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UAB Medicine

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Research works
22
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
209
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
58%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: UAB Medicine is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMathematics: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 7.77× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.21× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.94× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at UAB Medicine?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Primary Care, Depression, Health-related Quality of Life, Immune Response, Anxiety, Poison Control Centers and Toxic Exposure Surveillance.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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 13 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 13 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology5▲ 5.7×24 topics
  2. Depression1▲ 7.6×4 topics
  3. Primary Care1▲ 14×7 topics
  4. Quality of Life1▲ 4.2×6 topics
  5. Health-related Quality of Life1▲ 25×3 topics
  6. Immune Response1▲ 8.6×5 topics
  7. Management1▲ 6.3×6 topics
  8. Mental Health1▲ 4.3×5 topics
  9. Anxiety1▲ 12×2 topics
  10. Poison Control Centers1▲ 196×1 topic
  11. Toxic Exposure Surveillance1▲ 196×1 topic
  12. Uterine Fibroids1▲ 143×1 topic
  13. Uterine Leiomyoma1▲ 143×1 topic

Which research topics does UAB Medicine publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Uterine Myomas and Treatments, Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout and Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis.

Uterine Myomas and Treat…1Uterine Myomas and Treatments: 1 fractional worksPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 0 fractional worksHealthcare professionals…0Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout: 0 fractional worksHeparin-Induced Thromboc…0Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis: 0 fractional worksReproductive Health and Technologies: 0 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health Outcomes: 0 fractional worksRenal and Vascular Patho…0Renal and Vascular Pathologies: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 0 fractional worksDiversity and Career in Medicine: 0 fractional worksVasculitis and related c…0Vasculitis and related conditions: 0 fractional works
Obstetrics and GynecologyGeriatrics and GerontologyGeneral Health ProfessionsSurgery4 others

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

  1. 1 Uterine Myomas and Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 1 works
  2. 2 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 0 works
  3. 3 Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis Surgery 0 works
  5. 5 Reproductive Health and Technologies Reproductive Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Renal and Vascular Pathologies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 0 works
  9. 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 0 works
  10. 10 Vasculitis and related conditions Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available57.5%not open42.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.8%domestic only89.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has UAB Medicine's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% higher than in 2013–2017.

2005201020152020
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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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