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Hospital / health system · Chipata · Zambia

St Francis’ Hospital

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Research works
94
▼ 55% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.4k
14.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
27%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: St Francis’ 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.21× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.20× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringDentistry: 2.90× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.67× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.79× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 3.92× its world share, 0 worksNursingPsychology: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at St Francis’ Hospital?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Medical Education, Diagnosis, Global Burden of Disease, Myocardial Infarction, Child Development, Maternal and Child Undernutrition and Antiretroviral Therapy.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology11▲ 2.8×57 topics
  2. Diagnosis4▲ 4.1×15 topics
  3. Public Health4▲ 3.0×16 topics
  4. Treatment4▲ 3.0×20 topics
  5. Risk Factors3▲ 3.3×20 topics
  6. Medical Education3▲ 13×7 topics
  7. Child Development3▲ 9.8×1 topic
  8. Global Burden of Disease3▲ 14×2 topics
  9. Management3▲ 3.6×9 topics
  10. Maternal and Child Undernutrition3▲ 46×1 topic
  11. Myocardial Infarction3▲ 11×5 topics
  12. Antiretroviral Therapy2▲ 11×5 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease2▲ 2.4×16 topics
  14. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 4.8×9 topics
  15. Magnetic Resonance Imaging2▲ 6.8×6 topics
  16. HIV/AIDS2▲ 35×2 topics
  17. Healthcare2▲ 3.4×6 topics
  18. Ethical Considerations2▲ 7.0×4 topics
  19. Guidelines2▲ 4.9×9 topics
  20. Complications2▲ 4.1×11 topics
  21. Global Burden2▲ 3.9×10 topics
  22. Maternal Mortality2▲ 11×3 topics
  23. Surgery2▲ 6.1×7 topics
  24. Mortality Risk2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  25. Development2▲ 5.4×3 topics
  26. Global Health2▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Impact2▲ 75×1 topic
  28. Sub-Saharan Africa2▲ 124×1 topic
  29. Radiation Exposure2▲ 13×2 topics
  30. Congenital Anomalies2▲ 20×3 topics
  31. Coronary Artery Disease2▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Critical Care2▲ 7.3×7 topics
  33. Echocardiography2▲ 6.0×7 topics
  34. Neuroimaging2▲ 5.8×4 topics
  35. Cardiac Imaging1▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Congenital Heart Disease1▲ 16×3 topics
  37. Health Inequalities1▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Pulmonary Edema1▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Reflective Practice1▲ 8.5×2 topics
  40. Clinical Skills1▲ 51×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Uterine Myomas and Treatments, Radiology practices and education, Esophageal and GI Pathology and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics.

Uterine Myomas and Treat…1Uterine Myomas and Treatments: 1 fractional worksRadiology practices and education: 0 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…0Esophageal and GI Pathology: 0 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…0Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksBariatric Surgery and Outcomes: 0 fractional worksMetabolism and Genetic Disorders: 0 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diag…0Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 0 fractional worksErythrocyte Function and…0Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology: 0 fractional worksRabbits: Nutrition, Repr…0Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health: 0 fractional worksFolate and B Vitamins Re…0Folate and B Vitamins Research: 0 fractional works
Obstetrics and GynecologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSurgeryClinical Biochemistry3 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 Radiology practices and education Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  3. 3 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 0 works
  4. 4 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 0 works
  5. 5 Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes Surgery 0 works
  6. 6 Metabolism and Genetic Disorders Clinical Biochemistry 0 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  8. 8 Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology Physiology 0 works
  9. 9 Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  10. 10 Folate and B Vitamins Research Rheumatology 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 available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors62.8%domestic only37.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 55% 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.

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.