The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

United States of America (USA)

What goes on inside these walls is nothing short of amazing.

Today, right here in North Texas, medical history is being made at UT Southwestern. Breakthroughs are happening that will affect the health and well-being of people around the world. An innovative gene-editing technique holds new promise in stopping the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Experimental vaccines are creating antibodies to fight the proteins believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Major steps are being made in finding genetic targets for treatment of congenital heart defects and adult heart disease. Currently, there are some 5,700 research projects underway, fueled by more than $400 million a year in funding. As one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, UT Southwestern trains some 4,300 medical, graduate, and health professions students each year. Six of its faculty members have won Nobel Prizes, while 36 are members of the National Academy of Sciences, or the National Academy of Medicine, or are Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. Contributing to both the physical and economic well-being of North Texas. Redefining the future of medicine, today.

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1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center) published between 1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the WFC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

AC FC WFC
223 108.47 108.47

Outputs by subject (WFC)

Subject AC FC WFC
Life Sciences 208 98.68 98.68
Chemistry 30 16.94 16.94
Physical Sciences 4 3.07 3.07

1 April 2016 - 31 March 2017

International vs. domestic collaboration by WFC

  • 61.17% Domestic
  • 38.83% International

Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators by WFC (215 total)

  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)
  • Domestic institution
  1. Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (10.21)
    4.85
    5.36
  2. Children’s Health, United States of America (USA) (7.62)
    6.04
    1.58
  3. The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA) (6.09)
    2.44
    3.65
  4. University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) (5.75)
    3.91
    1.85
  5. National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) (4.85)
    3.30
    1.55
  6. Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) (4.49)
    2.88
    1.61
  7. Yale University, United States of America (USA) (4.14)
    0.86
    3.28
  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) (3.43)
    1.61
    1.82
  9. Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) (3.30)
    1.71
    1.59
  10. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) (3.20)
    1.17
    2.03

Top 10 international collaborators by WFC (449 total)

  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)
  • Foreign institution
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (3.91)
    2.60
    1.31
  2. University of Tsukuba, Japan (3.39)
    2.53
    0.86
  3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) (1.97)
    0.82
    1.15
  4. Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China (1.78)
    1.35
    0.42
  5. The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) (1.77)
    0.41
    1.36
  6. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China (1.70)
    0.86
    0.84
  7. University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada (1.59)
    0.87
    0.72
  8. Peking University (PKU), China (1.51)
    1.15
    0.36
  9. University of Toronto (U of T), Canada (1.47)
    0.58
    0.89
  10. McGill University, Canada (1.46)
    0.72
    0.74

Note: Collaboration is determined by the weighted fractional count (WFC), which is listed in parentheses.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Live Cell Imaging Core, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Laboratory of Functional and Regulatory Genomics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cecil H. and Ida Green Comprehensive Center for Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Center for Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Center for Translational Neurodegeneration Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Center for the Genetics of Host Defense, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Clinical Research Office (CRO), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biophysics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Clinical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Dermatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Developmental Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Center for Autophagy Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division Rheumatic Diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Endocrinology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Epidemiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of General Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Hypothalamic Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Infectious Disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Mineral Metabolism, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Nephrology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Neurological Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Basic Reproductive Biology Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Otolaryngology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Hematology and Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Molecular Radiation Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of Surgical Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Urology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Quantitative Biomedical Research Center (QBRC), UT Southwestern Medical Center
Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center (MDCRC), UT Southwestern Medical Center

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