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Bir Hospital

In research, Bir Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#5,315 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#6,138 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,655 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 7.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#17,007
of 28,054 · #25,746 all time
Rank in Nepal
#27
of 56
Research works
1.6k
▲ 113% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.4k
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
86%
world 28%

What is Bir 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 #5,315 of 10,443 3.2%419 #10535
Health SciencesDomain #6,138 of 11,982 3.2%463 #10295
SurgerySubfield #1,655 of 1,816 2.5%99 #3981

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bir 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#10,535 #5,315
  2. Health Sciences#10,295 #6,138
  3. Surgery#3,981 #1,655
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 Bir Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 7.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 98.6 works7.4×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.65× its world share, 20 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.25× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.84× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.27× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 5.64× its world share, 16 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.55× its world share, 23 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.83× its world share, 418 worksMedicineNursing: 1.63× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.21× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.10× its world share, 19 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 5.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Bir Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Bipin Chaurasia, Sajjad Ahmed Khan and Surya Bahadur Parajuli lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bir Hospital.

  1. 1 Bipin Chaurasia · #1,065,507 worldwide 20 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Sajjad Ahmed Khan · #1,285,378 worldwide 4 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Surya Bahadur Parajuli · #1,320,505 worldwide 12 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Rodolphe Meyer De Schauensee · #1,387,803 worldwide 0 citations · 130 works
All ranked researchers at Bir Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Bir Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Complications, Management, Surgical Management, Treatment, Guidelines and Risk 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. Epidemiology86▲ 3.8×104 topics
  2. Diagnosis33▲ 6.3×37 topics
  3. Treatment30▲ 4.3×42 topics
  4. Management29▲ 6.6×25 topics
  5. Complications29▲ 10×15 topics
  6. Surgical Management27▲ 11×19 topics
  7. Inflammation25▲ 2.1×47 topics
  8. Quality of Life24▲ 3.0×35 topics
  9. Risk Factors22▲ 3.6×27 topics
  10. Guidelines19▲ 7.2×13 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome18▲ 3.9×17 topics
  12. COVID-1917▲ 2.2×19 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease16▲ 2.5×29 topics
  14. Surgery16▲ 7.8×10 topics
  15. Mortality15▲ 4.5×13 topics
  16. Public Health14▲ 1.75×33 topics
  17. Children14▲ 10×6 topics
  18. Global Burden13▲ 4.2×12 topics
  19. Chemotherapy12▲ 3.0×18 topics
  20. Chronic Pain12▲ 9.2×5 topics
  21. Prognostic Factors11▲ 4.4×13 topics
  22. Meta-Analysis11▲ 3.2×10 topics
  23. Pathophysiology11▲ 6.4×8 topics
  24. Medical Education11▲ 7.4×11 topics
  25. Pathogenesis10▲ 3.6×20 topics
  26. Prognosis10▲ 5.6×9 topics
  27. Maternal Mortality10▲ 7.8×5 topics
  28. Genetic Mutations10▲ 3.9×20 topics
  29. Prenatal Diagnosis9▲ 11×7 topics
  30. Surgical Treatment9▲ 7.8×6 topics
  31. Pain Management8▲ 6.6×8 topics
  32. Clinical Outcomes8▲ 6.6×4 topics
  33. Endoscopic Surgery8▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Antibiotic Therapy8▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Postoperative Complications8▲ 10×4 topics
  36. Health Inequalities7▲ 11×2 topics
  37. CT Scan7▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Laparoscopic Surgery7▲ 10×5 topics
  39. Child Mortality7▲ 17×1 topic
  40. Health Systems7▲ 17×1 topic

Which research topics does Bir Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Global Maternal and Child Health, Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment and Hernia repair and management.

Global Maternal and Chil…7Global Maternal and Child Health: 7 fractional worksAppendicitis Diagnosis a…6Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management: 6 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …6Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional worksHernia repair and manage…5Hernia repair and management: 5 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Management: 4 fractional worksHealth and Well-being Studies: 4 fractional worksHead and Neck Surgical O…4Head and Neck Surgical Oncology: 4 fractional worksKidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments: 4 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 4 fractional worksMeningioma and schwannom…4Meningioma and schwannoma management: 4 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthEmergency MedicineEpidemiologySurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child HealthPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 7 works
  2. 2 Appendicitis Diagnosis and ManagementEmergency Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentEpidemiology 6 works
  4. 4 Hernia repair and managementSurgery 5 works
  5. 5 Anesthesia and Pain ManagementSurgery 4 works
  6. 6 Health and Well-being StudiesClinical Psychology 4 works
  7. 7 Head and Neck Surgical OncologySurgery 4 works
  8. 8 Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis TreatmentsPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Meningioma and schwannoma managementEpidemiology 4 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 available86.3%not open13.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.9%domestic only83.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Bir Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 113% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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