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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

In research, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust stands highest in Medicine (#1,228 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,626 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,037 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Gastroenterology and Rheumatology — Gastroenterology is 26.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,915
of 28,054 · #7,442 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#230
of 1,094
Research works
3.5k
▲ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
46k
13.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
46%
world 28%

What is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 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 #1,228 of 10,443 11.6%726 #1662
Health SciencesDomain #1,626 of 11,982 11.5%799 #1766
SurgerySubfield #1,037 of 1,816 9.7%125 #1479
Life SciencesDomain #4,673 of 7,800 14.7%84 #6100
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #843 of 1,144 10.9%79 #1273

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 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).

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. Medicine#1,662 #1,228
  2. Health Sciences#1,766 #1,626
  3. Surgery#1,479 #1,037
  4. Life Sciences#6,100 #4,673
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,273 #843
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.

What does Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Gastroenterology takes 26.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GastroenterologySubfield · 30.3 works27×
  2. RheumatologySubfield · 25.2 works5.8×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.89× its world share, 46 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.60× its world share, 15 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.23× its world share, 19 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.24× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.33× its world share, 59 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.94× its world share, 726 worksMedicineNursing: 1.66× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 19 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 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Steven R. Brown, John A. Snowden and James Tomlinson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

  1. 1 Steven R. Brown United Kingdom · #43,692 worldwide 256 citations · 62 works
  2. 2 John A. Snowden United Kingdom · #109,024 worldwide 322 citations · 75 works
  3. 3 James Tomlinson United Kingdom · #292,359 worldwide 63 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Mo Thoufeeq United Kingdom · #312,362 worldwide 38 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Martin Wilkie United Kingdom · #329,514 worldwide 96 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Ruth Murphy United Kingdom · #331,810 worldwide 82 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Mark Cobb United Kingdom · #422,939 worldwide 78 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Stephen Bianchi United Kingdom · #428,198 worldwide 69 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Swati Jha United Kingdom · #431,722 worldwide 32 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 M. D. Wiles United Kingdom · #580,251 worldwide 33 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Which keywords describe research at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Management, Mortality, Treatment, Quality of Life and Chronic Kidney Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology126▲ 3.3×115 topics
  2. Diagnosis52▲ 5.8×38 topics
  3. Quality of Life45▲ 3.3×41 topics
  4. Treatment44▲ 3.8×42 topics
  5. Inflammation42▲ 2.1×61 topics
  6. Management42▲ 5.5×28 topics
  7. Guidelines39▲ 8.8×12 topics
  8. Risk Factors38▲ 3.7×28 topics
  9. Mortality36▲ 6.6×13 topics
  10. Complications30▲ 6.2×16 topics
  11. Chronic Kidney Disease29▲ 12×8 topics
  12. Chemotherapy28▲ 4.2×23 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines26▲ 5.0×14 topics
  14. Echocardiography26▲ 9.9×7 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease25▲ 2.4×30 topics
  16. Immunotherapy25▲ 3.6×19 topics
  17. Prevention23▲ 5.8×15 topics
  18. Rehabilitation22▲ 5.8×11 topics
  19. Surgical Management21▲ 5.4×18 topics
  20. Endothelial Dysfunction21▲ 9.3×6 topics
  21. Pathogenesis20▲ 4.1×22 topics
  22. Genetics20▲ 2.9×16 topics
  23. Treatment Guidelines19▲ 9.2×6 topics
  24. Radiotherapy18▲ 4.9×12 topics
  25. Prognosis18▲ 5.7×9 topics
  26. Patient Satisfaction17▲ 5.7×9 topics
  27. Prognostic Factors17▲ 4.0×14 topics
  28. Pulmonary Hypertension16▲ 12×3 topics
  29. Intestinal Permeability16▲ 34×2 topics
  30. Clinical Guidelines15▲ 5.4×9 topics
  31. Genetic Variants15▲ 8.9×7 topics
  32. Right Heart Assessment15▲ 39×1 topic
  33. Survival Prediction15▲ 39×1 topic
  34. Medical Education15▲ 5.9×10 topics
  35. Inflammatory Bowel Disease14▲ 13×5 topics
  36. Screening14▲ 16×3 topics
  37. Critical Care14▲ 6.1×8 topics
  38. Clinical Management13▲ 8.1×7 topics
  39. Postoperative Complications13▲ 10×4 topics
  40. Colorectal Cancer12▲ 15×3 topics

Which research topics does Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments, Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection and Celiac Disease Research and Management.

Pulmonary Hypertension R…15Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments: 15 fractional worksGastrointestinal Bleedin…11Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment: 11 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screen…11Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 11 fractional worksCeliac Disease Research …10Celiac Disease Research and Management: 10 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 8 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders treatments: 7 fractional worksMicroscopic Colitis7Microscopic Colitis: 7 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease: 6 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 6 fractional worksGastrointestinal motility and disorders: 5 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineGastroenterologyOncologyCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 15 works
  2. 2 Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment Gastroenterology 11 works
  3. 3 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 11 works
  4. 4 Celiac Disease Research and Management Gastroenterology 10 works
  5. 5 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  6. 6 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 7 works
  7. 7 Microscopic Colitis Epidemiology 7 works
  8. 8 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 6 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 6 works
  10. 10 Gastrointestinal motility and disorders Gastroenterology 5 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 available46.4%not open53.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.6%domestic only86.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.