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Hebei North University

In research, Hebei North University stands highest in Medicine (#2,489 of 10,443 worldwide), Life Sciences (#2,081 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,463 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research — Cancer Research is 6.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,212
of 28,054 · #8,341 all time
Rank in China
#964
of 3,058
Research works
4k
▼ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
20k
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

What is Hebei North 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
MedicineField #2,489 of 10,443 13.0%418 #5943
Life SciencesDomain #2,081 of 7,800 17.8%230 #5029
Health SciencesDomain #3,463 of 11,982 12.9%433 #6691
Physical SciencesDomain #6,102 of 12,888 15.9%176 #7561
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,958 of 3,579 17.1%126 #4947
EngineeringField #4,640 of 6,636 17.9%66 #7686
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,730 of 2,175 17.9%73 #3854

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hebei North 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. Medicine#5,943 #2,489
  2. Life Sciences#5,029 #2,081
  3. Health Sciences#6,691 #3,463
  4. Physical Sciences#7,561 #6,102
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#4,947 #1,958
  6. Engineering#7,686 #4,640
  7. Molecular Biology#3,854 #1,730
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 Hebei North University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 6.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 24.6 works6.4×
← 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: 0.89× its world share, 37 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.68× its world share, 126 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.77× its world share, 33 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.03× its world share, 29 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.70× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.27× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.79× its world share, 11 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.59× its world share, 40 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.90× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 66 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.45× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.79× its world share, 24 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.48× its world share, 418 worksMedicineNursing: 1.00× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.70× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.24× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 21 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Hebei North University?

Ranked on the composite score, Junhua Liang, Yan‐Fei Kang and Xuejiao Zhang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hebei North University.

  1. 1 Junhua Liang China · #444,457 worldwide 85 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Yan‐Fei Kang China · #458,114 worldwide 137 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Xuejiao Zhang China · #653,595 worldwide 270 citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Jin Wang China · #816,957 worldwide 34 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Yong Huang China · #884,738 worldwide 97 citations · 25 works
  6. 6 Yuan Luo China · #1,056,864 worldwide 34 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Yuping Zhang China · #1,097,928 worldwide 30 citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Yanfeng Wang China · #1,305,224 worldwide 54 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Danshen Zhang China · #1,416,890 worldwide 8 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Chun‐Yu Niu China · #1,509,955 worldwide 13 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Hebei North University

Which keywords describe research at Hebei North University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology, Tumor Microenvironment, Diagnosis, Metabolism 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. Inflammation79▲ 4.3×78 topics
  2. Cancer69▲ 5.8×48 topics
  3. Epidemiology62▲ 1.79×93 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress48▲ 3.3×50 topics
  5. Deep Learning41▲ 1.37×47 topics
  6. Machine Learning34▲ 1.17×44 topics
  7. Diagnosis32▲ 3.9×30 topics
  8. Treatment30▲ 2.8×33 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease28▲ 2.9×33 topics
  10. Tumor Microenvironment25▲ 6.5×8 topics
  11. Gene Expression23▲ 4.2×16 topics
  12. Metabolism22▲ 5.0×26 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines22▲ 4.5×14 topics
  14. Immune Response22▲ 4.3×19 topics
  15. Artificial Intelligence21▲ 1.77×25 topics
  16. Chemotherapy21▲ 3.5×22 topics
  17. Metastasis20▲ 6.6×12 topics
  18. Management19▲ 2.7×24 topics
  19. Biomarkers18▲ 3.1×16 topics
  20. Immunity18▲ 5.2×10 topics
  21. Internet of Things17▲ 2.3×17 topics
  22. Reactive Oxygen Species17▲ 4.9×10 topics
  23. Regulation17▲ 3.5×12 topics
  24. Apoptosis16▲ 6.1×18 topics
  25. Cell Death16▲ 7.7×6 topics
  26. Angiogenesis15▲ 5.3×16 topics
  27. Medical Imaging15▲ 3.3×6 topics
  28. Neuroprotection14▲ 4.7×14 topics
  29. Epigenetic Regulation13▲ 7.0×6 topics
  30. Innate Immunity13▲ 4.5×11 topics
  31. Biogenesis12▲ 7.8×3 topics
  32. Myocardial Infarction11▲ 5.4×7 topics
  33. Cancer Biomarkers9▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Cell Differentiation9▲ 11×2 topics
  35. Traditional Chinese Medicine9▲ 8.6×5 topics
  36. Lipid Peroxidation9▲ 9.8×3 topics
  37. RNA Regulation9▲ 9.7×2 topics
  38. Disease9▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Long Noncoding RNAs9▲ 12×1 topic
  40. Transcriptional Landscape9▲ 12×1 topic

Which research topics does Hebei North University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology.

Cancer-related molecular…9Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 9 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…8Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 8 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…8Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 8 fractional worksTuberculosis Research an…5Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 5 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 5 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 5 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regu…5MicroRNA in disease regulation: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques: 5 fractional worksCircular RNAs in diseases: 5 fractional worksEducational Reforms and …5Educational Reforms and Innovations: 5 fractional works
Cancer ResearchRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineInfectious Diseases5 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 9 works
  2. 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 8 works
  3. 3 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 8 works
  4. 4 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 5 works
  5. 5 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 5 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 5 works
  7. 7 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 5 works
  8. 8 Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 5 works
  9. 9 Circular RNAs in diseases Molecular Biology 5 works
  10. 10 Educational Reforms and Innovations Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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 available29.9%not open70.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.2%domestic only96.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Hebei North University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% 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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