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Himeji Medical Center

In research, Himeji Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#9,164 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#10,962 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 11.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#26,350
of 28,054 · #39,572 all time
Rank in Japan
#958
of 1,070
Research works
487
▼ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
4k
8.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Himeji Medical Center 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 #9,164 of 10,443 6.6%114 #15148
Health SciencesDomain #10,962 of 11,982 6.4%118 #18075

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Himeji Medical 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Himeji Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 11.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 24.2 works12×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 26.3 works8.4×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.94× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.93× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.86× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.47× its world share, 114 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Himeji Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Hiroshi Iwamura, Katsunari Matsuoka and Shin Sasaki lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Himeji Medical Center.

  1. 1 Hiroshi Iwamura Japan · #507,476 worldwide 18 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Katsunari Matsuoka Japan · #854,346 worldwide 13 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Shin Sasaki Japan · #891,352 worldwide 58 citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Mitsuhiro Ueda Japan · #1,038,731 worldwide 28 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Tetsuji Kawamura Japan · #1,166,694 worldwide 20 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Yoshiro Mochizuki Japan · #1,301,279 worldwide 4 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Yasushi Fukuda Japan · #1,313,157 worldwide 24 citations · 45 works
  8. 8 Hiroaki Tsukamoto Japan · #1,334,950 worldwide 5 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Yasuharu Nakahara Japan · #1,474,883 worldwide 8 citations · 26 works
  10. 10 Teruki Kobayashi Japan · #1,606,261 worldwide 2 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Himeji Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Himeji Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Complications, Guidelines and Echocardiography.

▲ 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. Epidemiology16▲ 3.1×55 topics
  2. Diagnosis9▲ 7.0×25 topics
  3. Treatment8▲ 5.2×21 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 11×11 topics
  5. Chemotherapy7▲ 7.8×15 topics
  6. Complications7▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Inflammation7▲ 2.4×26 topics
  8. Guidelines7▲ 11×9 topics
  9. Echocardiography6▲ 16×7 topics
  10. Surgical Management6▲ 10×13 topics
  11. Management5▲ 5.2×17 topics
  12. Risk Factors5▲ 3.5×13 topics
  13. Myocardial Infarction5▲ 16×7 topics
  14. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement5▲ 52×1 topic
  15. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement5▲ 52×1 topic
  16. Heart Failure5▲ 8.5×11 topics
  17. Surgery5▲ 10×6 topics
  18. Atherosclerosis4▲ 12×5 topics
  19. Neoadjuvant Therapy4▲ 14×5 topics
  20. Endovascular Repair4▲ 39×3 topics
  21. Mortality4▲ 5.5×8 topics
  22. Magnetic Resonance Imaging4▲ 12×3 topics
  23. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention4▲ 22×4 topics
  24. Prognostic Factors4▲ 6.3×10 topics
  25. Cardiac Imaging4▲ 22×3 topics
  26. Adjuvant Therapy3▲ 20×2 topics
  27. Molecular Characterization3▲ 14×4 topics
  28. Bacteremia3▲ 32×3 topics
  29. Clinical Guidelines3▲ 8.3×6 topics
  30. Coronary Stents3▲ 57×1 topic
  31. Myocardial Revascularization3▲ 57×1 topic
  32. Prophylaxis3▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Aortic Aneurysm3▲ 36×2 topics
  34. Endoscopic Resection3▲ 22×2 topics
  35. Interstitial Lung Disease3▲ 34×2 topics
  36. Radiation Exposure3▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Coronary Artery Disease3▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy3▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Survival Analysis3▲ 7.7×5 topics
  40. Computed Tomography Angiography3▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Himeji Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics and Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management.

Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 5 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 2 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgic…2Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 2 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseas…2Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 2 fractional worksCoronary Artery Anomalies2Coronary Artery Anomalies: 2 fractional worksTracheal and airway diso…2Tracheal and airway disorders: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingEpidemiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  2. 2 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 3 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  4. 4 Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management Epidemiology 2 works
  5. 5 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  7. 7 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 2 works
  8. 8 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Coronary Artery Anomalies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory 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 available50.1%not open49.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.6%domestic only94.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Himeji Medical Center'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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