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Meyer Children's Hospital

In research, Meyer Children's Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,027 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,460 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#3,117 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 6.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,833
of 28,054 · #7,932 all time
Rank in Italy
#134
of 618
Research works
1.9k
▲ 61% vs 2013–17
Citations
37k
19.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

What is Meyer 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 #1,027 of 10,443 21.9%345 #2277
Health SciencesDomain #1,460 of 11,982 21.7%368 #2907
Life SciencesDomain #3,117 of 7,800 18.0%91 #4079

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

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#2,277 #1,027
  2. Health Sciences#2,907 #1,460
  3. Life Sciences#4,079 #3,117
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 Meyer Children's Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 6.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 45.1 works6.0×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.23× its world share, 58 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.25× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.92× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.16× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.66× its world share, 345 worksMedicineNursing: 2.78× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.53× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 7 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 Meyer Children's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Enrico Lombardi, Maurizio de Martino and Carmen Barba lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Meyer Children's Hospital.

  1. 1 Enrico Lombardi · #53,611 worldwide 268 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Maurizio de Martino · #183,174 worldwide 78 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Carmen Barba · #205,164 worldwide 72 citations · 31 works
  4. 4 Franca Rusconi · #220,003 worldwide 96 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Giancarlo la Marca · #223,321 worldwide 76 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Fabio Cardinale · #321,526 worldwide 112 citations · 49 works
  7. 7 Rolando Cimaz · #329,766 worldwide 116 citations · 86 works
  8. 8 Lorenzo Genitori · #365,525 worldwide 82 citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Elena Chiappini · #390,335 worldwide 121 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Davide Mei · #402,955 worldwide 126 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Meyer Children's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Meyer Children's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Genetic Mutations, Inflammation, Diagnosis, Management, Pulmonary Infections, Microbiota and Cystic Fibrosis.

▲ 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▲ 3.8×101 topics
  2. Inflammation33▲ 3.2×65 topics
  3. Genetic Mutations29▲ 14×20 topics
  4. Diagnosis23▲ 5.0×36 topics
  5. Treatment20▲ 3.3×38 topics
  6. Management20▲ 5.1×26 topics
  7. Immunotherapy16▲ 4.5×16 topics
  8. Quality of Life15▲ 2.2×32 topics
  9. Pulmonary Infections14▲ 52×2 topics
  10. Genetics14▲ 4.2×16 topics
  11. Cystic Fibrosis14▲ 41×3 topics
  12. Microbiota14▲ 13×2 topics
  13. Mutation Analysis14▲ 38×2 topics
  14. Bronchiectasis14▲ 96×1 topic
  15. CFTR14▲ 96×1 topic
  16. Pathogenesis11▲ 4.4×17 topics
  17. Preterm Infants10▲ 17×4 topics
  18. Surgical Management10▲ 5.0×16 topics
  19. Prognostic Factors9▲ 4.4×13 topics
  20. Autoantibodies9▲ 8.1×8 topics
  21. Immunosuppressive Therapy9▲ 9.4×8 topics
  22. Surgery9▲ 5.0×9 topics
  23. Critical Care8▲ 7.4×8 topics
  24. Cardiac Imaging8▲ 14×3 topics
  25. Dilated Cardiomyopathy8▲ 24×2 topics
  26. Pulmonary Hypertension8▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Children8▲ 7.0×7 topics
  28. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis8▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Echocardiography8▲ 5.9×8 topics
  30. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes8▲ 8.6×6 topics
  31. Drug Resistance8▲ 5.7×8 topics
  32. Chronic Kidney Disease8▲ 6.3×8 topics
  33. Therapy7▲ 7.6×6 topics
  34. Epilepsy7▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Cardiomyopathies7▲ 50×1 topic
  36. Myosin7▲ 50×1 topic
  37. Respiratory Distress Syndrome7▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia7▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Clinical Management7▲ 7.9×7 topics
  40. Prenatal Diagnosis7▲ 9.2×6 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research and Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Cystic Fibrosis Research…14Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 14 fractional worksCardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies: 7 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 6 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional worksRenal Diseases and Glomerulopathies: 5 fractional worksAutoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research: 5 fractional worksRenal and related cancers4Renal and related cancers: 4 fractional worksEpilepsy research and treatment: 4 fractional worksImmunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders: 4 fractional worksLysosomal Storage Disord…4Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineGeneticsNephrology5 others

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

  1. 1 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 14 works
  2. 2 Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  3. 3 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  4. 4 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 5 works
  5. 5 Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies Nephrology 5 works
  6. 6 Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research Hematology 5 works
  7. 7 Renal and related cancers Molecular Biology 4 works
  8. 8 Epilepsy research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 4 works
  9. 9 Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders Immunology 4 works
  10. 10 Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research Physiology 4 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 available49.4%not open50.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.3%domestic only79.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 61% 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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