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St George Hospital

In research, St George Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#2,476 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,281 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#884 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 6.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#8,777
of 28,054 · #6,721 all time
Rank in Australia
#145
of 391
Research works
3k
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
82k
27.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is St George Hospital 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 #2,476 of 10,443 13.3%326 #1674
Health SciencesDomain #3,281 of 11,982 13.5%346 #1858
SurgerySubfield #884 of 1,816 14.3%70 #949

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

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#1,674 #2,476
  2. Health Sciences#1,858 #3,281
  3. Surgery#949 #884
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 St George Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 6.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 70.2 works6.9×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.04× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.65× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.37× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.89× its world share, 326 worksMedicineNursing: 1.39× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.46× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 8 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 St George Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Mark Brown, Ian J. Cook and David Rosen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is St George Hospital.

  1. 1 Mark Brown Australia · #58,526 worldwide 241 citations · 80 works
  2. 2 Ian J. Cook Australia · #106,473 worldwide 174 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 David Rosen Australia · #115,554 worldwide 156 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 John Edmonds Australia · #128,939 worldwide 169 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 George A.C. Murrell Australia · #152,622 worldwide 150 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 Steven A. Krilis Australia · #179,276 worldwide 163 citations · 27 works
  7. 7 Marissa Lassere Australia · #194,366 worldwide 170 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 David Z. Lubowski Australia · #295,741 worldwide 85 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 David Rees Australia · #373,919 worldwide 31 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 David L. Morris Australia · #498,357 worldwide 310 citations · 179 works
All ranked researchers at St George Hospital

Which keywords describe research at St George Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Quality of Life, Complications, Management, Rehabilitation, Treatment and Survival Analysis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology62▲ 3.6×98 topics
  2. Quality of Life29▲ 4.6×36 topics
  3. Diagnosis29▲ 7.1×33 topics
  4. Complications22▲ 9.9×17 topics
  5. Inflammation22▲ 2.4×52 topics
  6. Management21▲ 6.1×24 topics
  7. Treatment20▲ 3.9×37 topics
  8. Rehabilitation17▲ 9.8×12 topics
  9. Biomarkers15▲ 5.2×12 topics
  10. Chemotherapy15▲ 5.0×22 topics
  11. Mortality14▲ 5.7×12 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease13▲ 2.6×24 topics
  13. Survival Analysis13▲ 11×7 topics
  14. Cytoreductive Surgery12▲ 44×2 topics
  15. Autoantibodies12▲ 12×8 topics
  16. Clinical Trials12▲ 4.1×15 topics
  17. Critical Care11▲ 11×8 topics
  18. Surgical Management11▲ 6.3×17 topics
  19. Immunotherapy11▲ 3.6×18 topics
  20. Chronic Kidney Disease11▲ 10×8 topics
  21. Gastric Cancer10▲ 20×3 topics
  22. Surgical Treatment10▲ 11×5 topics
  23. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 4.1×14 topics
  24. Autoimmune10▲ 46×2 topics
  25. Colorectal Cancer9▲ 26×2 topics
  26. Guidelines9▲ 4.3×13 topics
  27. Metastasis9▲ 6.0×10 topics
  28. Sepsis9▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy8▲ 98×1 topic
  30. Peritoneal Metastases8▲ 98×1 topic
  31. Prognosis8▲ 5.6×8 topics
  32. Immunosuppressive Therapy8▲ 9.4×5 topics
  33. Rituximab8▲ 11×4 topics
  34. Hemodialysis7▲ 21×2 topics
  35. Intravenous Immunoglobulin7▲ 25×3 topics
  36. Shoulder Function7▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Urinary Incontinence7▲ 20×2 topics
  38. Resuscitation7▲ 12×4 topics
  39. Bullous Pemphigoid6▲ 56×1 topic
  40. Pemphigoid6▲ 56×1 topic

Which research topics does St George Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies, Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases, Shoulder Injury and Treatment and Dialysis and Renal Disease Management.

Intraperitoneal and Appe…8Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies: 8 fractional worksAutoimmune Bullous Skin …6Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases: 6 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Trea…6Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 6 fractional worksDialysis and Renal Disea…5Dialysis and Renal Disease Management: 5 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders treatments: 4 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 4 fractional worksRespiratory Support and …4Respiratory Support and Mechanisms: 4 fractional worksShoulder and Clavicle Injuries: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 4 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Tre…3Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional works
SurgeryPathology and Forensic MedicineNephrologyRheumatology4 others

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

  1. 1 Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies Surgery 8 works
  2. 2 Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 6 works
  4. 4 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 5 works
  5. 5 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 4 works
  6. 6 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 4 works
  7. 7 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  8. 8 Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries Epidemiology 4 works
  9. 9 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 4 works
  10. 10 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 3 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 available34.7%not open65.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.9%domestic only75.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has St George Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower 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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