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Indus Hospital

In research, Indus Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#7,432 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,825 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases — Infectious Diseases is 7.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15,682
of 28,054 · #25,133 all time
Rank in Pakistan
#164
of 241
Research works
883
▲ 438% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.6k
4.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
81%
world 28%

What is Indus Hospital 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 #7,432 of 11,982 3.9%340 #12732
MedicineField #6,825 of 10,443 3.8%309 #11242

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Indus Hospital 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).

What does Indus Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 7.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 22.1 works7.5×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.20× its world share, 28 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.30× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.67× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.42× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.87× its world share, 21 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.73× its world share, 309 worksMedicineNursing: 3.43× its world share, 7 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.64× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.90× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 14 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 Indus Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Quratulain Shaikh, Moiz Ahmed Khan and Nisar Khan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Indus Hospital.

  1. 1 Quratulain Shaikh · #1,104,316 worldwide 45 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Moiz Ahmed Khan · #1,304,336 worldwide 3 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Nisar Khan · #1,325,636 worldwide 7 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Indus Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Indus Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Prognostic Factors, Treatment, Diagnosis, Cardiovascular Disease, Management, Metabolic Syndrome 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. Epidemiology74▲ 4.4×92 topics
  2. Treatment25▲ 4.9×37 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease23▲ 4.7×28 topics
  4. Diagnosis22▲ 5.4×33 topics
  5. Inflammation21▲ 2.4×43 topics
  6. Prognostic Factors21▲ 11×10 topics
  7. Metabolic Syndrome17▲ 4.8×18 topics
  8. Management17▲ 4.9×26 topics
  9. Risk Factors14▲ 3.0×28 topics
  10. Public Health13▲ 2.1×25 topics
  11. Pandemic13▲ 2.9×7 topics
  12. Immune Response13▲ 5.4×10 topics
  13. COVID-1913▲ 2.2×16 topics
  14. Global Burden13▲ 5.6×12 topics
  15. Quality of Life12▲ 1.94×29 topics
  16. Maternal Mortality11▲ 12×5 topics
  17. Antibiotic Resistance11▲ 6.7×11 topics
  18. Complications11▲ 5.1×14 topics
  19. SARS-CoV-211▲ 7.8×5 topics
  20. Vaccine10▲ 5.8×8 topics
  21. Guidelines10▲ 4.9×11 topics
  22. Mortality10▲ 3.8×9 topics
  23. Health-related Quality of Life9▲ 9.0×4 topics
  24. Pathogenesis9▲ 4.0×18 topics
  25. Genetic Mutations8▲ 4.5×17 topics
  26. Minimal Residual Disease8▲ 28×2 topics
  27. Insulin Resistance8▲ 4.2×8 topics
  28. ACE2 Receptor8▲ 7.7×3 topics
  29. Pediatric Oncology8▲ 34×2 topics
  30. Drug Resistance8▲ 6.5×5 topics
  31. Pathophysiology8▲ 6.1×10 topics
  32. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia8▲ 54×1 topic
  33. Childhood Cancer8▲ 54×1 topic
  34. Infection7▲ 6.6×8 topics
  35. Antimicrobial Resistance7▲ 8.2×8 topics
  36. Mutation7▲ 8.4×3 topics
  37. Hematopoietic Stem Cells7▲ 18×3 topics
  38. Viral Transmission6▲ 9.4×4 topics
  39. AML6▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Acute Myeloid Leukemia6▲ 28×1 topic

Which research topics does Indus Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life.

Acute Lymphoblastic Leuk…8Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research: 8 fractional worksAcute Myeloid Leukemia R…6Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research: 6 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 4 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 4 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 4 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 4 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …4SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional worksPregnancy and preeclampsia studies: 4 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resistance: 4 fractional worksTuberculosis Research an…3Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 3 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHematologyInfectious DiseasesPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 8 works
  2. 2 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 6 works
  3. 3 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 4 works
  4. 4 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  5. 5 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  6. 6 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 4 works
  7. 7 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works
  8. 8 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  9. 9 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 4 works
  10. 10 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 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 available81.2%not open18.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.8%domestic only76.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Indus Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 438% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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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