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Royal Brompton Hospital

In research, Royal Brompton Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#791 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#857 of 8,541 worldwide) and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (#275 of 1,037 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Physiology (Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 17.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,127
of 22,385 · #1,988 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#160
of 862
Research works
7.8k
▼ 17% vs 2018-21
Citations
293k
37.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.07×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Royal Brompton Hospital

What is Royal Brompton 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 #791 of 9,902 14.1%493 #703
MedicineField #857 of 8,541 13.7%467 #725
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #275 of 1,037 15.1%160 #198
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #326 of 736 10.6%79 #300

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Brompton 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#703 #791
  2. Medicine#725 #857
  3. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#198 #275
  4. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#300 #326
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 Brompton Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research at Royal Brompton Hospital is in Health Sciences, 6% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (81%), Health Professions (4%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 557 fractional works · 85.3% of its workMedicine: 530 fractional works · 81.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 178 fractional works · 27.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 93 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEpidemiology: 43 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPhysiology: 41 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSurgery: 40 fractional works · 6.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 37 fractional works · 5.7% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 23 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 37 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 23 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 37 fractional works · 5.7% of its workEngineering: 19 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRoyal BromptonHospital653fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences85%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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine53081.1%
    2. Health Professions233.6%
    3. Nursing30.5%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology233.5%
    2. Neuroscience71.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology61.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.1%
    1. Engineering192.9%
    2. Computer Science91.4%
    3. Environmental Science40.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy30.5%
    5. Materials Science10.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences91.3%
    2. Psychology60.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Royal Brompton Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 17.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 178.3 works18×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 92.6 works14×
  3. PhysiologySubfield · 41.1 works7.2×
  4. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield · 37.0 works6.3×
← 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: 0.66× its world share, 23 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.96× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.19× its world share, 19 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.36× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.22× its world share, 530 worksMedicineNursing: 1.02× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× 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, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.22×530 works
  2. Health Professions1.36×24 works
  3. Nursing1.02×3 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology0.96×6 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×23 works
  6. Neuroscience0.64×7 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.32×1 works
  8. Psychology0.30×6 works
  9. Veterinary0.27×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×4 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.20×3 works
  12. Engineering0.19×19 works
  13. Computer Science0.18×9 works
  14. Environmental Science0.11×4 works
  15. Social Sciences0.11×9 works
  16. Dentistry0.10×0 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.08×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.07×1 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×1 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.05×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.04×1 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Royal Brompton Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Athol Umfrey Wells, Andrew Gordon Nicholson and Susanna Price lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Brompton Hospital.

  1. 1 Athol Umfrey Wells United Kingdom · #4,522 worldwide 90k citations · 1,027 works
  2. 2 Andrew Gordon Nicholson United Kingdom · #5,991 worldwide 123k citations · 673 works
  3. 3 Susanna Price United Kingdom · #7,880 worldwide 65k citations · 874 works
  4. 4 Roland M. du Bois United Kingdom · #8,096 worldwide 36k citations · 186 works
  5. 5 Alexander Richard Lyon United Kingdom · #15,518 worldwide 73k citations · 384 works
  6. 6 Elisabetta Augusta Renzoni United Kingdom · #16,444 worldwide 16k citations · 326 works
  7. 7 Andrew N Menzies-Gow United Kingdom · #16,773 worldwide 16k citations · 351 works
  8. 8 Michael R. Loebinger United Kingdom · #17,269 worldwide 14k citations · 354 works
  9. 9 David M. Hansell United Kingdom · #22,965 worldwide 57k citations · 469 works
  10. 10 Stephen John Wort United Kingdom · #25,479 worldwide 17k citations · 253 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Brompton Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Royal Brompton Hospital?

The most cited paper from Royal Brompton Hospital is "Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer" (Helen Ruth Davies et al., 2002), with 10,791 citations. Next come "An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management" (7,347) and "The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors" (4,651).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer Helen Ruth Davies et al. · Nature Jun 2002 10,791
2 An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management Ganesh Raghu et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Open access Mar 2011 7,347
3 The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors William David Travis, Elisabeth M. Brambilla, Andrew Gordon Nicholson et al. · Journal of Thoracic Oncology Open access 21 Aug 2015 4,651
4 Fleischner Society: Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging David M. Hansell, Alexander A. Bankier, Heber MacMahon et al. · Radiology 14 Jan 2008 4,302
5 Updated Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension Gérald Simonneau, Michael Athanassios Gatzoulis, Ian Adatia et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Dec 2013 4,211
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Royal Brompton Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Echocardiography, Management, Heart Failure, Treatment, Epidemiology, Pulmonary Hypertension and Cystic Fibrosis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology62▲ 2.4×68 topics
  2. Diagnosis57▲ 9.3×23 topics
  3. Echocardiography50▲ 28×8 topics
  4. Management44▲ 8.6×20 topics
  5. Treatment42▲ 5.3×25 topics
  6. Heart Failure39▲ 13×13 topics
  7. Pulmonary Hypertension32▲ 36×3 topics
  8. Cystic Fibrosis31▲ 68×2 topics
  9. Pulmonary Infections29▲ 74×2 topics
  10. Fibrosis29▲ 23×7 topics
  11. Microbiota29▲ 20×2 topics
  12. Mutation Analysis29▲ 60×2 topics
  13. Bronchiectasis29▲ 151×1 topic
  14. CFTR29▲ 151×1 topic
  15. Cardiovascular Disease28▲ 3.8×31 topics
  16. Myocardial Infarction28▲ 18×7 topics
  17. Congenital Heart Disease27▲ 49×3 topics
  18. Interstitial Lung Disease26▲ 60×2 topics
  19. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes25▲ 20×5 topics
  20. TGF-ß25▲ 24×4 topics
  21. Magnetic Resonance Imaging25▲ 15×6 topics
  22. Global Burden25▲ 6.9×6 topics
  23. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition24▲ 37×2 topics
  24. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis24▲ 76×1 topic
  25. Myofibroblast24▲ 76×1 topic
  26. Mortality Risk24▲ 15×5 topics
  27. Cardiac Surgery23▲ 49×2 topics
  28. Adult Congenital Heart Disease23▲ 66×1 topic
  29. Endothelial Dysfunction23▲ 15×7 topics
  30. Pulmonary Valve Replacement23▲ 66×1 topic
  31. Cardiac Imaging23▲ 29×3 topics
  32. Treatment Guidelines23▲ 16×5 topics
  33. Respiratory22▲ 34×2 topics
  34. COPD22▲ 50×1 topic
  35. spirometry22▲ 50×1 topic
  36. Chronic Kidney Disease21▲ 13×8 topics
  37. Coronary Artery Disease20▲ 26×3 topics
  38. Mechanical Ventilation20▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Right Heart Assessment18▲ 70×1 topic
  40. Survival Prediction18▲ 70×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Brompton Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Congenital Heart Disease Studies and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research.

Cystic Fibrosis Research…29Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 29 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseas…24Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 24 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease…23Congenital Heart Disease Studies: 23 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulm…22Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 22 fractional worksPulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments: 18 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 16 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory d…15Asthma and respiratory diseases: 15 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Hea…14Neonatal Respiratory Health Research: 14 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…12Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 12 fractional worksSarcoidosis and Berylliu…12Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research: 12 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEpidemiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingPhysiology1 others

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

  1. 1 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 29 works
  2. 2 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 24 works
  3. 3 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 23 works
  4. 4 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 22 works
  5. 5 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 18 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 16 works
  7. 7 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 15 works
  8. 8 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 14 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 12 works
  10. 10 Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research Physiology 12 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 available38.9%not open61.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.6%domestic only77.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Royal Brompton Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% 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 Brompton Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Royal Brompton Hospital0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Royal Brompton 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%Royal Brompton Hospital16.9% 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 18.7% in 2000.

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