Question 1

What is Children's National known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Children's National stands highest in Health Sciences (#670 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#638 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,287 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Genetics, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (Genetics is 9.9× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Children's National rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Children's National ranks #1,915 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#1,390 all time), and #373 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Children's National?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Roger J. Packer, Dana Ashley Hill and Gretchen M. Williams lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Children's National.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Children's National?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Children's National is "Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019" (Gregory A. Roth et al., 2020), with 11,687 citations. Next come "Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis" (6,293) and "National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. The 2014 Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report" (5,493).

Question 5

Which research topics does Children's National publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Neonatal and fetal brain pathology and CAR-T cell therapy research.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Children's National?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, Inflammation, Genetics, Immunotherapy, Congenital Heart Disease, Mortality Risk and Cardiac Surgery.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Children's National work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Children's National is in Health Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (66%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Health Professions (5%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Question 8

Is Children's National's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021.