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VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research

In research, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,097 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#3,476 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#4,376 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroscience — Cognitive Neuroscience is 22.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,968
of 28,054 · #5,251 all time
Rank in Belgium
#14
of 138
Research works
866
▲ 251% vs 2013–17
Citations
32k
36.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
32.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
84%
world 28%

What is VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research 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
Life SciencesDomain #1,097 of 7,800 32.1%169 #2019
MedicineField #3,476 of 10,443 35.3%102 #5502
Health SciencesDomain #4,376 of 11,982 35.7%109 #7100
NeuroscienceField #432 of 1,168 28.8%102 #909

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research 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. Life Sciences#2,019 #1,097
  2. Medicine#5,502 #3,476
  3. Health Sciences#7,100 #4,376
  4. Neuroscience#909 #432
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.

What does VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cognitive Neuroscience takes 22.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 54.8 works22×
  2. NeuroscienceField · 101.9 works19×
← 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, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.17× its world share, 57 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.67× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 18.65× its world share, 102 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.15× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.31× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.57× its world share, 102 worksMedicineNursing: 1.40× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.93× its world share, 30 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 18.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research?

Ranked on the composite score, Patrik Verstreken lead among researchers whose main affiliation is VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.

  1. 1 Patrik Verstreken Belgium · #132,440 worldwide 343 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research

Which keywords describe research at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neurodegeneration, Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation, Neurological Disorders, Neural Mechanisms, Emotion Regulation, Amyloid Hypothesis and Tau Pathology.

▲ 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. Neurodegeneration31▲ 31×10 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress28▲ 5.1×32 topics
  3. Neuroinflammation21▲ 22×6 topics
  4. Neurological Disorders19▲ 9.9×17 topics
  5. Neural Mechanisms17▲ 54×4 topics
  6. Inflammation14▲ 2.0×54 topics
  7. Genetics13▲ 5.7×13 topics
  8. Emotion Regulation13▲ 12×7 topics
  9. Amyloid Hypothesis12▲ 63×1 topic
  10. Prefrontal Cortex12▲ 46×3 topics
  11. Tau Pathology12▲ 63×1 topic
  12. Neurobiology12▲ 14×9 topics
  13. Depression12▲ 4.0×15 topics
  14. Functional Connectivity12▲ 27×3 topics
  15. Neuroimaging12▲ 13×11 topics
  16. Brain Development11▲ 19×5 topics
  17. Parkinson's Disease10▲ 12×7 topics
  18. Aging10▲ 5.5×14 topics
  19. Mitochondrial Dysfunction10▲ 10×11 topics
  20. Cognitive Control10▲ 48×2 topics
  21. Decision Making10▲ 9.3×2 topics
  22. Social Cognition9▲ 16×7 topics
  23. Working Memory8▲ 28×3 topics
  24. Neural Plasticity8▲ 14×5 topics
  25. Neuronal Oscillations8▲ 32×2 topics
  26. Neuroimaging Studies8▲ 46×3 topics
  27. Alzheimer's Disease8▲ 8.4×7 topics
  28. Attentional Networks8▲ 65×1 topic
  29. Executive Functions8▲ 40×1 topic
  30. Neural Processing7▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Synaptic Plasticity7▲ 10×6 topics
  32. FUS/TLS7▲ 99×1 topic
  33. TDP-437▲ 99×1 topic
  34. Emotion Recognition7▲ 11×3 topics
  35. Innate Immunity7▲ 6.6×10 topics
  36. Neural Circuits7▲ 23×4 topics
  37. Cortical Connectivity7▲ 48×2 topics
  38. Hippocampus7▲ 33×2 topics
  39. Cortical Networks6▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Synchronization6▲ 16×1 topic

Which research topics does VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Alzheimer's disease rese…12Alzheimer's disease research and treatments: 12 fractional worksNeural and Behavioral Ps…8Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies: 8 fractional worksAmyotrophic Lateral Scle…7Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research: 7 fractional worksNeural dynamics and brai…6Neural dynamics and brain function: 6 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies: 6 fractional worksFace Recognition and Perception: 5 fractional worksVisual perception and pr…5Visual perception and processing mechanisms: 5 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 5 fractional worksTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies: 5 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive I…5Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 5 fractional works
PhysiologyCognitive NeuroscienceNeurologyPsychiatry and Mental health

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

  1. 1 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 12 works
  2. 2 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 8 works
  3. 3 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Neurology 7 works
  4. 4 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 6 works
  5. 5 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 6 works
  6. 6 Face Recognition and Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  7. 7 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  8. 8 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  9. 9 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies Neurology 5 works
  10. 10 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 5 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 available84.3%not open15.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors55.0%domestic only45.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 251% 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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