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Asan Medical Center

In research, Asan Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#557 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#649 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#250 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Hepatology is 13.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,764
of 28,054 · #3,419 all time
Rank in South Korea
#56
of 417
Research works
12k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
217k
18.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Asan Medical Center 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
MedicineField #557 of 10,443 14.3%1,791 #657
Health SciencesDomain #649 of 11,982 14.4%1,866 #757
SurgerySubfield #250 of 1,816 14.6%352 #307
Life SciencesDomain #1,685 of 7,800 14.2%312 #2339
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #250 of 1,144 14.5%225 #277
OncologySubfield #297 of 772 14.4%157 #373
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,596 of 3,579 14.0%206 #2401
EpidemiologySubfield #515 of 976 13.9%132 #549
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield #361 of 569 16.3%101 #366
Social SciencesDomain #6,711 of 10,521 14.2%71 #10367

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Asan Medical Center 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. Medicine#657 #557
  2. Health Sciences#757 #649
  3. Surgery#307 #250
  4. Life Sciences#2,339 #1,685
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#277 #250
  6. Oncology#373 #297
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#2,401 #1,596
  8. Epidemiology#549 #515
  9. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging#366 #361
  10. Social Sciences#10,367 #6,711
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 Asan Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 13.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 63.3 works14×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 352.1 works6.3×
  3. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 225.1 works6.2×
  4. OncologySubfield · 157.2 works5.9×
  5. NeurologySubfield · 66.6 works4.9×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.63× its world share, 206 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.97× its world share, 47 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.20× its world share, 46 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.66× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 24 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 57 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.12× its world share, 13 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 45 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.94× its world share, 1,792 worksMedicineNursing: 1.23× its world share, 14 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.62× its world share, 45 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Asan Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Seung‐Mo Hong, Ki Hyeong Lee and Jong‐Young Lee lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Asan Medical Center.

  1. 1 Seung‐Mo Hong South Korea · #5,667 worldwide 800 citations · 77 works
  2. 2 Ki Hyeong Lee South Korea · #6,022 worldwide 1k citations · 64 works
  3. 3 Jong‐Young Lee South Korea · #9,042 worldwide 857 citations · 110 works
  4. 4 Se Jin Jang South Korea · #24,546 worldwide 344 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Sung‐Cheol Yun South Korea · #39,318 worldwide 385 citations · 57 works
  6. 6 Kyung Hae Jung South Korea · #40,505 worldwide 347 citations · 53 works
  7. 7 Young Kee Shong South Korea · #64,950 worldwide 302 citations · 70 works
  8. 8 Miyoung Kim South Korea · #70,014 worldwide 308 citations · 53 works
  9. 9 Yoon‐Koo Kang South Korea · #76,753 worldwide 538 citations · 111 works
  10. 10 Seok‐Byung Lim South Korea · #78,334 worldwide 167 citations · 34 works
All ranked researchers at Asan Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Asan Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Treatment, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Diagnosis and Prognostic Factors.

▲ 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. Epidemiology277▲ 3.0×120 topics
  2. Inflammation139▲ 2.8×77 topics
  3. Chemotherapy138▲ 8.4×24 topics
  4. Treatment119▲ 4.2×45 topics
  5. Clinical Practice Guidelines106▲ 8.2×14 topics
  6. Diagnosis101▲ 4.6×39 topics
  7. Immunotherapy94▲ 5.6×19 topics
  8. Management94▲ 5.0×30 topics
  9. Prognostic Factors80▲ 7.8×14 topics
  10. Quality of Life76▲ 2.2×45 topics
  11. Radiotherapy70▲ 7.7×13 topics
  12. Cancer68▲ 2.1×51 topics
  13. Tumor Microenvironment64▲ 6.1×8 topics
  14. Neoadjuvant Therapy63▲ 11×5 topics
  15. Risk Factors62▲ 2.4×31 topics
  16. Surgical Management61▲ 6.3×20 topics
  17. Survival Analysis61▲ 9.4×7 topics
  18. Complications60▲ 5.0×17 topics
  19. Clinical Trials55▲ 3.5×19 topics
  20. Hepatocellular Carcinoma55▲ 11×3 topics
  21. Biomarkers54▲ 3.4×16 topics
  22. Genetic Mutations52▲ 5.1×23 topics
  23. Guidelines49▲ 4.5×12 topics
  24. Graft Survival49▲ 25×3 topics
  25. Precision Medicine46▲ 4.1×8 topics
  26. Targeted Therapy45▲ 8.6×5 topics
  27. Metastasis44▲ 5.4×12 topics
  28. Molecular Characterization42▲ 10.0×6 topics
  29. Adjuvant Therapy41▲ 14×2 topics
  30. Survival41▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Liver Transplantation41▲ 14×5 topics
  32. Magnetic Resonance Imaging40▲ 6.6×7 topics
  33. Radiofrequency Ablation36▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Breast Cancer36▲ 6.5×11 topics
  35. Cholangiocarcinoma34▲ 18×2 topics
  36. Endoscopic Resection33▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury32▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Liver Cancer32▲ 24×1 topic
  39. Sorafenib32▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Biliary Complications31▲ 32×1 topic

Which research topics does Asan Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research and Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma…32Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 32 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Te…31Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 31 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 24 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 22 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 21 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 21 fractional worksLiver Disease and Transplantation: 20 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…19Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 19 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 19 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 18 fractional works
HepatologySurgeryOncologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine1 others

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

  1. 1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 32 works
  2. 2 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 31 works
  3. 3 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 24 works
  4. 4 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 22 works
  5. 5 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 21 works
  6. 6 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 21 works
  7. 7 Liver Disease and Transplantation Hepatology 20 works
  8. 8 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 19 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 19 works
  10. 10 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 18 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 available50.5%not open49.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.2%domestic only86.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Asan Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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