Which is the best children’s hospital? This is, of course, a difficult question. Still, serious medical conditions of childhood are complex, and new treatments are being continually discovered. It makes sense to use a hospital whose research into childhood medical conditions has had a strong impact on the area of pediatric medicine and surgery. Such hospital will have outstanding experts, who are familiar with the latest discoveries.
Here, we rank hospitals by the impact their research had in all specialties of pediatrics. Hospitals with higher impact research are listed at the top. We rank 57 children’s hospitals.
Methodology:
The treatment of childhood medical conditions is at the forefront of medicine, and it depends on leading research. Here, medical centers are ranked by the number of influential publications in pediatrics and pediatric surgery. The ranking is by the number of papers in pediatrics published during the last 20 years that had received 10 or more citations.
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Rank
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children’s hospital |
influential publications
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1
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Children’s Hospital Boston |
572
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2
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
493
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3
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Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago |
207
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4
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Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. |
198
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|
5
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
150
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6
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York |
143
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7
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Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston |
140
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8
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Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC |
127
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|
9
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis |
122
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|
10
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Children’s Hospital, Denver |
111
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|
11
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Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Mo. |
87
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12
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Childrens Hospital Los Angeles |
85
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13
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Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City |
85
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14
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Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit |
84
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15
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Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego CA |
77
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