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Hospital / health system · Caringbah · Australia

Sutherland Hospital

In research, Sutherland Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#4,696 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#6,103 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 5.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#12,620
of 28,054 · #17,549 all time
Rank in Australia
#214
of 391
Research works
754
▲ 105% vs 2013–17
Citations
9.4k
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is Sutherland Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #4,696 of 10,443 24.7%93 #5593
Health SciencesDomain #6,103 of 11,982 24.6%99 #6250

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sutherland 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 Sutherland Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 5.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 21.1 works5.9×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.63× its world share, 13 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.33× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.52× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.20× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.14× its world share, 92 worksMedicineNursing: 1.27× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.67× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.85× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Sutherland Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Israel Solomons, Vernon Wertz and Lan Gong lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sutherland Hospital.

  1. 1 Israel Solomons Australia · #901,721 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Vernon Wertz Australia · #935,412 worldwide 0 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Lan Gong Australia · #1,055,309 worldwide 12 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Liam Thornton Australia · #1,058,447 worldwide 4 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Sam Adie Australia · #1,206,885 worldwide 22 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 E. F. Boehm Australia · #1,488,399 worldwide 5 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Sutherland Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Sutherland Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Complications, Surgical Treatment, Low Back Pain, Degenerative Disc Disease, Diagnosis and Human Rights.

▲ 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. Epidemiology17▲ 2.8×69 topics
  2. Human Rights6▲ 4.0×13 topics
  3. Diagnosis6▲ 4.2×29 topics
  4. Quality of Life6▲ 2.8×25 topics
  5. Rehabilitation6▲ 10.0×10 topics
  6. Inflammation6▲ 1.85×38 topics
  7. Complications6▲ 7.5×16 topics
  8. Cancer6▲ 2.7×24 topics
  9. Biomarkers5▲ 5.2×12 topics
  10. Surgical Treatment5▲ 18×5 topics
  11. Low Back Pain5▲ 20×2 topics
  12. Treatment5▲ 2.8×33 topics
  13. Management5▲ 4.2×17 topics
  14. Chemotherapy5▲ 4.7×16 topics
  15. Degenerative Disc Disease5▲ 34×2 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 5.6×14 topics
  17. Clinical Trials5▲ 4.6×15 topics
  18. Spinal Fusion4▲ 29×2 topics
  19. Survival Analysis4▲ 9.6×6 topics
  20. Clinical Outcomes4▲ 12×3 topics
  21. Gastric Cancer4▲ 21×3 topics
  22. Spinal Surgery4▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Intervertebral Disc3▲ 34×1 topic
  24. Lumbar Disc Degeneration3▲ 34×1 topic
  25. Cytoreductive Surgery3▲ 33×2 topics
  26. Chronic Pain3▲ 9.4×5 topics
  27. Judicial Review3▲ 22×3 topics
  28. Neuroimaging3▲ 7.6×7 topics
  29. Constitutionalism3▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Biogenesis3▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Gut Microbiota3▲ 5.5×2 topics
  32. Metabolic Health3▲ 9.8×2 topics
  33. Metastasis3▲ 5.5×7 topics
  34. Immune Responses3▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Inflammatory Diseases3▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Metagenomic Analysis3▲ 16×1 topic
  37. Short-Chain Fatty Acids3▲ 16×1 topic
  38. Colorectal Cancer3▲ 22×3 topics
  39. ECHR2▲ 41×1 topic
  40. European Legal Systems2▲ 41×1 topic

Which research topics does Sutherland Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Gut microbiota and health, European and International Law Studies and Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies.

Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 3 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 3 fractional worksEuropean and Internation…2European and International Law Studies: 2 fractional worksIntraperitoneal and Appe…2Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies: 2 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 2 fractional worksCervical and Thoracic My…2Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 1 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 1 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 1 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicineMolecular BiologyPolitical Science and International RelationsSurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 3 works
  2. 2 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 3 works
  3. 3 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  4. 4 Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies Surgery 2 works
  5. 5 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 2 works
  6. 6 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 2 works
  7. 7 Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy Surgery 2 works
  8. 8 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 1 works
  9. 9 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive 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 available43.7%not open56.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.6%domestic only73.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sutherland Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 105% 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.

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.