics
  14. COVID-196▲ 1.58×16 topics
  15. High-Dimensional Data5▲ 13×3 topics
  16. Human Rights5▲ 2.0×10 topics
  17. Treatment5▲ 1.64×27 topics
  18. Clinical Trials5▲ 2.8×13 topics
  19. Regularization5▲ 60×1 topic
  20. Variable Selection5▲ 18×1 topic
  21. Biomarkers4▲ 2.5×13 topics
  22. Genetics4▲ 2.4×14 topics
  23. Outlier Detection4▲ 10×2 topics
  24. Principal Component Analysis4▲ 9.4×3 topics
  25. Bayesian Inference3▲ 13×4 topics
  26. Econometrics3▲ 13×1 topic
  27. Fiscal Decentralization3▲ 11×2 topics
  28. Public Economics3▲ 13×1 topic
  29. Regression Analysis3▲ 32×3 topics
  30. Sovereignty3▲ 13×3 topics
  31. Spatial Planning3▲ 7.7×2 topics
  32. Chronic Pain3▲ 5.3×5 topics
  33. Multicollinearity3▲ 54×1 topic
  34. Robust Estimation3▲ 54×1 topic
  35. Biopolitics3▲ 16×3 topics
  36. Sensitivity Analysis2▲ 10×3 topics
  37. Approximation Algorithms2▲ 13×5 topics
  38. Bayesian Modeling2▲ 46×1 topic
  39. Graft Survival2▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Multiple Imputation2▲ 46×1 topic

Which research topics does Statistics Belgium publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Statistical Methods and Inference, Economic Growth and Fiscal Policies, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference.

Statistical Methods and Inference: 5 fractional worksEconomic Growth and Fiscal Policies: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Statistical Met…3Advanced Statistical Methods and Models: 3 fractional worksStatistical Methods and …2Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference: 2 fractional worksData Mining and Machine Learning Applications: 2 fractional worksStatistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 2 fractional worksEuropean and Internation…2European and International Law Studies: 2 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksHannah Arendt's Political Philosophy: 2 fractional worksBayesian Methods and Mixture Models: 1 fractional works
Statistics and ProbabilityEconomics and EconometricsInformation SystemsPolitical Science and International Relations2 others

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

  1. 1 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 5 works
  2. 2 Economic Growth and Fiscal Policies Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  3. 3 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models Statistics and Probability 3 works
  4. 4 Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference Statistics and Probability 2 works
  5. 5 Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications Information Systems 2 works
  6. 6 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 2 works
  7. 7 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  8. 8 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  10. 10 Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models Artificial Intelligence 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 available45.8%not open54.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.9%domestic only61.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Statistics Belgium's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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