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Sejong General Hospital

In research, Sejong General Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,006 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,733 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery (Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine is 22.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,851
of 22,385 · #15,700 all time
Rank in South Korea
#293
of 343
Research works
539
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.6k
12.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Sejong General Hospital

What is Sejong General Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #4,006 of 9,902 9.0%92 #3269
MedicineField #3,733 of 8,541 9.1%88 #3184

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sejong General 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Sejong General Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research at Sejong General Hospital is in Health Sciences, 6% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (83%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%), Engineering (3%). It does 3.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 107 fractional works · 86.9% of its workMedicine: 102 fractional works · 83.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 29 fractional works · 23.7% of its workSurgery: 21 fractional works · 17.2% of its workEpidemiology: 11 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 10 fractional works · 8.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSejong GeneralHospital123fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences87%Social Sciences2%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine10283.1%
    2. Health Professions32.2%
    3. Nursing10.8%
    4. Dentistry10.7%
    1. Engineering43.5%
    2. Computer Science11.2%
    3. Materials Science10.5%
    4. Environmental Science00.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology53.8%
    2. Neuroscience10.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Psychology11.2%
    2. Social Sciences10.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    4. Decision Sciences00.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sejong General Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine takes 22.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 29.1 works23×
  2. SurgerySubfield · 21.1 works7.3×
← 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: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.72× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.44× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.49× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.85× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.32× its world share, 102 worksMedicineNursing: 1.67× its world share, 1 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× 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, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine4.32×102 works
  2. Nursing1.67×1 works
  3. Dentistry1.49×1 works
  4. Health Professions0.85×3 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.72×5 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology0.52×1 works
  7. Neuroscience0.44×1 works
  8. Psychology0.39×1 works
  9. Engineering0.23×4 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.21×0 works
  11. Computer Science0.15×1 works
  12. Materials Science0.14×1 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.14×0 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.11×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.06×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.06×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.03×0 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×0 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sejong General Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Joon‐myoung Kwon, Jinsik Park and Ki‐Hyun Jeon lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sejong General Hospital.

  1. 1 Joon‐myoung Kwon South Korea · #101,232 worldwide 2.3k citations · 82 works
  2. 2 Jinsik Park South Korea · #105,793 worldwide 2.7k citations · 53 works
  3. 3 Ki‐Hyun Jeon South Korea · #285,691 worldwide 3.8k citations · 138 works
  4. 4 Jeong Min Son South Korea · #476,337 worldwide 203 citations · 41 works
  5. 5 Jong-Hwan Jang South Korea · #605,462 worldwide 409 citations · 42 works
  6. 6 Soo Youn Lee South Korea · #662,894 worldwide 1.1k citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Hyunho Park South Korea · #727,105 worldwide 838 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Oyeon Kwon South Korea · #739,020 worldwide 1.3k citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Kyung‐Hee Kim South Korea · #860,116 worldwide 5.6k citations · 277 works
  10. 10 Min Sung Lee South Korea · #943,804 worldwide 1.1k citations · 97 works
All ranked researchers at Sejong General Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Sejong General Hospital?

The most cited paper from Sejong General Hospital is "Atypical Pulmonary Metastases: Spectrum of Radiologic Findings" (Joon Beom Seo, Jung-Gi Im, Jin Mo Goo et al., 2001), with 447 citations. Next come "2020 Korean Society for the Study of Obesity Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Korea" (348) and "An Algorithm Based on Deep Learning for Predicting In‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest" (324).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Atypical Pulmonary Metastases: Spectrum of Radiologic Findings Joon Beom Seo, Jung-Gi Im, Jin Mo Goo et al. · Radiographics Mar 2001 447
2 2020 Korean Society for the Study of Obesity Guidelines for the Management of Obesity in Korea Bo-Yeon Kim et al. · Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome Open access 28 May 2021 348
3 An Algorithm Based on Deep Learning for Predicting In‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest Joon‐myoung Kwon, Youngnam Lee, Yeha Lee et al. · Journal of the American Heart Association Open access 26 Jun 2018 324
4 Clinical Impact of Intravascular Ultrasound–Guided Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention With Zotarolimus-Eluting Versus Biolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation Byeong‐Keuk Kim, Dong‐Ho Shin, Myeong‐Ki Hong et al. · Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions Open access Jul 2015 308
5 Outcomes of Pulmonary Valve Replacement in 170 Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Regurgitation After Relief of Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Cheul Lee, Cheul Lee, Yang Min Kim et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access 22 Aug 2012 255
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sejong General Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Heart Failure, Echocardiography, Myocardial Infarction, Risk Factors, Guidelines, Epidemiology, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Classification.

▲ 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-now 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. Epidemiology12▲ 2.5×53 topics
  2. Heart Failure12▲ 21×12 topics
  3. Risk Factors8▲ 6.1×16 topics
  4. Deep Learning8▲ 1.88×12 topics
  5. Echocardiography8▲ 23×8 topics
  6. Myocardial Infarction8▲ 26×6 topics
  7. Guidelines7▲ 12×10 topics
  8. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention7▲ 43×4 topics
  9. Classification7▲ 12×4 topics
  10. Physiological Monitoring6▲ 91×2 topics
  11. Wavelet Transform6▲ 22×2 topics
  12. Arrhythmia Detection6▲ 120×1 topic
  13. ECG Signal6▲ 120×1 topic
  14. Cardiovascular Disease6▲ 4.3×22 topics
  15. Obesity6▲ 5.9×12 topics
  16. Congenital Heart Disease5▲ 49×3 topics
  17. Cardiac Surgery5▲ 54×2 topics
  18. Diagnosis5▲ 4.3×20 topics
  19. Atherosclerosis5▲ 14×5 topics
  20. Mortality Risk5▲ 16×3 topics
  21. Treatment5▲ 3.2×18 topics
  22. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes5▲ 20×2 topics
  23. Adult Congenital Heart Disease5▲ 69×1 topic
  24. Pulmonary Valve Replacement5▲ 69×1 topic
  25. Endovascular Repair4▲ 39×3 topics
  26. Catheter Ablation4▲ 26×2 topics
  27. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement4▲ 42×1 topic
  28. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement4▲ 42×1 topic
  29. Cardiovascular Risk4▲ 9.3×5 topics
  30. Dilated Cardiomyopathy4▲ 42×2 topics
  31. Sudden Cardiac Death4▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Biomechanics3▲ 8.8×6 topics
  33. Thrombosis3▲ 9.8×6 topics
  34. Cardiac Imaging3▲ 22×3 topics
  35. Arrhythmias3▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation3▲ 33×2 topics
  37. Magnetic Resonance Imaging3▲ 9.9×4 topics
  38. Chamber Quantification3▲ 31×1 topic
  39. Surgical Repair3▲ 62×1 topic
  40. Ventricular Reconstruction3▲ 62×1 topic

Which research topics does Sejong General Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: ECG Monitoring and Analysis, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices.

ECG Monitoring and Analysis: 6 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 5 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…4Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 4 fractional worksMechanical Circulatory S…3Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices: 3 fractional worksCardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 3 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 3 fractional worksCoronary Interventions a…3Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 2 fractional worksCardiac pacing and defibrillation studies: 2 fractional worksAtrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes: 2 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiologyBiomedical EngineeringSurgery1 others

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

  1. 1 ECG Monitoring and Analysis Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 5 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  4. 4 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  5. 5 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  6. 6 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 3 works
  7. 7 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 3 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  9. 9 Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 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 available59.1%not open40.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sejong General Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Sejong General Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00039% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Sejong General Hospital0.00060% in 20251990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Sejong General Hospital10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.6% in 2020.

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