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McMaster Children's Hospital

In research, McMaster Children's Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#3,703 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#4,862 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#14,288
of 28,054 · #16,039 all time
Rank in Canada
#227
of 403
Research works
767
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
22k
28.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is McMaster Children's 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 #3,703 of 10,443 19.0%91 #3631
Health SciencesDomain #4,862 of 11,982 18.2%104 #4589

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where McMaster Children's 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).

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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.16× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.40× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.54× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.03× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.51× its world share, 91 worksMedicineNursing: 2.82× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.43× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at McMaster Children's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Mary Sherlock, Katrin Scheinemann and Uma H. Athale lead among researchers whose main affiliation is McMaster Children's Hospital.

  1. 1 Mary Sherlock Canada · #139,815 worldwide 219 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Katrin Scheinemann Canada · #1,035,034 worldwide 21 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Uma H. Athale Canada · #1,451,509 worldwide 18 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at McMaster Children's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at McMaster Children's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Adolescents, Epidemiology, Genetics, Inflammation, Health-related Quality of Life, Treatment, Prevalence and Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

▲ 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. Epidemiology15▲ 2.8×70 topics
  2. Adolescents10▲ 20×7 topics
  3. Inflammation9▲ 3.1×35 topics
  4. Treatment7▲ 4.3×23 topics
  5. Genetics6▲ 6.8×10 topics
  6. Risk Factors6▲ 4.2×19 topics
  7. Health-related Quality of Life6▲ 18×4 topics
  8. Prevalence5▲ 9.1×10 topics
  9. Obesity5▲ 4.8×14 topics
  10. Mental Health5▲ 2.4×14 topics
  11. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study5▲ 77×1 topic
  12. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory5▲ 77×1 topic
  13. Cardiovascular Disease4▲ 3.0×24 topics
  14. Preterm Infants4▲ 25×4 topics
  15. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes4▲ 16×6 topics
  16. Depression4▲ 3.1×10 topics
  17. Management4▲ 3.4×19 topics
  18. Pain Management4▲ 12×8 topics
  19. Autism Spectrum Disorders4▲ 25×2 topics
  20. Prophylaxis4▲ 20×3 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations3▲ 5.6×15 topics
  22. Chronic Pain3▲ 10×4 topics
  23. Primary Care3▲ 6.0×9 topics
  24. Children3▲ 9.6×7 topics
  25. Critical Care3▲ 9.6×7 topics
  26. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 6.8×7 topics
  27. Prognostic Factors3▲ 4.8×8 topics
  28. Cerebral Palsy3▲ 27×2 topics
  29. Psychological Factors3▲ 9.5×4 topics
  30. Respiratory Distress Syndrome3▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Health Care2▲ 20×2 topics
  32. Psychological Interventions2▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia2▲ 28×2 topics
  34. Executive Functioning2▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Feeding Problems2▲ 48×1 topic
  36. Mental Health Services2▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Neurobiological Correlates2▲ 18×3 topics
  38. Pulmonary Hypertension2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Sensory Sensitivity2▲ 48×1 topic
  40. Self-Management2▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does McMaster Children's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research.

Childhood Cancer Survivo…5Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 5 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Feeding Issues: 2 fractional worksAdolescent and Pediatric Healthcare: 2 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 2 fractional worksPediatric Pain Management Techniques: 2 fractional worksEating Disorders and Behaviors: 2 fractional worksHemophilia Treatment and…2Hemophilia Treatment and Research: 2 fractional worksAcute Lymphoblastic Leuk…2Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research: 2 fractional worksNeonatal and fetal brain…2Neonatal and fetal brain pathology: 2 fractional worksFamily and Disability Su…1Family and Disability Support Research: 1 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPsychiatry and Mental healthSpeech and HearingPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 5 works
  2. 2 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  3. 3 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare Speech and Hearing 2 works
  4. 4 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Pediatric Pain Management Techniques Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works
  6. 6 Eating Disorders and Behaviors Clinical Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Hemophilia Treatment and Research Hematology 2 works
  8. 8 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  9. 9 Neonatal and fetal brain pathology Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works
  10. 10 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 1 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 available39.1%not open60.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.5%domestic only75.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has McMaster Children's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% 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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