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Hospital / health system · Aliwal North · South Africa

St Francis Chronic Hospital

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Research works
40
▼ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
638
16.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: St Francis Chronic Hospital is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.53× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringDentistry: 3.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 4.60× its world share, 4 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at St Francis Chronic Hospital?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Myocardial Infarction, Immunotherapy, Management, Echocardiography and Coronary Artery 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 all years 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 29 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology5▲ 2.9×37 topics
  2. Diagnosis2▲ 6.1×12 topics
  3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging2▲ 14×6 topics
  4. Immunotherapy2▲ 6.8×6 topics
  5. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 17×5 topics
  6. Management2▲ 5.5×5 topics
  7. Risk Factors2▲ 3.8×11 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease2▲ 3.3×13 topics
  9. Coronary Artery Disease1▲ 28×2 topics
  10. Echocardiography1▲ 13×7 topics
  11. Inflammation1▲ 1.47×15 topics
  12. Obesity1▲ 4.6×7 topics
  13. Global Burden1▲ 6.1×4 topics
  14. Intermediate Filaments1▲ 163×1 topic
  15. Keratins1▲ 163×1 topic
  16. COPD1▲ 47×1 topic
  17. Cardiac Imaging1▲ 22×2 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment1▲ 31×2 topics
  19. Quality of Life1▲ 2.3×10 topics
  20. Radiation Exposure1▲ 24×2 topics
  21. Respiratory1▲ 31×2 topics
  22. spirometry1▲ 47×1 topic
  23. Computed Tomography Angiography1▲ 34×1 topic
  24. Guidelines1▲ 6.0×7 topics
  25. Mental Health1▲ 2.5×8 topics
  26. Myocardial Perfusion1▲ 34×1 topic
  27. Treatment1▲ 2.1×16 topics
  28. Atherosclerosis1▲ 7.2×4 topics
  29. Chemotherapy1▲ 3.6×7 topics

Which research topics does St Francis Chronic Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Uterine Myomas and Treatments, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes and Esophageal and GI Pathology.

Uterine Myomas and Treat…1Uterine Myomas and Treatments: 1 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…0Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksBariatric Surgery and Ou…0Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes: 0 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…0Esophageal and GI Pathology: 0 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…0Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksParkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 0 fractional worksPrion Diseases and Protein Misfolding: 0 fractional worksEndometriosis Research and Treatment: 0 fractional worksGynecological conditions and treatments: 0 fractional worksGenetic Neurodegenerative Diseases: 0 fractional works
Obstetrics and GynecologySurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingNeurology3 others

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

  1. 1 Uterine Myomas and Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 1 works
  2. 2 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 0 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  6. 6 Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 0 works
  7. 7 Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding Molecular Biology 0 works
  8. 8 Endometriosis Research and Treatment Reproductive Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Gynecological conditions and treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 0 works
  10. 10 Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0 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 available32.9%not open67.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors86.0%domestic only14.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has St Francis Chronic Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% 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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