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Great Ormond Street Hospital

In research, Great Ormond Street Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,000 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,299 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,386 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Genetics — Genetics is 10.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,969
of 28,054 · #2,302 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#114
of 1,094
Research works
7.8k
▲ 46% vs 2013–17
Citations
232k
29.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Great Ormond Street 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
MedicineField #1,000 of 10,443 19.2%639 #720
Health SciencesDomain #1,299 of 11,982 18.8%737 #799
Life SciencesDomain #1,386 of 7,800 21.5%223 #1004
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSubfield #153 of 441 26.8%64 #140
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,493 of 3,579 21.0%153 #1008
Health ProfessionsField #1,121 of 1,928 17.2%77 #728
SurgerySubfield #1,073 of 1,816 15.5%74 #529
Social SciencesDomain #6,483 of 10,521 27.7%93 #4740
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,422 of 2,175 21.0%73 #1274

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Great Ormond Street 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. Medicine#720 #1,000
  2. Health Sciences#799 #1,299
  3. Life Sciences#1,004 #1,386
  4. Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health#140 #153
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,008 #1,493
  6. Health Professions#728 #1,121
  7. Surgery#529 #1,073
  8. Social Sciences#4,740 #6,483
  9. Molecular Biology#1,274 #1,422
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 Great Ormond Street Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Genetics takes 10.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeneticsSubfield · 29.8 works10.0×
  2. Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthSubfield · 64.0 works7.8×
  3. GeneticsSubfield · 54.3 works6.0×
  4. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 31.9 works5.8×
← 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, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.62× its world share, 153 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.20× its world share, 24 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.26× its world share, 40 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.55× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.70× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.67× its world share, 77 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.04× its world share, 639 worksMedicineNursing: 3.14× its world share, 17 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.36× its world share, 45 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 31 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Great Ormond Street Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Genetic Mutations, Genetics, Primary Care, Inflammation, Adolescents, Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Health Equity.

▲ 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. Epidemiology119▲ 2.8×116 topics
  2. Inflammation53▲ 2.3×67 topics
  3. Genetic Mutations44▲ 9.3×22 topics
  4. Genetics44▲ 5.7×20 topics
  5. Public Health39▲ 2.5×40 topics
  6. Treatment37▲ 2.8×44 topics
  7. Primary Care31▲ 7.5×12 topics
  8. Immunotherapy30▲ 3.9×17 topics
  9. Adolescents29▲ 7.1×7 topics
  10. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes28▲ 13×6 topics
  11. Quality of Life27▲ 1.74×42 topics
  12. Diagnosis23▲ 2.3×36 topics
  13. Neurological Disorders23▲ 3.8×17 topics
  14. Health Equity23▲ 7.7×5 topics
  15. Management22▲ 2.6×26 topics
  16. Preterm Infants20▲ 14×4 topics
  17. Prevalence19▲ 4.3×13 topics
  18. Prenatal Diagnosis19▲ 12×6 topics
  19. Surgery19▲ 4.9×12 topics
  20. Stem Cells18▲ 6.4×13 topics
  21. Clinical Management17▲ 8.9×8 topics
  22. Mortality Risk17▲ 6.5×5 topics
  23. Epilepsy16▲ 14×4 topics
  24. Chronic Conditions16▲ 21×2 topics
  25. Neurobiology16▲ 5.6×9 topics
  26. Pulmonary Hypertension16▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Social Determinants15▲ 6.5×5 topics
  28. Critical Care15▲ 5.8×8 topics
  29. Training14▲ 6.0×5 topics
  30. Antiepileptic Drugs14▲ 17×2 topics
  31. Neuromuscular Junction14▲ 30×2 topics
  32. Congenital Heart Disease14▲ 15×3 topics
  33. Genetic Variants14▲ 7.1×7 topics
  34. Community Health13▲ 7.6×4 topics
  35. Health Care13▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Mental Health Services13▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Advocacy12▲ 39×1 topic
  38. Antisense Oligonucleotides12▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Pediatrics12▲ 39×1 topic
  40. SMN112▲ 52×1 topic

Which research topics does Great Ormond Street Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Child and Adolescent Health, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, Congenital Heart Disease Studies and Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare.

Child and Adolescent Hea…12Child and Adolescent Health: 12 fractional worksNeurogenetic and Muscula…12Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research: 12 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 12 fractional worksAdolescent and Pediatric…12Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare: 12 fractional worksEpilepsy research and tr…11Epilepsy research and treatment: 11 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 11 fractional worksMuscle Physiology and Disorders: 10 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Hea…10Neonatal Respiratory Health Research: 10 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 10 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 9 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsGeneticsEpidemiologySpeech and Hearing4 others

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

  1. 1 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 12 works
  2. 2 Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research Genetics 12 works
  3. 3 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 12 works
  4. 4 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare Speech and Hearing 12 works
  5. 5 Epilepsy research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 11 works
  6. 6 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 11 works
  7. 7 Muscle Physiology and Disorders Molecular Biology 10 works
  8. 8 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  9. 9 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 10 works
  10. 10 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 9 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 available41.1%not open58.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.0%domestic only67.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Great Ormond Street Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 46% 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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