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Research in West Bromwich

Science Explorer records 7 research institutions in West Bromwich, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

Research institutions
7
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.8k
▲ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
24k
13.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
West Bromwich

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 West Bromwich?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustHospital / health system 1,103 #12,601
2Sandwell General HospitalHospital / health system 325 #28,863 all time
3Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system 133 #33,282 all time
4Robinson Brothers (United Kingdom)Company 121 #32,089 all time
5Sandwell CollegeUniversity 67 not ranked
6Cast Metals Federation (United Kingdom)Company 17 not ranked
7Institute of Cast Metals EngineersNonprofit 5 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.

Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: 62.3%Sandwell General Hospital: 18.4%Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: 7.5%Robinson Brothers (United Kingdom): 6.8%3 others listed: 5.0%62%largest
Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust1,103 · 62.3%Sandwell General Hospital325 · 18.4%Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust133 · 7.5%Robinson Brothers (United Kingdom)121 · 6.8%3 others listed89 · 5.0%

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

Which fields of science does West Bromwich work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research in West Bromwich is in Health Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (69%), Health Professions (8%), Psychology (5%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 348 fractional works · 78.3% of its workMedicine: 308 fractional works · 69.3% of its workSurgery: 65 fractional works · 14.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 21 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 19 fractional works · 4.3% of its workOncology: 18 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEpidemiology: 16 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 13 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRheumatology: 13 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 12 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOphthalmology: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDermatology: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeurology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInternal Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 35 fractional works · 7.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 21 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 49 fractional works · 11.0% of its workPsychology: 22 fractional works · 5.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 14 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 32 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workToxicology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKWest Bromwich444fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences78%Social Sciences11%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine30869.3%
    2. Health Professions357.9%
    3. Nursing30.7%
    4. Dentistry10.3%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Psychology225.0%
    2. Social Sciences132.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting51.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.5%
    6. Decision Sciences10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology184.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology61.4%
    3. Neuroscience51.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    1. Environmental Science51.1%
    2. Engineering51.1%
    3. Computer Science30.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    5. Chemistry10.2%
    6. Mathematics00.0%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is West Bromwich strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in West Bromwich is most concentrated in Surgery (6.3× the world share in Surgery).

  1. SurgerySubfield · 57.9 works6.3×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.70× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.49× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.15× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.16× its world share, 32 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.58× its world share, 268 worksMedicineNursing: 1.31× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.35× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.65× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.58×268 works
  2. Health Professions3.16×32 works
  3. Psychology1.65×20 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.49×6 works
  5. Nursing1.31×2 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.15×2 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.71×6 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.70×15 works
  9. Neuroscience0.64×4 works
  10. Dentistry0.62×1 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.35×4 works
  12. Environmental Science0.25×5 works
  13. Social Sciences0.22×11 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.21×1 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.20×2 works
  16. Veterinary0.16×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.14×1 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.13×1 works
  19. Computer Science0.10×3 works
  20. Engineering0.07×4 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×1 works
  22. Mathematics0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in West Bromwich?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Treatment, Complications, Mortality, Primary Care, Guidelines and Diagnosis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology68▲ 3.8×92 topics
  2. Treatment24▲ 4.5×39 topics
  3. Quality of Life21▲ 3.2×33 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines19▲ 7.9×14 topics
  5. Risk Factors19▲ 3.9×26 topics
  6. Diagnosis19▲ 4.5×31 topics
  7. Mortality19▲ 7.3×11 topics
  8. Complications18▲ 8.3×16 topics
  9. Primary Care18▲ 11×12 topics
  10. Inflammation17▲ 1.77×42 topics
  11. Public Health16▲ 2.5×28 topics
  12. Management16▲ 4.4×26 topics
  13. Guidelines15▲ 7.4×12 topics
  14. Patient Satisfaction13▲ 9.3×10 topics
  15. Chemotherapy12▲ 3.9×18 topics
  16. Survival Analysis12▲ 9.9×5 topics
  17. Autoantibodies12▲ 11×8 topics
  18. Depression12▲ 3.0×15 topics
  19. Radiotherapy10▲ 5.9×12 topics
  20. Neoadjuvant Therapy10▲ 9.8×5 topics
  21. Medical Education10▲ 8.4×10 topics
  22. Quality Improvement10▲ 12×7 topics
  23. Clinical Guidelines10▲ 7.2×9 topics
  24. Surgery10▲ 6.2×10 topics
  25. Meta-Analysis9▲ 3.5×12 topics
  26. Clinical Trials9▲ 3.0×12 topics
  27. Prevention8▲ 4.5×10 topics
  28. Rehabilitation8▲ 4.5×11 topics
  29. Children7▲ 6.8×7 topics
  30. Cardiovascular Risk7▲ 4.8×7 topics
  31. Chronic Disease Management7▲ 7.8×5 topics
  32. Critical Care7▲ 6.2×7 topics
  33. Endoscopic Resection7▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Immunosuppressive Therapy7▲ 7.7×7 topics
  35. Gastric Cancer6▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Colorectal Cancer6▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Training6▲ 6.4×3 topics
  38. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy6▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Screening6▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Molecular Characterization6▲ 7.2×5 topics

What research is done in West Bromwich?

Diverticular Disease and…5Diverticular Disease and Complications: 5 fractional worksAnorectal Disease Treatm…4Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 4 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 4 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 4 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 3 fractional worksInnovations in Medical E…3Innovations in Medical Education: 3 fractional worksMusculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation: 3 fractional worksClinical practice guidelines implementation: 3 fractional works
SurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyRheumatology2 others

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

  1. 1 Diverticular Disease and Complications Surgery 5 works
  2. 2 Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes Surgery 4 works
  3. 3 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 4 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 4 works
  6. 6 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 4 works
  7. 7 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 3 works
  8. 8 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  9. 9 Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation Rehabilitation 3 works
  10. 10 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%all institutions10.0% in 2025West Bromwich6.8% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.8% in 2005.

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