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Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

In research, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College stands highest in Medicine (#7 of 10,443 worldwide), Life Sciences (#6 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#12 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Complementary and alternative medicine, Cancer Research and Oncology — Complementary and alternative medicine is 7.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#60
of 28,054 · #455 all time
Rank in China
#33
of 3,058
Research works
65k
▲ 64% vs 2013–17
Citations
1M
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

What is Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College 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 #7 of 10,443 20.3%11,687 #115
Life SciencesDomain #6 of 7,800 25.3%5,450 #165
Health SciencesDomain #12 of 11,982 20.6%12,141 #141
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #2 of 1,144 17.9%1,305 #58
EpidemiologySubfield #2 of 976 24.8%835 #68
OncologySubfield #2 of 772 22.1%1,202 #40
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #2 of 738 18.8%951 #59
SurgerySubfield #5 of 1,816 17.4%1,378 #91
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #2 of 682 29.3%759 #84
Molecular BiologySubfield #8 of 2,175 24.6%2,145 #122

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College 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#115 #7
  2. Life Sciences#165 #6
  3. Health Sciences#141 #12
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#58 #2
  5. Epidemiology#68 #2
  6. Oncology#40 #2
  7. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#59 #2
  8. Surgery#91 #5
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#84 #2
  10. Molecular Biology#122 #8
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 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Complementary and alternative medicine takes 7.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield · 438.3 works7.7×
  2. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 476.2 works5.6×
  3. OncologySubfield · 1,202.0 works5.5×
  4. HematologySubfield · 310.4 works5.2×
  5. OtorhinolaryngologySubfield · 99.3 works5.1×
  6. PharmacologySubfield · 183.7 works5.0×
  7. ImmunologySubfield · 658.4 works4.9×
  8. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 951.3 works4.6×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 456 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.30× its world share, 3,451 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.85× its world share, 760 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.71× its world share, 545 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.46× its world share, 239 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.90× its world share, 276 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 210 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 26 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 12 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 464 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.25× its world share, 247 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 222 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 37 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 72 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.00× its world share, 95 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 229 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.10× its world share, 12k worksMedicineNursing: 1.22× its world share, 117 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.46× its world share, 12 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 17 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 25 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 31 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 69 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.25× its world share, 148 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 142 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

Who are the top researchers at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College?

Ranked on the composite score, Jie He, Jun Zhu and Wanqing Chen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College.

  1. 1 Jie He China · #946 worldwide 2.2k citations · 109 works
  2. 2 Jun Zhu China · #2,705 worldwide 1.5k citations · 74 works
  3. 3 Wanqing Chen China · #7,313 worldwide 3.4k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Jigang Wang China · #34,202 worldwide 583 citations · 77 works
  5. 5 Wen Zhang China · #40,307 worldwide 222 citations · 40 works
  6. 6 Rongshou Zheng China · #43,999 worldwide 2.2k citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Dongfeng Gu China · #45,661 worldwide 287 citations · 42 works
  8. 8 Binghe Xu China · #58,329 worldwide 388 citations · 85 works
  9. 9 Simiao Chen China · #62,267 worldwide 458 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Jiarui Li China · #63,133 worldwide 262 citations · 37 works
All ranked researchers at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Which keywords describe research at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,660▲ 2.1×129 topics
  2. Inflammation1,628▲ 4.0×83 topics
  3. Cancer1,301▲ 5.0×58 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress968▲ 3.0×62 topics
  5. Chemotherapy813▲ 5.9×25 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease790▲ 3.6×38 topics
  7. Tumor Microenvironment684▲ 7.9×8 topics
  8. Immunotherapy637▲ 4.6×18 topics
  9. Treatment611▲ 2.6×51 topics
  10. Biomarkers567▲ 4.2×18 topics
  11. Diagnosis538▲ 3.0×41 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines512▲ 4.8×14 topics
  13. Gene Expression510▲ 4.3×20 topics
  14. Clinical Trials504▲ 3.8×19 topics
  15. Metabolic Syndrome493▲ 3.1×23 topics
  16. Prognostic Factors466▲ 5.5×14 topics
  17. Antioxidant448▲ 3.3×50 topics
  18. Risk Factors431▲ 2.0×35 topics
  19. Obesity429▲ 2.9×25 topics
  20. Metabolism424▲ 4.2×32 topics
  21. Immunity417▲ 5.3×11 topics
  22. Precision Medicine408▲ 4.5×8 topics
  23. Radiotherapy391▲ 5.2×13 topics
  24. Heart Failure387▲ 4.6×14 topics
  25. Metastasis383▲ 5.8×12 topics
  26. Anti-inflammatory377▲ 6.9×28 topics
  27. Cancer Therapy376▲ 3.4×20 topics
  28. Immune Response371▲ 3.3×23 topics
  29. Genetic Mutations363▲ 4.3×23 topics
  30. Targeted Therapy337▲ 7.7×5 topics
  31. Traditional Chinese Medicine329▲ 14×5 topics
  32. Neoadjuvant Therapy320▲ 7.0×5 topics
  33. Cell Death318▲ 7.0×6 topics
  34. Apoptosis316▲ 5.3×22 topics
  35. Guidelines314▲ 3.4×13 topics
  36. Echocardiography299▲ 5.6×8 topics
  37. Atherosclerosis292▲ 5.3×13 topics
  38. Innate Immunity288▲ 4.6×11 topics
  39. Survival Analysis282▲ 5.3×7 topics
  40. Pharmacological Effects230▲ 19×6 topics

Which research topics does Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…200Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 200 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…151Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 151 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 129 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 110 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…108RNA modifications and cancer: 108 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 108 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Studies: 105 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …104Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 104 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Studies: 102 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Analysis: 102 fractional works
OncologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMolecular BiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 200 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 151 works
  3. 3 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 129 works
  4. 4 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 110 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 108 works
  6. 6 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 108 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 105 works
  8. 8 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 104 works
  9. 9 Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 102 works
  10. 10 Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine 102 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 available41.9%not open58.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.4%domestic only86.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 64% 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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