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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

In research, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,883 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,090 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 10.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15,188
of 28,054 · #19,041 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#547
of 1,094
Research works
1k
▲ 89% vs 2013–17
Citations
13k
12.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 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 #4,883 of 11,982 10.6%272 #5627
MedicineField #5,090 of 10,443 9.8%238 #5267

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 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 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 10.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 52.4 works11×
← 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: 0.34× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.96× its world share, 34 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.82× its world share, 238 worksMedicineNursing: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.36× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.20× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Avinash Aujayeb, Mike Reed and Richard Walker lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

  1. 1 Avinash Aujayeb United Kingdom · #6,255 worldwide 902 citations · 72 works
  2. 2 Mike Reed United Kingdom · #142,329 worldwide 153 citations · 32 works
  3. 3 Richard Walker United Kingdom · #151,424 worldwide 134 citations · 47 works
  4. 4 Simon Jameson United Kingdom · #314,522 worldwide 74 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 James Fisher United Kingdom · #819,571 worldwide 40 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 Ajay Malviya United Kingdom · #891,518 worldwide 52 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 William K. Gray United Kingdom · #1,094,744 worldwide 31 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Which keywords describe research at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mortality, Epidemiology, Management, Pneumothorax, Guidelines, Diagnosis, Primary Care and Complications.

▲ 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. Epidemiology33▲ 2.6×68 topics
  2. Mortality20▲ 11×10 topics
  3. Quality of Life17▲ 3.7×30 topics
  4. Management17▲ 6.7×17 topics
  5. Diagnosis16▲ 5.3×19 topics
  6. Pneumothorax15▲ 134×2 topics
  7. Guidelines15▲ 9.7×9 topics
  8. Primary Care14▲ 11×13 topics
  9. Risk Factors13▲ 3.8×20 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines13▲ 7.4×11 topics
  11. Complications13▲ 8.1×16 topics
  12. Empyema12▲ 147×1 topic
  13. Pleural Effusion12▲ 147×1 topic
  14. Rehabilitation12▲ 9.3×9 topics
  15. Patient Satisfaction12▲ 12×8 topics
  16. Prevention12▲ 8.5×11 topics
  17. Chemotherapy11▲ 5.0×12 topics
  18. Ethical Considerations11▲ 10×7 topics
  19. Global Burden10▲ 5.7×8 topics
  20. Elderly9▲ 11×5 topics
  21. Radiotherapy9▲ 7.1×10 topics
  22. Revision Surgery8▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Total Hip Replacement8▲ 21×2 topics
  24. Colorectal Cancer8▲ 33×2 topics
  25. Echocardiography8▲ 9.6×6 topics
  26. Parkinson's Disease8▲ 11×6 topics
  27. Medical Education8▲ 10×9 topics
  28. Incidence8▲ 40×2 topics
  29. Respiratory8▲ 26×2 topics
  30. COPD8▲ 37×1 topic
  31. Health Care Costs8▲ 30×2 topics
  32. Surveillance8▲ 9.1×2 topics
  33. spirometry8▲ 37×1 topic
  34. Colonoscopy8▲ 56×1 topic
  35. Screening8▲ 26×1 topic
  36. Adjuvant Therapy8▲ 19×2 topics
  37. Palliative Care7▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Arthroplasty7▲ 23×2 topics
  39. End-of-Life7▲ 25×2 topics
  40. Pain Management7▲ 9.7×8 topics

Which research topics does Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues.

Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases: 12 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 8 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screen…8Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 8 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-…7Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 7 fractional worksOccupational and environmental lung diseases: 5 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 5 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and…5Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksBalance, Gait, and Falls Prevention: 4 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEconomics and Econometrics2 others

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

  1. 1 Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  2. 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  3. 3 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 8 works
  4. 4 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 7 works
  5. 5 Occupational and environmental lung diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 5 works
  7. 7 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 5 works
  8. 8 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 4 works
  10. 10 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 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 available50.3%not open49.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.3%domestic only85.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 89% 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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