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Cleveland Clinic

In research, Cleveland Clinic stands highest in Surgery (#3 of 1,816 worldwide), Medicine (#32 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#45 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transplantation, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Internal Medicine — Transplantation is 13.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#599
of 28,054 · #391 all time
Rank in United States
#122
of 4,192
Research works
62k
▲ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.8M
28.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

What is Cleveland Clinic 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
SurgerySubfield #3 of 1,816 15.5%1,471 #4
MedicineField #32 of 10,443 13.5%7,507 #25
Health SciencesDomain #45 of 11,982 13.6%7,838 #30
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #7 of 738 13.2%880 #4
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #33 of 1,144 12.4%778 #11
Life SciencesDomain #390 of 7,800 13.7%1,027 #221
EpidemiologySubfield #66 of 976 12.8%489 #51
OncologySubfield #57 of 772 12.0%519 #47
RheumatologySubfield #32 of 237 13.2%184 #33
Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSubfield #40 of 261 16.8%169 #53

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Cleveland Clinic 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. Surgery#4 #3
  2. Medicine#25 #32
  3. Health Sciences#30 #45
  4. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#4 #7
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#11 #33
  6. Life Sciences#221 #390
  7. Epidemiology#51 #66
  8. Oncology#47 #57
  9. Rheumatology#33 #32
  10. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism#53 #40
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 Cleveland Clinic specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Transplantation takes 13.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. TransplantationSubfield · 56.6 works13×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 880.1 works8.7×
  3. Internal MedicineSubfield · 46.9 works8.0×
  4. GastroenterologySubfield · 82.0 works7.3×
  5. SurgerySubfield · 1,471.4 works6.5×
  6. HematologySubfield · 175.5 works6.0×
  7. Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineSubfield · 63.6 works6.0×
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 778.2 works5.3×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 19 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.32× its world share, 674 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.40× its world share, 135 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.16× its world share, 180 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.57× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.11× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 62 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 174 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 34 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 14 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 16 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 35 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 15 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.04× its world share, 262 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.07× its world share, 7,507 worksMedicineNursing: 1.04× its world share, 49 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.44× its world share, 6 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 26 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 17 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 72 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 113 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 117 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Cleveland Clinic?

Ranked on the composite score, E. Murat Tuzcu, Mina K. Chung and James D. Thomas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cleveland Clinic.

  1. 1 E. Murat Tuzcu · #142 worldwide 4.7k citations · 124 works
  2. 2 Mina K. Chung · #1,635 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
  3. 3 James D. Thomas · #1,959 worldwide 2.1k citations · 174 works
  4. 4 Michael W. Kattan · #2,695 worldwide 1.8k citations · 192 works
  5. 5 Eugene H. Blackstone · #2,855 worldwide 1.4k citations · 133 works
  6. 6 Andrew C. Novick · #3,234 worldwide 1.4k citations · 170 works
  7. 7 Stanley L. Hazen · #3,252 worldwide 1.5k citations · 101 works
  8. 8 Gene H. Barnett · #3,326 worldwide 1.1k citations · 100 works
  9. 9 Brian I. Rini · #4,224 worldwide 1.2k citations · 154 works
  10. 10 Carol Farver · #4,296 worldwide 1.4k citations · 65 works
All ranked researchers at Cleveland Clinic

Which keywords describe research at Cleveland Clinic?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Complications, Heart Failure, Echocardiography, Guidelines and Chemotherapy.

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,118▲ 3.0×126 topics
  2. Treatment534▲ 4.6×50 topics
  3. Diagnosis506▲ 5.7×40 topics
  4. Inflammation419▲ 2.1×80 topics
  5. Chemotherapy362▲ 5.4×25 topics
  6. Quality of Life361▲ 2.6×49 topics
  7. Complications361▲ 7.5×17 topics
  8. Heart Failure348▲ 8.4×13 topics
  9. Guidelines338▲ 7.6×13 topics
  10. Echocardiography338▲ 13×8 topics
  11. Risk Factors327▲ 3.1×34 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines311▲ 6.0×14 topics
  13. Management311▲ 4.1×30 topics
  14. Immunotherapy310▲ 4.5×19 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors277▲ 6.6×14 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease245▲ 2.3×38 topics
  17. Mortality227▲ 4.1×13 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations221▲ 5.3×23 topics
  19. Surgery213▲ 6.3×12 topics
  20. Obesity209▲ 2.9×23 topics
  21. Surgical Management196▲ 5.0×20 topics
  22. Neoadjuvant Therapy187▲ 8.3×5 topics
  23. Myocardial Infarction187▲ 8.4×7 topics
  24. Prognosis184▲ 5.8×9 topics
  25. Radiotherapy179▲ 4.8×13 topics
  26. Cardiovascular Risk168▲ 5.6×9 topics
  27. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement158▲ 23×1 topic
  28. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement158▲ 23×1 topic
  29. Rehabilitation149▲ 4.0×12 topics
  30. Cardiac Imaging146▲ 13×3 topics
  31. Molecular Characterization142▲ 8.4×6 topics
  32. Survival Analysis142▲ 5.5×7 topics
  33. Clinical Guidelines140▲ 5.0×9 topics
  34. Immunosuppressive Therapy135▲ 7.6×8 topics
  35. Prophylaxis129▲ 11×4 topics
  36. Laparoscopic Surgery125▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Catheter Ablation120▲ 10×2 topics
  38. Dilated Cardiomyopathy118▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Inflammatory Bowel Disease113▲ 10×5 topics
  40. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention111▲ 8.6×4 topics

Which research topics does Cleveland Clinic publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes.

Cardiac Valve Diseases a…158Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 158 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …95Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 95 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 78 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 74 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgic…72Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 72 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 72 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 70 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods…68Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 68 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 67 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 64 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgeryOncologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 158 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 95 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairSurgery 78 works
  4. 4 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 74 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsOncology 72 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 72 works
  7. 7 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementEpidemiology 70 works
  8. 8 Transplantation: Methods and OutcomesSurgery 68 works
  9. 9 Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesBiomedical Engineering 67 works
  10. 10 Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 64 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 available27.9%not open72.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.5%domestic only89.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Cleveland Clinic's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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.