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Amager Hospital

In research, Amager Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,700 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,489 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery (Surgery is 6.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,396
of 22,385 · #10,961 all time
Rank in Denmark
#46
of 93
Research works
498
▲ 90% vs 2018-21
Citations
10k
20.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.06×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
Amager Hospital

What is Amager Hospital known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #2,700 of 9,902 14.8%108 #3029
MedicineField #2,489 of 8,541 14.3%99 #2853

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Amager Hospital 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Amager Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Amager Hospital is in Health Sciences, 12% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (64%), Psychology (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 130 fractional works · 70.2% of its workMedicine: 119 fractional works · 64.2% of its workSurgery: 28 fractional works · 15.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 11 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEpidemiology: 11 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 7 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 23 fractional works · 12.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 9 fractional works · 4.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 12.0% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 6.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKAmager Hospital185fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences70%Social Sciences12%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine11964.2%
    2. Health Professions105.4%
    3. Dentistry10.3%
    4. Nursing10.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology115.9%
    2. Neuroscience94.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology21.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Psychology126.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities52.9%
    3. Social Sciences42.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    5. Decision Sciences10.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Engineering73.5%
    2. Environmental Science10.7%
    3. Computer Science10.5%
    4. Materials Science00.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Amager Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 28.4 works6.6×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.11× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.28× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.02× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.03× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.34× its world share, 119 worksMedicineNursing: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.00× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.04× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.34×119 works
  2. Neuroscience3.02×9 works
  3. Psychology2.04×12 works
  4. Health Professions2.03×10 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.28×2 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.11×11 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.00×5 works
  8. Dentistry0.66×1 works
  9. Nursing0.63×1 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.39×0 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.29×0 works
  12. Engineering0.24×6 works
  13. Social Sciences0.17×4 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.16×1 works
  15. Environmental Science0.15×1 works
  16. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.08×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.07×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.06×1 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Amager Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Matthew D. DeLang, Christian Anholm and August Gabriel Wang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Amager Hospital.

  1. 1 Matthew D. DeLang Denmark · #1,267,571 worldwide 484 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Christian Anholm Denmark · #1,343,375 worldwide 546 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 August Gabriel Wang Denmark · #2,250,934 worldwide 6.3k citations · 111 works
  4. 4 Niels Christian Kaldau Denmark · #2,639,358 worldwide 582 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Erik Balieu Denmark · #2,982,596 worldwide 421 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Vibeke Steffen Denmark · #3,934,223 worldwide 0 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Sten Madsbad Denmark · #4,249,672 worldwide 0 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Mette Madsen Denmark · #4,890,714 worldwide 0 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Vagn Greve Denmark · #5,229,400 worldwide 0 citations · 71 works
  10. 10 A. L. Hansen Denmark · #6,174,233 worldwide 0 citations · 60 works
All ranked researchers at Amager Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Amager Hospital?

The most cited paper from Amager Hospital is "Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci" (Stephan Ripke et al., 2011), with 1,966 citations. Next come "Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia" (1,787) and "2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern" (969).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci Stephan Ripke et al. · Nature Genetics Open access196 authors 18 Sep 2011 1,966
2 Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia GROUP et al. · Nature Open access 30 Jul 2008 1,787
3 2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern Clare Louise Ardern, Philip D. Glasgow, Anthony Gerard Schneiders et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 25 May 2016 969
4 Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study Avshalom Caspi, Renate Houts, Antony P. Ambler et al. · JAMA Network Open Open access 21 Apr 2020 670
5 Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries in Men’s Soccer Jesper Petersen, Kristian Thorborg, Michael Bachmann Nielsen et al. · The American Journal of Sports Medicine 8 Aug 2011 613
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Amager Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Prevention, Complications, Risk Factors, Inflammation, Injury Prevention and Muscle Injuries.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology31▲ 4.2×76 topics
  2. Inflammation10▲ 2.7×34 topics
  3. Risk Factors9▲ 4.5×21 topics
  4. Rehabilitation9▲ 12×12 topics
  5. Prevention8▲ 10×9 topics
  6. Complications7▲ 8.0×12 topics
  7. Treatment7▲ 3.1×31 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome6▲ 4.2×16 topics
  9. Injury Prevention6▲ 27×2 topics
  10. Muscle Injuries6▲ 49×1 topic
  11. Sports Injury6▲ 49×1 topic
  12. Anterior Cruciate Ligament6▲ 72×1 topic
  13. Injury Risk6▲ 72×1 topic
  14. Cardiovascular Disease5▲ 2.6×24 topics
  15. Diagnosis5▲ 3.0×23 topics
  16. Biomechanics5▲ 8.9×6 topics
  17. Heart Failure5▲ 6.1×11 topics
  18. Neuroscience5▲ 8.6×6 topics
  19. Embodiment5▲ 14×6 topics
  20. Management5▲ 3.2×14 topics
  21. Osteoarthritis5▲ 20×2 topics
  22. Shoulder Function5▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 7.4×8 topics
  24. Cognitive Therapy4▲ 20×3 topics
  25. Critical Care4▲ 9.4×7 topics
  26. Revision Surgery4▲ 18×2 topics
  27. Rotator Cuff Tears4▲ 36×1 topic
  28. Shoulder Pathology4▲ 36×1 topic
  29. Social Cognition4▲ 13×3 topics
  30. Total Hip Replacement4▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Antipsychotic Drugs4▲ 56×1 topic
  32. Neurocognitive Deficits4▲ 56×1 topic
  33. Phenomenology4▲ 21×4 topics
  34. Psychiatric Disorders4▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Inflammatory Bowel Disease4▲ 18×5 topics
  36. DSM4▲ 88×1 topic
  37. Self-Experience4▲ 88×1 topic
  38. Arthroplasty3▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Regeneration3▲ 8.7×3 topics
  40. High-Intensity Interval Training3▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does Amager Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Sports injuries and prevention, Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, Shoulder Injury and Treatment and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Sports injuries and prevention: 6 fractional worksKnee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 6 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Trea…4Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 4 fractional worksSchizophrenia research a…4Schizophrenia research and treatment: 4 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 4 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 3 fractional worksLower Extremity Biomecha…3Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies: 3 fractional worksHip disorders and treatments: 3 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 2 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 2 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSurgeryPsychiatry and Mental healthPhilosophy2 others

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

  1. 1 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 6 works
  3. 3 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 4 works
  4. 4 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 4 works
  5. 5 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 4 works
  6. 6 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 3 works
  7. 7 Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  8. 8 Hip disorders and treatments Surgery 3 works
  9. 9 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 2 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 available49.6%not open50.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.7%domestic only71.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Amager Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 90% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Amager Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00065% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Amager Hospital0.00092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Amager Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting10%20%Amager Hospital12.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.5% in 2021.

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