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McLean Hospital

In research, McLean Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,117 of 7,800 worldwide), Neuroscience (#227 of 1,168 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,275 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience — Psychiatry and Mental health is 19.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,845
of 28,054 · #1,490 all time
Rank in United States
#412
of 4,192
Research works
4.9k
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
270k
54.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is McLean 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
Life SciencesDomain #1,117 of 7,800 23.0%159 #541
NeuroscienceField #227 of 1,168 21.8%126 #145
Health SciencesDomain #3,275 of 11,982 18.5%228 #1859
MedicineField #2,930 of 10,443 18.8%202 #1715
Social SciencesDomain #3,371 of 10,521 21.3%235 #1269
PsychologyField #843 of 2,181 22.8%182 #386
Clinical PsychologySubfield #286 of 738 22.1%107 #64
Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield #207 of 243 17.2%62 #96

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where McLean 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. Life Sciences#541 #1,117
  2. Neuroscience#145 #227
  3. Health Sciences#1,859 #3,275
  4. Medicine#1,715 #2,930
  5. Social Sciences#1,269 #3,371
  6. Psychology#386 #843
  7. Clinical Psychology#64 #286
  8. Psychiatry and Mental health#96 #207
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 McLean Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Psychiatry and Mental health takes 19.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 62.0 works19×
  2. Clinical PsychologySubfield · 107.1 works16×
  3. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 57.3 works12×
  4. NeuroscienceField · 125.6 works12×
  5. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 35.8 works12×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.82× its world share, 28 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 12.03× its world share, 126 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.10× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.41× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.63× its world share, 202 worksMedicineNursing: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.86× its world share, 16 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 9.26× its world share, 182 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 30 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 12.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at McLean Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Harrison G. Pope, James I. Hudson and Döst Öngür lead among researchers whose main affiliation is McLean Hospital.

  1. 1 Harrison G. Pope United States · #2,647 worldwide 1.3k citations · 76 works
  2. 2 James I. Hudson United States · #3,781 worldwide 1.2k citations · 72 works
  3. 3 Döst Öngür United States · #5,102 worldwide 1.1k citations · 68 works
  4. 4 Bruce M. Cohen United States · #7,453 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
  5. 5 John G. Gunderson United States · #13,796 worldwide 748 citations · 66 works
  6. 6 Perry F. Renshaw United States · #25,994 worldwide 626 citations · 83 works
  7. 7 Mary C. Zanarini United States · #35,732 worldwide 513 citations · 39 works
  8. 8 Martin H. Teicher United States · #50,267 worldwide 276 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Kerry J. Ressler United States · #70,625 worldwide 711 citations · 139 works
  10. 10 Jack H. Mendelson United States · #77,450 worldwide 387 citations · 73 works
All ranked researchers at McLean Hospital

Which keywords describe research at McLean Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Mental Health, Neurobiology, Emotion Regulation, Psychopathology, Neurological Disorders, Neuroimaging and Stress.

▲ 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. Depression90▲ 16×23 topics
  2. Epidemiology58▲ 2.3×42 topics
  3. Mental Health58▲ 6.1×36 topics
  4. Neurobiology50▲ 30×9 topics
  5. Emotion Regulation47▲ 23×8 topics
  6. Psychopathology45▲ 39×4 topics
  7. Neurological Disorders40▲ 11×15 topics
  8. Neuroimaging38▲ 22×10 topics
  9. Stress35▲ 15×10 topics
  10. Prevalence34▲ 13×10 topics
  11. Anxiety33▲ 11×11 topics
  12. Genetics31▲ 7.0×12 topics
  13. Neurobiological Correlates30▲ 48×3 topics
  14. Adolescents30▲ 13×7 topics
  15. Cognitive Therapy27▲ 40×4 topics
  16. Functional Connectivity26▲ 31×3 topics
  17. Mental Disorders26▲ 35×3 topics
  18. Psychiatric Disorders25▲ 30×4 topics
  19. Metabolic Syndrome25▲ 4.8×14 topics
  20. Hippocampus25▲ 63×2 topics
  21. Prefrontal Cortex25▲ 48×3 topics
  22. Anxiety Disorders24▲ 33×2 topics
  23. Synaptic Plasticity22▲ 16×6 topics
  24. Meta-Analysis22▲ 5.7×10 topics
  25. Default Mode Network19▲ 41×1 topic
  26. Resting-State fMRI19▲ 41×1 topic
  27. Cognitive Impairment18▲ 11×7 topics
  28. Immune System18▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Personality Traits18▲ 22×5 topics
  30. Adaptation18▲ 9.8×3 topics
  31. Substance Use Disorders18▲ 39×2 topics
  32. Brain18▲ 70×1 topic
  33. Cortisol18▲ 70×1 topic
  34. Neuroinflammation18▲ 9.6×6 topics
  35. Neuroscience18▲ 9.2×13 topics
  36. Social Cognition17▲ 16×8 topics
  37. Neural Plasticity17▲ 15×5 topics
  38. Cognitive Function17▲ 15×7 topics
  39. Alzheimer's Disease16▲ 9.0×5 topics
  40. Network Analysis16▲ 22×2 topics

Which research topics does McLean Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Mental Health Research Topics and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology.

Functional Brain Connect…19Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 19 fractional worksStress Responses and Cor…18Stress Responses and Cortisol: 18 fractional worksMental Health Research Topics: 16 fractional worksPersonality Disorders an…16Personality Disorders and Psychopathology: 16 fractional worksSchizophrenia research a…16Schizophrenia research and treatment: 16 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 13 fractional worksBipolar Disorder and Treatment: 12 fractional worksTreatment of Major Depre…11Treatment of Major Depression: 11 fractional worksObsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: 11 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 11 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceBehavioral NeuroscienceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyClinical Psychology3 others

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

  1. 1 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 19 works
  2. 2 Stress Responses and Cortisol Behavioral Neuroscience 18 works
  3. 3 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 16 works
  4. 4 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Clinical Psychology 16 works
  5. 5 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 16 works
  6. 6 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 13 works
  7. 7 Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 12 works
  8. 8 Treatment of Major Depression Pharmacology 11 works
  9. 9 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders Clinical Psychology 11 works
  10. 10 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 11 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 available32.5%not open67.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.3%domestic only85.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has McLean Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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