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Nagasaki Medical Center

In research, Nagasaki Medical Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,673 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#8,064 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,522
of 28,054 · #22,926 all time
Rank in Japan
#556
of 1,070
Research works
995
▲ 45% vs 2013–17
Citations
12k
12.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
53%
world 28%

What is Nagasaki Medical Center 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
Health SciencesDomain #8,673 of 11,982 5.7%164 #11641
MedicineField #8,064 of 10,443 5.7%155 #9373

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nagasaki 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 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: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.94× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.26× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.17× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.86× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.98× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.15× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.19× its world share, 155 worksMedicineNursing: 1.40× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× 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, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Nagasaki Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Koji Yano, Atsumasa Komori and Ken Taniguchi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nagasaki Medical Center.

  1. 1 Koji Yano Japan · #143,840 worldwide 267 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Atsumasa Komori Japan · #198,900 worldwide 112 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Ken Taniguchi Japan · #205,205 worldwide 133 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Minoru Nakamura Japan · #412,626 worldwide 81 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Hiroshi Yatsuhashi Japan · #469,176 worldwide 102 citations · 62 works
  6. 6 Kiyoshi Migita Japan · #478,190 worldwide 146 citations · 80 works
  7. 7 Keisuke Tsutsumi Japan · #489,320 worldwide 92 citations · 43 works
  8. 8 Masahiro Yonekura Japan · #654,452 worldwide 50 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Shigeto Maeda Japan · #664,127 worldwide 25 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Shinichiro Yoshida Japan · #711,938 worldwide 24 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Nagasaki Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at Nagasaki Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Inflammation, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Quality of Life, Treatment, Pathogenesis and Mortality.

▲ 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▲ 4.1×78 topics
  2. Inflammation15▲ 3.9×42 topics
  3. Diagnosis13▲ 7.0×27 topics
  4. Quality of Life12▲ 4.5×30 topics
  5. Clinical Practice Guidelines11▲ 10×13 topics
  6. Treatment11▲ 4.6×28 topics
  7. Management9▲ 5.8×23 topics
  8. Chemotherapy8▲ 6.3×19 topics
  9. Pathogenesis8▲ 8.5×16 topics
  10. Mortality8▲ 7.3×9 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease8▲ 3.7×16 topics
  12. Risk Factors8▲ 3.8×16 topics
  13. Complications8▲ 7.9×13 topics
  14. Surgical Management8▲ 9.4×15 topics
  15. Neoadjuvant Therapy7▲ 15×5 topics
  16. Immunotherapy6▲ 4.6×16 topics
  17. Surgery6▲ 8.4×10 topics
  18. Chronic Kidney Disease6▲ 12×6 topics
  19. Radiotherapy5▲ 7.2×10 topics
  20. Survival Analysis5▲ 10×6 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome5▲ 3.3×12 topics
  22. Prognosis5▲ 7.7×8 topics
  23. Guidelines5▲ 5.3×12 topics
  24. Prognostic Factors5▲ 5.6×12 topics
  25. Autoantibodies4▲ 9.3×8 topics
  26. Diabetes4▲ 4.2×11 topics
  27. Endoscopic Resection4▲ 20×2 topics
  28. Tumor Microenvironment4▲ 4.5×6 topics
  29. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy4▲ 25×2 topics
  30. Prognostic Markers4▲ 18×3 topics
  31. Rehabilitation4▲ 4.9×7 topics
  32. Hepatocellular Carcinoma4▲ 9.0×3 topics
  33. Immunosuppressive Therapy4▲ 9.9×5 topics
  34. Stroke4▲ 11×6 topics
  35. Liver Transplantation3▲ 15×5 topics
  36. Adjuvant Therapy3▲ 13×2 topics
  37. Laparoscopic Surgery3▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Hemodialysis3▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Dialysis3▲ 30×1 topic
  40. Molecular Characterization3▲ 8.5×5 topics

Which research topics does Nagasaki Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Dialysis and Renal Disease Management, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments and Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes.

Dialysis and Renal Disea…3Dialysis and Renal Disease Management: 3 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …2Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 2 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…2Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 2 fractional worksLiver Diseases and Immun…2Liver Diseases and Immunity: 2 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 2 fractional worksIntracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications: 2 fractional worksInflammatory Biomarkers …2Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis: 2 fractional worksEsophageal and GI Pathology: 2 fractional worksStreptococcal Infections and Treatments: 2 fractional works
NephrologyEpidemiologyOncologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Nephrology 3 works
  2. 2 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 2 works
  3. 3 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 2 works
  4. 4 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Liver Diseases and Immunity Hepatology 2 works
  6. 6 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 2 works
  7. 7 Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications Neurology 2 works
  8. 8 Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis Oncology 2 works
  9. 9 Esophageal and GI Pathology Surgery 2 works
  10. 10 Streptococcal Infections and Treatments Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 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-authors8.0%domestic only92.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Nagasaki Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 45% 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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