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Hospital Del Mar

In research, Hospital Del Mar stands highest in Health Sciences (#838 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#756 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,293 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Rheumatology (Pathology and Forensic Medicine is 6.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,261
of 22,385 · #2,029 all time
Rank in Spain
#74
of 426
Research works
3.7k
▲ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
75k
20.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
41%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Hospital Del Mar

What is Hospital Del Mar 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
Health SciencesDomain #838 of 9,902 8.3%583 #1007
MedicineField #756 of 8,541 8.1%551 #874
Life SciencesDomain #1,293 of 6,403 7.6%111 #1426
SurgerySubfield #583 of 1,532 7.8%84 #585

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital Del Mar 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,007 #838
  2. Medicine#874 #756
  3. Life Sciences#1,426 #1,293
  4. Surgery#585 #583
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Hospital Del Mar work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Hospital Del Mar is in Health Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (70%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (8%), Psychology (4%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 666 fractional works · 74.5% of its workMedicine: 627 fractional works · 70.2% of its workSurgery: 93 fractional works · 10.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 62 fractional works · 7.0% of its workOncology: 49 fractional works · 5.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 45 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEpidemiology: 34 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 30 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPhysiology: 26 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 25 fractional works · 2.8% of its workRheumatology: 25 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 22 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeurology: 20 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 18 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDermatology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNephrology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransplantation: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHepatology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFamily Practice: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 29 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 15 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 133 fractional works · 14.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 71 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 32 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGenetics: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCell Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 31 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 20 fractional works · 2.3% of its workImmunology: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workToxicology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 59 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPsychology: 32 fractional works · 3.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 36 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKHospital Del Mar894fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences7%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine62770.2%
    2. Health Professions293.3%
    3. Nursing70.8%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology717.9%
    2. Neuroscience313.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology202.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.6%
    1. Psychology323.6%
    2. Social Sciences141.5%
    3. Decision Sciences50.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.5%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    1. Environmental Science121.4%
    2. Computer Science80.9%
    3. Engineering80.9%
    4. Chemistry40.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.2%
    6. Mathematics10.1%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hospital Del Mar specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pathology and Forensic Medicine takes 6.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 30.2 works6.5×
  2. RheumatologySubfield · 24.8 works6.1×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.49× its world share, 71 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.27× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.14× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.64× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.25× its world share, 29 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.65× its world share, 627 worksMedicineNursing: 1.66× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.19× its world share, 32 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.65×627 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology2.27×20 works
  3. Neuroscience2.14×31 works
  4. Nursing1.66×7 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.64×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.49×71 works
  7. Health Professions1.25×29 works
  8. Psychology1.19×32 works
  9. Veterinary0.66×1 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.59×5 works
  11. Environmental Science0.28×12 works
  12. Chemistry0.27×4 works
  13. Dentistry0.25×1 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.25×5 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×5 works
  16. Computer Science0.12×8 works
  17. Social Sciences0.12×14 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.09×2 works
  19. Mathematics0.08×1 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.07×2 works
  21. Engineering0.06×8 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×1 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×1 works
  24. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Del Mar?

Ranked on the quality score, Roberto Elosúa, Joan Albanell and Montse Ferrer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Del Mar.

  1. 1 Roberto Elosúa Spain · #64,814 worldwide 82k citations · 681 works
  2. 2 Joan Albanell Spain · #84,272 worldwide 20k citations · 627 works
  3. 3 Montse Ferrer Spain · #110,550 worldwide 19k citations · 328 works
  4. 4 Toni Celià-Terrassa Spain · #121,164 worldwide 3.7k citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Laura Comerma Spain · #164,345 worldwide 5.3k citations · 105 works
  6. 6 Juan Pablo Horcajada Spain · #165,333 worldwide 24k citations · 438 works
  7. 7 Elisa Cuadrado‐Godia Spain · #171,151 worldwide 8.1k citations · 211 works
  8. 8 Clara O. Montagut Spain · #172,732 worldwide 8.1k citations · 300 works
  9. 9 Luisa Sorlí Spain · #191,496 worldwide 7k citations · 170 works
  10. 10 Manuel Pera Spain · #194,484 worldwide 9.7k citations · 239 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Del Mar

What are the most cited papers from Hospital Del Mar?

The most cited paper from Hospital Del Mar is "GSVA: gene set variation analysis for microarray and RNA-Seq data" (Sonja Hänzelmann, Robert Castelo, Justin Guinney, 2013), with 17,089 citations. Next come "Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans" (10,439) and "The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans" (10,422).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 GSVA: gene set variation analysis for microarray and RNA-Seq data Sonja Hänzelmann, Robert Castelo, Justin Guinney · BMC Bioinformatics Open access 16 Jan 2013 17,089
2 Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans Monkol Lek et al. · Nature Open access Aug 2016 10,439
3 The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans Konrad J. Karczewski et al. · Nature Open access177 authors 27 May 2020 10,422
4 The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010 Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen, Frank Jacobi, Jürgen T. Rehm et al. · European Neuropsychopharmacology Open access Sep 2011 3,849
5 Arterial embolisation or chemoembolisation versus symptomatic treatment in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a randomised controlled trial Josep Maria Llovet, María Isabel Real, Xavier Montañá et al. · The Lancet May 2002 3,526
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Del Mar?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Guidelines, Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemotherapy, Quality of Life and Cardiovascular Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology99▲ 2.8×119 topics
  2. Inflammation58▲ 3.1×69 topics
  3. Quality of Life39▲ 3.0×51 topics
  4. Treatment38▲ 3.5×46 topics
  5. Diagnosis36▲ 4.3×39 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease34▲ 3.3×35 topics
  7. Guidelines31▲ 7.3×13 topics
  8. Chemotherapy31▲ 4.9×24 topics
  9. Risk Factors30▲ 3.0×31 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress26▲ 1.79×45 topics
  11. Immunotherapy25▲ 3.8×19 topics
  12. Aging24▲ 5.0×17 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome24▲ 3.3×21 topics
  14. Clinical Practice Guidelines24▲ 4.8×14 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors24▲ 6.1×14 topics
  16. Management24▲ 3.3×27 topics
  17. Biomarkers23▲ 3.7×17 topics
  18. Complications23▲ 5.1×15 topics
  19. Mortality22▲ 4.3×12 topics
  20. Clinical Trials21▲ 3.6×17 topics
  21. Depression21▲ 2.7×19 topics
  22. Autoantibodies20▲ 9.7×8 topics
  23. Radiotherapy20▲ 5.6×13 topics
  24. Global Burden19▲ 4.0×12 topics
  25. Neurological Disorders19▲ 3.7×20 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy17▲ 8.2×5 topics
  27. Genetics17▲ 2.7×19 topics
  28. Chronic Pain17▲ 8.5×5 topics
  29. Anxiety15▲ 3.6×11 topics
  30. Heart Failure15▲ 3.9×13 topics
  31. Surgical Management14▲ 4.0×20 topics
  32. Survival Analysis14▲ 5.9×7 topics
  33. Breast Cancer14▲ 6.3×11 topics
  34. Metastasis14▲ 4.4×12 topics
  35. Neuroimaging13▲ 5.3×11 topics
  36. Rituximab13▲ 10.0×4 topics
  37. Pain Management13▲ 6.2×8 topics
  38. Immunosuppressive Therapy12▲ 6.8×7 topics
  39. Clinical Outcomes12▲ 6.0×6 topics
  40. Elderly Patients11▲ 7.0×4 topics

Which research topics does Hospital Del Mar publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research.

Renal Transplantation Ou…7Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 7 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and …7Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 7 fractional worksSystemic Lupus Erythematosus Research: 7 fractional worksHernia repair and management: 7 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 7 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 6 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment …6Breast Cancer Treatment Studies: 6 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Management: 6 fractional worksLymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional works
TransplantationCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePsychiatry and Mental healthRheumatology4 others

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

  1. 1 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 7 works
  2. 2 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  3. 3 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 7 works
  4. 4 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research Rheumatology 7 works
  5. 5 Hernia repair and management Surgery 7 works
  6. 6 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 7 works
  7. 7 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  8. 8 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 6 works
  9. 9 Anesthesia and Pain Management Surgery 6 works
  10. 10 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 6 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 available40.7%not open59.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.9%domestic only79.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Del Mar's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher 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 Del Mar as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Hospital Del Mar0.0038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hospital Del Mar 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Hospital Del Mar8.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.0% in 2012.

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