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British Heart Foundation

In research, British Heart Foundation stands highest in Health Sciences (#534 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#549 of 8,541 worldwide) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (#113 of 736 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 26.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,587
of 22,385 · #1,034 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#139
of 862
Research works
1.7k
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
89k
52.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.34×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
British Heart Foundation

What is British Heart Foundation 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 #534 of 9,902 24.8%211 #292
MedicineField #549 of 8,541 25.1%203 #313
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #113 of 736 26.3%82 #62
Life SciencesDomain #1,300 of 6,403 20.1%63 #677

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where British Heart Foundation 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.

  1. Health Sciences#292 #534
  2. Medicine#313 #549
  3. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#62 #113
  4. Life Sciences#677 #1,300
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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 British Heart Foundation work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at British Heart Foundation is in Health Sciences, 21% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (68%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (17%), Engineering (2%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 251 fractional works · 70.3% of its workMedicine: 242 fractional works · 67.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 99 fractional works · 27.7% of its workSurgery: 21 fractional works · 6.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 21 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 14 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 11 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEpidemiology: 11 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhysiology: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNephrology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 76 fractional works · 21.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 16.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 36 fractional works · 10.2% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCancer Research: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCell Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workImmunology: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 22 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBritish HeartFoundation357fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences70%Social Sciences2%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine24267.7%
    2. Health Professions61.6%
    3. Nursing30.9%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6016.7%
    2. Neuroscience82.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology61.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    1. Engineering82.4%
    2. Computer Science41.3%
    3. Environmental Science41.1%
    4. Mathematics20.5%
    5. Materials Science10.4%
    6. Chemistry10.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Social Sciences30.8%
    2. Psychology20.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does British Heart Foundation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 26.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 98.8 works26×
  2. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield · 21.1 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.14× its world share, 60 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.79× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.30× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.60× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.52× its world share, 242 worksMedicineNursing: 1.86× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.52×242 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.14×60 works
  3. Nursing1.86×3 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.79×6 works
  5. Neuroscience1.30×8 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.93×1 works
  7. Veterinary0.63×0 works
  8. Health Professions0.60×6 works
  9. Mathematics0.41×2 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.39×0 works
  11. Psychology0.23×2 works
  12. Environmental Science0.21×4 works
  13. Chemistry0.20×1 works
  14. Computer Science0.16×4 works
  15. Engineering0.16×8 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.16×1 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.14×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.09×1 works
  20. Dentistry0.08×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×1 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×1 works
  23. Social Sciences0.06×3 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at British Heart Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Jonathan Breeze, Chin Yee Ho and Sami A. Omar lead among researchers whose main affiliation is British Heart Foundation.

  1. 1 Jonathan Breeze United Kingdom · #275,897 worldwide 956 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Chin Yee Ho United Kingdom · #454,622 worldwide 1.4k citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Sami A. Omar United Kingdom · #1,014,707 worldwide 552 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Mazyar Kanani United Kingdom · #1,264,776 worldwide 1.6k citations · 202 works
  5. 5 Aamir Shamsi United Kingdom · #1,678,830 worldwide 106 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 R Schmitt United Kingdom · #1,905,999 worldwide 947 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Sitara Khan United Kingdom · #1,910,199 worldwide 983 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Angelos Papadopoulos United Kingdom · #1,943,266 worldwide 109 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Manuel Mayr United Kingdom · #2,055,865 worldwide 20 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Naomi D. Herz United Kingdom · #2,060,787 worldwide 474 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at British Heart Foundation

What are the most cited papers from British Heart Foundation?

The most cited paper from British Heart Foundation is "Angiotensin–Neprilysin Inhibition versus Enalapril in Heart Failure" (John J.V. McMurray, Milton Packer, Akshay Suvas Desai et al., 2014), with 6,982 citations. Next come "Ischaemic accumulation of succinate controls reperfusion injury through mitochondrial ROS" (2,927) and "Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents" (2,867).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Angiotensin–Neprilysin Inhibition versus Enalapril in Heart Failure John J.V. McMurray, Milton Packer, Akshay Suvas Desai et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 Aug 2014 6,982
2 Ischaemic accumulation of succinate controls reperfusion injury through mitochondrial ROS Edward T. Chouchani et al. · Nature Open access 4 Nov 2014 2,927
3 Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents Emanuele Di Angelantonio et al. · The Lancet ReviewOpen access 15 Jul 2016 2,867
4 Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction Scott David Solomon et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 27 Aug 2022 2,863
5 Clonal Hematopoiesis and Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Siddhartha Jaiswal et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 21 Jun 2017 2,713
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at British Heart Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Disease, Myocardial Infarction, Inflammation, Guidelines, Obesity, Cardiac Imaging and Echocardiography.

▲ 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. Heart Failure46▲ 29×13 topics
  2. Cardiovascular Disease45▲ 11×36 topics
  3. Inflammation34▲ 4.5×68 topics
  4. Myocardial Infarction30▲ 36×7 topics
  5. Epidemiology28▲ 1.98×59 topics
  6. Guidelines26▲ 15×7 topics
  7. Obesity24▲ 8.7×19 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress24▲ 4.0×44 topics
  9. Cardiac Imaging23▲ 54×3 topics
  10. Echocardiography22▲ 22×8 topics
  11. Atherosclerosis19▲ 18×12 topics
  12. Coronary Artery Disease19▲ 45×3 topics
  13. Magnetic Resonance Imaging18▲ 20×7 topics
  14. Diagnosis17▲ 5.1×17 topics
  15. Treatment16▲ 3.8×19 topics
  16. Cancer16▲ 3.2×38 topics
  17. Genetic Mutations15▲ 9.6×13 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment15▲ 51×2 topics
  19. Cardiovascular Risk14▲ 12×8 topics
  20. Radiation Exposure14▲ 39×2 topics
  21. Computed Tomography Angiography13▲ 56×1 topic
  22. Myocardial Perfusion13▲ 56×1 topic
  23. Chamber Quantification12▲ 44×1 topic
  24. Diastolic Function12▲ 44×1 topic
  25. Renal Function12▲ 34×4 topics
  26. Dilated Cardiomyopathy11▲ 46×2 topics
  27. Hypertension11▲ 11×12 topics
  28. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide11▲ 59×1 topic
  29. Hospital Readmission11▲ 59×1 topic
  30. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention11▲ 22×4 topics
  31. Sudden Cardiac Death10▲ 32×2 topics
  32. Cardiomyopathies10▲ 91×1 topic
  33. Myosin10▲ 91×1 topic
  34. Fibrosis9▲ 13×7 topics
  35. Cardiac Remodeling9▲ 54×2 topics
  36. Vascular Function9▲ 24×3 topics
  37. Atrial Fibrillation9▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Clinical Guidelines9▲ 8.2×7 topics
  39. Cardiovascular Events8▲ 20×4 topics
  40. Macrophages8▲ 13×6 topics

Which research topics does British Heart Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Heart Failure Treatment and Management and Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies.

Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 13 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 12 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment …11Heart Failure Treatment and Management: 11 fractional worksCardiomyopathy and Myosi…10Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies: 10 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarction Research: 6 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiolog…6Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 6 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 5 fractional worksCardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling: 5 fractional worksCardiovascular Disease and Adiposity: 5 fractional works
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgery

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 13 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 12 works
  3. 3 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 11 works
  4. 4 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 10 works
  5. 5 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 7 works
  6. 6 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  7. 7 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  10. 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity Cardiology and Cardiovascular 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 available59.4%not open40.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.2%domestic only64.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has British Heart Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower 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 British Heart Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%British Heart Foundation0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of British Heart Foundation 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 counting20%40%British Heart Foundation21.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.0% in 2009.

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