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Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca

In research, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca stands highest in Medicine (#2,075 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,839 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,418 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 8.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#8,854
of 28,054 · #8,808 all time
Rank in Spain
#236
of 658
Research works
4.3k
▼ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
50k
11.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

What is Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca 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 #2,075 of 10,443 10.0%360 #1915
Health SciencesDomain #2,839 of 11,982 10.2%380 #2450
SurgerySubfield #1,418 of 1,816 8.1%73 #1139

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca 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#1,915 #2,075
  2. Health Sciences#2,450 #2,839
  3. Surgery#1,139 #1,418
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 Virgen de la Arrixaca specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 8.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 40.1 works8.1×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 73.1 works6.6×
← 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, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.47× its world share, 37 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.20× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.12× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.96× its world share, 360 worksMedicineNursing: 1.15× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.45× 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, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca?

Ranked on the composite score, Juan R. Gimeno, Akiko Ono and Fernando Carballo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca.

  1. 1 Juan R. Gimeno Spain · #21,131 worldwide 709 citations · 48 works
  2. 2 Akiko Ono Spain · #80,330 worldwide 159 citations · 28 works
  3. 3 Fernando Carballo Spain · #103,958 worldwide 116 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Pascual Parrilla Spain · #174,292 worldwide 174 citations · 88 works
  5. 5 J.A. Pons Spain · #178,319 worldwide 87 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Juán Luján Spain · #222,807 worldwide 87 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Juan F. Martínez-Lage Spain · #275,552 worldwide 70 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Francisco Marı́n Spain · #317,639 worldwide 254 citations · 91 works
  9. 9 Antonio Ríos Spain · #330,882 worldwide 95 citations · 56 works
  10. 10 Mariano Valdés Spain · #336,585 worldwide 151 citations · 69 works
All ranked researchers at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca

Which keywords describe research at Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Inflammation, Complications, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Management 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. Epidemiology64▲ 3.4×110 topics
  2. Inflammation28▲ 2.9×74 topics
  3. Diagnosis27▲ 6.2×34 topics
  4. Treatment27▲ 4.7×39 topics
  5. Management18▲ 4.8×27 topics
  6. Chemotherapy17▲ 5.1×23 topics
  7. Quality of Life17▲ 2.4×32 topics
  8. Clinical Practice Guidelines16▲ 6.2×14 topics
  9. Complications16▲ 6.7×14 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease15▲ 2.8×32 topics
  11. Heart Failure14▲ 6.9×12 topics
  12. Genetic Mutations14▲ 6.9×21 topics
  13. Guidelines14▲ 6.4×11 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors12▲ 6.1×13 topics
  15. Cancer12▲ 1.93×42 topics
  16. Surgical Management12▲ 6.2×19 topics
  17. Graft Survival12▲ 30×3 topics
  18. Survival Analysis12▲ 9.0×6 topics
  19. Liver Transplantation11▲ 20×5 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome11▲ 2.7×21 topics
  21. Immunotherapy10▲ 3.1×17 topics
  22. Echocardiography10▲ 7.7×8 topics
  23. Obesity10▲ 2.7×20 topics
  24. Surgery8▲ 5.1×11 topics
  25. Myocardial Infarction8▲ 7.4×7 topics
  26. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury8▲ 26×2 topics
  27. Biliary Complications8▲ 41×1 topic
  28. Donor Risk Index8▲ 41×1 topic
  29. Surgical Treatment8▲ 8.5×6 topics
  30. Metastasis8▲ 4.7×11 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy8▲ 6.8×5 topics
  32. Pathophysiology7▲ 5.2×8 topics
  33. Sudden Cardiac Death7▲ 19×2 topics
  34. Kidney Transplantation7▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Arrhythmias7▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Cardiac Imaging7▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Children7▲ 6.0×6 topics
  38. Cytoreductive Surgery7▲ 22×2 topics
  39. Transplantation6▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Radiofrequency Ablation6▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Esophageal and GI Pathology, Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias and Organ Donation and Transplantation.

Organ Transplantation Te…8Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 8 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…5Esophageal and GI Pathology: 5 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 4 fractional worksOrgan Donation and Transplantation: 4 fractional worksEndometriosis Research a…4Endometriosis Research and Treatment: 4 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transplantation: 4 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 3 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defib…3Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 3 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 3 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional works
SurgeryCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthReproductive Medicine2 others

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

  1. 1 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 8 works
  2. 2 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 5 works
  3. 3 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Organ Donation and Transplantation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  5. 5 Endometriosis Research and Treatment Reproductive Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 4 works
  7. 7 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 3 works
  10. 10 Heart Failure Treatment and Management 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.0%domestic only91.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% lower 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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