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Hospital / health system · Lynchburg · United States

Centra Health

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World rank, all time
#31,229
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#6,679
of 8,685
Research works
187
▲ 37% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.9k
10.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

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: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.44× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.01× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.69× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.67× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 3.61× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.71× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.74× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.00× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Centra Health?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Medical Education, Patient Satisfaction, Healthcare, Clinical Practice, Gender Differences, Depression, Empathy and Physician.

▲ 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 21 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3▲ 1.87×20 topics
  2. Medical Education3▲ 29×4 topics
  3. Healthcare2▲ 5.9×5 topics
  4. Patient Satisfaction2▲ 20×4 topics
  5. Public Health2▲ 4.0×9 topics
  6. Clinical Practice2▲ 35×2 topics
  7. Depression2▲ 6.1×9 topics
  8. Quality of Life2▲ 3.7×7 topics
  9. Gender Differences2▲ 14×2 topics
  10. Empathy2▲ 41×1 topic
  11. Physician2▲ 167×1 topic
  12. Mortality2▲ 7.1×4 topics
  13. Neural Plasticity1▲ 21×3 topics
  14. Cognition1▲ 27×2 topics
  15. Catheter Ablation1▲ 28×2 topics
  16. Oxidative Stress1▲ 1.82×3 topics
  17. Primary Care1▲ 8.2×8 topics
  18. Aging1▲ 5.2×1 topic
  19. Cost-effectiveness Analysis1▲ 33×1 topic
  20. Emotion1▲ 13×1 topic
  21. Health Utility Measures1▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Centra Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Empathy and Medical Education, Aging and Gerontology Research, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Empathy and Medical Educ…2Empathy and Medical Education: 2 fractional worksAging and Gerontology Research: 1 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…1Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation an…1Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 1 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 1 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury R…1Traumatic Brain Injury Research: 1 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 0 fractional worksInterpreting and Communication in Healthcare: 0 fractional worksMyasthenia Gravis and Thymoma: 0 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyEconomics and EconometricsRehabilitation5 others

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

  1. 1 Empathy and Medical Education Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  2. 2 Aging and Gerontology Research Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 1 works
  3. 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  4. 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 1 works
  5. 5 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  6. 6 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  7. 7 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 1 works
  8. 8 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  9. 9 Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare General Health Professions 0 works
  10. 10 Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma Neurology 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 available33.6%not open66.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.5%domestic only80.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Centra Health's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% 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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