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The Francis Crick Institute

In research, The Francis Crick Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#223 of 7,800 worldwide), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#222 of 3,579 worldwide) and Molecular Biology (#264 of 2,175 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cell Biology, Immunology and Molecular Biology — Cell Biology is 13.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#752
of 28,054 · #1,041 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#32
of 1,094
Research works
2.8k
▲ 98% vs 2013–17
Citations
153k
55.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
33.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
73%
world 28%

What is The Francis Crick Institute 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
Life SciencesDomain #223 of 7,800 33.3%459 #328
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #222 of 3,579 33.0%338 #349
Molecular BiologySubfield #264 of 2,175 32.5%217 #344
MedicineField #1,433 of 10,443 32.7%227 #1610
Health SciencesDomain #1,995 of 11,982 32.6%232 #2035
Physical SciencesDomain #3,872 of 12,888 31.5%76 #5322
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #211 of 682 36.3%69 #231

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Francis Crick Institute 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. Life Sciences#328 #223
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#349 #222
  3. Molecular Biology#344 #264
  4. Medicine#1,610 #1,433
  5. Health Sciences#2,035 #1,995
  6. Physical Sciences#5,322 #3,872
  7. Immunology and Microbiology#231 #211
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 Francis Crick Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cell Biology takes 13.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cell BiologySubfield · 32.1 works13×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 57.3 works11×
  3. Molecular BiologySubfield · 217.3 works9.1×
  4. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 69.4 works8.7×
← 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: 0.40× its world share, 15 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8.04× its world share, 338 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 8.74× its world share, 69 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.81× its world share, 36 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.90× its world share, 11 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 22 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.27× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.60× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.50× its world share, 227 worksMedicineNursing: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.84× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.25× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.21× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 8.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at The Francis Crick Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Peter Van Loo, Charles Swanton and Erik Sahai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Francis Crick Institute.

  1. 1 Peter Van Loo United Kingdom · #14,181 worldwide 1.2k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Charles Swanton United Kingdom · #15,513 worldwide 875 citations · 123 works
  3. 3 Erik Sahai United Kingdom · #24,773 worldwide 814 citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Stephen R. Martin United Kingdom · #66,745 worldwide 206 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 George Kassiotis United Kingdom · #79,964 worldwide 284 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 David G. Wilkinson United Kingdom · #87,504 worldwide 298 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 James Briscoe United Kingdom · #89,310 worldwide 293 citations · 58 works
  8. 8 Vivian Li United Kingdom · #91,493 worldwide 233 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Maximiliano G. Gutiérrez United Kingdom · #101,320 worldwide 346 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Oriol Pich United Kingdom · #109,691 worldwide 294 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at The Francis Crick Institute

Which keywords describe research at The Francis Crick Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Cancer Therapy, Immunity, Epidemiology, Tumor Microenvironment, Innate Immunity, Genomic Instability and Immune Response.

▲ 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. Epidemiology60▲ 1.92×76 topics
  2. Cancer60▲ 5.6×40 topics
  3. Cancer Therapy38▲ 8.6×18 topics
  4. Inflammation36▲ 2.2×58 topics
  5. Immunity33▲ 10×9 topics
  6. Immune Response29▲ 6.4×20 topics
  7. Gene Expression28▲ 5.9×16 topics
  8. Tumor Microenvironment28▲ 8.0×8 topics
  9. Innate Immunity28▲ 11×11 topics
  10. Genomic Instability26▲ 30×2 topics
  11. Stem Cells26▲ 13×13 topics
  12. Oxidative Stress26▲ 1.99×37 topics
  13. Cancer Progression24▲ 17×6 topics
  14. Gene Regulation23▲ 33×4 topics
  15. Chromatin22▲ 60×2 topics
  16. Vaccine22▲ 6.8×11 topics
  17. Transcriptional Regulation20▲ 16×9 topics
  18. Targeted Therapy19▲ 11×5 topics
  19. Genomics18▲ 7.8×8 topics
  20. Cancer Immunotherapy17▲ 14×3 topics
  21. Apoptosis15▲ 6.4×14 topics
  22. Homologous Recombination15▲ 43×2 topics
  23. Cell-Free DNA15▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Antigen Presentation14▲ 21×2 topics
  25. Metabolic Regulation14▲ 11×5 topics
  26. Somatic Mutations14▲ 22×2 topics
  27. Cancer Genomics14▲ 24×1 topic
  28. Mutational Signatures14▲ 24×1 topic
  29. Cell Death14▲ 7.6×6 topics
  30. Gene Expression Regulation14▲ 16×3 topics
  31. Mutation14▲ 9.2×5 topics
  32. DNA Damage14▲ 22×4 topics
  33. Vaccine Development14▲ 6.8×8 topics
  34. RNA methylation13▲ 18×1 topic
  35. m6A-seq13▲ 18×1 topic
  36. Genome Engineering13▲ 26×1 topic
  37. RNA-Guided13▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Extracellular Matrix12▲ 8.9×6 topics
  39. ATM and ATR Kinases12▲ 69×1 topic
  40. Mechanotransduction12▲ 24×4 topics

Which research topics does The Francis Crick Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, RNA modifications and cancer, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering and DNA Repair Mechanisms.

Cancer Genomics and Diag…14Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 14 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…13RNA modifications and cancer: 13 fractional worksCRISPR and Genetic Engineering: 13 fractional worksDNA Repair Mechanisms12DNA Repair Mechanisms: 12 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune…12Immunotherapy and Immune Responses: 12 fractional worksRNA Research and Splicing: 11 fractional worksGenomics and Chromatin Dynamics: 10 fractional worksRNA and protein synthesi…10RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms: 10 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 9 fractional worksUbiquitin and proteasome pathways: 9 fractional works
Cancer ResearchMolecular BiologyImmunologyOncology

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

  1. 1 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 14 works
  2. 2 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 13 works
  3. 3 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 13 works
  4. 4 DNA Repair Mechanisms Molecular Biology 12 works
  5. 5 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 12 works
  6. 6 RNA Research and Splicing Molecular Biology 11 works
  7. 7 Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Molecular Biology 10 works
  8. 8 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 10 works
  9. 9 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 9 works
  10. 10 Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways Molecular Biology 9 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 available73.0%not open27.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.2%domestic only54.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Francis Crick Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 98% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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