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University Hospital Limerick

In research, University Hospital Limerick stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,363 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#4,852 of 10,443 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,550 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 7.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15,488
of 28,054 · #19,395 all time
Rank in Ireland
#42
of 79
Research works
1.7k
▲ 107% vs 2013–17
Citations
13k
7.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
63%
world 28%

What is University Hospital Limerick 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
Health SciencesDomain #5,363 of 11,982 6.2%376 #5370
MedicineField #4,852 of 10,443 5.3%345 #5010
SurgerySubfield #1,550 of 1,816 5.3%74 #2817

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University Hospital Limerick 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. Health Sciences#5,370 #5,363
  2. Medicine#5,010 #4,852
  3. Surgery#2,817 #1,550
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 University Hospital Limerick specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 7.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 73.6 works7.1×
← 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: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.82× its world share, 19 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.35× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.35× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.08× its world share, 345 worksMedicineNursing: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.52× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 6 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.

Who are the top researchers at University Hospital Limerick?

Ranked on the composite score, James Powell, Margaret O’Connor and Colin Quinn lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University Hospital Limerick.

  1. 1 James Powell Ireland · #297,873 worldwide 90 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Margaret O’Connor Ireland · #344,330 worldwide 70 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Colin Quinn Ireland · #350,726 worldwide 67 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Eric Masterson Ireland · #458,043 worldwide 63 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 John Calvin Coffey Ireland · #584,529 worldwide 61 citations · 47 works
  6. 6 Christina Fleming Ireland · #590,672 worldwide 37 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 J J Coughlan Ireland · #601,674 worldwide 53 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Thomas J. Kiernan Ireland · #846,211 worldwide 73 citations · 45 works
  9. 9 Catherine Peters Ireland · #910,521 worldwide 12 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Damien Ryan Ireland · #936,374 worldwide 15 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at University Hospital Limerick

Which keywords describe research at University Hospital Limerick?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Guidelines, Management, Treatment, Complications, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Surgery.

▲ 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▲ 3.4×86 topics
  2. Diagnosis37▲ 9.1×31 topics
  3. Treatment29▲ 5.4×37 topics
  4. Inflammation26▲ 2.9×42 topics
  5. Guidelines26▲ 13×11 topics
  6. Management26▲ 7.4×26 topics
  7. Complications22▲ 10×14 topics
  8. Quality of Life20▲ 3.2×30 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines20▲ 8.2×12 topics
  10. Mortality18▲ 7.1×10 topics
  11. Surgery18▲ 12×11 topics
  12. Elderly Patients17▲ 23×4 topics
  13. Risk Factors17▲ 3.5×18 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease15▲ 3.0×25 topics
  15. Public Health14▲ 2.2×22 topics
  16. Rehabilitation13▲ 7.4×11 topics
  17. Surgical Management12▲ 6.8×17 topics
  18. Aging12▲ 5.0×6 topics
  19. Patient Satisfaction11▲ 8.2×10 topics
  20. Chemotherapy11▲ 3.5×19 topics
  21. Prevention10▲ 5.6×12 topics
  22. Medical Education10▲ 8.9×9 topics
  23. Meta-Analysis10▲ 3.8×9 topics
  24. Primary Care10▲ 5.8×11 topics
  25. Neoadjuvant Therapy10▲ 9.2×5 topics
  26. Laparoscopic Surgery9▲ 18×4 topics
  27. Mortality Risk9▲ 8.7×4 topics
  28. Postoperative Complications9▲ 15×4 topics
  29. Myocardial Infarction9▲ 8.4×5 topics
  30. Survival Analysis8▲ 7.1×6 topics
  31. Pain Management8▲ 8.4×8 topics
  32. Physical Performance8▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Children8▲ 7.8×5 topics
  34. Frailty8▲ 37×1 topic
  35. Geriatric Assessment8▲ 26×1 topic
  36. Cardiac Risk8▲ 22×1 topic
  37. Perioperative8▲ 22×1 topic
  38. Critical Care7▲ 7.1×7 topics
  39. Robotic Surgery7▲ 11×5 topics
  40. Functional Recovery7▲ 10×3 topics

Which research topics does University Hospital Limerick publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Frailty in Older Adults, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management and Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management.

Frailty in Older Adults: 8 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 8 fractional worksAppendicitis Diagnosis a…5Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management: 5 fractional worksVenous Thromboembolism D…5Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management: 5 fractional worksUreteral procedures and complications: 4 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 4 fractional worksIntensive Care Unit Cogn…4Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders: 4 fractional worksEmergency and Acute Care Studies: 4 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment and Management: 3 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-…3Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 3 fractional works
Geriatrics and GerontologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEmergency MedicineInternal Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Frailty in Older Adults Geriatrics and Gerontology 8 works
  2. 2 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 8 works
  3. 3 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management Emergency Medicine 5 works
  4. 4 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 5 works
  5. 5 Ureteral procedures and complications Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  6. 6 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 4 works
  7. 7 Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 4 works
  8. 8 Emergency and Acute Care Studies Emergency Medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  10. 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 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 available63.4%not open36.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.0%domestic only88.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University Hospital Limerick's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 107% 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.

Other research institutions in Limerick

All research institutions in Limerick

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.