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Royal Bolton Hospital

In research, Royal Bolton Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#11,898 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#27,503
of 28,054 · #18,704 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,081
of 1,094
Research works
736
▼ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
9.8k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Royal Bolton 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
Health SciencesDomain #11,898 of 11,982 1.4%62 #5174

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Bolton 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.51× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.98× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.03× its world share, 56 worksMedicineNursing: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Royal Bolton Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Elderly Patients, Management, Complications, Mortality, Diagnosis, Rehabilitation and Inflammation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology12▲ 4.1×39 topics
  2. Elderly Patients6▲ 48×3 topics
  3. Inflammation5▲ 3.4×12 topics
  4. Complications4▲ 12×12 topics
  5. Management4▲ 8.0×8 topics
  6. Diagnosis4▲ 6.3×12 topics
  7. Mortality4▲ 10×7 topics
  8. Quality of Life4▲ 3.6×13 topics
  9. Rehabilitation4▲ 13×7 topics
  10. Aging3▲ 8.6×2 topics
  11. Mortality Risk3▲ 19×2 topics
  12. Frailty3▲ 90×1 topic
  13. Geriatric Assessment3▲ 62×1 topic
  14. Guidelines3▲ 9.5×6 topics
  15. Risk Factors3▲ 4.0×11 topics
  16. Primary Care3▲ 11×8 topics
  17. Treatment3▲ 3.6×11 topics
  18. COVID-193▲ 2.9×8 topics
  19. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 7.3×7 topics
  20. Intensive Care Unit3▲ 32×3 topics
  21. Sedation2▲ 38×2 topics
  22. Delirium2▲ 58×1 topic
  23. Mechanically Ventilated Patients2▲ 58×1 topic
  24. Global Burden2▲ 5.7×5 topics
  25. Critical Care2▲ 12×4 topics
  26. Surgery2▲ 8.2×5 topics
  27. Clinical Trials2▲ 4.2×6 topics
  28. Cardiac Risk2▲ 30×1 topic
  29. Perioperative2▲ 30×1 topic
  30. Asthma2▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Quality Improvement2▲ 12×3 topics
  32. CT Scan2▲ 22×2 topics
  33. Clinical Guidelines2▲ 7.8×6 topics
  34. Sepsis2▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Infection2▲ 8.2×3 topics
  36. Health Services1▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Mechanical Ventilation1▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Neoadjuvant Therapy1▲ 8.1×4 topics
  39. Prognostic Models1▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Septic Shock1▲ 25×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Bolton Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Frailty in Older Adults, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment.

Frailty in Older Adults3Frailty in Older Adults: 3 fractional worksIntensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders: 2 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 2 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional worksDelphi Technique in Research: 1 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 1 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and P…1Healthcare Systems and Public Health: 1 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 1 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 1 fractional worksRespiratory Support and …1Respiratory Support and Mechanisms: 1 fractional works
Geriatrics and GerontologyCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Frailty in Older Adults Geriatrics and Gerontology 3 works
  2. 2 Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 2 works
  3. 3 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 1 works
  5. 5 Delphi Technique in Research Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Systems and Public Health Epidemiology 1 works
  8. 8 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 1 works
  9. 9 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available32.8%not open67.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.6%domestic only93.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Bolton Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% 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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.