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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

In research, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,149 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,041 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,943 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 6.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,079
of 28,054 · #5,499 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#160
of 1,094
Research works
3k
▲ 116% vs 2013–17
Citations
61k
20.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
55%
world 28%

What is University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust 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 #1,149 of 11,982 14.9%799 #1419
MedicineField #1,041 of 10,443 14.5%732 #1209
Life SciencesDomain #2,943 of 7,800 16.7%94 #3768
SurgerySubfield #821 of 1,816 11.8%133 #1103
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #738 of 1,144 11.2%91 #1125

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust 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#1,419 #1,149
  2. Medicine#1,209 #1,041
  3. Life Sciences#3,768 #2,943
  4. Surgery#1,103 #821
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,125 #738
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 Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 6.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 91.4 works6.1×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 133.2 works5.8×
← 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, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.05× its world share, 55 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.02× its world share, 20 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.94× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 13 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.03× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.16× its world share, 55 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.91× its world share, 732 worksMedicineNursing: 1.38× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.42× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.38× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 20 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.

Who are the top researchers at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust?

Ranked on the composite score, Jonathan Ross, Will Lester and Brendan Cooper lead among researchers whose main affiliation is University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

  1. 1 Jonathan Ross United Kingdom · #33,235 worldwide 412 citations · 39 works
  2. 2 Will Lester United Kingdom · #150,706 worldwide 150 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Brendan Cooper United Kingdom · #236,893 worldwide 61 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Hoong Sern Lim United Kingdom · #242,861 worldwide 72 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Keith Porter United Kingdom · #251,903 worldwide 72 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Andrew Toogood United Kingdom · #298,304 worldwide 75 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Sheldon C. Cooper United Kingdom · #356,232 worldwide 68 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Indranil Dasgupta United Kingdom · #468,153 worldwide 52 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 Robert Cramb United Kingdom · #505,969 worldwide 35 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Peter Shah United Kingdom · #514,278 worldwide 39 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Which keywords describe research at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Mortality, Diagnosis, Management, Inflammation, Quality of Life and Chemotherapy.

▲ 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. Epidemiology128▲ 3.3×109 topics
  2. Inflammation58▲ 2.9×71 topics
  3. Treatment54▲ 4.6×40 topics
  4. Quality of Life46▲ 3.3×45 topics
  5. Diagnosis46▲ 5.1×35 topics
  6. Management43▲ 5.7×26 topics
  7. Mortality43▲ 7.6×13 topics
  8. Chemotherapy35▲ 5.2×23 topics
  9. Risk Factors33▲ 3.1×29 topics
  10. Complications32▲ 6.5×16 topics
  11. Clinical Practice Guidelines29▲ 5.5×14 topics
  12. Guidelines29▲ 6.5×12 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease29▲ 2.7×32 topics
  14. Surgical Management28▲ 6.9×19 topics
  15. Immunotherapy27▲ 4.0×18 topics
  16. Genetics26▲ 3.8×18 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors24▲ 5.6×14 topics
  18. Surgery22▲ 6.5×11 topics
  19. Clinical Trials22▲ 3.4×17 topics
  20. Rehabilitation22▲ 5.6×12 topics
  21. Primary Care19▲ 5.1×15 topics
  22. Heart Failure18▲ 4.3×13 topics
  23. Pathogenesis18▲ 3.6×19 topics
  24. Prognosis18▲ 5.6×9 topics
  25. Diabetes18▲ 3.7×16 topics
  26. Chronic Kidney Disease18▲ 7.6×8 topics
  27. Global Burden17▲ 3.3×12 topics
  28. Radiotherapy17▲ 4.6×13 topics
  29. Immunology17▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Inflammatory Bowel Disease17▲ 15×5 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy16▲ 7.2×5 topics
  32. Genetic Mutations16▲ 3.7×22 topics
  33. Thrombosis15▲ 5.7×7 topics
  34. Critical Care14▲ 6.5×8 topics
  35. Cardiovascular Risk14▲ 4.6×9 topics
  36. Pathophysiology14▲ 4.7×10 topics
  37. Echocardiography13▲ 5.0×8 topics
  38. Quality Improvement13▲ 6.8×8 topics
  39. Resuscitation12▲ 9.8×4 topics
  40. Stroke12▲ 7.0×7 topics

Which research topics does University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Asthma and respiratory diseases and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease9Inflammatory Bowel Disease: 9 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and …9Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 9 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory diseases: 8 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulm…8Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 8 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…7Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 7 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 7 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transplantation: 6 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …6Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 6 fractional worksDialysis and Renal Disease Management: 6 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 6 fractional works
GeneticsCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePhysiologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine6 others

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

  1. 1 Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics 9 works
  2. 2 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 9 works
  3. 3 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 8 works
  4. 4 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  5. 5 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 7 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 7 works
  7. 7 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 6 works
  8. 8 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 6 works
  9. 9 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 6 works
  10. 10 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 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 available54.8%not open45.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.0%domestic only81.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 116% 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.

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