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Severance Hospital

In research, Severance Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,275 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,118 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,212 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Ophthalmology and Surgery — Hepatology is 11.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,261
of 28,054 · #6,312 all time
Rank in South Korea
#85
of 417
Research works
5.3k
▲ 27% vs 2013–17
Citations
84k
15.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
75%
world 28%

What is Severance 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 #1,275 of 11,982 15.7%1,228 #1786
MedicineField #1,118 of 10,443 15.5%1,174 #1888
Life SciencesDomain #2,212 of 7,800 17.1%216 #3591
SurgerySubfield #533 of 1,816 15.4%189 #974
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #2,042 of 3,579 18.2%132 #3683
EpidemiologySubfield #604 of 976 16.1%94 #1161
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #760 of 1,144 11.4%110 #1087
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #500 of 738 17.0%75 #1036
OncologySubfield #576 of 772 14.8%86 #1104
Physical SciencesDomain #10,238 of 12,888 15.7%70 #14763

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Severance 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. Health Sciences#1,786 #1,275
  2. Medicine#1,888 #1,118
  3. Life Sciences#3,591 #2,212
  4. Surgery#974 #533
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,683 #2,042
  6. Epidemiology#1,161 #604
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,087 #760
  8. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#1,036 #500
  9. Oncology#1,104 #576
  10. Physical Sciences#14,763 #10,238
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 Severance Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 11.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 33.7 works11×
  2. OphthalmologySubfield · 27.7 works6.6×
  3. SurgerySubfield · 189.2 works5.2×
  4. Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSubfield · 42.5 works5.0×
  5. GeneticsSubfield · 20.9 works4.9×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.58× its world share, 132 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.34× its world share, 37 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.49× its world share, 38 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.94× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 15 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 31 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.85× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 33 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.90× its world share, 1,174 worksMedicineNursing: 1.70× its world share, 13 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 30 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Severance Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, 허은주, 문성진 and 유일영 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Severance Hospital.

  1. 1 허은주 South Korea · #326,812 worldwide 0 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 문성진 South Korea · #386,109 worldwide 2 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 유일영 South Korea · #481,469 worldwide 6 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Gyoung Min Kim South Korea · #605,667 worldwide 24 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 유태현 South Korea · #643,428 worldwide 2 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 박용원 South Korea · #712,163 worldwide 0 citations · 58 works
  7. 7 유현정 South Korea · #837,552 worldwide 0 citations · 80 works
  8. 8 서민정 South Korea · #852,561 worldwide 1 citations · 91 works
  9. 9 Jong Gyun Ahn South Korea · #900,556 worldwide 14 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Hyeok-Nam Kwon South Korea · #950,062 worldwide 1 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Severance Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Severance Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Diagnosis, Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolic Syndrome.

▲ 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. Epidemiology184▲ 3.0×117 topics
  2. Inflammation116▲ 3.6×78 topics
  3. Treatment82▲ 4.3×44 topics
  4. Chemotherapy70▲ 6.4×24 topics
  5. Diagnosis66▲ 4.5×35 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease65▲ 3.7×36 topics
  7. Metabolic Syndrome58▲ 4.6×22 topics
  8. Clinical Practice Guidelines57▲ 6.7×14 topics
  9. Immunotherapy55▲ 5.0×18 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress52▲ 2.0×45 topics
  11. Cancer52▲ 2.5×50 topics
  12. Management49▲ 4.0×27 topics
  13. Quality of Life46▲ 2.0×45 topics
  14. Prognostic Factors43▲ 6.3×14 topics
  15. Hepatocellular Carcinoma43▲ 13×3 topics
  16. Obesity42▲ 3.5×22 topics
  17. Risk Factors41▲ 2.4×33 topics
  18. Clinical Trials40▲ 3.8×19 topics
  19. Guidelines38▲ 5.3×12 topics
  20. Insulin Resistance38▲ 5.3×9 topics
  21. Tumor Microenvironment38▲ 5.4×8 topics
  22. Surgical Management36▲ 5.6×20 topics
  23. Complications36▲ 4.6×16 topics
  24. Biomarkers36▲ 3.4×16 topics
  25. Radiotherapy32▲ 5.4×13 topics
  26. Neoadjuvant Therapy32▲ 8.6×5 topics
  27. Genetic Mutations31▲ 4.6×22 topics
  28. Survival Analysis31▲ 7.3×6 topics
  29. Neurological Disorders30▲ 3.4×18 topics
  30. Precision Medicine30▲ 4.0×8 topics
  31. Metastasis28▲ 5.3×12 topics
  32. Atherosclerosis28▲ 6.3×11 topics
  33. Prognosis26▲ 5.1×9 topics
  34. Hepatic Steatosis24▲ 10×2 topics
  35. NAFLD22▲ 12×1 topic
  36. NASH22▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Targeted Therapy22▲ 6.4×5 topics
  38. Molecular Classification22▲ 9.3×4 topics
  39. Molecular Characterization21▲ 7.7×6 topics
  40. Graft Survival21▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Severance Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

Liver Disease Diagnosis …22Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 22 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma…15Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 15 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…14Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 14 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic O…14Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 14 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 12 fractional worksOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes: 11 fractional worksOvarian cancer diagnosis…11Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment: 11 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 10 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 10 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…10Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 10 fractional works
EpidemiologyHepatologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 22 works
  2. 2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 15 works
  3. 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 14 works
  4. 4 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 14 works
  5. 5 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 12 works
  6. 6 Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes Surgery 11 works
  7. 7 Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Reproductive Medicine 11 works
  8. 8 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies Surgery 10 works
  9. 9 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 10 works
  10. 10 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 10 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 available75.3%not open24.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.2%domestic only87.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Severance Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% 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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