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Regions Hospital

In research, Regions Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,984 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,809 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Epidemiology (Epidemiology is 8.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,098
of 22,385 · #5,566 all time
Rank in United States
#2,155
of 3,332
Research works
1k
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
29k
28.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Regions Hospital

What is Regions Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #3,984 of 9,902 8.2%135 #1784
MedicineField #3,809 of 8,541 8.6%123 #1734

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

Which fields of science does Regions Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 83% of research at Regions Hospital is in Health Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (75%), Health Professions (7%), Social Sciences (5%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 157 fractional works · 83.4% of its workMedicine: 140 fractional works · 74.6% of its workSurgery: 27 fractional works · 14.1% of its workEpidemiology: 23 fractional works · 12.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 11 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workNeurology: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRehabilitation: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 14 fractional works · 7.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRegions Hospital188fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences83%Social Sciences8%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine14074.6%
    2. Health Professions147.2%
    3. Nursing31.5%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences94.7%
    2. Psychology41.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
    1. Engineering42.2%
    2. Computer Science21.0%
    3. Environmental Science10.8%
    4. Mathematics00.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.4%
    2. Neuroscience21.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.8%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Regions Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Epidemiology takes 8.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EpidemiologySubfield · 23.3 works8.7×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.83× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.73× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.88× its world share, 140 worksMedicineNursing: 2.99× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.53× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 9 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.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.88×140 works
  2. Nursing2.99×3 works
  3. Health Professions2.73×14 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.95×1 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology0.83×2 works
  6. Veterinary0.76×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.64×2 works
  8. Psychology0.63×4 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.53×2 works
  10. Social Sciences0.37×9 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.27×3 works
  12. Engineering0.15×4 works
  13. Environmental Science0.15×1 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.14×1 works
  15. Computer Science0.13×2 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.08×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  19. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  21. Decision Sciences0.02×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Regions Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Peter Alexander Cole, David H. Ahrenholz and Brent R. Asplin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Regions Hospital.

  1. 1 Peter Alexander Cole United States · #458,071 worldwide 8.9k citations · 261 works
  2. 2 David H. Ahrenholz United States · #702,603 worldwide 2.8k citations · 66 works
  3. 3 Brent R. Asplin United States · #736,580 worldwide 6.1k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Felix Ankel United States · #889,137 worldwide 2.1k citations · 90 works
  5. 5 Sandy X. Vang United States · #1,044,408 worldwide 1.2k citations · 53 works
  6. 6 Ralph J. Frascone United States · #1,100,721 worldwide 3.8k citations · 93 works
  7. 7 John R. Fawcett United States · #1,465,704 worldwide 1.1k citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Michael D. McGonigal United States · #1,475,077 worldwide 2.9k citations · 42 works
  9. 9 Lynn D. Solem United States · #1,479,730 worldwide 2.8k citations · 77 works
  10. 10 Charles A. Bruen United States · #1,499,628 worldwide 696 citations · 69 works
All ranked researchers at Regions Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Regions Hospital?

The most cited paper from Regions Hospital is "Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016" (Andrew Rhodes et al., 2017), with 6,868 citations. Next come "TFOS DEWS II Definition and Classification Report" (3,402) and "Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Health Outcomes During the Intervention and Extended Poststopping Phases of the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trials" (1,645).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 Andrew Rhodes et al. · Intensive Care Medicine Open access 18 Jan 2017 6,868
2 TFOS DEWS II Definition and Classification Report Jennifer P. Craig, Kelly Kinney Nichols, Esen K. Akpek et al. · The Ocular Surface Jul 2017 3,402
3 Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Health Outcomes During the Intervention and Extended Poststopping Phases of the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trials JoAnn E. Manson et al. · JAMA Open access Oct 2013 1,645
4 Intranasal delivery to the central nervous system: Mechanisms and experimental considerations Shyeilla V. Dhuria, Leah R. Hanson, William H. Frey · Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 29 Oct 2009 1,247
5 Management of COVID-19 Respiratory Distress John J. Marini, Luciano Gattinoni · JAMA Open access 24 Apr 2020 1,182
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Regions Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Pathophysiology, Resuscitation, Risk Factors, Sepsis, Psychological Impact and Antibiotic Resistance.

▲ 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. Epidemiology37▲ 5.0×52 topics
  2. Rehabilitation18▲ 23×9 topics
  3. Pathophysiology16▲ 30×7 topics
  4. Resuscitation16▲ 64×4 topics
  5. Risk Factors16▲ 7.7×12 topics
  6. Sepsis14▲ 41×4 topics
  7. Psychological Impact13▲ 22×5 topics
  8. Antibiotic Resistance12▲ 16×2 topics
  9. Burn Injury12▲ 358×1 topic
  10. Burn Wound Infections12▲ 358×1 topic
  11. Mortality11▲ 10.0×7 topics
  12. Management10▲ 6.6×11 topics
  13. Complications9▲ 9.5×14 topics
  14. Inflammation8▲ 1.95×22 topics
  15. Public Health8▲ 2.8×17 topics
  16. Surgical Management7▲ 9.6×11 topics
  17. Quality Improvement7▲ 19×7 topics
  18. Pain Management7▲ 16×7 topics
  19. Clinical Guidelines6▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Ethical Considerations6▲ 9.8×9 topics
  21. CT Imaging6▲ 85×2 topics
  22. Neuroprotection6▲ 9.5×7 topics
  23. Critical Care6▲ 12×8 topics
  24. Patient Satisfaction5▲ 9.2×8 topics
  25. Wound Healing5▲ 11×6 topics
  26. Diabetes5▲ 5.4×7 topics
  27. Rib Fractures5▲ 113×1 topic
  28. Traumatic Chest Injuries5▲ 113×1 topic
  29. Prognosis5▲ 7.7×9 topics
  30. Angiogenesis4▲ 7.1×2 topics
  31. Clinical Outcomes4▲ 11×4 topics
  32. Neuroinflammation4▲ 7.9×4 topics
  33. Health Outcomes4▲ 8.3×2 topics
  34. Injury Severity4▲ 27×1 topic
  35. Medical Education4▲ 8.3×9 topics
  36. Regeneration4▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Trauma Center4▲ 54×1 topic
  38. Hypothermia4▲ 29×2 topics
  39. Internal Fixation4▲ 31×2 topics
  40. Growth Factors4▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Regions Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Burn Injury Management and Outcomes, Trauma Management and Diagnosis, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Respiratory Support and Mechanisms.

Burn Injury Management a…12Burn Injury Management and Outcomes: 12 fractional worksTrauma Management and Diagnosis: 5 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 4 fractional worksRespiratory Support and Mechanisms: 4 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatments: 4 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances: 3 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…3Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 3 fractional worksShoulder and Clavicle Injuries: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 2 fractional worksDisaster Response and Management: 2 fractional works
EpidemiologySurgeryEmergency MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Burn Injury Management and Outcomes Epidemiology 12 works
  2. 2 Trauma Management and Diagnosis Surgery 5 works
  3. 3 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Wound Healing and Treatments Rehabilitation 4 works
  6. 6 Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances Neurology 3 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries Epidemiology 3 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 2 works
  10. 10 Disaster Response and Management Emergency Medical Services 2 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 available29.6%not open70.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.4%domestic only89.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Regions Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Regions Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00088% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Regions Hospital0.00059% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Regions Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Regions Hospital3.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.6% in 2008.

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