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Central Texas Veterans Health Care System

In research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System stands highest in Medicine (#6,265 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#7,379 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#18,580
of 28,054 · #15,347 all time
Rank in United States
#2,696
of 4,192
Research works
466
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
29.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is Central Texas Veterans Health Care System known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #6,265 of 17,978 19.8%267
Health SciencesDomain #7,379 of 20,462 19.6%300

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Central Texas Veterans Health Care System 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: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.84× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.78× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.61× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.35× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 2.33× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.54× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.47× its world share, 32 worksMedicineNursing: 1.54× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.92× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.37× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System?

Ranked on the composite score, Fanyin Meng, Gianfranco Alpini and Shannon Glaser lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Central Texas Veterans Health Care System.

  1. 1 Fanyin Meng United States · #94,713 worldwide 197 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Gianfranco Alpini United States · #168,868 worldwide 263 citations · 102 works
  3. 3 Shannon Glaser United States · #362,502 worldwide 176 citations · 87 works
  4. 4 Stephanie Grant United States · #542,999 worldwide 28 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Frank C. Hampel United States · #549,752 worldwide 30 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Gabriel Frampton United States · #614,223 worldwide 25 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Matthew McMillin United States · #759,190 worldwide 25 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Chetan Jinadatha United States · #1,064,969 worldwide 53 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Sharon DeMorrow United States · #1,198,145 worldwide 36 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System

Which keywords describe research at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Healthcare-Associated Infections, Resilience, Risk Factors, Prevention Strategies, Patient Safety and SARS-CoV-2.

▲ 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. Epidemiology15▲ 5.6×39 topics
  2. Mental Health7▲ 7.4×17 topics
  3. Healthcare-Associated Infections5▲ 59×5 topics
  4. Resilience4▲ 13×5 topics
  5. Risk Factors4▲ 5.8×12 topics
  6. COVID-194▲ 4.1×7 topics
  7. Prevention Strategies3▲ 52×4 topics
  8. Patient Safety3▲ 34×4 topics
  9. SARS-CoV-23▲ 15×4 topics
  10. Cognitive Therapy3▲ 44×3 topics
  11. Infection3▲ 17×7 topics
  12. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder3▲ 141×1 topic
  13. Psychological Treatment3▲ 141×1 topic
  14. Trauma3▲ 20×2 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 6.9×7 topics
  16. Biosensors2▲ 6.8×4 topics
  17. Depression2▲ 4.0×14 topics
  18. Healthcare Workers2▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 16×6 topics
  20. Infection Control2▲ 38×2 topics
  21. Management2▲ 4.0×6 topics
  22. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 7.8×6 topics
  23. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea2▲ 100×1 topic
  24. Bacteremia2▲ 42×3 topics
  25. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation2▲ 100×1 topic
  26. Guidelines2▲ 6.4×3 topics
  27. Environmental Contamination2▲ 83×1 topic
  28. Hand Hygiene2▲ 191×1 topic
  29. Pathogenesis2▲ 5.5×6 topics
  30. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry2▲ 90×1 topic
  31. Microorganism Identification2▲ 90×1 topic
  32. Neuropathology2▲ 20×2 topics
  33. Diagnostics2▲ 29×1 topic
  34. Recovery2▲ 22×2 topics
  35. wastewater surveillance2▲ 78×1 topic
  36. Critical Care2▲ 9.7×4 topics
  37. Virulence Factors2▲ 16×5 topics
  38. Encephalopathy1▲ 33×2 topics
  39. Concussion1▲ 48×1 topic
  40. Neurological1▲ 48×1 topic

Which research topics does Central Texas Veterans Health Care System publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Infection Control in Healthcare and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing.

Posttraumatic Stress Dis…3Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 3 fractional worksClostridium difficile an…2Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research: 2 fractional worksInfection Control in Hea…2Infection Control in Healthcare: 2 fractional worksBacterial Identification…2Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing: 2 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 detection and testing: 2 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 1 fractional worksInfection Control and Ve…1Infection Control and Ventilation: 1 fractional worksIntimate Partner and Family Violence: 1 fractional worksChild Abuse and Trauma: 1 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyInfectious DiseasesClinical BiochemistryEpidemiology2 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 Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research Infectious Diseases 2 works
  3. 3 Infection Control in Healthcare Infectious Diseases 2 works
  4. 4 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing Clinical Biochemistry 2 works
  5. 5 SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing Infectious Diseases 2 works
  6. 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 1 works
  7. 7 Infection Control and Ventilation Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Intimate Partner and Family Violence Health 1 works
  9. 9 Child Abuse and Trauma Clinical Psychology 1 works
  10. 10 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 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 available44.1%not open55.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.9%domestic only86.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Central Texas Veterans Health Care System's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% 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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