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Avera Heart Hospital

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Research works
17
▲ 49% vs 2018-21
Citations
176
10.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Avera Heart Hospital

Not ranked overall: Avera Heart Hospital is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Avera Heart Hospital work in?

In all years, 88% of research at Avera Heart Hospital is in Health Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (85%), Business, Management and Accounting (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 15 fractional works · 87.6% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 85.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 23.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 15.0% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 12.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workALL ITS WORKAvera HeartHospital17fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences88%Social Sciences6%

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

Its 4 domains and 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1585.1%
    2. Health Professions01.5%
    3. Nursing01.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting15.8%
    2. Psychology00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.8%
    2. Neuroscience00.5%
    1. Engineering01.9%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.69× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.36× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.24× its world share, 3 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.24×3 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.69×0 works
  3. Neuroscience1.36×0 works
  4. Psychology0.72×0 works
  5. Health Professions0.67×0 works
  6. Engineering0.22×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Avera Heart Hospital?

The most cited paper from Avera Heart Hospital is "Dissection and Aneurysm in Patients With Fibromuscular Dysplasia" (Daniella L. Kadian‐Dodov, Heather L. Gornik, Xiaokui Gu et al., 2016), with 225 citations. Next come "Randomized Comparison of a CrossBoss First Versus Standard Wire Escalation Strategy for Crossing Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions" (56) and "Multicenter experience with endovascular treatment of aortic coarctation in adults" (49).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dissection and Aneurysm in Patients With Fibromuscular Dysplasia Daniella L. Kadian‐Dodov, Heather L. Gornik, Xiaokui Gu et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Jul 2016 225
2 Randomized Comparison of a CrossBoss First Versus Standard Wire Escalation Strategy for Crossing Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions Judit A Karacsonyi et al. · JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions Open access Feb 2018 56
3 Multicenter experience with endovascular treatment of aortic coarctation in adults Young Erben, Gustavo S. Oderich, Hence J.M. Verhagen et al. · Journal of Vascular Surgery Open access 24 Oct 2018 49
4 Carotid stenting with a new system for distal embolic protection and stenting in high‐risk patients: The carotid revascularization with ev3 arterial technology evolution (CREATE) feasibility trial Robert D. Safian, J. Michael Bacharach, Gary M. Ansel et al. · Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 27 Aug 2004 45
5 Effect of Continued Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Ventricular Arrhythmias After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation John William Schleifer, Farouk Mookadam, Evan Paul Kransdorf et al. · The American Journal of Cardiology 28 May 2016 41
All 51 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Avera Heart Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics.

Cerebrovascular and Caro…0Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases: 0 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anoma…0Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 0 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 0 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…0Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksTissue Engineering and R…0Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: 0 fractional worksPluripotent Stem Cells R…0Pluripotent Stem Cells Research: 0 fractional worksMesenchymal stem cell re…0Mesenchymal stem cell research: 0 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…0Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 0 fractional worksCardiovascular Effects of Exercise: 0 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 0 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSurgeryCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMolecular Biology1 others

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

  1. 1 Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  4. 4 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 0 works
  5. 5 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Surgery 0 works
  6. 6 Pluripotent Stem Cells Research Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Mesenchymal stem cell research Genetics 0 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 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 available34.9%not open65.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.3%domestic only77.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Avera Heart Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Avera Heart Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Avera Heart Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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