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Hakodate Central General Hospital

In research, Hakodate Central General Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,970 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,185 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (Surgery is 10.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,486
of 22,385 · #25,402 all time
Rank in Japan
#643
of 924
Research works
546
▲ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.8k
10.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Hakodate Central General Hospital

What is Hakodate Central General Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #5,970 of 9,902 6.7%142 #7862
MedicineField #5,185 of 8,541 6.8%139 #6582

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

Which fields of science does Hakodate Central General Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Hakodate Central General Hospital is in Health Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (88%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Engineering (2%). It does 3.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 157 fractional works · 89.7% of its workMedicine: 153 fractional works · 87.6% of its workSurgery: 44 fractional works · 25.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 22 fractional works · 12.5% of its workOncology: 11 fractional works · 6.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 10 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHepatology: 9 fractional works · 5.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 7 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHakodate CentralGeneral Hospital175fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences90%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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine15387.6%
    2. Health Professions10.8%
    3. Dentistry10.7%
    4. Veterinary10.4%
    5. Nursing00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology84.4%
    2. Neuroscience21.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology21.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Engineering31.8%
    2. Computer Science10.3%
    3. Environmental Science00.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    5. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Psychology10.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    3. Social Sciences00.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Hakodate Central General Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 10.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 43.9 works11×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 21.9 works8.1×
← 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: 0.82× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.16× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.37× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.56× its world share, 153 worksMedicineNursing: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.80× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.56×153 works
  2. Veterinary2.80×1 works
  3. Dentistry1.37×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.16×2 works
  5. Neuroscience0.87×2 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.82×8 works
  7. Nursing0.53×0 works
  8. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.49×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.29×1 works
  10. Psychology0.20×1 works
  11. Engineering0.12×3 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×0 works
  13. Computer Science0.04×1 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.01×0 works
  16. Mathematics0.01×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hakodate Central General Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Keiichi Shigenobu, Taiga Wakabayashi and Shigeru Yamane lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hakodate Central General Hospital.

  1. 1 Keiichi Shigenobu Japan · #1,527,215 worldwide 1.6k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Taiga Wakabayashi Japan · #1,637,868 worldwide 1.6k citations · 103 works
  3. 3 Shigeru Yamane Japan · #2,253,200 worldwide 1.2k citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Masahiro Kanayama Japan · #2,358,615 worldwide 3.3k citations · 149 works
  5. 5 Tomoyuki Hashimoto Japan · #2,368,849 worldwide 2.7k citations · 95 works
  6. 6 Kohei Mishima Japan · #2,484,186 worldwide 618 citations · 75 works
  7. 7 Yohei Kawashima Japan · #2,636,254 worldwide 398 citations · 77 works
  8. 8 Jun Konno Japan · #2,805,984 worldwide 275 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 Yusuke Nie Japan · #2,855,108 worldwide 78 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Kazuharu Igarashi Japan · #3,081,004 worldwide 751 citations · 64 works
All ranked researchers at Hakodate Central General Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Hakodate Central General Hospital?

The most cited paper from Hakodate Central General Hospital is "Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos)" (Masamichi Yokoe et al., 2017), with 1,544 citations. Next come "Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis" (911) and "Comparative Short-term Benefits of Laparoscopic Liver Resection" (748).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos) Masamichi Yokoe et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences Open access 15 Oct 2017 1,544
2 Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis Kohji Okamoto et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences Open access 16 Oct 2017 911
3 Comparative Short-term Benefits of Laparoscopic Liver Resection Rubén Ciria, Daniel Cherqui, David A. Geller et al. · Annals of Surgery 2 Dec 2015 748
4 Tokyo Guidelines 2018: surgical management of acute cholecystitis: safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (with videos) Go Wakabayashi et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences Open access 2 Nov 2017 519
5 The Miami International Evidence-based Guidelines on Minimally Invasive Pancreas Resection Horacio J. Asbun et al. · Annals of Surgery Open access 22 Sep 2019 491
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hakodate Central General Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Diagnosis, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Management, Chemotherapy, Epidemiology and Radiofrequency Ablation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology18▲ 2.6×55 topics
  2. Clinical Practice Guidelines15▲ 15×11 topics
  3. Diagnosis14▲ 8.8×20 topics
  4. Treatment14▲ 6.7×20 topics
  5. Immunotherapy13▲ 10×12 topics
  6. Management13▲ 9.0×19 topics
  7. Chemotherapy11▲ 8.6×15 topics
  8. Radiofrequency Ablation10▲ 54×2 topics
  9. Survival9▲ 37×2 topics
  10. Hepatocellular Carcinoma9▲ 25×2 topics
  11. Prognostic Factors9▲ 12×13 topics
  12. Liver Cancer9▲ 86×1 topic
  13. Sorafenib9▲ 86×1 topic
  14. Surgical Management9▲ 12×16 topics
  15. Neoadjuvant Therapy8▲ 20×5 topics
  16. Guidelines7▲ 8.2×9 topics
  17. Complications7▲ 7.7×14 topics
  18. Degenerative Disc Disease6▲ 37×2 topics
  19. Rehabilitation6▲ 8.9×8 topics
  20. Biomechanics6▲ 11×5 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations6▲ 7.1×12 topics
  22. Surgical Treatment5▲ 16×5 topics
  23. Molecular Characterization5▲ 17×4 topics
  24. Spinal Fusion5▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Tumor Microenvironment5▲ 6.3×4 topics
  26. Mortality5▲ 4.8×7 topics
  27. Cholangiocarcinoma5▲ 33×2 topics
  28. Laparoscopic Surgery5▲ 22×4 topics
  29. Surgery5▲ 7.5×8 topics
  30. Breast Cancer4▲ 10×7 topics
  31. Molecular Profiling4▲ 26×3 topics
  32. Immunohistochemistry4▲ 34×3 topics
  33. Low Back Pain4▲ 14×2 topics
  34. Surgical Complications4▲ 29×2 topics
  35. Echocardiography4▲ 8.2×6 topics
  36. Robotic Surgery4▲ 14×4 topics
  37. Therapeutic Targets4▲ 14×5 topics
  38. Clinical Outcomes4▲ 9.7×2 topics
  39. Prostate Cancer4▲ 16×3 topics
  40. Liver Transplantation4▲ 17×3 topics

Which research topics does Hakodate Central General Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma…9Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 9 fractional worksSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 4 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 3 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 3 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 3 fractional worksMetastasis and carcinoma case studies: 3 fractional worksFoot and Ankle Surgery3Foot and Ankle Surgery: 3 fractional worksCervical and Thoracic Myelopathy: 3 fractional worksAutoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments: 2 fractional worksTendon Structure and Treatment: 2 fractional works
HepatologyPathology and Forensic MedicineOncologySurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 9 works
  2. 2 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 3 works
  4. 4 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 3 works
  5. 5 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 3 works
  6. 6 Metastasis and carcinoma case studies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Foot and Ankle Surgery Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 3 works
  8. 8 Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy Surgery 3 works
  9. 9 Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments Neurology 2 works
  10. 10 Tendon Structure and Treatment Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 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 available49.9%not open50.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.8%domestic only94.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hakodate Central General Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hakodate Central General Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00049% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Hakodate Central General Hospital0.00080% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hakodate Central General Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Hakodate Central General Hospital7.6% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.0% in 2017.

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