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Royal Hospital

In research, Royal Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#4,654 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#5,699 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,582 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 7.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#14,585
of 28,054 · #18,372 all time
Rank in Oman
#14
of 26
Research works
1.6k
▲ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
57%
world 28%

What is Royal 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
MedicineField #4,654 of 10,443 6.1%311 #6130
Health SciencesDomain #5,699 of 11,982 6.0%334 #7125
SurgerySubfield #1,582 of 1,816 7.1%60 #3068

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

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#6,130 #4,654
  2. Health Sciences#7,125 #5,699
  3. Surgery#3,068 #1,582
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Royal Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 7.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 29.7 works7.1×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 60.2 works6.4×
← 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: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.29× its world share, 28 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.78× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.80× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.89× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.66× its world share, 18 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.04× its world share, 310 worksMedicineNursing: 1.89× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 5 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.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Faryal Khamis, Abraham Varghese and R Ravichandran lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Hospital.

  1. 1 Faryal Khamis · #643,575 worldwide 81 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Abraham Varghese · #882,845 worldwide 15 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 R Ravichandran · #1,231,962 worldwide 3 citations · 27 works
  4. 4 Prashanth Panduranga · #1,247,042 worldwide 21 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Issa Al Salmi · #1,357,514 worldwide 8 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Kadhim Sulaiman · #1,471,158 worldwide 14 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Said Abdallah AL-Mamari · #1,538,021 worldwide 0 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Madan Mohan Maddali · #1,608,831 worldwide 4 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Genitourinary Development, Urotrauma, Management, Surgical Management, Treatment and 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. Epidemiology68▲ 4.3×98 topics
  2. Diagnosis27▲ 7.1×32 topics
  3. Treatment21▲ 4.4×36 topics
  4. Management19▲ 6.0×24 topics
  5. Genitourinary Development18▲ 142×1 topic
  6. Urotrauma18▲ 142×1 topic
  7. Surgical Management16▲ 9.9×16 topics
  8. Inflammation15▲ 1.80×55 topics
  9. Guidelines14▲ 7.8×13 topics
  10. Chemotherapy14▲ 4.9×21 topics
  11. Complications13▲ 6.7×14 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease13▲ 2.9×29 topics
  13. Risk Factors12▲ 2.8×24 topics
  14. Congenital Heart Disease12▲ 37×3 topics
  15. Heart Failure12▲ 6.9×12 topics
  16. Public Health12▲ 2.1×26 topics
  17. Prevention12▲ 7.1×12 topics
  18. Mortality12▲ 5.1×12 topics
  19. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes12▲ 16×6 topics
  20. Surgery12▲ 8.3×9 topics
  21. Echocardiography12▲ 11×8 topics
  22. Cardiac Surgery11▲ 38×2 topics
  23. Mortality Risk11▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Adult Congenital Heart Disease11▲ 51×1 topic
  25. Pulmonary Valve Replacement11▲ 51×1 topic
  26. Genetic Mutations10▲ 5.6×16 topics
  27. Immune Response10▲ 4.2×15 topics
  28. Myocardial Infarction8▲ 8.5×6 topics
  29. Dilated Cardiomyopathy7▲ 26×2 topics
  30. Thrombosis7▲ 6.2×7 topics
  31. Autoimmune Disease6▲ 26×3 topics
  32. Human Papillomavirus6▲ 13×2 topics
  33. Sexually Transmitted Infections6▲ 33×2 topics
  34. HIV Prevention6▲ 26×2 topics
  35. Male Circumcision6▲ 66×1 topic
  36. Penile Cancer6▲ 66×1 topic
  37. Reconstruction6▲ 9.0×2 topics
  38. Chronic Kidney Disease6▲ 6.4×8 topics
  39. Obstetric Fistula6▲ 87×1 topic
  40. Vesicovaginal Fistula6▲ 87×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Urological Disorders and Treatments, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Genital Health and Disease and Ureteral procedures and complications.

Urological Disorders and…18Urological Disorders and Treatments: 18 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease…11Congenital Heart Disease Studies: 11 fractional worksGenital Health and Disease6Genital Health and Disease: 6 fractional worksUreteral procedures and complications: 6 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 6 fractional worksAbdominal Trauma and Inj…5Abdominal Trauma and Injuries: 5 fractional worksUrologic and reproductive health conditions: 4 fractional worksVascular anomalies and interventions: 4 fractional worksCardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications: 4 fractional worksCoronary Artery Anomalies: 4 fractional works
UrologyEpidemiologySurgeryObstetrics and Gynecology2 others

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

  1. 1 Urological Disorders and TreatmentsUrology 18 works
  2. 2 Congenital Heart Disease StudiesEpidemiology 11 works
  3. 3 Genital Health and DiseaseSurgery 6 works
  4. 4 Ureteral procedures and complicationsObstetrics and Gynecology 6 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairSurgery 6 works
  6. 6 Abdominal Trauma and InjuriesSurgery 5 works
  7. 7 Urologic and reproductive health conditionsRheumatology 4 works
  8. 8 Vascular anomalies and interventionsSurgery 4 works
  9. 9 Cardiovascular and Diving-Related ComplicationsPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Coronary Artery AnomaliesPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 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 available56.6%not open43.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.7%domestic only75.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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