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St. Luke's General Hospital

In research, St. Luke's General Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#15,689 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#18,444 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#39,467
of 42,892
Rank in Ireland
#135
of 152
Research works
222
▲ 147% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.7k
7.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
63%
world 28%

What is St. Luke's General 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
MedicineField #15,689 of 17,978 5.8%157
Health SciencesDomain #18,444 of 20,462 6.7%175

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where St. Luke's General 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: 0.70× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.65× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Materials Science: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 1.94× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.60× its world share, 33 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 12.25× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 12.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at St. Luke's General Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Complications, Guidelines, Management, Surveillance and Mortality.

▲ 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. Epidemiology9▲ 4.7×35 topics
  2. Diagnosis5▲ 11×15 topics
  3. Treatment4▲ 6.8×13 topics
  4. Complications3▲ 11×6 topics
  5. Guidelines2▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Management2▲ 6.5×9 topics
  7. Machine Learning2▲ 1.40×4 topics
  8. Mortality2▲ 7.3×5 topics
  9. Surveillance2▲ 16×2 topics
  10. Quality of Life2▲ 2.8×10 topics
  11. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 16×2 topics
  12. Children2▲ 15×5 topics
  13. Surgery2▲ 10×4 topics
  14. Artificial Intelligence2▲ 2.3×2 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  16. Discrimination2▲ 17×3 topics
  17. Immune Response2▲ 5.5×5 topics
  18. Risk Factors2▲ 3.0×6 topics
  19. Elderly Patients1▲ 17×3 topics
  20. Genetics1▲ 4.2×5 topics
  21. Laparoscopic Surgery1▲ 26×2 topics
  22. Rehabilitation1▲ 7.3×3 topics
  23. Drug Resistance1▲ 9.6×2 topics
  24. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy1▲ 34×1 topic
  25. Prevention1▲ 6.7×4 topics
  26. Rectal Cancer1▲ 70×1 topic
  27. Review1▲ 22×2 topics
  28. Asthma1▲ 25×2 topics
  29. Ethics1▲ 5.5×1 topic
  30. Fairness1▲ 30×1 topic
  31. Genetic Diversity1▲ 5.8×3 topics
  32. Meta-Analysis1▲ 4.1×3 topics
  33. Incidence1▲ 38×2 topics
  34. Vaccine1▲ 5.9×3 topics
  35. Colorectal Cancer1▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Health-related Quality of Life1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  37. Mycobacterium tuberculosis1▲ 38×1 topic
  38. Pathogenesis1▲ 4.3×6 topics
  39. Surgical Treatment1▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Tuberculosis1▲ 41×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology and Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management.

Colorectal Cancer Surgic…1Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 1 fractional worksEthics and Social Impact…1Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 1 fractional worksTuberculosis Research an…1Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksAppendicitis Diagnosis a…1Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management: 1 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 1 fractional worksDigital Imaging in Medicine: 1 fractional worksUterine Myomas and Treat…1Uterine Myomas and Treatments: 1 fractional worksPneumothorax, Barotrauma, Emphysema: 1 fractional worksIntensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders: 1 fractional worksRestraint-Related Deaths1Restraint-Related Deaths: 1 fractional works
OncologySafety ResearchInfectious DiseasesEmergency Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 1 works
  2. 2 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 1 works
  3. 3 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 1 works
  4. 4 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management Emergency Medicine 1 works
  5. 5 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 1 works
  6. 6 Digital Imaging in Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  7. 7 Uterine Myomas and Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 1 works
  8. 8 Pneumothorax, Barotrauma, Emphysema Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  9. 9 Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Restraint-Related Deaths Emergency Medicine 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 available63.4%not open36.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.2%domestic only80.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has St. Luke's General Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 147% 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.

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