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Huadong Hospital

In research, Huadong Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#2,232 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,977 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,782 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 6.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,186
of 28,054 · #11,116 all time
Rank in China
#1,124
of 3,058
Research works
1.5k
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
18k
11.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

What is Huadong 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 #2,232 of 10,443 19.6%287 #4848
Health SciencesDomain #2,977 of 11,982 19.5%299 #6252
Life SciencesDomain #2,782 of 7,800 23.6%108 #5844
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,260 of 3,579 24.0%71 #5251

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Huadong 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).

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#4,848 #2,232
  2. Health Sciences#6,252 #2,977
  3. Life Sciences#5,844 #2,782
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#5,251 #2,260
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 Huadong Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 6.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 42.4 works6.0×
  2. OncologySubfield · 28.3 works5.5×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.89× its world share, 71 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.99× its world share, 14 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.58× its world share, 19 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.28× its world share, 19 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.40× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.58× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.25× its world share, 286 worksMedicineNursing: 1.50× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.46× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Huadong Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Huili Zhu, Yanqiu Chen and Yong Qi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Huadong Hospital.

  1. 1 Huili Zhu China · #560,539 worldwide 68 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Yanqiu Chen China · #1,372,609 worldwide 23 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Yong Qi China · #1,451,460 worldwide 11 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Huadong Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Huadong Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Epidemiology, Tumor Microenvironment, Immunotherapy, Aging, Cardiovascular Disease and Chemotherapy.

▲ 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. Inflammation53▲ 5.5×73 topics
  2. Epidemiology46▲ 2.5×100 topics
  3. Cancer34▲ 5.5×45 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress24▲ 3.1×47 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease21▲ 4.1×30 topics
  6. Tumor Microenvironment21▲ 10×8 topics
  7. Immunotherapy19▲ 5.8×18 topics
  8. Chemotherapy18▲ 5.6×20 topics
  9. Aging17▲ 7.1×15 topics
  10. Metabolic Syndrome15▲ 4.1×20 topics
  11. Quality of Life15▲ 2.2×34 topics
  12. Treatment15▲ 2.7×32 topics
  13. Obesity14▲ 4.1×18 topics
  14. Biomarkers14▲ 4.3×14 topics
  15. Diagnosis13▲ 3.1×28 topics
  16. Diabetes13▲ 5.8×20 topics
  17. Metastasis13▲ 8.4×12 topics
  18. Gene Expression13▲ 4.7×13 topics
  19. Management12▲ 3.3×19 topics
  20. Insulin Resistance11▲ 5.5×10 topics
  21. Photodynamic Therapy11▲ 11×6 topics
  22. Clinical Practice Guidelines11▲ 4.2×14 topics
  23. Wound Healing11▲ 8.9×11 topics
  24. Reactive Oxygen Species10▲ 5.5×9 topics
  25. Radiotherapy10▲ 5.5×8 topics
  26. Prognosis9▲ 6.2×7 topics
  27. Immunity9▲ 5.0×8 topics
  28. Macrophages9▲ 11×7 topics
  29. Biogenesis9▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Cell Death8▲ 8.0×6 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy8▲ 7.9×5 topics
  32. Cardiovascular Risk8▲ 5.9×8 topics
  33. Atherosclerosis8▲ 6.4×11 topics
  34. Adjuvant Therapy8▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Elderly Patients8▲ 10×4 topics
  36. Tumor Staging8▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Muscle Mass8▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Lung Cancer7▲ 9.4×2 topics
  39. Inflammatory Diseases7▲ 8.6×5 topics
  40. CT Screening7▲ 22×1 topic

Which research topics does Huadong Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Lung Cancer Diagnosis an…7Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 7 fractional worksNutrition and Health in …7Nutrition and Health in Aging: 7 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 6 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 5 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 5 fractional worksFrailty in Older Adults: 5 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 4 fractional worksGut microbiota and health4Gut microbiota and health: 4 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 4 fractional worksPhotodynamic Therapy Research Studies: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePhysiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  2. 2 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 7 works
  3. 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 6 works
  4. 4 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  5. 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 5 works
  6. 6 Frailty in Older Adults Geriatrics and Gerontology 5 works
  7. 7 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 4 works
  8. 8 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 4 works
  9. 9 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 4 works
  10. 10 Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 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 available45.1%not open54.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.7%domestic only91.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Huadong Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% 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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