Saad Specialist Hospital
In research, Saad Specialist Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,440 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#4,094 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.
- World rank, 2022-now
- #9,761 of 22,385 · #18,182 all time
- Rank in Saudi Arabia
- #54 of 91
- Research works
- 776 ▲ 128% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 8.7k 11.3 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 7.6% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.89× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 62% world 40%
- International
- 38% world 18%
What is Saad Specialist Hospital known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health SciencesDomain | #4,440 of 9,902 | 6.5% | 179 | #9760 | |
| MedicineField | #4,094 of 8,541 | 5.8% | 144 | #8370 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Saad Specialist 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).
Which fields of science does Saad Specialist Hospital work in?
In 2022-now, 61% of research at Saad Specialist Hospital is in Health Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (50%), Engineering (9%), Health Professions (7%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences20261.5%
- Medicine16249.5%
- Health Professions216.5%
- Dentistry113.4%
- Nursing61.7%
- Veterinary10.3%
- Physical Sciences5115.6%
- Engineering298.9%
- Computer Science103.2%
- Environmental Science51.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences20.5%
- Materials Science20.5%
- Energy10.3%
- Physics and Astronomy10.3%
- Chemical Engineering10.2%
- Chemistry10.2%
- Mathematics00.1%
- Social Sciences4613.9%
- Life Sciences309.0%
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Dentistry7.06×11 works
- Nursing3.42×6 works
- Medicine2.58×162 works
- Health Professions2.47×21 works
- Veterinary2.34×1 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.68×6 works
- Psychology1.63×16 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.98×7 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.94×16 works
- Decision Sciences0.87×3 works
- Neuroscience0.77×4 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.69×1 works
- Engineering0.59×29 works
- Chemical Engineering0.58×1 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.46×5 works
- Computer Science0.41×10 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.35×2 works
- Energy0.34×1 works
- Social Sciences0.34×14 works
- Environmental Science0.28×4 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×3 works
- Materials Science0.15×2 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.13×1 works
- Chemistry0.12×1 works
- Mathematics0.08×0 works
- Arts and Humanities0.06×1 works
- Dentistry 7.1×
- Nursing 3.4×
- Medicine 2.6×
- Health Professions 2.5×
- Veterinary 2.3×
- Immunology and Microbiology 1.7×
- Psychology 1.6×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.0×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.9×
- Decision Sciences 0.9×
- Neuroscience 0.8×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.7×
- Engineering 0.6×
- Chemical Engineering 0.6×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.5×
- Computer Science 0.4×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.3×
- Energy 0.3×
- Social Sciences 0.3×
- Environmental Science 0.3×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.2×
- Materials Science 0.1×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
- Chemistry 0.1×
- Mathematics 0.1×
- Arts and Humanities 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Saad Specialist Hospital?
Ranked on the quality score, Rabie Adel El Arab, Abbas Saleh Al Mutair and Saleh Altuwaijri lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Saad Specialist Hospital.
- 1
Rabie Adel El Arab
Saudi Arabia · #16,689 worldwide 11k citations · 77 works
- 2
Abbas Saleh Al Mutair
Saudi Arabia · #792,332 worldwide 5.8k citations · 220 works
- 3
Saleh Altuwaijri
Saudi Arabia · #1,188,450 worldwide 5.3k citations · 98 works
- 4
Chandni Saha
Saudi Arabia · #2,666,771 worldwide 114 citations · 17 works
- 5
KAHTAN ABEDALRHMAN
Saudi Arabia · #3,294,695 worldwide 0 citations · 64 works
- 6
Khalid Obeid Dhafar
Saudi Arabia · #3,859,372 worldwide 552 citations · 19 works
- 7
Tarek El-Maghraby
Saudi Arabia · #4,554,177 worldwide 397 citations · 19 works
- 8
Zainab Almoosa
Saudi Arabia · #4,592,326 worldwide 206 citations · 20 works
- 9
Hameed Aljawad
Saudi Arabia · #5,421,998 worldwide 31 citations · 15 works
- 10
Muhammad Daniyal
Saudi Arabia · #5,452,362 worldwide 21 citations · 14 works
Which keywords describe research at Saad Specialist Hospital?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Inflammation, Surgical Management, Treatment, Management and Pathophysiology.
- Predictive Maintenance
- Health Financing
- Health System Reform
- Elderly
- Quality Improvement
- Guidelines
- Drilling Fluids
- Primary Care
- Immune Response
- Patient Satisfaction
- Prevention
- Big Data
- Pathophysiology
- Depression
- COVID-19
- Public Health
- Management
- Treatment
- Machine Learning
- Quality of Life
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- Mental Health
- Surgical Management
- Complications
- Pandemic
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Global Burden
- Vibration Analysis
- SARS-CoV-2
- Diabetes
- Well Integrity
- Rehabilitation
- ACE2 Receptor
- Clinical Outcomes
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Universal Coverage
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology38▲ 2.9×106 topics
- Quality of Life17▲ 3.5×41 topics
- Inflammation14▲ 2.1×49 topics
- Machine Learning13▲ 1.16×25 topics
- Risk Factors12▲ 3.3×31 topics
- Treatment11▲ 2.8×42 topics
- Diagnosis9▲ 3.0×35 topics
- Management9▲ 3.5×26 topics
- Mental Health9▲ 1.94×21 topics
- Public Health8▲ 1.74×25 topics
- Surgical Management8▲ 6.0×18 topics
- COVID-198▲ 1.75×19 topics
- Complications8▲ 4.6×17 topics
- Depression7▲ 2.6×12 topics
- Pandemic7▲ 2.1×8 topics
- Pathophysiology6▲ 6.8×11 topics
- Antibiotic Resistance6▲ 4.8×11 topics
- Big Data6▲ 1.97×9 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines6▲ 3.4×13 topics
- Prevention6▲ 4.1×13 topics
- Global Burden6▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Patient Satisfaction5▲ 5.3×9 topics
- Vibration Analysis5▲ 6.0×3 topics
- Immune Response5▲ 2.8×13 topics
- SARS-CoV-25▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Primary Care5▲ 4.2×10 topics
- Diabetes5▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Drilling Fluids5▲ 28×1 topic
- Well Integrity5▲ 28×1 topic
- Guidelines5▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Rehabilitation5▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Quality Improvement4▲ 6.9×8 topics
- ACE2 Receptor4▲ 5.5×3 topics
- Elderly4▲ 5.1×5 topics
- Clinical Outcomes4▲ 5.5×5 topics
- Health System Reform4▲ 17×2 topics
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries4▲ 20×2 topics
- Health Financing4▲ 31×1 topic
- Universal Coverage4▲ 31×1 topic
- Predictive Maintenance3▲ 13×2 topics
Which research topics does Saad Specialist Hospital publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Drilling and Well Engineering, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Oil and Gas Production Techniques and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 5 works
- 2 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 4 works
- 3 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 3 works
- 4 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
- 5 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 3 works
- 6 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 2 works
- 7 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 2 works
- 8 Health and Well-being Studies Clinical Psychology 2 works
- 9 Antibiotic Use and Resistance Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2 works
- 10 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Saad Specialist Hospital's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 128% higher than in 2018-2021.
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Saad Specialist Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.
Fractional works of Saad Specialist Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.3% in 2025.
Other research institutions in Khobar
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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