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Damascus Hospital

In research, Damascus Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#5,949 of 8,541 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#7,100 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery (Surgery is 7.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,226
of 22,385 · #28,457 all time
Rank in Syria
#12
of 15
Research works
327
▲ 307% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.8k
5.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.84×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
83%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Damascus Hospital

What is Damascus Hospital 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
MedicineField #5,949 of 8,541 4.5%128 #9973
Health SciencesDomain #7,100 of 9,902 5.1%136 #11904

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Damascus 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Damascus Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Damascus Hospital is in Health Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (80%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Health Professions (3%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 168 fractional works · 84.2% of its workMedicine: 159 fractional works · 79.6% of its workSurgery: 37 fractional works · 18.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 19 fractional works · 9.5% of its workEpidemiology: 10 fractional works · 5.0% of its workOncology: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workNeurology: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHepatology: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 10.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 7.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDamascus Hospital199fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences84%Social Sciences3%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine15979.6%
    2. Health Professions52.7%
    3. Dentistry21.1%
    4. Veterinary10.4%
    5. Nursing10.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology157.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology31.6%
    3. Neuroscience21.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Psychology31.5%
    2. Social Sciences31.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Engineering10.7%
    2. Environmental Science10.4%
    3. Computer Science00.2%
    4. Chemistry00.1%
    5. Materials Science00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Damascus Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 7.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 36.8 works7.9×
← 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: 1.42× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.60× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 2.30× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.02× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.14× its world share, 158 worksMedicineNursing: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.96× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× 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, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.14×158 works
  2. Veterinary2.96×1 works
  3. Dentistry2.30×2 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.60×3 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.42×15 works
  6. Health Professions1.02×5 works
  7. Neuroscience0.76×2 works
  8. Nursing0.76×1 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.61×0 works
  10. Psychology0.48×3 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.11×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.11×3 works
  13. Environmental Science0.08×1 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×1 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.06×0 works
  16. Engineering0.05×1 works
  17. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  18. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.03×0 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Damascus Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Bassam Saeed, Bilal Hasan and Mohammad Nasser Khattab lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Damascus Hospital.

  1. 1 Bassam Saeed Syria · #2,190,215 worldwide 799 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Bilal Hasan Syria · #5,078,752 worldwide 9 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Mohammad Nasser Khattab Syria · #5,169,893 worldwide 28 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Marouf Mouhammad Alhalabi Syria · #5,858,070 worldwide 83 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at Damascus Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Damascus Hospital?

The most cited paper from Damascus Hospital is "Positional Cloning of the Werner's Syndrome Gene" (Chang-En Yu, Junko Oshima, Ying‐Hui Fu et al., 1996), with 1,738 citations. Next come "Killing of cutaneous microbial species by photodynamic therapy" (260) and "Long-Term Outcome of Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome in Children" (230).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Positional Cloning of the Werner's Syndrome Gene Chang-En Yu, Junko Oshima, Ying‐Hui Fu et al. · Science 12 Apr 1996 1,738
2 Killing of cutaneous microbial species by photodynamic therapy B. Zeina, John Greenman, Wendy M. Purcell et al. · British Journal of Dermatology Feb 2001 260
3 Long-Term Outcome of Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome in Children Agnes Trautmann et al. · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology Open access 31 May 2017 230
4 Use of M-CHAT for a multinational screening of young children with autism in the Arab countries Amira Seif El-Din, Doa Habib, Amal Noufal et al. · International Review of Psychiatry 2008 168
5 Genotype–phenotype associations in WT1 glomerulopathy Beata Stefania Lipska-Ziętkiewicz et al. · Kidney International Open access 8 Jan 2014 159
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Damascus Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Surgical Management, Management, Genetic Mutations, Prognostic Factors and Complications.

▲ 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. Epidemiology34▲ 4.3×83 topics
  2. Diagnosis16▲ 8.6×29 topics
  3. Treatment15▲ 6.1×33 topics
  4. Surgical Management11▲ 14×16 topics
  5. Management10▲ 6.6×19 topics
  6. Inflammation8▲ 2.0×26 topics
  7. Genetic Mutations8▲ 9.7×18 topics
  8. Prognostic Factors8▲ 9.6×12 topics
  9. Quality of Life8▲ 2.9×29 topics
  10. Chemotherapy8▲ 5.7×19 topics
  11. Complications8▲ 7.9×14 topics
  12. Pathogenesis8▲ 7.6×15 topics
  13. Prenatal Diagnosis8▲ 27×7 topics
  14. Clinical Practice Guidelines7▲ 6.1×13 topics
  15. Risk Factors7▲ 3.0×21 topics
  16. Public Health6▲ 2.1×17 topics
  17. Genetics6▲ 4.1×12 topics
  18. Immunotherapy6▲ 4.0×12 topics
  19. Surgery6▲ 8.2×7 topics
  20. Fetal Surgery5▲ 44×3 topics
  21. Diagnostic Criteria4▲ 9.3×8 topics
  22. Guidelines4▲ 4.4×7 topics
  23. Children4▲ 8.8×4 topics
  24. Prevention4▲ 4.8×10 topics
  25. Prognosis4▲ 5.9×7 topics
  26. Neurological Disorders4▲ 3.4×11 topics
  27. Survival Analysis4▲ 6.5×6 topics
  28. Treatment Guidelines3▲ 7.6×6 topics
  29. Congenital Anomalies3▲ 29×3 topics
  30. Immunosuppressive Therapy3▲ 8.4×4 topics
  31. Echocardiography3▲ 5.5×7 topics
  32. Fetal Outcome3▲ 39×2 topics
  33. Molecular Classification3▲ 10×4 topics
  34. Pregnancy3▲ 7.5×8 topics
  35. Congenital Heart Disease3▲ 17×3 topics
  36. Inflammatory Bowel Disease3▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Antiviral Therapy3▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Radiation Therapy3▲ 9.9×5 topics
  39. Hearing Loss3▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Review3▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does Damascus Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies, Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Congenital Heart Disease Studies.

Congenital Diaphragmatic…2Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies: 2 fractional worksCongenital Anomalies and…2Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery: 2 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 2 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 2 fractional worksTeratomas and Epidermoid Cysts: 2 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 2 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Tr…2Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksParasitic infections in humans and animals: 2 fractional worksLiver Diseases and Immunity: 2 fractional works
SurgeryGeneticsEpidemiologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine2 others

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

  1. 1 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies Surgery 2 works
  2. 2 Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery Surgery 2 works
  3. 3 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 2 works
  4. 4 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 2 works
  5. 5 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 2 works
  6. 6 Teratomas and Epidermoid Cysts Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Parasitic infections in humans and animals Pathology and Forensic Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Liver Diseases and Immunity Hepatology 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 available83.0%not open17.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.7%domestic only79.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Damascus Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 307% higher 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 Damascus Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00065% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Damascus Hospital0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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