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North Sichuan Medical University

In research, North Sichuan Medical University stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,475 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,339 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,975 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research — Cancer Research is 5.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,522
of 28,054 · #8,477 all time
Rank in China
#846
of 3,058
Research works
3.5k
▲ 28% vs 2013–17
Citations
22k
6.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is North Sichuan Medical University 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 #1,475 of 11,982 21.0%654 #3833
MedicineField #1,339 of 10,443 20.2%610 #3542
Life SciencesDomain #1,975 of 7,800 19.9%282 #5147
Physical SciencesDomain #4,963 of 12,888 14.4%188 #10239
SurgerySubfield #737 of 1,816 22.8%96 #2162
Social SciencesDomain #4,606 of 10,521 29.3%110 #8780
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,792 of 3,579 19.2%174 #4609
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #698 of 1,144 18.8%79 #1909
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,362 of 2,175 19.7%109 #3366

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where North Sichuan Medical University 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. Health Sciences#3,833 #1,475
  2. Medicine#3,542 #1,339
  3. Life Sciences#5,147 #1,975
  4. Physical Sciences#10,239 #4,963
  5. Surgery#2,162 #737
  6. Social Sciences#8,780 #4,606
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#4,609 #1,792
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,909 #698
  9. Molecular Biology#3,366 #1,362
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 North Sichuan Medical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 5.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 29.1 works5.4×
← 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: 0.28× its world share, 16 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.64× its world share, 174 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.47× its world share, 31 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.34× its world share, 47 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.39× its world share, 15 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.78× its world share, 34 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 37 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.79× its world share, 9 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.29× its world share, 54 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 20 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.59× its world share, 25 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.57× its world share, 9 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.70× its world share, 23 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.57× its world share, 610 worksMedicineNursing: 1.88× its world share, 11 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 14 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.14× its world share, 43 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 35 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at North Sichuan Medical University?

Ranked on the composite score, Shumin Zhang, Xuan Liao and Yan Chen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is North Sichuan Medical University.

  1. 1 Shumin Zhang China · #231,011 worldwide 300 citations · 69 works
  2. 2 Xuan Liao China · #667,177 worldwide 6 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Yan Chen China · #795,283 worldwide 12 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Xiaolan Guo China · #1,042,276 worldwide 21 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Kang Liu China · #1,221,325 worldwide 38 citations · 25 works
  6. 6 Yang Guo China · #1,224,236 worldwide 8 citations · 27 works
  7. 7 Shilu Zhang China · #1,282,296 worldwide 56 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Jingjia Li China · #1,348,761 worldwide 35 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 Wang Ying Ying China · #1,361,644 worldwide 1 citations · 209 works
  10. 10 Yu Y China · #1,363,295 worldwide 16 citations · 50 works
All ranked researchers at North Sichuan Medical University

Which keywords describe research at North Sichuan Medical University?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation103▲ 4.0×82 topics
  2. Epidemiology95▲ 1.94×104 topics
  3. Cancer94▲ 5.7×52 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress68▲ 3.4×57 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment42▲ 7.7×8 topics
  6. Treatment40▲ 2.7×48 topics
  7. Gene Expression36▲ 4.8×14 topics
  8. Chemotherapy36▲ 4.2×23 topics
  9. Immunotherapy34▲ 3.9×17 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease34▲ 2.5×35 topics
  11. Biomarkers32▲ 3.8×17 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines32▲ 4.8×14 topics
  13. Diagnosis31▲ 2.7×36 topics
  14. Management29▲ 3.0×25 topics
  15. Risk Factors28▲ 2.0×27 topics
  16. Metabolic Syndrome27▲ 2.7×22 topics
  17. Depression26▲ 2.4×22 topics
  18. Cell Death25▲ 8.7×6 topics
  19. Metastasis25▲ 5.9×12 topics
  20. Immunity23▲ 4.7×10 topics
  21. Apoptosis23▲ 6.1×20 topics
  22. Antioxidant22▲ 2.6×32 topics
  23. Regulation21▲ 3.1×13 topics
  24. Cancer Therapy20▲ 2.8×18 topics
  25. Precision Medicine19▲ 3.3×8 topics
  26. Prognostic Factors19▲ 3.5×12 topics
  27. Neoadjuvant Therapy18▲ 6.3×5 topics
  28. Angiogenesis18▲ 4.5×16 topics
  29. Reactive Oxygen Species18▲ 3.6×13 topics
  30. Neuroinflammation18▲ 5.1×6 topics
  31. Biogenesis18▲ 8.2×3 topics
  32. Lipid Peroxidation16▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Ferroptosis15▲ 16×1 topic
  34. GPX415▲ 16×1 topic
  35. Hepatocellular Carcinoma15▲ 5.7×3 topics
  36. Cancer Progression14▲ 6.3×8 topics
  37. Disease14▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Molecular Characterization14▲ 6.3×6 topics
  39. Survival12▲ 7.6×3 topics
  40. Cancer Biomarkers12▲ 12×3 topics

Which research topics does North Sichuan Medical University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…15Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 15 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…10Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 10 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 10 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 9 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 8 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 8 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 7 fractional worksGut microbiota and health7Gut microbiota and health: 7 fractional worksCircular RNAs in diseases: 7 fractional worksAutophagy in Disease and Therapy: 7 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingHepatology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 15 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 10 works
  3. 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 10 works
  4. 4 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 9 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 8 works
  6. 6 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 7 works
  8. 8 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 7 works
  9. 9 Circular RNAs in diseases Molecular Biology 7 works
  10. 10 Autophagy in Disease and Therapy Epidemiology 7 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 available43.6%not open56.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.9%domestic only94.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has North Sichuan Medical University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 28% 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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