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Hospital Sírio-Libanês

In research, Hospital Sírio-Libanês stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,620 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#1,558 of 8,541 worldwide) and Surgery (#854 of 1,532 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,776
of 22,385 · #6,418 all time
Rank in Brazil
#271
of 684
Research works
2k
▲ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
24k
11.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Hospital Sírio-Libanês

What is Hospital Sírio-Libanês 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 #1,620 of 9,902 7.5%472 #2279
MedicineField #1,558 of 8,541 7.2%407 #2109
SurgerySubfield #854 of 1,532 9.7%67 #1175
Life SciencesDomain #4,254 of 6,403 6.6%68 #4596

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital Sírio-Libanês 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#2,279 #1,620
  2. Medicine#2,109 #1,558
  3. Surgery#1,175 #854
  4. Life Sciences#4,596 #4,254
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 Sírio-Libanês work in?

In 2022-now, 76% of research at Hospital Sírio-Libanês is in Health Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (66%), Health Professions (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 530 fractional works · 76.0% of its workMedicine: 459 fractional works · 65.8% of its workSurgery: 76 fractional works · 10.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 43 fractional works · 6.2% of its workOncology: 41 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 32 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEpidemiology: 30 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPhysiology: 22 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 19 fractional works · 2.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 17 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeurology: 15 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 14 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 13 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 12 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHematology: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDermatology: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHepatology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGastroenterology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 58 fractional works · 8.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 13 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOral Surgery: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 78 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 52 fractional works · 7.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 22 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCancer Research: 16 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGenetics: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 58 fractional works · 8.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 31 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKHospitalSírio-Libanês698fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences76%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine45965.8%
    2. Health Professions588.3%
    3. Dentistry60.9%
    4. Nursing60.9%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology527.4%
    2. Neuroscience121.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology111.6%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Social Sciences304.3%
    2. Psychology111.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance71.0%
    4. Decision Sciences50.7%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting50.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Engineering111.6%
    2. Computer Science111.6%
    3. Environmental Science40.6%
    4. Mathematics20.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    6. Chemistry10.1%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.39× its world share, 52 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.61× its world share, 11 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.10× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 11 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.85× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.15× its world share, 58 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.42× its world share, 459 worksMedicineNursing: 1.82× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.47× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 30 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.42×459 works
  2. Health Professions3.15×58 works
  3. Dentistry1.85×6 works
  4. Nursing1.82×6 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.61×11 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.39×52 works
  7. Neuroscience1.10×12 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.75×5 works
  9. Veterinary0.68×1 works
  10. Psychology0.50×11 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.47×7 works
  12. Social Sciences0.34×30 works
  13. Mathematics0.23×2 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.20×11 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×5 works
  17. Environmental Science0.12×4 works
  18. Engineering0.11×11 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.09×1 works
  20. Energy0.08×0 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×2 works
  22. Chemistry0.05×1 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×0 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Sírio-Libanês?

Ranked on the quality score, Vitor Heidrich, Luciano César Pontes Azevedo and Luciano C. P. Azevedo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Sírio-Libanês.

  1. 1 Vitor Heidrich Brazil · #151,216 worldwide 1.1k citations · 85 works
  2. 2 Luciano César Pontes Azevedo Brazil · #195,510 worldwide 26k citations · 311 works
  3. 3 Luciano C. P. Azevedo Brazil · #467,692 worldwide 1.4k citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Elisa R. Donnard Brazil · #644,101 worldwide 1.1k citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Bruno Martins Tomazini Brazil · #809,901 worldwide 4.5k citations · 70 works
  6. 6 Pedro A. F. Galante Brazil · #858,772 worldwide 4.5k citations · 256 works
  7. 7 Rafael L. V. Mercuri Brazil · #985,681 worldwide 270 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Guilherme De Paula Pinto Schettino Brazil · #1,107,773 worldwide 1.1k citations · 60 works
  9. 9 Frederico Perego Costa Brazil · #1,190,850 worldwide 5.4k citations · 143 works
  10. 10 Davi Mamblona Marques Romão Brazil · #1,199,833 worldwide 104 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Sírio-Libanês

What are the most cited papers from Hospital Sírio-Libanês?

The most cited paper from Hospital Sírio-Libanês is "Driving Pressure and Survival in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" (Marcelo B. P. Amato, Maureen O. Meade, Arthur S. Slutsky et al., 2015), with 2,879 citations. Next come "Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19" (2,369) and "ESMO Consensus Guidelines for management of patients with colon and rectal cancer. A personalized approach to clinical decision making" (1,545).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Driving Pressure and Survival in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Marcelo B. P. Amato, Maureen O. Meade, Arthur S. Slutsky et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Feb 2015 2,879
2 Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 The WHO Rapid Evidence Appraisal for COVID-19 Therapies (REACT) Working Group et al. · JAMA Open access 2 Sep 2020 2,369
3 ESMO Consensus Guidelines for management of patients with colon and rectal cancer. A personalized approach to clinical decision making Hans‐Joachim Schmoll et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 25 Sep 2012 1,545
4 Recommendations for laparoscopic liver resection: a report from the second international consensus conference held in Morioka. Go Wakabayashi et al. · PubMed Apr 2015 1,344
5 Effect of Dexamethasone on Days Alive and Ventilator-Free in Patients With Moderate or Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and COVID-19 Bruno Martins Tomazini et al. · JAMA Open access 2 Sep 2020 1,309
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Sírio-Libanês?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Radiotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Complications 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. Epidemiology91▲ 3.3×108 topics
  2. Quality of Life52▲ 5.2×48 topics
  3. Inflammation32▲ 2.2×53 topics
  4. Public Health30▲ 2.9×32 topics
  5. Radiotherapy28▲ 10×13 topics
  6. Treatment27▲ 3.2×41 topics
  7. Immunotherapy26▲ 5.1×16 topics
  8. Chemotherapy26▲ 5.2×22 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines26▲ 6.6×14 topics
  10. Complications22▲ 6.5×17 topics
  11. Management22▲ 3.9×25 topics
  12. Prognostic Factors21▲ 7.0×14 topics
  13. Diagnosis21▲ 3.2×36 topics
  14. Health Policy19▲ 18×4 topics
  15. Breast Cancer19▲ 11×11 topics
  16. Healthcare Access18▲ 9.5×7 topics
  17. Patient Safety17▲ 16×7 topics
  18. Rehabilitation17▲ 6.0×12 topics
  19. Drug Resistance16▲ 8.1×8 topics
  20. Surgical Management15▲ 5.4×17 topics
  21. Biomarkers15▲ 3.1×13 topics
  22. Survival Analysis15▲ 7.7×5 topics
  23. Neoadjuvant Therapy15▲ 8.8×5 topics
  24. Aging14▲ 3.6×10 topics
  25. Infection Control14▲ 23×3 topics
  26. Heart Failure14▲ 4.3×12 topics
  27. Prevention13▲ 4.5×14 topics
  28. Prognosis13▲ 5.7×9 topics
  29. Critical Care13▲ 7.6×8 topics
  30. Healthcare Regulation13▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Metastasis12▲ 5.2×9 topics
  32. Patient Satisfaction12▲ 5.5×9 topics
  33. Medical Devices12▲ 65×1 topic
  34. Nursing Care12▲ 65×1 topic
  35. Elderly Patients11▲ 9.2×4 topics
  36. Palliative Care11▲ 10×4 topics
  37. End-of-Life11▲ 18×3 topics
  38. Targeted Therapy11▲ 6.9×4 topics
  39. Molecular Subtypes10▲ 16×3 topics
  40. Muscle Mass10▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Hospital Sírio-Libanês publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Healthcare Regulation, Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic, Breast Cancer Treatment Studies and Nutrition and Health in Aging.

Healthcare Regulation12Healthcare Regulation: 12 fractional worksHealthcare during COVID-…8Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 8 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 8 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 7 fractional worksHealth, Nursing, Elderly Care: 6 fractional worksIntensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders: 6 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 6 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil6Public Health in Brazil: 6 fractional worksNonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies: 6 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional works
Health Information ManagementInformation SystemsCancer ResearchPhysiology6 others

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

  1. 1 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 12 works
  2. 2 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 8 works
  3. 3 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 8 works
  4. 4 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 7 works
  5. 5 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 6 works
  6. 6 Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 6 works
  7. 7 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 6 works
  8. 8 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  9. 9 Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies Epidemiology 6 works
  10. 10 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 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 available64.1%not open35.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.1%domestic only77.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Sírio-Libanês's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hospital Sírio-Libanês as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0027% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Hospital Sírio-Libanês0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hospital Sírio-Libanês 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 Sírio-Libanês8.4% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.3% in 2008.

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