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Whittemore Peterson Institute

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Research works
11
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
258
23.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Whittemore Peterson Institute

Not ranked overall: Whittemore Peterson Institute 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 Whittemore Peterson Institute work in?

In all years, 58% of research at Whittemore Peterson Institute is in Health Sciences, 25% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (56%), Immunology and Microbiology (13%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 6 fractional works · 58.0% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 56.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 4 fractional works · 32.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 24.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 13.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKWhittemorePeterson…11fractional works, all years
Life Sciences25%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences58%Social Sciences16%

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Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine656.2%
    2. Health Professions01.8%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology113.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology18.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.6%
    4. Neuroscience01.6%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance19.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities04.6%
    3. Psychology01.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    1. Environmental Science01.0%
    2. Computer Science00.6%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Whittemore Peterson Institute?

The most cited paper from Whittemore Peterson Institute is "Myalgic encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria" (Bruce M. Carruthers et al., 2011), with 1,300 citations. Next come "Failure to Confirm XMRV/MLVs in the Blood of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Multi-Laboratory Study" (104) and "Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome" (100).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Myalgic encephalomyelitis: International Consensus Criteria Bruce M. Carruthers et al. · Journal of Internal Medicine Open access 20 Jul 2011 1,300
2 Failure to Confirm XMRV/MLVs in the Blood of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Multi-Laboratory Study Graham Simmons et al. · Science Open access 22 Sep 2011 104
3 Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome Judy A. Mikovits, Vincent C. Lombardi, Max A. Pfost et al. · Virulence Open access Sep 2010 100
4 Cytokine expression provides clues to the pathophysiology of Gulf War illness and myalgic encephalomyelitis Svetlana Francevna Khaiboullina, Kenny L. DeMeirleir, Shanti Rawat et al. · Cytokine Open access 13 Dec 2014 74
5 Partial Retraction Robert H. Silverman, Jaydip Das Gupta, Vincent C. Lombardi et al. · Science 13 Oct 2011 51
All 26 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Whittemore Peterson Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research and Disaster Response and Management.

Traumatic Brain Injury R…0Traumatic Brain Injury Research: 0 fractional worksPosttraumatic Stress Dis…0Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 0 fractional worksDisaster Response and Ma…0Disaster Response and Management: 0 fractional works
EpidemiologyClinical PsychologyEmergency Medical Services

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

  1. 1 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 0 works
  2. 2 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Disaster Response and Management Emergency Medical Services 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 available30.1%not open69.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.9%domestic only75.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Whittemore Peterson Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher 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 Whittemore Peterson Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000041% in 2020.

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

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