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Gold Coast Hospital

In research, Gold Coast Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,891 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,684 of 10,443 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,120 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 6.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,599
of 28,054 · #11,759 all time
Rank in Australia
#122
of 391
Research works
1.8k
▲ 90% vs 2013–17
Citations
22k
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
57%
world 28%

What is Gold Coast 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 #1,891 of 11,982 13.2%478 #2817
MedicineField #1,684 of 10,443 12.0%429 #3339
SurgerySubfield #1,120 of 1,816 12.3%83 #2337

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gold Coast 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#2,817 #1,891
  2. Medicine#3,339 #1,684
  3. Surgery#2,337 #1,120
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 Gold Coast Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 6.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 39.3 works6.6×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 83.4 works6.3×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.62× its world share, 19 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.02× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.91× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.81× its world share, 42 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.95× its world share, 429 worksMedicineNursing: 1.82× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.99× its world share, 17 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Gold Coast Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Gerben Keijzers, James Lind and Kuljit Singh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gold Coast Hospital.

  1. 1 Gerben Keijzers Australia · #358,697 worldwide 53 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 James Lind Australia · #1,041,279 worldwide 27 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Kuljit Singh Australia · #1,145,523 worldwide 10 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Stephen R. Weinstein Australia · #1,210,227 worldwide 17 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 Ian Hughes Australia · #1,307,124 worldwide 29 citations · 34 works
  6. 6 Richard S. Fuller Australia · #1,419,834 worldwide 3 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Martin Wullschleger Australia · #1,452,537 worldwide 12 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Rohan Jayasinghe Australia · #1,469,256 worldwide 11 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 A. Dashwood Australia · #1,539,724 worldwide 4 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 James Winearls Australia · #1,624,870 worldwide 2 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Gold Coast Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Gold Coast Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Complications, Guidelines, Treatment, Mortality, Surgery and Quality of Life.

▲ 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. Epidemiology78▲ 3.5×107 topics
  2. Treatment30▲ 4.5×39 topics
  3. Diagnosis30▲ 5.7×35 topics
  4. Quality of Life26▲ 3.2×43 topics
  5. Complications24▲ 8.7×17 topics
  6. Inflammation24▲ 2.0×50 topics
  7. Guidelines24▲ 9.0×12 topics
  8. Mortality23▲ 6.9×12 topics
  9. Management19▲ 4.4×26 topics
  10. Risk Factors19▲ 3.1×30 topics
  11. Surgery18▲ 9.1×11 topics
  12. Chemotherapy16▲ 4.1×21 topics
  13. Surgical Management15▲ 6.5×20 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease15▲ 2.4×29 topics
  15. Patient Satisfaction14▲ 7.8×9 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines14▲ 4.4×14 topics
  17. Rehabilitation13▲ 5.8×12 topics
  18. Immunotherapy13▲ 3.2×17 topics
  19. Echocardiography12▲ 8.1×7 topics
  20. Critical Care11▲ 8.3×8 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations11▲ 4.4×20 topics
  22. Medical Education10▲ 7.2×10 topics
  23. Prognostic Factors10▲ 4.2×14 topics
  24. Prognosis10▲ 5.5×9 topics
  25. Pathogenesis10▲ 3.4×21 topics
  26. Quality Improvement10▲ 9.1×8 topics
  27. Radiotherapy9▲ 4.3×13 topics
  28. Heart Failure9▲ 3.8×11 topics
  29. Clinical Outcomes9▲ 7.4×5 topics
  30. Clinical Guidelines9▲ 5.3×9 topics
  31. Prophylaxis8▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Myocardial Infarction8▲ 6.2×7 topics
  33. Inflammatory Bowel Disease8▲ 12×5 topics
  34. Patient Safety7▲ 9.0×6 topics
  35. Stroke Prevention7▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Elderly Patients7▲ 7.4×4 topics
  37. Catheter Ablation7▲ 10×2 topics
  38. Distal Radius Fractures7▲ 23×1 topic
  39. Flexor Tendon Repair7▲ 23×1 topic
  40. Anticoagulant Therapy7▲ 9.4×4 topics

Which research topics does Gold Coast Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management, Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments.

Orthopedic Surgery and R…7Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 7 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis D…5Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 5 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 5 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…5Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 5 fractional worksEmergency and Acute Care…5Emergency and Acute Care Studies: 5 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 5 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 4 fractional worksBone fractures and treat…4Bone fractures and treatments: 4 fractional worksCardiac tumors and thrombi: 4 fractional worksVascular Procedures and Complications: 4 fractional works
SurgeryEpidemiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEmergency Medicine1 others

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

  1. 1 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 7 works
  2. 2 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 5 works
  3. 3 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  5. 5 Emergency and Acute Care Studies Emergency Medicine 5 works
  6. 6 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  7. 7 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 4 works
  8. 8 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 4 works
  9. 9 Cardiac tumors and thrombi Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Vascular Procedures and Complications Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 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 available57.3%not open42.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.7%domestic only83.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Gold Coast Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 90% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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