Kunming Medical University
In research, Kunming Medical University stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,043 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#914 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,967 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Biological Psychiatry and Hepatology (Cancer Research is 8.8× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #3,026 of 22,385 · #4,370 all time
- Rank in China
- #512 of 2,481
- Research works
- 15k ▲ 97% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 125k 8.4 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 10.0% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.94× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 49% world 40%
- International
- 8% world 18%
What is Kunming Medical University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health SciencesDomain | #1,043 of 9,902 | 11.3% | 2,913 | #2369 | |
| MedicineField | #914 of 8,541 | 11.2% | 2,747 | #1995 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #1,967 of 6,403 | 7.7% | 1,564 | #2527 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #4,484 of 10,670 | 8.9% | 400 | #4957 | |
| SurgerySubfield | #697 of 1,532 | 10.9% | 369 | #1375 | |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField | #1,399 of 2,964 | 6.6% | 1,020 | #2038 | |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield | #553 of 1,037 | 9.3% | 354 | #1038 | |
| EpidemiologySubfield | #556 of 927 | 11.1% | 219 | #1186 | |
| Molecular BiologySubfield | #1,152 of 1,880 | 6.2% | 595 | #1805 | |
| OncologySubfield | #490 of 755 | 10.0% | 226 | #862 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kunming Medical University 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 of those standings moved
The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.
- Health Sciences#2,369 #1,043
- Medicine#1,995 #914
- Life Sciences#2,527 #1,967
- Physical Sciences#4,957 #4,484
- Surgery#1,375 #697
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#2,038 #1,399
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,038 #553
- Epidemiology#1,186 #556
- Molecular Biology#1,805 #1,152
- Oncology#862 #490
A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.
Which fields of science does Kunming Medical University work in?
In 2022-now, 58% of research at Kunming Medical University is in Health Sciences, 30% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (55%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (19%), Neuroscience (4%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences3,55457.8%
- Medicine3,35954.6%
- Health Professions941.5%
- Dentistry540.9%
- Nursing420.7%
- Veterinary60.1%
- Life Sciences1,86130.3%
- Physical Sciences4968.1%
- Engineering1642.7%
- Computer Science1121.8%
- Materials Science731.2%
- Environmental Science651.1%
- Chemistry510.8%
- Mathematics120.2%
- Physics and Astronomy90.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences50.1%
- Energy40.1%
- Chemical Engineering10.0%
- Social Sciences2403.9%
- Psychology1081.8%
- Social Sciences681.1%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance220.4%
- Arts and Humanities190.3%
- Business, Management and Accounting150.2%
- Decision Sciences90.1%
What does Kunming Medical University specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Cancer ResearchSubfield · 235.9 works8.8×
- Biological PsychiatrySubfield · 25.6 works7.6×
- HepatologySubfield · 70.5 works5.9×
- NeurologySubfield · 96.1 works5.6×
- ImmunologySubfield · 199.1 works4.7×
- Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 422.5 works4.5×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology4.16×257 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.65×1,197 works
- Medicine2.84×3,359 works
- Neuroscience2.65×265 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.31×50 works
- Dentistry1.79×54 works
- Nursing1.38×42 works
- Veterinary0.66×6 works
- Health Professions0.58×94 works
- Psychology0.58×108 works
- Chemistry0.52×50 works
- Materials Science0.34×73 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.31×92 works
- Computer Science0.23×112 works
- Environmental Science0.21×65 works
- Engineering0.18×164 works
- Mathematics0.17×12 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×22 works
- Decision Sciences0.14×9 works
- Arts and Humanities0.11×19 works
- Social Sciences0.09×68 works
- Chemical Engineering0.07×2 works
- Energy0.07×4 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.07×15 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.06×9 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.05×4 works
- Immunology and Microbiology 4.2×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3.6×
- Medicine 2.8×
- Neuroscience 2.6×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.3×
- Dentistry 1.8×
- Nursing 1.4×
- Veterinary 0.7×
- Health Professions 0.6×
- Psychology 0.6×
- Chemistry 0.5×
- Materials Science 0.3×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.3×
- Computer Science 0.2×
- Environmental Science 0.2×
- Engineering 0.2×
- Mathematics 0.2×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.2×
- Decision Sciences 0.1×
- Arts and Humanities 0.1×
- Social Sciences 0.1×
- Chemical Engineering 0.1×
- Energy 0.1×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×
- Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Kunming Medical University?
Ranked on the quality score, Yuqi Cheng, Li Yang and Zhenhui Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kunming Medical University.
- 1
Yuqi Cheng
China · #192,249 worldwide 4.7k citations · 124 works
- 2
Li Yang
China · #242,034 worldwide 4.4k citations · 116 works
- 3
Zhenhui Li
China · #250,380 worldwide 14k citations · 515 works
- 4
Xiaoxiao Song
China · #309,304 worldwide 6.3k citations · 209 works
- 5
Shuqi Chen
China · #335,245 worldwide 3.8k citations · 73 works
- 6
Xinwang Yang
China · #363,589 worldwide 3.4k citations · 96 works
- 7
Jin Gui Lu
China · #398,929 worldwide 8k citations · 132 works
- 8
Yuqi Cheng
China · #402,410 worldwide 4.2k citations · 116 works
- 9
Yinglei Miao
China · #420,788 worldwide 4.2k citations · 142 works
- 10
Bingying Xu
China · #435,061 worldwide 1.6k citations · 61 works
Which keywords describe research at Kunming Medical University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Epidemiology, Oxidative Stress, Tumor Microenvironment, Gene Expression, Cell Death and Metastasis.
- Disease
- Long Noncoding RNAs
- Cell Differentiation
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuroinflammation
- Ferroptosis
- Prognostic Factors
- Epigenetic Regulation
- Metabolism
- Apoptosis
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Regulation
- Immunity
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Diagnosis
- Chemotherapy
- Biomarkers
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Oxidative Stress
- Inflammation
- Cancer
- Epidemiology
- Gene Expression
- Treatment
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Cell Death
- Immunotherapy
- Metastasis
- Management
- Biogenesis
- Immune Response
- Obesity
- Innate Immunity
- Cytokines
- Lipid Peroxidation
- GPX4
- Angiogenesis
- Cancer Progression
- RNA Regulation
- Transcriptional Landscape
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
- Cancer599▲ 7.2×56 topics
- Inflammation589▲ 4.5×81 topics
- Epidemiology571▲ 2.3×124 topics
- Oxidative Stress404▲ 4.0×61 topics
- Gene Expression242▲ 6.3×18 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment238▲ 8.6×8 topics
- Treatment202▲ 2.7×50 topics
- Biomarkers190▲ 4.4×16 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease185▲ 2.6×38 topics
- Chemotherapy183▲ 4.2×24 topics
- Cell Death175▲ 12×6 topics
- Diagnosis174▲ 3.0×41 topics
- Immunotherapy172▲ 3.9×19 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome161▲ 3.2×23 topics
- Metastasis156▲ 7.4×12 topics
- Immunity146▲ 5.9×11 topics
- Management145▲ 3.0×28 topics
- Regulation144▲ 4.4×13 topics
- Biogenesis138▲ 13×3 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines137▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Immune Response127▲ 3.6×22 topics
- Apoptosis126▲ 6.5×22 topics
- Obesity125▲ 2.6×24 topics
- Metabolism123▲ 3.8×30 topics
- Innate Immunity116▲ 5.8×11 topics
- Epigenetic Regulation114▲ 8.8×6 topics
- Cytokines108▲ 6.1×8 topics
- Prognostic Factors106▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Lipid Peroxidation102▲ 15×3 topics
- Ferroptosis100▲ 20×1 topic
- GPX4100▲ 20×1 topic
- Neuroinflammation97▲ 5.5×6 topics
- Angiogenesis95▲ 4.6×16 topics
- Neurodegeneration93▲ 4.9×11 topics
- Cancer Progression91▲ 8.2×8 topics
- Cell Differentiation88▲ 17×2 topics
- RNA Regulation88▲ 14×2 topics
- Long Noncoding RNAs85▲ 18×1 topic
- Transcriptional Landscape85▲ 18×1 topic
- Disease80▲ 15×3 topics
Which research topics does Kunming Medical University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, MicroRNA in disease regulation and RNA modifications and cancer.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 100 works
- 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 85 works
- 3 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 61 works
- 4 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 58 works
- 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 45 works
- 6 Circular RNAs in diseases Molecular Biology 43 works
- 7 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 40 works
- 8 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms Neurology 39 works
- 9 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 38 works
- 10 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 35 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Kunming Medical University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 97% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Kunming Medical University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.
Fractional works of Kunming Medical University 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.2% in 2025.
Other research institutions in Kunming
- Kunming University of Science and Technology
- Yunnan University
- Yunnan Normal University
- Yunnan Agricultural University
- Southwest Forestry University
- Kunming University
- Yunnan University of Finance And Economics
- Yunnan Nationalities University
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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