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St. Luke's Hospital

In research, St. Luke's Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#7,202 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,777 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#23,931
of 28,054 · #20,866 all time
Rank in United States
#3,596
of 4,192
Research works
320
▲ 48% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.2k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is St. Luke'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 #7,202 of 20,462 16.0%257
MedicineField #6,777 of 17,978 15.2%230

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

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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.53× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.18× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.65× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.23× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.08× its world share, 56 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

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

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Heart Failure, Endovascular Repair, Bacteremia, Guidelines, Treatment and Echocardiography.

▲ 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. Epidemiology12▲ 4.2×47 topics
  2. Diagnosis5▲ 7.5×19 topics
  3. Heart Failure5▲ 15×9 topics
  4. Treatment4▲ 5.1×14 topics
  5. Endovascular Repair4▲ 72×3 topics
  6. Bacteremia4▲ 77×3 topics
  7. Guidelines4▲ 12×8 topics
  8. Risk Factors4▲ 4.5×11 topics
  9. Echocardiography3▲ 18×5 topics
  10. Myocardial Infarction3▲ 20×3 topics
  11. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention3▲ 35×3 topics
  12. Prophylaxis3▲ 36×4 topics
  13. Thrombosis3▲ 16×5 topics
  14. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation3▲ 54×2 topics
  15. Cardiogenic Shock3▲ 83×1 topic
  16. Left Ventricular Assist Device3▲ 83×1 topic
  17. Aortic Aneurysm3▲ 58×2 topics
  18. Dilated Cardiomyopathy3▲ 53×2 topics
  19. Management3▲ 4.6×13 topics
  20. Surgery2▲ 10.0×4 topics
  21. Surgical Repair2▲ 87×1 topic
  22. Ventricular Reconstruction2▲ 87×1 topic
  23. Aortic Dissection2▲ 81×1 topic
  24. Bicuspid Aortic Valve2▲ 81×1 topic
  25. Molecular Diagnosis2▲ 94×2 topics
  26. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement2▲ 44×1 topic
  27. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement2▲ 44×1 topic
  28. Complications2▲ 6.2×3 topics
  29. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 5.4×8 topics
  30. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry2▲ 103×1 topic
  31. Microorganism Identification2▲ 103×1 topic
  32. Antibiotic Resistance2▲ 7.3×7 topics
  33. Catheter Ablation2▲ 23×2 topics
  34. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Endocarditis Guidelines2▲ 68×1 topic
  36. Infective Endocarditis2▲ 68×1 topic
  37. Resuscitation2▲ 19×3 topics
  38. Infection2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  39. Survival Rates2▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Thrombus Formation2▲ 31×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments.

Mechanical Circulatory S…3Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 3 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anoma…2Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treat…2Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 2 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…2Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 2 fractional worksBacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing: 2 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…2Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 2 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksAortic aneurysm repair treatments: 1 fractional worksAntibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy: 1 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringSurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 2 works
  3. 3 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing Clinical Biochemistry 2 works
  6. 6 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 2 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  9. 9 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy Pharmacology 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 available36.0%not open64.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.0%domestic only91.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 48% 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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