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West Texas Retina Consultants

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Research works
7
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
495
73.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
West Texas Retina Consultants

Not ranked overall: West Texas Retina Consultants is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does West Texas Retina Consultants work in?

In all years, 82% of research at West Texas Retina Consultants is in Health Sciences, 13% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (79%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (3%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 6 fractional works · 82.1% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 79.2% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 39.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 17.0% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workALL ITS WORKWest Texas RetinaConsultants7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences82%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine579.2%
    2. Health Professions03.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18.6%
    2. Neuroscience03.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences03.3%
    2. Environmental Science01.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Who are the top researchers at West Texas Retina Consultants?

Ranked on the quality score, Sunil S. Patel lead among researchers whose main affiliation is West Texas Retina Consultants.

  1. 1 Sunil S. Patel United States · #104,646 worldwide 6.8k citations · 71 works
All ranked researchers at West Texas Retina Consultants

What are the most cited papers from West Texas Retina Consultants?

The most cited paper from West Texas Retina Consultants is "Ranibizumab for Diabetic Macular Edema" (Quan Dong Nguyen, David M. Brown, Dennis M. Marcus et al., 2012), with 1,625 citations. Next come "Long-term Outcomes of Ranibizumab Therapy for Diabetic Macular Edema: The 36-Month Results from Two Phase III Trials" (831) and "C5 Inhibitor Avacincaptad Pegol for Geographic Atrophy Due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration" (474).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ranibizumab for Diabetic Macular Edema Quan Dong Nguyen, David M. Brown, Dennis M. Marcus et al. · Ophthalmology 11 Feb 2012 1,625
2 Long-term Outcomes of Ranibizumab Therapy for Diabetic Macular Edema: The 36-Month Results from Two Phase III Trials David M. Brown, Quan Dong Nguyen, Dennis M. Marcus et al. · Ophthalmology Open access 22 May 2013 831
3 C5 Inhibitor Avacincaptad Pegol for Geographic Atrophy Due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration Glenn J. Jaffe, Keith Westby, Karl G. Csaky et al. · Ophthalmology Open access Sep 2020 474
4 Efficacy and safety of avacincaptad pegol in patients with geographic atrophy (GATHER2): 12-month results from a randomised, double-masked, phase 3 trial Arshad M. Khanani et al. · The Lancet Open access226 authors 8 Sep 2023 364
5 Simultaneous Inhibition of Angiopoietin-2 and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A with Faricimab in Diabetic Macular Edema Jayashree Sahni, Sunil S. Patel, Pravin U. Dugel et al. · Ophthalmology Open access 21 Mar 2019 290
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Which research topics does West Texas Retina Consultants publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Retinal and Optic Conditions, Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome and Glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Retinal Diseases and Tre…0Retinal Diseases and Treatments: 0 fractional worksRetinal and Optic Conditions: 0 fractional worksOcular Diseases and Behç…0Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome: 0 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal dis…0Glaucoma and retinal disorders: 0 fractional worksOphthalmology and Visual…0Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 0 fractional worksRetinal Development and …0Retinal Development and Disorders: 0 fractional worksRetinal and Macular Surgery: 0 fractional worksSystemic Lupus Erythematosus Research: 0 fractional worksIntraocular Surgery and Lenses: 0 fractional worksRetinopathy of Prematurity Studies: 0 fractional works
OphthalmologyEpidemiologyMolecular BiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging1 others

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

  1. 1 Retinal Diseases and Treatments Ophthalmology 0 works
  2. 2 Retinal and Optic Conditions Ophthalmology 0 works
  3. 3 Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome Ophthalmology 0 works
  4. 4 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 0 works
  5. 5 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  6. 6 Retinal Development and Disorders Molecular Biology 0 works
  7. 7 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  8. 8 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research Rheumatology 0 works
  9. 9 Intraocular Surgery and Lenses Ophthalmology 0 works
  10. 10 Retinopathy of Prematurity Studies Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 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 available58.9%not open41.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.5%domestic only59.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has West Texas Retina Consultants's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is West Texas Retina Consultants as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000014% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%West Texas Retina Consultants0.000012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of West Texas Retina Consultants over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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