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Wayne State University vs Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

On research quality in 2022-now, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University ranks #593 in the world and Wayne State University #596, of 22,385 institutions. Wayne State University stands higher in 7 of the 15 fields both publish in, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 8.

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Wayne State University

United States · Detroit

World rank, 2022-now
#596
#553 all time
Works, 2022-now
8.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
27%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Behavioral Neuroscience, Microbiology, Library and Information Sciences.

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

China · Hangzhou

World rank, 2022-now
#593
#653 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.2k
fractional
Top-10% rate
13.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
27%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Polymers and Plastics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomaterials.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University leads on 5 of 8 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, international co-authorship and growth. Wayne State University leads on 2 of 8 measures: output and citations per work. The two are level on open access.

Wayne State University 21 level5 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
  1. #596Research qualityworld rank of 22,385 institutions, 2022-now#593
  2. 0.83×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.10×
  3. 8.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.2k
  4. 9.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited13.3%
  5. 27.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.1
  6. 27%Open accessof its works free to read, all time27%
  7. 10%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time12%
  8. -11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+101%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Wayne State University stands higher in 7 of 15 fields, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 8. Zhejiang Sci-Tech University leads most in Materials Science (#183 against #721); Wayne State University leads most in Social Sciences (#784 against #2,217). Each bar is that side's standing among all institutions ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Wayne State University 78 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#537
  2. #599Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#800
  3. #830Business, Management and Accounting-
  4. #366Chemistry#235
  5. #704Computer Science#479
  6. -Energy#244
  7. #1,014Engineering#252
  8. #1,129Environmental Science#731
  9. #360Health Professions-
  10. #721Materials Science#183
  11. #480Mathematics#347
  12. #424Medicine#1,566
  13. #469Physics and Astronomy-
  14. #416Psychology-
  15. #784Social Sciences#2,217

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Wayne State University rankZhejiang Sci-Tech University rank Wayne State University top 10%Zhejiang Sci-Tech University top 10% Wayne State University worksZhejiang Sci-Tech University works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #537 - 19.1% - 177
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #599 #800 8.5% 15.5% 646 303
Business, Management and Accounting #830 - 13.8% - 106 -
Chemistry #366 #235 11.9% 11.4% 103 379
Computer Science #704 #479 12.6% 12.4% 293 549
Energy - #244 - 13.0% - 214
Engineering #1,014 #252 8.1% 13.3% 498 2.1k
Environmental Science #1,129 #731 12.3% 11.9% 140 237
Health Professions #360 - 8.4% - 272 -
Materials Science #721 #183 8.4% 11.6% 89 1k
Mathematics #480 #347 11.0% 14.8% 67 94
Medicine #424 #1,566 8.5% 17.7% 3.2k 220
Physics and Astronomy #469 - 11.7% - 131 -
Psychology #416 - 10.3% - 397 -
Social Sciences #784 #2,217 10.3% 19.7% 690 122

Where does each put its research?

Not who is better, but what each side chooses to work on. A country or institution that puts twice the world's share of its research into a field sits at 2×, whatever its size.

  1. Health Professions1.4× 0.1×
  2. Medicine2.2× 0.2×
  3. Veterinary1.4× 0.1×
  4. Nursing0.9× 0.2×
  5. Social Sciences0.7× 0.1×
  6. Dentistry0.3× 0.1×
  7. Psychology1.7× 0.5×
  8. Neuroscience2.1× 0.6×
  9. Immunology and Microbiology1.6× 0.6×
  10. Arts and Humanities0.5× 0.2×
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.7× 0.9×
  12. Decision Sciences0.6× 0.6×
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.6× 0.6×
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.9× 1.2×
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.4× 0.6×
  16. Mathematics0.8× 1.3×
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.2× 0.3×
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.8× 1.4×
  19. Environmental Science0.4× 0.8×
  20. Computer Science0.5× 1.2×
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.2× 0.6×
  22. Chemistry0.9× 3.8×
  23. Engineering0.4× 2.2×
  24. Chemical Engineering0.5× 3.1×
  25. Materials Science0.3× 4.7×
  26. Energy0.3× 3.8×
Wayne State UniversityZhejiang Sci-Tech University

Location quotient in 2022-now: the share of each side's research in the field over the world's share. 1× is the world's balance; the axis runs from a quarter of it to four times. Fields where Wayne State University leans further are at the top, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University's at the bottom. How research profiles are compared.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Wayne State University

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology709▲ 2.1×127 topics
  2. Inflammation332▲ 1.85×82 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress262▲ 1.90×60 topics
  4. Mental Health258▲ 2.1×40 topics
  5. Risk Factors230▲ 2.5×36 topics
  6. Treatment222▲ 2.2×49 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease216▲ 2.2×38 topics
  8. Diagnosis196▲ 2.5×40 topics
  9. Cancer188▲ 1.67×53 topics
  10. Quality of Life186▲ 1.53×55 topics
  11. Public Health179▲ 1.46×54 topics
  12. Depression157▲ 2.1×22 topics
  13. Chemotherapy152▲ 2.5×25 topics
  14. Immunotherapy151▲ 2.5×19 topics
  15. Mortality137▲ 2.9×13 topics
  16. Biomarkers134▲ 2.3×18 topics
  17. Guidelines132▲ 3.3×13 topics
  18. Clinical Trials126▲ 2.2×19 topics
  19. Neurological Disorders125▲ 2.6×20 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome122▲ 1.80×23 topics
  21. Management118▲ 1.76×34 topics
  22. Clinical Practice Guidelines111▲ 2.4×14 topics
  23. Heart Failure110▲ 2.9×13 topics
  24. Genetic Mutations104▲ 2.8×23 topics
  25. Complications103▲ 2.5×17 topics
  26. Genetics100▲ 1.67×26 topics
  27. Social Support99▲ 2.2×18 topics
  28. Prognostic Factors98▲ 2.7×14 topics
  29. Aging98▲ 2.1×17 topics
  30. Neurobiology94▲ 4.2×10 topics
  31. Surgery91▲ 3.1×12 topics
  32. Tumor Microenvironment87▲ 2.3×8 topics
  33. Health Disparities85▲ 3.9×8 topics
  34. Neuroprotection85▲ 2.9×15 topics
  35. Echocardiography80▲ 3.4×8 topics
  36. Neuroimaging77▲ 3.3×11 topics
  37. Myocardial Infarction75▲ 3.8×7 topics
  38. Cognitive Impairment75▲ 3.5×11 topics
  39. Mortality Risk69▲ 3.4×6 topics
  40. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention61▲ 5.3×4 topics

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning493▲ 1.98×80 topics
  2. Biomedical Applications456▲ 5.3×36 topics
  3. Nanomaterials361▲ 4.8×20 topics
  4. Nanocomposites323▲ 5.7×21 topics
  5. Graphene277▲ 5.7×11 topics
  6. Nanoparticles250▲ 2.8×44 topics
  7. Energy Storage238▲ 5.1×12 topics
  8. Neural Networks224▲ 2.0×35 topics
  9. Mechanical Properties222▲ 3.1×37 topics
  10. Tissue Engineering215▲ 4.9×12 topics
  11. Metal-Organic Frameworks207▲ 6.9×6 topics
  12. Drug Delivery204▲ 5.2×16 topics
  13. Water Splitting195▲ 7.3×4 topics
  14. Catalysis192▲ 4.0×28 topics
  15. Heat Transfer160▲ 4.5×18 topics
  16. Cathode Materials160▲ 5.7×3 topics
  17. Semiconductor136▲ 5.8×6 topics
  18. Electrocatalysis136▲ 6.6×5 topics
  19. Visible Light135▲ 8.0×3 topics
  20. CO2 Reduction126▲ 8.1×2 topics
  21. Flexible Electronics122▲ 9.8×3 topics
  22. Nanofibers122▲ 8.3×3 topics
  23. Nanostructures119▲ 4.1×17 topics
  24. Bioimaging116▲ 7.1×6 topics
  25. Rechargeable Batteries115▲ 6.0×2 topics
  26. Solar Energy115▲ 5.1×5 topics
  27. Energy Harvesting113▲ 8.7×3 topics
  28. Hydrogen Production112▲ 5.8×6 topics
  29. Health Monitoring111▲ 7.5×4 topics
  30. Ionic Liquids108▲ 5.3×10 topics
  31. Nanogenerators107▲ 11×1 topic
  32. Wearable107▲ 11×1 topic
  33. Polymer Composites106▲ 5.5×6 topics
  34. Photocatalyst106▲ 8.5×1 topic
  35. Plasmonic106▲ 8.5×1 topic
  36. Chemical Sensors104▲ 6.3×3 topics
  37. Machine Vision98▲ 6.4×6 topics
  38. Energy Conversion96▲ 6.4×5 topics
  39. Thermal Properties91▲ 10×6 topics
  40. Fluid-Structure Interaction91▲ 8.4×6 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University has out-published Wayne State University every year since 2025, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2k3kZhejiang Sci-Tech University1,831 in 2025Wayne State University1,728 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.10%0.20%Zhejiang Sci-Tech University0.031% in 2025Wayne State University0.029% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%15%Zhejiang Sci-Tech University14.7% in 2025Wayne State University9.7% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Which publishes more research, Wayne State University or Zhejiang Sci-Tech University?

Wayne State University publishes 1.2× as much research as Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2022-now (8.4k against 7.2k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Wayne State University or Zhejiang Sci-Tech University?

13.3% of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.2% for Wayne State University.

Is Wayne State University or Zhejiang Sci-Tech University growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +101% against 2018-21 for Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, and -11% for Wayne State University.

Which has more open access research, Wayne State University or Zhejiang Sci-Tech University?

27% of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University's research is free to read, against 27% of Wayne State University's.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Wayne State University

  1. 1 Claude Andre Pruneau #13,782 worldwide 67k citations · 1,070 works
  2. 2 T. M. Cormier #19,352 worldwide 21k citations · 207 works
  3. 3 Nardhy Gomez‐Lopez #32,182 worldwide 14k citations · 323 works
  4. 4 Naftali Raz #34,025 worldwide 31k citations · 254 works
  5. 5 Athina Pappas #43,840 worldwide 8.7k citations · 108 works

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

  1. 1 Pengzuo Chen #7,830 worldwide 13k citations · 117 works
  2. 2 Ahsan Ali #24,322 worldwide 2.9k citations · 92 works
  3. 3 Yun Tong #37,722 worldwide 12k citations · 122 works
  4. 4 Fengna Xi #40,936 worldwide 8.1k citations · 141 works
  5. 5 Yulong Ying #47,523 worldwide 2.6k citations · 59 works