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Alfred Health

In research, Alfred Health stands highest in Medicine (#1,018 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,255 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,901 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Emergency Medicine — Emergency Medicine is 10.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,301
of 28,054 · #7,085 all time
Rank in Australia
#80
of 391
Research works
2.2k
▲ 91% vs 2013–17
Citations
32k
14.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
55%
world 28%

What is Alfred Health known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #1,018 of 10,443 18.5%592 #1961
Health SciencesDomain #1,255 of 11,982 19.0%658 #2148
Life SciencesDomain #2,901 of 7,800 23.6%87 #4140
Social SciencesDomain #6,286 of 10,521 26.4%62 #10739
SurgerySubfield #1,094 of 1,816 15.7%70 #2349
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #842 of 1,144 15.5%63 #1460

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Alfred Health sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#1,961 #1,018
  2. Health Sciences#2,148 #1,255
  3. Life Sciences#4,140 #2,901
  4. Social Sciences#10,739 #6,286
  5. Surgery#2,349 #1,094
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,460 #842
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Alfred Health specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Emergency Medicine takes 10.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Emergency MedicineSubfield · 21.5 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.89× its world share, 40 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.52× its world share, 21 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.46× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.91× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.56× its world share, 56 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.68× its world share, 592 worksMedicineNursing: 1.92× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.38× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.11× its world share, 28 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Alfred Health?

Ranked on the composite score, Anne E. Holland, Mark Hew and Harry Gibbs lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Alfred Health.

  1. 1 Anne E. Holland · #84,700 worldwide 265 citations · 98 works
  2. 2 Mark Hew · #141,422 worldwide 86 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Harry Gibbs · #493,009 worldwide 62 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Susan Poole · #794,816 worldwide 32 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Wee Loon Ong · #893,187 worldwide 36 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Jeremy Millar · #1,131,024 worldwide 44 citations · 84 works
  7. 7 Vanessa Panettieri · #1,504,190 worldwide 1 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Hitesh Patel · #1,598,880 worldwide 8 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Alfred Health

Which keywords describe research at Alfred Health?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Guidelines, Inflammation, Heart Failure, Management and Mortality.

▲ 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 institution'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. Epidemiology108▲ 3.3×110 topics
  2. Inflammation47▲ 2.7×66 topics
  3. Treatment40▲ 3.9×42 topics
  4. Diagnosis39▲ 5.0×33 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease32▲ 3.4×31 topics
  6. Management32▲ 4.8×28 topics
  7. Guidelines29▲ 7.5×13 topics
  8. Heart Failure28▲ 7.7×13 topics
  9. Quality of Life27▲ 2.2×44 topics
  10. Mortality27▲ 5.5×13 topics
  11. Risk Factors25▲ 2.7×33 topics
  12. Immunotherapy24▲ 4.0×18 topics
  13. Neurological Disorders20▲ 4.3×18 topics
  14. Genetics20▲ 3.5×15 topics
  15. Critical Care19▲ 9.9×8 topics
  16. Clinical Trials19▲ 3.3×17 topics
  17. Global Burden18▲ 4.1×12 topics
  18. Metabolic Syndrome18▲ 2.6×21 topics
  19. Prognosis18▲ 6.4×9 topics
  20. Biomarkers18▲ 3.1×15 topics
  21. Complications17▲ 4.1×16 topics
  22. Myocardial Infarction17▲ 8.7×7 topics
  23. Surgery17▲ 5.8×11 topics
  24. Rehabilitation16▲ 4.8×12 topics
  25. Clinical Practice Guidelines16▲ 3.4×14 topics
  26. Resuscitation15▲ 14×4 topics
  27. Patient Satisfaction14▲ 5.3×9 topics
  28. Clinical Guidelines13▲ 5.5×9 topics
  29. Echocardiography13▲ 5.8×7 topics
  30. HIV Transmission13▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Immunosuppressive Therapy13▲ 8.4×8 topics
  32. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention12▲ 11×4 topics
  33. Elderly Patients12▲ 8.8×4 topics
  34. Antiretroviral Therapy12▲ 8.9×6 topics
  35. Sepsis12▲ 8.5×5 topics
  36. Survival Rates12▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Autoantibodies12▲ 5.9×8 topics
  38. Quality Improvement11▲ 6.9×8 topics
  39. Intensive Care Unit11▲ 10×4 topics
  40. Transplantation11▲ 13×4 topics

Which research topics does Alfred Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research.

Transplantation: Methods…8Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 8 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…8Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 8 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 8 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 7 fractional worksReproductive tract infections research: 7 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 7 fractional worksPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 6 fractional worksEpilepsy research and tr…6Epilepsy research and treatment: 6 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarction Research: 6 fractional works
SurgeryEmergency MedicineBiomedical EngineeringPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6 others

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

  1. 1 Transplantation: Methods and OutcomesSurgery 8 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationEmergency Medicine 8 works
  3. 3 Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesBiomedical Engineering 8 works
  4. 4 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  5. 5 Reproductive tract infections researchMicrobiology 7 works
  6. 6 HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsInfectious Diseases 7 works
  7. 7 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesGeriatrics and Gerontology 6 works
  8. 8 Epilepsy research and treatmentPsychiatry and Mental health 6 works
  9. 9 Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentEpidemiology 6 works
  10. 10 Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available54.9%not open45.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.8%domestic only75.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Alfred Health's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 91% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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