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UCL 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 UCL 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 UCL 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 - UCL 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: Manchester - 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:

[1]: 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. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1363.html