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Midwest Eye Institute

In research, Midwest Eye Institute stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,800 of 16,688 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,517 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#27,492
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,744
of 7,310
Research works
175
▼ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.3k
30.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Midwest Eye Institute

What is Midwest Eye Institute 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 #5,800 of 16,688 18.7%141
MedicineField #6,517 of 14,558 18.8%139

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Midwest Eye Institute 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 Midwest Eye Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at Midwest Eye Institute is in Health Sciences, 28% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (68%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%), Neuroscience (5%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 15 fractional works · 69.2% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 68.1% of its workOphthalmology: 8 fractional works · 37.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 27.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 19.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 13.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKMidwest EyeInstitute22fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences28%Health Sciences69%Social Sciences3%

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 3 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1568.1%
    2. Health Professions01.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology419.7%
    2. Neuroscience15.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
    1. Psychology01.3%
    2. Social Sciences01.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
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: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.68× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.68× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.15× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Health Professions: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.54× its world share, 15 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.68×4 works
  2. Medicine3.54×15 works
  3. Neuroscience3.15×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.68×0 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.56×0 works
  6. Health Professions0.43×0 works
  7. Psychology0.43×0 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.35×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×0 works
  10. Social Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Midwest Eye Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Raj K. Maturi, Milan Shah and Donald L. Wilson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Midwest Eye Institute.

  1. 1 Raj K. Maturi United States · #147,699 worldwide 5.8k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Milan Shah United States · #1,169,418 worldwide 1.4k citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Donald L. Wilson United States · #2,931,213 worldwide 313 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 John C Hagan United States · #4,962,258 worldwide 101 citations · 80 works
All ranked researchers at Midwest Eye Institute

What are the most cited papers from Midwest Eye Institute?

The most cited paper from Midwest Eye Institute is "Three-Year, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial of Dexamethasone Intravitreal Implant in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema" (David S. Boyer, Young Hee Yoon, Rubens Belfort et al., 2014), with 1,137 citations. Next come "Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema" (844) and "Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" (762).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Three-Year, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial of Dexamethasone Intravitreal Implant in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema David S. Boyer, Young Hee Yoon, Rubens Belfort et al. · Ophthalmology Open access 4 Jun 2014 1,137
2 Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema Thomas A. Ciulla, ARMANDO G. AMADOR, Bernard Zinman · Diabetes Care Open access Sep 2003 844
3 Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 Simon I Hay et al. · The Lancet Open access2,780 authors Oct 2025 762
4 Two-Year Outcomes of the Ranibizumab for Edema of the mAcula in Diabetes (READ-2) Study Quan Dong Nguyen et al. · Ophthalmology 20 Sep 2010 533
5 Long-term Benefit of Sustained-Delivery Fluocinolone Acetonide Vitreous Inserts for Diabetic Macular Edema Peter A. Campochiaro, David M. Brown, Andrew Pearson et al. · Ophthalmology Apr 2011 408
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Midwest Eye Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, Oxidative Stress, Intravitreal Injection, Glaucoma, Optical Coherence Tomography, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Inflammation.

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

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Macular Degeneration5▲ 167×3 topics
  2. Diabetic Retinopathy4▲ 157×2 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress3▲ 9.2×6 topics
  4. Glaucoma3▲ 90×4 topics
  5. Intravitreal Injection3▲ 186×2 topics
  6. Optical Coherence Tomography3▲ 134×2 topics
  7. Epidemiology3▲ 3.2×7 topics
  8. Inflammation3▲ 6.1×6 topics
  9. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor3▲ 147×3 topics
  10. Choroidal Thickness2▲ 204×1 topic
  11. Retinal Pigment Epithelium2▲ 204×1 topic
  12. Optic Nerve2▲ 112×2 topics
  13. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis2▲ 171×2 topics
  14. COVID-192▲ 6.1×3 topics
  15. Retinal Ganglion Cells2▲ 75×2 topics
  16. Behçet's Disease2▲ 273×1 topic
  17. Uveitis2▲ 273×1 topic
  18. Intraocular Pressure2▲ 79×2 topics
  19. Neurodegeneration2▲ 24×3 topics
  20. Ocular Findings2▲ 262×1 topic
  21. Retinal Artery Occlusion2▲ 262×1 topic
  22. Cancer2▲ 5.1×12 topics
  23. Ocular Hypertension1▲ 122×1 topic
  24. Risk Factors1▲ 5.7×1 topic
  25. Deep Learning1▲ 1.75×3 topics
  26. Cardiovascular Risk1▲ 15×2 topics
  27. Gene Therapy1▲ 25×1 topic
  28. Retinitis Pigmentosa1▲ 212×1 topic
  29. Retinal Disease1▲ 95×1 topic
  30. Vessel Segmentation1▲ 102×1 topic

Which research topics does Midwest Eye Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome, Retinal and Optic Conditions and Glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Retinal Diseases and Tre…2Retinal Diseases and Treatments: 2 fractional worksOcular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome: 2 fractional worksRetinal and Optic Conditions: 2 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal dis…1Glaucoma and retinal disorders: 1 fractional worksRetinal Development and …1Retinal Development and Disorders: 1 fractional worksRetinal Imaging and Analysis: 1 fractional worksOphthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 1 fractional worksOcular Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksNeurological Disorders and Treatments: 0 fractional worksRetinal and Macular Surgery: 0 fractional works
OphthalmologyMolecular BiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingEpidemiology1 others

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

  1. 1 Retinal Diseases and Treatments Ophthalmology 2 works
  2. 2 Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome Ophthalmology 2 works
  3. 3 Retinal and Optic Conditions Ophthalmology 2 works
  4. 4 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 1 works
  5. 5 Retinal Development and Disorders Molecular Biology 1 works
  6. 6 Retinal Imaging and Analysis Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  7. 7 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Epidemiology 1 works
  8. 8 Ocular Infections and Treatments Ophthalmology 0 works
  9. 9 Neurological Disorders and Treatments Neurology 0 works
  10. 10 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available29.4%not open70.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.2%domestic only83.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Midwest Eye Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% 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 Midwest Eye Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000080% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Midwest Eye Institute0.000063% in 20251990200020102020

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