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Kumamoto University Hospital

In research, Kumamoto University Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#3,492 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#4,533 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 7.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#10,579
of 28,054 · #14,388 all time
Rank in Japan
#261
of 1,070
Research works
1.6k
▲ 31% vs 2013–17
Citations
25k
15.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
53%
world 28%

What is Kumamoto University 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 #3,492 of 10,443 7.6%242 #5811
Health SciencesDomain #4,533 of 11,982 7.8%251 #7562

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

What does Kumamoto University Hospital specialise in?

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

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 24.9 works7.3×
  2. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 34.6 works6.9×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.09× its world share, 36 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.52× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.94× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.66× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.86× its world share, 242 worksMedicineNursing: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.61× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× 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, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kumamoto University Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Takuro Sakagami, Fumi Kawakami and Sho Saeki lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kumamoto University Hospital.

  1. 1 Takuro Sakagami Japan · #138,735 worldwide 112 citations · 35 works
  2. 2 Fumi Kawakami Japan · #527,061 worldwide 61 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Sho Saeki Japan · #532,098 worldwide 47 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Yusuke Tomita Japan · #563,731 worldwide 49 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Shinya Sakata Japan · #698,612 worldwide 61 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Yoshiki Mikami Japan · #740,150 worldwide 61 citations · 56 works
  7. 7 Masahiro Hatemura Japan · #741,010 worldwide 13 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Tomohiko Matsuyama Japan · #957,692 worldwide 23 citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Hideaki Jinnouchi Japan · #973,817 worldwide 54 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Hideaki Miyamoto Japan · #1,019,849 worldwide 16 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Kumamoto University Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Kumamoto University Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Immunotherapy, Treatment, Prognosis, Inflammation, Heart Failure 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. Epidemiology31▲ 2.4×79 topics
  2. Inflammation21▲ 3.2×50 topics
  3. Treatment20▲ 4.9×31 topics
  4. Diagnosis19▲ 6.2×32 topics
  5. Immunotherapy17▲ 7.5×18 topics
  6. Chemotherapy14▲ 6.2×22 topics
  7. Prognosis14▲ 13×9 topics
  8. Heart Failure13▲ 9.2×12 topics
  9. Cancer13▲ 2.9×33 topics
  10. Radiotherapy12▲ 9.6×11 topics
  11. Echocardiography12▲ 13×7 topics
  12. Obesity11▲ 4.3×16 topics
  13. Management10▲ 4.0×19 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors10▲ 6.7×13 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 5.4×12 topics
  16. Surgical Management9▲ 6.9×17 topics
  17. Risk Factors9▲ 2.5×21 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations8▲ 6.0×20 topics
  19. Tumor Microenvironment8▲ 5.2×8 topics
  20. Magnetic Resonance Imaging7▲ 8.8×4 topics
  21. Myocardial Infarction7▲ 9.8×6 topics
  22. Chronic Kidney Disease7▲ 9.1×7 topics
  23. Fibrosis7▲ 12×6 topics
  24. Cardiovascular Risk7▲ 6.6×6 topics
  25. Survival Analysis7▲ 7.5×6 topics
  26. Antimicrobial Resistance7▲ 10×7 topics
  27. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance6▲ 36×2 topics
  28. Cardiac Amyloidosis6▲ 89×1 topic
  29. Transthyretin6▲ 89×1 topic
  30. Neoadjuvant Therapy6▲ 7.7×5 topics
  31. Chamber Quantification6▲ 23×1 topic
  32. Diastolic Function6▲ 23×1 topic
  33. Molecular Classification6▲ 12×4 topics
  34. Cancer Risk6▲ 7.9×8 topics
  35. Lymphoma6▲ 11×3 topics
  36. Cardiac Imaging6▲ 14×3 topics
  37. Autoantibodies5▲ 7.1×8 topics
  38. Targeted Therapy5▲ 7.3×5 topics
  39. Interstitial Lung Disease5▲ 25×2 topics
  40. Radiation Exposure5▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does Kumamoto University Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments.

Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, …6Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes: 6 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …6Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 6 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Tre…4Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…4Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 4 fractional worksInterstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 3 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksAntibiotics Pharmacokine…3Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy: 3 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 3 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 3 fractional worksT-cell and Retrovirus St…3T-cell and Retrovirus Studies: 3 fractional works
Molecular BiologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineGeneticsPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes Molecular Biology 6 works
  2. 2 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 4 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  5. 5 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  7. 7 Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy Pharmacology 3 works
  8. 8 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  10. 10 T-cell and Retrovirus Studies Immunology 3 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 available52.9%not open47.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.5%domestic only92.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kumamoto University Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 31% 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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