The National Institutes of Health is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The majority of NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. More information...
In June 2020 the website nih.gov was on the 29th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 29th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "nih.gov" is the 37th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before rollingstone.com and after independent.co.uk in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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