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Hospital de São Bernardo

In research, Hospital de São Bernardo stands highest in Medicine (#4,944 of 8,541 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,866 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 10.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,790
of 22,385 · #28,816 all time
Rank in Portugal
#134
of 168
Research works
723
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.8k
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.84×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Hospital de São Bernardo

What is Hospital de São Bernardo 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 #4,944 of 8,541 3.2%150 #11917
Health SciencesDomain #5,866 of 9,902 3.8%161 #14106

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital de São Bernardo 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 São Bernardo work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at Hospital de São Bernardo is in Health Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (75%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%), Health Professions (5%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 174 fractional works · 80.4% of its workMedicine: 162 fractional works · 75.0% of its workSurgery: 26 fractional works · 12.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 24 fractional works · 11.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 20 fractional works · 9.1% of its workEpidemiology: 8 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRheumatology: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNephrology: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHepatology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 10.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 7.8% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHospital de SãoBernardo216fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences80%Social Sciences8%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine16275.0%
    2. Health Professions104.8%
    3. Nursing10.3%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology115.1%
    2. Neuroscience63.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology41.9%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Psychology83.8%
    2. Social Sciences52.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities10.6%
    4. Decision Sciences10.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    1. Engineering20.9%
    2. Computer Science10.3%
    3. Environmental Science10.3%
    4. Materials Science00.2%
    5. Mathematics00.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hospital de São Bernardo specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 10.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 24.0 works11×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.95× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.84× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.85× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.84× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.90× its world share, 162 worksMedicineNursing: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.14× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.26× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× 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, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.90×162 works
  2. Neuroscience1.85×6 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.84×4 works
  4. Health Professions1.84×10 works
  5. Psychology1.26×8 works
  6. Veterinary1.14×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.95×11 works
  8. Nursing0.57×1 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.48×1 works
  10. Dentistry0.27×0 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.25×0 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.19×1 works
  13. Social Sciences0.19×5 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.11×1 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×0 works
  16. Engineering0.06×2 works
  17. Environmental Science0.06×1 works
  18. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.04×1 works
  20. Materials Science0.04×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hospital de São Bernardo?

Ranked on the quality score, Ana Farinha, Patrícia H. Domingues and Ana Margarida Fernandes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital de São Bernardo.

  1. 1 Ana Farinha Portugal · #1,505,435 worldwide 783 citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Patrícia H. Domingues Portugal · #2,431,796 worldwide 259 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Ana Margarida Fernandes Portugal · #2,838,225 worldwide 185 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Ana Natário Portugal · #2,970,724 worldwide 683 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Quitéria Rato Portugal · #3,086,683 worldwide 4.1k citations · 48 works
  6. 6 Lúcia F. Parreira Portugal · #3,247,417 worldwide 553 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Catarina Abrantes Portugal · #3,257,279 worldwide 532 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Isa Santos Portugal · #3,291,804 worldwide 120 citations · 36 works
  9. 9 Vasyl Katerenchuk Portugal · #3,411,392 worldwide 86 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Paula Duarte Portugal · #3,473,133 worldwide 248 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital de São Bernardo

What are the most cited papers from Hospital de São Bernardo?

The most cited paper from Hospital de São Bernardo is "CKD Prevalence Varies across the European General Population" (Katharina Brück et al., 2015), with 608 citations. Next come "Skin testing in patients with hypersensitivity reactions to iodinated contrast media – a European multicenter study" (336) and "Acute Necrotizing Esophagitis: a Large Retrospective Case Series" (162).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 CKD Prevalence Varies across the European General Population Katharina Brück et al. · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology Open access 23 Dec 2015 608
2 Skin testing in patients with hypersensitivity reactions to iodinated contrast media – a European multicenter study Knut Brockow, Antonino G. Romano, Werner Aberer et al. · Allergy Open access 13 Jan 2009 336
3 Acute Necrotizing Esophagitis: a Large Retrospective Case Series F. Augusto, VITÓRIA LARISSA DE ANDRADE FERNANDES, Marie Isabelle Cremers et al. · Endoscopy 21 Apr 2004 162
4 Review of the disease course among adult ulcerative colitis population-based longitudinal cohorts Fernando Magro, Andreia Rodrigues, Ana Isabel Vieira et al. · Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 26 Jul 2011 155
5 Hypoxia-mediated upregulation of MCT1 expression supports the glycolytic phenotype of glioblastomas Vera Miranda‐Gonçalves, Sara Granja, Olga Martinho et al. · Oncotarget Open access 16 Jun 2016 134
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Which keywords describe research at Hospital de São Bernardo?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Treatment, Quality of Life, Genetics, Heart Failure and Catheter Ablation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology30▲ 3.5×68 topics
  2. Diagnosis13▲ 6.6×27 topics
  3. Treatment13▲ 4.9×30 topics
  4. Quality of Life12▲ 4.0×29 topics
  5. Guidelines12▲ 12×9 topics
  6. Inflammation12▲ 2.5×30 topics
  7. Genetics9▲ 6.0×12 topics
  8. Management9▲ 5.0×17 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 3.3×15 topics
  10. Heart Failure8▲ 8.3×10 topics
  11. Catheter Ablation8▲ 29×2 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 6.4×14 topics
  13. Chemotherapy6▲ 3.9×13 topics
  14. Echocardiography6▲ 9.9×6 topics
  15. Mortality6▲ 4.7×8 topics
  16. Risk Factors6▲ 2.5×16 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors6▲ 5.8×8 topics
  18. Arrhythmias5▲ 27×2 topics
  19. Neurological Disorders5▲ 4.0×12 topics
  20. Surgical Management5▲ 5.6×10 topics
  21. Sudden Cardiac Death5▲ 25×2 topics
  22. Prognosis5▲ 6.4×8 topics
  23. Anticoagulant Therapy4▲ 16×2 topics
  24. Atrial Fibrillation4▲ 20×2 topics
  25. Inflammatory Bowel Disease4▲ 16×4 topics
  26. Prevalence4▲ 4.7×9 topics
  27. Survival Analysis4▲ 7.0×4 topics
  28. Risk Stratification4▲ 26×1 topic
  29. Stroke Prevention4▲ 16×1 topic
  30. Rituximab4▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Radiofrequency Ablation4▲ 17×2 topics
  32. Cardiomyopathy4▲ 19×2 topics
  33. Children4▲ 7.6×5 topics
  34. Neurobiology4▲ 6.6×7 topics
  35. Electroanatomic Mapping4▲ 34×1 topic
  36. Pain Management4▲ 7.1×5 topics
  37. Ventricular Tachycardia4▲ 34×1 topic
  38. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 6.9×5 topics
  39. Imatinib Mesylate3▲ 32×2 topics
  40. Remote Monitoring3▲ 14×2 topics

Which research topics does Hospital de São Bernardo publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Vasculitis and related conditions and Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies.

Atrial Fibrillation Mana…4Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and …4Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 4 fractional worksVasculitis and related c…3Vasculitis and related conditions: 3 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defib…3Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 3 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 2 fractional worksGastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment: 2 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseas…2Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 2 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksTranscranial Magnetic St…2Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineGeneticsGastroenterology2 others

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

  1. 1 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Vasculitis and related conditions Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 2 works
  6. 6 Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment Gastroenterology 2 works
  7. 7 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies Neurology 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 available66.7%not open33.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.5%domestic only91.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hospital de São Bernardo's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 São Bernardo as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00098% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Hospital de São Bernardo0.00044% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Hospital de São Bernardo 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 São Bernardo7.9% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 7.9% in 2025.

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