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St. Joseph's Hospital

In research, St. Joseph's Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,896 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,292 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 13.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#18,674
of 28,054 · #22,612 all time
Rank in United States
#2,711
of 4,192
Research works
332
▲ 91% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.2k
12.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

What is St. Joseph's 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 #6,896 of 20,462 10.2%272
MedicineField #6,292 of 17,978 9.9%242

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

What does St. Joseph's Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 13.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 21.6 works13×
← 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, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.68× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.00× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.34× its world share, 57 worksMedicineNursing: 0.94× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.51× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Sridhar Vasudevan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is St. Joseph's Hospital.

  1. 1 Sridhar Vasudevan United States · #1,256,088 worldwide 6 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at St. Joseph's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Transplantation, Rejection, Immunosuppressive Therapy, Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant, Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Graft Survival.

▲ 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. Epidemiology11▲ 4.2×40 topics
  2. Transplantation10▲ 140×3 topics
  3. Rejection10▲ 340×2 topics
  4. Immunosuppressive Therapy9▲ 70×3 topics
  5. Heart Transplant9▲ 403×1 topic
  6. Lung Transplant9▲ 403×1 topic
  7. Diagnosis5▲ 7.2×18 topics
  8. Graft Survival4▲ 76×3 topics
  9. Complications4▲ 12×8 topics
  10. Palliative Treatment4▲ 81×2 topics
  11. Endoscopic Stenting4▲ 110×1 topic
  12. Esophageal Perforation4▲ 110×1 topic
  13. Treatment3▲ 4.1×10 topics
  14. Thrombosis3▲ 15×5 topics
  15. Immunosuppression3▲ 44×3 topics
  16. Kidney Transplantation3▲ 64×2 topics
  17. Immunosuppressive Drugs3▲ 62×1 topic
  18. Management3▲ 4.9×15 topics
  19. Renal Allograft3▲ 104×1 topic
  20. Tissue Engineering2▲ 5.9×3 topics
  21. Mechanical Ventilation2▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Airway Stenosis2▲ 58×1 topic
  23. Tracheostomy2▲ 58×1 topic
  24. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation2▲ 43×2 topics
  25. Esophageal Motility Disorders2▲ 113×1 topic
  26. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease2▲ 113×1 topic
  27. Heart Failure2▲ 7.0×4 topics
  28. Merkel Cell Carcinoma2▲ 174×1 topic
  29. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 19×2 topics
  30. Polyomavirus2▲ 174×1 topic
  31. Cardiogenic Shock2▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Left Ventricular Assist Device2▲ 51×1 topic
  33. Liver Transplantation2▲ 20×3 topics
  34. SARS-CoV-22▲ 7.6×3 topics
  35. Surgery2▲ 7.0×7 topics
  36. Donor Risk Index2▲ 56×1 topic
  37. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury2▲ 36×1 topic
  38. ACE2 Receptor2▲ 9.1×2 topics
  39. Vaccine Development2▲ 8.4×3 topics
  40. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition1▲ 22×2 topics

Which research topics does St. Joseph's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Esophageal and GI Pathology, Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments and Tracheal and airway disorders.

Transplantation: Methods…9Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 9 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathol…4Esophageal and GI Pathology: 4 fractional worksRenal Transplantation Ou…3Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments: 3 fractional worksTracheal and airway disorders: 2 fractional worksGastroesophageal reflux and treatments: 2 fractional worksPolyomavirus and related…2Polyomavirus and related diseases: 2 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 2 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 1 fractional worksPneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment: 1 fractional works
SurgeryTransplantationPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineGastroenterology3 others

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

  1. 1 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 9 works
  2. 2 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 4 works
  3. 3 Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments Transplantation 3 works
  4. 4 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments Gastroenterology 2 works
  6. 6 Polyomavirus and related diseases Oncology 2 works
  7. 7 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment Epidemiology 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 available25.7%not open74.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.5%domestic only94.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has St. Joseph's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 91% 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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