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Nanjing Brain Hospital

In research, Nanjing Brain Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,099 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#4,896 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,174 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neuroscience — Cognitive Neuroscience is 17.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,838
of 28,054 · #11,596 all time
Rank in China
#1,079
of 3,058
Research works
1.1k
▲ 102% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
13.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Nanjing Brain 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 #2,099 of 7,800 24.6%151 #5540
Health SciencesDomain #4,896 of 11,982 21.2%178 #9077
MedicineField #5,174 of 10,443 20.9%168 #9483
NeuroscienceField #678 of 1,168 22.2%95 #2030

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nanjing Brain 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#5,540 #2,099
  2. Health Sciences#9,077 #4,896
  3. Medicine#9,483 #5,174
  4. Neuroscience#2,030 #678
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 Nanjing Brain Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cognitive Neuroscience takes 17.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 50.5 works17×
  2. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 31.3 works15×
  3. NeuroscienceField · 94.5 works14×
  4. NeurologySubfield · 26.9 works12×
  5. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 20.4 works11×
← 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: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.30× its world share, 50 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.27× its world share, 5 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 14.32× its world share, 94 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.62× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.66× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.15× its world share, 168 worksMedicineNursing: 0.95× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.34× its world share, 54 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 14.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Nanjing Brain Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Jingping Shi, Hao Tang and Weiguo Liu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nanjing Brain Hospital.

  1. 1 Jingping Shi China · #835,995 worldwide 20 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Hao Tang China · #1,030,821 worldwide 63 citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Weiguo Liu China · #1,077,201 worldwide 44 citations · 42 works
  4. 4 Zhijian Yao China · #1,320,932 worldwide 40 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Lingling Hua China · #1,547,983 worldwide 17 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Nanjing Brain Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Nanjing Brain Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neurological Disorders, Functional Connectivity, Depression, Default Mode Network, Resting-State fMRI, Oxidative Stress, Neuroimaging and Inflammation.

▲ 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. Neurological Disorders52▲ 22×15 topics
  2. Functional Connectivity36▲ 68×3 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress32▲ 4.8×38 topics
  4. Inflammation31▲ 3.6×57 topics
  5. Depression28▲ 7.8×17 topics
  6. Default Mode Network27▲ 94×1 topic
  7. Resting-State fMRI27▲ 94×1 topic
  8. Epidemiology27▲ 1.67×49 topics
  9. Neuroimaging23▲ 21×9 topics
  10. Genetics21▲ 7.5×12 topics
  11. Cancer21▲ 3.8×38 topics
  12. Neuroinflammation19▲ 16×6 topics
  13. Parkinson's Disease18▲ 19×8 topics
  14. Neurodegeneration18▲ 15×8 topics
  15. Neurobiology17▲ 17×9 topics
  16. Immunotherapy15▲ 5.1×13 topics
  17. Cytokines14▲ 13×5 topics
  18. Brain Development14▲ 19×5 topics
  19. Microglia14▲ 31×2 topics
  20. Psychopathology14▲ 18×3 topics
  21. Emotion Regulation13▲ 10×7 topics
  22. Gene Expression13▲ 5.2×10 topics
  23. Prevalence13▲ 7.7×7 topics
  24. Biomarkers13▲ 4.5×10 topics
  25. Diagnostic Criteria12▲ 13×8 topics
  26. Mental Disorders12▲ 26×3 topics
  27. Anxiety12▲ 6.1×10 topics
  28. Epilepsy11▲ 26×3 topics
  29. Deep Brain Stimulation11▲ 39×3 topics
  30. Neural Plasticity11▲ 15×5 topics
  31. Network Analysis10▲ 22×2 topics
  32. Mitochondrial Dysfunction10▲ 8.5×6 topics
  33. Depression Symptoms10▲ 47×1 topic
  34. Emotion Dynamics10▲ 47×1 topic
  35. Schizophrenia10▲ 22×4 topics
  36. Treatment-Resistant Depression9▲ 35×2 topics
  37. Immune Activation9▲ 28×1 topic
  38. Tryptophan Metabolism9▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Brain Connectivity9▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Cognitive Impairment9▲ 8.6×9 topics

Which research topics does Nanjing Brain Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Tryptophan and brain disorders and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Functional Brain Connect…27Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 27 fractional worksMental Health Research T…10Mental Health Research Topics: 10 fractional worksTryptophan and brain dis…9Tryptophan and brain disorders: 9 fractional worksSchizophrenia research and treatment: 7 fractional worksParkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments: 7 fractional worksNeurological disorders and treatments: 6 fractional worksTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies: 6 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 6 fractional worksBipolar Disorder and Treatment: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications: 5 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyBiological PsychiatryPsychiatry and Mental health2 others

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

  1. 1 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 27 works
  2. 2 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 10 works
  3. 3 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 9 works
  4. 4 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 7 works
  5. 5 Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments Neurology 7 works
  6. 6 Neurological disorders and treatments Neurology 6 works
  7. 7 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies Neurology 6 works
  8. 8 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 6 works
  9. 9 Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 5 works
  10. 10 Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 5 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 available50.4%not open49.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.6%domestic only86.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Nanjing Brain Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 102% 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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