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Memorial Blood Centers

In research, Memorial Blood Centers stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,552 of 16,688 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,928 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hematology (Hematology is 44.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#24,488
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,097
of 7,310
Research works
340
▼ 79% vs 2018-21
Citations
30k
88.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.05×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Memorial Blood Centers

What is Memorial Blood Centers known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #8,552 of 16,688 6.7%213
MedicineField #8,928 of 14,558 6.6%207

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Memorial Blood Centers 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 Memorial Blood Centers work in?

In all years, 63% of research at Memorial Blood Centers is in Health Sciences, 26% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (61%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 213 fractional works · 62.6% of its workMedicine: 207 fractional works · 60.9% of its workHematology: 55 fractional works · 16.0% of its workEpidemiology: 25 fractional works · 7.5% of its workPhysiology: 19 fractional works · 5.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 16 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiochemistry: 16 fractional works · 4.7% of its workHepatology: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransplantation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 89 fractional works · 26.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 56 fractional works · 16.5% of its workGenetics: 24 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 6.2% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 27 fractional works · 7.8% of its workImmunology: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workVirology: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 7.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 19 fractional works · 5.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 19 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMemorial BloodCenters340fractional works, all years
Life Sciences26%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences63%Social Sciences8%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine20760.9%
    2. Health Professions41.1%
    3. Nursing20.5%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5616.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology277.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.6%
    4. Neuroscience10.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting195.5%
    2. Social Sciences41.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    5. Psychology00.0%
    1. Engineering41.1%
    2. Computer Science31.0%
    3. Environmental Science30.9%
    4. Chemistry10.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    6. Materials Science00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Memorial Blood Centers specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hematology takes 44.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HematologySubfield · 54.6 works45×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.89× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Health Professions: 7.88× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.09× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 5.50× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8.59× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting8.59×0 works
  2. Health Professions7.88×0 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology5.89×0 works
  4. Nursing5.50×0 works
  5. Medicine2.09×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.51×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Memorial Blood Centers?

Ranked on the quality score, Jed B. Gorlin, Allen J. Mayer and M.P. Busch lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Memorial Blood Centers.

  1. 1 Jed B. Gorlin United States · #1,068,361 worldwide 4.9k citations · 135 works
  2. 2 Allen J. Mayer United States · #1,342,237 worldwide 2.4k citations · 39 works
  3. 3 M.P. Busch United States · #1,601,144 worldwide 1.6k citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Jane L. Swanson United States · #2,205,256 worldwide 4.4k citations · 169 works
  5. 5 HA Perkins United States · #3,846,006 worldwide 460 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 G. Albin Matson United States · #3,851,756 worldwide 1.1k citations · 53 works
  7. 7 Dale D. Dykes United States · #4,205,981 worldwide 21k citations · 62 works
  8. 8 S.A. Miller United States · #4,285,734 worldwide 21k citations · 49 works
  9. 9 Lyndall Molthan United States · #4,723,046 worldwide 583 citations · 51 works
  10. 10 Margaret Hanson United States · #5,060,634 worldwide 501 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at Memorial Blood Centers

What are the most cited papers from Memorial Blood Centers?

The most cited paper from Memorial Blood Centers is "A simple salting out procedure for extracting DNA from human nucleated cells" (S.A. Miller, Dale D. Dykes, Herbert F. Polesky, 1988), with 20,633 citations. Next come "The Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Viral Infections" (1,899) and "Dynamics of HIV viremia and antibody seroconversion in plasma donors" (1,331).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A simple salting out procedure for extracting DNA from human nucleated cells S.A. Miller, Dale D. Dykes, Herbert F. Polesky · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 1988 20,633
2 The Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Viral Infections George B. Schreiber, Michael Paul Busch, Steven H Kleinman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 27 Jun 1996 1,899
3 Dynamics of HIV viremia and antibody seroconversion in plasma donors Eberhard W. Fiebig, David J. Wright, B. D. Rawal et al. · AIDS 27 Aug 2003 1,331
4 Analysis of 462 Transplantations from Unrelated Donors Facilitated by the National Marrow Donor Program Nancy A. Kernan, Glenn E. Bartsch, Robert C. Ash et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 4 Mar 1993 850
5 The seroepidemiology of human herpesvirus 8 (Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus): Distribution of infection in KS risk groups and evidence for sexual transmission Dean H. Kedes, Eva A. Operskalski, Michael Paul Busch et al. · Nature Medicine Aug 1996 763
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Which keywords describe research at Memorial Blood Centers?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Anemia, Alloimmunization, Blood Groups, Immune Response, Blood Transfusion, Antiviral Therapy, Epidemiology and Liver Disease.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Anemia60▲ 152×4 topics
  2. Epidemiology42▲ 3.0×44 topics
  3. Alloimmunization41▲ 318×1 topic
  4. Blood Groups41▲ 318×1 topic
  5. Immune Response41▲ 19×9 topics
  6. Blood Transfusion35▲ 190×3 topics
  7. Antiviral Therapy28▲ 55×3 topics
  8. Liver Disease26▲ 55×3 topics
  9. Antiretroviral Therapy25▲ 32×5 topics
  10. Risk Factors20▲ 5.7×6 topics
  11. Disaster Response19▲ 74×2 topics
  12. Hemorrhage19▲ 77×2 topics
  13. Altruism19▲ 56×2 topics
  14. Blood Donation19▲ 370×1 topic
  15. Supply Chain Management19▲ 11×1 topic
  16. Hepatocellular Carcinoma18▲ 24×2 topics
  17. Vaccine18▲ 13×9 topics
  18. Global Burden17▲ 9.3×7 topics
  19. Critical Care17▲ 22×5 topics
  20. Erythropoiesis17▲ 58×2 topics
  21. Cardiac Surgery16▲ 60×1 topic
  22. Tranexamic Acid16▲ 224×1 topic
  23. Chronic Hepatitis B16▲ 87×1 topic
  24. Hepatitis B Virus16▲ 87×1 topic
  25. Apoptosis15▲ 11×3 topics
  26. Ion Channels15▲ 20×2 topics
  27. Piezo114▲ 97×1 topic
  28. Piezo214▲ 97×1 topic
  29. HIV13▲ 32×4 topics
  30. Antibodies12▲ 40×2 topics
  31. Genetic Variation12▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Hematopoietic Stem Cells12▲ 35×3 topics
  33. AIDS12▲ 66×1 topic
  34. Immune Activation12▲ 37×1 topic
  35. Hemostasis11▲ 22×3 topics
  36. Pulmonary Hypertension11▲ 19×2 topics
  37. Hepatitis C Virus10▲ 57×1 topic
  38. Ribavirin10▲ 57×1 topic
  39. Sickle-cell Disease10▲ 57×1 topic
  40. Thalassemia10▲ 57×1 topic

Which research topics does Memorial Blood Centers publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Blood donation and transfusion practices, Disaster Response and Management, Ethics in medical practice and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Blood donation and trans…0Blood donation and transfusion practices: 0 fractional worksDisaster Response and Ma…0Disaster Response and Management: 0 fractional worksEthics in medical practice0Ethics in medical practice: 0 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 detection and testing: 0 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 0 fractional worksEthics and Legal Issues …0Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare: 0 fractional worksBacterial Infections and Vaccines: 0 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies: 0 fractional worksHepatitis C virus research0Hepatitis C virus research: 0 fractional works
Management of Technology and InnovationEmergency Medical ServicesGeneral Health ProfessionsInfectious Diseases4 others

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

  1. 1 Blood donation and transfusion practices Management of Technology and Innovation 0 works
  2. 2 Disaster Response and Management Emergency Medical Services 0 works
  3. 3 Ethics in medical practice General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing Infectious Diseases 0 works
  5. 5 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 0 works
  6. 6 Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  7. 7 Bacterial Infections and Vaccines Microbiology 0 works
  8. 8 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  9. 9 Hepatitis C virus research Hepatology 0 works
  10. 10 Blood transfusion and management Biochemistry 0 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 available11.8%not open88.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Memorial Blood Centers's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 79% lower 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 Memorial Blood Centers as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000038% in 2022.

0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Memorial Blood Centers0.000010% in 202419801990200020102020

Fractional works of Memorial Blood Centers over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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