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Lankenau Medical Center

In research, Lankenau Medical Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,641 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#4,056 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 14.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,335
of 22,385 · #12,401 all time
Rank in United States
#2,195
of 3,332
Research works
1.3k
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
28k
22.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.86×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Lankenau Medical Center

What is Lankenau Medical Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #4,641 of 9,902 7.2%152 #4275
MedicineField #4,056 of 8,541 6.9%146 #3622

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Lankenau 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Lankenau Medical Center work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Lankenau Medical Center is in Health Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (81%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Health Professions (3%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 175 fractional works · 84.4% of its workMedicine: 168 fractional works · 81.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 32 fractional works · 15.3% of its workSurgery: 30 fractional works · 14.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 21 fractional works · 10.4% of its workOncology: 14 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEpidemiology: 14 fractional works · 6.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInternal Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDermatology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 9.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLankenau MedicalCenter207fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences84%Social Sciences4%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine16881.1%
    2. Health Professions52.6%
    3. Veterinary10.4%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology125.7%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics31.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology21.1%
    4. Neuroscience21.0%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Social Sciences52.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.1%
    3. Psychology00.2%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
    1. Engineering31.6%
    2. Computer Science20.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    4. Environmental Science00.1%
    5. Chemistry00.0%
    6. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Lankenau Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 14.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 31.8 works15×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 21.5 works6.7×
  3. SurgerySubfield · 29.5 works6.1×
← 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, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.07× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.12× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.46× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.98× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.22× its world share, 168 worksMedicineNursing: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.19× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× 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, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.22×168 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.46×2 works
  3. Veterinary3.19×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.12×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.07×12 works
  6. Health Professions0.98×5 works
  7. Neuroscience0.60×2 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.50×2 works
  9. Nursing0.46×0 works
  10. Dentistry0.23×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.18×5 works
  12. Computer Science0.11×2 works
  13. Engineering0.10×3 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.10×0 works
  15. Psychology0.08×0 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.06×0 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×0 works
  19. Chemistry0.01×0 works
  20. Environmental Science0.01×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Lankenau Medical Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Eric L. Michelson, Karen A. Knudsen and Brendan P. Teehan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lankenau Medical Center.

  1. 1 Eric L. Michelson United States · #199,820 worldwide 29k citations · 243 works
  2. 2 Karen A. Knudsen United States · #528,895 worldwide 5.7k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Brendan P. Teehan United States · #539,186 worldwide 5.3k citations · 49 works
  4. 4 H. I. Miller United States · #862,399 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works
  5. 5 Marisa C. Weiss United States · #898,294 worldwide 2.5k citations · 56 works
  6. 6 Scott Goldman United States · #973,308 worldwide 8.2k citations · 156 works
  7. 7 Donald D. Peterson United States · #1,077,293 worldwide 2.2k citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Bela Issekutz Jr. United States · #1,085,904 worldwide 3.8k citations · 166 works
  9. 9 Alejandro Peralta Soler United States · #1,141,328 worldwide 5.8k citations · 144 works
  10. 10 Kaare Rodahl United States · #1,205,232 worldwide 3.2k citations · 78 works
All ranked researchers at Lankenau Medical Center

What are the most cited papers from Lankenau Medical Center?

The most cited paper from Lankenau Medical Center is "Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients" (Michael J. Mack et al., 2019), with 4,895 citations. Next come "Effect of Dialysis Dose and Membrane Flux in Maintenance Hemodialysis" (1,886) and "Oxidative stress and gene regulation" (1,301).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients Michael J. Mack et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Mar 2019 4,895
2 Effect of Dialysis Dose and Membrane Flux in Maintenance Hemodialysis Garabed Eknoyan, Gerald J. Beck, Alfred K. Cheung et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Dec 2002 1,886
3 Oxidative stress and gene regulation Robert G. Allen, Maria Tresini · Free Radical Biology and Medicine Feb 2000 1,301
4 A Calcium Antagonist vs a Non–Calcium Antagonist Hypertension Treatment Strategy for Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Carl J. Pepine, Eileen Handberg, Rhonda M. Cooper‐DeHoff et al. · JAMA 2 Dec 2003 1,293
5 Effect of Laparoscopic-Assisted Resection vs Open Resection of Stage II or III Rectal Cancer on Pathologic Outcomes James W. Fleshman et al. · JAMA Open access 6 Oct 2015 1,114
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Lankenau Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Treatment, Guidelines, Risk Factors, Echocardiography, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Catheter Ablation.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology28▲ 3.3×63 topics
  2. Diagnosis19▲ 9.7×28 topics
  3. Treatment17▲ 6.7×28 topics
  4. Guidelines15▲ 15×12 topics
  5. Risk Factors13▲ 5.7×17 topics
  6. Echocardiography11▲ 19×7 topics
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 9.0×14 topics
  8. Catheter Ablation8▲ 30×2 topics
  9. Chemotherapy8▲ 5.1×19 topics
  10. Immunotherapy7▲ 4.9×13 topics
  11. Quality of Life6▲ 2.2×20 topics
  12. Complications6▲ 6.1×14 topics
  13. Management6▲ 3.7×19 topics
  14. Genetic Mutations6▲ 6.6×14 topics
  15. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 39×1 topic
  16. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 39×1 topic
  17. Heart Failure6▲ 6.2×7 topics
  18. Endovascular Repair6▲ 30×3 topics
  19. Prophylaxis5▲ 21×4 topics
  20. Arrhythmias5▲ 27×2 topics
  21. Mortality5▲ 4.3×9 topics
  22. Stroke Prevention5▲ 20×2 topics
  23. Atrial Fibrillation5▲ 24×2 topics
  24. Survival Analysis5▲ 8.7×6 topics
  25. Cardiac Imaging5▲ 18×3 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy4▲ 9.1×5 topics
  27. Anticoagulant Therapy4▲ 17×1 topic
  28. Risk Stratification4▲ 29×1 topic
  29. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 8.4×5 topics
  30. Revascularization4▲ 13×3 topics
  31. Medical Education4▲ 7.1×7 topics
  32. Deep Vein Thrombosis4▲ 24×2 topics
  33. Atherosclerosis4▲ 6.5×5 topics
  34. Cardiomyopathy4▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention4▲ 13×4 topics
  36. Radiofrequency Ablation4▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Thrombus Formation4▲ 22×3 topics
  38. Electroanatomic Mapping3▲ 33×1 topic
  39. Postoperative Complications3▲ 13×2 topics
  40. Ventricular Tachycardia3▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Lankenau Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments and Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches.

Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 6 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 3 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 3 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 3 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 3 fractional worksTracheal and airway diso…3Tracheal and airway disorders: 3 fractional worksCardiac tumors and thrombi: 2 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 2 fractional worksPeripheral Artery Diseas…2Peripheral Artery Disease Management: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineInternal MedicineOncology1 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Cardiac tumors and thrombi Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 2 works
  10. 10 Peripheral Artery Disease Management Surgery 2 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 available24.3%not open75.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.2%domestic only92.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Lankenau Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Lankenau Medical Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00094% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Lankenau Medical Center0.00072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Lankenau Medical Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Lankenau Medical Center3.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.9% in 1992.

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