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First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

In research, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,279 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#1,994 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#2,394 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Complementary and alternative medicine and Neurology — Complementary and alternative medicine is 40.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,290
of 28,054 · #8,277 all time
Rank in China
#814
of 3,058
Research works
1.4k
▲ 97% vs 2013–17
Citations
16k
11.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 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 #1,279 of 7,800 32.5%180 #3743
MedicineField #1,994 of 10,443 28.0%393 #4569
Health SciencesDomain #2,394 of 11,982 28.0%409 #5580
Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield #16 of 74 29.6%75 #98
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,075 of 3,579 31.9%96 #5254

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 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#3,743 #1,279
  2. Medicine#4,569 #1,994
  3. Health Sciences#5,580 #2,394
  4. Complementary and alternative medicine#98 #16
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#5,254 #2,075
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 Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Complementary and alternative medicine takes 40.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield · 75.1 works41×
  2. NeurologySubfield · 24.3 works14×
← 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, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.86× its world share, 96 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.74× its world share, 24 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.34× its world share, 44 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.93× its world share, 11 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.68× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.26× its world share, 393 worksMedicineNursing: 1.13× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Ranked on the composite score, Xuemin Shi, Yihua Fan and Guiping Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

  1. 1 Xuemin Shi China · #423,232 worldwide 31 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Yihua Fan China · #769,227 worldwide 9 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Guiping Li China · #855,237 worldwide 34 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Jingyuan Mao China · #949,097 worldwide 12 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Junping Zhang China · #963,733 worldwide 77 citations · 56 works
  6. 6 Yingjie Jia China · #1,264,996 worldwide 13 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Wang Yu China · #1,275,235 worldwide 0 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Aifeng Liu China · #1,435,875 worldwide 9 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 Shu Wang China · #1,555,169 worldwide 7 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Which keywords describe research at First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Clinical Trials, Cancer, Depression, Acupuncture, Pain Relief, Osteoarthritis and Oxidative Stress.

▲ 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. Inflammation78▲ 6.0×72 topics
  2. Cancer58▲ 6.8×47 topics
  3. Clinical Trials56▲ 13×14 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress50▲ 4.8×46 topics
  5. Depression47▲ 8.4×15 topics
  6. Acupuncture46▲ 126×3 topics
  7. Pain Relief45▲ 180×2 topics
  8. Osteoarthritis44▲ 55×5 topics
  9. Epidemiology40▲ 1.63×70 topics
  10. Brain Imaging38▲ 77×2 topics
  11. Neurological Effects38▲ 91×2 topics
  12. Adverse Events38▲ 95×2 topics
  13. Cancer Care38▲ 274×1 topic
  14. Fibroblast Response38▲ 274×1 topic
  15. Cardiovascular Disease35▲ 5.0×29 topics
  16. Traditional Chinese Medicine31▲ 41×5 topics
  17. Biomarkers28▲ 6.5×15 topics
  18. Tumor Microenvironment24▲ 8.7×8 topics
  19. Herbal Medicine23▲ 13×7 topics
  20. Gene Expression22▲ 5.8×11 topics
  21. Precision Medicine21▲ 7.3×7 topics
  22. Cytokines21▲ 12×8 topics
  23. Neuroprotective Effects21▲ 21×7 topics
  24. Anti-inflammatory19▲ 11×22 topics
  25. Neuroinflammation19▲ 11×6 topics
  26. Antioxidant18▲ 4.3×28 topics
  27. Integrative Medicine18▲ 49×2 topics
  28. Cell Death17▲ 12×6 topics
  29. Neurological Disorders17▲ 4.8×16 topics
  30. Heart Failure17▲ 6.2×12 topics
  31. Metastasis15▲ 7.1×10 topics
  32. Genomic Analysis15▲ 9.6×5 topics
  33. Immunity15▲ 5.8×8 topics
  34. Cardiovascular Risk14▲ 7.3×8 topics
  35. Ayurveda14▲ 92×1 topic
  36. Syndrome Differentiation14▲ 92×1 topic
  37. Immunomodulation14▲ 17×4 topics
  38. Phytochemistry14▲ 18×6 topics
  39. Pharmacological Effects13▲ 34×6 topics
  40. Glial Activation13▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies, Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies, Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments and Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Acupuncture Treatment Re…38Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies: 38 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medi…14Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies: 14 fractional worksNeurological Disease Mec…9Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 9 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 9 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Analysis: 9 fractional worksHealthcare and Venom Res…7Healthcare and Venom Research: 7 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 7 fractional worksNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms: 6 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 5 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 5 fractional works
Complementary and alternative medicineNeurologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePharmacology2 others

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

  1. 1 Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 38 works
  2. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 14 works
  3. 3 Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 9 works
  4. 4 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 9 works
  5. 5 Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine 9 works
  6. 6 Healthcare and Venom Research Pharmacology 7 works
  7. 7 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 7 works
  8. 8 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms Neurology 6 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  10. 10 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 5 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 available52.3%not open47.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.0%domestic only93.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 97% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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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