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Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

In research, Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#10,117 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#12,119 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#25,075
of 28,054 · #30,833 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#951
of 1,094
Research works
530
▲ 36% vs 2013–17
Citations
7.6k
14.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #10,117 of 17,978 9.2%422
Health SciencesDomain #12,119 of 20,462 9.3%464

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Blackburn Teaching 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).

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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 6.73× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.37× its world share, 52 worksMedicineNursing: 1.80× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 6.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Mohamad Bashir lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.

  1. 1 Mohamad Bashir United Kingdom · #457,042 worldwide 26 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Factors, Guidelines, Chemotherapy, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Atherosclerosis and Treatment.

▲ 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. Epidemiology7▲ 2.8×42 topics
  2. Risk Factors5▲ 7.4×14 topics
  3. Guidelines5▲ 16×10 topics
  4. Chemotherapy4▲ 9.8×8 topics
  5. Diagnosis4▲ 7.3×18 topics
  6. Treatment4▲ 5.5×16 topics
  7. Atherosclerosis4▲ 22×5 topics
  8. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention4▲ 46×4 topics
  9. Mortality3▲ 8.1×7 topics
  10. Myocardial Infarction3▲ 21×6 topics
  11. Complications3▲ 9.2×12 topics
  12. Coronary Stents3▲ 100×1 topic
  13. Myocardial Revascularization3▲ 100×1 topic
  14. Cardiac Imaging2▲ 33×2 topics
  15. Immunotherapy2▲ 5.8×7 topics
  16. Magnetic Resonance Imaging2▲ 15×2 topics
  17. Management2▲ 4.9×11 topics
  18. Coronary Artery Disease2▲ 32×3 topics
  19. Computed Tomography Angiography2▲ 48×1 topic
  20. Myocardial Perfusion2▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Tumor Microenvironment2▲ 7.5×5 topics
  22. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  23. Hepatocellular Carcinoma2▲ 14×2 topics
  24. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 13×3 topics
  25. Revision Surgery2▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Total Hip Replacement2▲ 23×2 topics
  27. Cardiac Risk2▲ 33×1 topic
  28. Pancreatic Cancer2▲ 25×1 topic
  29. Perioperative2▲ 33×1 topic
  30. Postoperative Complications2▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Prevention2▲ 6.5×5 topics
  32. Radiofrequency Ablation2▲ 26×2 topics
  33. Surgical Complications2▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Echocardiography2▲ 9.6×6 topics
  35. Surgical Management2▲ 6.2×11 topics
  36. Liver Cancer2▲ 43×1 topic
  37. Medical Education2▲ 9.4×4 topics
  38. Sorafenib2▲ 43×1 topic
  39. Survival2▲ 18×2 topics
  40. Clinical Guidelines1▲ 7.9×6 topics

Which research topics does Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 2 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and …2Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 2 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…2Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 2 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 2 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 1 fractional worksHER2/EGFR in Cancer Rese…1HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research: 1 fractional worksTesticular diseases and treatments: 1 fractional worksDental Radiography and Imaging: 1 fractional worksSocial Media in Health Education: 1 fractional works
SurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 3 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  3. 3 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 2 works
  5. 5 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 2 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  7. 7 HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research Oncology 1 works
  8. 8 Testicular diseases and treatments Surgery 1 works
  9. 9 Dental Radiography and Imaging Oral Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Social Media in Health Education Health 1 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 available35.9%not open64.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.9%domestic only76.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 36% 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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