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Gifu Heart Center

In research, Gifu Heart Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#9,331 of 16,688 worldwide) and Medicine (#9,722 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Medicine and Health Sciences (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 39.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#33,978
of 34,923
Rank in Japan
#1,791
of 1,923
Research works
152
▲ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.2k
7.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
49%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Gifu Heart Center

What is Gifu Heart Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #9,331 of 16,688 7.3%137
MedicineField #9,722 of 14,558 7.3%135

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Gifu Heart 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Gifu Heart Center work in?

In 2022-now, 95% of research at Gifu Heart Center is in Health Sciences, 3% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (93%), Engineering (2%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 60 fractional works · 94.6% of its workMedicine: 59 fractional works · 93.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 26 fractional works · 41.0% of its workSurgery: 15 fractional works · 23.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGifu Heart Center63fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences95%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine5993.1%
    2. Health Professions11.4%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Engineering11.9%
    2. Computer Science00.7%
    3. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.5%
    2. Neuroscience00.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences00.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    3. Social Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Gifu Heart Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 39.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 26.0 works39×
  2. MedicineField · 59.1 works4.8×
  3. Health SciencesDomain · 60.1 works4.1×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.84× its world share, 59 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.29× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryDecision Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.84×59 works
  2. Veterinary1.29×0 works
  3. Decision Sciences0.75×0 works
  4. Health Professions0.52×1 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.28×1 works
  6. Engineering0.12×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.12×0 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.11×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.09×0 works
  10. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Gifu Heart Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Hitoshi Matsuo, Masafumi Nakayama and Munenori Okubo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Gifu Heart Center.

  1. 1 Hitoshi Matsuo Japan · #389,220 worldwide 9.1k citations · 493 works
  2. 2 Masafumi Nakayama Japan · #1,114,942 worldwide 1.1k citations · 88 works
  3. 3 Munenori Okubo Japan · #1,436,659 worldwide 3.3k citations · 105 works
  4. 4 Yoshiaki Kawase Japan · #1,671,613 worldwide 4.6k citations · 273 works
  5. 5 Toru Tanigaki Japan · #1,808,940 worldwide 1.1k citations · 72 works
  6. 6 Masahiro Ishikura Japan · #2,445,629 worldwide 168 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Taiji Miyake Japan · #2,678,369 worldwide 411 citations · 71 works
  8. 8 Hitoshi Matsuo Japan · #2,683,096 worldwide 1k citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Hiroyuki Omori Japan · #2,950,847 worldwide 749 citations · 74 works
  10. 10 Shinji Tomita Japan · #3,546,310 worldwide 3.1k citations · 100 works
All ranked researchers at Gifu Heart Center

What are the most cited papers from Gifu Heart Center?

The most cited paper from Gifu Heart Center is "Use of the Instantaneous Wave-free Ratio or Fractional Flow Reserve in PCI" (Justin E. Davies et al., 2017), with 982 citations. Next come "Diagnostic Performance of In‐Procedure Angiography‐Derived Quantitative Flow Reserve Compared to Pressure‐Derived Fractional Flow Reserve: The FAVOR II Europe‐Japan Study" (425) and "1-Year Impact on Medical Practice and Clinical Outcomes of FFRCT" (321).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Use of the Instantaneous Wave-free Ratio or Fractional Flow Reserve in PCI Justin E. Davies et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Mar 2017 982
2 Diagnostic Performance of In‐Procedure Angiography‐Derived Quantitative Flow Reserve Compared to Pressure‐Derived Fractional Flow Reserve: The FAVOR II Europe‐Japan Study Jelmer Sybren Westra et al. · Journal of the American Heart Association Open access 6 Jul 2018 425
3 1-Year Impact on Medical Practice and Clinical Outcomes of FFRCT Manesh R. Patel et al. · JACC. Cardiovascular imaging Open access 17 Mar 2019 321
4 Real-world clinical utility and impact on clinical decision-making of coronary computed tomography angiography-derived fractional flow reserve: lessons from the ADVANCE Registry Timothy A. Fairbairn et al. · European Heart Journal Open access 9 Aug 2018 318
5 Long-Term (>10 Years) Clinical Outcomes of First-in-Human Biodegradable Poly- l -Lactic Acid Coronary Stents Soji Nishio et al. · Circulation 17 Apr 2012 239
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Gifu Heart Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Atherosclerosis, Myocardial Infarction, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Cardiac Imaging, Guidelines, Catheter Ablation, Echocardiography and Coronary Stents.

▲ 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-now 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. Atherosclerosis9▲ 50×5 topics
  2. Myocardial Infarction9▲ 58×4 topics
  3. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention8▲ 94×4 topics
  4. Cardiac Imaging8▲ 98×3 topics
  5. Guidelines7▲ 24×5 topics
  6. Catheter Ablation7▲ 92×2 topics
  7. Echocardiography7▲ 39×6 topics
  8. Coronary Artery Disease7▲ 90×2 topics
  9. Coronary Stents7▲ 244×1 topic
  10. Myocardial Revascularization7▲ 244×1 topic
  11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging6▲ 39×4 topics
  12. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 134×1 topic
  13. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement6▲ 134×1 topic
  14. Computed Tomography Angiography6▲ 134×1 topic
  15. Myocardial Perfusion6▲ 134×1 topic
  16. Epidemiology5▲ 2.1×11 topics
  17. Arrhythmias5▲ 79×2 topics
  18. Stroke Prevention4▲ 58×2 topics
  19. Atrial Fibrillation4▲ 67×2 topics
  20. Anticoagulant Therapy4▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Heart Failure4▲ 14×4 topics
  22. Risk Stratification4▲ 83×1 topic
  23. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 9.8×2 topics
  24. Cardiovascular Disease3▲ 4.6×10 topics
  25. Obesity3▲ 6.8×5 topics
  26. Radiofrequency Ablation3▲ 49×1 topic
  27. Treatment3▲ 4.3×5 topics
  28. Ventricular Tachycardia3▲ 105×1 topic
  29. Diagnosis3▲ 5.2×3 topics
  30. Prophylaxis3▲ 38×2 topics
  31. Sudden Cardiac Death3▲ 50×2 topics
  32. Complications2▲ 8.0×4 topics
  33. Aortic Dissection2▲ 81×1 topic
  34. Bicuspid Aortic Valve2▲ 81×1 topic
  35. Cardiovascular Risk2▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Chronic Venous Insufficiency2▲ 164×1 topic
  37. Dilated Cardiomyopathy2▲ 49×2 topics
  38. Endovascular Repair2▲ 40×2 topics
  39. Varicose Veins2▲ 164×1 topic
  40. Chamber Quantification2▲ 41×1 topic

Which research topics does Gifu Heart Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics and Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes.

Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 6 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 6 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 4 fractional worksCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments: 3 fractional worksDiagnosis and Treatment …2Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 2 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 2 fractional worksAcute Myocardial Infarction Research: 2 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional works
SurgeryCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine1 others

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

  1. 1 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 7 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 6 works
  4. 4 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Acute Myocardial Infarction Research Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 2 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 available48.7%not open51.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.5%domestic only83.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Gifu Heart Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Gifu Heart Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00036% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Gifu Heart Center0.00025% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Gifu Heart Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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