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Belfast City Hospital

In research, Belfast City Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#8,388 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,954 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,778
of 28,054 · #7,919 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#704
of 1,094
Research works
2k
▼ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
44k
21.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Belfast City 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 #8,388 of 10,443 9.4%65 #2395
Health SciencesDomain #9,954 of 11,982 10.6%78 #3134

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Belfast City 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).

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: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.53× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.86× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.53× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.96× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.25× its world share, 65 worksMedicineNursing: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.17× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Belfast City Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Public Health, Mutation Analysis, Epidemiology, Primary Care, Cystic Fibrosis, NHS and Prognostic Factors.

▲ 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. Epidemiology10▲ 2.3×53 topics
  2. Public Health7▲ 4.7×16 topics
  3. Chemotherapy6▲ 8.4×17 topics
  4. Mutation Analysis5▲ 70×2 topics
  5. COVID-195▲ 3.7×7 topics
  6. Primary Care5▲ 12×6 topics
  7. Clinical Trials4▲ 6.2×10 topics
  8. Quality of Life4▲ 2.9×16 topics
  9. Cystic Fibrosis4▲ 58×3 topics
  10. Inflammation4▲ 1.97×23 topics
  11. Treatment4▲ 3.4×24 topics
  12. NHS4▲ 278×2 topics
  13. Mortality4▲ 6.8×8 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors4▲ 8.7×12 topics
  15. Healthcare Workers4▲ 15×4 topics
  16. Pulmonary Infections4▲ 63×2 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease4▲ 3.2×13 topics
  18. Health Inequalities4▲ 29×4 topics
  19. Bronchiectasis4▲ 121×1 topic
  20. CFTR4▲ 121×1 topic
  21. Chronic Kidney Disease3▲ 13×5 topics
  22. Workforce Planning3▲ 89×1 topic
  23. doctors' strikes3▲ 270×1 topic
  24. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 5.4×10 topics
  25. Immunotherapy3▲ 4.1×12 topics
  26. Chronic Disease Management3▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Social Support3▲ 4.5×4 topics
  28. Genetic Mutations2▲ 5.4×11 topics
  29. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 6.0×7 topics
  30. Information Seeking Behavior2▲ 50×2 topics
  31. Molecular Characterization2▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Radiotherapy2▲ 5.9×11 topics
  33. Survival Analysis2▲ 8.4×6 topics
  34. Health Literacy2▲ 78×1 topic
  35. eHealth2▲ 78×1 topic
  36. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 9.1×5 topics
  37. Genomic Analysis2▲ 8.1×4 topics
  38. Graft Survival2▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Ovarian Cancer2▲ 23×3 topics
  40. Hemodialysis2▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Belfast City Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Healthcare Systems and Challenges, Health Literacy and Information Accessibility and Dialysis and Renal Disease Management.

Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 4 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Challenges: 3 fractional worksHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility: 2 fractional worksDialysis and Renal Disease Management: 2 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 2 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical…1Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 1 fractional worksAcute Myeloid Leukemia Research: 1 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 1 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 1 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineGeneral Health ProfessionsNephrologyReproductive Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  2. 2 Healthcare Systems and Challenges General Health Professions 3 works
  3. 3 Health Literacy and Information Accessibility General Health Professions 2 works
  4. 4 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 2 works
  5. 5 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 1 works
  7. 7 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 1 works
  8. 8 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 1 works
  9. 9 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 1 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 available32.2%not open67.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.9%domestic only84.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Belfast City Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% lower 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.

Other research institutions in Belfast

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