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Boston Medical Center

In research, Boston Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#528 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#692 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,332 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Emergency Medicine, Nephrology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health — Emergency Medicine is 7.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,110
of 28,054 · #1,357 all time
Rank in United States
#445
of 4,192
Research works
9.7k
▲ 47% vs 2013–17
Citations
405k
41.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Boston 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 #528 of 10,443 17.5%1,077 #282
Health SciencesDomain #692 of 11,982 18.1%1,221 #311
Life SciencesDomain #2,332 of 7,800 17.0%161 #743
EpidemiologySubfield #314 of 976 22.7%112 #243
SurgerySubfield #658 of 1,816 13.3%139 #213
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #319 of 828 23.9%105 #274
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #386 of 916 26.3%80 #348
Social SciencesDomain #4,897 of 10,521 23.4%188 #2863
Health ProfessionsField #932 of 1,928 22.9%125 #433
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #572 of 1,144 15.2%89 #370

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Boston 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#282 #528
  2. Health Sciences#311 #692
  3. Life Sciences#743 #2,332
  4. Epidemiology#243 #314
  5. Surgery#213 #658
  6. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#274 #319
  7. General Health Professions#348 #386
  8. Social Sciences#2,863 #4,897
  9. Health Professions#433 #932
  10. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#370 #572
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Boston Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Emergency Medicine takes 7.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Emergency MedicineSubfield · 29.5 works7.5×
  2. NephrologySubfield · 24.3 works7.0×
  3. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 105.0 works4.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.06× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.06× its world share, 92 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.70× its world share, 28 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.16× its world share, 30 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.13× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.64× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.94× its world share, 125 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.47× its world share, 1,077 worksMedicineNursing: 1.51× its world share, 12 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.60× its world share, 79 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 74 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Boston Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Alice K. Jacobs, Frederick L. Ruberg and Gary Balady lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Boston Medical Center.

  1. 1 Alice K. Jacobs United States · #197 worldwide 3.5k citations · 127 works
  2. 2 Frederick L. Ruberg United States · #15,212 worldwide 868 citations · 46 works
  3. 3 Gary Balady United States · #47,073 worldwide 565 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Hiran C. Fernando United States · #49,674 worldwide 200 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Thanh N. Nguyen United States · #65,100 worldwide 393 citations · 92 works
  6. 6 Paul Tornetta United States · #73,884 worldwide 249 citations · 48 works
  7. 7 Norman G. Levinsky United States · #80,458 worldwide 196 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 David J. Salant United States · #93,627 worldwide 230 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Brian C. Jacobson United States · #105,224 worldwide 155 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Elizabeth D. Barnett United States · #136,137 worldwide 160 citations · 54 works
All ranked researchers at Boston Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Boston Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Treatment, Substance Use Disorders, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Public Health and Cardiovascular Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology208▲ 3.3×118 topics
  2. Risk Factors93▲ 5.2×33 topics
  3. Treatment75▲ 3.8×48 topics
  4. Public Health67▲ 2.9×41 topics
  5. Inflammation66▲ 1.96×69 topics
  6. Diagnosis62▲ 4.1×37 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease59▲ 3.3×36 topics
  8. Mental Health57▲ 2.4×34 topics
  9. Quality of Life55▲ 2.4×48 topics
  10. Guidelines49▲ 6.5×12 topics
  11. Mortality48▲ 5.1×13 topics
  12. Substance Use Disorders48▲ 41×2 topics
  13. Global Burden46▲ 5.2×12 topics
  14. Diabetes37▲ 4.6×16 topics
  15. Mortality Risk36▲ 9.5×6 topics
  16. Management36▲ 2.8×29 topics
  17. Revascularization35▲ 14×4 topics
  18. Clinical Trials35▲ 3.2×18 topics
  19. Health Disparities33▲ 7.9×9 topics
  20. Prognosis33▲ 6.2×9 topics
  21. Primary Care32▲ 5.3×13 topics
  22. Clinical Outcomes32▲ 9.1×6 topics
  23. Neuroprotection31▲ 5.4×13 topics
  24. Global Burden of Disease28▲ 7.1×4 topics
  25. Quality Improvement28▲ 9.0×8 topics
  26. Psychiatric Disorders27▲ 13×4 topics
  27. Chronic Pain Management27▲ 50×1 topic
  28. Opioid Prescribing27▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Atherosclerosis26▲ 5.7×11 topics
  30. Health Outcomes26▲ 5.8×7 topics
  31. Medical Education24▲ 5.9×11 topics
  32. Mortality Rates24▲ 16×2 topics
  33. Antiretroviral Therapy23▲ 8.8×6 topics
  34. Behavioral Interventions23▲ 18×3 topics
  35. Substance Abuse22▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Academic Medicine22▲ 17×3 topics
  37. HIV22▲ 16×4 topics
  38. Impulsivity21▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Alcohol Dependence21▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Motivational Interviewing21▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Boston Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management and Diversity and Career in Medicine.

Opioid Use Disorder Trea…27Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: 27 fractional worksSubstance Abuse Treatmen…21Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes: 21 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 18 fractional worksDiversity and Career in Medicine: 17 fractional worksPeripheral Artery Disease Management: 17 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 16 fractional worksCerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases: 13 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence …13Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 13 fractional worksAmyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes: 12 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 11 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEpidemiologyGender StudiesSurgery4 others

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

  1. 1 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 27 works
  2. 2 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 21 works
  3. 3 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 18 works
  4. 4 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 17 works
  5. 5 Peripheral Artery Disease Management Surgery 17 works
  6. 6 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 16 works
  7. 7 Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 13 works
  8. 8 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 13 works
  9. 9 Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes Molecular Biology 12 works
  10. 10 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 11 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 available35.9%not open64.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.9%domestic only89.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Boston Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% higher 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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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.