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Duke Medical Center

In research, Duke Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#141 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#221 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#100 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Genetics, Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine — Genetics is 5.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#971
of 28,054 · #286 all time
Rank in United States
#170
of 4,192
Research works
39k
▼ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.9M
48.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
31%
world 28%

What is Duke Medical Center 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
MedicineField #141 of 10,443 18.8%1,850 #56
Health SciencesDomain #221 of 11,982 18.8%1,952 #68
SurgerySubfield #100 of 1,816 19.9%329 #41
Life SciencesDomain #453 of 7,800 22.9%478 #80
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #98 of 738 21.3%144 #19
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #673 of 3,579 22.1%302 #99
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #222 of 1,144 17.1%207 #40
OncologySubfield #191 of 772 18.9%150 #56
NeuroscienceField #345 of 1,168 24.8%83 #75
Molecular BiologySubfield #646 of 2,175 24.2%159 #81

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Duke Medical Center 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. Medicine#56 #141
  2. Health Sciences#68 #221
  3. Surgery#41 #100
  4. Life Sciences#80 #453
  5. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#19 #98
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#99 #673
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#40 #222
  8. Oncology#56 #191
  9. Neuroscience#75 #345
  10. Molecular Biology#81 #646
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 Duke Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Genetics takes 5.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeneticsSubfield · 41.8 works5.6×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 329.5 works5.1×
  3. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 143.5 works5.0×
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 206.6 works4.9×
  5. OncologySubfield · 150.3 works4.9×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.07× its world share, 302 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.60× its world share, 72 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.87× its world share, 83 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.80× its world share, 8 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.17× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 74 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.35× its world share, 22 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.12× its world share, 81 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.52× its world share, 1,850 worksMedicineNursing: 1.15× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.48× its world share, 28 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 59 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 53 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Duke Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Irwin Fridovich, Darell D. Bigner and Andrew Berchuck lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Duke Medical Center.

  1. 1 Irwin Fridovich · #1,216 worldwide 4.1k citations · 87 works
  2. 2 Darell D. Bigner · #1,411 worldwide 2.9k citations · 168 works
  3. 3 Andrew Berchuck · #1,748 worldwide 1.8k citations · 108 works
  4. 4 Roger E. McLendon · #1,872 worldwide 2.4k citations · 87 works
  5. 5 Robert J. Lefkowitz · #2,424 worldwide 2.5k citations · 140 works
  6. 6 Angeles Alvarez Secord · #2,540 worldwide 1.4k citations · 98 works
  7. 7 Henry S. Friedman · #2,634 worldwide 1.6k citations · 125 works
  8. 8 James E. Herndon · #3,159 worldwide 1.3k citations · 98 works
  9. 9 Dan G. Blazer · #3,334 worldwide 1.3k citations · 141 works
  10. 10 Allan H. Friedman · #4,590 worldwide 1.2k citations · 66 works
All ranked researchers at Duke Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Duke Medical Center?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology281▲ 2.6×126 topics
  2. Inflammation127▲ 2.2×82 topics
  3. Immunotherapy122▲ 6.2×19 topics
  4. Chemotherapy94▲ 4.9×25 topics
  5. Treatment92▲ 2.8×48 topics
  6. Quality of Life91▲ 2.3×50 topics
  7. Risk Factors83▲ 2.8×36 topics
  8. Diagnosis83▲ 3.2×39 topics
  9. Heart Failure82▲ 7.0×13 topics
  10. Cancer78▲ 2.1×49 topics
  11. Radiotherapy74▲ 7.0×13 topics
  12. Complications72▲ 5.2×17 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress70▲ 1.58×56 topics
  14. Clinical Trials70▲ 3.8×18 topics
  15. Guidelines69▲ 5.4×13 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease68▲ 2.2×33 topics
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines67▲ 4.5×14 topics
  18. Biomarkers65▲ 3.5×18 topics
  19. Genetic Mutations60▲ 5.1×23 topics
  20. Prognostic Factors60▲ 5.0×14 topics
  21. Management59▲ 2.8×28 topics
  22. Surgical Management50▲ 4.5×19 topics
  23. Echocardiography48▲ 6.5×8 topics
  24. Tumor Microenvironment48▲ 4.0×8 topics
  25. Rehabilitation47▲ 4.4×13 topics
  26. Health-related Quality of Life46▲ 7.2×5 topics
  27. Targeted Therapy45▲ 7.3×5 topics
  28. Patient Satisfaction42▲ 4.9×9 topics
  29. Breast Cancer41▲ 6.3×11 topics
  30. Thrombosis39▲ 5.1×7 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy39▲ 6.0×5 topics
  32. Survival Analysis38▲ 5.1×7 topics
  33. Immunosuppressive Therapy36▲ 7.1×8 topics
  34. Revision Surgery36▲ 10×2 topics
  35. Total Hip Replacement36▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Transplantation35▲ 13×4 topics
  37. Arthroplasty32▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention32▲ 8.6×4 topics
  39. Graft Survival31▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Rejection29▲ 26×2 topics

Which research topics does Duke Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Transplantation: Methods…26Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 26 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty …22Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 22 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 21 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 19 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 18 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 17 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 16 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease…16Congenital Heart Disease Studies: 16 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 15 fractional worksProstate Cancer Treatment and Research: 15 fractional works
SurgeryBiomedical EngineeringOncologyGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Transplantation: Methods and OutcomesSurgery 26 works
  2. 2 Total Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesSurgery 22 works
  3. 3 Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesBiomedical Engineering 21 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 19 works
  5. 5 Glioma Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetics 18 works
  6. 6 Organ Transplantation Techniques and OutcomesSurgery 17 works
  7. 7 Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsCancer Research 16 works
  8. 8 Congenital Heart Disease StudiesEpidemiology 16 works
  9. 9 Shoulder Injury and TreatmentSurgery 15 works
  10. 10 Prostate Cancer Treatment and ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 15 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 available31.1%not open68.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.5%domestic only88.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Duke Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% lower 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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