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Shanghai East Hospital

In research, Shanghai East Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#559 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#873 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#1,226 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Immunology and Molecular Biology — Cancer Research is 8.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,432
of 28,054 · #3,935 all time
Rank in China
#423
of 3,058
Research works
3.8k
▲ 52% vs 2013–17
Citations
64k
17.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Shanghai East 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 #559 of 7,800 26.4%429 #1728
MedicineField #873 of 10,443 22.9%691 #2481
Health SciencesDomain #1,226 of 11,982 22.7%719 #2844
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #699 of 3,579 26.7%310 #1997
Molecular BiologySubfield #458 of 2,175 26.2%212 #1544
Physical SciencesDomain #3,710 of 12,888 38.9%117 #7079
SurgerySubfield #591 of 1,816 22.8%101 #1406
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #461 of 1,144 20.3%92 #1213
OncologySubfield #429 of 772 24.1%71 #1014

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai East 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#1,728 #559
  2. Medicine#2,481 #873
  3. Health Sciences#2,844 #1,226
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,997 #699
  5. Molecular Biology#1,544 #458
  6. Physical Sciences#7,079 #3,710
  7. Surgery#1,406 #591
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#1,213 #461
  9. Oncology#1,014 #429
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 East Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 48.9 works8.8×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 54.3 works6.2×
  3. Molecular BiologySubfield · 211.6 works5.5×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.54× its world share, 310 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.46× its world share, 57 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.28× its world share, 47 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.28× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.34× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 14 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.40× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 52 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.60× its world share, 27 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.21× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.81× its world share, 691 worksMedicineNursing: 1.09× its world share, 7 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai East Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Yuzhen Zhang, Hai Hu and Yong Gao lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai East Hospital.

  1. 1 Yuzhen Zhang China · #489,414 worldwide 79 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Hai Hu China · #491,115 worldwide 65 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Yong Gao China · #525,834 worldwide 115 citations · 26 works
  4. 4 Feilong Wang China · #529,097 worldwide 79 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Zhongmin Liu China · #601,575 worldwide 90 citations · 43 works
  6. 6 蒋艳 China · #694,040 worldwide 0 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Tao Du China · #879,570 worldwide 77 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 Jun Zhao China · #893,606 worldwide 12 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Kun Zhang China · #970,124 worldwide 23 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 大貴 田中 China · #1,029,729 worldwide 1 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai East Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Shanghai East Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation147▲ 5.5×78 topics
  2. Cancer138▲ 8.0×50 topics
  3. Epidemiology88▲ 1.73×104 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress84▲ 4.0×55 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment58▲ 10×8 topics
  6. Gene Expression54▲ 6.9×19 topics
  7. Biomarkers49▲ 5.6×15 topics
  8. Angiogenesis38▲ 8.9×14 topics
  9. Immunotherapy37▲ 4.0×18 topics
  10. Chemotherapy36▲ 4.0×24 topics
  11. Cell Death36▲ 12×6 topics
  12. Cancer Therapy36▲ 4.9×19 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease36▲ 2.5×33 topics
  14. Metastasis34▲ 7.7×12 topics
  15. Biogenesis33▲ 15×3 topics
  16. Cancer Progression31▲ 13×8 topics
  17. Immunity31▲ 5.9×10 topics
  18. Regulation30▲ 4.4×10 topics
  19. Transcriptional Regulation28▲ 14×9 topics
  20. Reactive Oxygen Species28▲ 5.5×13 topics
  21. Clinical Practice Guidelines28▲ 4.0×14 topics
  22. Metabolism28▲ 4.2×25 topics
  23. Epigenetic Regulation27▲ 9.7×6 topics
  24. Drug Delivery26▲ 3.8×12 topics
  25. Innate Immunity25▲ 6.2×10 topics
  26. Apoptosis25▲ 6.5×19 topics
  27. Cytokines24▲ 6.6×7 topics
  28. Regeneration24▲ 9.4×5 topics
  29. Extracellular Matrix22▲ 9.9×7 topics
  30. Neurodegeneration22▲ 5.8×9 topics
  31. Macrophages21▲ 9.6×7 topics
  32. Stem Cells21▲ 6.4×14 topics
  33. Fibrosis19▲ 8.1×8 topics
  34. Lipid Peroxidation19▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Gene Expression Regulation19▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Tumor Targeting18▲ 8.0×3 topics
  37. Stromal Cells18▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Ferroptosis18▲ 18×1 topic
  39. GPX418▲ 18×1 topic
  40. m6A-seq18▲ 15×1 topic

Which research topics does Shanghai East Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, RNA modifications and cancer, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…18Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 18 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…18RNA modifications and cancer: 18 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 14 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 13 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 13 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 12 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 12 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Meth…12Epigenetics and DNA Methylation: 12 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 10 fractional worksMesenchymal stem cell research: 10 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMolecular BiologyCancer ResearchOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 18 works
  2. 2 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 18 works
  3. 3 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 14 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 13 works
  5. 5 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 13 works
  6. 6 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 12 works
  7. 7 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 12 works
  8. 8 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 12 works
  9. 9 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 10 works
  10. 10 Mesenchymal stem cell research Genetics 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 available54.3%not open45.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.6%domestic only86.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai East Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 52% 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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