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Academia Sinica

In research, Academia Sinica stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,989 of 12,888 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,631 of 10,521 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,560 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,056
of 28,054 · #1,972 all time
Rank in Taiwan
#23
of 221
Research works
14k
▼ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
200k
14.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
21%
world 28%

What is Academia Sinica known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,989 of 12,888 16.9%339 #1636
Social SciencesDomain #2,631 of 10,521 17.2%156 #2782
Life SciencesDomain #2,560 of 7,800 20.2%182 #2152
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,965 of 3,579 19.8%107 #1780
MedicineField #5,782 of 10,443 18.3%112 #6712
Computer ScienceField #2,681 of 4,667 21.0%98 #1269
Health SciencesDomain #6,989 of 11,982 18.4%120 #8353
Social SciencesField #3,882 of 6,365 18.1%107 #3109
EngineeringField #4,543 of 6,636 15.7%71 #1915
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,706 of 2,175 18.9%66 #1513

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Academia Sinica 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#1,636 #2,989
  2. Social Sciences#2,782 #2,631
  3. Life Sciences#2,152 #2,560
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,780 #1,965
  5. Medicine#6,712 #5,782
  6. Computer Science#1,269 #2,681
  7. Health Sciences#8,353 #6,989
  8. Social Sciences#3,109 #3,882
  9. Engineering#1,915 #4,543
  10. Molecular Biology#1,513 #1,706
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

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: 0.94× its world share, 36 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.51× its world share, 107 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.13× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.47× its world share, 19 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.16× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.78× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.41× its world share, 18 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.58× its world share, 98 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.62× its world share, 20 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.92× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.60× its world share, 71 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.81× its world share, 32 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.43× its world share, 40 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.66× its world share, 16 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.03× its world share, 36 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.73× its world share, 112 worksMedicineNursing: 0.41× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.68× its world share, 16 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.81× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.45× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.06× its world share, 107 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Academia Sinica?

Ranked on the composite score, Keh-Jiann Chen, Angela Ki Che Leung and Kai-Min Chung lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Academia Sinica.

  1. 1 Keh-Jiann Chen · #103,393 worldwide 220 citations · 42 works
  2. 2 Angela Ki Che Leung · #201,438 worldwide 52 citations · 30 works
  3. 3 Kai-Min Chung · #270,304 worldwide 313 citations · 56 works
  4. 4 Lun‐Wei Ku · #285,976 worldwide 214 citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Peter Zarrow · #359,248 worldwide 10 citations · 39 works
  6. 6 Yoon-Kwon Yang · #433,829 worldwide 3 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Hsin‐Min Wang · #437,454 worldwide 460 citations · 161 works
  8. 8 Benjamin Penny · #441,319 worldwide 5 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Yun‐han Chu · #466,194 worldwide 28 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Frédéric Deschamps · #524,628 worldwide 112 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Academia Sinica

Which keywords describe research at Academia Sinica?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nationalism, History, China, Religion, Deep Learning, Regulation, Cancer and Neural Networks.

▲ 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 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. Deep Learning40▲ 1.48×56 topics
  2. History26▲ 4.6×14 topics
  3. Neural Networks24▲ 1.98×24 topics
  4. Cancer24▲ 2.2×47 topics
  5. Nationalism23▲ 6.3×12 topics
  6. Inflammation21▲ 1.28×70 topics
  7. Machine Learning21▼ 0.79×50 topics
  8. Religion20▲ 5.3×8 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress19▲ 1.45×46 topics
  10. China18▲ 24×4 topics
  11. Globalization18◆ 1.15×38 topics
  12. Regulation18▲ 4.1×16 topics
  13. Economic Development16▲ 2.4×15 topics
  14. Philosophy14▲ 4.1×5 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks13▲ 2.2×12 topics
  16. Gene Expression12▲ 2.5×17 topics
  17. Biosensors12▲ 2.9×11 topics
  18. Christianity12▲ 25×1 topic
  19. Confucianism12▲ 36×1 topic
  20. Culture12▲ 2.8×12 topics
  21. International Law12▲ 4.8×13 topics
  22. Governance10▲ 3.9×8 topics
  23. Colonialism10▲ 2.7×13 topics
  24. Migration10▲ 3.7×12 topics
  25. Crystal Growth9▲ 3.9×9 topics
  26. Political Economy9▲ 4.2×6 topics
  27. Politics8▲ 3.9×9 topics
  28. Semiconductors8▲ 3.3×5 topics
  29. Authoritarianism7▲ 10×3 topics
  30. Inequality7▲ 4.0×7 topics
  31. Democratization7▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Society7▲ 4.5×5 topics
  33. Deep Neural Networks7▲ 7.8×3 topics
  34. Reform6▲ 12×2 topics
  35. Hidden Markov Models6▲ 13×2 topics
  36. land policy6▲ 38×1 topic
  37. Civic Education6▲ 32×1 topic
  38. Hong Kong Identity6▲ 84×1 topic
  39. Acoustic Modeling6▲ 19×1 topic
  40. Speaker Verification6▲ 19×1 topic

Which research topics does Academia Sinica publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Chinese history and philosophy, China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance, Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

Chinese history and phil…12Chinese history and philosophy: 12 fractional worksChina's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance: 6 fractional worksHong Kong and Taiwan Pol…6Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics: 6 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…6Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 6 fractional worksPerovskite Materials and Applications: 5 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 5 fractional worksVietnamese History and C…5Vietnamese History and Culture Studies: 5 fractional works2D Materials and Applications: 4 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 4 fractional worksTopic Modeling4Topic Modeling: 4 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsArtificial IntelligenceElectrical and Electronic Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 12 works
  2. 2 China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  3. 3 Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  4. 4 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  5. 5 Perovskite Materials and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  6. 6 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 5 works
  7. 7 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  8. 8 2D Materials and Applications Materials Chemistry 4 works
  9. 9 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  10. 10 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 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 available21.4%not open78.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors41.4%domestic only58.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Academia Sinica's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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