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Inova Fairfax Hospital

In research, Inova Fairfax Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#767 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,139 of 11,982 worldwide) and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (#810 of 1,144 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 10.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,977
of 28,054 · #6,860 all time
Rank in United States
#808
of 4,192
Research works
2.3k
▲ 40% vs 2013–17
Citations
62k
26.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
27%
world 28%

What is Inova Fairfax Hospital 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 #767 of 10,443 13.4%352 #1064
Health SciencesDomain #1,139 of 11,982 13.3%372 #1286
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #810 of 1,144 12.3%71 #996

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Inova Fairfax Hospital 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#1,064 #767
  2. Health Sciences#1,286 #1,139
  3. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#996 #810
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 Inova Fairfax Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 71.5 works10×
← 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: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.81× its world share, 19 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.11× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.47× its world share, 17 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.08× its world share, 352 worksMedicineNursing: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.53× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 5 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 Inova Fairfax Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Zachary Goodman, Zobair M. Younossi and Steven D. Nathan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Inova Fairfax Hospital.

  1. 1 Zachary Goodman United States · #10,672 worldwide 696 citations · 75 works
  2. 2 Zobair M. Younossi United States · #14,712 worldwide 1.4k citations · 250 works
  3. 3 Steven D. Nathan United States · #70,502 worldwide 379 citations · 112 works
  4. 4 Samir M. Fakhry United States · #150,805 worldwide 104 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Michael J. Sheridan United States · #176,296 worldwide 115 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 Amit Mahajan United States · #264,383 worldwide 80 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Heidi J. Dalton United States · #307,673 worldwide 54 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Dipankar Mukherjee United States · #336,309 worldwide 65 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Thomas N. Wise United States · #358,425 worldwide 166 citations · 93 works
  10. 10 Christopher S. King United States · #385,539 worldwide 38 citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at Inova Fairfax Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Inova Fairfax Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Echocardiography, Heart Failure, Risk Factors, Pulmonary Hypertension, Endothelial Dysfunction and Treatment.

▲ 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. Epidemiology53▲ 3.0×89 topics
  2. Diagnosis28▲ 6.6×31 topics
  3. Echocardiography24▲ 20×7 topics
  4. Risk Factors24▲ 4.8×22 topics
  5. Treatment23▲ 4.3×31 topics
  6. Management20▲ 5.6×25 topics
  7. Heart Failure20▲ 10×11 topics
  8. Pulmonary Hypertension19▲ 30×3 topics
  9. Endothelial Dysfunction18▲ 17×7 topics
  10. Chemotherapy16▲ 5.2×20 topics
  11. Treatment Guidelines16▲ 17×5 topics
  12. Chronic Kidney Disease15▲ 14×8 topics
  13. Fibrosis15▲ 18×7 topics
  14. Immunosuppressive Therapy15▲ 17×5 topics
  15. Thrombosis15▲ 12×7 topics
  16. Right Heart Assessment14▲ 77×1 topic
  17. Survival Prediction14▲ 77×1 topic
  18. Transplantation14▲ 31×4 topics
  19. Interstitial Lung Disease13▲ 47×2 topics
  20. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention13▲ 22×4 topics
  21. Rejection13▲ 72×2 topics
  22. Guidelines13▲ 6.2×12 topics
  23. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition13▲ 30×3 topics
  24. Metabolic Syndrome13▲ 3.5×15 topics
  25. TGF-ß13▲ 19×3 topics
  26. Clinical Practice Guidelines12▲ 5.1×11 topics
  27. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis12▲ 60×1 topic
  28. Myofibroblast12▲ 60×1 topic
  29. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation11▲ 33×2 topics
  30. Heart Transplant11▲ 78×1 topic
  31. Lung Transplant11▲ 78×1 topic
  32. Cardiogenic Shock11▲ 50×1 topic
  33. Left Ventricular Assist Device11▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Myocardial Infarction10▲ 9.1×6 topics
  35. Radiotherapy9▲ 5.3×12 topics
  36. Neuroprotection9▲ 5.6×10 topics
  37. Clinical Outcomes9▲ 8.9×6 topics
  38. Resuscitation8▲ 14×4 topics
  39. Hepatocellular Carcinoma8▲ 8.2×3 topics
  40. Critical Care7▲ 7.1×7 topics

Which research topics does Inova Fairfax Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices.

Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments: 14 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 12 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods…11Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 11 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory S…11Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 11 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …6Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…5Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 5 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism D…5Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 5 fractional worksHemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSurgeryBiomedical EngineeringEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 14 works
  2. 2 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  3. 3 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 11 works
  4. 4 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 11 works
  5. 5 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 6 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 5 works
  7. 7 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 5 works
  8. 8 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 5 works
  10. 10 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 4 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 available27.4%not open72.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.1%domestic only90.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Inova Fairfax Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 40% higher 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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