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Kwai Chung Hospital

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World rank, all time
#27,994
of 34,923
Rank in China
#2,455
of 2,919
Research works
195
▼ 31% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.3k
27.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
51%
world 18%
Kwai Chung Hospital

Which fields of science does Kwai Chung Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 44% of research at Kwai Chung Hospital is in Health Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (39%), Psychology (20%), Computer Science (16%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 15 fractional works · 43.9% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 38.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 22.9% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 19.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 9.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 6.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 18.8% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 16.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 14.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 7.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 5.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKKwai ChungHospital34fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences44%Social Sciences23%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1338.7%
    2. Health Professions14.1%
    3. Veterinary01.1%
    1. Psychology719.9%
    2. Social Sciences11.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    1. Computer Science516.0%
    2. Environmental Science11.7%
    3. Engineering01.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology37.9%
    2. Neuroscience25.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
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: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.47× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.40× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 2.06× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.56× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.01× its world share, 13 worksMedicineVeterinary: 8.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 6.52× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.12× 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, 8.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary8.22×0 works
  2. Psychology6.52×7 works
  3. Neuroscience3.40×2 works
  4. Computer Science2.06×6 works
  5. Medicine2.01×13 works
  6. Health Professions1.56×1 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.47×3 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.70×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.33×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.25×0 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.23×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.12×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.08×0 works
  15. Engineering0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kwai Chung Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Kitty K. Wu, Se‐Fong Hung and Chi‐Chiu Lee lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kwai Chung Hospital.

  1. 1 Kitty K. Wu China · #1,903,507 worldwide 1.1k citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Se‐Fong Hung China · #2,049,548 worldwide 937 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Chi‐Chiu Lee China · #2,466,693 worldwide 2.8k citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Henry W. M. Kwok China · #2,543,131 worldwide 906 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Alison Lo China · #3,190,654 worldwide 81 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 William Tak-Lam Lo China · #3,367,996 worldwide 511 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Catherine Shiu Yin Chong China · #3,382,528 worldwide 1.1k citations · 25 works
  8. 8 A To China · #3,979,358 worldwide 112 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Kwai Chung Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Kwai Chung Hospital?

The most cited paper from Kwai Chung Hospital is "Detecting postnatal depression in Chinese women" (Dominic T.S. Lee, S. K. Yip, Helen F.K. Chiu et al., 1998), with 582 citations. Next come "Heterogeneity of Psychosis Risk Within Individuals at Clinical High Risk" (449) and "IMRAM: Iterative Matching With Recurrent Attention Memory for Cross-Modal Image-Text Retrieval" (437).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Detecting postnatal depression in Chinese women Dominic T.S. Lee, S. K. Yip, Helen F.K. Chiu et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry May 1998 582
2 Heterogeneity of Psychosis Risk Within Individuals at Clinical High Risk Paolo Fusar‐Poli et al. · JAMA Psychiatry Open access 31 Dec 2015 449
3 IMRAM: Iterative Matching With Recurrent Attention Memory for Cross-Modal Image-Text Retrieval Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, Xudong Liu et al. Conference paper Jun 2020 437
4 Intellectual developmental disorders: towards a new name, definition and framework for “mental retardation/intellectual disability” in ICD‐11 Luis Salvador‐Carulla, Geoffrey M. Reed, Leila M. Vaezazizi et al. · World Psychiatry Open access Oct 2011 414
5 Possible Central Nervous System Infection by SARS Coronavirus K. Lau, Wai-Cho Yu, Chung‐Ming Chu et al. · Emerging infectious diseases Open access Feb 2004 405
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Which keywords describe research at Kwai Chung Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Convolutional Neural Networks, Mental Health, Prevalence, Psychopathology, Emotion Regulation, Anxiety Disorders and Epidemiology.

▲ 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 32 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 32 words, with their numbers
  1. Depression4▲ 13×6 topics
  2. Epidemiology3▲ 2.4×15 topics
  3. Mental Health3▲ 5.7×8 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks2▲ 9.9×4 topics
  5. Deep Learning2▲ 2.0×8 topics
  6. Prevalence2▲ 14×4 topics
  7. Psychopathology2▲ 32×3 topics
  8. Anxiety Disorders2▲ 51×2 topics
  9. Emotion Regulation2▲ 18×3 topics
  10. Immunotherapy2▲ 7.3×8 topics
  11. Mental Disorders2▲ 45×3 topics
  12. Adolescents2▲ 13×3 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome2▲ 5.7×3 topics
  14. Neural Networks2▲ 3.0×5 topics
  15. Psychological Distress2▲ 19×2 topics
  16. Social Cognition2▲ 26×3 topics
  17. Antipsychotic Drugs2▲ 112×1 topic
  18. Children2▲ 20×1 topic
  19. Developmental Trajectories2▲ 37×1 topic
  20. Global Burden2▲ 8.1×3 topics
  21. Neurocognitive Deficits2▲ 112×1 topic
  22. Acoustic Modeling1▲ 108×1 topic
  23. Deep Neural Networks1▲ 33×1 topic
  24. Help-Seeking Behavior1▲ 85×1 topic
  25. Public Attitudes1▲ 85×1 topic
  26. Stigma1▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition1▲ 60×1 topic
  28. Genetics1▲ 4.5×5 topics
  29. Speech Enhancement1▲ 60×1 topic
  30. Audio Signal Classification1▲ 77×1 topic
  31. Genetic Mutations1▲ 6.9×4 topics
  32. Music Information Retrieval1▲ 77×1 topic

Which research topics does Kwai Chung Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Schizophrenia research and treatment, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Speech Recognition and Synthesis and Mental Health Treatment and Access.

Schizophrenia research a…2Schizophrenia research and treatment: 2 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psy…2Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 2 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…1Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 1 fractional worksMental Health Treatment …1Mental Health Treatment and Access: 1 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Process…1Speech and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksVeterinary Oncology Research: 1 fractional worksGenetic Neurodegenerative Diseases: 0 fractional worksMetabolism and Genetic Disorders: 0 fractional worksMental Health and Patient Involvement: 0 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyArtificial IntelligenceSocial Psychology5 others

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

  1. 1 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  2. 2 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 2 works
  3. 3 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  4. 4 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  6. 6 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  7. 7 Veterinary Oncology Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0 works
  9. 9 Metabolism and Genetic Disorders Clinical Biochemistry 0 works
  10. 10 Mental Health and Patient Involvement General Health Professions 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 available35.8%not open64.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors50.7%domestic only49.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kwai Chung Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Kwai Chung Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00016% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Kwai Chung Hospital0.00013% in 20251990200020102020

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