United Nations Children's Fund
In research, United Nations Children's Fund stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,345 of 9,902 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,080 of 9,585 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,519 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Nursing (Health is 13.0× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #3,271 of 22,385 · #2,259 all time
- Rank in United States
- #508 of 3,332
- Research works
- 2.6k ◆ 2% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 57k 21.4 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 10.9% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.07× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 65% world 40%
- International
- 56% world 18%
What is United Nations Children's Fund known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health SciencesDomain | #2,345 of 9,902 | 13.3% | 224 | #1688 | |
| Social SciencesDomain | #3,080 of 9,585 | 11.5% | 248 | #1875 | |
| MedicineField | #3,519 of 8,541 | 12.5% | 145 | #2279 | |
| Social SciencesField | #2,716 of 5,988 | 11.4% | 150 | #1578 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #6,841 of 10,670 | 6.0% | 83 | #6339 |
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 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.
- Health Sciences#1,688 #2,345
- Social Sciences#1,875 #3,080
- Medicine#2,279 #3,519
- Social Sciences#1,578 #2,716
- Physical Sciences#6,339 #6,841
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 United Nations Children's Fund work in?
In 2022-now, 42% of research at United Nations Children's Fund is in Social Sciences, 37% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Medicine (24%), Health Professions (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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
- Social Sciences28941.7%
- Social Sciences17425.1%
- Psychology436.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance334.8%
- Business, Management and Accounting192.7%
- Arts and Humanities152.1%
- Decision Sciences60.9%
- Health Sciences25536.8%
- Medicine16523.8%
- Health Professions568.1%
- Nursing324.6%
- Dentistry20.3%
- Veterinary00.0%
- Physical Sciences9413.5%
- Environmental Science243.5%
- Computer Science243.4%
- Engineering243.4%
- Mathematics91.3%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences50.8%
- Energy30.4%
- Chemistry20.3%
- Physics and Astronomy20.3%
- Materials Science20.2%
- Chemical Engineering00.0%
- Life Sciences558.0%
What does United Nations Children's Fund specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health takes 13.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- HealthSubfield · 26.7 works13×
- Nutrition and DieteticsSubfield · 31.6 works11×
- NursingField · 32.0 works9.4×
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSubfield · 38.9 works7.5×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Nursing9.45×32 works
- Health Professions3.07×56 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.22×33 works
- Psychology2.03×43 works
- Social Sciences1.98×174 works
- Medicine1.24×164 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.16×8 works
- Mathematics1.08×9 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.00×33 works
- Decision Sciences0.89×6 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.84×19 works
- Arts and Humanities0.73×14 works
- Environmental Science0.70×24 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.68×2 works
- Dentistry0.63×2 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.48×5 works
- Energy0.46×3 works
- Computer Science0.44×24 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.29×11 works
- Engineering0.23×24 works
- Chemistry0.20×2 works
- Neuroscience0.16×2 works
- Veterinary0.14×0 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.12×2 works
- Materials Science0.07×2 works
- Chemical Engineering0.04×0 works
- Nursing 9.4×
- Health Professions 3.1×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2.2×
- Psychology 2.0×
- Social Sciences 2.0×
- Medicine 1.2×
- Immunology and Microbiology 1.2×
- Mathematics 1.1×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.0×
- Decision Sciences 0.9×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.8×
- Arts and Humanities 0.7×
- Environmental Science 0.7×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.7×
- Dentistry 0.6×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.5×
- Energy 0.5×
- Computer Science 0.4×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.3×
- Engineering 0.2×
- Chemistry 0.2×
- Neuroscience 0.2×
- Veterinary 0.1×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
- Materials Science 0.1×
- Chemical Engineering 0.0×
Who are the top researchers at United Nations Children's Fund?
Ranked on the quality score, Danzhen You, Liliana Carvajal-Vélez and Lucia Hug lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United Nations Children's Fund.
- 1
Danzhen You
United States · #33,071 worldwide 12k citations · 80 works
- 2
Liliana Carvajal-Vélez
United States · #92,931 worldwide 1.7k citations · 66 works
- 3
Lucia Hug
United States · #101,168 worldwide 3.7k citations · 36 works
- 4
Tessa Wardlaw
United States · #131,918 worldwide 9.9k citations · 45 works
- 5
Pia Rebello Britto
United States · #144,080 worldwide 3.3k citations · 83 works
- 6
Claudia Cappa
United States · #178,539 worldwide 3.8k citations · 94 works
- 7
Julia Krasevec
United States · #186,834 worldwide 15k citations · 32 works
- 8
Holly Newby
United States · #187,884 worldwide 3k citations · 42 works
- 9
Robert Bain
United States · #289,488 worldwide 4.8k citations · 97 works
- 10
David Barry Hipgrave
United States · #294,887 worldwide 4.3k citations · 85 works
Which keywords describe research at United Nations Children's Fund?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Child Development, Mental Health, Maternal Mortality, Health Inequalities, Global Burden of Disease, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Water Sanitation Hygiene and Community Health Workers.
- Chronic Disease
- SARS-CoV-2
- Gender Equality
- Maternal Health
- Adolescents
- Prevalence
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Vaccine Hesitancy
- Global Access
- Vaccine
- Pandemic
- Gender Inequality
- Social Media
- Child Mortality
- Community Health Workers
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- COVID-19
- Health Inequalities
- Public Health
- Child Development
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health
- Maternal Mortality
- Global Burden of Disease
- Globalization
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Risk Perception
- Education
- Poverty Reduction
- Health Behavior
- COVID-19 Vaccine
- Risk Factors
- School Subsidies
- Infectious Diseases
- Social Determinants
- Development
- Social Determinants of Health
- Breastfeeding
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
- Epidemiology52▲ 1.87×69 topics
- Child Development46▲ 16×9 topics
- Mental Health45▲ 4.5×36 topics
- Public Health37▲ 3.6×50 topics
- Maternal Mortality34▲ 22×5 topics
- Health Inequalities30▲ 35×4 topics
- Global Burden of Disease30▲ 17×4 topics
- COVID-1929▲ 3.2×23 topics
- Globalization29▲ 2.1×55 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition29▲ 51×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene29▲ 51×1 topic
- Community Health Workers28▲ 46×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors28▲ 36×2 topics
- Child Mortality27▲ 55×1 topic
- Health Systems27▲ 55×1 topic
- Social Media26▲ 2.8×19 topics
- Risk Perception22▲ 12×5 topics
- Gender Inequality21▲ 22×6 topics
- Education21▲ 1.76×48 topics
- Pandemic20▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Poverty Reduction20▲ 22×5 topics
- Vaccine20▲ 7.1×11 topics
- Health Behavior19▲ 29×3 topics
- Global Access19▲ 33×2 topics
- COVID-19 Vaccine19▲ 39×1 topic
- Vaccine Hesitancy19▲ 43×1 topic
- Risk Factors17▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers16▲ 67×1 topic
- School Subsidies16▲ 67×1 topic
- Prevalence15▲ 5.3×9 topics
- Infectious Diseases14▲ 6.1×6 topics
- Adolescents14▲ 5.5×8 topics
- Social Determinants14▲ 9.5×6 topics
- Maternal Health13▲ 7.2×4 topics
- Development12▲ 4.9×11 topics
- Gender Equality12▲ 6.2×9 topics
- Social Determinants of Health12▲ 8.1×6 topics
- SARS-CoV-212▲ 5.5×6 topics
- Breastfeeding10▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Chronic Disease10▲ 8.4×4 topics
Which research topics does United Nations Children's Fund publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Child Nutrition and Water Access, Global Maternal and Child Health, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 29 works
- 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 27 works
- 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 19 works
- 4 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 16 works
- 5 Breastfeeding Practices and Influences Epidemiology 7 works
- 6 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 7 works
- 7 African Education and Politics Education 6 works
- 8 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6 works
- 9 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 6 works
- 10 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 6 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has United Nations Children's Fund's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is United Nations Children's Fund as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0025% in 2024.
Fractional works of United Nations Children's Fund over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.7% in 2013.
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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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