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Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

In research, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#3,461 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#4,740 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,752
of 28,054 · #7,757 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#397
of 1,094
Research works
2.5k
▼ 13% vs 2013–17
Citations
64k
25.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

What is Royal Manchester Children's 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 #3,461 of 10,443 11.5%171 #2000
Health SciencesDomain #4,740 of 11,982 11.4%189 #2454

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Manchester Children's 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.86× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.03× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.74× its world share, 11 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.23× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.64× its world share, 171 worksMedicineNursing: 3.38× its world share, 4 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× 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, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Bernadette Brennan, Robert Walker and H. B. Marsden lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

  1. 1 Bernadette Brennan United Kingdom · #112,305 worldwide 105 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Robert Walker United Kingdom · #127,523 worldwide 106 citations · 47 works
  3. 3 H. B. Marsden United Kingdom · #219,663 worldwide 100 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 G. M. Komrower United Kingdom · #226,419 worldwide 105 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Philip Murray United Kingdom · #230,582 worldwide 85 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 A. Bianchi United Kingdom · #248,105 worldwide 67 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Adrian G. Thomas United Kingdom · #296,461 worldwide 120 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Richard Newton United Kingdom · #303,452 worldwide 76 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Nicholas J.A. Webb United Kingdom · #327,114 worldwide 71 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 Stefan Meyer United Kingdom · #331,228 worldwide 142 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Genetics, Diagnosis, Genetic Mutations, Adolescents, Management, Inflammation 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. Epidemiology31▲ 3.2×74 topics
  2. Inflammation13▲ 2.5×45 topics
  3. Diagnosis11▲ 5.0×25 topics
  4. Genetics10▲ 6.1×15 topics
  5. Treatment10▲ 3.4×29 topics
  6. Management10▲ 5.1×20 topics
  7. Genetic Mutations8▲ 7.9×17 topics
  8. Adolescents8▲ 8.8×7 topics
  9. Mortality7▲ 5.3×9 topics
  10. Quality of Life7▲ 2.1×27 topics
  11. Cancer7▲ 2.2×27 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease7▲ 2.6×17 topics
  13. Complications7▲ 5.7×13 topics
  14. Immunotherapy6▲ 3.7×11 topics
  15. Critical Care6▲ 9.7×8 topics
  16. Inflammatory Bowel Disease6▲ 20×5 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors6▲ 5.2×12 topics
  18. Surgery6▲ 6.4×8 topics
  19. Rehabilitation5▲ 5.6×9 topics
  20. Pulmonary Infections5▲ 36×2 topics
  21. Genetic Variants5▲ 12×5 topics
  22. Microbiota5▲ 9.3×2 topics
  23. Autism Spectrum Disorders5▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Mutation Analysis5▲ 25×2 topics
  25. Pain Management5▲ 8.3×5 topics
  26. Hearing Loss4▲ 16×4 topics
  27. Chronic Conditions4▲ 26×2 topics
  28. Chronic Pain4▲ 8.3×4 topics
  29. Health Care4▲ 19×2 topics
  30. Medical Home4▲ 70×1 topic
  31. Mental Health Services4▲ 34×2 topics
  32. Self-Management4▲ 31×2 topics
  33. Transition4▲ 19×1 topic
  34. CFTR4▲ 60×1 topic
  35. Cystic Fibrosis4▲ 25×1 topic
  36. Hematopoietic Stem Cells4▲ 19×3 topics
  37. Neurodevelopmental Disorders4▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Genitourinary Development4▲ 50×1 topic
  39. Urotrauma4▲ 50×1 topic
  40. Health Care Utilization4▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does Royal Manchester Children's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Urological Disorders and Treatments and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.

Adolescent and Pediatric…4Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare: 4 fractional worksCystic Fibrosis Research…4Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 4 fractional worksUrological Disorders and Treatments: 4 fractional worksEmergency and Acute Care Studies: 3 fractional worksAutism Spectrum Disorder Research: 3 fractional worksPediatric Pain Management Techniques: 3 fractional worksLysosomal Storage Disorders Research: 3 fractional worksCeliac Disease Research …3Celiac Disease Research and Management: 3 fractional worksUrinary Bladder and Prostate Research: 2 fractional worksClinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology: 2 fractional works
Speech and HearingPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineUrologyEmergency Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare Speech and Hearing 4 works
  2. 2 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Urological Disorders and Treatments Urology 4 works
  4. 4 Emergency and Acute Care Studies Emergency Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  6. 6 Pediatric Pain Management Techniques Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 3 works
  7. 7 Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research Physiology 3 works
  8. 8 Celiac Disease Research and Management Gastroenterology 3 works
  9. 9 Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research Urology 2 works
  10. 10 Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology Nutrition and Dietetics 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 available34.0%not open66.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Manchester Children's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% 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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