Baghdad Medical City
In research, Baghdad Medical City stands highest in Surgery (#1,487 of 1,532 worldwide), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#2,895 of 2,964 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#10,501 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nephrology and Hematology (Obstetrics and Gynecology is 7.1× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #20,495 of 22,385 · #34,550 all time
- Rank in Iraq
- #63 of 67
- Research works
- 3.4k ▲ 44% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 15k 4.3 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 2.5% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.44× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 77% world 40%
- International
- 15% world 18%
What is Baghdad Medical City known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SurgerySubfield | #1,487 of 1,532 | 2.0% | 101 | #3174 | |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField | #2,895 of 2,964 | 1.8% | 89 | #5674 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #10,501 of 10,670 | 4.2% | 115 | #17148 | |
| MedicineField | #8,410 of 8,541 | 1.6% | 784 | #14344 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #6,338 of 6,403 | 2.8% | 186 | #10841 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #9,810 of 9,902 | 1.8% | 867 | #16526 | |
| Social SciencesDomain | #9,567 of 9,585 | 3.4% | 68 | #14748 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Baghdad Medical City 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 of those standings moved
The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.
- Surgery#3,174 #1,487
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#5,674 #2,895
- Physical Sciences#17,148 #10,501
- Medicine#14,344 #8,410
- Life Sciences#10,841 #6,338
- Health Sciences#16,526 #9,810
- Social Sciences#14,748 #9,567
A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.
Which fields of science does Baghdad Medical City work in?
In 2022-now, 70% of research at Baghdad Medical City is in Health Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (64%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%), Engineering (3%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences1,02070.4%
- Medicine92563.8%
- Health Professions503.5%
- Dentistry281.9%
- Nursing151.0%
- Veterinary20.1%
- Life Sciences21815.0%
- Physical Sciences1369.4%
- Engineering513.5%
- Materials Science211.4%
- Computer Science181.2%
- Environmental Science181.2%
- Chemistry161.1%
- Energy50.3%
- Physics and Astronomy40.3%
- Mathematics30.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences10.0%
- Chemical Engineering10.0%
- Social Sciences765.2%
What does Baghdad Medical City specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Obstetrics and Gynecology takes 7.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Obstetrics and GynecologySubfield · 29.5 works7.1×
- NephrologySubfield · 22.1 works7.0×
- HematologySubfield · 28.2 works6.4×
- DermatologySubfield · 21.9 works5.8×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Dentistry3.97×28 works
- Medicine3.32×925 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.89×15 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.63×38 works
- Nursing2.06×15 works
- Neuroscience1.48×35 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.33×102 works
- Health Professions1.31×50 works
- Veterinary1.00×2 works
- Chemistry0.68×16 works
- Psychology0.60×27 works
- Materials Science0.41×21 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.39×27 works
- Energy0.34×5 works
- Decision Sciences0.34×5 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.28×8 works
- Environmental Science0.25×18 works
- Engineering0.23×51 works
- Mathematics0.19×3 works
- Computer Science0.16×18 works
- Arts and Humanities0.16×7 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.13×4 works
- Social Sciences0.13×23 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.12×6 works
- Chemical Engineering0.11×0 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×1 works
- Dentistry 4.0×
- Medicine 3.3×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.9×
- Immunology and Microbiology 2.6×
- Nursing 2.1×
- Neuroscience 1.5×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.3×
- Health Professions 1.3×
- Veterinary 1.0×
- Chemistry 0.7×
- Psychology 0.6×
- Materials Science 0.4×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.4×
- Energy 0.3×
- Decision Sciences 0.3×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.3×
- Environmental Science 0.2×
- Engineering 0.2×
- Mathematics 0.2×
- Computer Science 0.2×
- Arts and Humanities 0.2×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
- Social Sciences 0.1×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×
- Chemical Engineering 0.1×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.0×
Who are the top researchers at Baghdad Medical City?
Ranked on the quality score, Israa Fadhil Yaseen, Hasan Ali Farhan and Mazin Faisal Al‐Jadiry lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Baghdad Medical City.
- 1
Israa Fadhil Yaseen
Iraq · #1,623,725 worldwide 477 citations · 53 works
- 2
Hasan Ali Farhan
Iraq · #2,715,234 worldwide 874 citations · 114 works
- 3
Mazin Faisal Al‐Jadiry
Iraq · #2,749,354 worldwide 1.4k citations · 69 works
- 4
Yasir Qasim Almajidi
Iraq · #2,814,369 worldwide 1.2k citations · 107 works
- 5
Ahmed Hatem Sabhan
Iraq · #3,005,041 worldwide 611 citations · 18 works
- 6
Abdullah H. Al Ramadan
Iraq · #4,032,302 worldwide 48 citations · 21 works
- 7
Areege Mustafa Kamal
Iraq · #4,373,222 worldwide 556 citations · 23 works
- 8
Haider Abdulraheem Alalawy
Iraq · #4,651,147 worldwide 205 citations · 16 works
- 9
Adnan H. Al-Araji
Iraq · #5,323,357 worldwide 1.3k citations · 20 works
- 10
Amir Fadhil Al‐Darraji
Iraq · #5,551,301 worldwide 332 citations · 22 works
Which keywords describe research at Baghdad Medical City?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Treatment, Metabolic Syndrome, Oxidative Stress, Quality of Life and Diagnosis.
- Clinical Characteristics
- Treatment Guidelines
- Metastasis
- Maternal Mortality
- Vaccine
- Surgical Management
- SARS-CoV-2
- ACE2 Receptor
- Global Burden
- Pathogenesis
- Genetics
- Mortality
- Obesity
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- COVID-19
- Diagnosis
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Cancer
- Risk Factors
- Pandemic
- Immune Response
- Complications
- Insulin Resistance
- Guidelines
- Prognostic Factors
- Pathophysiology
- Thrombosis
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Cardiovascular Risk
- Pregnancy
- Endothelial Dysfunction
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
- Epidemiology180▲ 3.1×117 topics
- Inflammation109▲ 3.5×81 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 3.9×36 topics
- Treatment64▲ 3.6×46 topics
- Oxidative Stress63▲ 2.6×55 topics
- Quality of Life58▲ 2.8×38 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome50▲ 4.2×23 topics
- Diagnosis48▲ 3.6×37 topics
- Cancer48▲ 2.5×53 topics
- COVID-1942▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Risk Factors40▲ 2.5×32 topics
- Chemotherapy39▲ 3.8×25 topics
- Pandemic38▲ 2.6×9 topics
- Management37▲ 3.2×28 topics
- Immune Response36▲ 4.4×20 topics
- Obesity33▲ 3.0×24 topics
- Complications32▲ 4.4×16 topics
- Mortality31▲ 3.8×13 topics
- Insulin Resistance30▲ 4.5×10 topics
- Genetics29▲ 2.8×17 topics
- Guidelines28▲ 4.2×13 topics
- Pathogenesis28▲ 3.8×24 topics
- Prognostic Factors28▲ 4.4×14 topics
- Global Burden26▲ 3.3×12 topics
- Pathophysiology24▲ 5.8×10 topics
- ACE2 Receptor24▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Thrombosis24▲ 6.1×7 topics
- SARS-CoV-224▲ 5.5×6 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines23▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Surgical Management22▲ 3.8×20 topics
- Chronic Kidney Disease22▲ 6.1×9 topics
- Vaccine22▲ 3.8×10 topics
- Antibiotic Resistance22▲ 3.8×13 topics
- Maternal Mortality21▲ 6.4×5 topics
- Cardiovascular Risk20▲ 4.5×9 topics
- Metastasis19▲ 3.9×12 topics
- Pregnancy19▲ 6.3×8 topics
- Treatment Guidelines18▲ 5.7×7 topics
- Endothelial Dysfunction18▲ 5.2×7 topics
- Clinical Characteristics14▲ 8.1×2 topics
Which research topics does Baghdad Medical City publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies and Health and Well-being Studies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 14 works
- 2 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 10 works
- 3 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 10 works
- 4 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 10 works
- 5 Diverse Scientific Research Studies General Health Professions 7 works
- 6 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Genetics 7 works
- 7 Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 7 works
- 8 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 6 works
- 9 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 6 works
- 10 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Baghdad Medical City's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Baghdad Medical City as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.
Fractional works of Baghdad Medical City 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 3.8% in 2015.
Other research institutions in Baghdad
- University of Baghdad
- Mustansiriyah University
- University of Technology - Iraq
- Nahrain University
- Iraqi University
- Middle Technical University
- Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
- Alsalam University College
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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