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Hospital / health system · Decatur · United States

Atlanta VA Medical Center

In research, Atlanta VA Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#5,154 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#6,465 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,540
of 28,054 · #3,485 all time
Rank in United States
#1,426
of 4,192
Research works
1.6k
▼ 10% vs 2013–17
Citations
68k
43.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Atlanta VA Medical Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #5,154 of 10,443 18.1%103 #3111
Health SciencesDomain #6,465 of 11,982 17.6%111 #3601

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Atlanta VA Medical Center sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 18 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.42× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.26× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.60× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.09× its world share, 103 worksMedicineNursing: 0.84× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.45× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Atlanta VA Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Rupak Desai, John N. Aarsvold and Pratibha Joshi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Atlanta VA Medical Center.

  1. 1 Rupak Desai United States · #113,344 worldwide 718 citations · 146 works
  2. 2 John N. Aarsvold United States · #586,726 worldwide 26 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Pratibha Joshi United States · #907,607 worldwide 18 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Octavian C. Ioachimescu United States · #919,646 worldwide 16 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Gautam Kumar United States · #1,287,448 worldwide 24 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 Stephen K. Lau United States · #1,287,517 worldwide 7 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Atlanta VA Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Atlanta VA Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Depression, Inflammation, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Anxiety, Cardiovascular Disease and Public Health.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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. Epidemiology26▲ 3.8×80 topics
  2. Inflammation12▲ 3.4×47 topics
  3. Depression11▲ 7.0×18 topics
  4. Mental Health10▲ 3.9×20 topics
  5. Risk Factors8▲ 4.2×20 topics
  6. Public Health7▲ 2.9×23 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease7▲ 3.8×26 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress7▲ 2.6×27 topics
  9. Anxiety6▲ 7.4×10 topics
  10. Treatment5▲ 2.5×28 topics
  11. Diagnosis5▲ 2.9×22 topics
  12. Resilience5▲ 5.5×6 topics
  13. Biomarkers4▲ 3.8×11 topics
  14. Trauma4▲ 13×5 topics
  15. Global Burden of Disease4▲ 10×3 topics
  16. Cognitive Therapy4▲ 23×3 topics
  17. Meta-Analysis4▲ 4.1×9 topics
  18. Metabolic Syndrome4▲ 2.9×17 topics
  19. Cardiovascular Health4▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Psychometric Evaluation4▲ 26×2 topics
  21. Clinical Trials4▲ 3.3×14 topics
  22. Immune Response4▲ 4.0×17 topics
  23. Aging4▲ 3.9×10 topics
  24. Regeneration4▲ 11×4 topics
  25. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 8.9×6 topics
  26. Insulin Resistance3▲ 4.3×9 topics
  27. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder3▲ 71×1 topic
  28. Psychological Treatment3▲ 71×1 topic
  29. Community Health3▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Health Promotion3▲ 5.9×4 topics
  31. Mesenchymal Stem Cells3▲ 18×3 topics
  32. Neurodegeneration3▲ 6.3×6 topics
  33. Pathogenesis3▲ 3.7×15 topics
  34. Vaccine3▲ 4.6×8 topics
  35. Antiretroviral Therapy3▲ 11×6 topics
  36. Cognitive Impairment3▲ 6.5×7 topics
  37. Ideal Cardiovascular Health3▲ 53×1 topic
  38. Preventive Medicine3▲ 50×1 topic
  39. Diagnostic Errors2▲ 55×2 topics
  40. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor2▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Atlanta VA Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Cardiac Health and Mental Health and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 3 fractional worksCardiovascular Health and Risk Factors: 3 fractional worksCardiac Health and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 2 fractional worksMesenchymal stem cell research: 2 fractional worksAngiogenesis and VEGF in…1Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer: 1 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 1 fractional worksStress Responses and Cortisol: 1 fractional worksAutopsy Techniques and Outcomes: 1 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineRheumatologyGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 3 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Health and Mental Health Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 2 works
  5. 5 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 2 works
  6. 6 Mesenchymal stem cell research Genetics 2 works
  7. 7 Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer Molecular Biology 1 works
  8. 8 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  9. 9 Stress Responses and Cortisol Behavioral Neuroscience 1 works
  10. 10 Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available40.6%not open59.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.3%domestic only87.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Atlanta VA Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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