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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

In research, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#1,505 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,991 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,101 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery and Rheumatology — Surgery is 6.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,333
of 28,054 · #5,512 all time
Rank in United States
#971
of 4,192
Research works
5.2k
▲ 20% vs 2013–17
Citations
91k
17.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 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 #1,505 of 10,443 8.2%687 #1334
Health SciencesDomain #1,991 of 11,982 8.4%742 #1561
SurgerySubfield #1,101 of 1,816 9.0%136 #1012
Life SciencesDomain #4,751 of 7,800 8.8%116 #3922
EpidemiologySubfield #883 of 976 8.2%62 #1233
Social SciencesDomain #9,742 of 10,521 12.8%64 #7009

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 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#1,334 #1,505
  2. Health Sciences#1,561 #1,991
  3. Surgery#1,012 #1,101
  4. Life Sciences#3,922 #4,751
  5. Epidemiology#1,233 #883
  6. Social Sciences#7,009 #9,742
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 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center specialise in?

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

  1. SurgerySubfield · 136.3 works6.1×
  2. RheumatologySubfield · 22.6 works5.2×
← 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: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 51 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.61× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.75× its world share, 42 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.00× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.81× its world share, 46 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.75× its world share, 687 worksMedicineNursing: 1.16× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.13× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.19× its world share, 35 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Craig D. Shriver, G. Larry Maxwell and Todd C. Villines lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

  1. 1 Craig D. Shriver United States · #2,112 worldwide 1.8k citations · 89 works
  2. 2 G. Larry Maxwell United States · #194,986 worldwide 208 citations · 52 works
  3. 3 Todd C. Villines United States · #196,248 worldwide 225 citations · 71 works
  4. 4 Benjamin K. Potter United States · #238,461 worldwide 75 citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Scott E. Brietzke United States · #280,009 worldwide 67 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Arnold L. Oronsky United States · #310,709 worldwide 73 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Robert Nee United States · #318,593 worldwide 100 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Anuradha Ganesan United States · #342,041 worldwide 139 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Rael T. Lange United States · #419,205 worldwide 118 citations · 44 works
  10. 10 Fouad J. Moawad United States · #514,846 worldwide 56 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Treatment, Diagnosis, Complications, Surgical Management, Management and Health-related Quality of Life.

▲ 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. Epidemiology156▲ 4.1×117 topics
  2. Quality of Life51▲ 3.7×40 topics
  3. Treatment46▲ 3.9×44 topics
  4. Diagnosis40▲ 4.5×37 topics
  5. Inflammation39▲ 1.96×57 topics
  6. Management37▲ 4.9×26 topics
  7. Complications32▲ 6.7×17 topics
  8. Surgical Management30▲ 7.7×20 topics
  9. Risk Factors28▲ 2.7×27 topics
  10. Public Health26▲ 1.88×34 topics
  11. Rehabilitation26▲ 6.9×12 topics
  12. Genetic Mutations25▲ 6.1×21 topics
  13. Health-related Quality of Life25▲ 11×5 topics
  14. Mortality22▲ 3.9×12 topics
  15. Hearing Loss21▲ 19×4 topics
  16. Chemotherapy20▲ 3.1×22 topics
  17. Biomechanics20▲ 6.8×8 topics
  18. Clinical Trials19▲ 3.0×18 topics
  19. Medical Education19▲ 7.7×11 topics
  20. Guidelines18▲ 4.1×13 topics
  21. Pathophysiology16▲ 5.5×11 topics
  22. Surgery15▲ 4.6×12 topics
  23. Prognosis15▲ 4.8×9 topics
  24. Social Isolation15▲ 7.4×2 topics
  25. Speech Perception15▲ 19×2 topics
  26. Surgical Treatment15▲ 7.8×6 topics
  27. Language Development14▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Cancer Risk14▲ 6.7×10 topics
  29. Cognitive Decline14▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Age-related Hearing Loss14▲ 39×1 topic
  31. Cochlear Implants14▲ 39×1 topic
  32. Neuropathology14▲ 11×3 topics
  33. Trauma13▲ 7.0×6 topics
  34. Autoantibodies13▲ 6.0×8 topics
  35. Recovery13▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Resuscitation13▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Encephalopathy13▲ 20×3 topics
  38. Consciousness12▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Concussion11▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Neurological11▲ 29×1 topic

Which research topics does Walter Reed National Military Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Shoulder Injury and Treatment and Innovations in Medical Education.

Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation: 14 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 11 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 9 fractional worksInnovations in Medical Education: 7 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 6 fractional worksShoulder and Clavicle Injuries: 6 fractional worksOccupational Health and …6Occupational Health and Performance: 6 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 6 fractional worksNoise Effects and Management: 6 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…6Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 6 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceEpidemiologySurgeryPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 14 works
  2. 2 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 11 works
  3. 3 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 9 works
  4. 4 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 7 works
  5. 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 6 works
  6. 6 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries Epidemiology 6 works
  7. 7 Occupational Health and Performance Occupational Therapy 6 works
  8. 8 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 6 works
  9. 9 Noise Effects and Management Speech and Hearing 6 works
  10. 10 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 6 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 available33.1%not open66.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.9%domestic only93.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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