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NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center

In research, NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center stands highest in Medicine (#8,874 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#10,668 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 21.9× its share of world research.

World rank, 2022–2025
#25,997
of 28,054 · #27,048 all time
Rank in Japan
#934
of 1,070
Research works
550
▲ 30% vs 2013–17
Citations
12k
21.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
47%
world 28%

What is NHO Kinki Chuo Chest 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
MedicineField #8,874 of 10,443 6.3%90 #8358
Health SciencesDomain #10,668 of 11,982 6.2%92 #11143

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where NHO Kinki Chuo Chest 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).

What does NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 21.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 34.1 works22×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.78× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.36× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksChemistryEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.63× its world share, 90 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 11.30× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciencesworld share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 11.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Yoshikazu Inoue, Masanori Kitaichi and Akihide Matsumura lead among researchers whose main affiliation is NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center.

  1. 1 Yoshikazu Inoue Japan · #6,180 worldwide 829 citations · 116 works
  2. 2 Masanori Kitaichi Japan · #9,861 worldwide 707 citations · 52 works
  3. 3 Akihide Matsumura Japan · #120,382 worldwide 139 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Masaaki Kawahara Japan · #121,209 worldwide 158 citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Kazunobu Tachibana Japan · #144,584 worldwide 175 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Shigeki Shimizu Japan · #333,979 worldwide 62 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Toru Arai Japan · #463,596 worldwide 65 citations · 54 works
  8. 8 Satoru Yamamoto Japan · #523,527 worldwide 55 citations · 38 works
  9. 9 Hiromitsu Sumikawa Japan · #565,614 worldwide 41 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Masaji Okada Japan · #639,080 worldwide 57 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center

Which keywords describe research at NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Diagnosis, Treatment, Fibrosis, Interstitial Lung Disease, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, TGF-ß 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 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology13▲ 3.2×24 topics
  2. Diagnosis12▲ 13×11 topics
  3. Treatment12▲ 9.3×12 topics
  4. Fibrosis11▲ 56×3 topics
  5. Interstitial Lung Disease10▲ 163×2 topics
  6. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition9▲ 96×2 topics
  7. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis9▲ 193×1 topic
  8. TGF-ß9▲ 58×1 topic
  9. Chemotherapy8▲ 11×13 topics
  10. Targeted Therapy8▲ 34×4 topics
  11. Clinical Trials7▲ 11×4 topics
  12. Immunotherapy6▲ 8.5×9 topics
  13. Management6▲ 7.8×12 topics
  14. Treatment Guidelines5▲ 25×2 topics
  15. Resistance Mechanisms5▲ 60×2 topics
  16. ALK Inhibitors5▲ 76×1 topic
  17. EGFR Mutations5▲ 76×1 topic
  18. Antibiotic Resistance5▲ 12×5 topics
  19. Radiotherapy5▲ 12×6 topics
  20. Immune Response4▲ 6.9×3 topics
  21. Tumor Microenvironment4▲ 9.0×5 topics
  22. Autoantibodies4▲ 16×4 topics
  23. Metastasis4▲ 11×4 topics
  24. Crohn's Disease4▲ 47×2 topics
  25. Cystic Fibrosis4▲ 52×2 topics
  26. Prognostic Factors4▲ 8.1×8 topics
  27. Tumor Staging4▲ 32×2 topics
  28. Mycobacterium avium4▲ 104×1 topic
  29. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria4▲ 104×1 topic
  30. Adjuvant Therapy3▲ 26×2 topics
  31. Drug Resistance3▲ 12×4 topics
  32. CT Screening3▲ 46×1 topic
  33. Lung Cancer3▲ 18×1 topic
  34. Pneumothorax3▲ 89×2 topics
  35. Mechanical Ventilation3▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Cognitive Impairment3▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Mycobacterium tuberculosis3▲ 52×1 topic
  38. Tuberculosis3▲ 55×1 topic
  39. Vaccine3▲ 7.0×2 topics
  40. Elderly Patients3▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

  1. 1 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 9 works
  2. 2 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 works
  3. 3 Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Epidemiology 4 works
  4. 4 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  5. 5 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 3 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 3 works
  7. 7 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 2 works
  8. 8 Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Tracheal and airway disorders Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available47.3%not open52.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.6%domestic only91.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 30% 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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