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Kobe Medical Center

In research, Kobe Medical Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,475 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#4,811 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery (Surgery is 7.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,985
of 22,385 · #24,449 all time
Rank in Japan
#556
of 924
Research works
671
▲ 37% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.4k
11.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
51%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Kobe Medical Center

What is Kobe Medical Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #5,475 of 9,902 4.6%93 #10338
MedicineField #4,811 of 8,541 4.8%87 #8603

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kobe 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Kobe Medical Center work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Kobe Medical Center is in Health Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (76%), Engineering (6%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 106 fractional works · 81.8% of its workMedicine: 98 fractional works · 76.2% of its workSurgery: 22 fractional works · 17.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 12 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 11 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOncology: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHepatology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 8.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 6.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKobe MedicalCenter129fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences82%Social Sciences2%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine9876.2%
    2. Health Professions64.8%
    3. Nursing10.6%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology75.4%
    2. Neuroscience21.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.1%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Engineering86.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    3. Materials Science00.3%
    4. Chemistry00.2%
    5. Environmental Science00.1%
    6. Energy00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences10.9%
    2. Psychology10.5%
    3. Decision Sciences00.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Kobe Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 7.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 22.2 works7.3×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.02× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.13× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.43× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEnergy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.40× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.81× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.96× its world share, 98 worksMedicineNursing: 1.13× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× 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, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.96×98 works
  2. Health Professions1.81×6 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.43×1 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.13×2 works
  5. Nursing1.13×1 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.02×7 works
  7. Neuroscience0.93×2 works
  8. Dentistry0.61×0 works
  9. Engineering0.40×8 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.40×0 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.31×1 works
  12. Veterinary0.16×0 works
  13. Psychology0.16×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.13×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×0 works
  16. Energy0.07×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.07×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.07×1 works
  19. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.03×0 works
  21. Environmental Science0.02×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kobe Medical Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Koki Uno, Teppei Suzuki and Ryosuke Zushi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kobe Medical Center.

  1. 1 Koki Uno Japan · #1,002,004 worldwide 2.6k citations · 82 works
  2. 2 Teppei Suzuki Japan · #1,155,059 worldwide 3.1k citations · 137 works
  3. 3 Ryosuke Zushi Japan · #1,726,579 worldwide 382 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Takafumi Shimizu Japan · #2,038,203 worldwide 760 citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Shizuo Takamiya Japan · #2,074,629 worldwide 1.1k citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Hiroshi Mayahara Japan · #2,795,181 worldwide 2.9k citations · 158 works
  7. 7 Masatoshi Shimizu Japan · #3,631,290 worldwide 2.9k citations · 147 works
  8. 8 Kazuko Ijichi Japan · #3,661,027 worldwide 121 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Yoshihiro Inui Japan · #3,814,340 worldwide 121 citations · 42 works
  10. 10 Yoshio Horikawa Japan · #3,855,785 worldwide 109 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Kobe Medical Center

What are the most cited papers from Kobe Medical Center?

The most cited paper from Kobe Medical Center is "Effect of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor after Intensive Induction Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory Acute Leukemia" (Ryuzo Ohno, Masao Tomonaga, Tohru Kobayashi et al., 1990), with 399 citations. Next come "Liver ischaemia–reperfusion injury: a new understanding of the role of innate immunity" (380) and "Initial Surgical Versus Conservative Strategies in Patients With Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis" (321).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Effect of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor after Intensive Induction Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory Acute Leukemia Ryuzo Ohno, Masao Tomonaga, Tohru Kobayashi et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 27 Sep 1990 399
2 Liver ischaemia–reperfusion injury: a new understanding of the role of innate immunity Hirofumi Hirao, Kojiro Nakamura, Jerzy W. Kupiec‐Weglinski · Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology Review 26 Nov 2021 380
3 Initial Surgical Versus Conservative Strategies in Patients With Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis Tomohiko Taniguchi et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access 22 Oct 2015 321
4 Factors associated with motivation and hesitation to work among health professionals during a public crisis: a cross sectional study of hospital workers in Japan during the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Hissei Imai, Kunitaka Matsuishi, Atsushi M Ito et al. · BMC Public Health Open access 4 Nov 2010 318
5 Psychological impact of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on general hospital workers in Kobe Kunitaka Matsuishi, Ayako Kawazoe, Hissei Imai et al. · Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 25 May 2012 302
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Kobe Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Hypothermia, Resuscitation, Survival Rates, Cardiac Arrest, Out-of-Hospital, Heart Failure and Surgical Management.

▲ 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. Epidemiology15▲ 2.9×56 topics
  2. Hypothermia9▲ 91×2 topics
  3. Resuscitation8▲ 49×3 topics
  4. Survival Rates8▲ 65×2 topics
  5. Cardiac Arrest8▲ 112×1 topic
  6. Out-of-Hospital8▲ 112×1 topic
  7. Inflammation7▲ 2.5×38 topics
  8. Heart Failure7▲ 12×8 topics
  9. Surgical Management6▲ 12×15 topics
  10. Thrombosis6▲ 17×6 topics
  11. Public Health5▲ 2.9×6 topics
  12. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation5▲ 54×2 topics
  13. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention5▲ 30×2 topics
  14. Treatment5▲ 3.4×24 topics
  15. Cardiogenic Shock5▲ 82×1 topic
  16. Left Ventricular Assist Device5▲ 82×1 topic
  17. Infectious Diseases5▲ 12×5 topics
  18. Ethical Considerations5▲ 11×3 topics
  19. Management5▲ 4.6×12 topics
  20. Chemotherapy5▲ 5.1×16 topics
  21. Mortality5▲ 6.2×9 topics
  22. Complications4▲ 7.0×10 topics
  23. Healthcare Workers4▲ 15×3 topics
  24. Rehabilitation4▲ 8.8×7 topics
  25. Disaster Response4▲ 45×2 topics
  26. Emergency Preparedness4▲ 83×1 topic
  27. Triage4▲ 83×1 topic
  28. Diagnosis4▲ 3.5×18 topics
  29. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 5.8×11 topics
  30. Echocardiography4▲ 11×7 topics
  31. Immunotherapy4▲ 4.0×16 topics
  32. Prognostic Factors3▲ 5.8×10 topics
  33. Radiotherapy3▲ 6.4×8 topics
  34. Critical Care3▲ 10×8 topics
  35. CT Imaging3▲ 60×2 topics
  36. Clinical Guidelines3▲ 7.7×5 topics
  37. Biomechanics3▲ 7.1×5 topics
  38. Pain Management3▲ 9.4×4 topics
  39. Mechanical Ventilation3▲ 19×2 topics
  40. Myocardial Infarction3▲ 9.0×5 topics

Which research topics does Kobe Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Disaster Response and Management and Respiratory Support and Mechanisms.

Cardiac Arrest and Resus…8Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 8 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 5 fractional worksDisaster Response and Management: 4 fractional worksRespiratory Support and …3Respiratory Support and Mechanisms: 3 fractional worksTrauma Management and Di…2Trauma Management and Diagnosis: 2 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Trea…2Shoulder Injury and Treatment: 2 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 2 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 2 fractional worksChronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 1 fractional works
Emergency MedicineBiomedical EngineeringEmergency Medical ServicesPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 8 works
  2. 2 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 5 works
  3. 3 Disaster Response and Management Emergency Medical Services 4 works
  4. 4 Respiratory Support and Mechanisms Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Trauma Management and Diagnosis Surgery 2 works
  6. 6 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 2 works
  9. 9 Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments Hematology 2 works
  10. 10 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches 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 available51.0%not open49.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.8%domestic only94.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kobe Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Kobe Medical Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00055% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Kobe Medical Center0.00065% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Kobe Medical Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Kobe Medical Center4.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 6.1% in 2007.

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