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Veterinary Medicines Directorate

In research, Veterinary Medicines Directorate stands highest in Life Sciences (#3,623 of 14,347 worldwide), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#3,245 of 7,814 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,588 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#8,780
of 42,892
Rank in United Kingdom
#498
of 2,253
Research works
1.2k
▼ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
58k
46.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
25%
world 28%

What is Veterinary Medicines Directorate known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Life SciencesDomain #3,623 of 14,347 27.5%699
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #3,245 of 7,814 25.3%230
Health SciencesDomain #8,588 of 20,462 25.7%433
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #2,664 of 6,031 35.2%296
MedicineField #8,426 of 17,978 27.3%330
Molecular BiologySubfield #4,149 of 4,961 20.8%125
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #1,834 of 1,980 14.9%127

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Veterinary Medicines Directorate 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).

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: 4.44× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.76× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 10.14× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 3.68× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.49× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.73× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 1.22× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.96× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.84× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 10.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Veterinary Medicines Directorate?

Ranked on the composite score, R. Glyn Hewinson, Martin J. Woodward and C. Wray lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

  1. 1 R. Glyn Hewinson United Kingdom · #54,178 worldwide 369 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Martin J. Woodward United Kingdom · #146,171 worldwide 202 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 C. Wray United Kingdom · #249,506 worldwide 78 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 D. J. Alexander United Kingdom · #308,227 worldwide 134 citations · 30 works
  5. 5 E. Liébana United Kingdom · #354,368 worldwide 190 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 R. A. J. Nicholas United Kingdom · #731,972 worldwide 65 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 R. Gough United Kingdom · #763,045 worldwide 69 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 R. J. Manvell United Kingdom · #877,218 worldwide 28 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Which keywords describe research at Veterinary Medicines Directorate?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Vaccine, Antimicrobial Resistance, Public Health, Immune Response, Infection and Diagnosis.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Epidemiology452▲ 9.0×67 topics
  2. Pathogenesis184▲ 26×20 topics
  3. Vaccine154▲ 31×10 topics
  4. Antimicrobial Resistance127▲ 40×8 topics
  5. Public Health123▲ 7.2×20 topics
  6. Immune Response117▲ 15×17 topics
  7. Infection117▲ 34×7 topics
  8. Diagnosis112▲ 8.8×22 topics
  9. Pathogenicity106▲ 94×4 topics
  10. Genetic Characterization94▲ 129×2 topics
  11. Vaccine Development92▲ 24×11 topics
  12. Viral Pathogenesis90▲ 90×3 topics
  13. Treatment81▲ 5.0×19 topics
  14. Protein Aggregation80▲ 81×3 topics
  15. Neurodegenerative Diseases78▲ 29×3 topics
  16. Molecular Basis78▲ 414×1 topic
  17. Prion Diseases78▲ 414×1 topic
  18. Genomic Sequencing76▲ 41×4 topics
  19. Foodborne Illness75▲ 128×2 topics
  20. Antibiotic Resistance73▲ 15×12 topics
  21. Genetic Diversity70▲ 11×11 topics
  22. African Swine Fever69▲ 164×1 topic
  23. Foot-and-Mouth Disease69▲ 164×1 topic
  24. Genome Sequencing65▲ 30×2 topics
  25. Campylobacter65▲ 189×1 topic
  26. Salmonella65▲ 189×1 topic
  27. Drug Resistance62▲ 16×6 topics
  28. Metagenomics58▲ 37×2 topics
  29. Vaccines58▲ 67×3 topics
  30. Virus53▲ 35×3 topics
  31. Genomic Analysis51▲ 14×11 topics
  32. Virulence Factors51▲ 22×8 topics
  33. Genomics47▲ 11×6 topics
  34. Host-Pathogen Interactions47▲ 37×4 topics
  35. Norovirus44▲ 61×1 topic
  36. Rotavirus44▲ 61×1 topic
  37. Pneumonia39▲ 48×2 topics
  38. Mycoplasma39▲ 104×1 topic
  39. Pasteurella39▲ 104×1 topic
  40. Zoonotic Transmission39▲ 31×5 topics

Which research topics does Veterinary Medicines Directorate publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksViral Infections and Vectors: 1 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Dise…1Vector-Borne Animal Diseases: 1 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel…1Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 1 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksMicrobial infections and disease research: 1 fractional worksAcoustic Wave Phenomena …0Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research: 0 fractional worksDiagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis: 0 fractional worksNoise Effects and Management: 0 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections Studies: 0 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceInfectious DiseasesEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsComputer Networks and Communications5 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  2. 2 Viral Infections and Vectors Infectious Diseases 1 works
  3. 3 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  4. 4 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  5. 5 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 1 works
  6. 6 Microbial infections and disease research Microbiology 1 works
  7. 7 Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis Surgery 0 works
  9. 9 Noise Effects and Management Speech and Hearing 0 works
  10. 10 Animal Virus Infections Studies Animal Science and Zoology 0 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 available25.0%not open75.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.3%domestic only78.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Veterinary Medicines Directorate's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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