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Ruijin Hospital

In research, Ruijin Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#260 of 10,443 worldwide), Life Sciences (#203 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#382 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hematology and Immunology — Cancer Research is 8.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#650
of 28,054 · #2,054 all time
Rank in China
#213
of 3,058
Research works
10k
▲ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
165k
16.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Ruijin 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
MedicineField #260 of 10,443 22.4%1,534 #942
Life SciencesDomain #203 of 7,800 29.0%685 #822
Health SciencesDomain #382 of 11,982 22.5%1,587 #1215
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #299 of 3,579 29.2%458 #1012
SurgerySubfield #200 of 1,816 22.8%187 #602
Molecular BiologySubfield #256 of 2,175 29.7%259 #836
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #116 of 682 29.8%112 #517
ImmunologySubfield #103 of 455 30.2%106 #469
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #268 of 1,144 17.9%162 #760
OncologySubfield #183 of 772 23.6%156 #525

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ruijin 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. Medicine#942 #260
  2. Life Sciences#822 #203
  3. Health Sciences#1,215 #382
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,012 #299
  5. Surgery#602 #200
  6. Molecular Biology#836 #256
  7. Immunology and Microbiology#517 #116
  8. Immunology#469 #103
  9. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#760 #268
  10. Oncology#525 #183
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 Ruijin 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 · 93.4 works8.5×
  2. HematologySubfield · 51.8 works6.8×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 105.6 works6.1×
  4. Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSubfield · 77.5 works5.7×
  5. OncologySubfield · 155.7 works5.5×
  6. NephrologySubfield · 27.5 works5.0×
  7. NeurologySubfield · 69.7 works4.8×
  8. Pathology and Forensic MedicineSubfield · 61.3 works4.7×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.40× its world share, 458 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.42× its world share, 112 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.21× its world share, 90 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.42× its world share, 13 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.24× its world share, 10 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 41 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 99 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.44× its world share, 39 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.22× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.96× its world share, 12 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.16× its world share, 1,534 worksMedicineNursing: 1.11× its world share, 14 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.27× its world share, 21 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× 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, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Ruijin Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Xinxin Zhang, Guang Ning and Yingyan Yu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ruijin Hospital.

  1. 1 Xinxin Zhang China · #21,484 worldwide 2.5k citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Guang Ning China · #30,101 worldwide 785 citations · 97 works
  3. 3 Yingyan Yu China · #44,884 worldwide 227 citations · 44 works
  4. 4 Wenjie Yang China · #81,383 worldwide 478 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Jie Xiang China · #93,177 worldwide 3k citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Liping Su China · #140,312 worldwide 238 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 Zhenggang Zhu China · #151,763 worldwide 135 citations · 48 works
  8. 8 Bingya Liu China · #159,192 worldwide 292 citations · 66 works
  9. 9 Wenguo Cui China · #161,893 worldwide 445 citations · 73 works
  10. 10 Fuhua Yan China · #196,551 worldwide 129 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Ruijin Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Ruijin Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment, Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, Oxidative Stress, Chemotherapy 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. Inflammation235▲ 4.5×80 topics
  2. Cancer202▲ 6.0×52 topics
  3. Epidemiology195▲ 1.95×117 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress137▲ 3.3×53 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment109▲ 9.7×8 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease106▲ 3.8×37 topics
  7. Immunotherapy105▲ 5.8×18 topics
  8. Chemotherapy101▲ 5.7×22 topics
  9. Gene Expression96▲ 6.2×17 topics
  10. Treatment80▲ 2.6×44 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome80▲ 3.9×23 topics
  12. Biomarkers79▲ 4.6×16 topics
  13. Prognostic Factors79▲ 7.1×14 topics
  14. Clinical Practice Guidelines76▲ 5.5×14 topics
  15. Neoadjuvant Therapy64▲ 11×5 topics
  16. Immunity61▲ 6.0×10 topics
  17. Neurological Disorders57▲ 4.0×19 topics
  18. Obesity57▲ 3.0×22 topics
  19. Metastasis54▲ 6.3×12 topics
  20. Hypertension54▲ 7.3×13 topics
  21. Insulin Resistance54▲ 4.7×9 topics
  22. Cancer Therapy53▲ 3.6×18 topics
  23. Cell Death51▲ 8.7×6 topics
  24. Parkinson's Disease51▲ 8.3×8 topics
  25. Radiotherapy50▲ 5.1×13 topics
  26. Precision Medicine48▲ 4.1×8 topics
  27. Diabetes48▲ 3.8×19 topics
  28. Metabolism47▲ 3.7×29 topics
  29. Angiogenesis47▲ 5.7×16 topics
  30. Genetic Mutations46▲ 4.2×23 topics
  31. Survival Analysis45▲ 6.6×7 topics
  32. Clinical Guidelines40▲ 5.5×9 topics
  33. Neurodegeneration40▲ 5.3×9 topics
  34. Rituximab38▲ 10×4 topics
  35. Biogenesis37▲ 8.3×3 topics
  36. Molecular Characterization36▲ 8.1×6 topics
  37. Cancer Progression36▲ 7.7×8 topics
  38. PET Imaging36▲ 8.4×5 topics
  39. Lymphoma35▲ 8.7×4 topics
  40. Macrophages34▲ 7.8×7 topics

Which research topics does Ruijin Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…29Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 29 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…24Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 24 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 23 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…22Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 22 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…21Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 21 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 19 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 19 fractional worksLymphoma Diagnosis and T…18Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 18 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 17 fractional worksThyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 17 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingOncologyCancer Research4 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 29 works
  2. 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 24 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 23 works
  4. 4 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 22 works
  5. 5 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 21 works
  6. 6 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 19 works
  7. 7 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 19 works
  8. 8 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 18 works
  9. 9 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 17 works
  10. 10 Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 17 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 available43.2%not open56.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ruijin Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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