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Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

In research, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard stands highest in Life Sciences (#407 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#2,264 of 10,443 worldwide) and Immunology and Microbiology (#155 of 682 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Immunology, Immunology and Microbiology and Infectious Diseases — Immunology is 28.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,238
of 28,054 · #1,102 all time
Rank in United States
#202
of 4,192
Research works
888
▲ 13% vs 2013–17
Citations
59k
66.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
40.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
79%
world 28%

What is Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard 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 #407 of 7,800 40.1%108 #359
MedicineField #2,264 of 10,443 41.7%100 #2586
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #155 of 682 38.3%62 #132
Health SciencesDomain #3,221 of 11,982 41.0%103 #3482

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard 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#359 #407
  2. Medicine#2,586 #2,264
  3. Immunology and Microbiology#132 #155
  4. Health Sciences#3,482 #3,221
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 Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Immunology takes 28.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ImmunologySubfield · 44.8 works29×
  2. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 61.7 works27×
  3. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 37.6 works25×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.25× its world share, 39 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 27.21× its world share, 62 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.84× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.03× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.30× its world share, 100 worksMedicineNursing: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 27.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard?

Ranked on the composite score, Galit Alter, Todd M. Allen and Xu G. Yu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

  1. 1 Galit Alter United States · #79,017 worldwide 398 citations · 64 works
  2. 2 Todd M. Allen United States · #152,776 worldwide 215 citations · 54 works
  3. 3 Xu G. Yu United States · #349,573 worldwide 106 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Mathias Lichterfeld United States · #465,793 worldwide 84 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Thomas Diefenbach United States · #472,037 worldwide 56 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Alejandro B. Balazs United States · #783,330 worldwide 71 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Musie Ghebremichael United States · #1,007,502 worldwide 42 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Facundo D. Batista United States · #1,261,686 worldwide 26 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Julie Boucau United States · #1,275,922 worldwide 48 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Vivek Naranbhai United States · #1,434,949 worldwide 38 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Which keywords describe research at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Vaccine, Immune Response, Epidemiology, Immunity, Pandemic, Antiretroviral Therapy, SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 Receptor.

▲ 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. Vaccine39▲ 43×10 topics
  2. Epidemiology37▲ 4.1×56 topics
  3. Immune Response31▲ 25×15 topics
  4. Immunity26▲ 29×7 topics
  5. Pandemic23▲ 9.5×5 topics
  6. Antiretroviral Therapy23▲ 63×6 topics
  7. SARS-CoV-223▲ 31×6 topics
  8. ACE2 Receptor20▲ 37×3 topics
  9. Coronavirus17▲ 36×2 topics
  10. Antibodies15▲ 122×2 topics
  11. Mutation15▲ 36×4 topics
  12. Viral Transmission15▲ 45×3 topics
  13. antibody14▲ 59×1 topic
  14. spike protein14▲ 59×1 topic
  15. Antigen Presentation14▲ 72×2 topics
  16. HIV14▲ 75×3 topics
  17. Immune Activation14▲ 76×2 topics
  18. AIDS13▲ 235×1 topic
  19. neurocognitive disorders13▲ 235×1 topic
  20. Cancer Immunotherapy13▲ 37×3 topics
  21. Innate Immunity12▲ 17×8 topics
  22. Inflammation12▲ 2.6×43 topics
  23. NK Cell Recognition11▲ 76×1 topic
  24. Natural Killer Cells11▲ 76×1 topic
  25. Pathogenesis11▲ 9.9×17 topics
  26. Autoimmunity11▲ 33×5 topics
  27. Glycosylation10▲ 42×3 topics
  28. TGF-ß9▲ 26×2 topics
  29. Monoclonal Antibodies9▲ 44×3 topics
  30. CD4+CD25+9▲ 117×1 topic
  31. Foxp39▲ 117×1 topic
  32. Dendritic Cells9▲ 43×2 topics
  33. Therapeutic Antibodies9▲ 56×2 topics
  34. Tumor Antigen9▲ 62×1 topic
  35. Vaccine Adjuvants9▲ 62×1 topic
  36. Antibody Engineering8▲ 67×1 topic
  37. Fc Receptors8▲ 67×1 topic
  38. Drug Resistance8▲ 12×5 topics
  39. Thrombosis7▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Vaccine Development6▲ 11×5 topics

Which research topics does Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, HIV Research and Treatment, Immune Cell Function and Interaction and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 14 fractional worksHIV Research and Treatment: 13 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and…11Immune Cell Function and Interaction: 11 fractional worksT-cell and B-cell Immuno…9T-cell and B-cell Immunology: 9 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune Responses: 9 fractional worksMonoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research: 8 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…6COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 6 fractional worksvaccines and immunoinformatics approaches: 6 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 4 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 4 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesVirologyImmunologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 14 works
  2. 2 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 13 works
  3. 3 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 11 works
  4. 4 T-cell and B-cell Immunology Immunology 9 works
  5. 5 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 9 works
  6. 6 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 8 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 6 works
  8. 8 vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches Molecular Biology 6 works
  9. 9 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 4 works
  10. 10 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 4 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 available78.7%not open21.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.9%domestic only66.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% 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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