Newcastle Lung Transplant Programme (Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University)

Summary

The trust's Institute of Transplantation page states that the institute is at the Freeman Hospital and consolidates heart, lung, liver, kidney, kidney and pancreas and cell transplantation, and that it achieved the first successful single lung transplant in Europe and the first successful double lung transplant in Europe in 1990 (the institute's own statements, not independently verified here). The cardiothoracic services page states that transplant and paediatric services receive referrals from across the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The ranking figures refer to papers with an author affiliated with Newcastle University as recorded in OpenAlex; they are not limited to the Freeman Hospital team.

Citation ranking (10 years)

Rank 6 of 25 on this site; rank 6 among 30 institutions tested.

Papers (whole count)

32

Papers (fractional)

14.2

Citations

1,655

Citations per paper

51.7

Median citations per paper

11

Mean field-weighted citation impact

5.62

Papers with a first or last author here

19

Top-decile share

0.44

Order and numbers: a bibliometric ordering of CLAD publications, not a judgement of clinical quality or patient outcomes. Centres are ordered by the total citations of CLAD-related papers published 2016-10-11 to 2026-10-10, counted in OpenAlex on 2026-10-10 (2,461 works; one fixed title and abstract query; a paper counts for every centre with an author at that centre). Institution identifiers have not been fully audited, citation counts lag for recent papers, and consensus statements can inflate totals. Rank is shown among the 25 centres on this site and among 30 institutions tested. Methodology.

Details

city

Newcastle upon Tyne

country

United Kingdom

parent

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle University

selection basis

Citation ranking over 10 years (OpenAlex), added to the site by rank; not an official ranking

selection rank

6 of 30 institutions tested (10-year citations)

selection date

2026-10-10

Sources and links

• Institute of Transplantation, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (official page) (primary)
• Cardiothoracic services (heart and lung), Newcastle Hospitals (official page)

Related

Links from this record

• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Acute Rejection and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Obstructive and Restrictive Allograft Dysfunction
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Lymphocyte Depleting and Modulating Therapies for Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Scientific Statement on pulmonary antibody-mediated rejection and proposed graft, antibody, and pathology (GAP) definition
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Ventilatory capacity in CLAD is driven by dysfunctional airway structure
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): A European multicentre, randomised controlled trial of pirfenidone in bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after bilateral lung transplantation
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Early Economic Model of Extracorporeal Photopheresis and Other Treatments of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction After Lung Transplantation
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): A new classification system for chronic lung allograft dysfunction
• author affiliation matches this institution (OpenAlex): Chronic lung allograft dysfunction: Definition, diagnostic criteria, and approaches to treatment: A consensus report from the Pulmonary Council of the ISHLT

Known gaps in this record

• funding sources
• founding year
• named CLAD investigators
• clinical outcomes and transplant volumes (official statements are not verified here)
• institution identifiers in the citation ranking have not been fully audited