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Hospital Del Mar

In research, Hospital Del Mar stands highest in Medicine (#1,424 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,705 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,960 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Rheumatology — Pathology and Forensic Medicine is 7.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,729
of 28,054 · #5,082 all time
Rank in Spain
#127
of 658
Research works
3.7k
▲ 25% vs 2013–17
Citations
75k
20.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Hospital Del Mar 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 #1,424 of 10,443 12.0%551 #1405
Health SciencesDomain #1,705 of 11,982 12.4%583 #1688
Life SciencesDomain #2,960 of 7,800 17.0%111 #3196
SurgerySubfield #1,149 of 1,816 11.2%84 #1137

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 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#1,405 #1,424
  2. Health Sciences#1,688 #1,705
  3. Life Sciences#3,196 #2,960
  4. Surgery#1,137 #1,149
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 Hospital Del Mar specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pathology and Forensic Medicine takes 7.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 28.3 works7.0×
  2. RheumatologySubfield · 23.0 works6.5×
← 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, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.42× its world share, 59 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.22× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.99× its world share, 25 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.68× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 11 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: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.23× its world share, 25 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.70× its world share, 551 worksMedicineNursing: 1.59× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.63× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.04× its world share, 25 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× 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, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Del Mar?

Ranked on the composite score, Roberto Elosúa, Montse Ferrer and Juan Pablo Horcajada lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Del Mar.

  1. 1 Roberto Elosúa · #1,272 worldwide 2.1k citations · 93 works
  2. 2 Montse Ferrer · #30,601 worldwide 313 citations · 52 works
  3. 3 Juan Pablo Horcajada · #36,265 worldwide 449 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Julio Pascual · #67,897 worldwide 247 citations · 72 works
  5. 5 Gemma Vilagut · #87,559 worldwide 256 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Jesús Pujol · #106,895 worldwide 184 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Albert Goday · #178,265 worldwide 59 citations · 39 works
  8. 8 J. Sancho · #196,024 worldwide 80 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Xavier Nogués · #209,546 worldwide 105 citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Antonio Sitges‐Serra · #210,085 worldwide 107 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Del Mar

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Del Mar?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology86▲ 2.8×116 topics
  2. Inflammation51▲ 3.1×68 topics
  3. Treatment34▲ 3.6×43 topics
  4. Quality of Life33▲ 3.0×47 topics
  5. Diagnosis33▲ 4.5×37 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease29▲ 3.4×34 topics
  7. Guidelines28▲ 7.7×13 topics
  8. Chemotherapy27▲ 5.0×23 topics
  9. Risk Factors26▲ 3.0×30 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress24▲ 1.87×44 topics
  11. Aging22▲ 5.3×16 topics
  12. Immunotherapy22▲ 4.0×19 topics
  13. Management21▲ 3.5×26 topics
  14. Complications21▲ 5.4×15 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors20▲ 6.1×14 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines20▲ 4.8×14 topics
  17. Mortality20▲ 4.5×12 topics
  18. Biomarkers20▲ 3.7×17 topics
  19. Metabolic Syndrome20▲ 3.1×21 topics
  20. Clinical Trials19▲ 3.7×17 topics
  21. Autoantibodies19▲ 11×8 topics
  22. Depression17▲ 2.5×18 topics
  23. Neurological Disorders17▲ 3.8×17 topics
  24. Radiotherapy16▲ 5.5×13 topics
  25. Global Burden16▲ 3.9×12 topics
  26. Chronic Pain16▲ 9.3×5 topics
  27. Neoadjuvant Therapy15▲ 8.2×5 topics
  28. Heart Failure13▲ 3.9×13 topics
  29. Surgical Management13▲ 4.0×18 topics
  30. Rituximab12▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Neuroimaging12▲ 5.7×11 topics
  32. Survival Analysis12▲ 5.5×7 topics
  33. Pain Management11▲ 6.4×8 topics
  34. Breast Cancer11▲ 6.1×10 topics
  35. Immunosuppressive Therapy11▲ 7.4×7 topics
  36. Surgical Treatment10▲ 6.6×5 topics
  37. Molecular Characterization10▲ 7.2×5 topics
  38. Elderly Patients10▲ 7.4×4 topics
  39. Lymphoma9▲ 7.5×4 topics
  40. Kidney Transplantation9▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Hospital Del Mar publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research and Hernia repair and management.

Cardiac, Anesthesia and …7Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Ou…7Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 7 fractional worksSystemic Lupus Erythematosus Research: 7 fractional worksHernia repair and manage…6Hernia repair and management: 6 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive I…6Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 6 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 6 fractional worksLymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Mana…6Anesthesia and Pain Management: 6 fractional worksSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 5 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 5 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineTransplantationRheumatologySurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  2. 2 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and TreatmentsTransplantation 7 works
  3. 3 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchRheumatology 7 works
  4. 4 Hernia repair and managementSurgery 6 works
  5. 5 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchPsychiatry and Mental health 6 works
  6. 6 Nutrition and Health in AgingPhysiology 6 works
  7. 7 Lymphoma Diagnosis and TreatmentPathology and Forensic Medicine 6 works
  8. 8 Anesthesia and Pain ManagementSurgery 6 works
  9. 9 Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyPathology and Forensic Medicine 5 works
  10. 10 Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Del Mar's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% 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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