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Royal Cornwall Hospital

In research, Royal Cornwall Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,678 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,870 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#14,560
of 28,054 · #10,157 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#524
of 1,094
Research works
1.3k
▼ 11% vs 2013–17
Citations
30k
23.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Royal Cornwall 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 #6,678 of 11,982 11.2%122 #2895
MedicineField #5,870 of 10,443 10.8%107 #2800

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Cornwall 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: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.92× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.07× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.61× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.66× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 6.32× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.53× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.51× its world share, 107 worksMedicineNursing: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.57× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.80× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Cornwall Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Anthony D. Woolf, Harry R. Dalton and Iain Murray lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Cornwall Hospital.

  1. 1 Anthony D. Woolf United Kingdom · #2,311 worldwide 3.4k citations · 71 works
  2. 2 Harry R. Dalton United Kingdom · #99,127 worldwide 165 citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Iain Murray United Kingdom · #287,630 worldwide 84 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Jonathan P. Wyatt United Kingdom · #1,250,680 worldwide 23 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 David Ashton-Cleary United Kingdom · #1,384,104 worldwide 3 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Cornwall Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Cornwall Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mortality, Complications, Surgical Management, Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Diagnosis 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. Epidemiology22▲ 3.6×72 topics
  2. Quality of Life8▲ 3.3×26 topics
  3. Risk Factors7▲ 4.0×23 topics
  4. Treatment7▲ 3.7×26 topics
  5. Public Health7▲ 3.0×18 topics
  6. Mortality7▲ 7.4×10 topics
  7. Diagnosis6▲ 4.4×17 topics
  8. Complications6▲ 7.9×14 topics
  9. Management6▲ 4.6×13 topics
  10. Surgical Management5▲ 8.0×18 topics
  11. Quality Improvement5▲ 15×7 topics
  12. COVID-195▲ 2.1×14 topics
  13. Clinical Trials4▲ 4.2×11 topics
  14. Chemotherapy4▲ 3.9×20 topics
  15. Primary Care4▲ 6.8×9 topics
  16. Patient Satisfaction4▲ 8.0×7 topics
  17. Surgery4▲ 7.1×8 topics
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 4.6×12 topics
  19. Radiotherapy4▲ 6.2×11 topics
  20. Biomarkers4▲ 3.4×6 topics
  21. Infectious Diseases4▲ 6.9×4 topics
  22. Cancer Risk3▲ 9.7×7 topics
  23. Medical Education3▲ 8.1×9 topics
  24. Guidelines3▲ 4.3×10 topics
  25. Critical Care3▲ 7.9×6 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy3▲ 7.8×5 topics
  27. Breast Cancer3▲ 7.4×10 topics
  28. Children3▲ 7.5×4 topics
  29. Molecular Subtypes3▲ 21×3 topics
  30. Survival Analysis3▲ 6.6×6 topics
  31. Healthcare Quality3▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Sepsis3▲ 10×4 topics
  33. Health-related Quality of Life2▲ 6.6×5 topics
  34. Infection2▲ 6.2×2 topics
  35. Patient Experience2▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Global Health2▲ 9.5×2 topics
  37. Prognostic Models2▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Septic Shock2▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Revision Surgery2▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Total Hip Replacement2▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does Royal Cornwall Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Bone fractures and treatments and Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments.

Sepsis Diagnosis and Tre…2Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resis…2Antibiotic Use and Resistance: 2 fractional worksBone fractures and treatments: 2 fractional worksGastrointestinal disorders and treatments: 2 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 2 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksGlobal Healthcare and Medical Tourism: 2 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…2Climate Change and Health Impacts: 2 fractional worksRadiology practices and education: 1 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works
EpidemiologyApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologySurgeryCancer Research4 others

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

  1. 1 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 2 works
  2. 2 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2 works
  3. 3 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 2 works
  4. 4 Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments Surgery 2 works
  5. 5 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 2 works
  6. 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  7. 7 Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism General Health Professions 2 works
  8. 8 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2 works
  9. 9 Radiology practices and education Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  10. 10 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 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 available43.2%not open56.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.2%domestic only83.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Cornwall Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 11% 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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