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Hospital / health system · Bizana · South Africa

St Patrick's Hospital

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World rank, all time
#30,452
of 42,892
Rank in South Africa
#113
of 154
Research works
125
▼ 29% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.6k
53.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

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: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.13× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 1.32× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 3.09× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.17× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.95× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.78× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 6.39× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at St Patrick's Hospital?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Quality of Life, Diagnosis, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Risk Factors, Prophylaxis and Chronic Venous Insufficiency.

▲ 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. Epidemiology18▲ 3.5×43 topics
  2. Treatment10▲ 6.4×18 topics
  3. Quality of Life10▲ 5.9×17 topics
  4. Diagnosis9▲ 7.0×13 topics
  5. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 11×5 topics
  6. Risk Factors7▲ 5.2×20 topics
  7. Inflammation6▲ 1.89×20 topics
  8. Public Health5▲ 3.2×13 topics
  9. Management4▲ 4.1×9 topics
  10. Mental Health4▲ 2.9×15 topics
  11. Prophylaxis4▲ 21×3 topics
  12. Chronic Venous Insufficiency4▲ 134×1 topic
  13. Varicose Veins4▲ 134×1 topic
  14. Complications3▲ 4.9×8 topics
  15. Deep Vein Thrombosis3▲ 29×2 topics
  16. Antithrombotic Therapy3▲ 23×2 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome3▲ 2.7×9 topics
  18. Diabetes3▲ 4.4×6 topics
  19. Pulmonary Embolism3▲ 32×1 topic
  20. Surgery3▲ 6.6×5 topics
  21. Venous Thromboembolism3▲ 32×1 topic
  22. Economic Evaluation3▲ 16×2 topics
  23. Immune Response3▲ 3.4×4 topics
  24. Primary Care3▲ 4.9×8 topics
  25. Guidelines2▲ 4.2×7 topics
  26. Prevalence2▲ 5.1×8 topics
  27. Psychiatric Disorders2▲ 13×3 topics
  28. Wound Healing2▲ 8.8×4 topics
  29. Neuroscience2▲ 5.7×4 topics
  30. Social Support2▲ 4.1×6 topics
  31. Vaccine2▲ 4.6×4 topics
  32. Metastasis2▲ 5.0×5 topics
  33. Children2▲ 6.3×3 topics
  34. Medical History2▲ 36×3 topics
  35. Adults2▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Laparoscopic Surgery2▲ 13×2 topics
  37. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 9.7×4 topics
  38. Regeneration2▲ 8.2×3 topics
  39. Revascularization2▲ 9.9×3 topics
  40. Traumatic Brain Injury2▲ 13×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices and History of Medicine Studies.

Data Mining and Machine …0Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications: 0 fractional worksBig Data and Business In…0Big Data and Business Intelligence: 0 fractional worksHistorical Psychiatry an…0Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices: 0 fractional worksHistory of Medicine Stud…0History of Medicine Studies: 0 fractional worksClinical practice guidelines implementation: 0 fractional worksMulti-Criteria Decision Making: 0 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…0Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksDecision Support System …0Decision Support System Applications: 0 fractional worksSoil and Land Suitabilit…0Soil and Land Suitability Analysis: 0 fractional worksGender and Technology in…0Gender and Technology in Education: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsManagement Information SystemsClinical PsychologyHistory5 others

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

  1. 1 Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications Information Systems 0 works
  2. 2 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 0 works
  3. 3 Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices Clinical Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 History of Medicine Studies History 0 works
  5. 5 Clinical practice guidelines implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  6. 6 Multi-Criteria Decision Making Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  7. 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  8. 8 Decision Support System Applications Management Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 Soil and Land Suitability Analysis Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  10. 10 Gender and Technology in Education Gender Studies 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.0%domestic only47.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has St Patrick's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 29% 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.