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Research in Kurume

Science Explorer records 12 research institutions in Kurume, Japan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Kurume University, Koga Hospital and St Mary's Hospital.

Research institutions
12
6 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
17k
▲ 6% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
7.8%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Kurume?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Kurume UniversityUniversity 13,473 #6,192
2Koga HospitalHospital / health system 648 #17,295
3Kurume University Medical CenterHospital / health system 634 #23,138
4Kurume University HospitalHospital / health system 499 #22,876
5St Mary's HospitalHospital / health system 491 #22,398
6National Institute of Technology, Kurume CollegeUniversity 477 #27,405
7Kurume Institute of TechnologyUniversity 428 #28,545 all time
8Fukuoka Industrial Technology CenterNonprofit 336 #25,652 all time
9Shin Koga HospitalHospital / health system 43 not ranked
10Kurume Shin-Ai Women's CollegeUniversity 21 not ranked
11Bridge Of Nucleic Acids Chemistry (Japan)Company 19 not ranked
12BrightPath Biotherapeutics (Japan)Company 12 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Kurume University: 78.9%Koga Hospital: 3.8%Kurume University Medical Center: 3.7%Kurume University Hospital: 2.9%8 others listed: 10.7%79%largest
Kurume University13k · 78.9%Koga Hospital648 · 3.8%Kurume University Medical Center634 · 3.7%Kurume University Hospital499 · 2.9%8 others listed1,827 · 10.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Kurume strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Kurume is most concentrated in Hepatology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Pathology and Forensic Medicine (10.8× the world share in Hepatology).

  1. HepatologySubfield · 34.9 works11×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 138.6 works5.4×
  3. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 44.8 works5.1×
  4. OncologySubfield · 94.9 works5.0×
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Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in Kurume?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Inflammation, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Prognostic Factors and Surgical Management.

▲ 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 city'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. Epidemiology155▲ 2.3×110 topics
  2. Inflammation113▲ 3.2×74 topics
  3. Diagnosis87▲ 5.6×37 topics
  4. Treatment81▲ 4.0×43 topics
  5. Chemotherapy72▲ 6.1×23 topics
  6. Clinical Practice Guidelines56▲ 6.1×14 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress56▲ 2.0×51 topics
  8. Management54▲ 4.1×27 topics
  9. Quality of Life53▲ 2.2×41 topics
  10. Immunotherapy52▲ 4.3×19 topics
  11. Prognostic Factors50▲ 6.8×14 topics
  12. Cancer50▲ 2.2×47 topics
  13. Surgical Management48▲ 6.9×19 topics
  14. Tumor Microenvironment46▲ 6.2×8 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease44▲ 2.3×33 topics
  16. Metabolic Syndrome42▲ 3.1×21 topics
  17. Risk Factors42▲ 2.3×35 topics
  18. Radiotherapy40▲ 6.2×13 topics
  19. Genetic Mutations39▲ 5.3×22 topics
  20. Prognosis38▲ 6.9×9 topics
  21. Hepatocellular Carcinoma35▲ 9.8×4 topics
  22. Echocardiography33▲ 7.2×8 topics
  23. Biomarkers31▲ 2.7×16 topics
  24. Aging30▲ 3.3×13 topics
  25. Heart Failure29▲ 4.1×13 topics
  26. Insulin Resistance29▲ 3.8×9 topics
  27. Guidelines29▲ 3.7×13 topics
  28. Survival28▲ 12×4 topics
  29. Complications28▲ 3.3×16 topics
  30. Neoadjuvant Therapy27▲ 6.8×5 topics
  31. Rituximab26▲ 10×4 topics
  32. Survival Analysis25▲ 5.5×7 topics
  33. Metastasis25▲ 4.4×12 topics
  34. Treatment Guidelines24▲ 6.5×6 topics
  35. Thrombosis23▲ 4.9×7 topics
  36. Autoantibodies23▲ 5.8×8 topics
  37. Radiofrequency Ablation21▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Molecular Classification21▲ 8.1×4 topics
  39. Endovascular Repair20▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Hepatic Steatosis20▲ 7.7×2 topics

What research is done in Kurume?

  1. 1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 17 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 16 works
  3. 3 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 16 works
  4. 4 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 12 works
  5. 5 Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 10 works
  6. 6 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 10 works
  7. 7 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 10 works
  8. 8 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  9. 9 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 10 works
  10. 10 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.