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Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

In research, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust stands highest in Medicine (#7,561 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,944 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#18,421
of 28,054 · #22,333 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#650
of 1,094
Research works
607
▲ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
11k
17.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

What is Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation 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 #7,561 of 10,443 16.9%75 #8931
Health SciencesDomain #8,944 of 11,982 15.7%93 #10563

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation 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).

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: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.04× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.82× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.67× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.96× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 4.66× its world share, 17 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.89× its world share, 75 worksMedicineNursing: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.09× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Meena Balasubramanian, Paul Dimitri and Prasad Godbole lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

  1. 1 Meena Balasubramanian United Kingdom · #596,432 worldwide 61 citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Paul Dimitri United Kingdom · #695,799 worldwide 62 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Prasad Godbole United Kingdom · #755,301 worldwide 19 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Paul Arundel United Kingdom · #1,387,063 worldwide 8 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Daniel Hawley United Kingdom · #1,405,542 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Which keywords describe research at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Primary Care, Public Health, Adolescents, Health Equity, Training, Social Determinants and Genetics.

▲ 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. Epidemiology18▲ 3.4×66 topics
  2. Public Health8▲ 4.1×18 topics
  3. Primary Care8▲ 15×11 topics
  4. Inflammation5▲ 1.87×30 topics
  5. Adolescents5▲ 10×6 topics
  6. Genetics5▲ 5.0×12 topics
  7. Health Equity5▲ 13×3 topics
  8. Treatment4▲ 2.7×21 topics
  9. Training4▲ 15×3 topics
  10. Mortality4▲ 5.0×9 topics
  11. Social Determinants4▲ 14×2 topics
  12. Biomechanics4▲ 9.2×4 topics
  13. Community Health4▲ 17×1 topic
  14. Pediatrics4▲ 93×1 topic
  15. Mental Health Services3▲ 44×2 topics
  16. Chronic Conditions3▲ 33×2 topics
  17. Health Care3▲ 23×2 topics
  18. Meta-Analysis3▲ 3.8×8 topics
  19. Medical Home3▲ 82×1 topic
  20. Transition3▲ 23×1 topic
  21. Aortic Aneurysm3▲ 33×2 topics
  22. Neurological Disorders3▲ 3.6×11 topics
  23. Circadian Rhythms3▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome3▲ 95×1 topic
  25. Health-related Quality of Life3▲ 8.5×3 topics
  26. Internal Fixation3▲ 29×2 topics
  27. Marfan Syndrome3▲ 95×1 topic
  28. Bone Healing3▲ 43×1 topic
  29. Fracture Epidemiology3▲ 43×1 topic
  30. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 9.7×4 topics
  31. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy2▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Executive Functioning2▲ 15×2 topics
  33. Autism Spectrum Disorders2▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Genetic Variants2▲ 9.8×4 topics
  35. Insomnia2▲ 25×1 topic
  36. Quality Improvement2▲ 8.8×4 topics
  37. Sleep Duration2▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study2▲ 37×1 topic
  39. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes2▲ 8.7×6 topics
  40. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory2▲ 37×1 topic

Which research topics does Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Child and Adolescent Health, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Connective tissue disorders research and Bone fractures and treatments.

Child and Adolescent Hea…4Child and Adolescent Health: 4 fractional worksAdolescent and Pediatric…3Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare: 3 fractional worksConnective tissue disord…3Connective tissue disorders research: 3 fractional worksBone fractures and treat…3Bone fractures and treatments: 3 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 2 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases2Genomics and Rare Diseases: 2 fractional worksInhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery: 2 fractional worksObstructive Sleep Apnea Research: 1 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSpeech and HearingGeneticsEpidemiology4 others

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

  1. 1 Child and Adolescent Health General Health Professions 4 works
  2. 2 Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare Speech and Hearing 3 works
  3. 3 Connective tissue disorders research Genetics 3 works
  4. 4 Bone fractures and treatments Epidemiology 3 works
  5. 5 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
  6. 6 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works
  7. 7 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 2 works
  8. 8 Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Physiology 1 works
  10. 10 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 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 available41.6%not open58.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.3%domestic only83.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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