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Hospital / health system · Stafford · United Kingdom

County Hospital

In research, County Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#8,007 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,703 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 4.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#17,432
of 28,054 · #14,220 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#620
of 1,094
Research works
1.5k
▼ 51% vs 2013–17
Citations
16k
10.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
38%
world 28%

What is County 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 #8,007 of 10,443 8.8%129 #3389
Health SciencesDomain #9,703 of 11,982 8.7%139 #4121

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where County 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 County Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 4.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 21.9 works4.6×
← 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: 0.92× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.82× its world share, 20 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.60× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.53× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.99× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.21× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.39× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.32× its world share, 129 worksMedicineNursing: 1.60× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.01× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.89× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at County Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Stewart R. Reuter, C.N. Pulvertaft and 刘虎 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is County Hospital.

  1. 1 Stewart R. Reuter United Kingdom · #155,405 worldwide 156 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 C.N. Pulvertaft United Kingdom · #478,094 worldwide 70 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 刘虎 United Kingdom · #1,022,082 worldwide 0 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 SX Zhao United Kingdom · #1,560,850 worldwide 0 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at County Hospital

Which keywords describe research at County Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Diagnosis, Metabolic Syndrome, Treatment 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. Epidemiology25▲ 3.1×83 topics
  2. Inflammation16▲ 3.8×55 topics
  3. Cancer10▲ 3.7×30 topics
  4. Cardiovascular Disease9▲ 4.0×28 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress8▲ 2.3×31 topics
  6. Quality of Life7▲ 2.5×28 topics
  7. Treatment7▲ 2.9×31 topics
  8. Diagnosis7▲ 3.7×27 topics
  9. Metabolic Syndrome6▲ 3.9×17 topics
  10. Chemotherapy6▲ 4.1×19 topics
  11. Obesity6▲ 3.6×13 topics
  12. Global Burden5▲ 4.8×11 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 4.7×13 topics
  14. Risk Factors5▲ 2.3×22 topics
  15. Depression5▲ 2.7×13 topics
  16. Management5▲ 3.0×19 topics
  17. Gene Expression5▲ 3.8×9 topics
  18. Complications5▲ 4.6×14 topics
  19. Guidelines4▲ 4.8×9 topics
  20. Immunotherapy4▲ 3.1×16 topics
  21. Biomarkers4▲ 3.1×13 topics
  22. Surgical Management4▲ 5.2×17 topics
  23. Metastasis4▲ 6.1×8 topics
  24. Heart Failure4▲ 4.7×10 topics
  25. Tumor Microenvironment4▲ 4.5×6 topics
  26. Genetic Mutations4▲ 4.4×16 topics
  27. Mortality4▲ 3.3×8 topics
  28. Clinical Trials4▲ 2.8×12 topics
  29. Radiotherapy4▲ 4.5×11 topics
  30. Atherosclerosis3▲ 6.0×9 topics
  31. Cardiovascular Risk3▲ 5.4×6 topics
  32. Prognostic Factors3▲ 3.6×13 topics
  33. Treatment Guidelines3▲ 7.3×6 topics
  34. Chronic Kidney Disease3▲ 6.1×7 topics
  35. Survival Analysis3▲ 5.4×6 topics
  36. Echocardiography3▲ 5.2×6 topics
  37. Myocardial Infarction3▲ 6.1×7 topics
  38. Cardiac Imaging3▲ 11×3 topics
  39. Neoadjuvant Therapy3▲ 6.0×5 topics
  40. Coronary Artery Disease2▲ 10×2 topics

Which research topics does County Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics.

Cocoa and Sweet Potato A…2Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy: 2 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…2Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 2 fractional worksRice Cultivation and Yield Improvement: 2 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…2Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 2 fractional worksHip disorders and treatm…1Hip disorders and treatments: 1 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 1 fractional worksMental Health Treatment and Access: 1 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders t…1Pelvic floor disorders treatments: 1 fractional worksAnatomy and Medical Technology: 1 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 1 fractional works
HorticulturePulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePlant ScienceRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging6 others

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

  1. 1 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy Horticulture 2 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  3. 3 Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement Plant Science 2 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  5. 5 Hip disorders and treatments Surgery 1 works
  6. 6 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  7. 7 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 1 works
  8. 8 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 1 works
  9. 9 Anatomy and Medical Technology Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  10. 10 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 1 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 available38.2%not open61.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors50.2%domestic only49.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has County Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 51% 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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