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The university has six papers listed in the Top 100, which tracked over 2.7 million research outputs in 2019. °×С½ãÂÛ̳ is the top ranked institution in the UK and has been exceed only by Harvard in the global list.

Altmetric highlights 62.5 million mentions of published research across a range of online platforms – from patents and public policy documents to mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media platforms (including Twitter, Reddit & Facebook).

This year’s list features works published in 43 different journals, preprint servers, and government websites.

The most talked about study from °×С½ãÂÛ̳, led by Professor Alison Rodger (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute for Global Health and Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust), reported that antiretroviral treatment prevents sexual transmission of HIV, which is a major advancement in the fight against the spread of HIV worldwide.

Other top papers involving °×С½ãÂÛ̳ researchers include:

• #33 – ‘Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b' by Dr Angelos Tsiaras, Dr Ingo Waldmann, Professor Giovanna Tinetti, Professor Jonathan Tennyson, Dr Sergey Yurchenko (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Centre for Space Exochemistry Data and °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Physics & Astronomy).
• #46 – ‘Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492' by Alexander Koch, Dr Chris Brierley, Professor Mark Maslin, Professor Simon Lewis (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Geography).
• #82 – ‘Association of lifestyle and genetic risk with incidence of dementia’ by Dr Elina Hyppönen (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ GOS Institute of Child Health).
• #91 – ‘Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis’ by Dr Barbara Jefferis (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Epidemiology & Health).
• #94 – ‘Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity ' by Dr James Cox, Dr Abdella Habib, Dr Andrei Okorokov, Man-Cheung Lee, Shengnan Li, Samuel Gossage (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Medicine) and DrÌýJose BrasÌý(°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

Links

• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ News story: First water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ planet
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ News story: ‘Great Dying’ in Americas disturbed Earth’s climate
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ News story: Woman with novel gene mutation lives almost pain-free
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute for Global Health
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Centre for Space Exochemistry Data
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Physics & Astronomy
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Medicine
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Queen Square Institute of Neurology

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