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Saint Luke's Health System

In research, Saint Luke's Health System stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,353 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#1,340 of 8,541 worldwide) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (#289 of 736 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 17.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,840
of 22,385 · #2,651 all time
Rank in United States
#786
of 3,332
Research works
2.3k
▼ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
55k
24.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Saint Luke's Health System

What is Saint Luke's Health System known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #1,353 of 9,902 13.7%365 #887
MedicineField #1,340 of 8,541 14.2%330 #873
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #289 of 736 17.7%76 #242

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Saint Luke's Health System 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#887 #1,353
  2. Medicine#873 #1,340
  3. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#242 #289
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Saint Luke's Health System work in?

In 2022-now, 83% of research at Saint Luke's Health System is in Health Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (76%), Health Professions (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 434 fractional works · 83.5% of its workMedicine: 393 fractional works · 75.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 98 fractional works · 18.8% of its workSurgery: 48 fractional works · 9.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 33 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEpidemiology: 28 fractional works · 5.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 25 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 19 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 17 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOncology: 16 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhysiology: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeurology: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNephrology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInternal Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 31 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmall Animals: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 37 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCancer Research: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 25 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSaint Luke'sHealth System520fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences83%Social Sciences5%

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 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine39375.7%
    2. Health Professions315.9%
    3. Nursing71.3%
    4. Veterinary20.5%
    5. Dentistry10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology244.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology51.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.9%
    4. Neuroscience30.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Engineering163.2%
    2. Computer Science30.5%
    3. Environmental Science20.4%
    4. Mathematics10.2%
    5. Chemistry10.2%
    6. Materials Science10.2%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.4%
    2. Psychology61.2%
    3. Social Sciences61.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Saint Luke's Health System specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 17.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 97.7 works18×
← 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: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.95× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.25× its world share, 31 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.93× its world share, 393 worksMedicineNursing: 2.65× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.54× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.66× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.93×393 works
  2. Veterinary3.54×2 works
  3. Nursing2.65×7 works
  4. Health Professions2.25×31 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology0.95×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×24 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.66×7 works
  8. Psychology0.41×6 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×1 works
  10. Neuroscience0.30×3 works
  11. Dentistry0.26×1 works
  12. Engineering0.21×16 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.19×5 works
  14. Mathematics0.19×1 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.17×1 works
  16. Chemistry0.13×1 works
  17. Social Sciences0.10×6 works
  18. Environmental Science0.09×2 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.08×1 works
  20. Energy0.07×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×1 works
  22. Computer Science0.06×3 works
  23. Materials Science0.05×1 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Saint Luke's Health System?

Ranked on the quality score, Matthew C. Aboudara, Joanne T. Clavelle and Debra Dees lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Saint Luke's Health System.

  1. 1 Matthew C. Aboudara United States · #1,012,528 worldwide 994 citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Joanne T. Clavelle United States · #1,266,471 worldwide 793 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Debra Dees United States · #2,916,653 worldwide 90 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Laura Aragon United States · #4,238,082 worldwide 249 citations · 35 works
  5. 5 Samuel J. Pullen United States · #4,658,003 worldwide 286 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Nicholas T. Bennett United States · #4,806,541 worldwide 140 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Hilary Flint United States · #5,211,255 worldwide 87 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at Saint Luke's Health System

What are the most cited papers from Saint Luke's Health System?

The most cited paper from Saint Luke's Health System is "Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction" (John J.V. McMurray et al., 2019), with 7,135 citations. Next come "Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy after Intravenous t-PA vs. t-PA Alone in Stroke" (5,219) and "Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients" (5,107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction John J.V. McMurray et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Sep 2019 7,135
2 Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy after Intravenous t-PA vs. t-PA Alone in Stroke Jeffrey L. Saver et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 17 Apr 2015 5,219
3 Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients Martin B. Leon et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 2 Apr 2016 5,107
4 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients Michael J. Mack et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Mar 2019 4,895
5 A Prospective Natural-History Study of Coronary Atherosclerosis Gregg W. Stone, Akiko Maehara, Alexandra J. Lansky et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Jan 2011 3,303
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Saint Luke's Health System?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heart Failure, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Cardiovascular Disease, Guidelines, Treatment, Echocardiography and Myocardial Infarction.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology65▲ 3.1×90 topics
  2. Heart Failure62▲ 27×12 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease43▲ 7.2×31 topics
  4. Diagnosis42▲ 8.6×28 topics
  5. Guidelines40▲ 16×10 topics
  6. Treatment40▲ 6.4×31 topics
  7. Echocardiography30▲ 21×8 topics
  8. Myocardial Infarction30▲ 24×7 topics
  9. Risk Factors25▲ 4.5×29 topics
  10. Inflammation24▲ 2.2×56 topics
  11. Obesity23▲ 5.8×19 topics
  12. Renal Function18▲ 36×4 topics
  13. Magnetic Resonance Imaging18▲ 14×5 topics
  14. Coronary Artery Disease18▲ 30×3 topics
  15. Cardiac Imaging18▲ 28×3 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Risk17▲ 11×9 topics
  17. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide17▲ 64×1 topic
  18. Hospital Readmission17▲ 64×1 topic
  19. Atherosclerosis17▲ 11×8 topics
  20. Resuscitation16▲ 24×4 topics
  21. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention15▲ 22×4 topics
  22. Radiation Exposure15▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment14▲ 34×2 topics
  24. Chamber Quantification14▲ 34×1 topic
  25. Diastolic Function14▲ 34×1 topic
  26. Hypothermia14▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Computed Tomography Angiography14▲ 39×1 topic
  28. Myocardial Perfusion14▲ 39×1 topic
  29. Cardiac Arrest13▲ 46×1 topic
  30. Out-of-Hospital13▲ 46×1 topic
  31. Survival Rates13▲ 26×2 topics
  32. Clinical Guidelines12▲ 8.0×8 topics
  33. Prognosis12▲ 6.9×9 topics
  34. Critical Care12▲ 9.2×8 topics
  35. Glycemic Control12▲ 14×4 topics
  36. Thrombosis12▲ 8.0×6 topics
  37. Insulin Therapy11▲ 17×3 topics
  38. Sudden Cardiac Death10▲ 22×2 topics
  39. Type 2 Diabetes10▲ 8.1×4 topics
  40. Catheter Ablation10▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does Saint Luke's Health System publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Heart Failure Treatment and Management, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation.

Heart Failure Treatment …17Heart Failure Treatment and Management: 17 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …14Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 14 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…14Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 14 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…13Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 13 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 9 fractional worksDiabetes Treatment and Management: 8 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defib…8Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 8 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 7 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarction Research: 7 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 6 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingEmergency MedicineBiomedical Engineering1 others

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

  1. 1 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 17 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 14 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 14 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 13 works
  5. 5 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 9 works
  6. 6 Diabetes Treatment and Management Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 8 works
  7. 7 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  9. 9 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  10. 10 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 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 available33.0%not open67.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.8%domestic only84.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Saint Luke's Health System's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Saint Luke's Health System as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Saint Luke's Health System0.0020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Saint Luke's Health System over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Saint Luke's Health System11.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.8% in 2021.

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