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Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital

In research, Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#8,196 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,807 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases — Infectious Diseases is 26.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,670
of 28,054 · #18,838 all time
Rank in China
#2,059
of 3,058
Research works
476
▲ 65% vs 2013–17
Citations
7.6k
16.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
46%
world 28%

What is Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital 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 #8,196 of 10,443 18.4%83 #10860
Health SciencesDomain #9,807 of 11,982 19.0%85 #13691

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital 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).

What does Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 26.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 22.6 works26×
← 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: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.30× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 9.91× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.36× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.27× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.41× its world share, 83 worksMedicineNursing: 1.29× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 9.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Linghua Li, Weiping Cai and Xiaoping Tang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital.

  1. 1 Linghua Li China · #146,340 worldwide 151 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Weiping Cai China · #326,233 worldwide 144 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Xiaoping Tang China · #793,985 worldwide 16 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Yun Lan China · #1,304,450 worldwide 11 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Fengyu Hu China · #1,394,385 worldwide 23 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Xiaoping Tang China · #1,502,326 worldwide 30 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immune Response, Antiretroviral Therapy, Vaccine, SARS-CoV-2, HIV Infection, ACE2 Receptor and Antiviral Therapy.

▲ 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. Epidemiology27▲ 5.4×63 topics
  2. Immune Response20▲ 27×17 topics
  3. Antiretroviral Therapy17▲ 85×6 topics
  4. Vaccine15▲ 29×11 topics
  5. SARS-CoV-210▲ 23×5 topics
  6. Inflammation9▲ 3.5×45 topics
  7. Pandemic8▲ 6.0×5 topics
  8. HIV Infection8▲ 61×3 topics
  9. ACE2 Receptor8▲ 25×3 topics
  10. Antiviral Therapy8▲ 61×3 topics
  11. Treatment7▲ 4.7×18 topics
  12. Liver Disease7▲ 62×3 topics
  13. Hepatocellular Carcinoma7▲ 26×3 topics
  14. Immunity7▲ 13×9 topics
  15. HIV7▲ 64×4 topics
  16. Pathogenesis7▲ 10×17 topics
  17. Global Burden6▲ 9.5×8 topics
  18. Cardiovascular Disease6▲ 4.4×20 topics
  19. Insulin Resistance6▲ 11×7 topics
  20. Viral Transmission6▲ 33×4 topics
  21. Cancer6▲ 3.4×29 topics
  22. Immune Activation6▲ 57×2 topics
  23. Coronavirus6▲ 21×3 topics
  24. Antibodies6▲ 78×2 topics
  25. Diagnosis5▲ 4.5×19 topics
  26. AIDS5▲ 160×1 topic
  27. neurocognitive disorders5▲ 160×1 topic
  28. Mutation5▲ 21×3 topics
  29. Viral Load5▲ 48×2 topics
  30. antibody5▲ 35×1 topic
  31. spike protein5▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Drug Resistance5▲ 13×4 topics
  33. Antifungal Therapy4▲ 39×3 topics
  34. Hepatotoxicity4▲ 70×2 topics
  35. Vaccine Development4▲ 13×7 topics
  36. Integrase Inhibitors4▲ 155×1 topic
  37. Nucleoside Analogues4▲ 155×1 topic
  38. Chronic Hepatitis B4▲ 87×1 topic
  39. Genetic Variation4▲ 14×4 topics
  40. Hepatitis B Virus4▲ 87×1 topic

Which research topics does Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: HIV Research and Treatment, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment and Hepatitis B Virus Studies.

HIV Research and Treatment5HIV Research and Treatment: 5 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …5SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 5 fractional worksHIV/AIDS drug developmen…4HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 4 fractional worksHepatitis B Virus Studies4Hepatitis B Virus Studies: 4 fractional worksHepatitis C virus research: 3 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…3COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 3 fractional worksHIV-related health compl…3HIV-related health complications and treatments: 3 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …2Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksFungal Infections and St…2Fungal Infections and Studies: 2 fractional works
VirologyInfectious DiseasesEpidemiologyHepatology1 others

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

  1. 1 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 5 works
  2. 2 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 5 works
  3. 3 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 4 works
  4. 4 Hepatitis B Virus Studies Epidemiology 4 works
  5. 5 Hepatitis C virus research Hepatology 3 works
  6. 6 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 3 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 3 works
  8. 8 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 2 works
  10. 10 Fungal Infections and Studies 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 available45.7%not open54.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.6%domestic only88.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 65% 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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