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Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

In research, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust stands highest in Medicine (#4,480 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#5,837 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 7.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,243
of 28,054 · #14,337 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#415
of 1,094
Research works
1.1k
▲ 72% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 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 #4,480 of 10,443 7.8%231 #4247
Health SciencesDomain #5,837 of 11,982 7.8%253 #5158

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 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).

What does Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust specialise in?

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

  1. SurgerySubfield · 51.9 works7.3×
← 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, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.86× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.63× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.66× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.40× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.38× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.94× its world share, 231 worksMedicineNursing: 1.44× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.76× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.51× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 7 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 Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Nigel Trudgill, Jonathan Hulme and Russell Davis lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

  1. 1 Nigel Trudgill United Kingdom · #174,794 worldwide 113 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Jonathan Hulme United Kingdom · #549,606 worldwide 61 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Russell Davis United Kingdom · #746,506 worldwide 102 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Anastasios Tranoulis United Kingdom · #750,979 worldwide 6 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Shafquat Zaman United Kingdom · #1,030,449 worldwide 16 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Which keywords describe research at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Mortality, Diagnosis, Complications, Guidelines and Management.

▲ 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. Epidemiology51▲ 4.2×82 topics
  2. Treatment21▲ 5.6×36 topics
  3. Diagnosis16▲ 5.8×31 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines16▲ 9.8×13 topics
  5. Mortality14▲ 8.2×11 topics
  6. Risk Factors14▲ 4.3×22 topics
  7. Complications14▲ 9.2×16 topics
  8. Inflammation13▲ 2.1×38 topics
  9. Management13▲ 5.6×24 topics
  10. Quality of Life13▲ 3.0×29 topics
  11. Guidelines12▲ 8.5×11 topics
  12. Primary Care11▲ 9.9×12 topics
  13. Autoantibodies10▲ 15×8 topics
  14. Survival Analysis10▲ 12×5 topics
  15. Public Health10▲ 2.1×23 topics
  16. Chemotherapy9▲ 4.3×16 topics
  17. Medical Education8▲ 11×10 topics
  18. Patient Satisfaction8▲ 8.6×9 topics
  19. Radiotherapy8▲ 6.8×12 topics
  20. Neoadjuvant Therapy8▲ 11×5 topics
  21. Clinical Trials7▲ 3.6×11 topics
  22. Surgery7▲ 6.3×10 topics
  23. Cardiovascular Risk6▲ 6.7×7 topics
  24. Quality Improvement6▲ 11×7 topics
  25. Prevention6▲ 4.8×9 topics
  26. Immunosuppressive Therapy6▲ 11×7 topics
  27. Clinical Guidelines6▲ 6.7×8 topics
  28. Gastric Cancer6▲ 16×3 topics
  29. Rehabilitation6▲ 4.7×8 topics
  30. Children6▲ 7.7×5 topics
  31. Colorectal Cancer5▲ 21×2 topics
  32. Chronic Disease Management5▲ 8.0×5 topics
  33. Endoscopic Resection5▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Training5▲ 7.0×3 topics
  35. Inflammatory Bowel Disease4▲ 13×4 topics
  36. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy4▲ 19×2 topics
  37. Colonic Diverticulitis4▲ 76×1 topic
  38. Diverticulitis4▲ 76×1 topic
  39. Molecular Characterization4▲ 7.9×4 topics
  40. Laparoscopic Surgery4▲ 12×4 topics

Which research topics does Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Diverticular Disease and Complications, Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies.

Diverticular Disease and…4Diverticular Disease and Complications: 4 fractional worksAnorectal Disease Treatm…4Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 3 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 3 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 3 fractional worksMusculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation: 3 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…3Esophageal and GI Pathology: 3 fractional worksClinical practice guidelines implementation: 3 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 3 fractional works
SurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineRheumatologyOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Diverticular Disease and Complications Surgery 4 works
  2. 2 Anorectal Disease Treatments and Outcomes Surgery 4 works
  3. 3 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 3 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 3 works
  6. 6 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 3 works
  7. 7 Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation Rehabilitation 3 works
  8. 8 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 3 works
  9. 9 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  10. 10 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 3 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 available52.1%not open47.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.3%domestic only87.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 72% 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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