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Hospital Universitario Son Espases

In research, Hospital Universitario Son Espases stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,614 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#4,195 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,618 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Epidemiology — Epidemiology is 6.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,099
of 28,054 · #13,420 all time
Rank in Spain
#246
of 658
Research works
1.7k
▲ 46% vs 2013–17
Citations
16k
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

What is Hospital Universitario Son Espases 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
Health SciencesDomain #4,614 of 11,982 8.6%380 #6147
MedicineField #4,195 of 10,443 8.5%359 #5192
Life SciencesDomain #4,618 of 7,800 11.7%80 #6424

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital Universitario Son Espases 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. Health Sciences#6,147 #4,614
  2. Medicine#5,192 #4,195
  3. Life Sciences#6,424 #4,618
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 Universitario Son Espases specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Epidemiology takes 6.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EpidemiologySubfield · 44.0 works6.2×
← 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, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.05× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.95× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.39× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.04× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.75× its world share, 359 worksMedicineNursing: 1.87× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.33× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.35× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Universitario Son Espases?

Ranked on the composite score, Antonio Gutiérrez, Antonio Oliver and Borja G. Cosío lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Universitario Son Espases.

  1. 1 Antonio Gutiérrez Spain · #84,765 worldwide 150 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Antonio Oliver Spain · #89,889 worldwide 294 citations · 50 works
  3. 3 Borja G. Cosío Spain · #94,409 worldwide 339 citations · 76 works
  4. 4 Mónica de la Peña Spain · #322,713 worldwide 73 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Chris Yates Spain · #425,155 worldwide 34 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Carla López-Causapé Spain · #479,148 worldwide 70 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Jaume Sauleda Spain · #496,996 worldwide 53 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Ernest Sala Spain · #582,244 worldwide 47 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Alessandro Bianchi Spain · #680,962 worldwide 12 citations · 24 works
  10. 10 A. Martín‐Santiago Spain · #711,881 worldwide 63 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Universitario Son Espases

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Universitario Son Espases?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology84▲ 4.2×105 topics
  2. Inflammation29▲ 2.8×61 topics
  3. Diagnosis28▲ 6.1×35 topics
  4. Treatment26▲ 4.3×39 topics
  5. Clinical Practice Guidelines20▲ 7.6×14 topics
  6. Pathogenesis17▲ 6.6×22 topics
  7. Quality of Life17▲ 2.3×43 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease17▲ 3.0×30 topics
  9. Chemotherapy15▲ 4.3×23 topics
  10. Management14▲ 3.7×25 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress14▲ 1.74×33 topics
  12. Public Health13▲ 1.83×30 topics
  13. Complications13▲ 5.3×16 topics
  14. Antibiotic Resistance13▲ 6.8×11 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors12▲ 5.5×12 topics
  16. Immunotherapy12▲ 3.3×19 topics
  17. Genetic Mutations12▲ 5.4×21 topics
  18. Autoantibodies11▲ 9.6×8 topics
  19. Mortality11▲ 3.9×12 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome11▲ 2.7×20 topics
  21. Clinical Trials10▲ 3.1×13 topics
  22. Guidelines10▲ 4.5×11 topics
  23. Surgery10▲ 5.7×9 topics
  24. Antimicrobial Resistance9▲ 9.5×7 topics
  25. Vaccine Development9▲ 7.2×8 topics
  26. Heart Failure9▲ 4.1×12 topics
  27. Immunosuppressive Therapy8▲ 9.1×8 topics
  28. Rituximab8▲ 11×4 topics
  29. Survival Analysis8▲ 6.2×6 topics
  30. Disease Burden8▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Human Metapneumovirus8▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Respiratory Syncytial Virus8▲ 37×1 topic
  33. Prognosis8▲ 5.0×9 topics
  34. Thrombosis8▲ 5.6×7 topics
  35. Myocardial Infarction8▲ 6.7×6 topics
  36. Cognitive Impairment8▲ 6.0×10 topics
  37. Molecular Classification7▲ 9.5×4 topics
  38. Vaccination7▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Prophylaxis7▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Robotic Surgery6▲ 8.9×4 topics

Which research topics does Hospital Universitario Son Espases publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Respiratory viral infections research, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria and Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases.

Respiratory viral infections research: 8 fractional worksPneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 6 fractional worksAntibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 5 fractional worksAutoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases: 4 fractional worksFolate and B Vitamins Research: 4 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 4 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical…3Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 3 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 3 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 3 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…3Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 3 fractional works
EpidemiologyMolecular MedicinePathology and Forensic MedicineRheumatology3 others

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

  1. 1 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 8 works
  2. 2 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 6 works
  3. 3 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 5 works
  4. 4 Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Folate and B Vitamins Research Rheumatology 4 works
  6. 6 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 4 works
  7. 7 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 3 works
  8. 8 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 3 works
  9. 9 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 3 works
  10. 10 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 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 available49.2%not open50.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.3%domestic only88.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Universitario Son Espases's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 46% 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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