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Hospital / health system · Aberdeen · United Kingdom

City Hospital

In research, City Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#8,060 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,786 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#20,994
of 28,054 · #7,360 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#763
of 1,094
Research works
2.6k
▲ 37% vs 2013–17
Citations
42k
16.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

What is 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 #8,060 of 10,443 1.9%230 #2476
Health SciencesDomain #9,786 of 11,982 1.8%246 #3123

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where 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: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.70× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.01× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.59× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.99× its world share, 230 worksMedicineNursing: 1.09× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.36× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.90× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

Who are the top researchers at City Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Chris Smith, P D Welsby and Thomas M. Reid lead among researchers whose main affiliation is City Hospital.

  1. 1 Chris Smith United Kingdom · #182,599 worldwide 131 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 P D Welsby United Kingdom · #288,080 worldwide 69 citations · 38 works
  3. 3 Thomas M. Reid United Kingdom · #400,166 worldwide 149 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 J. Brodie United Kingdom · #510,933 worldwide 35 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Takuji Kawagoe United Kingdom · #583,895 worldwide 66 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Satoshi Ohno United Kingdom · #599,502 worldwide 81 citations · 59 works
  7. 7 Yuji Shimatani United Kingdom · #618,954 worldwide 76 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Heather Cubie United Kingdom · #699,067 worldwide 48 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Tadashi Onoda United Kingdom · #726,562 worldwide 17 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 HERBERT L. BURRELL United Kingdom · #903,704 worldwide 3 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at City Hospital

Which keywords describe research at City Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Inflammation, Management, Complications, Risk Factors and Chemotherapy.

▲ 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. Epidemiology44▲ 3.7×94 topics
  2. Inflammation18▲ 2.8×49 topics
  3. Diagnosis16▲ 5.5×35 topics
  4. Treatment15▲ 4.0×35 topics
  5. Management12▲ 5.0×25 topics
  6. Quality of Life12▲ 2.7×34 topics
  7. Risk Factors11▲ 3.4×23 topics
  8. Oxidative Stress11▲ 2.2×34 topics
  9. Chemotherapy10▲ 4.5×22 topics
  10. Complications9▲ 5.9×15 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 2.5×24 topics
  12. COVID-198▲ 2.0×14 topics
  13. Guidelines8▲ 5.6×13 topics
  14. Mortality8▲ 4.6×12 topics
  15. Metabolic Syndrome8▲ 3.2×16 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 4.6×13 topics
  17. Pandemic7▲ 2.2×6 topics
  18. Neurological Disorders7▲ 3.9×14 topics
  19. Heart Failure7▲ 5.1×10 topics
  20. Rehabilitation6▲ 5.5×10 topics
  21. SARS-CoV-26▲ 6.3×6 topics
  22. Obesity6▲ 2.7×13 topics
  23. Thrombosis6▲ 7.3×7 topics
  24. Parkinson's Disease6▲ 8.3×6 topics
  25. Prognosis6▲ 6.1×9 topics
  26. Pathogenesis6▲ 3.8×17 topics
  27. Pathophysiology6▲ 6.5×8 topics
  28. Radiotherapy6▲ 5.1×13 topics
  29. Prognostic Factors6▲ 4.4×14 topics
  30. Surgical Management6▲ 4.6×17 topics
  31. Surgery6▲ 5.3×8 topics
  32. Echocardiography5▲ 6.4×8 topics
  33. Surgical Treatment5▲ 8.5×6 topics
  34. Chronic Kidney Disease5▲ 6.8×7 topics
  35. ACE2 Receptor5▲ 6.4×3 topics
  36. Cardiovascular Risk4▲ 4.8×6 topics
  37. Critical Care4▲ 6.2×8 topics
  38. Pregnancy4▲ 6.9×7 topics
  39. Treatment Guidelines4▲ 6.3×6 topics
  40. Urinary Incontinence4▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does City Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Bone fractures and treatments and Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research.

COVID-19 Clinical Resear…3COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 3 fractional worksLong-Term Effects of COV…2Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: 2 fractional worksBone fractures and treatments: 2 fractional worksUrinary Bladder and Prostate Research: 2 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional worksParkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders: 2 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders treatments: 2 fractional worksParkinson's Disease Mech…2Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 2 fractional worksUrinary Tract Infections Management: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 2 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesNeurologyEpidemiologyUrology3 others

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

  1. 1 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
  2. 2 Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Neurology 2 works
  3. 3 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 2 works
  4. 4 Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research Urology 2 works
  5. 5 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders Neurology 2 works
  7. 7 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 2 works
  8. 8 Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 2 works
  9. 9 Urinary Tract Infections Management Epidemiology 2 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 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 available48.5%not open51.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors40.9%domestic only59.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has City Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 37% higher 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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