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Van Andel Institute

In research, Van Andel Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#458 of 6,403 worldwide), Health Sciences (#979 of 9,902 worldwide) and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#310 of 2,964 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Molecular Biology is 11.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,856
of 22,385 · #1,126 all time
Rank in United States
#365
of 3,332
Research works
1.2k
▲ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
57k
46.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.11×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
63%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Van Andel Institute

What is Van Andel Institute known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #458 of 6,403 14.3%162 #338
Health SciencesDomain #979 of 9,902 18.7%88 #793
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #310 of 2,964 12.8%131 #244
MedicineField #905 of 8,541 18.7%85 #757
Molecular BiologySubfield #238 of 1,880 12.6%99 #199

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Van Andel Institute 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

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

  1. Life Sciences#338 #458
  2. Health Sciences#793 #979
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#244 #310
  4. Medicine#757 #905
  5. Molecular Biology#199 #238
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Van Andel Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Van Andel Institute is in Life Sciences, 33% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (45%), Medicine (32%), Neuroscience (5%). It does 4.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 194 fractional works · 55.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 157 fractional works · 45.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 118 fractional works · 33.9% of its workCancer Research: 11 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCell Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiotechnology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStructural Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 18 fractional works · 5.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 11 fractional works · 3.3% of its workImmunology: 11 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 115 fractional works · 33.2% of its workMedicine: 112 fractional works · 32.2% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOncology: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPhysiology: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSurgery: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 22 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVan AndelInstitute348fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences56%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences33%Social Sciences5%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15745.2%
    2. Neuroscience185.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology113.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences72.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine11232.2%
    2. Health Professions20.5%
    3. Nursing20.5%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Engineering72.1%
    2. Environmental Science51.6%
    3. Chemistry31.0%
    4. Computer Science20.7%
    5. Energy10.4%
    6. Materials Science10.4%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences61.7%
    2. Psychology61.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities30.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Van Andel Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Molecular Biology takes 11.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Molecular BiologySubfield · 117.9 works11×
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 157.3 works8.5×
← 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: 0.43× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8.48× its world share, 157 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.24× its world share, 11 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.20× its world share, 18 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.61× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.32× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.68× its world share, 112 worksMedicineNursing: 0.97× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.54× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 8.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8.48×157 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.24×11 works
  3. Neuroscience3.20×18 works
  4. Medicine1.68×112 works
  5. Nursing0.97×2 works
  6. Chemistry0.61×3 works
  7. Psychology0.54×6 works
  8. Energy0.44×1 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.43×7 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.37×0 works
  11. Environmental Science0.32×6 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.27×3 works
  13. Health Professions0.18×2 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×1 works
  15. Engineering0.14×7 works
  16. Veterinary0.14×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.14×6 works
  18. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  19. Computer Science0.09×2 works
  20. Mathematics0.09×0 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.04×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×0 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.03×0 works
  24. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Van Andel Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Toshinori Hinoue, Hui Shen and Darren J. Moore lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Van Andel Institute.

  1. 1 Toshinori Hinoue United States · #4,641 worldwide 61k citations · 225 works
  2. 2 Hui Shen United States · #8,517 worldwide 97k citations · 479 works
  3. 3 Darren J. Moore United States · #23,307 worldwide 21k citations · 116 works
  4. 4 Karsten Melcher United States · #27,845 worldwide 17k citations · 209 works
  5. 5 John Andrew Pospisilik United States · #37,032 worldwide 10k citations · 143 works
  6. 6 Galen H. Hostetter United States · #48,427 worldwide 14k citations · 453 works
  7. 7 George F. Vande Woude United States · #49,314 worldwide 34k citations · 350 works
  8. 8 X. Edward Zhou United States · #58,408 worldwide 11k citations · 138 works
  9. 9 Zachary Madaj United States · #62,819 worldwide 4.2k citations · 289 works
  10. 10 Eric H. Ma United States · #67,103 worldwide 5.1k citations · 74 works
All ranked researchers at Van Andel Institute

What are the most cited papers from Van Andel Institute?

The most cited paper from Van Andel Institute is "The Immune Landscape of Cancer" (Vésteinn Thórsson et al., 2018), with 6,328 citations. Next come "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)" (6,023) and "Parkinson disease" (5,192).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Immune Landscape of Cancer Vésteinn Thórsson et al. · Immunity Open access784 authors Apr 2018 6,328
2 Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy Open access2,467 authors 2 Jan 2016 6,023
3 Parkinson disease Werner H Poewe, Klaus Seppi, Caroline M. Tanner et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers Review 22 Mar 2017 5,192
4 Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues François Aguet et al. · Nature Open access250 authors 10 Oct 2017 4,762
5 The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al. · Nature Open access1,384 authors 5 Feb 2020 3,854
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Van Andel Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Oxidative Stress, Neurodegeneration, DNA Methylation, Epigenetic Reprogramming, Cancer Epigenetics, Histone Modification and Parkinson's Disease.

▲ 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-now 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. Cancer34▲ 7.4×38 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress29▲ 5.1×38 topics
  3. Inflammation21▲ 2.9×46 topics
  4. Neurodegeneration20▲ 18×8 topics
  5. DNA Methylation19▲ 48×3 topics
  6. Epigenetic Reprogramming18▲ 56×2 topics
  7. Cancer Epigenetics18▲ 75×1 topic
  8. Histone Modification18▲ 75×1 topic
  9. Parkinson's Disease16▲ 19×6 topics
  10. Mitochondrial Dysfunction16▲ 16×7 topics
  11. Transcriptional Regulation16▲ 28×9 topics
  12. Gene Expression16▲ 7.2×15 topics
  13. Cancer Therapy14▲ 7.2×14 topics
  14. Epigenetic Regulation13▲ 17×6 topics
  15. Chromatin12▲ 74×2 topics
  16. Gene Regulation12▲ 35×4 topics
  17. Dopaminergic Neurons11▲ 51×2 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations10▲ 6.8×19 topics
  19. Diagnostic Criteria10▲ 13×5 topics
  20. Tumor Microenvironment9▲ 5.9×7 topics
  21. Cancer Progression9▲ 14×7 topics
  22. Genetic Risk Factors9▲ 49×1 topic
  23. a-Synuclein9▲ 49×1 topic
  24. Transcription Factors9▲ 20×3 topics
  25. Epigenetics8▲ 53×3 topics
  26. Genomic Instability8▲ 21×3 topics
  27. Aging8▲ 4.3×10 topics
  28. Stem Cells8▲ 8.7×8 topics
  29. Histone Modifications8▲ 88×1 topic
  30. Transcription8▲ 88×1 topic
  31. Gene Expression Regulation8▲ 21×3 topics
  32. RNA methylation7▲ 26×1 topic
  33. m6A-seq7▲ 26×1 topic
  34. Apoptosis7▲ 6.8×13 topics
  35. Neuroinflammation7▲ 7.3×5 topics
  36. Cell Death7▲ 8.6×6 topics
  37. Therapeutic Targets7▲ 13×8 topics
  38. Cellular Functions6▲ 23×3 topics
  39. Cell Proliferation6▲ 19×4 topics
  40. Homologous Recombination6▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does Van Andel Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics and RNA modifications and cancer.

Epigenetics and DNA Meth…18Epigenetics and DNA Methylation: 18 fractional worksParkinson's Disease Mech…9Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 9 fractional worksGenomics and Chromatin D…8Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics: 8 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 7 fractional worksCancer-related gene regulation: 5 fractional worksDNA Repair Mechanisms5DNA Repair Mechanisms: 5 fractional worksCRISPR and Genetic Engineering: 4 fractional worksProtein Degradation and Inhibitors: 4 fractional worksUbiquitin and proteasome pathways: 4 fractional worksWnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer: 4 fractional works
Molecular BiologyNeurology

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

  1. 1 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 18 works
  2. 2 Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 9 works
  3. 3 Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Molecular Biology 8 works
  4. 4 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 7 works
  5. 5 Cancer-related gene regulation Molecular Biology 5 works
  6. 6 DNA Repair Mechanisms Molecular Biology 5 works
  7. 7 CRISPR and Genetic Engineering Molecular Biology 4 works
  8. 8 Protein Degradation and Inhibitors Molecular Biology 4 works
  9. 9 Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways Molecular Biology 4 works
  10. 10 Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer Molecular Biology 4 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 available62.8%not open37.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.6%domestic only76.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Van Andel Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Van Andel Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Van Andel Institute0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Van Andel Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Van Andel Institute15.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.5% in 2003.

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