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Houston Medical Center

In research, Houston Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#9,247 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#11,402 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#24,628
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#5,287
of 8,685
Research works
366
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
10k
28.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
21%
world 28%

What is Houston Medical Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #9,247 of 17,978 13.3%206
Health SciencesDomain #11,402 of 20,462 13.8%226

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Houston 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).

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: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.96× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.12× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.09× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.84× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.24× its world share, 21 worksMedicineNursing: 5.94× its world share, 1 worksNursingDecision Sciences: 2.01× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.27× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 5.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Houston Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Surgical Management, Complications, Epidemiology, Sudden Death, Congenital, Coronary Artery Anomalies, Critical Care and Medical Research.

▲ 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 15 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 15 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology2▲ 1.77×17 topics
  2. Surgical Management1▲ 10×4 topics
  3. Complications1▲ 7.5×8 topics
  4. Inflammation1▲ 1.78×10 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress1▲ 2.1×10 topics
  6. Congenital1▲ 186×1 topic
  7. Coronary Artery Anomalies1▲ 186×1 topic
  8. Depression1▲ 3.6×7 topics
  9. Sudden Death1▲ 74×2 topics
  10. Critical Care1▲ 13×1 topic
  11. Medical Research1▲ 101×1 topic
  12. Nutrition Support Therapy1▲ 113×1 topic
  13. Physician-Scientist1▲ 101×1 topic
  14. Quality of Life1▲ 2.0×8 topics
  15. Tomography1▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Houston Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Coronary Artery Anomalies, Health and Medical Research Impacts, Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology and Seismic Waves and Analysis.

Coronary Artery Anomalies1Coronary Artery Anomalies: 1 fractional worksHealth and Medical Resea…1Health and Medical Research Impacts: 1 fractional worksClinical Nutrition and G…1Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology: 1 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis1Seismic Waves and Analysis: 1 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 1 fractional worksProstate Cancer Treatment and Research: 0 fractional worksChronic Kidney Disease a…0Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes: 0 fractional worksRenal and Vascular Pathologies: 0 fractional worksAbdominal vascular conditions and treatments: 0 fractional worksNeonatal and fetal brain pathology: 0 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthNutrition and DieteticsGeophysics3 others

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

  1. 1 Coronary Artery Anomalies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  2. 2 Health and Medical Research Impacts Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  3. 3 Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology Nutrition and Dietetics 1 works
  4. 4 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 1 works
  5. 5 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 1 works
  6. 6 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  7. 7 Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Nephrology 0 works
  8. 8 Renal and Vascular Pathologies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Abdominal vascular conditions and treatments Surgery 0 works
  10. 10 Neonatal and fetal brain pathology Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 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 available21.3%not open78.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.6%domestic only90.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Houston Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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