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First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

In research, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University stands highest in Life Sciences (#96 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#152 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#216 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hepatology and Nephrology — Cancer Research is 9.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#455
of 28,054 · #1,614 all time
Rank in China
#160
of 3,058
Research works
17k
▲ 61% vs 2013–17
Citations
213k
12.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou 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 #96 of 7,800 25.6%1,421 #586
MedicineField #152 of 10,443 20.2%2,810 #707
Health SciencesDomain #216 of 11,982 20.3%2,912 #897
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #157 of 3,579 24.8%992 #733
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #63 of 1,144 18.0%387 #345
OncologySubfield #44 of 772 21.9%290 #254
Molecular BiologySubfield #131 of 2,175 25.0%599 #519
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #43 of 682 29.6%200 #283
Cancer ResearchSubfield #17 of 237 26.8%196 #68
SurgerySubfield #140 of 1,816 16.2%381 #659

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou 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#586 #96
  2. Medicine#707 #152
  3. Health Sciences#897 #216
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#733 #157
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#345 #63
  6. Oncology#254 #44
  7. Molecular Biology#519 #131
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#283 #43
  9. Cancer Research#68 #17
  10. Surgery#659 #140
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 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 9.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 195.5 works9.6×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 59.1 works6.5×
  3. NephrologySubfield · 65.6 works6.5×
  4. GastroenterologySubfield · 32.1 works5.8×
  5. ImmunologySubfield · 186.0 works5.8×
  6. OncologySubfield · 290.4 works5.5×
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 387.2 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: 0.10× its world share, 23 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.97× its world share, 992 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.24× its world share, 200 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.45× its world share, 186 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.13× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.43× its world share, 31 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 36 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 117 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 27 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.38× its world share, 62 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 7 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.35× its world share, 31 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 44 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.11× its world share, 2,810 worksMedicineNursing: 1.11× its world share, 26 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 42 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University?

Ranked on the composite score, Yi Zhang, Hongjian Liu and Yuming Xu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University.

  1. 1 Yi Zhang China · #2,641 worldwide 3.6k citations · 268 works
  2. 2 Hongjian Liu China · #65,891 worldwide 358 citations · 30 works
  3. 3 Yuming Xu China · #85,578 worldwide 290 citations · 55 works
  4. 4 Qingxia Fan China · #191,843 worldwide 119 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Lin Zhu China · #212,386 worldwide 127 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Weitang Yuan China · #237,692 worldwide 255 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Changying Chen China · #237,735 worldwide 162 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Xi Wang China · #258,021 worldwide 106 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Xudong Zhang China · #280,672 worldwide 101 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Guijun Qin China · #327,422 worldwide 98 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Which keywords describe research at First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University?

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

▲ 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. Cancer512▲ 8.1×53 topics
  2. Inflammation417▲ 4.3×80 topics
  3. Epidemiology362▲ 1.95×119 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress305▲ 4.0×57 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment254▲ 12×8 topics
  6. Gene Expression197▲ 6.9×16 topics
  7. Immunotherapy191▲ 5.7×18 topics
  8. Chemotherapy187▲ 5.7×23 topics
  9. Treatment163▲ 2.9×46 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease161▲ 3.1×35 topics
  11. Biomarkers152▲ 4.7×16 topics
  12. Cell Death144▲ 13×6 topics
  13. Diagnosis140▲ 3.2×39 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors136▲ 6.7×14 topics
  15. Metastasis131▲ 8.2×12 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines129▲ 5.0×14 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome122▲ 3.2×22 topics
  18. Immunity122▲ 6.4×11 topics
  19. Epigenetic Regulation115▲ 11×6 topics
  20. Neurological Disorders112▲ 4.2×18 topics
  21. Management110▲ 3.0×30 topics
  22. Regulation110▲ 4.3×10 topics
  23. Biogenesis106▲ 13×3 topics
  24. Cancer Therapy101▲ 3.8×19 topics
  25. Metabolism100▲ 4.2×29 topics
  26. Cancer Progression100▲ 12×8 topics
  27. Lipid Peroxidation94▲ 19×2 topics
  28. Ferroptosis92▲ 26×1 topic
  29. GPX492▲ 26×1 topic
  30. Apoptosis83▲ 5.8×20 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy80▲ 7.2×5 topics
  32. Cell Differentiation78▲ 18×2 topics
  33. RNA Regulation73▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Long Noncoding RNAs73▲ 18×1 topic
  35. Transcriptional Landscape73▲ 18×1 topic
  36. Gene Expression Regulation70▲ 14×3 topics
  37. Endoscopic Resection69▲ 15×2 topics
  38. PET Imaging69▲ 8.6×5 topics
  39. Transcriptional Regulation66▲ 8.7×9 topics
  40. m6A-seq65▲ 16×1 topic

Which research topics does First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, RNA modifications and cancer and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 92 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 73 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…65RNA modifications and cancer: 65 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…57Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 57 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 42 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 40 fractional worksCircular RNAs in diseases38Circular RNAs in diseases: 38 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 38 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 33 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 33 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 92 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 73 works
  3. 3 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 65 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 57 works
  5. 5 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 42 works
  6. 6 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 40 works
  7. 7 Circular RNAs in diseases Molecular Biology 38 works
  8. 8 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 38 works
  9. 9 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 33 works
  10. 10 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 33 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 available43.3%not open56.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.2%domestic only93.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 61% higher 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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