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Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation

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Research works
83
▲ 163% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
23.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation

Not ranked overall: Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation work in?

In all years, 85% of research at Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation is in Health Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (81%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%), Health Professions (2%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 70 fractional works · 84.7% of its workMedicine: 68 fractional works · 81.4% of its workOphthalmology: 29 fractional works · 35.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 13 fractional works · 15.2% of its workSurgery: 7 fractional works · 8.7% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 6.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHelen Keller EyeResearch…83fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences85%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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. Medicine6881.4%
    2. Health Professions22.5%
    3. Dentistry00.6%
    4. Nursing00.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities11.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.6%
    3. Social Sciences11.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    5. Decision Sciences00.2%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.9%
    2. Neuroscience10.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Engineering21.8%
    2. Computer Science11.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy10.8%
    4. Environmental Science00.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
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: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.38× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 8.86× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 4.13× its world share, 9 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 8.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry8.86×0 works
  2. Medicine4.13×9 works
  3. Neuroscience1.38×0 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.13×1 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology0.95×0 works
  6. Environmental Science0.44×0 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.30×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.23×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×0 works
  10. Engineering0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Timothy I. Melson, Ferenc Kuhn and Ferenc Kuhn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation.

  1. 1 Timothy I. Melson United States · #521,496 worldwide 1.6k citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Ferenc Kuhn United States · #1,268,721 worldwide 2.2k citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Ferenc Kuhn United States · #1,294,637 worldwide 5k citations · 305 works
  4. 4 Robert A. Morris United States · #2,806,838 worldwide 14k citations · 565 works
  5. 5 Mathew R Sapp United States · #2,906,547 worldwide 170 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation?

The most cited paper from Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation is "The Ocular Trauma Score (OTS)" (Ferenc Kuhn, Richard Maisiak, LoRetta Mann et al., 2002), with 639 citations. Next come "Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT): terminology and classification of mechanical eye injuries" (328) and "Internal limiting membrane removal in the management of full-thickness macular holes" (317).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Ocular Trauma Score (OTS) Ferenc Kuhn, Richard Maisiak, LoRetta Mann et al. · Ophthalmology Clinics of North America Jun 2002 639
2 Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT): terminology and classification of mechanical eye injuries Ferenc Kuhn, Randall Ellis Morris, C. Douglas Witherspoon · Ophthalmology Clinics of North America Jun 2002 328
3 Internal limiting membrane removal in the management of full-thickness macular holes Viktória Mester, Ferenc Kuhn · American Journal of Ophthalmology Jun 2000 317
4 Epidemiology of Blinding Trauma in the United States Eye Injury Registry Ferenc Kuhn, Robert A. Morris, C. Douglas Witherspoon et al. · Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2006 272
5 Cryoglobulinemia based on interaction between a gamma macroglobulin and 7S gamma globulin Joseph J. Lospalluto, Barbara Dorward, William E. Miller et al. · The American Journal of Medicine 1962 208
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Glaucoma, Femtosecond Laser, Intraocular Lens Implantation, Myopia, Epidemiology, Endophthalmitis, Macular Hole and Vitreoretinal Surgery.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Epidemiology14▲ 4.1×17 topics
  2. Glaucoma13▲ 99×3 topics
  3. Femtosecond Laser11▲ 194×1 topic
  4. Intraocular Lens Implantation11▲ 362×1 topic
  5. Myopia11▲ 201×2 topics
  6. Endophthalmitis10▲ 299×2 topics
  7. Macular Hole10▲ 461×1 topic
  8. Vitreoretinal Surgery10▲ 461×1 topic
  9. Management9▲ 13×2 topics
  10. Intraocular Foreign Bodies8▲ 450×1 topic
  11. Ocular Trauma Score8▲ 450×1 topic
  12. Intravitreal Injection4▲ 71×2 topics
  13. Optical Coherence Tomography4▲ 40×2 topics
  14. Surgical Management3▲ 9.0×2 topics
  15. Treatment Outcomes3▲ 56×2 topics
  16. Facial Fractures3▲ 179×1 topic
  17. Macular Degeneration3▲ 31×3 topics
  18. Maxillofacial Trauma3▲ 179×1 topic
  19. Diabetic Retinopathy3▲ 41×2 topics
  20. Optic Nerve2▲ 31×2 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations2▲ 5.5×5 topics
  22. Medical Education2▲ 13×4 topics
  23. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor2▲ 29×2 topics
  24. Retinal Pigment Epithelium2▲ 54×1 topic
  25. Wound Healing2▲ 12×2 topics
  26. Intraocular Pressure2▲ 26×2 topics
  27. ACE2 Receptor2▲ 20×2 topics
  28. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  29. Corneal Regeneration2▲ 80×1 topic
  30. Limbal Stem Cells2▲ 80×1 topic
  31. Neurodegeneration2▲ 7.7×2 topics
  32. Ocular Findings2▲ 87×1 topic
  33. Ocular Hypertension2▲ 35×1 topic
  34. Retinal Artery Occlusion2▲ 87×1 topic
  35. Retinal Ganglion Cells2▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Keratitis2▲ 116×1 topic
  37. Ocular Infections2▲ 116×1 topic
  38. Robotic Surgery2▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Cardiac Risk2▲ 22×1 topic
  40. Perioperative2▲ 22×1 topic

Which research topics does Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Retinal and Macular Surgery, Intraocular Surgery and Lenses, Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries and Facial Trauma and Fracture Management.

Retinal and Macular Surgery: 1 fractional worksIntraocular Surgery and Lenses: 1 fractional worksTraumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries: 1 fractional worksFacial Trauma and Fracture Management: 1 fractional worksChild Abuse and Related Trauma: 0 fractional worksVascular Malformations D…0Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksCorneal Surgery and Treatments: 0 fractional worksOcular Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksOphthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 0 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal disorders: 0 fractional works
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingOphthalmologySurgeryPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health2 others

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

  1. 1 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  2. 2 Intraocular Surgery and Lenses Ophthalmology 1 works
  3. 3 Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries Ophthalmology 1 works
  4. 4 Facial Trauma and Fracture Management Surgery 1 works
  5. 5 Child Abuse and Related Trauma Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  6. 6 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment Neurology 0 works
  7. 7 Corneal Surgery and Treatments Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  8. 8 Ocular Infections and Treatments Ophthalmology 0 works
  9. 9 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 0 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 available17.8%not open82.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.5%domestic only72.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 163% 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 Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000036% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation0.000044% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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