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Nanfang Hospital

In research, Nanfang Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#295 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#403 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#556 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nephrology, Cancer Research and Hepatology — Nephrology is 8.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#857
of 28,054 · #2,403 all time
Rank in China
#282
of 3,058
Research works
8.7k
▲ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
132k
15.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is Nanfang 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
Life SciencesDomain #295 of 7,800 30.9%573 #1051
MedicineField #403 of 10,443 27.2%1,099 #1099
Health SciencesDomain #556 of 11,982 27.2%1,158 #1327
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #422 of 3,579 30.5%392 #1150
Molecular BiologySubfield #288 of 2,175 32.2%238 #900
SurgerySubfield #245 of 1,816 27.7%130 #760
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #232 of 1,144 24.9%128 #677
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #151 of 682 33.9%95 #676
OncologySubfield #190 of 772 29.8%114 #545
Physical SciencesDomain #3,272 of 12,888 24.3%246 #6767

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

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#1,051 #295
  2. Medicine#1,099 #403
  3. Health Sciences#1,327 #556
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,150 #422
  5. Molecular Biology#900 #288
  6. Surgery#760 #245
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#677 #232
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#676 #151
  9. Oncology#545 #190
  10. Physical Sciences#6,767 #3,272
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Nanfang Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nephrology takes 8.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. NephrologySubfield · 40.7 works8.7×
  2. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 71.0 works7.6×
  3. HepatologySubfield · 31.0 works7.5×
  4. GeneticsSubfield · 40.3 works6.8×
  5. HematologySubfield · 43.6 works6.7×
  6. ImmunologySubfield · 85.7 works5.8×
  7. OncologySubfield · 113.6 works4.7×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 14 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.42× its world share, 392 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.38× its world share, 95 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.68× its world share, 59 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.67× its world share, 13 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.45× its world share, 75 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.28× its world share, 90 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 23 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.47× its world share, 35 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.65× its world share, 17 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.44× its world share, 25 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.66× its world share, 1,099 worksMedicineNursing: 1.50× its world share, 16 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.16× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.60× its world share, 42 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 18 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.49× its world share, 32 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 61 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Nanfang Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Jing Sun, Wangjun Liao and Jinlin Hou lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nanfang Hospital.

  1. 1 Jing Sun · #151,321 worldwide 112 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Wangjun Liao · #281,531 worldwide 140 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Jinlin Hou · #481,978 worldwide 111 citations · 60 works
  4. 4 Ru Feng · #519,243 worldwide 36 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Bo Jiang · #622,753 worldwide 45 citations · 36 works
  6. 6 Fachao Zhi · #646,688 worldwide 60 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Jinjun Chen · #703,376 worldwide 40 citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Longhua Chen · #751,114 worldwide 67 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Guoxian Pei · #775,149 worldwide 37 citations · 42 works
  10. 10 Jide Wang · #787,334 worldwide 32 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Nanfang Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Nanfang Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Tumor Microenvironment, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology, Gene Expression, Cell Death and Cardiovascular Disease.

▲ 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. Inflammation222▲ 5.0×81 topics
  2. Cancer202▲ 7.0×54 topics
  3. Epidemiology143▲ 1.68×121 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress127▲ 3.6×58 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment102▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease81▲ 3.4×36 topics
  7. Gene Expression71▲ 5.4×16 topics
  8. Immunotherapy68▲ 4.5×18 topics
  9. Biomarkers67▲ 4.6×17 topics
  10. Chemotherapy61▲ 4.0×24 topics
  11. Treatment59▲ 2.3×44 topics
  12. Metabolic Syndrome58▲ 3.3×22 topics
  13. Cell Death56▲ 11×6 topics
  14. Immunity56▲ 6.5×9 topics
  15. Angiogenesis54▲ 7.7×15 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines51▲ 4.4×14 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors51▲ 5.4×14 topics
  18. Cancer Therapy48▲ 3.9×19 topics
  19. Metastasis45▲ 6.1×12 topics
  20. Immune Response44▲ 3.6×22 topics
  21. Metabolism44▲ 4.0×29 topics
  22. Drug Delivery43▲ 3.7×12 topics
  23. Regeneration43▲ 10×6 topics
  24. Biogenesis42▲ 11×3 topics
  25. Reactive Oxygen Species41▲ 4.8×12 topics
  26. Insulin Resistance40▲ 4.0×10 topics
  27. Diabetes39▲ 3.7×21 topics
  28. Apoptosis38▲ 5.8×20 topics
  29. Chronic Kidney Disease38▲ 7.2×8 topics
  30. Cancer Progression37▲ 9.3×8 topics
  31. Hepatocellular Carcinoma37▲ 8.1×4 topics
  32. Macrophages34▲ 9.2×7 topics
  33. Lipid Peroxidation33▲ 15×3 topics
  34. Ferroptosis32▲ 20×1 topic
  35. GPX432▲ 20×1 topic
  36. Epigenetic Regulation31▲ 6.8×6 topics
  37. Tumor Targeting31▲ 8.0×3 topics
  38. Fibrosis30▲ 7.4×8 topics
  39. Inflammatory Diseases28▲ 7.3×5 topics
  40. Mesenchymal Stem Cells28▲ 12×3 topics

Which research topics does Nanfang Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Extracellular vesicles in disease and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…32Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 32 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…26Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 26 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 20 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 20 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 20 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 19 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 19 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer18Immune cells in cancer: 18 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 16 fractional worksMesenchymal stem cell research: 16 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyMolecular BiologyCancer Research4 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 32 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 26 works
  3. 3 Extracellular vesicles in diseaseMolecular Biology 20 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms researchCancer Research 20 works
  5. 5 Gut microbiota and healthMolecular Biology 20 works
  6. 6 RNA modifications and cancerMolecular Biology 19 works
  7. 7 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsBiomedical Engineering 19 works
  8. 8 Immune cells in cancerImmunology 18 works
  9. 9 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 16 works
  10. 10 Mesenchymal stem cell researchGenetics 16 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 available39.2%not open60.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Nanfang Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% 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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