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NSW Ambulance

In research, NSW Ambulance stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,479 of 16,688 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,836 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#26,970
of 34,923
Rank in Australia
#401
of 476
Research works
236
▲ 44% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.8k
11.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
42%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
NSW Ambulance

What is NSW Ambulance known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #8,479 of 16,688 6.7%191
MedicineField #8,836 of 14,558 7.5%150

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where NSW Ambulance 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does NSW Ambulance work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at NSW Ambulance is in Health Sciences, 14% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (65%), Health Professions (10%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 46 fractional works · 77.2% of its workMedicine: 38 fractional works · 64.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 11 fractional works · 18.7% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 4.4% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 13.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workParasitology: 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 workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNSW Ambulance59fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences77%Social Sciences14%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3864.9%
    2. Health Professions610.3%
    3. Nursing11.7%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences47.0%
    2. Psychology23.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Engineering22.6%
    2. Environmental Science11.7%
    3. Computer Science00.7%
    4. Mathematics00.5%
    5. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology11.0%
    2. Neuroscience00.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
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: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.97× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.91× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.38× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 3.55× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.06× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.22× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.55× 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, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions3.91×6 works
  2. Nursing3.55×1 works
  3. Medicine3.38×38 works
  4. Psychology1.22×2 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.06×1 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology0.97×1 works
  7. Veterinary0.59×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.55×4 works
  9. Neuroscience0.49×0 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.46×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.41×0 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.40×0 works
  13. Environmental Science0.34×1 works
  14. Dentistry0.29×0 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  16. Engineering0.17×2 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.10×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.09×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×0 works
  22. Computer Science0.08×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at NSW Ambulance?

Ranked on the quality score, Jason Bendall, Brian Burns and Sandra Ware lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NSW Ambulance.

  1. 1 Jason Bendall Australia · #498,138 worldwide 2.2k citations · 62 works
  2. 2 Brian Burns Australia · #638,695 worldwide 2.3k citations · 132 works
  3. 3 Sandra Ware Australia · #1,479,487 worldwide 947 citations · 32 works
  4. 4 Cliff Reid Australia · #1,548,426 worldwide 3.3k citations · 139 works
  5. 5 Karel Habig Australia · #1,639,995 worldwide 806 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Christopher Partyka Australia · #2,115,551 worldwide 169 citations · 32 works
  7. 7 Matthew R. Miller Australia · #2,406,587 worldwide 2.9k citations · 194 works
  8. 8 Clare Hayes‐Bradley Australia · #2,482,104 worldwide 185 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Michael McMullen Australia · #2,602,446 worldwide 882 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Samantha Sheridan Australia · #4,137,309 worldwide 335 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at NSW Ambulance

What are the most cited papers from NSW Ambulance?

The most cited paper from NSW Ambulance is "Conservative versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax" (Simon G.A. Brown, Emma L Ball, Kyle Perrin et al., 2020), with 271 citations. Next come "A systematic review of the costs and benefits of helicopter emergency medical services" (187) and "Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare activity in NSW, Australia" (162).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Conservative versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax Simon G.A. Brown, Emma L Ball, Kyle Perrin et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 29 Jan 2020 271
2 A systematic review of the costs and benefits of helicopter emergency medical services Colman B Taylor, Mark Stevenson, Stephen Jan et al. · Injury Review 24 Oct 2009 187
3 Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare activity in NSW, Australia Kim Sutherland, Julia Chessman, Jiaying Zhao et al. · Public Health Research & Practice Open access 7 Dec 2020 162
4 A randomized controlled trial of intranasal fentanyl vs intravenous morphine for analgesia in the prehospital setting Claire M. Rickard, Peter F O'Meara, Matthew Richard McGrail et al. · The American Journal of Emergency Medicine Oct 2007 161
5 Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS): Rationale, Methodology, and Implementation Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Sang Do Shin, Hideharu Tanaka et al. · Academic Emergency Medicine Open access Aug 2011 159
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at NSW Ambulance?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Resuscitation, Mortality, Hypothermia, Cardiac Arrest, Out-of-Hospital, Quality Improvement, Health Outcomes and Injury Severity.

▲ 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 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. Resuscitation6▲ 81×3 topics
  2. Epidemiology6▲ 2.4×36 topics
  3. Mortality5▲ 16×8 topics
  4. Hypothermia5▲ 119×2 topics
  5. Cardiac Arrest5▲ 150×1 topic
  6. Out-of-Hospital5▲ 150×1 topic
  7. Quality Improvement4▲ 34×4 topics
  8. Health Outcomes3▲ 21×3 topics
  9. Injury Severity3▲ 69×2 topics
  10. Prehospital Care3▲ 133×1 topic
  11. Trauma Center3▲ 133×1 topic
  12. Clinical Outcomes3▲ 23×2 topics
  13. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 15×4 topics
  14. Complications3▲ 9.1×4 topics
  15. Health Policy3▲ 29×3 topics
  16. Health Care Utilization3▲ 40×3 topics
  17. Critical Care2▲ 17×6 topics
  18. Medical Education2▲ 16×5 topics
  19. Difficult Airway Society2▲ 128×1 topic
  20. Emergency Department Crowding2▲ 134×1 topic
  21. Tracheal Intubation2▲ 128×1 topic
  22. Triage Systems2▲ 134×1 topic
  23. Cardiovascular Disease2▲ 3.2×6 topics
  24. Risk Factors2▲ 3.3×12 topics
  25. Guidelines2▲ 7.1×6 topics
  26. Patient Safety2▲ 22×3 topics
  27. Chronic Pain2▲ 13×3 topics
  28. Heart Failure2▲ 6.5×4 topics
  29. Pain Management2▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Debriefing2▲ 74×1 topic
  31. Global Burden2▲ 4.9×4 topics
  32. Simulation2▲ 10×1 topic
  33. Surgery2▲ 7.8×5 topics
  34. Infectious Diseases2▲ 7.5×3 topics
  35. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Primary Care2▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. Mechanical Ventilation1▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Stroke1▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Sepsis1▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Trauma1▲ 11×5 topics

Which research topics does NSW Ambulance publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Airway Management and Intubation Techniques and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.

Cardiac Arrest and Resus…5Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 5 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 3 fractional worksAirway Management and Intubation Techniques: 2 fractional worksEmergency and Acute Care Studies: 2 fractional worksSimulation-Based Education in Healthcare: 2 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarct…1Acute Myocardial Infarction Research: 1 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 1 fractional worksFiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 1 fractional worksOccupational Health and Performance: 1 fractional works
Emergency MedicineAnesthesiology and Pain MedicinePhysiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 5 works
  2. 2 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Airway Management and Intubation Techniques Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Emergency and Acute Care Studies Emergency Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare Physiology 2 works
  6. 6 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  7. 7 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 1 works
  9. 9 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  10. 10 Occupational Health and Performance Occupational Therapy 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 available41.8%not open58.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.7%domestic only81.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has NSW Ambulance's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is NSW Ambulance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00025% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%NSW Ambulance0.00023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of NSW Ambulance over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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