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Christus Health

In research, Christus Health stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,797 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,585
of 22,385 · #24,516 all time
Rank in United States
#2,737
of 3,332
Research works
240
▲ 103% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
8.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Christus Health

What is Christus Health known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #6,797 of 9,902 7.8%63 #10778

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Christus Health 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Christus Health work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Christus Health is in Health Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (65%), Social Sciences (13%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 74 fractional works · 70.1% of its workMedicine: 68 fractional works · 64.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSurgery: 8 fractional works · 7.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 18.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 12.6% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 8.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKChristus Health105fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences70%Social Sciences18%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6864.8%
    2. Health Professions54.3%
    3. Veterinary00.4%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    5. Nursing00.3%
    1. Social Sciences1312.6%
    2. Psychology22.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting11.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology22.0%
    3. Neuroscience11.0%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Environmental Science11.1%
    2. Engineering11.0%
    3. Computer Science10.9%
    4. Mathematics10.5%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.89× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.95× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.65× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.37× its world share, 68 worksMedicineNursing: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.91× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.74× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.00× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.37×68 works
  2. Veterinary2.91×0 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.95×2 works
  4. Health Professions1.65×5 works
  5. Social Sciences1.00×13 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.89×5 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.74×2 works
  8. Psychology0.70×2 works
  9. Dentistry0.63×0 works
  10. Neuroscience0.60×1 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.60×0 works
  12. Nursing0.54×0 works
  13. Mathematics0.43×0 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.32×1 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.24×1 works
  16. Environmental Science0.23×1 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.15×0 works
  18. Computer Science0.11×1 works
  19. Engineering0.07×1 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Christus Health?

Ranked on the quality score, Lisa Lott, Becket Gremmels and Peter B. Richman lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Christus Health.

  1. 1 Lisa Lott United States · #2,536,621 worldwide 1.3k citations · 43 works
  2. 2 Becket Gremmels United States · #3,836,848 worldwide 43 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Peter B. Richman United States · #4,070,890 worldwide 3.5k citations · 137 works
  4. 4 Kathryn J. McDonagh United States · #4,514,513 worldwide 297 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Kimberly Leeson United States · #4,712,811 worldwide 62 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Sreenath Meegada United States · #4,780,090 worldwide 291 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Mark Moran United States · #7,429,254 worldwide 193 citations · 188 works
All ranked researchers at Christus Health

What are the most cited papers from Christus Health?

The most cited paper from Christus Health is "Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: AUA/SUO Guideline Part I: Prostate Cancer Screening" (John Thomas Wei, Daniel Ari Barocas, Sigrid Carlsson et al., 2023), with 385 citations. Next come "Use of Ambient AI Scribes to Reduce Administrative Burden and Professional Burnout" (202) and "Placental Tissue Destruction and Insufficiency from COVID-19 Causes Stillbirth and Neonatal Death from Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury: A Study of 68 Cases with SARS-CoV-2 Placentitis from 12 Countries" (196).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: AUA/SUO Guideline Part I: Prostate Cancer Screening John Thomas Wei, Daniel Ari Barocas, Sigrid Carlsson et al. · The Journal of Urology Open access 25 Apr 2023 385
2 Use of Ambient AI Scribes to Reduce Administrative Burden and Professional Burnout Kristine D. Olson, Daniella Meeker, Matt Troup et al. · JAMA Network Open Open access 2 Oct 2025 202
3 Placental Tissue Destruction and Insufficiency from COVID-19 Causes Stillbirth and Neonatal Death from Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury: A Study of 68 Cases with SARS-CoV-2 Placentitis from 12 Countries David Asa Schwartz et al. · Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) Open access Jun 2022 196
4 Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: AUA/SUO Guideline Part II: Considerations for a Prostate Biopsy John Thomas Wei, Daniel Ari Barocas, Sigrid Carlsson et al. · The Journal of Urology Open access 25 Apr 2023 187
5 Arthroscopically Assisted Reconstruction of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Daniel B. O’Neill · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Sep 2001 184
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Christus Health?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Echocardiography, Risk Factors, Diagnosis, Cancer Incidence, Virulence Factors, Global Burden and Endothelial Dysfunction.

▲ 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-now 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. Epidemiology11▲ 2.7×53 topics
  2. Risk Factors5▲ 4.2×19 topics
  3. Echocardiography5▲ 16×8 topics
  4. Diagnosis4▲ 3.9×14 topics
  5. Treatment3▲ 2.6×14 topics
  6. Inflammation3▲ 1.42×22 topics
  7. Global Burden3▲ 5.0×8 topics
  8. Public Health3▲ 1.90×19 topics
  9. Chemotherapy3▲ 3.6×11 topics
  10. Cancer Incidence3▲ 18×4 topics
  11. Virulence Factors3▲ 17×5 topics
  12. Heart Failure2▲ 4.9×7 topics
  13. Management2▲ 2.7×10 topics
  14. Radiotherapy2▲ 5.2×6 topics
  15. Endothelial Dysfunction2▲ 8.6×5 topics
  16. Teacher Training2▲ 3.3×3 topics
  17. Legal Theory2▲ 28×2 topics
  18. Mortality2▲ 3.3×9 topics
  19. Active Learning2▲ 9.8×4 topics
  20. Cardiac Imaging2▲ 15×3 topics
  21. Guidelines2▲ 3.9×9 topics
  22. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 7.6×5 topics
  23. Biofilm Formation2▲ 24×3 topics
  24. Civil Rights2▲ 24×1 topic
  25. Constitutional Law2▲ 12×1 topic
  26. Healthcare Access2▲ 6.0×3 topics
  27. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 7.4×6 topics
  28. Medical Education2▲ 5.7×4 topics
  29. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 11×4 topics
  30. CT Screening2▲ 21×1 topic
  31. Lung Cancer2▲ 8.5×1 topic
  32. Science Education2▲ 23×1 topic
  33. Teaching Methodologies2▲ 11×1 topic
  34. Social Determinants1▲ 6.7×4 topics
  35. Deep Vein Thrombosis1▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Endovascular Repair1▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Genetic Susceptibility1▲ 13×4 topics
  38. Healthcare-Associated Infections1▲ 9.4×3 topics
  39. Thrombus Formation1▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Viral Oncoproteins1▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Christus Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Brazilian Legal Issues, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Science and Education Research and Cardiac tumors and thrombi.

Brazilian Legal Issues2Brazilian Legal Issues: 2 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…2Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksScience and Education Research: 2 fractional worksCardiac tumors and thrombi: 1 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil1Public Health in Brazil: 1 fractional worksAntimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus: 1 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 1 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV …1Cervical Cancer and HPV Research: 1 fractional worksEnterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research: 1 fractional worksLymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional works
LawPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEducationCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine6 others

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

  1. 1 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 2 works
  2. 2 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  3. 3 Science and Education Research Education 2 works
  4. 4 Cardiac tumors and thrombi Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  5. 5 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus Infectious Diseases 1 works
  7. 7 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  8. 8 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 1 works
  9. 9 Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research Endocrinology 1 works
  10. 10 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 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 available45.0%not open55.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.0%domestic only79.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Christus Health's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 103% 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 Christus Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Christus Health0.00057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Christus Health over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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