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World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas

In research, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,284 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#5,005 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#6,983 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health — General Health Professions is 7.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,155
of 28,054 · #9,918 all time
Rank in United States
#1,227
of 4,192
Research works
1.6k
▲ 20% vs 2013–17
Citations
36k
22.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
59%
world 28%

What is World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas 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
Health SciencesDomain #4,284 of 11,982 26.3%132 #3902
MedicineField #5,005 of 10,443 27.3%95 #5795
Social SciencesDomain #6,983 of 10,521 28.9%73 #6495

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas 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. Health Sciences#3,902 #4,284
  2. Medicine#5,795 #5,005
  3. Social Sciences#6,495 #6,983
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 World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 7.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 26.1 works7.8×
  2. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 23.7 works7.3×
← 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: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.26× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.53× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.82× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.05× its world share, 32 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.02× its world share, 95 worksMedicineNursing: 3.54× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.73× its world share, 14 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.06× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.28× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.22× its world share, 38 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas?

Ranked on the composite score, Maristela Monteiro, Chessa Lutter and Ludovic Revéiz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas.

  1. 1 Maristela Monteiro United States · #80,160 worldwide 730 citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Chessa Lutter United States · #130,443 worldwide 148 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Ludovic Revéiz United States · #224,149 worldwide 100 citations · 51 works
  4. 4 Jon Kim Andrus United States · #249,874 worldwide 82 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Andrea Vicari United States · #294,325 worldwide 132 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Mirta Roses Periago United States · #389,197 worldwide 40 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Armando Peruga United States · #520,578 worldwide 20 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Óscar J. Mújica United States · #541,732 worldwide 35 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Ciro A. de Quadrós United States · #587,331 worldwide 33 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Pedro Ordúñez United States · #603,831 worldwide 44 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas

Which keywords describe research at World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Promotion, Healthcare Access, Global Health, Social Determinants, Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Inequities.

▲ 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. Epidemiology49▲ 5.0×71 topics
  2. Public Health40▲ 11×43 topics
  3. Health Promotion17▲ 22×11 topics
  4. Healthcare Access16▲ 24×7 topics
  5. Global Health14▲ 38×6 topics
  6. COVID-1913▲ 3.8×21 topics
  7. Mental Health12▲ 3.5×23 topics
  8. Pandemic12▲ 4.6×11 topics
  9. Social Determinants12▲ 23×5 topics
  10. Quality of Life12▲ 3.4×22 topics
  11. Risk Factors12▲ 4.4×16 topics
  12. Non-Communicable Diseases12▲ 16×3 topics
  13. Corporate Political Activity11▲ 135×1 topic
  14. Global Trade11▲ 23×1 topic
  15. Health Inequities11▲ 86×2 topics
  16. Social Media11▲ 3.1×8 topics
  17. Vaccine10▲ 10×10 topics
  18. Pathogenesis10▲ 8.2×13 topics
  19. Social Determinants of Health10▲ 18×5 topics
  20. Chronic Diseases10▲ 15×7 topics
  21. Immune Response10▲ 7.0×14 topics
  22. Maternal Health10▲ 15×4 topics
  23. Global Burden9▲ 6.8×9 topics
  24. Obesity9▲ 4.8×8 topics
  25. Primary Care9▲ 9.6×10 topics
  26. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 3.1×15 topics
  27. Health Inequalities8▲ 26×3 topics
  28. Health Inequality8▲ 125×2 topics
  29. Infectious Diseases7▲ 9.3×6 topics
  30. Global Access7▲ 34×2 topics
  31. Maternal Mortality7▲ 14×5 topics
  32. Community Participation7▲ 7.9×3 topics
  33. Cultural Variation7▲ 196×1 topic
  34. Risk Perception7▲ 11×2 topics
  35. COVID-19 Vaccine7▲ 39×1 topic
  36. Vaccine Hesitancy7▲ 43×1 topic
  37. Community Health7▲ 17×6 topics
  38. Health Policy7▲ 18×6 topics
  39. Vaccine Development6▲ 10×6 topics
  40. Medical Education6▲ 9.4×9 topics

Which research topics does World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Public Health and Social Inequalities, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy and Global Maternal and Child Health.

Global Public Health Pol…11Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology: 11 fractional worksPublic Health and Social Inequalities: 7 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hes…7Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 7 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Chil…5Global Maternal and Child Health: 5 fractional worksPublic Health and Environmental Issues: 5 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 5 fractional worksBlood Pressure and Hyper…3Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies: 3 fractional worksConsumer Attitudes and Food Labeling: 3 fractional worksVirology and Viral Diseases: 3 fractional worksPublic Health Policies and Education: 3 fractional works
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementHealthPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis5 others

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

  1. 1 Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 11 works
  2. 2 Public Health and Social Inequalities Health 7 works
  3. 3 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 7 works
  4. 4 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 5 works
  5. 5 Public Health and Environmental Issues Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 5 works
  6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  7. 7 Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  9. 9 Virology and Viral Diseases Epidemiology 3 works
  10. 10 Public Health Policies and Education General Health Professions 3 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 available59.3%not open40.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.1%domestic only59.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% 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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