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Queen Elizabeth Hospital

In research, Queen Elizabeth Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#2,548 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,621 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Oncology is 5.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#8,752
of 28,054 · #8,425 all time
Rank in China
#1,686
of 3,058
Research works
2k
▲ 26% vs 2013–17
Citations
53k
26.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
40%
world 28%

What is Queen Elizabeth 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 #2,548 of 10,443 10.6%249 #1884
Health SciencesDomain #3,621 of 11,982 10.6%258 #2490

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

What does Queen Elizabeth Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 5.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 21.8 works5.8×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 28.3 works5.5×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.99× its world share, 35 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.96× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.65× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.91× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.87× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.88× its world share, 249 worksMedicineNursing: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.25× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, William C. Cho, John K. C. Chan and Joseph S. K. Au lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

  1. 1 William C. Cho China · #6,759 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
  2. 2 John K. C. Chan China · #111,935 worldwide 168 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Joseph S. K. Au China · #376,111 worldwide 89 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 J. H. C. Ho China · #446,905 worldwide 69 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Roger K.C. Ngan China · #469,179 worldwide 74 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Liljedahl So China · #713,717 worldwide 33 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Michael Lee China · #803,782 worldwide 34 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Chi Yuen Cheung China · #1,414,182 worldwide 31 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Ka Man Cheung China · #1,437,096 worldwide 9 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 James Chung Hang Chow China · #1,558,108 worldwide 9 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Epidemiology, Cancer, Prognostic Factors, Surgical Management, Treatment and Diagnosis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology30▲ 2.3×84 topics
  2. Cancer19▲ 4.3×39 topics
  3. Chemotherapy18▲ 7.7×22 topics
  4. Radiotherapy17▲ 13×12 topics
  5. Inflammation16▲ 2.4×51 topics
  6. Treatment16▲ 3.8×34 topics
  7. Prognostic Factors14▲ 9.7×14 topics
  8. Diagnosis13▲ 4.3×32 topics
  9. Surgical Management12▲ 8.9×15 topics
  10. Immunotherapy12▲ 4.9×18 topics
  11. Clinical Practice Guidelines9▲ 4.9×11 topics
  12. Targeted Therapy9▲ 12×5 topics
  13. Tumor Microenvironment8▲ 5.8×8 topics
  14. Biomarkers8▲ 3.6×13 topics
  15. Clinical Trials8▲ 3.6×12 topics
  16. Genetic Mutations8▲ 5.3×14 topics
  17. Prognosis8▲ 7.0×9 topics
  18. Survival8▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Heart Failure7▲ 5.1×11 topics
  20. Echocardiography7▲ 8.0×7 topics
  21. Mortality7▲ 3.8×10 topics
  22. Guidelines7▲ 4.6×12 topics
  23. Precision Medicine7▲ 4.6×7 topics
  24. Metastasis7▲ 5.8×11 topics
  25. Radiosurgery6▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Imaging6▲ 7.3×7 topics
  27. Cetuximab6▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Magnetic Resonance Imaging6▲ 6.9×4 topics
  29. Squamous Cell Carcinoma6▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Autoantibodies6▲ 7.2×8 topics
  31. Human Papillomavirus6▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Neoadjuvant Therapy5▲ 6.9×5 topics
  33. Predictive Modeling5▲ 6.0×3 topics
  34. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma5▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Oropharyngeal Cancer5▲ 31×1 topic
  36. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention5▲ 12×4 topics
  37. Cardiac Imaging5▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Reconstruction5▲ 8.7×4 topics
  39. Pregnancy5▲ 7.2×7 topics
  40. Genomic Profiling5▲ 14×2 topics

Which research topics does Queen Elizabeth Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Head and Neck Cancer Studies, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications.

Head and Neck Cancer Stu…5Head and Neck Cancer Studies: 5 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…5Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments a…4Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 4 fractional worksMedical Imaging Techniqu…4Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications: 4 fractional worksMeningioma and schwannoma management: 3 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 3 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…3Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 3 fractional worksSimulation-Based Education in Healthcare: 3 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…3Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional works
OtorhinolaryngologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 5 works
  2. 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 5 works
  3. 3 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 4 works
  5. 5 Meningioma and schwannoma management Epidemiology 3 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 3 works
  8. 8 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 3 works
  9. 9 Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare Physiology 3 works
  10. 10 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 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 available40.1%not open59.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.2%domestic only63.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Queen Elizabeth Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% 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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