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Okayama Central Hospital

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Research works
93
▲ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
11.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
49%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Okayama Central Hospital

Not ranked overall: Okayama Central Hospital is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Okayama Central Hospital work in?

In all years, 80% of research at Okayama Central Hospital is in Health Sciences, 10% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (76%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Engineering (4%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 74 fractional works · 79.8% of its workMedicine: 71 fractional works · 76.0% of its workSurgery: 15 fractional works · 16.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11 fractional works · 11.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 8 fractional works · 8.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 7.9% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 4.9% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGastroenterology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransplantation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 10.1% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workRadiation: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 8.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKOkayama CentralHospital93fractional works, all years
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences80%Social Sciences2%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7176.0%
    2. Health Professions22.3%
    3. Dentistry11.0%
    4. Nursing00.3%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Engineering44.1%
    2. Physics and Astronomy32.8%
    3. Computer Science22.1%
    4. Environmental Science00.5%
    5. Chemistry00.4%
    6. Materials Science00.1%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.4%
    2. Neuroscience11.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
    1. Psychology11.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    3. Social Sciences00.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 6.41× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.02× its world share, 8 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Psychology: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 6.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry6.41×0 works
  2. Medicine4.02×8 works
  3. Psychology0.98×0 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.89×0 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy0.76×0 works
  6. Health Professions0.64×0 works
  7. Chemistry0.43×0 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×0 works
  9. Engineering0.32×0 works
  10. Immunology and Microbiology0.31×0 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.07×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.06×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Okayama Central Hospital?

The most cited paper from Okayama Central Hospital is "Endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer: results and degrees of technical difficulty as well as success" (Atsushi Imagawa, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshiro Kawahara et al., 2006), with 290 citations. Next come "Basic oral care for hematology–oncology patients and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients: a position paper from the joint task force of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer/International Society of Oral Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) and the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)" (239) and "The Presence of Large Serrated Polyps Increases Risk for Colorectal Cancer" (212).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer: results and degrees of technical difficulty as well as success Atsushi Imagawa, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshiro Kawahara et al. · Endoscopy 20 Oct 2006 290
2 Basic oral care for hematology–oncology patients and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients: a position paper from the joint task force of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer/International Society of Oral Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) and the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Sharon Elad et al. · Supportive Care in Cancer Open access 4 Sep 2014 239
3 The Presence of Large Serrated Polyps Increases Risk for Colorectal Cancer Sakiko Hiraoka, Jun Kato, Shigeatsu Fujiki et al. · Gastroenterology 17 Jul 2010 212
4 Validity and Reliability of a Dietary Assessment Method: The Application of a Digital Camera with a Mobile Phone Card Attachment Dahong Wang, Michiko Kogashiwa, Sachiko Ohta et al. · Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology Open access 2002 138
5 Systematic review of cytokines and growth factors for the management of oral mucositis in cancer patients Judith E. Raber‐Durlacher, Inger v. Bültzingslöwen, Richard M. Logan et al. · Supportive Care in Cancer ReviewOpen access 17 Sep 2012 125
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Okayama Central Hospital?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Epidemiology, Myocardial Infarction, Surgical Management, Treatment, Complications, Radiation Exposure and 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 all years 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. Epidemiology8▲ 2.3×44 topics
  2. Inflammation5▲ 2.4×22 topics
  3. Magnetic Resonance Imaging5▲ 15×5 topics
  4. Treatment5▲ 4.1×18 topics
  5. Myocardial Infarction4▲ 18×4 topics
  6. Surgical Management4▲ 8.9×10 topics
  7. Chemotherapy4▲ 5.5×12 topics
  8. Complications4▲ 7.4×10 topics
  9. Diagnosis4▲ 3.7×14 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease3▲ 3.3×13 topics
  11. Guidelines3▲ 7.6×7 topics
  12. Radiation Exposure3▲ 29×2 topics
  13. Imaging3▲ 8.8×4 topics
  14. Cholangiocarcinoma3▲ 38×2 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors3▲ 6.6×8 topics
  16. Immunotherapy3▲ 4.4×11 topics
  17. Risk Factors3▲ 2.6×12 topics
  18. Coronary Artery Disease2▲ 21×2 topics
  19. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 4.4×9 topics
  20. Cholecystitis2▲ 54×1 topic
  21. Dosimetry2▲ 25×2 topics
  22. ERCP2▲ 54×1 topic
  23. Radiotherapy2▲ 6.2×10 topics
  24. Diagnostic Imaging2▲ 17×2 topics
  25. Image-Guided Radiotherapy2▲ 43×1 topic
  26. Radiotherapy Physics2▲ 43×1 topic
  27. Atherosclerosis2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  28. Molecular Characterization2▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Perfusion Imaging2▲ 21×2 topics
  30. Cancer Risk2▲ 7.4×3 topics
  31. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 8.8×5 topics
  32. Cardiac Imaging2▲ 13×1 topic
  33. Imatinib Mesylate2▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Myocardial Perfusion2▲ 23×1 topic
  35. Stroke Prevention2▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Computed Tomography2▲ 31×1 topic
  37. Endovascular Repair2▲ 19×3 topics
  38. Ionizing Radiation2▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Reconstruction2▲ 9.2×3 topics

Which research topics does Okayama Central Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Radiation Dose and Imaging, Renal and Vascular Pathologies, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches and Aortic aneurysm repair treatments.

Radiation Dose and Imaging1Radiation Dose and Imaging: 1 fractional worksRenal and Vascular Pathologies: 1 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 0 fractional worksAortic aneurysm repair treatments: 0 fractional worksAdvanced X-ray and CT Imaging: 0 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 0 fractional worksInfectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions: 0 fractional worksEffects of Radiation Exposure: 0 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 0 fractional worksRadiation Effects and Dosimetry: 0 fractional works
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineBiomedical EngineeringSurgery2 others

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

  1. 1 Radiation Dose and Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  2. 2 Renal and Vascular Pathologies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  4. 4 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions Surgery 0 works
  8. 8 Effects of Radiation Exposure Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  9. 9 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Radiation Effects and Dosimetry Food Science 0 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 available49.3%not open50.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.0%domestic only92.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Okayama Central Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Okayama Central Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000038% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Okayama Central Hospital0.000023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Okayama Central Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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