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The Pirbright Institute

In research, The Pirbright Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#3,104 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#7,232 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,485 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Agronomy and Crop Science and Infectious Diseases — Agronomy and Crop Science is 55.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,169
of 28,054 · #2,883 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#285
of 1,094
Research works
2.9k
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
131k
45.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is The Pirbright 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 #3,104 of 7,800 32.0%105 #976
Health SciencesDomain #7,232 of 11,982 32.7%74 #3125
MedicineField #6,485 of 10,443 32.7%71 #2339
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,398 of 3,409 36.0%63 #523

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Pirbright 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#976 #3,104
  2. Health Sciences#3,125 #7,232
  3. Medicine#2,339 #6,485
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#523 #2,398
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 Pirbright Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Agronomy and Crop Science takes 55.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 24.7 works56×
  2. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 24.3 works19×
← 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: 7.06× its world share, 63 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.49× its world share, 25 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 9.30× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.99× its world share, 71 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 6.37× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 9.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at The Pirbright Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, F. Brown, David J. Paton and Paul Monaghan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Pirbright Institute.

  1. 1 F. Brown United Kingdom · #116,528 worldwide 328 citations · 85 works
  2. 2 David J. Paton United Kingdom · #157,351 worldwide 163 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Paul Monaghan United Kingdom · #164,827 worldwide 98 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 W. P. Taylor United Kingdom · #207,253 worldwide 139 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 R. Kitching United Kingdom · #242,876 worldwide 122 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Timothy Harris United Kingdom · #245,086 worldwide 152 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Philip Wilkinson United Kingdom · #250,163 worldwide 112 citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Søren Alexandersen United Kingdom · #294,928 worldwide 111 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Mark P. Stevens United Kingdom · #346,476 worldwide 137 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 R. C. Wardley United Kingdom · #378,587 worldwide 96 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at The Pirbright Institute

Which keywords describe research at The Pirbright Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Genetic Characterization, Vaccine, Viral Pathogenesis, Vaccines, African Swine Fever and Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology89▲ 12×32 topics
  2. Pathogenesis55▲ 58×10 topics
  3. Genetic Characterization44▲ 506×2 topics
  4. Vaccine35▲ 46×8 topics
  5. Viral Pathogenesis28▲ 242×3 topics
  6. Vaccines25▲ 238×2 topics
  7. African Swine Fever25▲ 471×1 topic
  8. Foot-and-Mouth Disease25▲ 471×1 topic
  9. Immune Response24▲ 23×14 topics
  10. Climate Change20▲ 4.1×10 topics
  11. Bluetongue Virus19▲ 558×1 topic
  12. Culicoides Biting Midges19▲ 558×1 topic
  13. Viral Infection16▲ 126×2 topics
  14. Coronavirus15▲ 37×2 topics
  15. Infection14▲ 30×4 topics
  16. Heart Failure14▲ 17×2 topics
  17. Immunosuppressive Therapy13▲ 38×2 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance13▲ 132×1 topic
  19. Myocarditis13▲ 217×1 topic
  20. Genomic Sequencing11▲ 52×2 topics
  21. Vaccine Development11▲ 24×9 topics
  22. Metagenomics11▲ 64×2 topics
  23. Pandemic11▲ 5.4×5 topics
  24. Public Health11▲ 4.0×8 topics
  25. Circovirus10▲ 179×1 topic
  26. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus10▲ 179×1 topic
  27. Genetic Diversity9▲ 11×8 topics
  28. Norovirus9▲ 102×1 topic
  29. Rotavirus9▲ 102×1 topic
  30. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers8▲ 99×1 topic
  31. Zoonotic Infections8▲ 79×1 topic
  32. Viral Transmission7▲ 26×4 topics
  33. Vector Control7▲ 31×4 topics
  34. Genomics7▲ 12×6 topics
  35. Encephalitis6▲ 83×2 topics
  36. Virus6▲ 36×3 topics
  37. SARS-CoV-26▲ 10×4 topics
  38. Herpes Zoster6▲ 110×1 topic
  39. Herpesviruses6▲ 110×1 topic
  40. Antibodies6▲ 57×2 topics

Which research topics does The Pirbright Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Viral Infections and Immunology Research and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

Animal Disease Managemen…25Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 25 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Diseases: 19 fractional worksViral Infections and Immunology Research: 13 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections Studies: 10 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 9 fractional worksViral Infections and Vec…8Viral Infections and Vectors: 8 fractional worksHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments: 6 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 6 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 4 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineAnimal Science and Zoology3 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 25 works
  2. 2 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 19 works
  3. 3 Viral Infections and Immunology Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 13 works
  4. 4 Animal Virus Infections Studies Animal Science and Zoology 10 works
  5. 5 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 9 works
  6. 6 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 8 works
  7. 7 Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments Epidemiology 6 works
  8. 8 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 6 works
  9. 9 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  10. 10 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 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 available43.8%not open56.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.9%domestic only70.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Pirbright Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% 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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