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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

In research, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,910 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,055 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#18,100
of 28,054 · #20,773 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#638
of 1,094
Research works
600
▼ 6% vs 2013–17
Citations
7.3k
12.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

What is Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust 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 #5,910 of 11,982 11.2%111 #7375
MedicineField #6,055 of 10,443 11.4%96 #7191

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust 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).

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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.13× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.96× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.98× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.54× its world share, 96 worksMedicineNursing: 4.41× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.60× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.85× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mortality, Treatment, Primary Care, Critical Care, Clinical Trials, Inflammation and Healthcare.

▲ 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. Epidemiology22▲ 4.0×61 topics
  2. Inflammation8▲ 2.7×23 topics
  3. Treatment8▲ 4.6×21 topics
  4. Quality of Life7▲ 3.2×22 topics
  5. Mortality6▲ 8.0×9 topics
  6. Healthcare6▲ 4.0×6 topics
  7. Clinical Trials6▲ 5.9×11 topics
  8. Primary Care6▲ 11×10 topics
  9. COVID-195▲ 2.7×12 topics
  10. Critical Care5▲ 15×8 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence5▲ 2.5×6 topics
  12. Pandemic5▲ 3.2×6 topics
  13. Complications4▲ 6.1×13 topics
  14. Rehabilitation4▲ 7.8×8 topics
  15. Risk Factors4▲ 2.7×15 topics
  16. Diagnosis4▲ 2.9×19 topics
  17. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 8.6×8 topics
  18. Surgery4▲ 7.7×5 topics
  19. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 4.8×11 topics
  20. Management4▲ 3.2×14 topics
  21. Stroke3▲ 13×5 topics
  22. Autoantibodies3▲ 9.9×4 topics
  23. Biomarkers3▲ 3.3×10 topics
  24. Global Burden3▲ 4.2×8 topics
  25. Medical Imaging3▲ 4.2×4 topics
  26. Guidelines3▲ 4.6×10 topics
  27. Survival Rates3▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Precision Medicine3▲ 4.3×5 topics
  29. Quality Improvement3▲ 10×8 topics
  30. Elderly Patients3▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Emergency Department Visits3▲ 34×1 topic
  32. Health Equity3▲ 6.9×2 topics
  33. Medical Education3▲ 7.4×7 topics
  34. Oncology3▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Resuscitation3▲ 15×3 topics
  36. Health-related Quality of Life3▲ 7.8×5 topics
  37. Cancer Incidence2▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Rheumatoid Arthritis2▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Biological Therapy2▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs2▲ 30×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation and Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology.

COVID-19 and healthcare …3COVID-19 and healthcare impacts: 3 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Res…2Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 2 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 2 fractional worksClinical Nutrition and G…2Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology: 2 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …2Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 2 fractional worksSpondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments: 2 fractional worksMedicine and Dermatology Studies History: 2 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Tre…2Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 2 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 2 fractional works
OncologyRheumatologyEmergency MedicineNutrition and Dietetics4 others

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

  1. 1 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts Oncology 3 works
  2. 2 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 2 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology Nutrition and Dietetics 2 works
  5. 5 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 2 works
  6. 6 Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments Rheumatology 2 works
  7. 7 Medicine and Dermatology Studies History Dermatology 2 works
  8. 8 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 2 works
  9. 9 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 2 works
  10. 10 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 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 available44.7%not open55.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.6%domestic only87.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 6% lower 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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