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National Institute of Mental Health

In research, National Institute of Mental Health stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,410 of 7,800 worldwide), Neuroscience (#283 of 1,168 worldwide) and Cognitive Neuroscience (#191 of 530 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience — Cognitive Neuroscience is 30.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,175
of 28,054 · #351 all time
Rank in United States
#452
of 4,192
Research works
10k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
935k
90.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is National Institute of Mental Health 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 #1,410 of 7,800 29.5%190 #84
NeuroscienceField #283 of 1,168 29.7%147 #16
Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield #191 of 530 29.4%92 #16
MedicineField #4,501 of 10,443 28.8%101 #472
Health SciencesDomain #5,638 of 11,982 29.4%112 #563
Social SciencesDomain #5,221 of 10,521 27.2%93 #599
PsychologyField #1,281 of 2,181 27.0%80 #150

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Institute of Mental Health 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#84 #1,410
  2. Neuroscience#16 #283
  3. Cognitive Neuroscience#16 #191
  4. Medicine#472 #4,501
  5. Health Sciences#563 #5,638
  6. Social Sciences#599 #5,221
  7. Psychology#150 #1,281
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 Mental Health specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cognitive Neuroscience takes 30.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 91.9 works30×
  2. NeuroscienceField · 146.7 works22×
  3. Cellular and Molecular NeuroscienceSubfield · 23.7 works18×
  4. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 26.1 works13×
  5. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 21.1 works10×
← 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: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.67× its world share, 37 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.67× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 21.65× its world share, 147 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.30× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.77× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.26× its world share, 101 worksMedicineNursing: 0.82× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 6.27× its world share, 80 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 21.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Institute of Mental Health?

Ranked on the composite score, Julius Axelrod, Seymour Kaufman and Irwin J. Kopin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Institute of Mental Health.

  1. 1 Julius Axelrod United States · #2,167 worldwide 1.9k citations · 90 works
  2. 2 Seymour Kaufman United States · #9,328 worldwide 809 citations · 64 works
  3. 3 Irwin J. Kopin United States · #9,645 worldwide 877 citations · 89 works
  4. 4 Mortimer Mishkin United States · #10,648 worldwide 1.5k citations · 51 works
  5. 5 Louis Sokoloff United States · #10,858 worldwide 606 citations · 80 works
  6. 6 Carlos A. Zarate United States · #12,031 worldwide 1.2k citations · 104 works
  7. 7 Robert M. Post United States · #12,218 worldwide 898 citations · 117 works
  8. 8 Robert Desimone United States · #14,581 worldwide 925 citations · 50 works
  9. 9 Judith L. Rapoport United States · #14,721 worldwide 732 citations · 72 works
  10. 10 William E. Bunney United States · #15,479 worldwide 621 citations · 76 works
All ranked researchers at National Institute of Mental Health

Which keywords describe research at National Institute of Mental Health?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Neurological Disorders, Neurobiology, Functional Connectivity, Emotion Regulation, Prefrontal Cortex, Default Mode Network and Resting-State fMRI.

▲ 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. Depression48▲ 13×19 topics
  2. Neurological Disorders38▲ 16×14 topics
  3. Neurobiology32▲ 30×8 topics
  4. Functional Connectivity29▲ 53×3 topics
  5. Epidemiology27▲ 1.64×52 topics
  6. Emotion Regulation27▲ 21×7 topics
  7. Genetics22▲ 7.5×12 topics
  8. Prefrontal Cortex22▲ 66×3 topics
  9. Default Mode Network22▲ 73×1 topic
  10. Resting-State fMRI22▲ 73×1 topic
  11. Mental Health22▲ 3.5×24 topics
  12. Synaptic Plasticity21▲ 23×5 topics
  13. Psychopathology20▲ 27×3 topics
  14. Neuronal Oscillations20▲ 62×2 topics
  15. Neural Mechanisms20▲ 51×4 topics
  16. Working Memory19▲ 51×3 topics
  17. Adolescents19▲ 12×7 topics
  18. Synchronization18▲ 35×2 topics
  19. Cortical Networks17▲ 71×1 topic
  20. Gamma Rhythms17▲ 71×1 topic
  21. Neuroimaging17▲ 15×11 topics
  22. Prevalence17▲ 10×8 topics
  23. Stress16▲ 10×7 topics
  24. Anxiety Disorders16▲ 33×2 topics
  25. Anxiety16▲ 7.8×11 topics
  26. Hippocampus15▲ 58×2 topics
  27. Social Cognition15▲ 21×8 topics
  28. Brain Development14▲ 19×6 topics
  29. Dendritic Spines13▲ 40×2 topics
  30. Mental Disorders13▲ 28×3 topics
  31. Emotion Recognition13▲ 16×5 topics
  32. Cognitive Impairment12▲ 12×8 topics
  33. Treatment-Resistant Depression12▲ 45×2 topics
  34. Memory12▲ 11×3 topics
  35. Neural Plasticity11▲ 15×5 topics
  36. Neuronal Circuits11▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Neural Circuits11▲ 28×4 topics
  38. Neurobiological Mechanisms10▲ 62×2 topics
  39. Magnetic Resonance Imaging10▲ 9.7×7 topics
  40. Neural Processing10▲ 39×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Mental Health Research Topics and Treatment of Major Depression.

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 22 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brain function: 17 fractional worksMental Health Research Topics: 10 fractional worksTreatment of Major Depression: 10 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research: 10 fractional worksNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies: 9 fractional worksMemory and Neural Mechan…9Memory and Neural Mechanisms: 9 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 9 fractional worksFace Recognition and Perception: 8 fractional worksVisual perception and pr…8Visual perception and processing mechanisms: 8 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyPharmacologyCellular and Molecular Neuroscience1 others

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

  1. 1 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 22 works
  2. 2 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 17 works
  3. 3 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 10 works
  4. 4 Treatment of Major Depression Pharmacology 10 works
  5. 5 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 10 works
  6. 6 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 9 works
  7. 7 Memory and Neural Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 9 works
  8. 8 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 9 works
  9. 9 Face Recognition and Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 8 works
  10. 10 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 8 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 available29.2%not open70.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.5%domestic only76.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% lower than in 2013–2017.

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