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Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis

In research, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis stands highest in Medicine (#2,332 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,146 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,430 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 6.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,022
of 28,054 · #10,454 all time
Rank in Spain
#243
of 658
Research works
2.9k
▲ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
32k
11.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis 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 #2,332 of 10,443 9.2%412 #2293
Health SciencesDomain #3,146 of 11,982 9.3%430 #2736
SurgerySubfield #1,430 of 1,816 6.7%76 #1963

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis 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#2,293 #2,332
  2. Health Sciences#2,736 #3,146
  3. Surgery#1,963 #1,430
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 General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 76.4 works6.4×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 27 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.49× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.11× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.82× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.01× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.19× its world share, 412 worksMedicineNursing: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.52× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× 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, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis?

Ranked on the composite score, Rodrigo Jover, Eliseo Pascual and Bartomeu Massutí lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis.

  1. 1 Rodrigo Jover Spain · #25,305 worldwide 512 citations · 86 works
  2. 2 Eliseo Pascual Spain · #68,159 worldwide 285 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Bartomeu Massutí Spain · #82,767 worldwide 345 citations · 74 works
  4. 4 Enrique de‐Madaria Spain · #101,857 worldwide 167 citations · 47 works
  5. 5 Vicente Climent Spain · #185,546 worldwide 127 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Ignacio Aranda Spain · #260,670 worldwide 94 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Juan M. Ruiz-Nodar Spain · #486,580 worldwide 102 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 I. Belinchón Spain · #487,406 worldwide 75 citations · 55 works
  9. 9 José Bañuls Spain · #545,225 worldwide 45 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Laura Cuesta Spain · #586,695 worldwide 20 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis

Which keywords describe research at Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Diagnosis, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Prognostic Factors and Inflammation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology77▲ 3.8×104 topics
  2. Diagnosis32▲ 6.7×33 topics
  3. Treatment30▲ 4.8×38 topics
  4. Chemotherapy30▲ 8.3×21 topics
  5. Inflammation28▲ 2.7×62 topics
  6. Quality of Life21▲ 2.9×36 topics
  7. Immunotherapy20▲ 5.6×18 topics
  8. Management20▲ 4.9×25 topics
  9. Risk Factors19▲ 3.4×25 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines19▲ 6.7×13 topics
  11. Prognostic Factors18▲ 7.8×14 topics
  12. Guidelines17▲ 7.2×12 topics
  13. Complications16▲ 6.3×14 topics
  14. Tumor Microenvironment16▲ 6.9×8 topics
  15. Surgical Management14▲ 6.8×17 topics
  16. Neoadjuvant Therapy14▲ 12×5 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome13▲ 3.1×21 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations12▲ 5.5×19 topics
  19. Mortality12▲ 4.0×10 topics
  20. Pathogenesis12▲ 4.4×18 topics
  21. Autoantibodies11▲ 9.4×8 topics
  22. Pancreatic Cancer11▲ 20×3 topics
  23. Children11▲ 9.0×7 topics
  24. Gemcitabine10▲ 29×1 topic
  25. Nutritional Support10▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Surgical Complications10▲ 25×1 topic
  27. Genetic Factors10▲ 29×3 topics
  28. Heart Failure10▲ 4.5×12 topics
  29. SARS-CoV-210▲ 6.0×6 topics
  30. Surgery10▲ 5.5×10 topics
  31. Acute Pancreatitis10▲ 45×1 topic
  32. Chronic Pancreatitis10▲ 45×1 topic
  33. Radiotherapy10▲ 4.8×11 topics
  34. Cholangiocarcinoma9▲ 23×2 topics
  35. Liver Transplantation9▲ 15×5 topics
  36. Pathophysiology9▲ 6.1×10 topics
  37. Adjuvant Therapy9▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Survival Analysis9▲ 6.5×6 topics
  39. Inflammatory Bowel Disease9▲ 15×5 topics
  40. Hepatocellular Carcinoma8▲ 7.8×3 topics

Which research topics does Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment, Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders and Esophageal and GI Pathology.

Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 10 fractional worksPancreatitis Pathology and Treatment: 10 fractional worksGallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders: 7 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 5 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Diseases: 5 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 5 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…5Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 5 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transp…4Liver Disease and Transplantation: 4 fractional works
OncologySurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineDermatology2 others

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

  1. 1 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 10 works
  2. 2 Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment Surgery 10 works
  3. 3 Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  4. 4 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 5 works
  5. 5 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 5 works
  6. 6 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 5 works
  7. 7 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 5 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 4 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 available35.3%not open64.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% 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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