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University Hospital of Heraklion

In research, University Hospital of Heraklion stands highest in Medicine (#1,825 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,315 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,882 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 8.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#7,436
of 28,054 · #9,934 all time
Rank in Greece
#41
of 124
Research works
3k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
66k
22.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is University Hospital of Heraklion 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 #1,825 of 10,443 15.4%311 #2685
Health SciencesDomain #2,315 of 11,982 15.8%324 #3340
Life SciencesDomain #4,882 of 7,800 15.6%63 #5608

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University Hospital of Heraklion 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#2,685 #1,825
  2. Health Sciences#3,340 #2,315
  3. Life Sciences#5,608 #4,882
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 of Heraklion specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 8.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 35.6 works8.0×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.60× its world share, 36 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.96× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.61× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.91× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.81× its world share, 312 worksMedicineNursing: 1.43× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.71× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at University Hospital of Heraklion?

Ranked on the composite score, Panos Vardas, John Souglakos and Panos E. Vardas lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University Hospital of Heraklion.

  1. 1 Panos Vardas Greece · #2,157 worldwide 1.5k citations · 83 works
  2. 2 John Souglakos Greece · #102,255 worldwide 204 citations · 38 works
  3. 3 Panos E. Vardas Greece · #103,793 worldwide 166 citations · 42 works
  4. 4 Michalis Hamilos Greece · #166,710 worldwide 636 citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Ioannis Boukovinas Greece · #174,689 worldwide 164 citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Dimitrios Tsetis Greece · #205,318 worldwide 97 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Ioannis E. Κoutroubakis Greece · #292,574 worldwide 140 citations · 43 works
  8. 8 Athanasios Pallis Greece · #305,658 worldwide 72 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 Εmmanuel Simantirakis Greece · #384,944 worldwide 81 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Maria Kalmanti Greece · #407,129 worldwide 76 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at University Hospital of Heraklion

Which keywords describe research at University Hospital of Heraklion?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Inflammation, Treatment, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, Echocardiography and Guidelines.

▲ 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. Epidemiology67▲ 4.0×102 topics
  2. Inflammation30▲ 3.4×63 topics
  3. Diagnosis24▲ 6.1×36 topics
  4. Treatment22▲ 4.2×37 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease20▲ 4.2×32 topics
  6. Management14▲ 4.2×26 topics
  7. Quality of Life13▲ 2.2×33 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome13▲ 3.7×19 topics
  9. Risk Factors13▲ 2.7×27 topics
  10. Guidelines12▲ 6.2×13 topics
  11. Heart Failure12▲ 6.6×13 topics
  12. Cancer12▲ 2.0×36 topics
  13. Chemotherapy12▲ 3.9×22 topics
  14. Obesity11▲ 3.5×15 topics
  15. Echocardiography11▲ 9.6×7 topics
  16. Complications11▲ 5.1×16 topics
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 4.5×13 topics
  18. Mortality10▲ 4.0×11 topics
  19. Atherosclerosis10▲ 8.2×10 topics
  20. Pathogenesis10▲ 4.5×17 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations9▲ 5.1×18 topics
  22. Chronic Kidney Disease9▲ 8.9×9 topics
  23. Immunotherapy9▲ 2.9×17 topics
  24. Inflammatory Bowel Disease8▲ 17×5 topics
  25. Surgery8▲ 5.6×11 topics
  26. Surgical Management8▲ 4.8×19 topics
  27. Prognostic Factors8▲ 4.3×14 topics
  28. Antibiotic Resistance8▲ 4.8×11 topics
  29. Autoantibodies8▲ 7.8×8 topics
  30. Precision Medicine8▲ 3.9×7 topics
  31. Clinical Guidelines8▲ 6.1×9 topics
  32. Pathophysiology8▲ 5.9×9 topics
  33. Insulin Resistance8▲ 3.9×7 topics
  34. Antimicrobial Resistance7▲ 8.6×7 topics
  35. Prognosis7▲ 4.9×9 topics
  36. Prophylaxis7▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Bacteremia6▲ 21×3 topics
  38. Immunology6▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Healthcare-Associated Infections6▲ 11×5 topics
  40. Diagnostic Imaging6▲ 12×4 topics

Which research topics does University Hospital of Heraklion publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease4Inflammatory Bowel Disease: 4 fractional worksRespiratory Support and …4Respiratory Support and Mechanisms: 4 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 4 fractional worksCardiovascular Disease a…4Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity: 4 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …3Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 3 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksRenal Diseases and Glomerulopathies: 3 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defib…3Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 3 fractional worksAntibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 3 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 3 fractional works
GeneticsPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEpidemiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 4 works
  2. 2 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 4 works
  4. 4 Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 3 works
  7. 7 Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies Nephrology 3 works
  8. 8 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 3 works
  10. 10 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available39.1%not open60.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.4%domestic only83.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University Hospital of Heraklion's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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 Heraklion

All research institutions in Heraklion

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.