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Brooklyn Chest Hospital

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Research works
12
▼ 47% vs 2018-21
Citations
502
40.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
57%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
Brooklyn Chest Hospital

Not ranked overall: Brooklyn Chest Hospital is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Brooklyn Chest Hospital work in?

In all years, 83% of research at Brooklyn Chest Hospital is in Health Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (83%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 10 fractional works · 82.9% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 82.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 35.7% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 15.5% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 13.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBrooklyn ChestHospital12fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences83%Social Sciences10%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1082.9%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance16.7%
    2. Social Sciences02.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology14.4%
    2. Neuroscience00.5%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
    1. Chemistry01.5%
    2. Computer Science00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

What are the most cited papers from Brooklyn Chest Hospital?

The most cited paper from Brooklyn Chest Hospital is "Once-daily atazanavir/ritonavir versus twice-daily lopinavir/ritonavir, each in combination with tenofovir and emtricitabine, for management of antiretroviral-naive HIV-1-infected patients: 48 week efficacy and safety results of the CASTLE study" (Jean‐Michel Molina, Jaime Federico Andrade-Villanueva, Juan I. Echevarria et al., 2008), with 485 citations. Next come "Effect of bedaquiline on mortality in South African patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study" (264) and "Once-Daily Atazanavir/Ritonavir Compared With Twice-Daily Lopinavir/Ritonavir, Each in Combination With Tenofovir and Emtricitabine, for Management of Antiretroviral-Naive HIV-1–Infected Patients: 96-Week Efficacy and Safety Results of the CASTLE Study" (256).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Once-daily atazanavir/ritonavir versus twice-daily lopinavir/ritonavir, each in combination with tenofovir and emtricitabine, for management of antiretroviral-naive HIV-1-infected patients: 48 week efficacy and safety results of the CASTLE study Jean‐Michel Molina, Jaime Federico Andrade-Villanueva, Juan I. Echevarria et al. · The Lancet Aug 2008 485
2 Effect of bedaquiline on mortality in South African patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study Kathryn Schnippel, Norbert O. Ndjeka, Gary Maartens et al. · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 11 Jul 2018 264
3 Once-Daily Atazanavir/Ritonavir Compared With Twice-Daily Lopinavir/Ritonavir, Each in Combination With Tenofovir and Emtricitabine, for Management of Antiretroviral-Naive HIV-1–Infected Patients: 96-Week Efficacy and Safety Results of the CASTLE Study Jean‐Michel Molina, Jaime Federico Andrade-Villanueva, Juan Echevarría et al. · JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 24 Feb 2010 256
4 Early treatment outcomes and HIV status of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study Keertan Dheda et al. · The Lancet May 2010 250
5 The effect of baseline CD4 cell count and HIV-1 viral load on the efficacy and safety of nevirapine or efavirenz-based first-line HAART Frank van Leth, Shalini Andrews, Beatriz Gilda Jegerhorn Grinsztejn et al. · AIDS 11 Mar 2005 163
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Brooklyn Chest Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Surgical Sutures and Adhesives, Surgical site infection prevention and Pneumothorax, Barotrauma, Emphysema.

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 0 fractional worksSurgical Sutures and Adhesives: 0 fractional worksSurgical site infection prevention: 0 fractional worksPneumothorax, Barotrauma…0Pneumothorax, Barotrauma, Emphysema: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS drug developmen…0HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 0 fractional worksPneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment: 0 fractional worksDrug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms: 0 fractional worksPneumonia and Respirator…0Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesSurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEpidemiology1 others

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

  1. 1 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  2. 2 Surgical Sutures and Adhesives Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Surgical site infection prevention Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Pneumothorax, Barotrauma, Emphysema Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 0 works
  6. 6 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Epidemiology 0 works
  7. 7 Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms Oncology 0 works
  8. 8 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 0 works
  9. 9 Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection Pharmacology 0 works
  10. 10 Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Surgery 0 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 available56.7%not open43.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.8%domestic only54.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Brooklyn Chest Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Brooklyn Chest Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%Brooklyn Chest Hospital0.00000085% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Brooklyn Chest Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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