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Harbin Medical University

In research, Harbin Medical University stands highest in Life Sciences (#172 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#304 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#433 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Oncology and Immunology — Cancer Research is 14.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#590
of 28,054 · #1,648 all time
Rank in China
#189
of 3,058
Research works
18k
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
277k
15.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Harbin Medical 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 #172 of 7,800 22.7%1,480 #714
MedicineField #304 of 10,443 22.7%1,939 #946
Health SciencesDomain #433 of 11,982 22.8%2,047 #964
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #54 of 1,144 23.9%289 #339
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #184 of 3,579 22.0%1,091 #641
Molecular BiologySubfield #116 of 2,175 21.7%672 #474
Cancer ResearchSubfield #22 of 237 23.2%253 #66
OncologySubfield #93 of 772 21.1%265 #338
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #91 of 682 26.9%175 #450
SurgerySubfield #259 of 1,816 20.8%192 #669

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Harbin Medical 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#714 #172
  2. Medicine#946 #304
  3. Health Sciences#964 #433
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#339 #54
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#641 #184
  6. Molecular Biology#474 #116
  7. Cancer Research#66 #22
  8. Oncology#338 #93
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#450 #91
  10. Surgery#669 #259
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 Harbin Medical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 14.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 253.3 works14×
  2. OncologySubfield · 265.5 works5.8×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 158.4 works5.7×
  4. Molecular BiologySubfield · 672.2 works5.5×
  5. NeurologySubfield · 60.7 works5.4×
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 1,090.8 works5.0×
← 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: 0.20× its world share, 38 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.05× its world share, 1,091 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.29× its world share, 175 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.22× its world share, 146 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.08× its world share, 30 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.52× its world share, 33 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 57 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 136 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.31× its world share, 62 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.49× its world share, 70 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.21× its world share, 24 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.42× its world share, 45 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.49× its world share, 1,940 worksMedicineNursing: 1.87× its world share, 37 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 19 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.52× its world share, 64 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 48 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Harbin Medical University?

Ranked on the composite score, Yuxian Bai, Bei Sun and Liming Yang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Harbin Medical University.

  1. 1 Yuxian Bai · #15,010 worldwide 565 citations · 49 works
  2. 2 Bei Sun · #34,518 worldwide 525 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Liming Yang · #34,974 worldwide 675 citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Yueyin Pan · #74,654 worldwide 317 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Linfeng Wu · #75,620 worldwide 281 citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Yun Xiao · #96,581 worldwide 208 citations · 33 works
  7. 7 Hong Chen · #142,100 worldwide 246 citations · 42 works
  8. 8 Weihua Zhang · #156,083 worldwide 268 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Lihong Wang · #214,965 worldwide 127 citations · 44 works
  10. 10 Dan Xiao · #220,734 worldwide 222 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Harbin Medical University

Which keywords describe research at Harbin Medical University?

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

▲ 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. Cancer577▲ 11×56 topics
  2. Inflammation450▲ 5.3×82 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress333▲ 5.0×61 topics
  4. Gene Expression267▲ 11×18 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment267▲ 15×8 topics
  6. Epidemiology236▲ 1.47×125 topics
  7. Biomarkers175▲ 6.3×17 topics
  8. Cell Death173▲ 18×6 topics
  9. Metastasis146▲ 11×12 topics
  10. Chemotherapy144▲ 5.1×24 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease141▲ 3.1×38 topics
  12. Biogenesis141▲ 20×3 topics
  13. Regulation133▲ 6.1×14 topics
  14. Immunotherapy129▲ 4.5×18 topics
  15. Immunity126▲ 7.7×10 topics
  16. Epigenetic Regulation124▲ 14×6 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome123▲ 3.7×23 topics
  18. Lipid Peroxidation118▲ 28×3 topics
  19. Ferroptosis114▲ 37×1 topic
  20. GPX4114▲ 37×1 topic
  21. Cancer Progression113▲ 15×8 topics
  22. Metabolism108▲ 5.2×31 topics
  23. Cell Differentiation103▲ 27×2 topics
  24. Clinical Practice Guidelines102▲ 4.6×14 topics
  25. Cancer Therapy98▲ 4.2×20 topics
  26. RNA Regulation98▲ 23×2 topics
  27. Long Noncoding RNAs98▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Transcriptional Landscape98▲ 28×1 topic
  29. Apoptosis93▲ 7.5×22 topics
  30. Immune Response87▲ 3.8×22 topics
  31. Gene Expression Regulation87▲ 20×3 topics
  32. Reactive Oxygen Species82▲ 5.0×13 topics
  33. Innate Immunity81▲ 6.2×11 topics
  34. RNA methylation76▲ 21×1 topic
  35. m6A-seq76▲ 21×1 topic
  36. Disease73▲ 20×3 topics
  37. Cytokines72▲ 6.3×8 topics
  38. Therapeutics64▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Immune Checkpoint Blockade63▲ 14×1 topic
  40. PD-1 and PD-L163▲ 14×1 topic

Which research topics does Harbin Medical 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: 114 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 98 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…76RNA modifications and cancer: 76 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…63Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 63 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 59 fractional worksCircular RNAs in diseases: 47 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer40Immune cells in cancer: 40 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 34 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 33 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 32 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyOncology2 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 114 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms researchCancer Research 98 works
  3. 3 RNA modifications and cancerMolecular Biology 76 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 63 works
  5. 5 MicroRNA in disease regulationCancer Research 59 works
  6. 6 Circular RNAs in diseasesMolecular Biology 47 works
  7. 7 Immune cells in cancerImmunology 40 works
  8. 8 Extracellular vesicles in diseaseMolecular Biology 34 works
  9. 9 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 33 works
  10. 10 Epigenetics and DNA MethylationMolecular Biology 32 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 available41.2%not open58.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Harbin Medical University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower 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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