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Shanghai Chest Hospital

In research, Shanghai Chest Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#1,122 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,512 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,408 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Cancer Research — Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine is 13.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,007
of 28,054 · #7,690 all time
Rank in China
#747
of 3,058
Research works
2.6k
▲ 47% vs 2013–17
Citations
37k
14.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Shanghai Chest 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 #1,122 of 10,443 17.6%551 #2540
Health SciencesDomain #1,512 of 11,982 17.8%561 #3337
Life SciencesDomain #1,408 of 7,800 27.0%152 #3810
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #346 of 1,144 14.6%165 #718
OncologySubfield #380 of 772 18.6%104 #827
SurgerySubfield #899 of 1,816 18.1%67 #2024
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,880 of 3,579 25.4%116 #4066
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,376 of 2,175 25.1%72 #2666

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai Chest 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#2,540 #1,122
  2. Health Sciences#3,337 #1,512
  3. Life Sciences#3,810 #1,408
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#718 #346
  5. Oncology#827 #380
  6. Surgery#2,024 #899
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#4,066 #1,880
  8. Molecular Biology#2,666 #1,376
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 Shanghai Chest Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine takes 13.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 165.1 works14×
  2. OncologySubfield · 104.1 works12×
  3. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 29.3 works8.7×
  4. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 48.5 works5.9×
  5. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield · 38.4 works5.5×
  6. ImmunologySubfield · 22.5 works4.2×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.77× its world share, 116 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.88× its world share, 23 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.75× its world share, 10 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.88× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.19× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.67× its world share, 551 worksMedicineNursing: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Chest Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Shun Lü, Shun Lu and Heng Zhao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Chest Hospital.

  1. 1 Shun Lü China · #92,544 worldwide 597 citations · 127 works
  2. 2 Shun Lu China · #298,449 worldwide 72 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Heng Zhao China · #381,009 worldwide 52 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Baohui Han China · #426,699 worldwide 232 citations · 93 works
  5. 5 Jie Zhang China · #468,550 worldwide 47 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Yang Zhao China · #477,813 worldwide 73 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Jiayuan Sun China · #477,897 worldwide 97 citations · 54 works
  8. 8 Wentao Fang China · #497,801 worldwide 61 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Liyan Jiang China · #514,132 worldwide 89 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Xiaolong Fu China · #570,478 worldwide 76 citations · 55 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Chest Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Chest Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Targeted Therapy, Clinical Trials, Tumor Microenvironment, Immunotherapy, Cancer, Radiotherapy and Adjuvant Therapy.

▲ 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. Chemotherapy110▲ 20×22 topics
  2. Targeted Therapy88▲ 51×5 topics
  3. Clinical Trials79▲ 15×12 topics
  4. Cancer63▲ 6.0×48 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment62▲ 18×8 topics
  6. Immunotherapy62▲ 11×17 topics
  7. Radiotherapy56▲ 19×11 topics
  8. Adjuvant Therapy56▲ 56×2 topics
  9. Epidemiology53▲ 1.73×74 topics
  10. Treatment Guidelines50▲ 30×7 topics
  11. Genomic Profiling48▲ 60×2 topics
  12. Inflammation48▲ 3.0×76 topics
  13. Resistance Mechanisms48▲ 72×2 topics
  14. ALK Inhibitors48▲ 98×1 topic
  15. EGFR Mutations48▲ 98×1 topic
  16. Lung Cancer47▲ 35×2 topics
  17. Tumor Staging47▲ 54×2 topics
  18. CT Screening46▲ 89×1 topic
  19. Positron Emission Tomography46▲ 89×1 topic
  20. Biomarkers42▲ 7.8×16 topics
  21. Metastasis39▲ 15×11 topics
  22. Prognostic Factors38▲ 11×14 topics
  23. Immune Checkpoint Blockade35▲ 40×1 topic
  24. PD-1 and PD-L135▲ 40×1 topic
  25. Endoscopic Resection31▲ 40×2 topics
  26. Tumor Markers28▲ 45×2 topics
  27. Genomic Profiles28▲ 86×1 topic
  28. Small-Cell Lung Cancer28▲ 86×1 topic
  29. Neoadjuvant Therapy28▲ 15×5 topics
  30. Precision Medicine27▲ 7.5×7 topics
  31. Surgery26▲ 9.6×8 topics
  32. Chemoradiation24▲ 48×2 topics
  33. Medical Imaging23▲ 5.8×7 topics
  34. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy22▲ 35×2 topics
  35. Barrett's Esophagus22▲ 69×1 topic
  36. Esophageal Carcinoma22▲ 69×1 topic
  37. Predictive Modeling20▲ 9.6×3 topics
  38. Quantitative Analysis20▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Texture Analysis20▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Radiomics19▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does Shanghai Chest Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Lung Cancer Research Studies.

Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 48 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 46 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 35 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Studies: 28 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 22 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…19Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 19 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 11 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 10 fractional worksMyasthenia Gravis and Thymoma: 10 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 9 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologySurgeryRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3 others

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

  1. 1 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 48 works
  2. 2 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 46 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 35 works
  4. 4 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 28 works
  5. 5 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 22 works
  6. 6 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 19 works
  7. 7 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 11 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 10 works
  9. 9 Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma Neurology 10 works
  10. 10 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 9 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 available51.6%not open48.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.7%domestic only89.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Chest Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% 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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