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Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital

In research, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#273 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#405 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#533 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Cancer Research and Immunology — Hepatology is 8.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#859
of 28,054 · #2,444 all time
Rank in China
#283
of 3,058
Research works
9.2k
▲ 31% vs 2013–17
Citations
122k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

What is Nanjing Drum Tower 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 #273 of 7,800 26.5%786 #1015
MedicineField #405 of 10,443 20.4%1,738 #1287
Health SciencesDomain #533 of 11,982 20.5%1,790 #1512
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #415 of 3,579 26.0%486 #1328
SurgerySubfield #242 of 1,816 16.9%281 #671
Molecular BiologySubfield #327 of 2,175 27.1%286 #1038
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #177 of 1,144 17.3%234 #628
Physical SciencesDomain #2,575 of 12,888 30.6%258 #4874
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #177 of 682 30.5%142 #664
NeuroscienceField #318 of 1,168 21.0%122 #1126

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Nanjing Drum Tower 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#1,015 #273
  2. Medicine#1,287 #405
  3. Health Sciences#1,512 #533
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,328 #415
  5. Surgery#671 #242
  6. Molecular Biology#1,038 #327
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#628 #177
  8. Physical Sciences#4,874 #2,575
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#664 #177
  10. Neuroscience#1,126 #318
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 Drum Tower Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 8.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 45.9 works8.3×
  2. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 82.9 works6.7×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 129.2 works6.5×
  4. NeurologySubfield · 43.6 works5.5×
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 234.1 works5.3×
  6. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 141.9 works4.9×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.17× its world share, 486 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.91× its world share, 142 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.62× its world share, 122 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.87× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 22 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.31× its world share, 133 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.56× its world share, 56 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 11 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.58× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 25 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.15× its world share, 1,738 worksMedicineNursing: 1.24× its world share, 18 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryDecision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 22 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Yun Xu, Yao Fu and Ju Yang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital.

  1. 1 Yun Xu China · #63,250 worldwide 305 citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Yao Fu China · #80,532 worldwide 221 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Ju Yang China · #148,566 worldwide 535 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Guifang Xu China · #194,284 worldwide 154 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Jia Wei China · #195,060 worldwide 153 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 Yong Qiu China · #234,023 worldwide 162 citations · 72 works
  7. 7 Bing Zhang China · #277,815 worldwide 92 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Yang Wang China · #335,376 worldwide 55 citations · 42 works
  9. 9 Wen Zhang China · #356,861 worldwide 64 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Xia Gao China · #371,369 worldwide 102 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment, Immunotherapy, Epidemiology, Oxidative Stress, Biomarkers and Chemotherapy.

▲ 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. Inflammation291▲ 4.9×81 topics
  2. Cancer225▲ 5.8×53 topics
  3. Epidemiology212▲ 1.86×113 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress151▲ 3.2×57 topics
  5. Immunotherapy127▲ 6.2×18 topics
  6. Tumor Microenvironment125▲ 9.8×8 topics
  7. Biomarkers106▲ 5.4×16 topics
  8. Treatment96▲ 2.8×44 topics
  9. Chemotherapy96▲ 4.8×24 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease83▲ 2.6×35 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome82▲ 3.5×23 topics
  12. Immunity78▲ 6.7×11 topics
  13. Gene Expression77▲ 4.4×17 topics
  14. Diagnosis71▲ 2.6×36 topics
  15. Metastasis70▲ 7.2×12 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines68▲ 4.4×14 topics
  17. Obesity64▲ 3.0×20 topics
  18. Management63▲ 2.8×27 topics
  19. Drug Delivery63▲ 4.1×14 topics
  20. Spinal Fusion62▲ 22×2 topics
  21. Immune Response61▲ 3.8×22 topics
  22. Angiogenesis60▲ 6.4×16 topics
  23. Insulin Resistance60▲ 4.6×10 topics
  24. Innate Immunity58▲ 6.4×11 topics
  25. Diabetes58▲ 4.1×22 topics
  26. Cell Death57▲ 8.6×6 topics
  27. Biogenesis57▲ 11×3 topics
  28. Prognostic Factors56▲ 4.5×14 topics
  29. Reactive Oxygen Species55▲ 4.8×12 topics
  30. Macrophages50▲ 10×7 topics
  31. Hepatocellular Carcinoma49▲ 8.1×3 topics
  32. Neuroinflammation49▲ 6.0×6 topics
  33. Tumor Targeting46▲ 9.1×3 topics
  34. Neoadjuvant Therapy45▲ 6.7×5 topics
  35. Molecular Characterization44▲ 8.6×6 topics
  36. Fibrosis40▲ 7.5×8 topics
  37. Cancer Immunotherapy39▲ 8.9×3 topics
  38. Regeneration39▲ 7.0×5 topics
  39. Scoliosis37▲ 44×1 topic
  40. Spinal Deformity37▲ 44×1 topic

Which research topics does Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment and Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Scoliosis diagnosis and …37Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment: 37 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…36Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 36 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 28 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 28 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 27 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 25 fractional worksSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 25 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer22Immune cells in cancer: 22 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 22 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune Responses: 20 fractional works
SurgeryOncologyEpidemiologyPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5 others

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

  1. 1 Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment Surgery 37 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 36 works
  3. 3 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 28 works
  4. 4 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 28 works
  5. 5 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 27 works
  6. 6 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 25 works
  7. 7 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 25 works
  8. 8 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 22 works
  9. 9 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 22 works
  10. 10 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 20 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 available45.3%not open54.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.1%domestic only91.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 31% 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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