VA Caribbean Healthcare System

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where VA Caribbean Healthcare 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 8.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 24.3 works8.2×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

• Veterinary 5.8×
• Medicine 4.2×
• Immunology and Microbiology 2.8×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.5×
• Nursing 1.2×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.0×
• Health Professions 0.9×
• Neuroscience 0.7×
• Psychology 0.5×
• Arts and Humanities 0.3×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.3×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.3×
• Decision Sciences 0.1×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.1×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
• Social Sciences 0.1×
• Environmental Science 0.0×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, William Rodríguez-Cintrón and Doris H. Toro lead among researchers whose main affiliation is VA Caribbean Healthcare System.

1. 1 🇵🇷 William Rodríguez-Cintrón Puerto Rico · #111,247 worldwide 165 citations · 28 works
2. 2 🇵🇷 Doris H. Toro Puerto Rico · #1,387,738 worldwide 8 citations · 21 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications, Chemotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Genetic Mutations and Surgical Management.

By volume in 2022–2025: Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment, Diet and metabolism studies and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

1. 1 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 5 works
2. 2 Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment Gastroenterology 3 works
3. 3 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 3 works
4. 4 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
5. 5 Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Oncology 2 works
6. 6 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
7. 7 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 2 works
8. 8 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
9. 9 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 2 works
10. 10 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 2 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 131% higher than in 2013–2017.

• University of Puerto Rico System
• University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
• University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
• Universidad Metropolitana
• Carlos Albizu University
• San Juan City Hospital
• Ana G. Mendez University System