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National Jewish Health

In research, National Jewish Health stands highest in Medicine (#1,123 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,643 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,177 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Immunology — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 16.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,198
of 28,054 · #1,103 all time
Rank in United States
#586
of 4,192
Research works
4.3k
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
239k
55.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is National Jewish 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
MedicineField #1,123 of 10,443 18.9%322 #368
Health SciencesDomain #1,643 of 11,982 18.6%344 #472
Life SciencesDomain #2,177 of 7,800 20.4%82 #412
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #321 of 1,144 20.0%119 #166

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Jewish 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. Medicine#368 #1,123
  2. Health Sciences#472 #1,643
  3. Life Sciences#412 #2,177
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#166 #321
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 Jewish Health specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 16.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 119.3 works16×
  2. PhysiologySubfield · 44.5 works11×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 32.3 works9.9×
  4. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 33.7 works7.1×
← 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: 1.51× its world share, 38 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.09× its world share, 34 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.47× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.34× its world share, 17 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.55× its world share, 322 worksMedicineNursing: 0.93× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.96× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.79× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at National Jewish Health?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Inflammation, Management, Asthma, Genetics and Fibrosis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology98▲ 5.2×77 topics
  2. Diagnosis71▲ 16×26 topics
  3. Treatment66▲ 12×28 topics
  4. Inflammation57▲ 5.8×63 topics
  5. Management46▲ 12×16 topics
  6. Asthma34▲ 74×3 topics
  7. Genetics31▲ 9.3×12 topics
  8. Fibrosis28▲ 32×8 topics
  9. Immunology28▲ 55×2 topics
  10. Allergic Diseases27▲ 99×1 topic
  11. Eosinophils27▲ 99×1 topic
  12. TGF-ß26▲ 36×4 topics
  13. Cystic Fibrosis26▲ 78×2 topics
  14. Global Burden25▲ 10.0×8 topics
  15. Respiratory25▲ 55×2 topics
  16. COPD24▲ 79×1 topic
  17. spirometry24▲ 79×1 topic
  18. Interstitial Lung Disease23▲ 77×2 topics
  19. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition22▲ 50×2 topics
  20. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis22▲ 99×1 topic
  21. Myofibroblast22▲ 99×1 topic
  22. Pulmonary Hypertension20▲ 31×3 topics
  23. Endothelial Dysfunction16▲ 15×7 topics
  24. Treatment Guidelines16▲ 16×5 topics
  25. Antibiotic Resistance15▲ 8.3×10 topics
  26. Crohn's Disease13▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Echocardiography13▲ 10×7 topics
  28. Genomic Studies13▲ 42×2 topics
  29. Mycobacterium avium13▲ 84×1 topic
  30. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria13▲ 84×1 topic
  31. Immune Response13▲ 4.9×16 topics
  32. Microbiota13▲ 12×3 topics
  33. CFTR12▲ 92×1 topic
  34. Pulmonary Infections12▲ 46×1 topic
  35. Immune Dysregulation12▲ 33×2 topics
  36. Chronic Kidney Disease12▲ 10×5 topics
  37. Right Heart Assessment12▲ 61×1 topic
  38. Survival Prediction12▲ 61×1 topic
  39. Autoantibodies11▲ 10×7 topics
  40. Staphylococcus aureus11▲ 31×2 topics

Which research topics does National Jewish Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Asthma and respiratory diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis.

Asthma and respiratory diseases: 27 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 24 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 22 fractional worksMycobacterium research and diagnosis: 13 fractional worksCystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 12 fractional worksPulmonary Hypertension R…12Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments: 12 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Diseases: 10 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 9 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 8 fractional worksIL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways: 7 fractional works
PhysiologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEpidemiologyDermatology2 others

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

  1. 1 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 27 works
  2. 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 24 works
  3. 3 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 22 works
  4. 4 Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Epidemiology 13 works
  5. 5 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  6. 6 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  7. 7 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 10 works
  8. 8 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 9 works
  9. 9 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 8 works
  10. 10 IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways Immunology 7 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 available40.7%not open59.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.0%domestic only85.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Jewish Health's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% 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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