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Kimberley Hospital

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World rank, all time
#22,719
of 34,923
Rank in South Africa
#85
of 126
Research works
218
▼ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
3k
13.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Kimberley Hospital

Which fields of science does Kimberley Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Kimberley Hospital is in Health Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (41%), Social Sciences (15%), Environmental Science (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 15 fractional works · 51.7% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 40.7% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 5.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 11.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 7.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 23.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 15.5% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 20.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 11.4% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 7.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKimberleyHospital28fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences52%Social Sciences23%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1240.7%
    2. Health Professions311.0%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences415.5%
    2. Psychology13.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting01.5%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.8%
    5. Decision Sciences00.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
    1. Environmental Science311.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.7%
    3. Computer Science12.4%
    4. Chemistry01.8%
    5. Materials Science00.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Engineering00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.0%
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: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.35× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.29× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 4.16× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.12× its world share, 12 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.22× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions4.16×3 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.35×1 works
  3. Environmental Science2.29×3 works
  4. Medicine2.12×12 works
  5. Psychology1.24×1 works
  6. Social Sciences1.22×4 works
  7. Chemistry1.12×0 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.99×0 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.81×0 works
  10. Veterinary0.62×0 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.45×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.40×1 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.30×1 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.27×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.23×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  19. Engineering0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kimberley Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Peter B. Beaumont, Maria Gattorno Giaquinto-Cilliers and Beryl Wilson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kimberley Hospital.

  1. 1 Peter B. Beaumont South Africa · #376,308 worldwide 4.5k citations · 123 works
  2. 2 Maria Gattorno Giaquinto-Cilliers South Africa · #3,703,695 worldwide 58 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Beryl Wilson South Africa · #4,863,276 worldwide 102 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Mark Daniel Anderson South Africa · #6,827,430 worldwide 868 citations · 105 works
All ranked researchers at Kimberley Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Kimberley Hospital?

The most cited paper from Kimberley Hospital is "Expert consensus and recommendations on safety criteria for active mobilization of mechanically ventilated critically ill adults" (Carol Lynette Hodgson et al., 2014), with 668 citations. Next come "Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa" (452) and "Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts" (259).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Expert consensus and recommendations on safety criteria for active mobilization of mechanically ventilated critically ill adults Carol Lynette Hodgson et al. · Critical Care Open access 4 Dec 2014 668
2 Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa Francesco d’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, Paola Villa et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Jul 2012 452
3 Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts Nancy Shackelford et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution Open access 22 Jul 2021 259
4 Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa Paola Villa, Sylvain Soriano, Tsenka Tsanova et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 Jul 2012 209
5 Border Cave revisited: a revised ESR chronology Rainer Grün, Peter B. Beaumont · Journal of Human Evolution Jun 2001 204
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Which keywords describe research at Kimberley Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Healthcare, Mortality, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Treatment, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature and Climate Change.

▲ 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 23 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3▲ 2.5×20 topics
  2. Climate Change2▲ 3.0×15 topics
  3. Healthcare2▲ 6.0×7 topics
  4. Public Health2▲ 4.3×9 topics
  5. Treatment2▲ 5.3×10 topics
  6. Clinical Trials2▲ 8.6×4 topics
  7. Mortality2▲ 10×5 topics
  8. Quality of Life2▲ 3.9×8 topics
  9. Ancient Rome2▲ 167×1 topic
  10. Greek Literature2▲ 167×1 topic
  11. COVID-191▲ 3.2×3 topics
  12. Prevention1▲ 10×4 topics
  13. Risk Factors1▲ 3.8×4 topics
  14. Surgery1▲ 12×2 topics
  15. Cancer1▲ 2.9×4 topics
  16. Diagnosis1▲ 4.2×5 topics
  17. Epidemiological Studies1▲ 28×2 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Diseases1▲ 40×1 topic
  19. Emergency Department Visits1▲ 67×1 topic
  20. Habitat Selection1▲ 49×2 topics
  21. Mortality Trends1▲ 92×1 topic
  22. Pandemic1▲ 3.5×1 topic
  23. Primary Care1▲ 9.9×4 topics

Which research topics does Kimberley Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Classical Antiquity Studies, Healthcare Systems and Public Health, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts and Avian ecology and behavior.

Classical Antiquity Stud…2Classical Antiquity Studies: 2 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Public Health: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 1 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 1 fractional worksPrimary Care and Health Outcomes: 1 fractional worksPeatlands and Wetlands E…0Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology: 0 fractional worksOrganic Chemistry Synthesis Methods: 0 fractional worksEthics in Clinical Research: 0 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional works
AnthropologyEpidemiologyOncologyEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 2 works
  2. 2 Healthcare Systems and Public Health Epidemiology 1 works
  3. 3 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 1 works
  4. 4 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 1 works
  5. 5 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 1 works
  6. 6 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods Organic Chemistry 0 works
  8. 8 Ethics in Clinical Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 0 works
  10. 10 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 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 available42.2%not open57.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.7%domestic only70.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kimberley Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Kimberley Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Kimberley Hospital0.000086% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Kimberley Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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