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Dubai Hospital

In research, Dubai Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,852 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#3,584 of 10,443 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,467 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 6.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,627
of 28,054 · #17,905 all time
Rank in United Arab Emirates
#32
of 66
Research works
1.3k
▲ 80% vs 2013–17
Citations
12k
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
68%
world 28%

What is Dubai 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 #3,852 of 11,982 6.3%421 #5495
MedicineField #3,584 of 10,443 5.8%399 #5426
SurgerySubfield #1,467 of 1,816 5.5%83 #2982

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

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#5,495 #3,852
  2. Medicine#5,426 #3,584
  3. Surgery#2,982 #1,467
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Dubai Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 82.6 works6.9×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.15× its world share, 31 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.95× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.28× its world share, 11 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.64× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.93× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.09× its world share, 399 worksMedicineNursing: 1.22× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.46× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.52× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× 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, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Dubai Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Shaheenah Dawood and Mohamed Hassanein lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dubai Hospital.

  1. 1 Shaheenah Dawood · #194,273 worldwide 82 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Mohamed Hassanein · #1,292,238 worldwide 19 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Dubai Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Dubai Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology82▲ 4.1×107 topics
  2. Treatment29▲ 4.7×43 topics
  3. Diagnosis27▲ 5.6×36 topics
  4. Inflammation26▲ 2.5×52 topics
  5. Complications26▲ 10×16 topics
  6. Quality of Life20▲ 2.8×40 topics
  7. Surgical Management19▲ 9.0×19 topics
  8. Management18▲ 4.6×27 topics
  9. Risk Factors16▲ 3.0×27 topics
  10. Metabolic Syndrome15▲ 3.5×18 topics
  11. Chemotherapy14▲ 4.0×22 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines14▲ 5.1×14 topics
  13. Prognostic Factors14▲ 6.3×14 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease14▲ 2.4×29 topics
  15. Pathophysiology12▲ 7.9×9 topics
  16. Genetic Mutations12▲ 5.3×19 topics
  17. Immune Response11▲ 4.0×19 topics
  18. Genetics11▲ 3.1×16 topics
  19. Heart Failure11▲ 5.0×11 topics
  20. SARS-CoV-211▲ 6.4×6 topics
  21. Guidelines10▲ 4.3×12 topics
  22. Diabetes10▲ 3.9×12 topics
  23. Children10▲ 8.2×6 topics
  24. Mortality10▲ 3.3×12 topics
  25. Weight Loss9▲ 11×4 topics
  26. ACE2 Receptor9▲ 6.9×3 topics
  27. Cardiovascular Risk9▲ 5.4×8 topics
  28. Surgery9▲ 4.8×10 topics
  29. Thrombosis9▲ 6.1×5 topics
  30. Prenatal Diagnosis8▲ 11×7 topics
  31. Mechanical Ventilation8▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Surgical Treatment7▲ 7.4×6 topics
  33. Autoantibodies7▲ 6.2×8 topics
  34. Glycemic Control7▲ 8.9×4 topics
  35. Pulmonary Hypertension7▲ 9.7×3 topics
  36. Treatment Guidelines7▲ 6.3×6 topics
  37. Type 2 Diabetes7▲ 6.1×4 topics
  38. Clinical Management7▲ 7.7×8 topics
  39. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention6▲ 8.9×4 topics
  40. Endoscopic Surgery6▲ 12×3 topics

Which research topics does Dubai Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments and Dietary Effects on Health.

Respiratory Support and …5Respiratory Support and Mechanisms: 5 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…5COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 5 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 4 fractional worksDietary Effects on Health: 4 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 4 fractional worksUterine Myomas and Treatments: 3 fractional worksEctopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management: 3 fractional worksHernia repair and manage…3Hernia repair and management: 3 fractional worksDiabetes Treatment and Management: 3 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 3 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineInfectious DiseasesSurgeryPhysiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Respiratory Support and MechanismsPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  2. 2 COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesInfectious Diseases 5 works
  3. 3 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsSurgery 4 works
  4. 4 Dietary Effects on HealthPhysiology 4 works
  5. 5 Neonatal Respiratory Health ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 Uterine Myomas and TreatmentsObstetrics and Gynecology 3 works
  7. 7 Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and ManagementPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  8. 8 Hernia repair and managementSurgery 3 works
  9. 9 Diabetes Treatment and ManagementEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 3 works
  10. 10 Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesBiomedical Engineering 3 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 available68.1%not open31.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.3%domestic only66.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Dubai Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 80% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
grewheldshrank

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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