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Santa Casa Hospital

In research, Santa Casa Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#5,037 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#6,431 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 6.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#17,672
of 28,054 · #19,459 all time
Rank in Brazil
#336
of 714
Research works
1.6k
▼ 10% vs 2013–17
Citations
20k
12.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Santa Casa 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 #5,037 of 10,443 5.8%188 #5296
Health SciencesDomain #6,431 of 11,982 5.8%208 #6116

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Santa Casa 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).

What does Santa Casa Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 37.6 works6.1×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.22× its world share, 17 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.99× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.20× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.30× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.72× its world share, 188 worksMedicineNursing: 1.54× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.30× 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, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Santa Casa Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Valter Duro Garcı́a, Ernani Luı́s Rhoden and Paulo Roberto Ott Fontes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Santa Casa Hospital.

  1. 1 Valter Duro Garcı́a Brazil · #421,741 worldwide 54 citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Ernani Luı́s Rhoden Brazil · #742,550 worldwide 50 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Paulo Roberto Ott Fontes Brazil · #1,042,853 worldwide 16 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Cláudio Telöken Brazil · #1,092,397 worldwide 27 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Júlio Carlos Pereira‐Lima Brazil · #1,222,295 worldwide 16 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Jorge Neumann Brazil · #1,407,262 worldwide 10 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Gustavo Andreazza Laporte Brazil · #1,489,973 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Santa Casa Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Santa Casa Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Quality of Life, Chemotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Inflammation and Complications.

▲ 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. Epidemiology36▲ 3.5×91 topics
  2. Treatment14▲ 4.5×38 topics
  3. Inflammation14▲ 2.5×45 topics
  4. Quality of Life13▲ 3.5×32 topics
  5. Diagnosis13▲ 5.4×35 topics
  6. Public Health10▲ 2.7×24 topics
  7. Chemotherapy10▲ 5.3×22 topics
  8. Management9▲ 4.3×28 topics
  9. Prognostic Factors8▲ 7.4×13 topics
  10. Risk Factors8▲ 2.7×23 topics
  11. Complications8▲ 6.0×17 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines7▲ 4.6×11 topics
  13. COVID-196▲ 1.80×15 topics
  14. Surgical Management6▲ 5.7×17 topics
  15. Pandemic6▲ 2.1×8 topics
  16. Radiotherapy6▲ 5.7×12 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome6▲ 2.5×19 topics
  18. Rehabilitation5▲ 5.2×8 topics
  19. Healthcare Access5▲ 7.0×4 topics
  20. Health Policy5▲ 12×4 topics
  21. Pathophysiology5▲ 6.3×9 topics
  22. Immune Response5▲ 3.2×14 topics
  23. Genetic Mutations5▲ 4.2×18 topics
  24. Mortality5▲ 3.2×10 topics
  25. Primary Care5▲ 4.7×6 topics
  26. Global Burden5▲ 3.3×11 topics
  27. Guidelines5▲ 3.8×10 topics
  28. Prognosis4▲ 5.0×8 topics
  29. SARS-CoV-24▲ 5.0×6 topics
  30. Drug Resistance4▲ 5.6×8 topics
  31. Immunosuppressive Therapy4▲ 7.7×7 topics
  32. ACE2 Receptor4▲ 5.8×3 topics
  33. Maternal Health4▲ 5.1×3 topics
  34. Pediatric Oncology4▲ 25×3 topics
  35. Antifungal Therapy4▲ 15×3 topics
  36. Genomic Characterization3▲ 9.6×2 topics
  37. End-of-Life3▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Genetic Variants3▲ 6.9×6 topics
  39. Palliative Care3▲ 7.5×3 topics
  40. Health Inequalities3▲ 9.4×2 topics

Which research topics does Santa Casa Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health, Nursing, Elderly Care, Palliative and Oncologic Care, Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare and Healthcare Regulation.

Health, Nursing, Elderly…2Health, Nursing, Elderly Care: 2 fractional worksPalliative and Oncologic…2Palliative and Oncologic Care: 2 fractional worksMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare: 2 fractional worksHealthcare Regulation2Healthcare Regulation: 2 fractional worksSarcoma Diagnosis and Tr…2Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 2 fractional worksKnee injuries and recons…2Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 2 fractional worksBusiness and Management Studies: 2 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 2 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth Information ManagementPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 2 works
  2. 2 Palliative and Oncologic Care Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  3. 3 Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare General Health Professions 2 works
  4. 4 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 2 works
  5. 5 Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 2 works
  8. 8 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 2 works
  10. 10 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 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.

openly available54.4%not open45.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.6%domestic only84.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Santa Casa 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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