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Race, Genetics, and Society

Race, Genetics, and Society is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 15.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex intersection of race and genetics in biomedical research, focusing on the impact of race and ethnicity on health disparities, genetic ancestry, epigenetics, and population genetics. It delves into the social implications and ethical considerations surrounding the use of racial categories in genetic studies and healthcare.

  • Race
  • Genetics
  • Biomedical Research
  • Health Disparities
  • Ethnicity
  • Epigenetics
  • Ancestry
  • Social Inequality
  • Population Genetics
  • Healthcare
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+5%
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Which countries lead Race, Genetics, and Society research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (706 and 156 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 706 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 156 works
  3. 3 Germany 82 works
  4. 4 Canada 66 works
  5. 5 Australia 66 works
  6. 6 France 53 works
  7. 7 Brazil 43 works
  8. 8 China 37 works
  9. 9 India 35 works
  10. 10 Italy 30 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: 55.4%United Kingdom: 12.3%Germany: 6.4%Canada: 5.2%6 others listed: 20.7%55%largest
United States706 · 55.4%United Kingdom156 · 12.3%Germany82 · 6.4%Canada66 · 5.2%6 others listed264 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Race, Genetics, and Society research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Race, Genetics, and Society research, followed by University of Oxford and Stanford University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 22 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  3. 3 Stanford UniversityUnited States 11 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 10 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  6. 6 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 10 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 University of ChicagoUnited States 10 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 University of CologneGermany 9 works

Where is Race, Genetics, and Society research done?

The largest centres of Race, Genetics, and Society research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Paris (France) and Chapel Hill (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 39 works
  2. 2 New York United States 34 works
  3. 3 Paris France 24 works
  4. 4 Chapel Hill United States 22 works
  5. 5 Sydney Australia 22 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C. United States 21 works
  7. 7 Los Angeles United States 19 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 18 works
  9. 9 Baltimore United States 15 works
  10. 10 Toronto Canada 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 22.3 works8.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Race, Genetics, and Society than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Race, Genetics, and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Cambridge and New York University 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 20.28%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 22, 7.4%University of Cambridge: 10, 28.4%New York University: 10, 22.5%University of Cologne: 9, 0.0%Harvard University: 8, 44.0%University of Toronto: 10, 13.1%University College London: 10, 19.3%Stanford University: 11, 22.2%University of Chicago: 10, 21.2%University of California, Los Angeles: 8, 24.7%University of Cambri…New York UniversityUniversity of North …University of Cologne
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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 North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 54.77.4%8.2×22 +66.2%
2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 44.828.4%5.9×10 +6.0%
3 New York UniversityUnited States 40.922.5%7.8×10 -17.8%
4 University of CologneGermany 39.50.0%18.3×9 +17.5%
5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 38.744.0%4.3×8 -37.4%
6 University of TorontoCanada 38.313.1%4.7×10 +89.7%
7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 37.619.3%4.7×10 +30.1%
8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 36.822.2%5.6×11 +10.7%
9 University of ChicagoUnited States 36.821.2%7.5×10 -15.2%
10 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 35.424.7%5.6×8 +39.1%

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 Race, Genetics, and Society research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Race, Genetics, and Society.

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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.