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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

In research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,427 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#2,631 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,346 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis — Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis is 16.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,992
of 28,054 · #859 all time
Rank in United States
#428
of 4,192
Research works
10k
▲ 2% vs 2013–17
Citations
625k
61.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 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 #1,427 of 7,800 19.1%257 #291
MedicineField #2,631 of 10,443 24.7%199 #841
Health SciencesDomain #3,346 of 11,982 24.8%224 #1021
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,501 of 3,579 18.5%175 #239
Environmental ScienceField #2,018 of 3,551 22.1%85 #501
Physical SciencesDomain #7,386 of 12,888 21.1%122 #2467
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,421 of 2,175 15.9%112 #265

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 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#291 #1,427
  2. Medicine#841 #2,631
  3. Health Sciences#1,021 #3,346
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#239 #1,501
  5. Environmental Science#501 #2,018
  6. Physical Sciences#2,467 #7,386
  7. Molecular Biology#265 #1,421
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 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis takes 16.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield · 56.5 works17×
← 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: 0.54× its world share, 16 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.09× its world share, 175 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.85× its world share, 31 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.81× its world share, 29 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.27× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.20× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.80× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.67× its world share, 85 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.61× its world share, 199 worksMedicineNursing: 1.49× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 7.59× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.23× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.51× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 7.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences?

Ranked on the composite score, Honglei Chen, John A. Cidlowski and Kenneth S. Korach lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

  1. 1 Honglei Chen United States · #3,505 worldwide 1.5k citations · 68 works
  2. 2 John A. Cidlowski United States · #4,050 worldwide 1.6k citations · 88 works
  3. 3 Kenneth S. Korach United States · #5,292 worldwide 1.1k citations · 81 works
  4. 4 Thomas A. Kunkel United States · #9,695 worldwide 1.4k citations · 52 works
  5. 5 Jane A. Hoppin United States · #15,500 worldwide 499 citations · 69 works
  6. 6 Clarice R. Weinberg United States · #17,609 worldwide 790 citations · 79 works
  7. 7 Allen J. Wilcox United States · #19,602 worldwide 597 citations · 81 works
  8. 8 Stephanie J. London United States · #22,629 worldwide 774 citations · 109 works
  9. 9 John A. McLachlan United States · #23,480 worldwide 462 citations · 47 works
  10. 10 Nicole Kleinstreuer United States · #25,500 worldwide 706 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Which keywords describe research at National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Health Effects, Oxidative Stress, Cancer, Epidemiology, Environmental Exposure, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolic Syndrome.

▲ 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. Epidemiology57▲ 2.2×72 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress52▲ 5.0×48 topics
  3. Health Effects46▲ 12×22 topics
  4. Inflammation43▲ 3.2×67 topics
  5. Cancer41▲ 4.8×42 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease33▲ 4.7×32 topics
  7. Public Health33▲ 3.5×24 topics
  8. Environmental Exposure30▲ 45×3 topics
  9. Metabolic Syndrome30▲ 5.7×18 topics
  10. Biomarkers23▲ 5.3×15 topics
  11. Risk Assessment22▲ 5.1×8 topics
  12. DNA Damage18▲ 36×4 topics
  13. Mortality18▲ 4.8×7 topics
  14. Gene Expression18▲ 4.5×16 topics
  15. Genetics17▲ 3.8×19 topics
  16. Health16▲ 6.1×6 topics
  17. Obesity16▲ 3.2×20 topics
  18. Toxicity15▲ 5.3×14 topics
  19. Metabolic Disorders15▲ 19×4 topics
  20. Biomonitoring14▲ 29×2 topics
  21. Transcriptional Regulation13▲ 13×8 topics
  22. Global Burden of Disease13▲ 8.2×4 topics
  23. Particulate Matter13▲ 13×2 topics
  24. Global Distribution13▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Bisphenol A12▲ 55×1 topic
  26. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals12▲ 55×1 topic
  27. Environmental Monitoring12▲ 5.1×5 topics
  28. Chromatin12▲ 40×2 topics
  29. Breast Cancer12▲ 7.6×8 topics
  30. Immune System11▲ 7.4×8 topics
  31. Air Pollution11▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Cell Death11▲ 7.1×6 topics
  33. Exposure Assessment11▲ 18×1 topic
  34. Fine Particulate Air Pollution11▲ 18×1 topic
  35. Exposome10▲ 49×1 topic
  36. Omics10▲ 49×1 topic
  37. Infertility10▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Neurotoxicity10▲ 12×6 topics
  39. DNA Methylation10▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Comet Assay9▲ 92×1 topic

Which research topics does National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment.

Effects and risks of end…12Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals: 12 fractional worksAir Quality and Health I…11Air Quality and Health Impacts: 11 fractional worksHealth, Environment, Cog…10Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging: 10 fractional worksCarcinogens and Genotoxi…9Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment: 9 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 8 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 7 fractional worksDNA Repair Mechanisms7DNA Repair Mechanisms: 7 fractional worksReproductive System and Pregnancy: 6 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 6 fractional worksBirth, Development, and …6Birth, Development, and Health: 6 fractional works
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyImmunology1 others

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

  1. 1 Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 12 works
  2. 2 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 11 works
  3. 3 Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 10 works
  4. 4 Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment Cancer Research 9 works
  5. 5 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 8 works
  6. 6 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 7 works
  7. 7 DNA Repair Mechanisms Molecular Biology 7 works
  8. 8 Reproductive System and Pregnancy Immunology 6 works
  9. 9 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 6 works
  10. 10 Birth, Development, and Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 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 available41.4%not open58.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.6%domestic only87.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 2% 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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