Question 1

What is Academia Sinica known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Academia Sinica stands highest in Life Sciences (#267 of 6,403 worldwide), Health Sciences (#506 of 9,902 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#611 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Geophysics is 6.6× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Academia Sinica rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Academia Sinica ranks #484 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#499 all time), and #2 of 185 in Taiwan.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Academia Sinica?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, J. Incandela, R. M. Harris and P. K. Teng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Academia Sinica.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Academia Sinica?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Academia Sinica is "A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" (Stephen S Lim et al., 2012), with 12,027 citations. Next come "YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies Sets New State-of-the-Art for Real-Time Object Detectors" (11,754) and "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" (10,856).

Question 5

Which research topics does Academia Sinica publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Chinese history and philosophy, earthquake and tectonic studies, 2D Materials and Applications and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Academia Sinica?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Deep Learning, Cancer, China, Gene Expression, Plate Tectonics, Dark Matter and Nationalism.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Academia Sinica work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Academia Sinica is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Medicine (10%), Physics and Astronomy (9%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 8

Is Academia Sinica's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021.