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Royal North Shore Hospital

In research, Royal North Shore Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#846 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,178 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,122 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Rheumatology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism — Rheumatology is 7.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,520
of 28,054 · #2,733 all time
Rank in Australia
#59
of 391
Research works
7.9k
▲ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
232k
29.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is Royal North Shore 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 #846 of 10,443 16.6%717 #564
Health SciencesDomain #1,178 of 11,982 16.9%758 #639
Life SciencesDomain #2,122 of 7,800 21.7%102 #1873
SurgerySubfield #686 of 1,816 15.5%116 #509
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #887 of 1,144 14.8%64 #573
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #608 of 738 10.0%69 #793

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal North Shore 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#564 #846
  2. Health Sciences#639 #1,178
  3. Life Sciences#1,873 #2,122
  4. Surgery#509 #686
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#573 #887
  6. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#793 #608
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 North Shore Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Rheumatology takes 7.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. RheumatologySubfield · 31.5 works7.3×
  2. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 68.7 works7.0×
  3. Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSubfield · 31.7 works6.2×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.18× its world share, 59 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.73× its world share, 16 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.38× its world share, 21 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.88× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.73× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.32× its world share, 33 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.97× its world share, 717 worksMedicineNursing: 0.70× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.10× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.76× its world share, 22 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 10 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 North Shore Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Geoffrey H. Tofler, Carolyn M. Sue and Jaswinder S. Samra lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal North Shore Hospital.

  1. 1 Geoffrey H. Tofler Australia · #20,189 worldwide 442 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Carolyn M. Sue Australia · #43,496 worldwide 333 citations · 55 works
  3. 3 Jaswinder S. Samra Australia · #43,600 worldwide 273 citations · 54 works
  4. 4 Dale L. Bailey Australia · #45,967 worldwide 290 citations · 59 works
  5. 5 Roderick Clifton‐Bligh Australia · #46,709 worldwide 251 citations · 49 works
  6. 6 Chris Jackson Australia · #47,175 worldwide 408 citations · 48 works
  7. 7 Alexander Guminski Australia · #69,630 worldwide 264 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 John A. Levi Australia · #78,949 worldwide 412 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Bruce G. Robinson Australia · #85,149 worldwide 229 citations · 40 works
  10. 10 Angela Chou Australia · #85,708 worldwide 228 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Royal North Shore Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal North Shore Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Cardiovascular Disease, Mortality, Complications, Radiotherapy 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. Epidemiology123▲ 3.3×111 topics
  2. Inflammation57▲ 2.9×72 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease44▲ 4.3×34 topics
  4. Immunotherapy40▲ 6.0×19 topics
  5. Treatment33▲ 2.9×42 topics
  6. Quality of Life32▲ 2.4×46 topics
  7. Diagnosis32▲ 3.6×32 topics
  8. Mortality32▲ 5.8×12 topics
  9. Complications29▲ 6.1×17 topics
  10. Risk Factors29▲ 2.8×31 topics
  11. Chemotherapy28▲ 4.3×24 topics
  12. Management26▲ 3.5×28 topics
  13. Guidelines25▲ 5.8×12 topics
  14. Radiotherapy24▲ 6.6×13 topics
  15. Clinical Trials23▲ 3.7×18 topics
  16. Heart Failure22▲ 5.4×13 topics
  17. Hypertension21▲ 7.8×13 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations21▲ 5.1×21 topics
  19. Tumor Microenvironment21▲ 5.0×8 topics
  20. Prognostic Factors20▲ 4.9×14 topics
  21. Surgical Management19▲ 5.0×19 topics
  22. Global Burden19▲ 3.7×12 topics
  23. Rehabilitation19▲ 5.0×11 topics
  24. Myocardial Infarction18▲ 8.0×7 topics
  25. Cardiovascular Risk18▲ 6.0×9 topics
  26. Echocardiography17▲ 6.7×7 topics
  27. Clinical Guidelines16▲ 6.1×9 topics
  28. Matrix Metalloproteinases16▲ 13×5 topics
  29. Survival Analysis16▲ 6.4×7 topics
  30. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement15▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement15▲ 22×1 topic
  32. Regeneration14▲ 7.5×5 topics
  33. Neoadjuvant Therapy13▲ 6.0×5 topics
  34. Osteoarthritis13▲ 11×6 topics
  35. Chronic Kidney Disease13▲ 5.8×9 topics
  36. BRAF Mutation13▲ 19×2 topics
  37. Melanoma13▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Mesenchymal Stem Cells12▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Obstructive Sleep Apnea12▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Sleep-Disordered Breathing12▲ 27×1 topic

Which research topics does Royal North Shore Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research, Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms and Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Cardiac Valve Diseases a…15Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 15 fractional worksObstructive Sleep Apnea …12Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research: 12 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment…11Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 11 fractional worksThyroid Cancer Diagnosis…10Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 10 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 9 fractional worksCutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 8 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…7Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 7 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 6 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty …6Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 6 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePhysiologyRheumatologyEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism3 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 15 works
  2. 2 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Physiology 12 works
  3. 3 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 11 works
  4. 4 Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 10 works
  5. 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 9 works
  6. 6 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 8 works
  7. 7 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 7 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 7 works
  9. 9 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 6 works
  10. 10 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 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 available32.0%not open68.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.5%domestic only80.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal North Shore Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% 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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