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Beaumont Hospital

In research, Beaumont Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,736 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,467 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,455 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Neurology — Neurology is 6.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,106
of 28,054 · #6,496 all time
Rank in Ireland
#20
of 79
Research works
4.1k
▲ 32% vs 2013–17
Citations
92k
22.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Beaumont Hospital 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 #1,736 of 10,443 9.8%569 #1538
Health SciencesDomain #2,467 of 11,982 9.9%607 #1784
Life SciencesDomain #4,455 of 7,800 12.6%99 #3879
SurgerySubfield #1,389 of 1,816 8.7%89 #1398
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #886 of 1,144 12.1%67 #945
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #3,501 of 3,579 12.3%67 #4459

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Beaumont 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 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#1,538 #1,736
  2. Health Sciences#1,784 #2,467
  3. Life Sciences#3,879 #4,455
  4. Surgery#1,398 #1,389
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#945 #886
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#4,459 #3,501
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 Beaumont Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Neurology takes 6.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. NeurologySubfield · 29.1 works6.7×
← 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: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.66× its world share, 67 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.84× its world share, 14 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.10× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.75× its world share, 35 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.90× its world share, 568 worksMedicineNursing: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.59× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Beaumont Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Eoin OʼBrien, Shane O’Neill and Patrick G. Morris lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Beaumont Hospital.

  1. 1 Eoin OʼBrien Ireland · #23,069 worldwide 439 citations · 64 works
  2. 2 Shane O’Neill Ireland · #53,730 worldwide 228 citations · 52 works
  3. 3 Patrick G. Morris Ireland · #85,587 worldwide 197 citations · 43 works
  4. 4 John P. Burke Ireland · #111,073 worldwide 260 citations · 77 works
  5. 5 Bryan T. Hennessy Ireland · #113,115 worldwide 303 citations · 92 works
  6. 6 Chris Thompson Ireland · #124,104 worldwide 142 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Mary T. Keogan Ireland · #144,495 worldwide 124 citations · 49 works
  8. 8 Peter J. Conlon Ireland · #198,165 worldwide 156 citations · 48 works
  9. 9 John Thornton Ireland · #229,286 worldwide 80 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Neil Atkins Ireland · #234,429 worldwide 192 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Beaumont Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Beaumont Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Management, Surgery, Risk Factors, Quality of Life and 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology92▲ 3.1×103 topics
  2. Diagnosis46▲ 6.5×35 topics
  3. Treatment44▲ 4.8×40 topics
  4. Management38▲ 6.3×28 topics
  5. Inflammation38▲ 2.4×57 topics
  6. Quality of Life35▲ 3.2×39 topics
  7. Risk Factors33▲ 4.0×25 topics
  8. Chemotherapy26▲ 4.8×24 topics
  9. Surgery25▲ 9.5×10 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines25▲ 6.0×14 topics
  11. Guidelines24▲ 6.8×12 topics
  12. Immunotherapy23▲ 4.3×18 topics
  13. Mortality21▲ 4.8×11 topics
  14. Radiotherapy20▲ 7.0×13 topics
  15. Genetics20▲ 3.8×19 topics
  16. Clinical Trials19▲ 3.8×15 topics
  17. Cancer19▲ 1.89×37 topics
  18. Complications19▲ 5.1×15 topics
  19. Genetic Mutations18▲ 5.4×19 topics
  20. Metastasis17▲ 6.5×12 topics
  21. Global Burden16▲ 4.0×11 topics
  22. Neoadjuvant Therapy16▲ 9.2×5 topics
  23. Prognostic Factors16▲ 4.9×14 topics
  24. Autoantibodies16▲ 8.9×8 topics
  25. Prevention16▲ 4.9×13 topics
  26. Survival Analysis15▲ 7.3×6 topics
  27. Angiogenesis13▲ 5.4×11 topics
  28. Clinical Guidelines13▲ 6.1×9 topics
  29. Clinical Outcomes13▲ 8.2×6 topics
  30. Neuroprotection13▲ 4.9×11 topics
  31. Immunosuppressive Therapy13▲ 9.1×6 topics
  32. Surgical Management13▲ 4.1×18 topics
  33. Ethical Considerations12▲ 4.7×8 topics
  34. Rituximab12▲ 10×4 topics
  35. Revascularization11▲ 9.8×3 topics
  36. Extracellular Matrix11▲ 8.2×7 topics
  37. Pain Management11▲ 6.4×8 topics
  38. Breast Cancer11▲ 6.0×11 topics
  39. Stroke10▲ 7.4×6 topics
  40. Epilepsy10▲ 12×4 topics

Which research topics does Beaumont Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases, Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes.

Autoimmune Bullous Skin …7Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases: 7 fractional worksProtease and Inhibitor M…7Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms: 7 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 7 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and …7Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…6Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 6 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 6 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 5 fractional worksEpilepsy research and tr…5Epilepsy research and treatment: 5 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 5 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 5 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicineCancer ResearchEpidemiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 7 works
  2. 2 Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms Cancer Research 7 works
  3. 3 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 7 works
  4. 4 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  5. 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 6 works
  6. 6 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 6 works
  7. 7 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 5 works
  8. 8 Epilepsy research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 5 works
  9. 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  10. 10 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 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 available41.2%not open58.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Beaumont Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% 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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