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Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital

In research, Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#10,397 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#9,260 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery — Surgery is 9.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#24,778
of 28,054 · #33,322 all time
Rank in Japan
#836
of 1,070
Research works
582
▲ 58% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.4k
9.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
56%
world 28%

What is Okinawa Prefectural Chubu 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
Health SciencesDomain #10,397 of 11,982 6.2%90 #15068
MedicineField #9,260 of 10,443 6.0%84 #12473

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Okinawa Prefectural Chubu 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).

What does Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 9.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 23.1 works9.6×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.74× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.37× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.82× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Energy: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.00× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.39× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.25× its world share, 84 worksMedicineNursing: 1.53× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.43× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Kazuhito Hirata, Mitsuyo Kinjo and Kaoru Kikuchi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital.

  1. 1 Kazuhito Hirata Japan · #890,825 worldwide 37 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Mitsuyo Kinjo Japan · #899,331 worldwide 42 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Kaoru Kikuchi Japan · #1,320,387 worldwide 40 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Tomoo Kishaba Japan · #1,550,286 worldwide 2 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, Complications, Management, Inflammation, Guidelines 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. Epidemiology19▲ 4.5×62 topics
  2. Treatment10▲ 8.3×23 topics
  3. Diagnosis9▲ 9.3×23 topics
  4. Inflammation8▲ 3.8×26 topics
  5. Complications7▲ 14×13 topics
  6. Management6▲ 7.7×20 topics
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 7.5×13 topics
  8. Guidelines4▲ 8.8×8 topics
  9. Mortality4▲ 6.8×9 topics
  10. Risk Factors4▲ 3.6×15 topics
  11. Surgical Management4▲ 9.0×11 topics
  12. Quality of Life4▲ 2.4×17 topics
  13. Surgery3▲ 9.2×7 topics
  14. Aging3▲ 5.8×6 topics
  15. Fibrosis3▲ 17×3 topics
  16. Rehabilitation3▲ 7.8×8 topics
  17. Functional Recovery3▲ 19×4 topics
  18. Meta-Analysis3▲ 4.7×7 topics
  19. Echocardiography3▲ 9.6×7 topics
  20. CT Imaging2▲ 58×2 topics
  21. Clinical Guidelines2▲ 8.1×5 topics
  22. Disease Burden2▲ 32×2 topics
  23. Elderly Patients2▲ 14×4 topics
  24. Prognosis2▲ 7.0×6 topics
  25. Autoantibodies2▲ 9.7×6 topics
  26. Children2▲ 9.6×5 topics
  27. Pathogenesis2▲ 4.3×11 topics
  28. Diagnostic Imaging2▲ 18×3 topics
  29. Endovascular Repair2▲ 25×3 topics
  30. Interstitial Lung Disease2▲ 31×2 topics
  31. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 16×4 topics
  32. Elderly2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  33. Physical Performance2▲ 21×2 topics
  34. Medical Education2▲ 7.1×6 topics
  35. TGF-ß2▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Immunosuppressive Therapy2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  37. Mortality Risk2▲ 7.5×3 topics
  38. Muscle Mass2▲ 16×2 topics
  39. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis2▲ 36×1 topic
  40. Myofibroblast2▲ 36×1 topic

Which research topics does Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Interstitial Lung Diseas…2Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: 2 fractional worksNutrition and Health in …2Nutrition and Health in Aging: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 1 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 1 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 1 fractional worksParasites and Host Interactions: 1 fractional worksSystemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases: 1 fractional worksFrailty in Older Adults1Frailty in Older Adults: 1 fractional worksTrauma Management and Diagnosis: 1 fractional worksInfectious Diseases and Tuberculosis: 1 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePhysiologyRehabilitationEmergency Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  2. 2 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 2 works
  3. 3 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  4. 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 1 works
  5. 5 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 1 works
  6. 6 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 1 works
  7. 7 Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases Pathology and Forensic Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Frailty in Older Adults Geriatrics and Gerontology 1 works
  9. 9 Trauma Management and Diagnosis Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Surgery 1 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 available55.9%not open44.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.9%domestic only90.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 58% 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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