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Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

In research, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#630 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#862 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,043 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Neurology and Surgery — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 6.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,304
of 28,054 · #2,121 all time
Rank in Australia
#55
of 391
Research works
9.4k
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
285k
30.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

What is Royal Prince Alfred 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 #630 of 10,443 16.6%790 #390
Health SciencesDomain #862 of 11,982 16.8%834 #496
Life SciencesDomain #2,043 of 7,800 18.7%143 #1208
SurgerySubfield #667 of 1,816 14.7%136 #583
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #585 of 1,144 15.7%88 #274
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #463 of 738 17.0%75 #368
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,621 of 3,579 18.8%74 #1432
EpidemiologySubfield #736 of 976 15.4%61 #586
OncologySubfield #588 of 772 18.1%63 #487

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Royal Prince Alfred 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#390 #630
  2. Health Sciences#496 #862
  3. Life Sciences#1,208 #2,043
  4. Surgery#583 #667
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#274 #585
  6. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#368 #463
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,432 #2,621
  8. Epidemiology#586 #736
  9. Oncology#487 #588
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 Prince Alfred Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 6.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 74.9 works6.7×
  2. NeurologySubfield · 35.0 works5.7×
  3. SurgerySubfield · 136.2 works5.5×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.30× its world share, 74 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.12× its world share, 23 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.29× its world share, 40 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.93× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.76× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.18× its world share, 33 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.86× its world share, 790 worksMedicineNursing: 1.14× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.68× its world share, 22 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Richard A. Scolyer, Geoffrey H. White and Steven J. Chadban lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

  1. 1 Richard A. Scolyer Australia · #9,598 worldwide 2k citations · 202 works
  2. 2 Geoffrey H. White Australia · #26,447 worldwide 365 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Steven J. Chadban Australia · #29,278 worldwide 390 citations · 66 works
  4. 4 David S. Celermajer Australia · #36,005 worldwide 895 citations · 190 works
  5. 5 James G. Kench Australia · #66,397 worldwide 358 citations · 69 works
  6. 6 John R. Turtle Australia · #66,881 worldwide 196 citations · 38 works
  7. 7 John S. Horvath Australia · #72,267 worldwide 306 citations · 48 works
  8. 8 David J. Tiller Australia · #84,726 worldwide 264 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 Brian C. McCaughan Australia · #87,737 worldwide 175 citations · 29 works
  10. 10 Tamera J. Corte Australia · #89,680 worldwide 142 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Treatment, Diagnosis, Heart Failure, Inflammation, Complications and Echocardiography.

▲ 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. Epidemiology131▲ 3.1×111 topics
  2. Inflammation57▲ 2.6×71 topics
  3. Treatment53▲ 4.1×43 topics
  4. Diagnosis48▲ 4.9×34 topics
  5. Immunotherapy46▲ 6.0×18 topics
  6. Quality of Life44▲ 2.9×42 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease36▲ 3.1×34 topics
  8. Heart Failure35▲ 7.7×13 topics
  9. Management34▲ 4.1×28 topics
  10. Complications32▲ 6.1×15 topics
  11. Mortality32▲ 5.3×13 topics
  12. Neurological Disorders32▲ 5.2×18 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines30▲ 5.2×14 topics
  14. Oxidative Stress30▲ 1.72×45 topics
  15. Risk Factors29▲ 2.5×34 topics
  16. Echocardiography29▲ 10×8 topics
  17. Chemotherapy28▲ 3.8×23 topics
  18. Survival Analysis28▲ 9.6×7 topics
  19. Obesity27▲ 3.3×23 topics
  20. Guidelines25▲ 5.0×12 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome23▲ 2.6×21 topics
  22. Surgical Management22▲ 5.0×19 topics
  23. Melanoma22▲ 34×2 topics
  24. Radiotherapy20▲ 5.0×12 topics
  25. Genetic Mutations20▲ 4.3×21 topics
  26. Prognostic Factors20▲ 4.2×14 topics
  27. Surgery20▲ 5.2×12 topics
  28. Prognosis19▲ 5.5×9 topics
  29. Mortality Risk19▲ 7.5×6 topics
  30. Insulin Resistance19▲ 3.9×9 topics
  31. Tumor Staging18▲ 15×2 topics
  32. Neuroimaging17▲ 5.9×11 topics
  33. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy17▲ 19×2 topics
  34. Skin Cancer17▲ 21×2 topics
  35. Genetic Alterations16▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Neoadjuvant Therapy16▲ 6.4×5 topics
  37. Dermoscopy16▲ 34×1 topic
  38. Myocardial Infarction16▲ 6.3×7 topics
  39. Autoantibodies15▲ 6.2×8 topics
  40. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes14▲ 7.2×6 topics

Which research topics does Royal Prince Alfred Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Congenital Heart Disease Studies and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.

Cutaneous Melanoma Detec…16Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 16 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…12Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 12 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 10 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 8 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 8 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 8 fractional worksObstructive Sleep Apnea …8Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research: 8 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 7 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 7 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…7CAR-T cell therapy research: 7 fractional works
OncologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiologyBiomedical Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management Oncology 16 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 12 works
  3. 3 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 10 works
  4. 4 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 8 works
  6. 6 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Physiology 8 works
  8. 8 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 7 works
  9. 9 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 7 works
  10. 10 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 7 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% 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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