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HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions is a research topic within Infectious Diseases. Science Explorer counts 61k research works in it since 1954. 20.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the prevention, treatment, and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. It covers topics such as antiretroviral therapy, preexposure prophylaxis, stigma and discrimination, viral load, mother-to-child transmission, adherence to medication, mortality rates, and health-related stigma.

  • Antiretroviral Therapy
  • HIV Transmission
  • Preexposure Prophylaxis
  • Stigma and Discrimination
  • Viral Load
  • Mother-to-Child Transmission
  • Adherence to Medication
  • HIV Epidemiology
  • Mortality Rates
  • Health-related Stigma
Research works
61k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
13k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+11%
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This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (3.6k and 693 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 3.6k works
  2. 2 Brazil 693 works
  3. 3 China 538 works
  4. 4 South Africa 532 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 484 works
  6. 6 Canada 324 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 321 works
  8. 8 Ethiopia 253 works
  9. 9 India 243 works
  10. 10 Uganda 221 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 50.0%Brazil: 9.6%China: 7.5%South Africa: 7.4%6 others listed: 25.6%50%largest
United States3,611 · 50.0%Brazil693 · 9.6%China538 · 7.5%South Africa532 · 7.4%6 others listed1,845 · 25.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and University of Washington.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 329 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 103 works
  3. 3 University of WashingtonUnited States 78 works
  4. 4 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 77 works
  5. 5 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 75 works
  6. 6 Emory UniversityUnited States 63 works
  7. 7 Makerere UniversityUganda 62 works
  8. 8 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 57 works
  9. 9 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 51 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 51 works

Who are the leading researchers in HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions include Roger Chou, Rakhi Dandona and Lalit Dandona.

  1. 1 Roger Chou United States 14k citations
  2. 2 Rakhi Dandona United States 9.8k citations
  3. 3 Lalit Dandona United States 9.3k citations
  4. 4 G Anil Kumar United States 8.3k citations
  5. 5 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 8.2k citations
  6. 6 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 8k citations
  7. 7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 7.7k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research done?

The largest centres of HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research in 2022–2025 are Chapel Hill (United States), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Atlanta (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Foster City, Mbarara and Kampala.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chapel Hill United States 333 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 251 works
  3. 3 New York United States 214 works
  4. 4 Atlanta United States 191 works
  5. 5 Baltimore United States 172 works
  6. 6 Kampala Uganda 159 works
  7. 7 Boston United States 153 works
  8. 8 Seattle United States 133 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C. United States 133 works
  10. 10 São Paulo Brazil 130 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Foster CityUS · 24.1 works79×
  2. MbararaUG · 20.8 works42×
  3. KampalaUG · 159.0 works37×
  4. HarareZW · 45.7 works34×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Ghana, University of Gondar and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.25%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Ghana: 22, 32.1%University of Gondar: 34, 27.1%London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: 49, 24.3%Kampala International University: 13, 34.0%University of the Witwatersrand: 75, 23.6%University of Cape Town: 51, 25.7%Johns Hopkins University: 103, 20.1%University of California, San Francisco: 76, 20.5%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 329, 3.4%Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University: 23, 11.7%Kampala Internationa…University of GhanaUniversity of GondarLondon School of Hyg…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of GhanaGhana 65.932.1%10.4×22 +103.7%
2 University of GondarEthiopia 65.027.1%23.2×34 +146.6%
3 London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 62.524.3%32.9×49 +6.4%
4 Kampala International UniversityUganda 61.134.0%17.9×13 —
5 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 60.923.6%18.1×75 +16.6%
6 University of Cape TownSouth Africa 59.825.7%15.9×51 -2.6%
7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 59.020.1%9.7×103 +22.8%
8 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 58.020.5%12.3×76 +18.9%
9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 57.23.4%19.6×329 +102.1%
10 Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences UniversitySouth Africa 56.911.7%43.7×23 +1422.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

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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.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.