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United Nations Children's Fund

In research, United Nations Children's Fund stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,063 of 11,982 worldwide), Social Sciences (#5,761 of 10,521 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,854 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions — General Health Professions is 5.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,483
of 28,054 · #7,641 all time
Rank in United States
#1,563
of 4,192
Research works
1.3k
▲ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
40k
30.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is United Nations Children's Fund 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
Health SciencesDomain #6,063 of 11,982 25.1%116 #3969
Social SciencesDomain #5,761 of 10,521 24.7%113 #3790
Social SciencesField #3,854 of 6,365 23.4%70 #2485
MedicineField #6,510 of 10,443 26.0%75 #5526

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where United Nations Children's Fund 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. Health Sciences#3,969 #6,063
  2. Social Sciences#3,790 #5,761
  3. Social Sciences#2,485 #3,854
  4. Medicine#5,526 #6,510
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 United Nations Children's Fund specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 5.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 21.7 works5.9×
← 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: 0.57× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.54× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.17× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.01× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.47× its world share, 75 worksMedicineNursing: 9.71× its world share, 13 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.68× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.10× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.56× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.86× its world share, 23 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.06× its world share, 70 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at United Nations Children's Fund?

Ranked on the composite score, Ray Yip, L. J. Teply and Fabian Rohner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United Nations Children's Fund.

  1. 1 Ray Yip United States · #88,770 worldwide 293 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 L. J. Teply United States · #226,471 worldwide 121 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Fabian Rohner United States · #324,766 worldwide 106 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Guy Hutton United States · #637,491 worldwide 31 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 A. Hasman United States · #1,027,017 worldwide 10 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Erhard Taverna United States · #1,104,288 worldwide 1 citations · 79 works
  7. 7 Manuel García–Herranz United States · #1,556,718 worldwide 11 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at United Nations Children's Fund

Which keywords describe research at United Nations Children's Fund?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Child Development, Maternal Mortality, Public Health, Health Inequalities, Community Health Workers, Socio-economic Factors and Child Mortality.

▲ 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. Mental Health27▲ 6.9×32 topics
  2. Epidemiology24▲ 2.3×55 topics
  3. Child Development20▲ 18×9 topics
  4. Public Health20▲ 5.0×36 topics
  5. Maternal Mortality17▲ 29×5 topics
  6. Health Inequalities15▲ 47×4 topics
  7. Social Media15▲ 4.0×12 topics
  8. Community Health Workers14▲ 62×2 topics
  9. Socio-economic Factors14▲ 47×2 topics
  10. Child Mortality14▲ 72×1 topic
  11. Health Systems14▲ 72×1 topic
  12. COVID-1913▲ 3.5×18 topics
  13. Risk Perception13▲ 18×5 topics
  14. Global Burden of Disease12▲ 18×4 topics
  15. Maternal and Child Undernutrition11▲ 52×1 topic
  16. Water Sanitation Hygiene11▲ 52×1 topic
  17. Health Behavior11▲ 41×3 topics
  18. Global Access11▲ 47×2 topics
  19. COVID-19 Vaccine11▲ 57×1 topic
  20. Vaccine Hesitancy11▲ 61×1 topic
  21. Depression9▲ 4.0×9 topics
  22. Pandemic9▲ 3.3×11 topics
  23. Risk Factors9▲ 3.1×16 topics
  24. Social Determinants9▲ 16×5 topics
  25. Vaccine9▲ 8.4×10 topics
  26. Gender Inequality9▲ 24×5 topics
  27. Prevalence8▲ 7.6×9 topics
  28. Adolescents8▲ 8.0×8 topics
  29. Poverty Reduction7▲ 21×4 topics
  30. Primary Care7▲ 7.1×10 topics
  31. Infectious Diseases7▲ 8.2×5 topics
  32. Conditional Cash Transfers7▲ 69×1 topic
  33. Resilience7▲ 5.3×8 topics
  34. School Subsidies7▲ 69×1 topic
  35. Maternal Health6▲ 8.5×4 topics
  36. SARS-CoV-26▲ 6.8×5 topics
  37. Social Determinants of Health5▲ 9.0×6 topics
  38. Breastfeeding5▲ 7.5×2 topics
  39. Psychopathology5▲ 9.9×4 topics
  40. Parenting5▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does United Nations Children's Fund publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Global Maternal and Chil…14Global Maternal and Child Health: 14 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 11 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 11 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …7Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 7 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 4 fractional worksBreastfeeding Practices and Influences: 3 fractional worksFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 3 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 3 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Health: 3 fractional worksIntimate Partner and Family Violence: 3 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthNutrition and DieteticsHealthSafety Research4 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 14 works
  2. 2 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 11 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 11 works
  4. 4 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 7 works
  5. 5 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 4 works
  6. 6 Breastfeeding Practices and Influences Epidemiology 3 works
  7. 7 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 3 works
  8. 8 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  9. 9 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 3 works
  10. 10 Intimate Partner and Family Violence Health 3 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 available60.0%not open40.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.1%domestic only46.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has United Nations Children's Fund's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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