Medical University Rankings (OpenAlex)
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$5.00 / 1,000 results
Medical University Rankings (OpenAlex)
Rank medical universities worldwide by scholarly impact using OpenAlex. Returns citation count, h-index, works count and ROR identifier. Filter by country.
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Rank medical universities and academic medical centers worldwide by real scholarly impact metrics using OpenAlex — the open-access replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph covering 250+ million publications. Returns citation count, h-index, works count, 2-year mean citedness and ROR identifier. No API key required.
Features
- Ranks by total citation count (most cited = rank 1)
- Returns h-index and 2-year mean citedness for recency
- Filter by country (ISO 2-letter code)
- Customize search term:
medical university,university hospital,health sciences, etc. - Returns ROR (Research Organization Registry) ID for integration with other systems
- OpenAlex is fully open — no paywalls, no rate-limit registration
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
searchTerm | string | medical university | Institution name keyword. Try hospital or health sciences for wider results | |
country | string | worldwide | ISO 2-letter country code, e.g. DE, AT, GB, US | |
maxResults | integer | 100 | Max institutions (1–2,000) |
Output
{"rank": 1,"name": "The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center","country": "US","type": "healthcare","citedByCount": 20297821,"worksCount": 98432,"hIndex": 1218,"twoYearMeanCitedness": 8.4,"rorId": "https://ror.org/03c3r2d17","openalexId": "https://openalex.org/I136199984","url": "https://www.utsouthwestern.edu"}
Use Cases
1. European Medical School Benchmarking
A European hospital management consultant filters country=DE (or AT, CH, GB) to benchmark German-speaking medical universities by citation impact — presenting the results to hospital boards for strategic positioning.
2. Research Collaboration Targeting
A pharmaceutical company identifying academic partners for a Phase II trial scrapes the top 50 global medical universities ranked by h-index — creating a shortlist of high-impact institutions for partnership outreach.
3. Medical School Application Research
A pre-med advisor uses the global ranking filtered to GB to show prospective students a citation-impact-based ranking of UK medical schools — a complement to reputation-based rankings like QS or THE.
Data Source
OpenAlex API — free, open scholarly infrastructure. Updated weekly. Covers 250M+ works and 100,000+ institutions globally.
Pricing
Pay-per-result. Top 100 global medical universities ≈ $0.50.