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United States National Library of Medicine

In research, United States National Library of Medicine stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,544 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,318
of 28,054 · #5,122 all time
Rank in United States
#1,392
of 4,192
Research works
1.8k
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
41k
23.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is United States National Library of Medicine 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
Health SciencesDomain #6,544 of 11,982 16.4%78 #1493

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where United States National Library of Medicine 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).

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: 0.48× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.04× its world share, 32 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.76× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.96× its world share, 30 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.53× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.58× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.36× its world share, 51 worksMedicineNursing: 1.70× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.10× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.70× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.06× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.81× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at United States National Library of Medicine?

Ranked on the composite score, Philip Wexler, Alexa T. McCray and Olivier Bodenreider lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United States National Library of Medicine.

  1. 1 Philip Wexler United States · #93,955 worldwide 127 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Alexa T. McCray United States · #142,457 worldwide 213 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Olivier Bodenreider United States · #142,922 worldwide 293 citations · 71 works
  4. 4 Stuart J. Nelson United States · #193,477 worldwide 128 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 James H. Cassedy United States · #193,646 worldwide 56 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Zhiyun Xue United States · #231,332 worldwide 233 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Elizabeth Fee United States · #238,555 worldwide 98 citations · 59 works
  8. 8 Dina Demner‐Fushman United States · #264,544 worldwide 218 citations · 67 works
  9. 9 Thomas C. Rindflesch United States · #276,723 worldwide 122 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Sameer Antani United States · #288,704 worldwide 288 citations · 72 works
All ranked researchers at United States National Library of Medicine

Which keywords describe research at United States National Library of Medicine?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Knowledge Management, Medical Education, Information Seeking Behavior, Semantic Web, Medical Imaging, Data Integration, Healthcare and Information Retrieval.

▲ 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. Knowledge Management15▲ 14×8 topics
  2. Deep Learning13▲ 1.92×23 topics
  3. Machine Learning13▲ 1.99×24 topics
  4. Medical Education13▲ 25×8 topics
  5. Information Seeking Behavior11▲ 118×2 topics
  6. Healthcare10▲ 4.3×12 topics
  7. Neural Networks9▲ 3.1×8 topics
  8. Semantic Web9▲ 50×3 topics
  9. Medical Imaging9▲ 8.9×5 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence8▲ 3.0×10 topics
  11. Data Integration8▲ 24×4 topics
  12. COVID-198▲ 2.9×14 topics
  13. Convolutional Neural Networks8▲ 5.4×8 topics
  14. Information Retrieval7▲ 17×2 topics
  15. Text Classification7▲ 23×2 topics
  16. Evidence-Based Practice7▲ 28×4 topics
  17. Machine Translation7▲ 22×1 topic
  18. Precision Medicine7▲ 7.8×7 topics
  19. Word Representation7▲ 30×1 topic
  20. Digital Divide7▲ 13×4 topics
  21. Natural Language Processing7▲ 15×3 topics
  22. Text Mining6▲ 25×3 topics
  23. Barriers and Facilitators6▲ 173×1 topic
  24. Electronic Health Records6▲ 35×3 topics
  25. Healthcare Professionals6▲ 173×1 topic
  26. Nursing Education6▲ 24×2 topics
  27. Biomedical Literature6▲ 122×1 topic
  28. Biomedical Ontologies6▲ 122×1 topic
  29. Social Support6▲ 5.0×8 topics
  30. Transfer Learning5▲ 13×3 topics
  31. Chronic Disease Management5▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Bioinformatics5▲ 21×4 topics
  33. Health Literacy4▲ 82×1 topic
  34. Predictive Modeling4▲ 8.4×2 topics
  35. eHealth4▲ 82×1 topic
  36. CT Scan4▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Chest X-Ray4▲ 29×1 topic
  38. Pneumonia Detection4▲ 29×1 topic
  39. Medical Image Analysis4▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Medication Errors4▲ 41×2 topics

Which research topics does United States National Library of Medicine publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Topic Modeling, Health Sciences Research and Education, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility.

Topic Modeling7Topic Modeling: 7 fractional worksHealth Sciences Research and Education: 6 fractional worksBiomedical Text Mining a…6Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies: 6 fractional worksHealth Literacy and Info…4Health Literacy and Information Accessibility: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI: 4 fractional worksElectronic Health Records Systems: 4 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…3Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 3 fractional worksGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies: 2 fractional worksRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms: 2 fractional worksAI in cancer detection: 2 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceGeneral Health ProfessionsMolecular BiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging1 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 7 works
  2. 2 Health Sciences Research and Education General Health Professions 6 works
  3. 3 Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies Molecular Biology 6 works
  4. 4 Health Literacy and Information Accessibility General Health Professions 4 works
  5. 5 COVID-19 diagnosis using AI Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 4 works
  6. 6 Electronic Health Records Systems Health Information Management 4 works
  7. 7 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  8. 8 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Molecular Biology 2 works
  9. 9 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 AI in cancer detection Artificial Intelligence 2 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 available49.5%not open50.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.0%domestic only90.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has United States National Library of Medicine's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower than in 2013–2017.

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