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Army Medical University

In research, Army Medical University stands highest in Life Sciences (#219 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#333 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#392 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nephrology, Immunology and Cancer Research — Nephrology is 6.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#644
of 28,054 · #1,527 all time
Rank in China
#211
of 3,058
Research works
18k
▼ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
273k
15.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Army 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 #219 of 7,800 25.5%938 #622
MedicineField #333 of 10,443 21.4%1,742 #921
Health SciencesDomain #392 of 11,982 21.8%1,840 #1072
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #346 of 3,579 24.8%586 #759
Molecular BiologySubfield #244 of 2,175 25.7%367 #622
SurgerySubfield #211 of 1,816 18.0%239 #560
NeuroscienceField #178 of 1,168 23.8%166 #510
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #127 of 682 29.0%147 #456
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #215 of 1,144 21.1%191 #599
Social SciencesDomain #2,044 of 10,521 37.9%128 #4151

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Army 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#622 #219
  2. Medicine#921 #333
  3. Health Sciences#1,072 #392
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#759 #346
  5. Molecular Biology#622 #244
  6. Surgery#560 #211
  7. Neuroscience#510 #178
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#456 #127
  9. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#599 #215
  10. Social Sciences#4,151 #2,044
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 Army Medical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nephrology takes 6.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. NephrologySubfield · 46.8 works6.6×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 128.2 works5.7×
  3. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 80.0 works5.6×
  4. NeurologySubfield · 49.6 works5.5×
  5. RehabilitationSubfield · 36.4 works5.4×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 20 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.34× its world share, 586 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.43× its world share, 146 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.12× its world share, 166 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.61× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.06× its world share, 55 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 44 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 148 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 48 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.56× its world share, 64 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.46× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 58 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.76× its world share, 1,742 worksMedicineNursing: 1.77× its world share, 29 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.97× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 84 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Army Medical University?

Ranked on the composite score, Qingwu Yang, Hong Wei and Yan Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Army Medical University.

  1. 1 Qingwu Yang · #21,888 worldwide 486 citations · 43 works
  2. 2 Hong Wei · #30,186 worldwide 758 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Yan Li · #43,281 worldwide 414 citations · 34 works
  4. 4 Yujie Chen · #44,223 worldwide 546 citations · 69 works
  5. 5 Yan‐Jiang Wang · #60,568 worldwide 338 citations · 50 works
  6. 6 Wenbin Liu · #95,126 worldwide 162 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Zhengping Yu · #111,110 worldwide 296 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 Zhou Zhou · #137,245 worldwide 405 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Fuquan Hu · #151,744 worldwide 382 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Mo Chen · #155,866 worldwide 191 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Army Medical University

Which keywords describe research at Army Medical University?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation330▲ 4.8×82 topics
  2. Epidemiology283▲ 2.2×124 topics
  3. Cancer240▲ 5.4×55 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress209▲ 3.9×58 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment107▲ 7.3×8 topics
  6. Immunotherapy99▲ 4.2×18 topics
  7. Treatment96▲ 2.4×49 topics
  8. Biomarkers93▲ 4.1×17 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease92▲ 2.5×35 topics
  10. Gene Expression88▲ 4.4×19 topics
  11. Immunity87▲ 6.5×11 topics
  12. Chemotherapy85▲ 3.7×24 topics
  13. Nanoparticles81▲ 1.95×25 topics
  14. Management80▲ 3.1×30 topics
  15. Diagnosis77▲ 2.5×40 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines76▲ 4.3×14 topics
  17. Metabolism69▲ 4.1×31 topics
  18. Metabolic Syndrome69▲ 2.6×22 topics
  19. Angiogenesis69▲ 6.4×16 topics
  20. Neuroinflammation69▲ 7.4×6 topics
  21. Reactive Oxygen Species67▲ 5.0×12 topics
  22. Cell Death66▲ 8.7×6 topics
  23. Prognostic Factors65▲ 4.5×14 topics
  24. Innate Immunity64▲ 6.1×11 topics
  25. Cancer Therapy62▲ 3.3×19 topics
  26. Diabetes61▲ 3.8×20 topics
  27. Neuroprotection61▲ 5.3×16 topics
  28. Immune Response60▲ 3.2×23 topics
  29. Apoptosis58▲ 5.8×21 topics
  30. Metastasis58▲ 5.2×12 topics
  31. Regeneration56▲ 8.7×6 topics
  32. Wound Healing52▲ 6.1×11 topics
  33. Macrophages52▲ 9.1×7 topics
  34. Chronic Kidney Disease48▲ 6.0×9 topics
  35. Biogenesis48▲ 8.2×3 topics
  36. Cytokines47▲ 5.1×8 topics
  37. Sepsis45▲ 8.1×6 topics
  38. Cancer Progression43▲ 7.1×8 topics
  39. Tumor Targeting42▲ 7.2×3 topics
  40. Brain Development42▲ 7.3×6 topics

Which research topics does Army Medical University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Immune cells in cancer and Wound Healing and Treatments.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…31Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 31 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer…26Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 26 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 26 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatm…26Wound Healing and Treatments: 26 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…24RNA modifications and cancer: 24 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 22 fractional worksNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms: 21 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…20Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 20 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 20 fractional worksAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 19 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineBiomedical EngineeringImmunologyRehabilitation4 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 31 works
  2. 2 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsBiomedical Engineering 26 works
  3. 3 Immune cells in cancerImmunology 26 works
  4. 4 Wound Healing and TreatmentsRehabilitation 26 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancerMolecular Biology 24 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 22 works
  7. 7 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsNeurology 21 works
  8. 8 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms researchCancer Research 20 works
  9. 9 Extracellular vesicles in diseaseMolecular Biology 20 works
  10. 10 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Biology 19 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 available36.5%not open63.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.5%domestic only91.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Army Medical University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% 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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