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Royal Adelaide Hospital

In research, Royal Adelaide Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#992 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#903 of 8,541 worldwide) and Surgery (#576 of 1,532 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Rheumatology (Ophthalmology is 9.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,879
of 22,385 · #2,915 all time
Rank in Australia
#70
of 270
Research works
6.7k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
187k
27.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Royal Adelaide Hospital

What is Royal Adelaide 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 #992 of 9,902 12.1%667 #1124
MedicineField #903 of 8,541 12.1%627 #1047
SurgerySubfield #576 of 1,532 13.7%104 #556
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #332 of 736 16.7%66 #526
Life SciencesDomain #3,124 of 6,403 9.7%70 #2977

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Adelaide 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,124 #992
  2. Medicine#1,047 #903
  3. Surgery#556 #576
  4. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#526 #332
  5. Life Sciences#2,977 #3,124
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Royal Adelaide Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Royal Adelaide Hospital is in Health Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (79%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%), Health Professions (4%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 753 fractional works · 84.2% of its workMedicine: 707 fractional works · 79.1% of its workSurgery: 119 fractional works · 13.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 75 fractional works · 8.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 60 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEpidemiology: 53 fractional works · 5.9% of its workOncology: 39 fractional works · 4.4% of its workNeurology: 30 fractional works · 3.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 27 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 26 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRheumatology: 25 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOphthalmology: 23 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhysiology: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHematology: 19 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNephrology: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDermatology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRehabilitation: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransplantation: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHepatology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 32 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 82 fractional works · 9.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 54 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 26 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGenetics: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 25 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRoyal AdelaideHospital894fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences84%Social Sciences3%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine70779.1%
    2. Health Professions323.5%
    3. Nursing101.1%
    4. Dentistry30.3%
    5. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology546.0%
    2. Neuroscience131.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology121.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics30.4%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.1%
    1. Engineering141.6%
    2. Computer Science60.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy50.6%
    4. Environmental Science40.4%
    5. Materials Science20.3%
    6. Chemistry20.2%
    7. Mathematics10.1%
    8. Energy00.0%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Social Sciences101.1%
    2. Psychology70.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    5. Decision Sciences10.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Royal Adelaide Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ophthalmology takes 9.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OphthalmologySubfield · 23.2 works9.7×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 75.2 works8.0×
  3. RheumatologySubfield · 25.4 works6.2×
  4. NeurologySubfield · 30.2 works5.9×
← 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: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.13× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.28× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.88× its world share, 13 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.00× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.65× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.34× its world share, 32 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.11× its world share, 708 worksMedicineNursing: 2.30× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.24× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.11×708 works
  2. Nursing2.30×10 works
  3. Health Professions1.34×32 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.28×12 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.13×54 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.00×3 works
  7. Veterinary0.89×1 works
  8. Neuroscience0.88×13 works
  9. Dentistry0.65×3 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.28×5 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.25×5 works
  12. Psychology0.24×7 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.13×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.11×2 works
  15. Mathematics0.11×1 works
  16. Engineering0.10×14 works
  17. Computer Science0.09×6 works
  18. Environmental Science0.08×4 works
  19. Materials Science0.08×2 works
  20. Social Sciences0.08×10 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×1 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.03×1 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×1 works
  24. Energy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Royal Adelaide Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Timothy John Kleinig, John Dent and Prashanthan Sanders lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Adelaide Hospital.

  1. 1 Timothy John Kleinig Australia · #81,119 worldwide 22k citations · 394 works
  2. 2 John Dent Australia · #107,555 worldwide 30k citations · 259 works
  3. 3 Prashanthan Sanders Australia · #115,127 worldwide 74k citations · 1,544 works
  4. 4 Thomas W. Painter Australia · #145,031 worldwide 5.3k citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Rebecca Scroop Australia · #147,395 worldwide 10k citations · 56 works
  6. 6 Thean Hsiang Tan Australia · #147,427 worldwide 6.3k citations · 52 works
  7. 7 Chen Au Peh Australia · #159,798 worldwide 8.4k citations · 88 works
  8. 8 Peter Bailey Australia · #162,192 worldwide 3.5k citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Paul N. Reynolds Australia · #192,615 worldwide 12k citations · 304 works
  10. 10 Michael Bruce Horowitz Australia · #194,476 worldwide 60k citations · 1,348 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Adelaide Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Royal Adelaide Hospital?

The most cited paper from Royal Adelaide Hospital is "The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology" (N.K. Aaronson, Sam Hjelmeland Ahmedzai, Bengt Bergman et al., 1993), with 16,252 citations. Next come "Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke with Perfusion-Imaging Selection" (5,898) and "Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease" (4,928).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology N.K. Aaronson, Sam Hjelmeland Ahmedzai, Bengt Bergman et al. · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 3 Mar 1993 16,252
2 Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke with Perfusion-Imaging Selection Bruce C.V. Campbell et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 11 Feb 2015 5,898
3 Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease Luke Jostins et al. · Nature Open access106 authors 31 Oct 2012 4,928
4 Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer Peter J. Bailey et al. · Nature 103 authors 23 Feb 2016 3,805
5 Imatinib Compared with Interferon and Low-Dose Cytarabine for Newly Diagnosed Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Stephen G. O’Brien et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 12 Mar 2003 3,593
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Royal Adelaide Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Guidelines, Inflammation, Treatment, Complications, Mortality, Quality of Life and Prognostic Factors.

▲ 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. Epidemiology101▲ 2.8×106 topics
  2. Inflammation52▲ 2.8×67 topics
  3. Treatment41▲ 3.8×44 topics
  4. Quality of Life39▲ 3.0×42 topics
  5. Guidelines36▲ 8.5×12 topics
  6. Risk Factors34▲ 3.4×30 topics
  7. Diagnosis33▲ 4.0×37 topics
  8. Complications31▲ 7.0×17 topics
  9. Mortality30▲ 5.9×13 topics
  10. Management30▲ 4.1×28 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease28▲ 2.7×31 topics
  12. Chemotherapy27▲ 4.2×23 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines27▲ 5.4×14 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors26▲ 6.7×14 topics
  15. Surgical Management25▲ 6.9×19 topics
  16. Heart Failure25▲ 6.2×13 topics
  17. Catheter Ablation23▲ 21×2 topics
  18. Echocardiography21▲ 8.4×7 topics
  19. Immunotherapy21▲ 3.2×17 topics
  20. Anticoagulant Therapy21▲ 18×4 topics
  21. Prognosis20▲ 6.7×9 topics
  22. Genetic Mutations19▲ 4.9×23 topics
  23. Autoantibodies18▲ 8.6×8 topics
  24. Stroke Prevention18▲ 16×2 topics
  25. Radiotherapy17▲ 4.9×13 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy17▲ 8.1×5 topics
  27. Global Burden16▲ 3.4×10 topics
  28. Rehabilitation16▲ 4.5×12 topics
  29. Critical Care16▲ 7.3×8 topics
  30. Neuroprotection16▲ 4.9×11 topics
  31. Atrial Fibrillation15▲ 17×2 topics
  32. Surgery15▲ 4.7×11 topics
  33. Cardiovascular Risk14▲ 5.2×9 topics
  34. Clinical Outcomes14▲ 7.4×6 topics
  35. Risk Stratification14▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Thromboembolism14▲ 21×1 topic
  37. Immunosuppressive Therapy13▲ 7.7×8 topics
  38. Endoscopic Surgery13▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Laparoscopic Surgery12▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Arrhythmias12▲ 14×2 topics

Which research topics does Royal Adelaide Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management and Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments.

Atrial Fibrillation Mana…14Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 14 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and …9Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 9 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Ma…9Acute Ischemic Stroke Management: 9 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgic…9Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 9 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 8 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and…6Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 6 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 6 fractional worksOphthalmology and Eye Disorders: 6 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…6Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 6 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiologyOncologySurgery2 others

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

  1. 1 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 14 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 9 works
  3. 3 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 9 works
  4. 4 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 9 works
  5. 5 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  6. 6 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  7. 7 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 6 works
  8. 8 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 6 works
  9. 9 Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders Pathology and Forensic Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 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 available32.0%not open68.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.7%domestic only82.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Royal Adelaide Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower 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 Royal Adelaide Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Royal Adelaide Hospital0.0034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Royal Adelaide 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%Royal Adelaide Hospital12.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.1% in 1990.

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