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Hospital de Base

In research, Hospital de Base stands highest in Medicine (#5,142 of 8,541 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,998 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery (Surgery is 5.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,916
of 22,385 · #17,460 all time
Rank in Brazil
#494
of 684
Research works
1.1k
▲ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.7k
8.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.82×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Hospital de Base

What is Hospital de Base known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #5,142 of 8,541 3.2%192 #6900
Health SciencesDomain #5,998 of 9,902 3.9%216 #8060

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital de Base 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Hospital de Base work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Hospital de Base is in Health Sciences, 12% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (67%), Health Professions (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 244 fractional works · 75.4% of its workMedicine: 219 fractional works · 67.4% of its workSurgery: 45 fractional works · 13.9% of its workEpidemiology: 19 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 17 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 15 fractional works · 4.7% of its workOncology: 12 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNeurology: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRheumatology: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDermatology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNephrology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHepatology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 19 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOral Surgery: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 37 fractional works · 11.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workParasitology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 14 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKHospital de Base324fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences9%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine21967.4%
    2. Health Professions195.9%
    3. Dentistry51.4%
    4. Nursing20.5%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology195.9%
    2. Neuroscience92.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology61.9%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences185.5%
    2. Psychology51.5%
    3. Decision Sciences20.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.5%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    1. Environmental Science51.4%
    2. Computer Science41.3%
    3. Engineering41.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    5. Chemistry00.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hospital de Base specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 5.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 45.2 works5.9×
← 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, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.11× its world share, 19 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.89× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.74× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.93× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.25× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.51× its world share, 219 worksMedicineNursing: 1.01× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.51×219 works
  2. Dentistry2.93×5 works
  3. Health Professions2.25×19 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.89×6 works
  5. Neuroscience1.74×9 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.11×19 works
  7. Nursing1.01×2 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.66×1 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.55×2 works
  10. Psychology0.50×5 works
  11. Social Sciences0.44×18 works
  12. Veterinary0.41×0 works
  13. Environmental Science0.28×4 works
  14. Computer Science0.16×4 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.16×2 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.15×2 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.14×2 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.11×1 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×1 works
  20. Engineering0.08×4 works
  21. Energy0.07×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  23. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hospital de Base?

Ranked on the quality score, Julival Fagundes Ribeiro, Elisa de Carvalho and Bruno Béber Machado lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital de Base.

  1. 1 Julival Fagundes Ribeiro Brazil · #1,543,983 worldwide 1.3k citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Elisa de Carvalho Brazil · #2,238,685 worldwide 863 citations · 56 works
  3. 3 Bruno Béber Machado Brazil · #2,551,883 worldwide 68 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Elza Dias‐Tosta Brazil · #3,256,089 worldwide 1.8k citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Sérgio Lopes Viana Brazil · #3,530,291 worldwide 324 citations · 50 works
  6. 6 Eduardo Siqueira Waihrich Brazil · #3,535,143 worldwide 417 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Ronaldo Maciel Dias Brazil · #4,171,452 worldwide 345 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Elza Dias Tosta Brazil · #4,384,271 worldwide 248 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Björn Wikström Brazil · #4,481,652 worldwide 0 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Maria Custódia Machado Ribeiro Brazil · #4,549,419 worldwide 61 citations · 42 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital de Base

What are the most cited papers from Hospital de Base?

The most cited paper from Hospital de Base is "Characteristics and outcomes of patients with cancer requiring admission to intensive care units: A prospective multicenter study*" (Márcio Soares, Pedro Caruso, Eliézer Silva et al., 2009), with 393 citations. Next come "Current technologies in body composition assessment: advantages and disadvantages" (255) and "Thrombectomy for Stroke in the Public Health Care System of Brazil" (231).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Characteristics and outcomes of patients with cancer requiring admission to intensive care units: A prospective multicenter study* Márcio Soares, Pedro Caruso, Eliézer Silva et al. · Critical Care Medicine Open access 17 Dec 2009 393
2 Current technologies in body composition assessment: advantages and disadvantages Guilherme Duprat Ceniccola, Melina Gouveia Castro, Silvia Maria Fraga Piovacari et al. · Nutrition 6 Dec 2018 255
3 Thrombectomy for Stroke in the Public Health Care System of Brazil Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 10 Jun 2020 231
4 Long-term effect of thymectomy plus prednisone versus prednisone alone in patients with non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis: 2-year extension of the MGTX randomised trial Gil I. Wolfe et al. · The Lancet Neurology Open access347 authors 27 Jan 2019 230
5 WSES/GAIS/SIS-E/WSIS/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with intra-abdominal infections Massimo Sartelli et al. · World Journal of Emergency Surgery Open access108 authors 25 Sep 2021 200
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hospital de Base?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Public Health, Treatment, Diagnosis, Genetic Mutations, Healthcare Access 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-now 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. Epidemiology45▲ 3.5×106 topics
  2. Quality of Life24▲ 5.1×44 topics
  3. Public Health18▲ 3.7×29 topics
  4. Treatment16▲ 4.1×41 topics
  5. Diagnosis14▲ 4.8×36 topics
  6. Inflammation14▲ 2.1×39 topics
  7. Risk Factors12▲ 3.3×29 topics
  8. Genetic Mutations10▲ 7.3×19 topics
  9. Mortality10▲ 5.5×11 topics
  10. Complications10▲ 6.0×16 topics
  11. Chemotherapy9▲ 4.0×19 topics
  12. Prognostic Factors9▲ 6.6×14 topics
  13. Healthcare9▲ 2.4×7 topics
  14. Healthcare Access9▲ 9.8×4 topics
  15. Surgical Management8▲ 6.4×17 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 4.6×13 topics
  17. Health Policy8▲ 16×7 topics
  18. Management8▲ 3.0×25 topics
  19. Immune Response7▲ 4.0×16 topics
  20. Breast Cancer7▲ 8.5×8 topics
  21. Rehabilitation7▲ 5.2×10 topics
  22. Genetics7▲ 2.9×16 topics
  23. Surgery7▲ 5.9×8 topics
  24. Radiotherapy6▲ 5.1×11 topics
  25. Prevention6▲ 4.4×14 topics
  26. Drug Resistance6▲ 6.2×6 topics
  27. Social Determinants6▲ 8.6×5 topics
  28. Prognosis6▲ 5.2×9 topics
  29. Global Burden6▲ 3.1×11 topics
  30. Primary Care5▲ 4.2×7 topics
  31. Chronic Diseases5▲ 6.0×7 topics
  32. Pathophysiology5▲ 4.9×9 topics
  33. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 4.5×8 topics
  34. Elderly Patients4▲ 8.0×4 topics
  35. Stroke4▲ 7.8×5 topics
  36. Pain Management4▲ 5.7×9 topics
  37. Aging Population4▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Brazilian Health System4▲ 28×1 topic
  39. Community-Based Care4▲ 28×1 topic
  40. End-of-Life4▲ 13×3 topics

Which research topics does Hospital de Base publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health, Nursing, Elderly Care, Women's cancer prevention and management, Healthcare Regulation and Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare.

Health, Nursing, Elderly…4Health, Nursing, Elderly Care: 4 fractional worksWomen's cancer preventio…3Women's cancer prevention and management: 3 fractional worksHealthcare Regulation: 3 fractional worksMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare: 3 fractional worksHealthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 2 fractional worksVascular Malformations and Hemangiomas: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 2 fractional worksNeurofibromatosis and Sc…2Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases: 2 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 2 fractional worksBariatric Surgery and Outcomes: 2 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth Information ManagementInformation Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 4 works
  2. 2 Women's cancer prevention and management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  3. 3 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 3 works
  4. 4 Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare General Health Professions 3 works
  5. 5 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 2 works
  6. 6 Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 2 works
  8. 8 Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases Neurology 2 works
  9. 9 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 2 works
  10. 10 Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes Surgery 2 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 available74.1%not open25.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.8%domestic only78.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hospital de Base's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021.

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grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hospital de Base as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Hospital de Base0.0010% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Hospital de Base7.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.3% in 2009.

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