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St Vincent Medical Center

In research, St Vincent Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#6,858 of 14,558 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,352 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Medicine and Health Sciences (Medicine is 3.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#23,456
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,867
of 7,310
Research works
448
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.5k
21.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.86×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
St Vincent Medical Center

What is St Vincent Medical Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #6,858 of 14,558 7.0%330
Health SciencesDomain #8,352 of 16,688 7.0%347

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where St Vincent Medical Center 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 fields of science does St Vincent Medical Center work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at St Vincent Medical Center is in Health Sciences, 9% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (69%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%), Computer Science (5%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 22 fractional works · 74.9% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 69.2% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 9.2% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 8.7% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStructural Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSt VincentMedical Center29fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences8%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine2069.2%
    2. Health Professions14.6%
    3. Nursing00.6%
    4. Veterinary00.6%
    1. Computer Science14.8%
    2. Engineering01.2%
    3. Materials Science01.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.1%
    5. Chemistry00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.3%
    2. Neuroscience01.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Psychology13.7%
    2. Social Sciences13.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does St Vincent Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Medicine takes 3.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. MedicineField · 20.3 works3.6×
  2. Health SciencesDomain · 22.0 works3.3×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.27× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.75× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.60× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 1.16× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.18× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.22× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary4.18×0 works
  2. Medicine3.60×20 works
  3. Health Professions1.75×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.27×0 works
  5. Psychology1.22×1 works
  6. Nursing1.16×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×2 works
  8. Neuroscience0.99×0 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.64×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.62×1 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.51×0 works
  12. Materials Science0.33×0 works
  13. Chemistry0.29×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.29×1 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.14×0 works
  16. Engineering0.08×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at St Vincent Medical Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Victor Waluch, Allen L. Hoffman and William W. M. Lo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is St Vincent Medical Center.

  1. 1 Victor Waluch United States · #1,204,151 worldwide 2.1k citations · 33 works
  2. 2 Allen L. Hoffman United States · #1,677,383 worldwide 1.2k citations · 31 works
  3. 3 William W. M. Lo United States · #2,494,287 worldwide 1.9k citations · 55 works
  4. 4 Richard R. Lopez United States · #2,620,615 worldwide 795 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Mimi Chang United States · #2,800,495 worldwide 295 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Robert Naraghi United States · #2,822,222 worldwide 446 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Charles L. Wiseman United States · #2,924,172 worldwide 2.4k citations · 107 works
  8. 8 Taro Yokoyama United States · #3,053,469 worldwide 1k citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Daniel F. Marcus United States · #3,550,057 worldwide 341 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Jerald A. Bovino United States · #4,564,509 worldwide 358 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at St Vincent Medical Center

What are the most cited papers from St Vincent Medical Center?

The most cited paper from St Vincent Medical Center is "Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients" (Martin B. Leon et al., 2016), with 5,107 citations. Next come "Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Prosthesis" (2,920) and "The impact of delirium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay" (1,042).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Prosthesis David H Adams et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 29 Mar 2014 2,920
3 The impact of delirium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay Eugene Wesley Ely, Shiva Gautam, Richard A. Margolin et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 8 Nov 2001 1,042
4 Efficacy of Pamidronate in Reducing Skeletal Complications in Patients with Breast Cancer and Lytic Bone Metastases Gabriel N. Hortobágyi, Richard L. Theriault, Lester L. Porter et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 12 Dec 1996 1,031
5 Glucose Control Lowers the Risk of Wound Infection in Diabetics After Open Heart Operations Kathryn J Zerr, Anthony P. Furnary, Gary L. Grunkemeier et al. · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Feb 1997 928
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Which keywords describe research at St Vincent Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Factors, Neuroprotection, Revascularization, Clinical Outcomes, Global Burden, Endovascular Treatment, Prevention Guidelines and Ischemic Stroke.

▲ 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 15 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 15 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Factors3▲ 8.3×9 topics
  2. Epidemiology2▲ 2.2×24 topics
  3. Neuroprotection2▲ 20×5 topics
  4. Revascularization2▲ 43×3 topics
  5. Clinical Outcomes2▲ 30×3 topics
  6. Global Burden2▲ 12×3 topics
  7. Endovascular Treatment2▲ 104×2 topics
  8. Ischemic Stroke2▲ 36×1 topic
  9. Prevention Guidelines2▲ 51×2 topics
  10. Thrombolysis2▲ 81×1 topic
  11. Mental Health2▲ 3.5×8 topics
  12. Treatment1▲ 3.8×13 topics
  13. Diagnosis1▲ 4.3×9 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease1▲ 3.4×12 topics
  15. Magnetic Resonance Imaging1▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does St Vincent Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications and Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment.

Acute Ischemic Stroke Ma…2Acute Ischemic Stroke Management: 2 fractional worksCerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases: 1 fractional worksIntracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications: 1 fractional worksVascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 1 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family0Social Policies and Family: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 0 fractional worksElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksPsychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research: 0 fractional works
EpidemiologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineNeurologyOncology5 others

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

  1. 1 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 2 works
  2. 2 Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications Neurology 1 works
  4. 4 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment Neurology 1 works
  5. 5 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 1 works
  6. 6 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 0 works
  8. 8 Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques Surfaces, Coatings and Films 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications Structural Biology 0 works
  10. 10 Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Clinical Psychology 0 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 available21.5%not open78.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.7%domestic only90.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has St Vincent Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is St Vincent Medical Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00014% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%St Vincent Medical Center0.000085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of St Vincent Medical Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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