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VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

In research, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,470 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#4,937 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health Professions — Health Professions is 6.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,275
of 28,054 · #11,490 all time
Rank in United States
#1,533
of 4,192
Research works
664
▲ 17% vs 2013–17
Citations
15k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
53%
world 28%

What is VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System 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 #5,470 of 11,982 19.7%120 #3096
MedicineField #4,937 of 10,443 19.9%91 #2582

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where VA Eastern Colorado Health Care 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).

What does VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health Professions takes 6.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health ProfessionsField · 27.3 works6.1×
← 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, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.19× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.58× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.37× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 6.07× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.78× its world share, 91 worksMedicineNursing: 1.77× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.96× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.93× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System?

Ranked on the composite score, Matthew J. Miller, Thomas M. Maddox and Tsieh Sun lead among researchers whose main affiliation is VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

  1. 1 Matthew J. Miller United States · #123,634 worldwide 238 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Thomas M. Maddox United States · #132,131 worldwide 146 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Tsieh Sun United States · #827,366 worldwide 37 citations · 39 works
  4. 4 Heather Gilmartin United States · #982,591 worldwide 43 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Cari Levy United States · #1,191,356 worldwide 34 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Which keywords describe research at VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Inflammation, Primary Care, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Disease and Patient Satisfaction.

▲ 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. Epidemiology32▲ 4.7×60 topics
  2. Inflammation11▲ 3.2×42 topics
  3. Quality of Life10▲ 4.0×24 topics
  4. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 4.3×27 topics
  5. Rehabilitation8▲ 12×8 topics
  6. Risk Factors8▲ 4.3×16 topics
  7. Primary Care7▲ 11×10 topics
  8. Public Health7▲ 3.0×24 topics
  9. Mental Health7▲ 2.7×15 topics
  10. Global Burden6▲ 6.7×9 topics
  11. Patient Satisfaction6▲ 11×7 topics
  12. Depression6▲ 3.9×11 topics
  13. Treatment6▲ 2.8×18 topics
  14. Chronic Disease Management6▲ 17×5 topics
  15. Diagnosis6▲ 3.5×18 topics
  16. Biomechanics5▲ 10×4 topics
  17. Management5▲ 4.0×15 topics
  18. Clinical Trials5▲ 4.5×10 topics
  19. Heart Failure5▲ 6.8×7 topics
  20. Quality Improvement5▲ 14×8 topics
  21. Anxiety5▲ 5.6×6 topics
  22. Antimicrobial Resistance4▲ 13×5 topics
  23. Evidence-Based Practice4▲ 20×4 topics
  24. Exoskeletons4▲ 83×1 topic
  25. Lower Limb4▲ 83×1 topic
  26. Virulence Factors4▲ 17×3 topics
  27. Diabetes4▲ 4.9×10 topics
  28. Healthcare-Associated Infections4▲ 20×5 topics
  29. Mortality Risk4▲ 9.8×4 topics
  30. Behavior Change4▲ 16×4 topics
  31. Elderly Patients4▲ 14×4 topics
  32. Quality of Care4▲ 27×3 topics
  33. Physical Performance4▲ 24×2 topics
  34. Staphylococcus aureus4▲ 29×2 topics
  35. Long-Term Care4▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Health-related Quality of Life4▲ 8.7×3 topics
  37. Nursing Home3▲ 50×1 topic
  38. Person-Centered Care3▲ 50×1 topic
  39. Revision Surgery3▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Total Hip Replacement3▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus and Health Policy Implementation Science.

Prosthetics and Rehabili…4Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics: 4 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursi…3Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 3 fractional worksAntimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus: 3 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 3 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 3 fractional worksSuicide and Self-Harm Studies: 3 fractional worksMuscle activation and electromyography studies: 2 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health …2Primary Care and Health Outcomes: 2 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksBacterial biofilms and quorum sensing: 2 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringGeneral Health ProfessionsInfectious DiseasesSurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics Biomedical Engineering 4 works
  2. 2 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 3 works
  3. 3 Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus Infectious Diseases 3 works
  4. 4 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 3 works
  5. 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 3 works
  6. 6 Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Clinical Psychology 3 works
  7. 7 Muscle activation and electromyography studies Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 2 works
  9. 9 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 2 works
  10. 10 Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing Molecular Biology 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 available52.7%not open47.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.9%domestic only91.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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