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Vancouver General Hospital

In research, Vancouver General Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#2,001 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#2,744 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 7.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,065
of 28,054 · #4,735 all time
Rank in Canada
#152
of 403
Research works
3.9k
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
122k
31.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is Vancouver General 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 #2,001 of 10,443 18.0%313 #871
Health SciencesDomain #2,744 of 11,982 17.8%328 #1105

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

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 7.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 31.8 works7.6×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 43.9 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: 1.09× its world share, 23 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.38× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.76× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.63× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.11× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.08× its world share, 313 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Vancouver General Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Jacqueline Saw, Kevin Song and Savvas Nicolaou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vancouver General Hospital.

  1. 1 Jacqueline Saw Canada · #42,152 worldwide 331 citations · 63 works
  2. 2 Kevin Song Canada · #56,982 worldwide 360 citations · 64 works
  3. 3 Savvas Nicolaou Canada · #123,536 worldwide 214 citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Philip B. Clement Canada · #143,799 worldwide 131 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Faisal Khosa Canada · #208,356 worldwide 112 citations · 42 works
  6. 6 Nicolas Dea Canada · #240,955 worldwide 76 citations · 36 works
  7. 7 Cheng‐Han Lee Canada · #260,196 worldwide 243 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Céline Bergeron Canada · #278,816 worldwide 52 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 John D. Shepherd Canada · #325,001 worldwide 32 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Andrew Starovoytov Canada · #327,231 worldwide 111 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Vancouver General Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Vancouver General Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Guidelines, Management, Prognostic Factors, Surgical Management, Risk Factors and Clinical Practice 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. Epidemiology47▲ 3.0×92 topics
  2. Chemotherapy19▲ 6.8×22 topics
  3. Management17▲ 5.3×25 topics
  4. Risk Factors17▲ 3.8×25 topics
  5. Treatment17▲ 3.5×34 topics
  6. Guidelines16▲ 8.3×12 topics
  7. Diagnosis15▲ 4.1×30 topics
  8. Prognostic Factors14▲ 8.1×14 topics
  9. Immunotherapy14▲ 4.9×18 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines13▲ 6.0×13 topics
  11. Clinical Trials13▲ 4.8×14 topics
  12. Surgical Management13▲ 7.8×19 topics
  13. Biomarkers12▲ 4.5×14 topics
  14. Survival Analysis11▲ 10×7 topics
  15. Metastasis11▲ 8.0×11 topics
  16. Mortality11▲ 4.7×11 topics
  17. Cervical Cancer10▲ 24×2 topics
  18. Myocardial Infarction10▲ 10×7 topics
  19. Radiation Therapy10▲ 18×6 topics
  20. Complications10▲ 4.7×14 topics
  21. Global Burden9▲ 4.2×11 topics
  22. Echocardiography9▲ 8.2×8 topics
  23. Genetic Mutations9▲ 5.0×19 topics
  24. Fibrosis8▲ 11×7 topics
  25. Robotic Surgery8▲ 14×5 topics
  26. Genomic Analysis8▲ 8.0×5 topics
  27. Catheter Ablation8▲ 16×2 topics
  28. Molecular Classification8▲ 13×4 topics
  29. Surgery8▲ 5.4×10 topics
  30. TGF-ß7▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Interstitial Lung Disease7▲ 28×2 topics
  32. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy7▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Academic Medicine7▲ 21×3 topics
  34. Cancer Incidence6▲ 12×4 topics
  35. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition6▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Human Papillomavirus6▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Cytoreductive Surgery6▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 22×1 topic
  39. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 22×1 topic
  40. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis6▲ 33×1 topic

Which research topics does Vancouver General Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments and Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Cardiac Valve Diseases a…6Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 6 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseas…6Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 6 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 5 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis…5Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 5 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Mana…5Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 5 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 5 fractional worksDiversity and Career in Medicine: 5 fractional worksMedical Imaging and Path…4Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies: 4 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 4 fractional worksTransplantation: Methods and Outcomes: 3 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineObstetrics and GynecologyReproductive Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 5 works
  4. 4 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 5 works
  5. 5 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  6. 6 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 5 works
  7. 7 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 5 works
  8. 8 Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 4 works
  10. 10 Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes Surgery 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 available29.3%not open70.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.9%domestic only80.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Vancouver General Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% 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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