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The Royal Free Hospital

In research, The Royal Free Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,447 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,899 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,770 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nephrology, Hepatology and Immunology — Nephrology is 18.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,521
of 28,054 · #976 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#140
of 1,094
Research works
12k
▼ 7% vs 2013–17
Citations
495k
41.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is The Royal Free 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 #1,447 of 10,443 16.6%483 #281
Health SciencesDomain #1,899 of 11,982 16.5%516 #324
Life SciencesDomain #1,770 of 7,800 20.5%93 #348
SurgerySubfield #853 of 1,816 15.4%84 #268

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Royal Free 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#281 #1,447
  2. Health Sciences#324 #1,899
  3. Life Sciences#348 #1,770
  4. Surgery#268 #853
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does The Royal Free Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nephrology takes 18.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. NephrologySubfield · 26.2 works18×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 23.3 works18×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 29.4 works6.4×
  4. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 20.8 works6.0×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.50× its world share, 53 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.79× its world share, 32 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.48× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 16 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.30× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.23× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.78× its world share, 483 worksMedicineNursing: 0.99× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at The Royal Free Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Treatment, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Chronic Kidney Disease, Inflammation, Prognosis, Cardiovascular Disease and Complications.

▲ 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. Epidemiology59▲ 2.2×108 topics
  2. Treatment56▲ 7.0×42 topics
  3. Inflammation42▲ 3.1×69 topics
  4. Diagnosis37▲ 6.0×35 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease28▲ 3.8×32 topics
  6. Chronic Kidney Disease28▲ 17×8 topics
  7. Quality of Life26▲ 2.7×37 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome24▲ 4.4×20 topics
  9. Prognosis22▲ 10×9 topics
  10. Complications22▲ 6.5×16 topics
  11. Immunotherapy20▲ 4.2×18 topics
  12. Mortality20▲ 5.2×12 topics
  13. Genetic Mutations19▲ 6.5×21 topics
  14. Hepatocellular Carcinoma18▲ 13×3 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines18▲ 5.1×13 topics
  16. Insulin Resistance18▲ 6.1×8 topics
  17. Chemotherapy17▲ 3.7×22 topics
  18. Autoantibodies17▲ 11×8 topics
  19. Management17▲ 3.2×28 topics
  20. Fibrosis16▲ 13×8 topics
  21. Clinical Trials16▲ 3.6×17 topics
  22. Immunosuppressive Therapy16▲ 13×8 topics
  23. Hepatic Steatosis15▲ 15×2 topics
  24. Endothelial Dysfunction14▲ 9.3×6 topics
  25. Prognostic Factors14▲ 4.8×13 topics
  26. NAFLD14▲ 18×1 topic
  27. NASH14▲ 18×1 topic
  28. Coagulopathy14▲ 26×2 topics
  29. TGF-ß14▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Hepatic Encephalopathy13▲ 37×1 topic
  31. Liver Cirrhosis13▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Survival Analysis13▲ 7.3×6 topics
  33. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance12▲ 33×2 topics
  34. Autoimmunity12▲ 12×5 topics
  35. Liver Transplantation12▲ 15×5 topics
  36. Graft Survival12▲ 21×3 topics
  37. TGF-ß Signaling12▲ 27×4 topics
  38. Hemodialysis11▲ 22×2 topics
  39. Cardiac Amyloidosis11▲ 80×1 topic
  40. Transthyretin11▲ 80×1 topic

Which research topics does The Royal Free Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Liver Disease and Transplantation, Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes and Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases.

Liver Disease Diagnosis …14Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 14 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transp…13Liver Disease and Transplantation: 13 fractional worksAmyloidosis: Diagnosis, …11Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes: 11 fractional worksSystemic Sclerosis and R…9Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases: 9 fractional worksDialysis and Renal Disease Management: 9 fractional worksT-cell and B-cell Immunology: 9 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Te…8Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 8 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and Interaction: 8 fractional worksParathyroid Disorders and Treatments: 8 fractional worksNeuroendocrine Tumor Res…6Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances: 6 fractional works
EpidemiologyHepatologyMolecular BiologyPathology and Forensic Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 14 works
  2. 2 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 13 works
  3. 3 Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes Molecular Biology 11 works
  4. 4 Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 9 works
  5. 5 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 9 works
  6. 6 T-cell and B-cell Immunology Immunology 9 works
  7. 7 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 8 works
  8. 8 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 8 works
  9. 9 Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments Nephrology 8 works
  10. 10 Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances Epidemiology 6 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 available35.0%not open65.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.2%domestic only78.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has The Royal Free Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% 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.

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