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Hospital / health system · Santiago de Compostela · Spain

Servicio Gallego de Salud

In research, Servicio Gallego de Salud stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,411 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#4,116 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#6,427 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#8,566
of 28,054 · #13,584 all time
Rank in Spain
#228
of 658
Research works
1.4k
▲ 51% vs 2013–17
Citations
18k
13.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
65%
world 28%

What is Servicio Gallego de Salud 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
Health SciencesDomain #4,411 of 11,982 17.9%199 #6634
MedicineField #4,116 of 10,443 19.1%165 #5768
Social SciencesDomain #6,427 of 10,521 14.2%72 #10223
Life SciencesDomain #5,319 of 7,800 20.2%72 #7067

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Servicio Gallego de Salud 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. Health Sciences#6,634 #4,411
  2. Medicine#5,768 #4,116
  3. Social Sciences#10,223 #6,427
  4. Life Sciences#7,067 #5,319
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.

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: 0.65× its world share, 12 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.08× its world share, 43 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.36× its world share, 9 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.07× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.14× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.57× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.37× its world share, 11 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.53× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.40× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.49× its world share, 25 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.22× its world share, 165 worksMedicineNursing: 2.82× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.86× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.76× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.51× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.71× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.73× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 30 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Servicio Gallego de Salud?

Ranked on the composite score, Esther Hernández Sáinz, Luis Arantón-Areosa and José María Rumbo Prieto lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Servicio Gallego de Salud.

  1. 1 Esther Hernández Sáinz Spain · #793,559 worldwide 0 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Luis Arantón-Areosa Spain · #825,823 worldwide 2 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 José María Rumbo Prieto Spain · #1,046,569 worldwide 6 citations · 37 works
All ranked researchers at Servicio Gallego de Salud

Which keywords describe research at Servicio Gallego de Salud?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Public Health, Obesity, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Metabolic Syndrome and Chronic Diseases.

▲ 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. Epidemiology41▲ 2.7×99 topics
  2. Inflammation22▲ 2.7×63 topics
  3. Public Health17▲ 3.0×37 topics
  4. Mental Health14▲ 2.5×25 topics
  5. Quality of Life14▲ 2.5×35 topics
  6. Obesity13▲ 4.5×23 topics
  7. Treatment12▲ 2.6×37 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease12▲ 2.7×28 topics
  9. Risk Factors11▲ 2.7×28 topics
  10. Metabolic Syndrome11▲ 3.5×15 topics
  11. Cancer10▲ 2.0×42 topics
  12. Depression10▲ 2.9×18 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress10▲ 1.51×44 topics
  14. Diagnosis9▲ 2.6×30 topics
  15. Pandemic9▲ 2.2×9 topics
  16. COVID-199▲ 1.68×20 topics
  17. Physical Activity9▲ 4.7×11 topics
  18. Healthcare8▲ 1.80×15 topics
  19. Health Promotion8▲ 6.4×13 topics
  20. Chronic Diseases8▲ 7.8×6 topics
  21. Clinical Trials8▲ 2.9×15 topics
  22. Prevalence6▲ 3.9×14 topics
  23. Biomarkers6▲ 2.3×17 topics
  24. Immune Response6▲ 2.6×16 topics
  25. Cancer Therapy6▲ 2.5×16 topics
  26. Prevention6▲ 3.5×13 topics
  27. Cardiovascular Risk5▲ 4.1×7 topics
  28. SARS-CoV-25▲ 3.9×6 topics
  29. ACE2 Receptor5▲ 5.1×3 topics
  30. Targeted Therapy5▲ 5.3×4 topics
  31. Autoantibodies4▲ 4.9×7 topics
  32. Weight Loss4▲ 7.0×4 topics
  33. Injury Prevention4▲ 9.1×4 topics
  34. Immunosuppressive Therapy4▲ 5.5×8 topics
  35. High-Intensity Interval Training4▲ 9.4×2 topics
  36. Resistance Training3▲ 9.6×2 topics
  37. Cognitive Therapy3▲ 7.8×3 topics
  38. Musculoskeletal Disorders3▲ 8.1×3 topics
  39. Physiological Demands3▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Training Load3▲ 13×1 topic

Which research topics does Servicio Gallego de Salud publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies and Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms.

Sports Performance and T…3Sports Performance and Training: 3 fractional worksSports injuries and prev…3Sports injuries and prevention: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 3 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment…3Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 3 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…3Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksLong-Term Effects of COVID-19: 2 fractional worksDiet and metabolism studies: 2 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…2Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 2 fractional worksHealth and Lifestyle Studies: 2 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineInfectious DiseasesRheumatologyCancer Research5 others

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

  1. 1 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 3 works
  2. 2 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
  4. 4 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 3 works
  5. 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 3 works
  6. 6 Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Neurology 2 works
  7. 7 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 2 works
  8. 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  9. 9 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 2 works
  10. 10 Health and Lifestyle Studies General Health Professions 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 available64.8%not open35.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.6%domestic only76.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Servicio Gallego de Salud's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 51% 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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