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Instituto Barraquer de América

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World rank, all time
#32,515
of 34,923
Rank in Colombia
#207
of 212
Research works
136
▼ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.3k
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Instituto Barraquer de América

Which fields of science does Instituto Barraquer de América work in?

In 2022-now, 39% of research at Instituto Barraquer de América is in Health Sciences, 29% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Social Sciences (23%), Computer Science (19%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 9 fractional works · 38.8% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 38.2% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 10.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 29.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 22.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 13.0% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 22.8% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 19.4% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 10.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 8.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoBarraquer de…23fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences39%Social Sciences29%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine938.2%
    2. Health Professions00.5%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Social Sciences522.7%
    2. Decision Sciences13.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting01.4%
    1. Computer Science519.4%
    2. Environmental Science01.9%
    3. Engineering00.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology12.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.9%
    4. Neuroscience00.4%
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: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.51× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 2.50× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.99× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.29× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 1.79× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences3.29×1 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology2.51×1 works
  3. Computer Science2.50×4 works
  4. Medicine1.99×9 works
  5. Social Sciences1.79×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.85×1 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.62×0 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.45×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.39×0 works
  10. Environmental Science0.38×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.24×0 works
  12. Nursing0.23×0 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.21×0 works
  14. Health Professions0.18×0 works
  15. Engineering0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Barraquer de América?

Ranked on the quality score, Jose I. Barraquer, Sandra Liliana Talero and Carmen C. Barraquer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Barraquer de América.

  1. 1 Jose I. Barraquer Colombia · #2,144,506 worldwide 964 citations · 50 works
  2. 2 Sandra Liliana Talero Colombia · #2,249,660 worldwide 184 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Carmen C. Barraquer Colombia · #3,505,036 worldwide 352 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Alejandro Arciniegas Colombia · #5,337,648 worldwide 155 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Barraquer de América

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Barraquer de América?

The most cited paper from Instituto Barraquer de América is "Conjunctival Autograft for Primary and Recurrent Pterygia: Surgical Technique and Problem Management" (Tomy Starck, Kenneth R. Kenyon, Federico Serrano, 1991), with 179 citations. Next come "Incidence of Retinal Detachment Following Clear-Lens Extraction in Myopic Patients" (137) and "Prevalence of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and euthyroidism in thyroid eye disease: a systematic review of the literature" (114).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Conjunctival Autograft for Primary and Recurrent Pterygia: Surgical Technique and Problem Management Tomy Starck, Kenneth R. Kenyon, Federico Serrano · Cornea May 1991 179
2 Incidence of Retinal Detachment Following Clear-Lens Extraction in Myopic Patients Carmen C. Barraquer · Archives of Ophthalmology Mar 1994 137
3 Prevalence of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and euthyroidism in thyroid eye disease: a systematic review of the literature Juliana Muñoz-Ortiz, María Camila Sierra-Cote, Estefanía Zapata-Bravo et al. · Systematic Reviews ReviewOpen access Sep 2020 114
4 Keratomileusis for Myopia and Aphakia Jose I. Barraquer · Ophthalmology Aug 1981 106
5 Keratophakia and Keratomileusis — Clinical Results Casimir A. Swinger, Jose I. Barraquer · Ophthalmology Aug 1981 102
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Barraquer de América?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Security, Epidemiology, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Intraocular Pressure, Hardware Implementations, Side-Channel Attacks and Blockchain.

▲ 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-now 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 25 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3▲ 3.5×10 topics
  2. Security3▲ 17×2 topics
  3. Healthcare2▲ 7.3×3 topics
  4. Internet of Things2▲ 8.0×2 topics
  5. Education1▲ 3.5×4 topics
  6. Intraocular Pressure1▲ 68×2 topics
  7. Blockchain1▲ 26×1 topic
  8. Hardware Implementations1▲ 191×2 topics
  9. Homomorphic Encryption1▲ 126×1 topic
  10. Identity-Based Encryption1▲ 126×1 topic
  11. Latin America1▲ 30×2 topics
  12. Reputation1▲ 185×1 topic
  13. Side-Channel Attacks1▲ 113×2 topics
  14. Smart Contracts1▲ 37×1 topic
  15. Trust1▲ 21×1 topic
  16. Corneal Biomechanics1▲ 122×1 topic
  17. Keratoconus1▲ 122×1 topic
  18. Social Work1▲ 71×2 topics
  19. Community Intervention1▲ 149×1 topic
  20. Corneal Regeneration1▲ 155×1 topic
  21. Religion1▲ 9.3×1 topic
  22. Social Dynamics1▲ 72×1 topic
  23. Tissue Engineering1▲ 7.1×1 topic
  24. Welfare State1▲ 55×1 topic
  25. Wound Healing1▲ 17×2 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Barraquer de América publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cryptography and Data Security, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Access Control and Trust and Corneal surgery and disorders.

Cryptography and Data Se…1Cryptography and Data Security: 1 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Ap…1Blockchain Technology Applications and Security: 1 fractional worksAccess Control and Trust: 1 fractional worksCorneal surgery and disorders: 1 fractional worksCorneal Surgery and Treatments: 1 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Policies: 1 fractional worksReligious and Theological Studies: 1 fractional worksOcular Diseases and Behç…1Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome: 1 fractional worksOcular Surface and Contact Lens: 1 fractional worksCryptographic Implementations and Security: 1 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsSociology and Political ScienceRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3 others

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

  1. 1 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  2. 2 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 1 works
  3. 3 Access Control and Trust Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  4. 4 Corneal surgery and disorders Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  5. 5 Corneal Surgery and Treatments Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  6. 6 Social Sciences and Policies General Social Sciences 1 works
  7. 7 Religious and Theological Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome Ophthalmology 1 works
  9. 9 Ocular Surface and Contact Lens Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  10. 10 Cryptographic Implementations and Security Artificial Intelligence 1 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 available39.4%not open60.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.8%domestic only78.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Barraquer de América's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% lower 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 Instituto Barraquer de América as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000048% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Instituto Barraquer de América0.000045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Barraquer de América over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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