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Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

In research, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,058 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#949 of 8,541 worldwide) and Surgery (#525 of 1,532 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Rheumatology, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (Rheumatology is 11.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,079
of 22,385 · #3,264 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#44
of 197
Research works
1.1k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
15.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.13×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

What is Zuyderland Medisch Centrum known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #1,058 of 9,902 13.5%318 #954
MedicineField #949 of 8,541 13.5%306 #861
SurgerySubfield #525 of 1,532 12.8%88 #573

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Zuyderland Medisch Centrum 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

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

  1. Health Sciences#954 #1,058
  2. Medicine#861 #949
  3. Surgery#573 #525
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Zuyderland Medisch Centrum work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Zuyderland Medisch Centrum is in Health Sciences, 8% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (81%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%), Health Professions (2%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 352 fractional works · 84.4% of its workMedicine: 339 fractional works · 81.3% of its workSurgery: 97 fractional works · 23.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 33 fractional works · 8.0% of its workRheumatology: 23 fractional works · 5.4% of its workOncology: 21 fractional works · 5.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 18 fractional works · 4.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 16 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEpidemiology: 15 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 14 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhysiology: 12 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeurology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 34 fractional works · 8.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKZuyderlandMedisch Centrum417fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences84%Social Sciences5%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine33981.3%
    2. Health Professions102.5%
    3. Nursing20.4%
    4. Dentistry10.2%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology194.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology71.6%
    3. Neuroscience61.5%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    1. Psychology82.0%
    2. Social Sciences61.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.7%
    4. Decision Sciences20.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
    1. Engineering61.5%
    2. Computer Science30.6%
    3. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    4. Mathematics00.1%
    5. Environmental Science00.1%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Zuyderland Medisch Centrum specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Rheumatology takes 11.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. RheumatologySubfield · 22.6 works12×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 96.7 works9.9×
  3. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 33.2 works5.2×
  4. OncologySubfield · 21.4 works4.6×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.88× its world share, 20 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.57× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.90× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.94× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.23× its world share, 339 worksMedicineNursing: 0.85× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.65× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× 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, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.23×339 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology1.57×7 works
  3. Health Professions0.94×10 works
  4. Neuroscience0.90×6 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.88×20 works
  6. Nursing0.85×2 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.79×1 works
  8. Psychology0.65×8 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.54×2 works
  10. Dentistry0.36×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.32×3 works
  12. Veterinary0.28×0 works
  13. Engineering0.10×6 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.10×1 works
  15. Social Sciences0.10×6 works
  16. Mathematics0.09×0 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×1 works
  18. Computer Science0.08×3 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.03×0 works
  21. Environmental Science0.02×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.01×0 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Zuyderland Medisch Centrum?

Ranked on the quality score, Jasper Most, Raymond Hupperts and Mariëlle J. L. Romberg-Camps lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Zuyderland Medisch Centrum.

  1. 1 Jasper Most Netherlands · #108,266 worldwide 3.6k citations · 95 works
  2. 2 Raymond Hupperts Netherlands · #141,241 worldwide 14k citations · 261 works
  3. 3 Mariëlle J. L. Romberg-Camps Netherlands · #166,539 worldwide 4.5k citations · 139 works
  4. 4 Tom P.J. Dormans Netherlands · #208,901 worldwide 4.3k citations · 92 works
  5. 5 Robert Michael Kwee Netherlands · #263,803 worldwide 6.2k citations · 138 works
  6. 6 Frans Erdkamp Netherlands · #274,312 worldwide 7.5k citations · 163 works
  7. 7 Meindert Nico Sosef Netherlands · #288,744 worldwide 6.8k citations · 164 works
  8. 8 Jan H.M.B. Stoot Netherlands · #295,717 worldwide 5.5k citations · 141 works
  9. 9 Kon‐Siong G. Jie Netherlands · #314,912 worldwide 3k citations · 42 works
  10. 10 Liekele E. Oostenbrug Netherlands · #351,632 worldwide 2.9k citations · 71 works
All ranked researchers at Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

What are the most cited papers from Zuyderland Medisch Centrum?

The most cited paper from Zuyderland Medisch Centrum is "EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update" (Josef S Smolen et al., 2017), with 5,808 citations. Next come "EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2019 update" (2,807) and "Colchicine in Patients with Chronic Coronary Disease" (2,252).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update Josef S Smolen et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access 6 Mar 2017 5,808
2 EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2019 update Josef S Smolen et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access 22 Jan 2020 2,807
3 Colchicine in Patients with Chronic Coronary Disease Stefan Mark Nidorf et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 31 Aug 2020 2,252
4 European Association of Urology Guidelines on Muscle-invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer: Summary of the 2020 Guidelines Johannes Alfred Witjes, Harman Max Bruins, Richard L. Cathomas et al. · European Urology 29 Apr 2020 2,175
5 EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2022 update Josef S Smolen et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Open access 10 Nov 2022 1,921
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Zuyderland Medisch Centrum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Complications, Quality of Life, Radiotherapy, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Risk, Chemotherapy and Revision 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-now 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. Epidemiology55▲ 3.3×89 topics
  2. Complications29▲ 14×17 topics
  3. Inflammation28▲ 3.1×49 topics
  4. Quality of Life25▲ 4.1×33 topics
  5. Radiotherapy18▲ 11×12 topics
  6. Chemotherapy16▲ 5.3×17 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Risk16▲ 12×8 topics
  8. Treatment15▲ 3.0×35 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines14▲ 6.2×14 topics
  10. Risk Factors14▲ 3.0×25 topics
  11. Diagnosis13▲ 3.4×34 topics
  12. Revision Surgery13▲ 24×2 topics
  13. Total Hip Replacement13▲ 24×2 topics
  14. Patient Satisfaction12▲ 9.3×7 topics
  15. Survival Analysis12▲ 10×6 topics
  16. Health-related Quality of Life11▲ 11×5 topics
  17. Neoadjuvant Therapy11▲ 11×5 topics
  18. Spinal Fusion11▲ 26×2 topics
  19. Guidelines10▲ 5.3×11 topics
  20. Surgical Management10▲ 6.0×16 topics
  21. Surgical Treatment10▲ 12×5 topics
  22. Rehabilitation10▲ 5.9×9 topics
  23. Clinical Outcomes10▲ 11×6 topics
  24. Low Back Pain9▲ 13×3 topics
  25. Degenerative Disc Disease9▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Surgery9▲ 6.2×10 topics
  27. Arthroplasty9▲ 21×2 topics
  28. Autoantibodies9▲ 8.9×7 topics
  29. Tumor Staging8▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Biomechanics8▲ 6.3×8 topics
  31. Cytokines8▲ 6.7×7 topics
  32. Rheumatoid Arthritis8▲ 20×3 topics
  33. Biological Therapy8▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Outcomes7▲ 21×1 topic
  35. Total Knee Replacement7▲ 25×1 topic
  36. Adjuvant Therapy7▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs7▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Inflammatory Bowel Disease7▲ 14×5 topics
  39. Joint Inflammation7▲ 33×1 topic
  40. Molecular Subtypes7▲ 19×3 topics

Which research topics does Zuyderland Medisch Centrum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology and Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments.

Total Knee Arthroplasty …7Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 7 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Res…7Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 7 fractional worksSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 6 fractional worksSpondyloarthritis Studie…6Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments: 6 fractional worksOrthopaedic implants and…6Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty: 6 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 5 fractional worksPectus Deformity Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…5Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 5 fractional worksScoliosis diagnosis and treatment: 4 fractional works
SurgeryRheumatologyPathology and Forensic MedicineCancer Research2 others

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

  1. 1 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 7 works
  2. 2 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 7 works
  3. 3 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 6 works
  4. 4 Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments Rheumatology 6 works
  5. 5 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 6 works
  6. 6 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 5 works
  7. 7 Pectus Deformity Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery 5 works
  8. 8 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  9. 9 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 5 works
  10. 10 Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment Surgery 4 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 available66.8%not open33.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.5%domestic only72.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Zuyderland Medisch Centrum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Zuyderland Medisch Centrum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Zuyderland Medisch Centrum0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Zuyderland Medisch Centrum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Zuyderland Medisch Centrum12.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.1% in 2020.

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