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Chest Diseases Hospital

In research, Chest Diseases Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#9,089 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#10,733 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 12.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,882
of 28,054 · #25,483 all time
Rank in Kuwait
#17
of 23
Research works
852
▼ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
11k
12.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Chest Diseases 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 #9,089 of 10,443 3.3%120 #9135
Health SciencesDomain #10,733 of 11,982 3.2%125 #11892

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

What does Chest Diseases Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 12.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 29.5 works13×
← 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: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.72× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.94× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.79× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.21× its world share, 120 worksMedicineNursing: 1.22× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.93× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Chest Diseases Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Esen Akkaya, Emine Aksoy and Cüneyt Saltürk lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Chest Diseases Hospital.

  1. 1 Esen Akkaya Kuwait · #1,069,376 worldwide 21 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Emine Aksoy Kuwait · #1,143,191 worldwide 13 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Cüneyt Saltürk Kuwait · #1,214,105 worldwide 14 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Chest Diseases Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Chest Diseases Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Management, Immune Response, Global Burden, Inflammation and Respiratory.

▲ 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. Epidemiology28▲ 4.8×62 topics
  2. Diagnosis22▲ 16×23 topics
  3. Treatment18▲ 9.7×24 topics
  4. Management12▲ 10×16 topics
  5. Inflammation10▲ 3.4×32 topics
  6. Immune Response9▲ 11×13 topics
  7. Global Burden8▲ 10×8 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease7▲ 4.3×22 topics
  9. Pandemic7▲ 4.4×8 topics
  10. Respiratory7▲ 47×2 topics
  11. COPD6▲ 66×1 topic
  12. spirometry6▲ 66×1 topic
  13. Vaccine6▲ 9.4×7 topics
  14. Cancer6▲ 2.8×20 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 6.6×9 topics
  16. SARS-CoV-25▲ 11×6 topics
  17. Thrombosis5▲ 13×4 topics
  18. Chemotherapy5▲ 4.9×12 topics
  19. Fibrosis5▲ 18×4 topics
  20. Drug Resistance5▲ 11×5 topics
  21. Surgery5▲ 9.1×5 topics
  22. Clinical Trials5▲ 4.7×10 topics
  23. Genetic Diversity5▲ 7.2×3 topics
  24. Prophylaxis5▲ 25×4 topics
  25. TGF-ß5▲ 20×3 topics
  26. ACE2 Receptor4▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Echocardiography4▲ 11×6 topics
  28. Pathophysiology4▲ 9.8×4 topics
  29. Complications4▲ 5.7×8 topics
  30. Heart Failure4▲ 6.5×10 topics
  31. Mycobacterium tuberculosis4▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Tuberculosis4▲ 54×1 topic
  33. Chronic Kidney Disease4▲ 11×6 topics
  34. Interstitial Lung Disease4▲ 42×2 topics
  35. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis4▲ 58×1 topic
  36. Myofibroblast4▲ 58×1 topic
  37. Critical Care4▲ 11×6 topics
  38. Clinical Characteristics4▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Antiviral Treatment3▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Cytokine Storm3▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does Chest Diseases Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 6 fractional worksTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 4 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseas…4Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 4 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…3COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 3 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 3 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 3 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…3Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 3 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional worksMycobacterium research and diagnosis: 2 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineInfectious DiseasesCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePhysiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 4 works
  3. 3 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 3 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 3 works
  9. 9 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Epidemiology 2 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 available53.5%not open46.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors58.7%domestic only41.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Chest Diseases Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% 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.

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