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Research in North Shields

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in North Shields, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Research institutions
7
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4.7k
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
144k
30.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
North Shields

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 North Shields?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1North Tyneside General HospitalHospital / health system 3,636 #15,016 all time
2Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system 1,018 #10,525
3Monitor Coatings (United Kingdom)Company 23 not ranked
4Castolin Eutectic (United Kingdom)Company 8 not ranked
5Cedarwood TrustNonprofit 2 not ranked
6Aeirtec (United Kingdom)Company 2 not ranked
7MuseumNextInstitution 2 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.

North Tyneside General Hospital: 77.5%Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 21.7%Monitor Coatings (United Kingdom): 0.5%Castolin Eutectic (United Kingdom): 0.2%3 others listed: 0.1%78%largest
North Tyneside General Hospital3,636 · 77.5%Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust1,018 · 21.7%Monitor Coatings (United Kingdom)23 · 0.5%Castolin Eutectic (United Kingdom)8 · 0.2%3 others listed6 · 0.1%

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

Which fields of science does North Shields work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research in North Shields is in Health Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (70%), Health Professions (10%), Psychology (4%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 337 fractional works · 81.2% of its workMedicine: 290 fractional works · 70.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 59 fractional works · 14.1% of its workSurgery: 51 fractional works · 12.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 22 fractional works · 5.3% of its workOncology: 22 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEpidemiology: 18 fractional works · 4.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 14 fractional works · 3.4% of its workNeurology: 10 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRehabilitation: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGastroenterology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 43 fractional works · 10.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 26 fractional works · 6.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedical Terminology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workResearch and Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 40 fractional works · 9.7% of its workPsychology: 16 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 12 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 9 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth Shields415fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences81%Social Sciences10%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine29070.0%
    2. Health Professions4310.4%
    3. Nursing20.5%
    4. Dentistry10.2%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Psychology163.8%
    2. Social Sciences133.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance102.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology92.1%
    2. Neuroscience51.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology40.9%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    1. Engineering102.4%
    2. Computer Science41.0%
    3. Environmental Science30.7%
    4. Materials Science10.3%
    5. Energy00.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    7. Mathematics00.0%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is North Shields strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in North Shields is most concentrated in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (9.7× the world share in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine).

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 54.2 works9.7×
← 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.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.34× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.79× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.80× its world share, 36 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.68× its world share, 257 worksMedicineNursing: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.29× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.20× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions3.80×36 works
  2. Medicine3.68×257 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.29×10 works
  4. Psychology1.20×13 works
  5. Neuroscience0.79×5 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.77×1 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.75×3 works
  8. Nursing0.68×1 works
  9. Dentistry0.55×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.34×7 works
  11. Social Sciences0.22×10 works
  12. Engineering0.18×10 works
  13. Computer Science0.13×4 works
  14. Environmental Science0.11×2 works
  15. Energy0.10×0 works
  16. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.10×1 works
  18. Veterinary0.06×0 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×0 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.02×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works
  23. Decision Sciences0.02×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in North Shields?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mortality, Primary Care, Guidelines, Management, Pneumothorax, Diagnosis 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-now 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. Epidemiology44▲ 2.6×74 topics
  2. Mortality21▲ 9.0×10 topics
  3. Quality of Life20▲ 3.4×34 topics
  4. Management20▲ 5.9×21 topics
  5. Diagnosis19▲ 5.0×23 topics
  6. Primary Care19▲ 12×13 topics
  7. Guidelines17▲ 8.8×10 topics
  8. Pneumothorax17▲ 114×2 topics
  9. Risk Factors17▲ 3.6×21 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines15▲ 6.8×11 topics
  11. Treatment15▲ 3.0×27 topics
  12. Complications15▲ 7.2×16 topics
  13. Patient Satisfaction14▲ 11×8 topics
  14. Rehabilitation14▲ 8.4×9 topics
  15. Empyema14▲ 125×1 topic
  16. Pleural Effusion14▲ 125×1 topic
  17. Prevention14▲ 7.7×12 topics
  18. Ethical Considerations13▲ 8.9×9 topics
  19. Chemotherapy12▲ 4.2×13 topics
  20. Medical Education12▲ 11×9 topics
  21. Parkinson's Disease12▲ 11×6 topics
  22. Elderly12▲ 11×5 topics
  23. Global Burden11▲ 5.0×8 topics
  24. Colorectal Cancer10▲ 29×2 topics
  25. Radiotherapy10▲ 5.9×10 topics
  26. Echocardiography9▲ 8.1×7 topics
  27. Incidence9▲ 36×2 topics
  28. Revision Surgery9▲ 17×2 topics
  29. Surveillance9▲ 7.9×2 topics
  30. Total Hip Replacement9▲ 17×2 topics
  31. Colonoscopy9▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Health Care Costs9▲ 27×2 topics
  33. Screening9▲ 22×1 topic
  34. Respiratory9▲ 22×2 topics
  35. COPD9▲ 31×1 topic
  36. spirometry9▲ 31×1 topic
  37. Palliative Care8▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Adjuvant Therapy8▲ 16×2 topics
  39. End-of-Life8▲ 22×2 topics
  40. Arthroplasty8▲ 20×2 topics

What research is done in North Shields?

Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases: 12 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 8 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulm…8Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 8 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-…7Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 7 fractional worksOccupational and environmental lung diseases: 6 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 5 fractional worksBalance, Gait, and Falls…5Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention: 5 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEconomics and Econometrics2 others

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

  1. 1 Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  2. 2 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 8 works
  3. 3 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 7 works
  5. 5 Occupational and environmental lung diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  7. 7 Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 5 works
  8. 8 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 5 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%North Shields11.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 29.3% in 2006.

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