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The Football Association

In research, The Football Association stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,416 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#4,392 of 8,541 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,171 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Economics and Econometrics and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is 67.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,942
of 22,385 · #8,347 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#277
of 862
Research works
597
▲ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
21.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
The Football Association

What is The Football Association 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 #3,416 of 9,902 22.3%73 #3835
MedicineField #4,392 of 8,541 22.7%67 #4514
Social SciencesDomain #5,171 of 9,585 9.5%88 #7479

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Football Association 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#3,835 #3,416
  2. Medicine#4,514 #4,392
  3. Social Sciences#7,479 #5,171
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 The Football Association work in?

In 2022-now, 45% of research at The Football Association is in Social Sciences, 38% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (34%), Social Sciences (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 108 fractional works · 44.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 54 fractional works · 22.2% of its workEducation: 18 fractional works · 7.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGender Studies: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 21 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 20 fractional works · 8.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 7.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 13 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 91 fractional works · 37.5% of its workMedicine: 83 fractional works · 34.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 42 fractional works · 17.4% of its workEpidemiology: 9 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 10.3% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 5.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 7.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAquatic Science: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKThe FootballAssociation242fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences38%Social Sciences45%

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. Social Sciences5422.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance218.7%
    3. Psychology197.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting62.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities52.1%
    6. Decision Sciences31.2%
    1. Medicine8334.2%
    2. Health Professions72.9%
    3. Veterinary10.3%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science125.0%
    2. Engineering62.5%
    3. Environmental Science41.7%
    4. Materials Science10.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    9. Energy00.0%
    10. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology83.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences72.8%
    3. Neuroscience31.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does The Football Association specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine takes 67.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 42.0 works68×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 20.2 works5.3×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 21.1 works4.1×
← 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: 0.60× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.64× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.70× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.65× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.11× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.78× its world share, 83 worksMedicineNursing: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.90× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.74× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.78× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.26× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.09× its world share, 21 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.57× its world share, 19 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 54 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.09×21 works
  2. Psychology2.57×19 works
  3. Veterinary1.90×1 works
  4. Medicine1.78×83 works
  5. Social Sciences1.75×54 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.26×3 works
  7. Health Professions1.11×7 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.78×6 works
  9. Arts and Humanities0.74×5 works
  10. Neuroscience0.70×3 works
  11. Computer Science0.65×12 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.64×8 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×7 works
  14. Environmental Science0.34×4 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×1 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×0 works
  17. Engineering0.16×6 works
  18. Dentistry0.15×0 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.12×1 works
  21. Nursing0.11×0 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  25. Energy0.03×0 works
  26. Mathematics0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at The Football Association?

Ranked on the quality score, John H M Brooks, Matthew Cross and Simon P T Kemp lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Football Association.

  1. 1 John H M Brooks United Kingdom · #240,739 worldwide 5.8k citations · 63 works
  2. 2 Matthew Cross United Kingdom · #331,958 worldwide 2.2k citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Simon P T Kemp United Kingdom · #685,257 worldwide 14k citations · 382 works
  4. 4 Osman Hassan Ahmed United Kingdom · #789,062 worldwide 3.2k citations · 118 works
  5. 5 Ritan Mehta United Kingdom · #902,028 worldwide 461 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 Charlotte Cowie United Kingdom · #1,054,471 worldwide 944 citations · 37 works
  7. 7 Ian Beasley United Kingdom · #1,636,870 worldwide 728 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Steve Kemp United Kingdom · #2,272,318 worldwide 209 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Edward Balfour United Kingdom · #3,102,793 worldwide 271 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Ian Lawrence United Kingdom · #3,235,310 worldwide 249 citations · 67 works
All ranked researchers at The Football Association

What are the most cited papers from The Football Association?

The most cited paper from The Football Association is "Consensus statement on concussion in sport: the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport–Amsterdam, October 2022" (Jon Patricios et al., 2023), with 1,185 citations. Next come "The Football Association Medical Research Programme: an audit of injuries in professional football—analysis of hamstring injuries" (1,089) and "International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS))" (964).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Consensus statement on concussion in sport: the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport–Amsterdam, October 2022 Jon Patricios et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access Jun 2023 1,185
2 The Football Association Medical Research Programme: an audit of injuries in professional football—analysis of hamstring injuries Carol L. Woods, Richard Hawkins, S Maltby et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 29 Jan 2004 1,089
3 International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension for Sport Injury and Illness Surveillance (STROBE-SIIS)) Roald Bahr et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 18 Feb 2020 964
4 Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport—The 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport Held in Zurich, November 2012 Paul Robert McCrory et al. · PM&R Open access 27 Feb 2013 889
5 Blood flow restriction training in clinical musculoskeletal rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis Luke D. Hughes, Bruce M. Paton, Ben Rosenblatt et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Review 4 Mar 2017 769
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at The Football Association?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Injury Prevention, High-Intensity Interval Training, Resistance Training, Risk Factors, Athletic Training, Prevention and Performance 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-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. Epidemiology36▲ 3.8×33 topics
  2. Injury Prevention24▲ 80×3 topics
  3. High-Intensity Interval Training24▲ 90×2 topics
  4. Resistance Training23▲ 106×2 topics
  5. Risk Factors22▲ 8.2×9 topics
  6. Athletic Training22▲ 99×3 topics
  7. Prevention21▲ 21×7 topics
  8. Performance Analysis21▲ 42×1 topic
  9. Training Load21▲ 134×1 topic
  10. Muscle Injuries20▲ 131×1 topic
  11. Sports Injury20▲ 131×1 topic
  12. Pedagogy17▲ 14×3 topics
  13. Educational Technologies17▲ 78×2 topics
  14. Student Competencies17▲ 108×1 topic
  15. Teaching Methods17▲ 44×1 topic
  16. Qualitative Research14▲ 6.6×6 topics
  17. Globalization13▲ 2.8×11 topics
  18. Sport Psychology12▲ 51×2 topics
  19. Entrepreneurship12▲ 12×6 topics
  20. Motor Imagery11▲ 38×2 topics
  21. Athlete Development11▲ 161×1 topic
  22. Digital Economy11▲ 23×4 topics
  23. Expert Performance11▲ 161×1 topic
  24. Investment10▲ 35×3 topics
  25. Economic Development10▲ 5.0×2 topics
  26. Industrial Enterprises10▲ 115×1 topic
  27. Innovation Economics10▲ 115×1 topic
  28. Competitive Balance9▲ 147×1 topic
  29. Prediction Markets9▲ 147×1 topic
  30. Economic Impact8▲ 6.3×2 topics
  31. Recovery8▲ 30×2 topics
  32. Neuropathology8▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Concussion8▲ 73×1 topic
  34. Encephalopathy8▲ 47×1 topic
  35. Gender7▲ 5.7×3 topics
  36. Mega Events7▲ 90×1 topic
  37. Sport Tourism7▲ 90×1 topic
  38. Sport7▲ 73×2 topics
  39. Fan Culture7▲ 101×1 topic
  40. Masculinity7▲ 32×1 topic

Which research topics does The Football Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention, Education, Innovation and Language Studies and Sport Psychology and Performance.

Sports Performance and Training: 21 fractional worksSports injuries and prevention: 20 fractional worksEducation, Innovation and Language Studies: 17 fractional worksSport Psychology and Performance: 11 fractional worksEconomic and Industrial Development: 10 fractional worksSports Analytics and Per…9Sports Analytics and Performance: 9 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 8 fractional worksSport and Mega-Event Impacts: 7 fractional worksSports, Gender, and Society: 7 fractional worksMedical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies: 4 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineEducationDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyEconomics and Econometrics4 others

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

  1. 1 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 21 works
  2. 2 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 20 works
  3. 3 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 17 works
  4. 4 Sport Psychology and Performance Developmental and Educational Psychology 11 works
  5. 5 Economic and Industrial Development Economics and Econometrics 10 works
  6. 6 Sports Analytics and Performance Economics and Econometrics 9 works
  7. 7 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 8 works
  8. 8 Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  9. 9 Sports, Gender, and Society Gender Studies 7 works
  10. 10 Medical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies Political Science and International Relations 4 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 available60.5%not open39.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.4%domestic only61.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Football Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% 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 The Football Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00072% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%The Football Association0.0015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of The Football Association 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%The Football Association10.2% 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 21.4% in 2020.

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