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Virus Unit

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Research works
84
▼ 54% vs 2013–17
Citations
2k
24.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Virus Unit is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6.50× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.26× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 43.44× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 2.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.79× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 4.46× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 43.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Virus Unit?

Ranked on the composite score, Debprasad Chattopadhyay lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Virus Unit.

  1. 1 Debprasad Chattopadhyay India · #556,609 worldwide 67 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Virus Unit

Which keywords describe research at Virus Unit?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immune Response, Antiviral Therapy, Liver Disease, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Global Burden, Treatment and Chronic Hepatitis B.

▲ 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. Epidemiology30▲ 8.7×31 topics
  2. Immune Response24▲ 45×14 topics
  3. Antiviral Therapy19▲ 150×3 topics
  4. Liver Disease18▲ 155×2 topics
  5. Hepatocellular Carcinoma13▲ 73×2 topics
  6. Global Burden11▲ 25×2 topics
  7. Treatment11▲ 10.0×10 topics
  8. Chronic Hepatitis B10▲ 216×1 topic
  9. Hepatitis B Virus10▲ 216×1 topic
  10. Genetic Variation9▲ 34×2 topics
  11. Vaccine9▲ 26×9 topics
  12. Hepatitis C Virus8▲ 191×1 topic
  13. Ribavirin8▲ 191×1 topic
  14. Metabolic Syndrome8▲ 11×8 topics
  15. Vaccine Development8▲ 31×6 topics
  16. Cancer6▲ 5.0×17 topics
  17. Genetic Diversity5▲ 13×4 topics
  18. Insulin Resistance5▲ 13×6 topics
  19. Public Health5▲ 4.1×8 topics
  20. Pathogenesis4▲ 9.0×9 topics
  21. Vector Control4▲ 44×2 topics
  22. Arboviral Diseases4▲ 81×1 topic
  23. Herbal Medicine4▲ 22×6 topics
  24. Inflammation4▲ 2.1×17 topics
  25. Zika Virus4▲ 81×1 topic
  26. Hepatic Steatosis4▲ 32×2 topics
  27. Antioxidant4▲ 6.8×13 topics
  28. Pharmacology4▲ 14×7 topics
  29. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 19×6 topics
  30. NAFLD4▲ 40×1 topic
  31. NASH4▲ 40×1 topic
  32. Zoonotic Transmission3▲ 40×3 topics
  33. Alzheimer's Disease3▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Apoptosis3▲ 9.5×7 topics
  35. Food Safety3▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Antioxidant Activity3▲ 5.9×6 topics
  37. HIV3▲ 27×4 topics
  38. Anticancer3▲ 15×6 topics
  39. Chronic Infection3▲ 164×1 topic
  40. Hepatitis E Virus3▲ 164×1 topic

Which research topics does Virus Unit publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds, Hepatitis B Virus Studies, Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism.

Pharmacological Effects …0Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds: 0 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies0Hepatitis B Virus Studies: 0 fractional worksPhytochemistry and Bioac…0Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies: 0 fractional worksCalcium signaling and nu…0Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism: 0 fractional worksHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…0COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 0 fractional worksRNA Interference and Gene Delivery: 0 fractional worksBiological Research and Disease Studies: 0 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 0 fractional works
PharmacologyEpidemiologyPhysiologyCancer Research3 others

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

  1. 1 Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds Pharmacology 0 works
  2. 2 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  3. 3 Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies Pharmacology 0 works
  4. 4 Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism Physiology 0 works
  5. 5 Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments Epidemiology 0 works
  6. 6 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 0 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 0 works
  8. 8 RNA Interference and Gene Delivery Molecular Biology 0 works
  9. 9 Biological Research and Disease Studies Molecular Biology 0 works
  10. 10 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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 available42.3%not open57.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.9%domestic only83.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Virus Unit's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 54% 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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