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Imamura Hospital

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World rank, all time
#29,562
of 34,923
Rank in Japan
#1,277
of 1,923
Research works
251
▲ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.4k
13.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.80×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Imamura Hospital

Which fields of science does Imamura Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Imamura Hospital is in Health Sciences, 19% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (68%), Immunology and Microbiology (8%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 33 fractional works · 72.2% of its workMedicine: 31 fractional works · 67.8% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 9.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 6.2% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 5.5% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 19.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 7.6% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKImamura Hospital46fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences72%Social Sciences6%

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. Medicine3167.8%
    2. Health Professions23.6%
    3. Nursing00.6%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology47.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences25.2%
    4. Neuroscience00.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Social Sciences23.9%
    2. Psychology00.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    4. Decision Sciences00.4%
    1. Environmental Science11.2%
    2. Engineering01.0%
    3. Computer Science00.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    5. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 1.10× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.08× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 7.60× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.37× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.53× its world share, 31 worksMedicineNursing: 1.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingDecision Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 7.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology7.60×4 works
  2. Medicine3.53×31 works
  3. Health Professions1.37×2 works
  4. Nursing1.19×0 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.10×2 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.08×3 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.68×0 works
  8. Dentistry0.37×0 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.37×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.34×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.31×2 works
  12. Psychology0.30×0 works
  13. Neuroscience0.29×0 works
  14. Environmental Science0.23×0 works
  15. Engineering0.07×0 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.03×0 works
  17. Computer Science0.02×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Imamura Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Atae Utsunomiya, Masahito Tokunaga and Kentaro Yonekura lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Imamura Hospital.

  1. 1 Atae Utsunomiya Japan · #537,776 worldwide 15k citations · 498 works
  2. 2 Masahito Tokunaga Japan · #1,826,781 worldwide 1k citations · 118 works
  3. 3 Kentaro Yonekura Japan · #2,671,061 worldwide 1.9k citations · 83 works
  4. 4 Yukiko Shimizu Japan · #2,753,901 worldwide 317 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 Kazutoshi Hashiguchi Japan · #2,898,389 worldwide 282 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Yoichi Sameshima Japan · #3,355,105 worldwide 526 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Ichiro Imamura Japan · #3,906,297 worldwide 352 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Yoshifusa Takatsuka Japan · #4,587,700 worldwide 5.8k citations · 192 works
  9. 9 Torahiko Makino Japan · #4,613,667 worldwide 449 citations · 29 works
  10. 10 Takayoshi Miyazono Japan · #4,681,845 worldwide 311 citations · 43 works
All ranked researchers at Imamura Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Imamura Hospital?

The most cited paper from Imamura Hospital is "Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-1) proviral load and disease progression in asymptomatic HTLV-1 carriers: a nationwide prospective study in Japan" (Masako Iwanaga, Toshiki Watanabe, Atae Utsunomiya et al., 2010), with 363 citations. Next come "Clinical significance of CCR4 expression in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma: its close association with skin involvement and unfavorable outcome." (356) and "Polycomb-Mediated Loss of miR-31 Activates NIK-Dependent NF-κB Pathway in Adult T Cell Leukemia and Other Cancers" (329).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-1) proviral load and disease progression in asymptomatic HTLV-1 carriers: a nationwide prospective study in Japan Masako Iwanaga, Toshiki Watanabe, Atae Utsunomiya et al. · Blood 7 May 2010 363
2 Clinical significance of CCR4 expression in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma: its close association with skin involvement and unfavorable outcome. Takashi Ishida, Atae Utsunomiya, Shinsuke Iida et al. · PubMed Sep 2003 356
3 Polycomb-Mediated Loss of miR-31 Activates NIK-Dependent NF-κB Pathway in Adult T Cell Leukemia and Other Cancers Makoto Yamagishi, Kazumi Nakano, Ariko Miyake et al. · Cancer Cell Open access 2012 329
4 Treatment and survival among 1594 patients with ATL Hiroo Katsuya et al. · Blood Open access 12 Sep 2015 317
5 Transplantation of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells for adult T-cell leukemia: a nationwide retrospective study Masakatsu Hishizawa et al. · Blood 17 May 2010 293
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Imamura Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Infection, Lymphoma, Health-related Quality of Life, Pathogenesis, Leukemia and Genetic Mutations.

▲ 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. Epidemiology10▲ 5.2×40 topics
  2. Immunotherapy3▲ 9.4×9 topics
  3. Infection3▲ 25×4 topics
  4. Inflammation3▲ 2.8×22 topics
  5. Lymphoma3▲ 36×4 topics
  6. Health-related Quality of Life2▲ 22×3 topics
  7. Pathogenesis2▲ 9.6×7 topics
  8. Depression2▲ 5.5×8 topics
  9. Genetic Mutations2▲ 11×8 topics
  10. Leukemia2▲ 58×2 topics
  11. HTLV-12▲ 434×1 topic
  12. Treatment2▲ 3.7×17 topics
  13. Viral Transmission2▲ 33×2 topics
  14. proviral load2▲ 434×1 topic
  15. Genetic Characterization2▲ 97×2 topics
  16. Prognostic Factors2▲ 10×10 topics
  17. Surgical Management2▲ 11×7 topics
  18. Anxiety2▲ 8.0×5 topics
  19. Diagnosis2▲ 4.1×11 topics
  20. Hematopoietic Stem Cells2▲ 44×3 topics
  21. Quality of Life2▲ 2.7×7 topics
  22. Mesenchymal Stem Cells2▲ 34×3 topics
  23. Cardiovascular Disease2▲ 3.0×11 topics
  24. Bone Marrow Niche2▲ 138×1 topic
  25. Graft-versus-Host Disease2▲ 138×1 topic
  26. Chemotherapy1▲ 4.3×12 topics
  27. Bluetongue Virus1▲ 151×1 topic
  28. Culicoides Biting Midges1▲ 151×1 topic
  29. Fatigue1▲ 24×2 topics
  30. Physical Activity1▲ 5.8×2 topics
  31. Cancer Survivorship1▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Patient-Reported Outcomes1▲ 48×1 topic
  33. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study1▲ 53×1 topic
  34. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory1▲ 53×1 topic
  35. Radiosurgery1▲ 25×2 topics
  36. Autoantibodies1▲ 9.5×5 topics
  37. Diabetes Mellitus1▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Endovascular Treatment1▲ 38×2 topics
  39. Global Burden1▲ 4.1×4 topics
  40. Hypertension1▲ 7.6×4 topics

Which research topics does Imamura Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: T-cell and Retrovirus Studies, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases and Cancer survivorship and care.

T-cell and Retrovirus Studies: 2 fractional worksHematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: 2 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Dise…1Vector-Borne Animal Diseases: 1 fractional worksCancer survivorship and …1Cancer survivorship and care: 1 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksBlood Pressure and Hypertension Studies: 1 fractional worksAnimal Disease Managemen…1Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 1 fractional worksVascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 0 fractional worksCoronary Artery Anomalies: 0 fractional works
ImmunologyHematologyEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsOncology6 others

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

  1. 1 T-cell and Retrovirus Studies Immunology 2 works
  2. 2 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Hematology 2 works
  3. 3 Vector-Borne Animal Diseases Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  4. 4 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 1 works
  5. 5 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  6. 6 Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  7. 7 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  8. 8 Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment Neurology 1 works
  9. 9 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Coronary Artery Anomalies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 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 available53.9%not open46.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.1%domestic only86.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Imamura Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% 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 Imamura Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Imamura Hospital0.00028% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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