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Research in Blackburn

Science Explorer records 5 research institutions in Blackburn, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.

Research institutions
5
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.5k
▲ 52% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
9.4%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Blackburn?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustHospital / health system 618 #21,229
2Royal Blackburn Teaching HospitalHospital / health system 530 #25,075
3Reed Medical (United Kingdom)Company 308 #19,706 all time
4The Beardwood HospitalHospital / health system 4 not ranked
5The Meltech (United Kingdom)Company 1 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 42.3%Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital: 36.3%Reed Medical (United Kingdom): 21.1%The Beardwood Hospital: 0.3%1 other listed: 0.1%42%largest
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust618 · 42.3%Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital530 · 36.3%Reed Medical (United Kingdom)308 · 21.1%The Beardwood Hospital4 · 0.3%1 other listed1 · 0.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Blackburn strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Blackburn is most concentrated in Surgery (8.6× the world share in Surgery).

  1. SurgerySubfield · 44.6 works8.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in Blackburn?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Complications, Treatment, Guidelines, Surgical Management, Risk Factors and Clinical Practice Guidelines.

▲ 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 city'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. Epidemiology28▲ 3.1×76 topics
  2. Treatment14▲ 5.2×28 topics
  3. Diagnosis14▲ 6.6×21 topics
  4. Complications12▲ 11×15 topics
  5. Risk Factors11▲ 4.5×22 topics
  6. Guidelines10▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Chemotherapy9▲ 6.0×16 topics
  8. Quality of Life9▲ 2.8×26 topics
  9. Management9▲ 5.1×13 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines9▲ 7.3×10 topics
  11. Surgical Management9▲ 9.4×16 topics
  12. Inflammation8▲ 1.75×35 topics
  13. Neoadjuvant Therapy8▲ 15×5 topics
  14. Mortality7▲ 5.8×12 topics
  15. Immunotherapy7▲ 4.6×11 topics
  16. Patient Satisfaction5▲ 7.2×8 topics
  17. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention5▲ 17×4 topics
  18. Tumor Microenvironment5▲ 5.1×6 topics
  19. Survival Analysis5▲ 8.1×6 topics
  20. Atherosclerosis5▲ 7.7×5 topics
  21. Autoantibodies5▲ 9.1×5 topics
  22. Surgery5▲ 5.9×8 topics
  23. Children4▲ 8.6×5 topics
  24. Genetic Mutations4▲ 4.6×15 topics
  25. Medical Education4▲ 7.6×9 topics
  26. Clinical Guidelines4▲ 6.6×8 topics
  27. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 8.2×7 topics
  28. Pancreatic Cancer4▲ 17×1 topic
  29. Radiotherapy4▲ 4.9×7 topics
  30. Surgical Complications4▲ 24×1 topic
  31. Breast Cancer4▲ 7.8×8 topics
  32. Rehabilitation4▲ 4.7×7 topics
  33. Revision Surgery4▲ 14×2 topics
  34. Total Hip Replacement4▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Hepatocellular Carcinoma4▲ 8.1×3 topics
  36. Echocardiography4▲ 6.1×7 topics
  37. Health-related Quality of Life4▲ 7.0×4 topics
  38. Immunosuppressive Therapy4▲ 8.6×7 topics
  39. Endoscopic Surgery3▲ 16×3 topics
  40. Prognostic Markers3▲ 14×3 topics

What research is done in Blackburn?

  1. 1 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 4 works
  2. 2 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 3 works
  3. 3 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  5. 5 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 2 works
  6. 6 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 2 works
  7. 7 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 2 works
  10. 10 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 2 works

Research output over time

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