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Essex County Hospital

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World rank, all time
#31,881
of 34,923
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,718
of 1,844
Research works
156
▼ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.3k
14.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Essex County Hospital

Which fields of science does Essex County Hospital work in?

In all years, 62% of research at Essex County Hospital is in Health Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (54%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%), Psychology (8%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 97 fractional works · 62.2% of its workMedicine: 84 fractional works · 54.1% of its workSurgery: 12 fractional works · 7.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 7 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 4.6% of its workOncology: 7 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEpidemiology: 7 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOphthalmology: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDermatology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnatomy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedical Terminology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOral Surgery: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrthodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 27 fractional works · 17.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 fractional works · 10.6% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 9 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSensory Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 14.3% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 7.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKEssex CountyHospital156fractional works, all years
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences62%Social Sciences14%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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. Medicine8454.1%
    2. Health Professions85.3%
    3. Dentistry42.4%
    4. Nursing10.4%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1710.6%
    2. Neuroscience95.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Psychology127.8%
    2. Social Sciences53.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities42.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Computer Science31.9%
    2. Engineering21.6%
    3. Environmental Science21.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy21.0%
    5. Chemistry00.3%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    7. Materials Science00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Who are the top researchers at Essex County Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Bruce Sizer, P.A. Murray and Robert A.C. Chate lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Essex County Hospital.

  1. 1 Bruce Sizer United Kingdom · #1,250,546 worldwide 2.2k citations · 58 works
  2. 2 P.A. Murray United Kingdom · #1,874,244 worldwide 865 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Robert A.C. Chate United Kingdom · #5,454,720 worldwide 444 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Essex County Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Essex County Hospital?

The most cited paper from Essex County Hospital is "Radiotherapy with or without Chemotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer" (Nicholas David James, Syed A. Hussain, Emma Hall et al., 2012), with 964 citations. Next come "TARGETING OF IODINE-123-LABELLED TUMOUR-ASSOCIATED MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO OVARIAN, BREAST, AND GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOURS" (399) and "Intravenous Glucose Tolerance as a Tool in Definition and Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus" (340).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Radiotherapy with or without Chemotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Nicholas David James, Syed A. Hussain, Emma Hall et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Apr 2012 964
2 TARGETING OF IODINE-123-LABELLED TUMOUR-ASSOCIATED MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES TO OVARIAN, BREAST, AND GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOURS A. A. Epenetos, S. J. Mather, M. Granowska et al. · The Lancet Nov 1982 399
3 Intravenous Glucose Tolerance as a Tool in Definition and Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus Knud Lundbaek · BMJ Open access 2 Jun 1962 340
4 Docetaxel and dasatinib or placebo in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (READY): a randomised, double-blind phase 3 trial John C. Araujo et al. · The Lancet Oncology Open access 7 Nov 2013 233
5 Early Compared With Late Radiotherapy in Combined Modality Treatment for Limited Disease Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A London Lung Cancer Group Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial and Meta-Analysis Stephen G Spiro, Lindsay E. James, Robin Rudd et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology 18 Aug 2006 184
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Which keywords describe research at Essex County Hospital?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Quality of Life, Cancer Treatment, Hearing Loss, Complications and Depression.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Epidemiology21▲ 3.3×42 topics
  2. Treatment8▲ 4.1×19 topics
  3. Diagnosis7▲ 4.5×16 topics
  4. Quality of Life7▲ 3.4×17 topics
  5. Depression5▲ 4.3×4 topics
  6. Risk Factors5▲ 3.1×10 topics
  7. Complications5▲ 5.9×8 topics
  8. Cancer Treatment4▲ 11×4 topics
  9. Genetic Mutations4▲ 5.5×10 topics
  10. Hearing Loss4▲ 18×3 topics
  11. Radiotherapy4▲ 6.6×8 topics
  12. Chemotherapy4▲ 3.4×12 topics
  13. Management4▲ 3.0×9 topics
  14. Neural Plasticity4▲ 12×3 topics
  15. Clinical Trials4▲ 3.6×8 topics
  16. Guidelines4▲ 4.8×6 topics
  17. Cochlear Neuropathy3▲ 58×1 topic
  18. Crisis Resolution3▲ 91×1 topic
  19. Home Treatment3▲ 91×1 topic
  20. Tinnitus3▲ 58×1 topic
  21. Imaging3▲ 5.7×5 topics
  22. Fuzzy Logic3▲ 9.0×1 topic
  23. Myopia3▲ 30×1 topic
  24. Residuated Lattices3▲ 65×1 topic
  25. Visual Impairment3▲ 41×1 topic
  26. Surgery3▲ 5.7×6 topics
  27. Medical Education3▲ 7.5×5 topics
  28. Children3▲ 6.7×4 topics
  29. Fistulas3▲ 45×2 topics
  30. Psychological Distress3▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Breast Cancer3▲ 5.9×5 topics
  32. Fetal Development3▲ 15×2 topics
  33. Immunohistochemistry3▲ 17×3 topics
  34. Neural Crest2▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Glaucoma2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  36. Hemorrhoids2▲ 79×1 topic
  37. Mental Disorders2▲ 15×1 topic
  38. Stapled Hemorrhoidopexy2▲ 79×1 topic
  39. Stigma2▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Treatment Outcomes2▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Essex County Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cleft Lip and Palate Research, Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics and Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management.

Cleft Lip and Palate Res…0Cleft Lip and Palate Research: 0 fractional worksCraniofacial Disorders a…0Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments: 0 fractional worksOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics: 0 fractional worksEctopic Pregnancy Diagno…0Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management: 0 fractional worksCongenital Ear and Nasal…0Congenital Ear and Nasal Anomalies: 0 fractional worksHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 0 fractional worksOcular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome: 0 fractional works
GeneticsOrthodonticsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEpidemiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Cleft Lip and Palate Research Genetics 0 works
  2. 2 Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments Genetics 0 works
  3. 3 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Orthodontics 0 works
  4. 4 Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  5. 5 Congenital Ear and Nasal Anomalies Genetics 0 works
  6. 6 Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments Epidemiology 0 works
  7. 7 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 0 works
  8. 8 Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome Ophthalmology 0 works
  9. 9 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare General Health Professions 0 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 available31.3%not open68.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.4%domestic only91.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Essex County Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Essex County Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000036% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Essex County Hospital0.0000046% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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