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Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital

In research, Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#6,192 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,026 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#20,619
of 28,054 · #36,790 all time
Rank in Japan
#602
of 1,070
Research works
264
▼ 19% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.3k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
57%
world 28%

What is Kobe City Medical Center West 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 #6,192 of 10,443 4.4%62 #14103
Health SciencesDomain #8,026 of 11,982 4.7%64 #17168

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kobe City Medical Center West 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).

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: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.29× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.91× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.48× its world share, 62 worksMedicineNursing: 1.18× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 6.83× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 6.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Y Matsumoto and Masahiro Kaneko lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital.

  1. 1 Y Matsumoto Japan · #782,922 worldwide 5 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Masahiro Kaneko Japan · #792,361 worldwide 25 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management, Chemotherapy, Prenatal Diagnosis, Fibrosis, Complications and Immunotherapy.

▲ 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. Epidemiology11▲ 4.0×38 topics
  2. Diagnosis10▲ 15×17 topics
  3. Management8▲ 14×13 topics
  4. Chemotherapy5▲ 10×10 topics
  5. Treatment4▲ 4.6×13 topics
  6. Prenatal Diagnosis4▲ 36×5 topics
  7. Immunotherapy4▲ 6.8×9 topics
  8. Complications3▲ 9.4×7 topics
  9. Fibrosis3▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Interstitial Lung Disease3▲ 68×2 topics
  11. Molecular Characterization3▲ 24×4 topics
  12. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis3▲ 90×1 topic
  13. Myofibroblast3▲ 90×1 topic
  14. TGF-ß3▲ 27×2 topics
  15. Therapy3▲ 21×3 topics
  16. Autoantibodies3▲ 16×6 topics
  17. Clinical Trials3▲ 5.4×6 topics
  18. Imaging3▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Metastasis3▲ 11×4 topics
  20. Survival Analysis3▲ 13×3 topics
  21. Chronic Pain2▲ 16×4 topics
  22. Cytoreductive Surgery2▲ 54×2 topics
  23. Prognostic Factors2▲ 8.1×8 topics
  24. Biomarkers2▲ 4.9×4 topics
  25. Cardiac2▲ 171×1 topic
  26. Gastric Cancer2▲ 27×3 topics
  27. Genetic Susceptibility2▲ 32×3 topics
  28. Sarcoidosis2▲ 171×1 topic
  29. Surgical Management2▲ 7.6×6 topics
  30. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 5.3×7 topics
  31. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation2▲ 36×2 topics
  32. Children2▲ 11×4 topics
  33. Maternal Mortality2▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 11×4 topics
  35. Pathophysiology2▲ 8.6×3 topics
  36. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia2▲ 79×1 topic
  37. Fetal Surgery2▲ 43×1 topic
  38. Hernia Repair2▲ 86×1 topic
  39. Laparoscopic Repair2▲ 60×2 topics
  40. Mesh Techniques2▲ 86×1 topic

Which research topics does Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research, Hernia repair and management and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies.

Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 3 fractional worksSarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research: 2 fractional worksHernia repair and manage…2Hernia repair and management: 2 fractional worksCongenital Diaphragmatic…2Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies: 2 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 2 fractional worksMinimally Invasive Surgical Techniques: 1 fractional worksEndometriosis Research a…1Endometriosis Research and Treatment: 1 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 1 fractional worksBladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments: 1 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…1Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 1 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePhysiologySurgeryReproductive Medicine

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

  1. 1 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  2. 2 Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research Physiology 2 works
  3. 3 Hernia repair and management Surgery 2 works
  4. 4 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies Surgery 2 works
  5. 5 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques Surgery 1 works
  7. 7 Endometriosis Research and Treatment Reproductive Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 1 works
  9. 9 Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 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 available57.0%not open43.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.0%domestic only94.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% 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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