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UK Health Security Agency

In research, UK Health Security Agency stands highest in Health Sciences (#659 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#852 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,014 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases (Infectious Diseases is 22.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,757
of 22,385 · #3,277 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#108
of 862
Research works
580
▲ 1931% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.6k
13.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.32×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
90%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
UK Health Security Agency

What is UK Health Security Agency 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 #659 of 9,902 18.8%276 #1332
MedicineField #852 of 8,541 19.0%236 #1674
Life SciencesDomain #1,014 of 6,403 18.1%116 #1998
Infectious DiseasesSubfield #122 of 421 19.0%81 -
Physical SciencesDomain #7,755 of 10,670 13.5%73 -

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where UK Health Security Agency 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#1,332 #659
  2. Medicine#1,674 #852
  3. Life Sciences#1,998 #1,014
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 UK Health Security Agency work in?

In 2022-now, 53% of research at UK Health Security Agency is in Health Sciences, 22% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (45%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 294 fractional works · 53.0% of its workMedicine: 251 fractional works · 45.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 85 fractional works · 15.3% of its workEpidemiology: 58 fractional works · 10.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 26 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHepatology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 38 fractional works · 6.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 21 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 124 fractional works · 22.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 52 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEndocrinology: 12 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMolecular Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiotechnology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 50 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMicrobiology: 20 fractional works · 3.5% of its workImmunology: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workVirology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 76 fractional works · 13.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 40 fractional works · 7.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 24 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 17 fractional works · 3.1% of its workModeling and Simulation: 15 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Health and Safety: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 61 fractional works · 11.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 6.1% of its workHealth: 18 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 18 fractional works · 3.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 14 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKUK HealthSecurity Agency554fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences53%Social Sciences11%

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. Medicine25145.2%
    2. Health Professions386.9%
    3. Nursing20.3%
    4. Veterinary20.3%
    5. Dentistry10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology529.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology509.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences183.3%
    4. Neuroscience20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Environmental Science407.3%
    2. Mathematics173.1%
    3. Engineering71.3%
    4. Computer Science40.7%
    5. Chemistry20.3%
    6. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    7. Materials Science10.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences346.1%
    2. Psychology183.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting30.5%
    5. Decision Sciences20.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does UK Health Security Agency specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 22.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 84.6 works22×
← 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: 0.70× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.78× its world share, 52 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 9.04× its world share, 50 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.47× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.67× its world share, 17 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.62× its world share, 38 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.35× its world share, 251 worksMedicineNursing: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.30× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.07× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 34 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 9.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology9.04×50 works
  2. Mathematics2.67×17 works
  3. Health Professions2.62×38 works
  4. Medicine2.35×251 works
  5. Veterinary2.30×2 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.78×52 works
  7. Environmental Science1.47×40 works
  8. Psychology1.07×18 works
  9. Chemical Engineering0.87×2 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.70×18 works
  11. Nursing0.69×2 works
  12. Social Sciences0.48×34 works
  13. Dentistry0.44×1 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.42×1 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.40×2 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×4 works
  17. Chemistry0.21×2 works
  18. Neuroscience0.19×2 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.14×2 works
  20. Computer Science0.10×4 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×1 works
  22. Engineering0.08×7 works
  23. Materials Science0.07×1 works
  24. Energy0.05×0 works
  25. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works

Who are the top researchers at UK Health Security Agency?

Ranked on the quality score, Jamie Lopez Bernal, Ashley David Otter and Natalie Groves lead among researchers whose main affiliation is UK Health Security Agency.

  1. 1 Jamie Lopez Bernal United Kingdom · #17,341 worldwide 21k citations · 166 works
  2. 2 Ashley David Otter United Kingdom · #52,492 worldwide 7.7k citations · 112 works
  3. 3 Natalie Groves United Kingdom · #81,640 worldwide 11k citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Julia Stowe United Kingdom · #94,666 worldwide 11k citations · 136 works
  5. 5 Dale Weston United Kingdom · #149,869 worldwide 2.7k citations · 123 works
  6. 6 Freja Cordelia Møller Kirsebom United Kingdom · #160,414 worldwide 2.2k citations · 62 works
  7. 7 Eileen Gallagher United Kingdom · #213,094 worldwide 10k citations · 65 works
  8. 8 Katy Sinka United Kingdom · #241,655 worldwide 2.2k citations · 100 works
  9. 9 Hannah Charles United Kingdom · #297,091 worldwide 626 citations · 50 works
  10. 10 Cathy Rowe United Kingdom · #341,785 worldwide 1.8k citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at UK Health Security Agency

What are the most cited papers from UK Health Security Agency?

The most cited paper from UK Health Security Agency is "Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study" (Tommy Nyberg et al., 2022), with 1,307 citations. Next come "Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK" (1,299) and "The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms" (1,254).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study Tommy Nyberg et al. · The Lancet Open access 16 Mar 2022 1,307
2 Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK Hugh Adler et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access139 authors 24 May 2022 1,299
3 The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms Marina B Romanello et al. · The Lancet Open access114 authors 14 Nov 2023 1,254
4 Duration of effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease: results of a systematic review and meta-regression Daniel R Feikin, Melissa M Higdon, Laith J Abu-Raddad et al. · The Lancet ReviewOpen access 22 Feb 2022 1,235
5 Protection against SARS-CoV-2 after Covid-19 Vaccination and Previous Infection Victoria Jane Hall et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Feb 2022 757
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at UK Health Security Agency?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Vaccine, COVID-19, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Pathogenesis and Infectious Diseases.

▲ 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. Epidemiology165▲ 7.5×76 topics
  2. Public Health67▲ 8.3×32 topics
  3. Vaccine60▲ 27×11 topics
  4. COVID-1958▲ 8.0×20 topics
  5. Pandemic56▲ 10×9 topics
  6. SARS-CoV-252▲ 31×6 topics
  7. Pathogenesis51▲ 18×21 topics
  8. Infectious Diseases47▲ 26×8 topics
  9. Immune Response40▲ 13×17 topics
  10. ACE2 Receptor33▲ 26×3 topics
  11. Immunity31▲ 14×6 topics
  12. Antibiotic Resistance28▲ 13×13 topics
  13. Viral Transmission27▲ 35×4 topics
  14. Vaccine Development24▲ 17×10 topics
  15. Coronavirus22▲ 20×3 topics
  16. Antimicrobial Resistance22▲ 19×7 topics
  17. Mutation22▲ 22×3 topics
  18. Health Effects22▲ 6.4×17 topics
  19. antibody21▲ 38×1 topic
  20. spike protein21▲ 38×1 topic
  21. Healthcare Workers20▲ 15×5 topics
  22. Mortality19▲ 6.0×9 topics
  23. Risk Perception17▲ 11×7 topics
  24. Drug Resistance16▲ 10×8 topics
  25. Viral Load16▲ 36×2 topics
  26. Modeling15▲ 11×1 topic
  27. transmission dynamics15▲ 41×1 topic
  28. Infection15▲ 11×8 topics
  29. Genetic Diversity14▲ 6.0×6 topics
  30. Global Access14▲ 31×2 topics
  31. Health Behavior14▲ 27×2 topics
  32. COVID-19 Vaccine14▲ 36×2 topics
  33. HIV Transmission14▲ 34×2 topics
  34. Herd Immunity14▲ 40×1 topic
  35. Vaccine Hesitancy14▲ 40×1 topic
  36. Thrombosis13▲ 8.2×7 topics
  37. Vulnerability12▲ 9.7×6 topics
  38. Pathogenicity12▲ 31×4 topics
  39. Clinical Characteristics12▲ 17×2 topics
  40. Clinical Management12▲ 12×3 topics

Which research topics does UK Health Security Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …21SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 21 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological…15COVID-19 epidemiological studies: 15 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…14Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 14 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…12COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 12 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health: 10 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 detection and testing: 10 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resis…10Antibiotic Use and Resistance: 10 fractional worksBacterial Infections and Vaccines: 9 fractional worksRespiratory viral infections research: 9 fractional worksReproductive tract infec…9Reproductive tract infections research: 9 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesModeling and SimulationHealthClinical Psychology3 others

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

  1. 1 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 21 works
  2. 2 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 15 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 14 works
  4. 4 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 12 works
  5. 5 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 10 works
  6. 6 SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing Infectious Diseases 10 works
  7. 7 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 10 works
  8. 8 Bacterial Infections and Vaccines Microbiology 9 works
  9. 9 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 9 works
  10. 10 Reproductive tract infections research Microbiology 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 available90.0%not open10.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.2%domestic only73.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has UK Health Security Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1931% higher than in 2018-2021.

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