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Royal Marsden Hospital

In research, Royal Marsden Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,788 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,599 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,784 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Oncology is 16.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,296
of 28,054 · #2,724 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#241
of 1,094
Research works
5.8k
▼ 10% vs 2013–17
Citations
198k
34.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is Royal Marsden 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 #1,788 of 10,443 15.1%331 #578
Health SciencesDomain #2,599 of 11,982 14.7%340 #667
Life SciencesDomain #4,784 of 7,800 19.4%60 #1920
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #713 of 1,144 16.4%63 #252
OncologySubfield #498 of 772 16.1%80 #193

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Marsden 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#578 #1,788
  2. Health Sciences#667 #2,599
  3. Life Sciences#1,920 #4,784
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#252 #713
  5. Oncology#193 #498
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 Marsden Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 16.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 80.3 works16×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 62.5 works9.4×
← 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: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.11× its world share, 49 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.92× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.70× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.53× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.98× its world share, 331 worksMedicineNursing: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.70× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 2 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 Marsden Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Martin Gore, Mitch Dowsett and Ian E. Smith lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Marsden Hospital.

  1. 1 Martin Gore United Kingdom · #4,767 worldwide 832 citations · 84 works
  2. 2 Mitch Dowsett United Kingdom · #6,859 worldwide 1.8k citations · 185 works
  3. 3 Ian E. Smith United Kingdom · #8,221 worldwide 875 citations · 65 works
  4. 4 David Cunningham United Kingdom · #8,703 worldwide 2.5k citations · 313 works
  5. 5 Cyril Fisher United Kingdom · #12,919 worldwide 564 citations · 49 works
  6. 6 James Larkin United Kingdom · #15,259 worldwide 2.3k citations · 241 works
  7. 7 Ian Smith United Kingdom · #16,125 worldwide 642 citations · 77 works
  8. 8 D. W. Smithers United Kingdom · #16,293 worldwide 738 citations · 42 works
  9. 9 Christopher M. Nutting United Kingdom · #19,569 worldwide 365 citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Michael Davidson United Kingdom · #21,648 worldwide 985 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Marsden Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Marsden Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Radiotherapy, Clinical Trials, Tumor Microenvironment and Targeted Therapy.

▲ 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. Chemotherapy58▲ 19×22 topics
  2. Immunotherapy47▲ 15×19 topics
  3. Prognostic Factors34▲ 18×14 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines33▲ 14×12 topics
  5. Radiotherapy29▲ 18×12 topics
  6. Clinical Trials27▲ 9.4×13 topics
  7. Quality of Life27▲ 4.3×23 topics
  8. Epidemiology26▲ 1.54×57 topics
  9. Tumor Microenvironment23▲ 12×8 topics
  10. Targeted Therapy22▲ 22×4 topics
  11. Survival Analysis21▲ 18×7 topics
  12. Neoadjuvant Therapy20▲ 20×5 topics
  13. Genetic Mutations20▲ 11×17 topics
  14. Breast Cancer19▲ 19×11 topics
  15. Molecular Characterization18▲ 24×6 topics
  16. Biomarkers18▲ 6.0×14 topics
  17. Precision Medicine17▲ 8.3×7 topics
  18. Cancer16▲ 2.8×37 topics
  19. Prostate Cancer16▲ 28×5 topics
  20. Clinical Guidelines15▲ 12×6 topics
  21. Genomic Profiling15▲ 33×2 topics
  22. Immune Checkpoint Blockade13▲ 28×1 topic
  23. PD-1 and PD-L113▲ 28×1 topic
  24. PET Imaging13▲ 18×4 topics
  25. Lymphoma13▲ 19×4 topics
  26. Radiation Therapy13▲ 23×5 topics
  27. Metastasis13▲ 8.7×11 topics
  28. Complications12▲ 5.7×12 topics
  29. Molecular Subtypes12▲ 32×3 topics
  30. Cancer Immunotherapy11▲ 16×3 topics
  31. Endoscopic Resection10▲ 24×2 topics
  32. Metastatic Breast Cancer10▲ 41×2 topics
  33. Adjuvant Therapy10▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Cancer Risk10▲ 10×6 topics
  35. Genomic Characterization10▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Osteosarcoma10▲ 47×1 topic
  37. Soft Tissue Sarcoma10▲ 42×1 topic
  38. Dosimetry10▲ 32×2 topics
  39. Breast Reconstruction9▲ 36×2 topics
  40. Cetuximab9▲ 26×2 topics

Which research topics does Royal Marsden Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…13Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 13 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Tr…10Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 10 fractional worksProstate Cancer Treatment and Research: 8 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 8 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 8 fractional worksProstate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 7 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Te…6Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 6 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 6 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 6 fractional works
OncologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchRadiation1 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 13 works
  2. 2 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  3. 3 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  4. 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 8 works
  5. 5 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 8 works
  6. 6 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  8. 8 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 6 works
  9. 9 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 6 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 available29.2%not open70.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.1%domestic only80.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Marsden Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% 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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