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Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust

In research, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,600 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,108 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#14,736
of 28,054 · #21,014 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#533
of 1,094
Research works
598
▲ 52% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.5k
10.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

What is Royal Cornwall Hospital 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 #5,600 of 11,982 9.6%149 #7621
MedicineField #5,108 of 10,443 9.9%130 #6375

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Cornwall Hospital 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: 0.82× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.47× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.37× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.16× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.52× its world share, 130 worksMedicineNursing: 1.77× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.54× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.79× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Duncan Wheatley, Anand Sharma and Neil Powell lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust.

  1. 1 Duncan Wheatley United Kingdom · #224,882 worldwide 109 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Anand Sharma United Kingdom · #553,768 worldwide 25 citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Neil Powell United Kingdom · #918,974 worldwide 20 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 John McGrane United Kingdom · #1,060,448 worldwide 9 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust

Which keywords describe research at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life, Complications, Guidelines, Primary Care, Survival Analysis and Clinical Practice Guidelines.

▲ 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. Epidemiology24▲ 3.2×80 topics
  2. Quality of Life10▲ 3.6×27 topics
  3. Immunotherapy8▲ 6.2×16 topics
  4. Treatment7▲ 3.2×28 topics
  5. Complications7▲ 7.4×14 topics
  6. Inflammation7▲ 1.68×34 topics
  7. Guidelines6▲ 7.0×11 topics
  8. Chemotherapy6▲ 4.5×18 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines6▲ 5.7×13 topics
  10. Clinical Trials6▲ 4.6×12 topics
  11. Primary Care6▲ 8.0×12 topics
  12. Public Health6▲ 2.1×20 topics
  13. Mortality6▲ 5.1×10 topics
  14. Diagnosis5▲ 3.0×22 topics
  15. Survival Analysis5▲ 10×6 topics
  16. Medical Education5▲ 10×9 topics
  17. Radiotherapy5▲ 7.1×11 topics
  18. Management5▲ 3.3×19 topics
  19. Prognostic Factors4▲ 5.1×13 topics
  20. Metastasis4▲ 6.3×6 topics
  21. Neoadjuvant Therapy4▲ 9.0×5 topics
  22. Rehabilitation4▲ 5.0×8 topics
  23. Surgery4▲ 5.7×9 topics
  24. Surgical Management4▲ 4.7×14 topics
  25. Health Outcomes4▲ 6.7×5 topics
  26. Antibiotic Resistance3▲ 4.6×9 topics
  27. Clinical Guidelines3▲ 6.0×8 topics
  28. Quality Improvement3▲ 9.0×7 topics
  29. Robotic Surgery3▲ 12×4 topics
  30. Chronic Pain3▲ 7.3×5 topics
  31. Elderly3▲ 6.3×3 topics
  32. Pain Management3▲ 6.8×6 topics
  33. Breast Cancer3▲ 6.5×9 topics
  34. Healthcare Quality3▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Inappropriate Medication Use3▲ 34×1 topic
  36. Polypharmacy3▲ 34×1 topic
  37. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy3▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Skin Cancer3▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Clinical Management3▲ 7.8×6 topics
  40. Laparoscopic Surgery3▲ 11×4 topics

Which research topics does Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Esophageal and GI Pathology and Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management.

Pharmaceutical Practices…3Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes: 3 fractional worksAntibiotic Use and Resis…2Antibiotic Use and Resistance: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 2 fractional worksCutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 2 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders treatments: 2 fractional worksNonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies: 2 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 2 fractional worksPharmacovigilance and Ad…2Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions: 2 fractional worksPain Management and Treatment: 2 fractional worksSurgical Simulation and Training: 2 fractional works
Geriatrics and GerontologyApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologySurgeryOncology5 others

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

  1. 1 Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes Geriatrics and Gerontology 3 works
  2. 2 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2 works
  3. 3 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 2 works
  4. 4 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 2 works
  5. 5 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 2 works
  6. 6 Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies Epidemiology 2 works
  7. 7 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 2 works
  8. 8 Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions Toxicology 2 works
  9. 9 Pain Management and Treatment Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Surgical Simulation and Training 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 available48.5%not open51.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.9%domestic only83.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 52% 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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