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Renji Hospital

In research, Renji Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#210 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#484 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#607 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hepatology and Immunology — Cancer Research is 8.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#775
of 28,054 · #2,176 all time
Rank in China
#259
of 3,058
Research works
7.8k
▲ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
144k
18.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
42%
world 28%

What is Renji 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 #210 of 7,800 33.5%606 #789
MedicineField #484 of 10,443 23.7%1,089 #1191
Health SciencesDomain #607 of 11,982 23.9%1,122 #1495
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #278 of 3,579 32.7%429 #912
Molecular BiologySubfield #177 of 2,175 33.4%280 #615
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #132 of 682 37.1%105 #534
SurgerySubfield #381 of 1,816 23.9%134 #865
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #251 of 1,144 22.6%146 #656
OncologySubfield #187 of 772 29.6%112 #502
Physical SciencesDomain #3,131 of 12,888 36.9%174 #6565

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Renji 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#789 #210
  2. Medicine#1,191 #484
  3. Health Sciences#1,495 #607
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#912 #278
  5. Molecular Biology#615 #177
  6. Immunology and Microbiology#534 #132
  7. Surgery#865 #381
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#656 #251
  9. Oncology#502 #187
  10. Physical Sciences#6,565 #3,131
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 Renji Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 71.3 works8.5×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 30.5 works8.2×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 99.0 works7.5×
  4. NephrologySubfield · 24.9 works6.0×
  5. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 105.3 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: 0.07× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.18× its world share, 428 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.44× its world share, 105 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.68× its world share, 52 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.94× its world share, 13 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.54× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 17 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 78 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 15 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.57× its world share, 38 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.94× its world share, 1,089 worksMedicineNursing: 1.12× its world share, 10 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 5.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Renji Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Jing‐Yuan Fang, Jiyao Jiang and Gang Huang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Renji Hospital.

  1. 1 Jing‐Yuan Fang · #64,174 worldwide 339 citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Jiyao Jiang · #120,405 worldwide 163 citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Gang Huang · #167,344 worldwide 343 citations · 97 works
  4. 4 Yu Wang · #183,037 worldwide 89 citations · 30 works
  5. 5 Mei Xin · #215,425 worldwide 105 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Lixin Zhou · #269,562 worldwide 442 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Lingling Wu · #272,358 worldwide 198 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Yimin Mao · #281,587 worldwide 152 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Yingying Lin · #312,245 worldwide 126 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 XU Jian-rong · #358,698 worldwide 44 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Renji Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Renji Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation186▲ 4.7×79 topics
  2. Cancer181▲ 7.0×51 topics
  3. Epidemiology148▲ 1.94×107 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress102▲ 3.2×54 topics
  5. Immunotherapy92▲ 6.7×18 topics
  6. Tumor Microenvironment90▲ 11×8 topics
  7. Biomarkers80▲ 6.1×17 topics
  8. Nanoparticles77▲ 3.2×24 topics
  9. Treatment77▲ 3.3×43 topics
  10. Chemotherapy71▲ 5.3×24 topics
  11. Gene Expression69▲ 5.9×14 topics
  12. Cardiovascular Disease60▲ 2.8×37 topics
  13. Immunity54▲ 7.0×11 topics
  14. Diagnosis54▲ 3.0×35 topics
  15. Biosensors52▲ 5.2×12 topics
  16. Clinical Practice Guidelines51▲ 4.9×14 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome49▲ 3.1×21 topics
  18. Prognostic Factors47▲ 5.6×14 topics
  19. Management46▲ 3.1×27 topics
  20. Cell Death44▲ 9.8×6 topics
  21. Metastasis43▲ 6.6×12 topics
  22. Biogenesis43▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Metabolism42▲ 4.3×28 topics
  24. Genetic Mutations40▲ 4.8×22 topics
  25. Self-Assembly40▲ 6.3×9 topics
  26. Autoantibodies39▲ 8.6×8 topics
  27. Angiogenesis38▲ 6.1×16 topics
  28. Electrochemistry38▲ 8.7×3 topics
  29. Reactive Oxygen Species37▲ 4.8×12 topics
  30. Molecular Machines37▲ 14×2 topics
  31. DNA nanotechnology37▲ 16×1 topic
  32. aptamers37▲ 16×1 topic
  33. Molecular Characterization35▲ 10×6 topics
  34. Innate Immunity35▲ 5.7×11 topics
  35. Tumor Targeting34▲ 9.9×3 topics
  36. Neoadjuvant Therapy33▲ 7.3×5 topics
  37. Gene Therapy29▲ 8.1×6 topics
  38. Epigenetic Regulation28▲ 6.8×5 topics
  39. PET Imaging28▲ 8.6×5 topics
  40. Lipid Peroxidation27▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Renji Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Advanced biosensing and …37Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 37 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…26Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 26 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 24 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 20 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer20Immune cells in cancer: 20 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 20 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 19 fractional worksRNA Interference and Gen…18RNA Interference and Gene Delivery: 18 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 16 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 15 fractional works
Molecular BiologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyCancer Research2 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Biology 37 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 26 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 24 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms researchCancer Research 20 works
  5. 5 Immune cells in cancerImmunology 20 works
  6. 6 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsBiomedical Engineering 20 works
  7. 7 Extracellular vesicles in diseaseMolecular Biology 19 works
  8. 8 RNA Interference and Gene DeliveryMolecular Biology 18 works
  9. 9 RNA modifications and cancerMolecular Biology 16 works
  10. 10 MicroRNA in disease regulationCancer Research 15 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 available41.9%not open58.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.0%domestic only88.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Renji Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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