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South Shore Hospital

In research, South Shore Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#10,655 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#13,208 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#26,009
of 28,054 · #30,895 all time
Rank in United States
#3,925
of 4,192
Research works
342
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.8k
14.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
23%
world 28%

What is South Shore Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #10,655 of 20,462 9.8%262
MedicineField #13,208 of 17,978 9.4%217

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

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: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.06× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.88× its world share, 52 worksMedicineNursing: 2.33× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.19× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.82× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.93× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 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.

Which keywords describe research at South Shore Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Management, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Epidemiology, Diabetes, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Complications and Wound Healing.

▲ 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. Epidemiology7▲ 2.4×39 topics
  2. Diagnosis4▲ 6.6×15 topics
  3. Management4▲ 7.8×10 topics
  4. Guidelines4▲ 12×7 topics
  5. Inflammation4▲ 2.6×18 topics
  6. Diabetes3▲ 8.9×6 topics
  7. Treatment3▲ 3.6×16 topics
  8. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention3▲ 28×4 topics
  9. Quality of Life3▲ 2.6×14 topics
  10. Complications2▲ 7.2×10 topics
  11. Mortality2▲ 6.1×8 topics
  12. Wound Healing2▲ 12×4 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease2▲ 2.8×13 topics
  14. Echocardiography2▲ 12×6 topics
  15. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 13×4 topics
  16. Atherosclerosis2▲ 10×3 topics
  17. Postoperative Complications2▲ 19×2 topics
  18. Pulmonary Hypertension2▲ 18×3 topics
  19. Endothelial Dysfunction2▲ 10×5 topics
  20. Angiogenesis2▲ 6.7×3 topics
  21. Cardiac Risk2▲ 27×1 topic
  22. Mortality Risk2▲ 9.2×5 topics
  23. Pain Management2▲ 9.1×6 topics
  24. Perioperative2▲ 27×1 topic
  25. Coronary Stents1▲ 47×1 topic
  26. Myocardial Revascularization1▲ 47×1 topic
  27. Prevention1▲ 4.9×3 topics
  28. Regeneration1▲ 10×2 topics
  29. Treatment Guidelines1▲ 9.3×4 topics
  30. Chronic Kidney Disease1▲ 7.5×5 topics
  31. Critical Care1▲ 8.0×5 topics
  32. Embolization1▲ 28×3 topics
  33. Nutritional Support1▲ 20×3 topics
  34. Coronary Artery Disease1▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Fibroblasts1▲ 32×1 topic
  36. Intensive Care Unit1▲ 14×4 topics
  37. Macrophages1▲ 10×1 topic
  38. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes1▲ 9.2×5 topics
  39. Quality Improvement1▲ 8.7×4 topics
  40. Suicide Risk1▲ 57×2 topics

Which research topics does South Shore Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Wound Healing and Treatments.

Cardiac, Anesthesia and …2Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 2 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…1Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Treatment: 1 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatm…1Wound Healing and Treatments: 1 fractional worksVeterinary Practice and …1Veterinary Practice and Education Studies: 1 fractional worksVascular Anomalies and Treatments: 1 fractional worksPulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments: 1 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Hea…1Neonatal Respiratory Health Research: 1 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksDiabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management: 1 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgeryPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthRehabilitation5 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  2. 2 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 1 works
  3. 3 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  4. 4 Wound Healing and Treatments Rehabilitation 1 works
  5. 5 Veterinary Practice and Education Studies Speech and Hearing 1 works
  6. 6 Vascular Anomalies and Treatments Genetics 1 works
  7. 7 Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  10. 10 Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 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 available23.0%not open77.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.6%domestic only90.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has South Shore Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% 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.

Other research institutions in Weymouth

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