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Prince Charles Hospital

In research, Prince Charles Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,907 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#2,741 of 10,443 worldwide) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (#662 of 738 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 14.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,825
of 28,054 · #9,473 all time
Rank in Australia
#164
of 391
Research works
2.3k
▲ 7% vs 2013–17
Citations
36k
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

What is Prince Charles 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
Health SciencesDomain #2,907 of 11,982 14.4%341 #2083
MedicineField #2,741 of 10,443 13.0%311 #1922
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #662 of 738 8.2%61 #1037

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Prince Charles 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. Health Sciences#2,083 #2,907
  2. Medicine#1,922 #2,741
  3. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#1,037 #662
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 Prince Charles Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 14.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 60.9 works14×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 45.6 works7.3×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.57× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.70× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.26× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.40× its world share, 26 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.99× its world share, 311 worksMedicineNursing: 1.86× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.43× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× 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, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Prince Charles Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, O. Raffel, Daniel C. Chambers and Peter Pohlner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Prince Charles Hospital.

  1. 1 O. Raffel Australia · #107,823 worldwide 244 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Daniel C. Chambers Australia · #134,532 worldwide 249 citations · 70 works
  3. 3 Peter Pohlner Australia · #378,975 worldwide 102 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Andrew Galbraith Australia · #494,432 worldwide 53 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 C. Raffel Australia · #500,365 worldwide 82 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Amanda Corley Australia · #531,640 worldwide 66 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 James Walsh Australia · #568,521 worldwide 46 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Dorothy J. Radford Australia · #623,810 worldwide 52 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Stephanie T. Yerkovich Australia · #656,622 worldwide 47 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 G. Scalia Australia · #658,040 worldwide 116 citations · 72 works
All ranked researchers at Prince Charles Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Prince Charles Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Heart Failure, Diagnosis, Myocardial Infarction, Guidelines, Treatment, Echocardiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

▲ 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. Epidemiology51▲ 3.2×90 topics
  2. Heart Failure30▲ 17×12 topics
  3. Diagnosis28▲ 7.5×27 topics
  4. Treatment25▲ 5.1×33 topics
  5. Myocardial Infarction22▲ 24×6 topics
  6. Guidelines22▲ 11×10 topics
  7. Echocardiography20▲ 18×8 topics
  8. Inflammation18▲ 2.1×46 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease18▲ 3.9×26 topics
  10. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention18▲ 32×4 topics
  11. Management16▲ 5.2×20 topics
  12. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement15▲ 52×1 topic
  13. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement15▲ 52×1 topic
  14. Mortality14▲ 6.0×11 topics
  15. Risk Factors14▲ 3.1×23 topics
  16. Thrombosis13▲ 12×6 topics
  17. Complications12▲ 6.1×13 topics
  18. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation11▲ 37×2 topics
  19. Cardiogenic Shock11▲ 57×1 topic
  20. Critical Care11▲ 12×8 topics
  21. Left Ventricular Assist Device11▲ 57×1 topic
  22. Catheter Ablation10▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Mortality Risk10▲ 11×5 topics
  24. Dilated Cardiomyopathy10▲ 34×2 topics
  25. Cardiac Imaging9▲ 19×3 topics
  26. Surgery9▲ 6.4×8 topics
  27. Magnetic Resonance Imaging9▲ 8.6×4 topics
  28. Prophylaxis9▲ 17×3 topics
  29. Resuscitation9▲ 17×4 topics
  30. Atherosclerosis8▲ 7.3×7 topics
  31. Elderly Patients8▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Immunosuppressive Therapy8▲ 11×4 topics
  33. Surgical Repair8▲ 50×1 topic
  34. Ventricular Reconstruction8▲ 50×1 topic
  35. Congenital Heart Disease8▲ 24×3 topics
  36. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes8▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Radiation Exposure8▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Intensive Care Unit8▲ 16×4 topics
  39. Cardiac Surgery8▲ 26×2 topics
  40. Arrhythmias7▲ 20×2 topics

Which research topics does Prince Charles Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes.

Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 15 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 11 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 8 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 7 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 7 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and …6Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 6 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 6 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 6 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…5Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 5 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineBiomedical EngineeringSurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging1 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 15 works
  2. 2 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 11 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 8 works
  4. 4 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 7 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 7 works
  6. 6 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 7 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  8. 8 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 6 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 5 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 available44.8%not open55.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.4%domestic only81.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Prince Charles Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% 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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