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Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

In research, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#916 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,311 of 11,982 worldwide) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (#92 of 738 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 36.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,619
of 28,054 · #12,605 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#261
of 1,094
Research works
1k
▲ 145% vs 2013–17
Citations
15k
14.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
62%
world 28%

What is Liverpool Heart and Chest 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
MedicineField #916 of 10,443 25.9%290 #2029
Health SciencesDomain #1,311 of 11,982 25.9%302 #2680
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #92 of 738 29.0%128 #400

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Liverpool Heart and Chest 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).

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#2,029 #916
  2. Health Sciences#2,680 #1,311
  3. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#400 #92
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 Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 36.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 128.3 works36×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 33.4 works6.5×
  3. EpidemiologySubfield · 24.2 works5.1×
  4. MedicineField · 289.6 works4.5×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.37× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.48× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.98× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.48× its world share, 290 worksMedicineNursing: 1.59× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.60× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Guidelines, Catheter Ablation, Anticoagulant Therapy, Stroke Prevention, Atrial Fibrillation, Risk Stratification, Thromboembolism and Cardiovascular Disease.

▲ 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. Guidelines56▲ 36×7 topics
  2. Catheter Ablation55▲ 135×2 topics
  3. Anticoagulant Therapy45▲ 108×3 topics
  4. Stroke Prevention44▲ 109×2 topics
  5. Atrial Fibrillation44▲ 132×2 topics
  6. Risk Stratification41▲ 172×1 topic
  7. Thromboembolism41▲ 172×1 topic
  8. Cardiovascular Disease32▲ 8.7×31 topics
  9. Heart Failure28▲ 19×13 topics
  10. Epidemiology26▲ 1.97×63 topics
  11. Risk Factors25▲ 6.7×15 topics
  12. Diagnosis24▲ 7.6×18 topics
  13. Echocardiography22▲ 24×8 topics
  14. Treatment19▲ 4.8×24 topics
  15. Arrhythmias19▲ 62×2 topics
  16. Inflammation19▲ 2.7×50 topics
  17. Myocardial Infarction17▲ 22×7 topics
  18. Global Burden16▲ 9.1×7 topics
  19. Obesity15▲ 6.0×12 topics
  20. Cardiomyopathy15▲ 48×3 topics
  21. Sudden Cardiac Death14▲ 49×2 topics
  22. Electroanatomic Mapping13▲ 80×1 topic
  23. Radiofrequency Ablation13▲ 38×2 topics
  24. Ventricular Tachycardia13▲ 80×1 topic
  25. Atherosclerosis12▲ 13×9 topics
  26. Coronary Artery Disease12▲ 32×3 topics
  27. Clinical Practice Guidelines11▲ 6.0×10 topics
  28. Cardiovascular Events11▲ 26×4 topics
  29. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention10▲ 23×4 topics
  30. Magnetic Resonance Imaging10▲ 12×5 topics
  31. Cardiac Imaging10▲ 25×3 topics
  32. Prophylaxis10▲ 23×3 topics
  33. Neuroprotection9▲ 7.6×9 topics
  34. Cardiovascular Risk9▲ 8.4×9 topics
  35. Revascularization8▲ 16×3 topics
  36. Remote Monitoring8▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Clinical Outcomes8▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Clinical Guidelines8▲ 8.2×6 topics
  39. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy8▲ 58×1 topic
  40. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator8▲ 58×1 topic

Which research topics does Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies and Acute Ischemic Stroke Management.

Atrial Fibrillation Mana…41Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 41 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 13 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 8 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 7 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 7 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksCystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 6 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment and Management: 6 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 6 fractional worksCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias: 6 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiologyInternal MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging1 others

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

  1. 1 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 41 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 13 works
  3. 3 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  4. 4 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 7 works
  5. 5 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 7 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 7 works
  7. 7 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  8. 8 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 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 available62.0%not open38.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.7%domestic only57.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 145% 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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