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United States Food and Drug Administration

In research, United States Food and Drug Administration stands highest in Medicine (#922 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,262 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,446 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Statistics and Probability, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology — Statistics and Probability is 18.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,217
of 28,054 · #1,199 all time
Rank in United States
#335
of 4,192
Research works
16k
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Citations
408k
25.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

What is United States Food and Drug Administration 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
MedicineField #922 of 10,443 24.8%462 #555
Health SciencesDomain #1,262 of 11,982 24.7%501 #619
Life SciencesDomain #1,446 of 7,800 20.3%330 #608
Social SciencesDomain #4,103 of 10,521 34.0%105 #2766
Physical SciencesDomain #5,204 of 12,888 19.7%253 #2758
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,464 of 3,579 19.6%169 #579
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,532 of 2,175 18.4%84 #855
EngineeringField #5,714 of 6,636 12.3%62 —

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where United States Food and Drug Administration 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. Medicine#555 #922
  2. Health Sciences#619 #1,262
  3. Life Sciences#608 #1,446
  4. Social Sciences#2,766 #4,103
  5. Physical Sciences#2,758 #5,204
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#579 #1,464
  7. Molecular Biology#855 #1,532
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 States Food and Drug Administration specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Statistics and Probability takes 18.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Statistics and ProbabilitySubfield · 45.8 works18×
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsField · 53.8 works13×
  3. PharmacologySubfield · 24.1 works11×
← 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: 0.97× its world share, 55 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.67× its world share, 169 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.11× its world share, 37 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.77× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 12.85× its world share, 54 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.28× its world share, 24 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 44 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.35× its world share, 62 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.85× its world share, 50 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.39× its world share, 16 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 3.49× its world share, 49 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.02× its world share, 462 worksMedicineNursing: 0.98× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 5.46× its world share, 9 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.00× its world share, 51 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.35× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 12.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at United States Food and Drug Administration?

Ranked on the composite score, Richard Pazdur, Nicholas Petrick and Joseph Levine lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United States Food and Drug Administration.

  1. 1 Richard Pazdur United States · #5,191 worldwide 1.1k citations · 121 works
  2. 2 Nicholas Petrick United States · #11,103 worldwide 666 citations · 68 works
  3. 3 Joseph Levine United States · #15,499 worldwide 440 citations · 61 works
  4. 4 John R. Johnson United States · #50,294 worldwide 686 citations · 102 works
  5. 5 William Horwitz United States · #55,894 worldwide 314 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Patricia Keegan United States · #64,453 worldwide 252 citations · 33 works
  7. 7 Brian Booth United States · #77,809 worldwide 155 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 David Firestone United States · #86,565 worldwide 267 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Michael F. Barile United States · #90,254 worldwide 302 citations · 24 works
  10. 10 Rajeshwari Sridhara United States · #105,796 worldwide 389 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at United States Food and Drug Administration

Which keywords describe research at United States Food and Drug Administration?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Biomarkers, Bayesian Methods, Food Safety, Adverse Drug Reactions, Adaptive Designs and False Discovery Rate.

▲ 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. Epidemiology96▲ 2.0×102 topics
  2. Clinical Trials62▲ 7.8×17 topics
  3. Machine Learning48▲ 1.24×33 topics
  4. Biomarkers47▲ 5.8×15 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress38▲ 1.93×48 topics
  6. Quality of Life36▲ 2.1×24 topics
  7. Public Health33▲ 1.93×30 topics
  8. Bayesian Methods33▲ 56×2 topics
  9. Food Safety32▲ 9.2×14 topics
  10. Adverse Drug Reactions30▲ 47×2 topics
  11. Adaptive Designs28▲ 118×1 topic
  12. False Discovery Rate28▲ 118×1 topic
  13. Precision Medicine28▲ 5.1×7 topics
  14. Pharmacokinetics27▲ 8.6×9 topics
  15. Economic Evaluation27▲ 18×2 topics
  16. Cost-effectiveness Analysis26▲ 26×1 topic
  17. Health Utility Measures26▲ 26×1 topic
  18. Vaccine26▲ 5.3×11 topics
  19. Drug Development25▲ 24×3 topics
  20. Pathogenicity24▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Health Effects23▲ 3.2×18 topics
  22. Pathogenesis23▲ 3.8×21 topics
  23. Foodborne Illness22▲ 52×2 topics
  24. Medication Adherence22▲ 34×2 topics
  25. Monoclonal Antibodies21▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Off-Label Drug Use21▲ 65×1 topic
  27. Pediatric Pharmacokinetics21▲ 65×1 topic
  28. Antimicrobial Resistance21▲ 8.8×9 topics
  29. Cancer Risk20▲ 7.8×9 topics
  30. SARS-CoV-220▲ 5.3×6 topics
  31. Regenerative Medicine20▲ 6.7×5 topics
  32. Infection20▲ 6.8×7 topics
  33. Pharmaceutical Industry20▲ 44×2 topics
  34. Publication Bias17▲ 32×3 topics
  35. Targeted Therapy16▲ 6.2×5 topics
  36. Biopharmaceuticals16▲ 27×3 topics
  37. Microbial Inactivation16▲ 41×2 topics
  38. Immunogenicity16▲ 31×3 topics
  39. Psychiatric Disorders16▲ 10×3 topics
  40. Ethical Issues15▲ 12×4 topics

Which research topics does United States Food and Drug Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Pharmaceutical studies and practices and Computational Drug Discovery Methods.

Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 28 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 26 fractional worksPharmaceutical studies a…21Pharmaceutical studies and practices: 21 fractional worksComputational Drug Disco…13Computational Drug Discovery Methods: 13 fractional worksSmoking Behavior and Cessation: 13 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 13 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Re…12Biomedical Ethics and Regulation: 12 fractional worksListeria monocytogenes i…11Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety: 11 fractional worksBiosimilars and Bioanaly…11Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods: 11 fractional worksSalmonella and Campyloba…11Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology: 11 fractional works
Statistics and ProbabilityEconomics and EconometricsPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthComputational Theory and Mathematics4 others

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

  1. 1 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 28 works
  2. 2 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 26 works
  3. 3 Pharmaceutical studies and practices Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 21 works
  4. 4 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 13 works
  5. 5 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 13 works
  6. 6 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 13 works
  7. 7 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 12 works
  8. 8 Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety Biotechnology 11 works
  9. 9 Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods Immunology 11 works
  10. 10 Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology Food Science 11 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 available30.0%not open70.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.9%domestic only89.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has United States Food and Drug Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% lower 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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