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Air Force Medical University

In research, Air Force Medical University stands highest in Life Sciences (#162 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#271 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#355 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Orthodontics, Oral Surgery and Dentistry — Orthodontics is 11.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#571
of 28,054 · #1,413 all time
Rank in China
#185
of 3,058
Research works
23k
▼ 24% vs 2013–17
Citations
332k
14.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is Air Force Medical University 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
Life SciencesDomain #162 of 7,800 29.0%1,080 #610
Health SciencesDomain #271 of 11,982 24.0%1,818 #674
MedicineField #355 of 10,443 23.8%1,601 #791
Molecular BiologySubfield #151 of 2,175 30.7%407 #500
Health ProfessionsField #134 of 1,928 26.0%65 #435
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #262 of 3,579 30.2%672 #657
SurgerySubfield #215 of 1,816 19.2%214 #495
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #89 of 682 34.1%142 #414
NeuroscienceField #161 of 1,168 22.9%226 #560
ImmunologySubfield #75 of 455 34.7%129 #366

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Air Force Medical University 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. Life Sciences#610 #162
  2. Health Sciences#674 #271
  3. Medicine#791 #355
  4. Molecular Biology#500 #151
  5. Health Professions#435 #134
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#657 #262
  7. Surgery#495 #215
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#414 #89
  9. Neuroscience#560 #161
  10. Immunology#366 #75
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.

What does Air Force Medical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Orthodontics takes 11.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OrthodonticsSubfield · 42.6 works11×
  2. Oral SurgerySubfield · 57.1 works8.6×
  3. DentistryField · 130.7 works7.8×
  4. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 113.8 works7.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.15× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.66× its world share, 672 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.09× its world share, 142 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.05× its world share, 226 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.29× its world share, 16 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.64× its world share, 34 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 39 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.39× its world share, 201 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.54× its world share, 64 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 7.82× its world share, 131 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 65 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.42× its world share, 1,601 worksMedicineNursing: 1.15× its world share, 19 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.98× its world share, 103 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 7.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Air Force Medical University?

Ranked on the composite score, Qiang Zhu, Daiming Fan and Meiqing Wang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Air Force Medical University.

  1. 1 Qiang Zhu China · #44,121 worldwide 376 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Daiming Fan China · #57,186 worldwide 504 citations · 93 works
  3. 3 Meiqing Wang China · #59,537 worldwide 304 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Yongzhan Nie China · #66,200 worldwide 371 citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Jianming Pei China · #105,621 worldwide 303 citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Helong Zhang China · #107,257 worldwide 141 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 Jing Zhang China · #131,100 worldwide 204 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Yueyun Ma China · #145,440 worldwide 293 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Qian Yang China · #149,234 worldwide 370 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Hongwei Zhang China · #192,573 worldwide 142 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Air Force Medical University

Which keywords describe research at Air Force Medical University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology, Tumor Microenvironment, Gene Expression, Biomarkers and Cell Death.

▲ 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. Inflammation326▲ 4.5×82 topics
  2. Cancer317▲ 6.8×56 topics
  3. Epidemiology257▲ 1.88×120 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress216▲ 3.8×60 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment120▲ 7.9×8 topics
  6. Biomarkers118▲ 5.0×16 topics
  7. Gene Expression117▲ 5.6×18 topics
  8. Quality of Life97▲ 1.95×44 topics
  9. Immunotherapy93▲ 3.8×19 topics
  10. Cell Death93▲ 12×6 topics
  11. Angiogenesis90▲ 8.0×16 topics
  12. Chemotherapy89▲ 3.7×23 topics
  13. Biogenesis86▲ 14×3 topics
  14. Treatment85▲ 2.0×49 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease82▲ 2.2×35 topics
  16. Immunity79▲ 5.7×11 topics
  17. Regulation78▲ 4.2×10 topics
  18. Metastasis78▲ 6.7×12 topics
  19. Neurological Disorders76▲ 3.9×18 topics
  20. Drug Delivery75▲ 4.0×12 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome72▲ 2.6×22 topics
  22. Neuroinflammation71▲ 7.3×6 topics
  23. Clinical Practice Guidelines70▲ 3.7×14 topics
  24. Tissue Engineering68▲ 3.2×12 topics
  25. Metabolism67▲ 3.8×29 topics
  26. Innate Immunity66▲ 6.0×11 topics
  27. Apoptosis65▲ 6.2×21 topics
  28. Cancer Progression65▲ 10×8 topics
  29. Reactive Oxygen Species64▲ 4.6×13 topics
  30. Regeneration59▲ 8.8×5 topics
  31. Cytokines56▲ 5.8×8 topics
  32. Wound Healing50▲ 5.6×11 topics
  33. Epigenetic Regulation50▲ 6.7×6 topics
  34. Macrophages50▲ 8.3×7 topics
  35. Biomaterials47▲ 5.9×7 topics
  36. Bone Regeneration47▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Lipid Peroxidation44▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Ferroptosis43▲ 16×1 topic
  39. GPX443▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Mitochondria43▲ 9.5×6 topics

Which research topics does Air Force Medical University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, MicroRNA in disease regulation, Extracellular vesicles in disease and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…43Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 43 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regu…35MicroRNA in disease regulation: 35 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 35 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…32Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 32 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…30RNA modifications and cancer: 30 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 28 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 27 fractional worksBone Tissue Engineering …24Bone Tissue Engineering Materials: 24 fractional worksNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms: 23 fractional worksDental Implant Techniques and Outcomes: 23 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyOncology4 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 43 works
  2. 2 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 35 works
  3. 3 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 35 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 32 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 30 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 28 works
  7. 7 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 27 works
  8. 8 Bone Tissue Engineering Materials Biomedical Engineering 24 works
  9. 9 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms Neurology 23 works
  10. 10 Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes Oral Surgery 23 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 available28.6%not open71.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.3%domestic only92.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Air Force Medical University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% 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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