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VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

In research, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System stands highest in Medicine (#1,847 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,428 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,736 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,969
of 28,054 · #3,806 all time
Rank in United States
#558
of 4,192
Research works
1.2k
▲ 6% vs 2013–17
Citations
49k
41.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
67%
world 28%

What is VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare 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
MedicineField #1,847 of 10,443 24.6%186 #1539
Health SciencesDomain #2,428 of 11,982 24.2%205 #1709
Life SciencesDomain #1,736 of 7,800 26.4%63 #1843

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where VA Tennessee Valley 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#1,539 #1,847
  2. Health Sciences#1,709 #2,428
  3. Life Sciences#1,843 #1,736
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.28× its world share, 36 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 6.39× its world share, 19 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.05× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.37× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.90× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.29× its world share, 186 worksMedicineNursing: 1.76× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.21× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.96× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System?

Ranked on the composite score, Jennifer A. Gaddy, Christianne L. Roumie and Rupesh Chaturvedi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.

  1. 1 Jennifer A. Gaddy United States · #217,854 worldwide 114 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Christianne L. Roumie United States · #540,320 worldwide 60 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Rupesh Chaturvedi United States · #1,124,311 worldwide 51 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Which keywords describe research at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, Chronic Kidney Disease, Treatment, Obesity and Insulin Resistance.

▲ 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. Inflammation35▲ 5.6×62 topics
  2. Epidemiology34▲ 2.9×80 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease21▲ 6.5×29 topics
  4. Heart Failure14▲ 11×13 topics
  5. Treatment14▲ 3.8×31 topics
  6. Obesity11▲ 5.0×18 topics
  7. Cancer10▲ 2.6×36 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome10▲ 4.3×16 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress10▲ 2.1×36 topics
  10. Chronic Kidney Disease10▲ 14×8 topics
  11. Diagnosis10▲ 3.5×23 topics
  12. Management9▲ 4.0×21 topics
  13. Insulin Resistance9▲ 6.8×9 topics
  14. Risk Factors9▲ 2.8×20 topics
  15. Guidelines9▲ 6.5×12 topics
  16. Biomarkers9▲ 4.3×15 topics
  17. Type 2 Diabetes8▲ 12×4 topics
  18. Critical Care8▲ 11×6 topics
  19. Glycemic Control8▲ 17×4 topics
  20. Aging7▲ 4.7×13 topics
  21. Fibrosis7▲ 13×7 topics
  22. Chemotherapy7▲ 3.4×17 topics
  23. Insulin Therapy7▲ 19×3 topics
  24. Pathogenesis7▲ 4.4×11 topics
  25. Clinical Practice Guidelines6▲ 4.0×11 topics
  26. Diabetes6▲ 4.5×12 topics
  27. Sepsis6▲ 13×6 topics
  28. Elderly Patients6▲ 13×4 topics
  29. Mortality6▲ 3.8×11 topics
  30. Antibiotic Resistance6▲ 5.5×9 topics
  31. Intensive Care Unit6▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Prevention6▲ 4.9×10 topics
  33. Clinical Guidelines6▲ 7.0×9 topics
  34. Myocardial Infarction5▲ 7.1×7 topics
  35. Diabetes Mellitus5▲ 8.2×6 topics
  36. Inflammatory Diseases5▲ 8.8×5 topics
  37. TGF-ß5▲ 10×4 topics
  38. Gastric Cancer5▲ 14×3 topics
  39. Macrophages4▲ 8.9×6 topics
  40. Regulatory T Cells4▲ 13×3 topics

Which research topics does VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Diabetes Treatment and Management, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders and Heart Failure Treatment and Management.

Diabetes Treatment and M…4Diabetes Treatment and Management: 4 fractional worksHelicobacter pylori-rela…4Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies: 4 fractional worksIntensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders: 3 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional worksAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases: 3 fractional worksChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes: 3 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksPancreatic function and …3Pancreatic function and diabetes: 3 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksIL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways: 2 fractional works
Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSurgeryCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Diabetes Treatment and Management Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 4 works
  2. 2 Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies Surgery 4 works
  3. 3 Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases Epidemiology 3 works
  6. 6 Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Nephrology 3 works
  7. 7 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 3 works
  8. 8 Pancreatic function and diabetes Surgery 3 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways Immunology 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 available67.3%not open32.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 6% 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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