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Dalian Medical University

In research, Dalian Medical University stands highest in Life Sciences (#192 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#343 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#435 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hepatology and Immunology — Cancer Research is 8.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#723
of 28,054 · #2,078 all time
Rank in China
#240
of 3,058
Research works
13k
▲ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
187k
14.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
47%
world 28%

What is Dalian 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 #192 of 7,800 26.0%1,165 #844
MedicineField #343 of 10,443 21.5%2,173 #1165
Health SciencesDomain #435 of 11,982 21.8%2,274 #1248
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #196 of 3,579 25.0%809 #863
Molecular BiologySubfield #185 of 2,175 24.0%502 #697
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #122 of 1,144 21.6%258 #586
SurgerySubfield #221 of 1,816 19.5%289 #905
OncologySubfield #109 of 772 24.2%210 #489
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #117 of 682 29.7%150 #550
EpidemiologySubfield #169 of 976 23.4%167 #602

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Dalian 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#844 #192
  2. Medicine#1,165 #343
  3. Health Sciences#1,248 #435
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#863 #196
  5. Molecular Biology#697 #185
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#586 #122
  7. Surgery#905 #221
  8. Oncology#489 #109
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#550 #117
  10. Epidemiology#602 #169
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 Dalian Medical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 147.1 works8.8×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 50.9 works6.8×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 137.1 works5.2×
  4. NephrologySubfield · 41.5 works5.0×
  5. OncologySubfield · 209.7 works4.8×
  6. GastroenterologySubfield · 21.9 works4.8×
← 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: 0.17× its world share, 31 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.94× its world share, 809 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.87× its world share, 150 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.30× its world share, 144 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.26× its world share, 31 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.35× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.59× its world share, 36 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 47 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 124 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 36 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.44× its world share, 59 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.44× its world share, 27 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.38× its world share, 38 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.93× its world share, 2,173 worksMedicineNursing: 1.74× its world share, 33 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 35 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Dalian Medical University?

Ranked on the composite score, Ying Liu, Yijun Liu and Wei Liu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dalian Medical University.

  1. 1 Ying Liu China · #1,594 worldwide 3.1k citations · 84 works
  2. 2 Yijun Liu China · #101,943 worldwide 340 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Wei Liu China · #131,656 worldwide 189 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Nanping Wang China · #195,881 worldwide 140 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Yanwei Miao China · #203,227 worldwide 77 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Weidong Le China · #227,830 worldwide 126 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Jinyong Peng China · #249,030 worldwide 79 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Yufang Ma China · #259,348 worldwide 79 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Song Li China · #338,981 worldwide 294 citations · 114 works
  10. 10 Guolin Zhang China · #386,677 worldwide 53 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Dalian Medical University

Which keywords describe research at Dalian Medical University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Tumor Microenvironment, Gene Expression, Epidemiology, Cell Death 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. Inflammation428▲ 5.3×83 topics
  2. Cancer405▲ 7.8×59 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress292▲ 4.6×59 topics
  4. Epidemiology275▲ 1.80×124 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment185▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Gene Expression153▲ 6.5×17 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease150▲ 3.5×38 topics
  8. Biomarkers135▲ 5.1×17 topics
  9. Chemotherapy133▲ 4.9×23 topics
  10. Immunotherapy133▲ 4.8×18 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome130▲ 4.2×22 topics
  12. Cell Death122▲ 14×6 topics
  13. Treatment121▲ 2.6×49 topics
  14. Metastasis104▲ 7.9×12 topics
  15. Diagnosis100▲ 2.8×40 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines97▲ 4.6×14 topics
  17. Immunity92▲ 5.9×10 topics
  18. Metabolism92▲ 4.6×30 topics
  19. Apoptosis89▲ 7.6×22 topics
  20. Cancer Therapy89▲ 4.0×20 topics
  21. Obesity84▲ 2.9×23 topics
  22. Management83▲ 2.8×31 topics
  23. Immune Response82▲ 3.8×22 topics
  24. Prognostic Factors81▲ 4.8×14 topics
  25. Regulation80▲ 3.9×13 topics
  26. Insulin Resistance79▲ 4.5×10 topics
  27. Angiogenesis76▲ 6.0×16 topics
  28. Biogenesis76▲ 11×3 topics
  29. Lipid Peroxidation73▲ 18×3 topics
  30. Ferroptosis69▲ 23×1 topic
  31. GPX469▲ 23×1 topic
  32. Innate Immunity66▲ 5.4×11 topics
  33. Reactive Oxygen Species66▲ 4.2×12 topics
  34. Cancer Progression65▲ 9.1×8 topics
  35. Epigenetic Regulation61▲ 7.4×6 topics
  36. Neurodegeneration61▲ 5.3×11 topics
  37. Hepatocellular Carcinoma60▲ 7.5×3 topics
  38. Neuroinflammation59▲ 5.4×6 topics
  39. Neoadjuvant Therapy58▲ 6.4×5 topics
  40. Therapeutics45▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does Dalian Medical University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, RNA modifications and cancer and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…69Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 69 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…40Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 40 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…40RNA modifications and cancer: 40 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …33Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 33 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 33 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 32 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…30Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 30 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 29 fractional worksCancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism: 26 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer25Immune cells in cancer: 25 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyEpidemiology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 69 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 40 works
  3. 3 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 40 works
  4. 4 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 33 works
  5. 5 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 33 works
  6. 6 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 32 works
  7. 7 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 30 works
  8. 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 29 works
  9. 9 Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism Cancer Research 26 works
  10. 10 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 25 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 available47.3%not open52.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Dalian Medical University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% 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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