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Damascus Hospital

In research, Damascus Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,644 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#7,516 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 7.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#17,108
of 28,054 · #33,195 all time
Rank in Syria
#9
of 16
Research works
327
▲ 179% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.8k
5.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
83%
world 28%

What is Damascus 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
Health SciencesDomain #5,644 of 11,982 5.5%136 #13906
MedicineField #7,516 of 10,443 4.7%128 #14524

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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Damascus Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 7.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 29.5 works7.7×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.44× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.65× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 2.71× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.12× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.11× its world share, 128 worksMedicineNursing: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.59× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× 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.

Which keywords describe research at Damascus Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Surgical Management, Management, Prenatal Diagnosis, Pathogenesis 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology29▲ 4.5×72 topics
  2. Diagnosis13▲ 8.4×26 topics
  3. Treatment12▲ 6.0×30 topics
  4. Management9▲ 7.1×18 topics
  5. Surgical Management9▲ 13×15 topics
  6. Inflammation8▲ 2.2×23 topics
  7. Pathogenesis7▲ 8.3×14 topics
  8. Prenatal Diagnosis7▲ 29×7 topics
  9. Quality of Life7▲ 2.9×28 topics
  10. Complications6▲ 7.9×13 topics
  11. Genetic Mutations6▲ 8.7×15 topics
  12. Chemotherapy6▲ 5.0×16 topics
  13. Prognostic Factors6▲ 7.9×11 topics
  14. Public Health5▲ 2.2×15 topics
  15. Genetics5▲ 4.5×10 topics
  16. Risk Factors5▲ 2.7×18 topics
  17. Surgery5▲ 8.7×6 topics
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 5.3×11 topics
  19. Immunotherapy4▲ 3.9×11 topics
  20. Fetal Surgery4▲ 45×3 topics
  21. Prevention4▲ 5.6×10 topics
  22. Diagnostic Criteria3▲ 9.4×8 topics
  23. Neurological Disorders3▲ 3.6×11 topics
  24. Children3▲ 8.5×4 topics
  25. Guidelines3▲ 4.0×6 topics
  26. Pregnancy3▲ 9.1×8 topics
  27. Prognosis3▲ 5.5×7 topics
  28. Fetal Outcome3▲ 42×2 topics
  29. Immunosuppressive Therapy3▲ 9.1×4 topics
  30. Survival Analysis3▲ 6.4×5 topics
  31. Congenital Anomalies3▲ 29×2 topics
  32. Inflammatory Bowel Disease3▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Treatment Guidelines3▲ 7.6×5 topics
  34. Congenital Heart Disease3▲ 19×3 topics
  35. Hearing Loss2▲ 13×4 topics
  36. Molecular Classification2▲ 9.8×4 topics
  37. Antiviral Therapy2▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Crohn's Disease2▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia2▲ 44×1 topic
  40. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation2▲ 17×2 topics

Which research topics does Damascus Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: 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 worksParasitic infections in humans and animals: 2 fractional worksUterine Myomas and Treatments: 2 fractional worksTeratomas and Epidermoid Cysts: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…2Esophageal and GI Pathology: 2 fractional worksLiver Diseases and Immunity: 2 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 1 fractional works
SurgeryGeneticsEpidemiologyPathology and Forensic 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 Parasitic infections in humans and animals Pathology and Forensic Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Uterine Myomas and Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 2 works
  7. 7 Teratomas and Epidermoid Cysts Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Liver Diseases and Immunity Hepatology 2 works
  10. 10 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 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 available83.0%not open17.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Damascus Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 179% 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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