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St. Paul's Hospital

In research, St. Paul's Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,009 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#936 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 9.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,187
of 22,385 · #2,233 all time
Rank in Canada
#105
of 305
Research works
1.8k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
85k
47.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.20×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
38%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
St. Paul's Hospital

What is St. Paul's Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #1,009 of 9,902 17.9%192 #648
MedicineField #936 of 8,541 17.5%181 #602

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where St. Paul'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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does St. Paul's Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at St. Paul's Hospital is in Health Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (75%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%), Health Professions (5%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 221 fractional works · 79.6% of its workMedicine: 208 fractional works · 74.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 40 fractional works · 14.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 29 fractional works · 10.4% of its workSurgery: 27 fractional works · 9.8% of its workEpidemiology: 18 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 13 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPhysiology: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOncology: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workNephrology: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 13 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 27 fractional works · 9.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 fractional works · 2.9% of its workImmunology: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSt. Paul'sHospital278fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences80%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine20874.8%
    2. Health Professions134.6%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology155.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology82.9%
    3. Neuroscience20.8%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.6%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    1. Social Sciences82.9%
    2. Psychology41.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.5%
    4. Decision Sciences10.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Engineering72.4%
    2. Environmental Science31.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    4. Materials Science10.4%
    5. Chemistry00.2%
    6. Computer Science00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does St. Paul's Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 9.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 29.0 works9.9×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 40.3 works9.4×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.86× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.73× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.89× its world share, 208 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.51× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× 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.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.89×208 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology2.86×8 works
  3. Health Professions1.73×13 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.58×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×15 works
  6. Neuroscience0.52×2 works
  7. Psychology0.51×4 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.48×1 works
  9. Veterinary0.33×0 works
  10. Dentistry0.29×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.23×8 works
  12. Environmental Science0.22×3 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.22×1 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.18×1 works
  15. Engineering0.16×7 works
  16. Nursing0.15×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.13×0 works
  18. Chemistry0.11×0 works
  19. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.07×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×1 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.05×0 works
  24. Computer Science0.02×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

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

Ranked on the quality score, B. R. Wiggs, Ronald G. Carere and T R Bai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is St. Paul's Hospital.

  1. 1 B. R. Wiggs Canada · #129,818 worldwide 5.7k citations · 51 works
  2. 2 Ronald G. Carere Canada · #430,735 worldwide 4.2k citations · 38 works
  3. 3 T R Bai Canada · #767,763 worldwide 2.6k citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Xiaozhu Zhang Canada · #1,848,428 worldwide 774 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Alhousseynou Sall Canada · #1,974,385 worldwide 693 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Philippe Blanke Canada · #2,050,101 worldwide 514 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Dean R. English Canada · #2,628,555 worldwide 1.2k citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Andrew M. Bramley Canada · #2,739,478 worldwide 683 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 JC Hogg Canada · #3,042,799 worldwide 510 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at St. Paul's Hospital

What are the most cited papers from St. Paul's Hospital?

The most cited paper from St. Paul's Hospital is "Health benefits of physical activity: the evidence" (Darren E. R. Warburton, 2006), with 8,106 citations. Next come "Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery" (7,239) and "Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury" (7,137).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Health benefits of physical activity: the evidence Darren E. R. Warburton · Canadian Medical Association Journal Open access 13 Mar 2006 8,106
2 Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery Martin B. Leon et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 20 Oct 2010 7,239
3 Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury Ravindra L. Mehta, John A. Kellum, Sudhir V. Shah et al. · Critical Care Open access Mar 2007 7,137
4 Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients Craig R. Smith et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 5 Jun 2011 6,389
5 The Nature of Small-Airway Obstruction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease James C. Hogg, Fanny S. F. Chu, Soraya Utokaparch et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 23 Jun 2004 3,801
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management, Heart Failure, Global Burden, Treatment, Respiratory and COPD.

▲ 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-now 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. Epidemiology31▲ 2.8×84 topics
  2. Diagnosis20▲ 7.8×26 topics
  3. Management18▲ 8.0×20 topics
  4. Inflammation14▲ 2.5×48 topics
  5. Treatment14▲ 4.1×31 topics
  6. Heart Failure12▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Global Burden12▲ 7.9×10 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease12▲ 3.6×26 topics
  9. Public Health11▲ 2.6×26 topics
  10. Respiratory10▲ 38×2 topics
  11. COPD10▲ 55×1 topic
  12. spirometry10▲ 55×1 topic
  13. Echocardiography9▲ 12×7 topics
  14. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement9▲ 46×1 topic
  15. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement9▲ 46×1 topic
  16. Mortality Risk9▲ 13×5 topics
  17. Quality of Life8▲ 2.0×28 topics
  18. Mortality8▲ 5.1×11 topics
  19. Substance Use Disorders8▲ 37×2 topics
  20. Risk Factors8▲ 2.5×21 topics
  21. Guidelines7▲ 5.4×9 topics
  22. Atherosclerosis7▲ 8.6×9 topics
  23. Obesity6▲ 3.0×14 topics
  24. Myocardial Infarction6▲ 9.4×7 topics
  25. Chronic Kidney Disease6▲ 8.5×8 topics
  26. Fibrosis6▲ 11×8 topics
  27. Chronic Pain Management5▲ 58×1 topic
  28. Opioid Prescribing5▲ 58×1 topic
  29. Cardiovascular Risk5▲ 5.8×8 topics
  30. Magnetic Resonance Imaging5▲ 7.2×4 topics
  31. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention5▲ 13×3 topics
  32. Substance Abuse5▲ 25×2 topics
  33. TGF-ß4▲ 10×4 topics
  34. Pulmonary Hypertension4▲ 12×3 topics
  35. HIV4▲ 19×4 topics
  36. Sudden Cardiac Death4▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Interstitial Lung Disease4▲ 22×2 topics
  38. Mechanical Ventilation4▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Prophylaxis4▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Cardiac Imaging4▲ 11×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Chronic Obstructive Pulm…10Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 10 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 9 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Treatment: 5 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 4 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 4 fractional worksCystic Fibrosis Research Advances: 3 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 3 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 3 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 3 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 9 works
  3. 3 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5 works
  4. 4 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 4 works
  6. 6 Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  8. 8 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 3 works
  9. 9 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 3 works
  10. 10 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 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 available37.8%not open62.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.3%domestic only75.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is St. Paul's Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%St. Paul's Hospital0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of St. Paul's Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%St. Paul's Hospital14.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.8% in 1992.

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