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Research in Danville

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Danville, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Geisinger Health System.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6.6k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
131k
19.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
10.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Danville

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Which research institutions are in Danville?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Geisinger Health SystemHospital / health system 8,174 #3,494

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Danville work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research in Danville is in Health Sciences, 12% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (74%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%), Health Professions (5%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 1,094 fractional works · 79.9% of its workMedicine: 1,009 fractional works · 73.7% of its workSurgery: 192 fractional works · 14.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 98 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 91 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEpidemiology: 87 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 62 fractional works · 4.5% of its workOncology: 49 fractional works · 3.6% of its workNeurology: 43 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 30 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhysiology: 29 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 25 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 22 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRheumatology: 21 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 20 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNephrology: 19 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 19 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 19 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHematology: 14 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGastroenterology: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDermatology: 13 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHepatology: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInternal Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 71 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 36 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 11 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 9 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 160 fractional works · 11.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 100 fractional works · 7.3% of its workGenetics: 47 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 30 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCancer Research: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 35 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 16 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 15 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 82 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPsychology: 29 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 13 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 18 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 17 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 32 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDanville1,369fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences80%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Sciences1,09479.9%
    1. Medicine1,00973.7%
    2. Health Professions715.2%
    3. Nursing90.7%
    4. Dentistry40.3%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1007.3%
    2. Neuroscience352.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology151.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.3%
    1. Psychology292.1%
    2. Social Sciences241.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance181.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting60.4%
    5. Decision Sciences40.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities30.2%
    1. Engineering141.0%
    2. Computer Science100.7%
    3. Environmental Science50.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    5. Mathematics10.1%
    6. Materials Science10.1%
    7. Chemistry00.0%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Danville strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Danville is most concentrated in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery (6.8× the world share in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine).

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 86.6 works6.8×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 176.4 works6.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.29× its world share, 84 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.99× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.48× its world share, 29 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.41× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.63× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.00× its world share, 64 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.87× its world share, 904 worksMedicineNursing: 1.36× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.63× its world share, 16 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 23 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 22 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.87×904 works
  2. Health Professions2.00×64 works
  3. Neuroscience1.48×29 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.41×6 works
  5. Nursing1.36×8 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.29×84 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.99×12 works
  8. Veterinary0.78×1 works
  9. Dentistry0.63×4 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.63×16 works
  11. Psychology0.63×23 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.28×3 works
  13. Social Sciences0.14×22 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.13×5 works
  15. Computer Science0.09×8 works
  16. Mathematics0.08×1 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×4 works
  18. Environmental Science0.07×4 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.07×2 works
  20. Engineering0.06×12 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.04×1 works
  22. Materials Science0.02×1 works
  23. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Danville?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Diagnosis, Treatment, Guidelines, Complications, Cardiovascular Disease and Surgical Management.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology180▲ 3.3×112 topics
  2. Risk Factors67▲ 4.5×28 topics
  3. Diagnosis64▲ 5.0×36 topics
  4. Treatment62▲ 3.7×43 topics
  5. Inflammation61▲ 2.1×67 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease54▲ 3.4×34 topics
  7. Quality of Life50▲ 2.5×44 topics
  8. Guidelines45▲ 7.0×12 topics
  9. Chemotherapy44▲ 4.5×23 topics
  10. Management43▲ 3.9×28 topics
  11. Complications42▲ 6.2×17 topics
  12. Public Health40▲ 1.99×34 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome39▲ 3.5×22 topics
  14. Mortality39▲ 5.0×12 topics
  15. Surgical Management38▲ 6.8×19 topics
  16. Obesity36▲ 3.4×18 topics
  17. Clinical Trials32▲ 3.5×15 topics
  18. Diabetes31▲ 4.5×17 topics
  19. Clinical Practice Guidelines30▲ 4.0×13 topics
  20. Immunotherapy30▲ 3.1×19 topics
  21. Prognostic Factors30▲ 5.0×14 topics
  22. Genetic Mutations29▲ 4.9×22 topics
  23. Global Burden29▲ 3.9×10 topics
  24. Neurological Disorders29▲ 3.7×20 topics
  25. Heart Failure27▲ 4.5×12 topics
  26. Genetic Variants26▲ 11×7 topics
  27. Prognosis25▲ 5.6×9 topics
  28. Radiotherapy25▲ 4.6×12 topics
  29. Health Outcomes24▲ 6.5×6 topics
  30. Type 2 Diabetes24▲ 7.5×5 topics
  31. Clinical Guidelines22▲ 5.5×9 topics
  32. Patient Satisfaction22▲ 5.1×9 topics
  33. Echocardiography21▲ 5.6×8 topics
  34. Chronic Kidney Disease21▲ 6.2×8 topics
  35. Chronic Disease Management21▲ 7.8×5 topics
  36. Clinical Outcomes20▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. Genetic Testing19▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention18▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Stroke Prevention18▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Anticoagulant Therapy18▲ 10×4 topics

What research is done in Danville?

Lipoproteins and Cardiov…12Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health: 12 fractional worksBariatric Surgery and Ou…11Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes: 11 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 9 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 9 fractional worksCerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases: 8 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 8 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 8 fractional worksCardiovascular Health an…8Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors: 8 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 7 fractional works
SurgeryEpidemiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health Surgery 12 works
  2. 2 Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes Surgery 11 works
  3. 3 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 9 works
  4. 4 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 9 works
  5. 5 Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  6. 6 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 8 works
  7. 7 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 8 works
  8. 8 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  9. 9 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  10. 10 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 7 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%all institutions10.0% in 2025Danville9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.4% in 1992.

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