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Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

In research, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,465 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#5,163 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#3,944 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,841
of 28,054 · #5,652 all time
Rank in United States
#1,043
of 4,192
Research works
1.7k
▲ 13% vs 2013–17
Citations
63k
37.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

What is Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center 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
Health SciencesDomain #5,465 of 11,982 17.4%149 #4294
MedicineField #5,163 of 10,443 17.0%136 #3845
Life SciencesDomain #3,944 of 7,800 22.4%61 #2239

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Louis Stokes Cleveland VA 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).

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. Health Sciences#4,294 #5,465
  2. Medicine#3,845 #5,163
  3. Life Sciences#2,239 #3,944
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.

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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.02× its world share, 27 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.89× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 6.06× its world share, 25 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.67× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.07× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.41× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.65× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.77× its world share, 136 worksMedicineNursing: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.98× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Louis B. Rice, Curtis J. Donskey and Christopher R. Bethel lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

  1. 1 Louis B. Rice United States · #40,547 worldwide 1.7k citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Curtis J. Donskey United States · #395,716 worldwide 128 citations · 44 works
  3. 3 Christopher R. Bethel United States · #553,355 worldwide 50 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Jennifer L. Cadnum United States · #1,242,625 worldwide 21 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Antibiotic Resistance, Healthcare-Associated Infections, SARS-CoV-2, Inflammation, ESKAPE Pathogens, Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria 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. Epidemiology38▲ 3.8×82 topics
  2. Inflammation13▲ 2.5×56 topics
  3. Antibiotic Resistance13▲ 13×11 topics
  4. COVID-1910▲ 3.0×15 topics
  5. Treatment10▲ 3.3×29 topics
  6. Oxidative Stress9▲ 2.2×34 topics
  7. Risk Factors9▲ 3.2×20 topics
  8. Healthcare-Associated Infections8▲ 28×5 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 2.9×28 topics
  10. Diagnosis8▲ 3.3×26 topics
  11. SARS-CoV-28▲ 9.1×5 topics
  12. Nanomaterials7▲ 2.6×6 topics
  13. ESKAPE Pathogens7▲ 46×1 topic
  14. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria7▲ 46×1 topic
  15. Mortality7▲ 4.7×11 topics
  16. Clinical Trials7▲ 3.9×15 topics
  17. Guidelines7▲ 5.5×12 topics
  18. Antimicrobial Resistance6▲ 13×6 topics
  19. Electrical Stimulation6▲ 46×2 topics
  20. Neurodegeneration6▲ 8.2×9 topics
  21. Neurological Disorders6▲ 4.4×16 topics
  22. Electrode Arrays6▲ 51×1 topic
  23. Neural Stimulation6▲ 51×1 topic
  24. Functional Recovery6▲ 15×4 topics
  25. Electromyography6▲ 44×1 topic
  26. Muscle Fatigue6▲ 44×1 topic
  27. Clinical Practice Guidelines6▲ 4.0×10 topics
  28. Prevention Strategies6▲ 22×3 topics
  29. Infectious Diseases5▲ 6.3×6 topics
  30. Primary Care5▲ 5.3×6 topics
  31. Airborne Transmission5▲ 67×1 topic
  32. Rehabilitation5▲ 5.0×11 topics
  33. Respiratory Viruses5▲ 67×1 topic
  34. Neural Plasticity5▲ 10×3 topics
  35. Neuroinflammation5▲ 6.4×6 topics
  36. Neuroprotection5▲ 5.2×12 topics
  37. Patient Safety5▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Neuromodulation4▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Parkinson's Disease4▲ 6.8×6 topics
  40. Urinary Incontinence4▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Muscle activation and electromyography studies and Infection Control and Ventilation.

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 7 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neural Engineering: 6 fractional worksMuscle activation and el…6Muscle activation and electromyography studies: 6 fractional worksInfection Control and Ve…5Infection Control and Ventilation: 5 fractional worksInfection Control in Healthcare: 3 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 3 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer I…3EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 3 fractional worksSpinal Cord Injury Research: 3 fractional worksAntibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy: 2 fractional worksClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research: 2 fractional works
Molecular MedicineCellular and Molecular NeuroscienceBiomedical EngineeringPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 7 works
  2. 2 Neuroscience and Neural Engineering Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 6 works
  3. 3 Muscle activation and electromyography studies Biomedical Engineering 6 works
  4. 4 Infection Control and Ventilation Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  5. 5 Infection Control in Healthcare Infectious Diseases 3 works
  6. 6 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 3 works
  7. 7 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  8. 8 Spinal Cord Injury Research Pathology and Forensic Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy Pharmacology 2 works
  10. 10 Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research Infectious Diseases 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 available47.7%not open52.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% 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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