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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº researchers are the most highly cited in England for Biomedical and Health Research

6 January 2016

Bibliometric analysis commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and carried out by RAND shows that ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is producing the largest number of highly cited publications of any organisation in England.

Highly Cited Publications

At the end of 2015, RAND published a bibliometric analysis[1] of biomedical and health research papers published by English researchers that made it into the top 20% of highly cited publications worldwide. The analysis covered 95,928 papers distributed across NHS, higher education and 'other' organisations in England.

The report shows that ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº has the largest number of highly cited publications (HCPs) of any organisation in England over the 2004-2013 period. In the Faculty of Brain Sciences - ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº was the most cited Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the following Journal Subject Categories and Department of Health Highlight Areas:

  • Applied psychology: 6.8% (39% more than the next best HEI: Sheffield - 4.9%)
  • Audiology & speech-language pathology: 14.7% (79% more than the next best HEI: Cambridge - 8.2%)
  • Behavioural sciences: 13.7% (26% more than the next best HEI: Cambridge - 10.9%)
  • Clinical neurology: 15.6% (136% more than the next best HEI: King's College London - 6.6%)
  • Deafness and hearing problems: 5.9% (68.6% more than the next best HEI: ²Ñ²¹²Ô³¦³ó±ð²õ³Ù±ð°ùÌý- 3.5%)
  • Dementias: 15% (117% more than the next best HEI: King's College London - 6.9%)
  • Experimental psychology: 18.5% (103% more than the next best HEI: Oxford - 9.1%)
  • Mental health: 14.7 (35% more than next best HEI: King's College London - 10.9%)
  • Multidisciplinary psychology: 12.4% (14% more than the next best HEI: King's College London - 10.9%)
  • Neuroimaging: 21.1% (73% more than the next best HEI: Oxford - 12.2%)
  • Neurosciences: 18.1% (97% more than the next best HEI: Cambridge - 9.2%)
  • Ophthalmology: 16.4% (310% more than the next best HEI: Oxford - 4%)
  • Psychology - psychoanalysis: 28.0% (82% more than the next best HEI: King's College London - 15.4%)

The full report can be read here:

Salil Gunashekar, Sarah Parks, Clara Calero-Medina, Martijn Visser, Jeroen van Honk, Steven Wooding (2015) Bilbliometric analysis of highly cited publications of biomedical and health research in England, 2004-2013.