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The Football Association

In research, The Football Association stands highest in Medicine (#7,735 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#9,350 of 11,982 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#8,912 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine — Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is 71.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#21,737
of 28,054 · #28,085 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#800
of 1,094
Research works
597
▲ 44% vs 2013–17
Citations
13k
21.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is The Football Association 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 #7,735 of 10,443 27.4%67 #10070
Health SciencesDomain #9,350 of 11,982 26.4%73 #12782
Social SciencesDomain #8,912 of 10,521 10.7%88 #9922

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 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#10,070 #7,735
  2. Health Sciences#12,782 #9,350
  3. Social Sciences#9,922 #8,912
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 The Football Association specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine takes 71.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 34.8 works72×
← 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: 0.59× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.53× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.84× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.23× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.84× its world share, 67 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.79× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.79× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.58× its world share, 18 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.57× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.91× its world share, 46 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at The Football Association?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Injury Prevention, Resistance Training, High-Intensity Interval 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology31▲ 4.1×30 topics
  2. Injury Prevention20▲ 86×3 topics
  3. Resistance Training20▲ 112×2 topics
  4. High-Intensity Interval Training19▲ 96×2 topics
  5. Athletic Training18▲ 104×3 topics
  6. Risk Factors18▲ 8.7×7 topics
  7. Prevention18▲ 22×5 topics
  8. Performance Analysis17▲ 42×1 topic
  9. Training Load17▲ 141×1 topic
  10. Muscle Injuries17▲ 138×1 topic
  11. Sports Injury17▲ 138×1 topic
  12. Pedagogy14▲ 16×2 topics
  13. Student Competencies14▲ 151×1 topic
  14. Teaching Methods14▲ 53×1 topic
  15. Globalization11▲ 3.0×9 topics
  16. Qualitative Research10▲ 6.3×6 topics
  17. Digital Economy10▲ 29×4 topics
  18. Entrepreneurship10▲ 14×4 topics
  19. Investment9▲ 47×2 topics
  20. Sport Psychology9▲ 47×2 topics
  21. Economic Development9▲ 5.6×2 topics
  22. Industrial Enterprises8▲ 223×1 topic
  23. Innovation Economics8▲ 223×1 topic
  24. Motor Imagery8▲ 36×2 topics
  25. Sustainable Development8▲ 2.7×5 topics
  26. Athlete Development8▲ 172×1 topic
  27. Expert Performance8▲ 172×1 topic
  28. Economic Impact8▲ 6.9×2 topics
  29. Competitive Balance8▲ 162×1 topic
  30. Prediction Markets8▲ 162×1 topic
  31. Recovery7▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Mega Events7▲ 102×1 topic
  33. Neuropathology7▲ 28×2 topics
  34. Sport Tourism7▲ 102×1 topic
  35. Concussion7▲ 86×1 topic
  36. Encephalopathy7▲ 55×1 topic
  37. Gender6▲ 6.2×3 topics
  38. Sport6▲ 80×2 topics
  39. Fan Culture6▲ 113×1 topic
  40. Masculinity6▲ 35×1 topic

Which research topics does The Football Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention, Education, Innovation and Language Studies and Economic and Industrial Development.

Sports Performance and Training: 17 fractional worksSports injuries and prevention: 17 fractional worksEducation, Innovation and Language Studies: 14 fractional worksEconomic and Industrial Development: 8 fractional worksSport Psychology and Performance: 8 fractional worksSports Analytics and Per…8Sports Analytics and Performance: 8 fractional worksSport and Mega-Event Impacts: 7 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 7 fractional worksSports, Gender, and Society: 6 fractional worksMedical, Sociocultural, and Biopolitical Studies: 4 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineEducationEconomics and EconometricsDevelopmental and Educational Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 17 works
  2. 2 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 17 works
  3. 3 Education, Innovation and Language Studies Education 14 works
  4. 4 Economic and Industrial Development Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  5. 5 Sport Psychology and Performance Developmental and Educational Psychology 8 works
  6. 6 Sports Analytics and Performance Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  7. 7 Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  8. 8 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 7 works
  9. 9 Sports, Gender, and Society Gender Studies 6 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Football Association's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 44% 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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