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Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica

In research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica stands highest in Life Sciences (#688 of 7,800 worldwide), Molecular Biology (#359 of 2,175 worldwide) and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#611 of 3,579 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics and Molecular Biology — Organic Chemistry is 10.9× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,624
of 28,054 · #2,440 all time
Rank in China
#464
of 3,058
Research works
4.6k
▼ 13% vs 2013–17
Citations
129k
28.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
30.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
31%
world 28%

What is Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica 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 #688 of 7,800 31.0%412 #1347
Molecular BiologySubfield #359 of 2,175 31.3%222 #756
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #611 of 3,579 31.0%286 #1147
MedicineField #2,271 of 10,443 32.6%225 #3611
Physical SciencesDomain #3,097 of 12,888 27.7%167 #2650
Health SciencesDomain #3,171 of 11,982 32.7%232 #4909
ChemistryField #828 of 1,330 20.9%93 #705
Organic ChemistrySubfield #421 of 615 19.4%67 #499

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica 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#1,347 #688
  2. Molecular Biology#756 #359
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,147 #611
  4. Medicine#3,611 #2,271
  5. Physical Sciences#2,650 #3,097
  6. Health Sciences#4,909 #3,171
  7. Chemistry#705 #828
  8. Organic Chemistry#499 #421
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 Institute of Materia Medica specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Organic Chemistry takes 10.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Organic ChemistrySubfield · 66.7 works11×
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsField · 27.8 works9.7×
  3. Molecular BiologySubfield · 222.5 works9.0×
← 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: 0.83× its world share, 32 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6.59× its world share, 286 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.83× its world share, 40 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.01× its world share, 27 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 9.67× its world share, 28 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 7.31× its world share, 93 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 13 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 26 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.93× its world share, 26 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.44× its world share, 225 worksMedicineNursing: 1.24× its world share, 5 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica?

Ranked on the composite score, H. Eric Xu, Hualiang Jiang and Mingyue Zheng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica.

  1. 1 H. Eric Xu China · #50,092 worldwide 500 citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Hualiang Jiang China · #71,065 worldwide 683 citations · 108 works
  3. 3 Mingyue Zheng China · #90,951 worldwide 352 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Kaixian Chen China · #200,249 worldwide 345 citations · 71 works
  5. 5 Hong Liu China · #236,341 worldwide 247 citations · 68 works
  6. 6 Jian Ding China · #249,598 worldwide 202 citations · 65 works
  7. 7 Yang Ye China · #309,567 worldwide 138 citations · 44 works
  8. 8 Zhiwen Zhang China · #318,662 worldwide 218 citations · 47 works
  9. 9 Chunhao Yang China · #326,878 worldwide 81 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Jian‐Min Yue China · #349,800 worldwide 179 citations · 66 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica

Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Cancer Therapy, Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory, Pharmacology, Inflammation, Apoptosis and Drug Discovery.

▲ 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. Cancer84▲ 7.7×52 topics
  2. Inflammation58▲ 3.5×73 topics
  3. Cancer Therapy51▲ 11×19 topics
  4. Antioxidant50▲ 9.0×39 topics
  5. Anti-inflammatory44▲ 19×23 topics
  6. Pharmacology41▲ 20×18 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress38▲ 2.9×52 topics
  8. Apoptosis38▲ 15×22 topics
  9. Drug Discovery36▲ 20×10 topics
  10. Nanoparticles34▲ 3.3×19 topics
  11. Biological Activities34▲ 26×8 topics
  12. Medicinal Chemistry30▲ 13×12 topics
  13. Medicinal Plants28▲ 8.7×14 topics
  14. Synthesis28▲ 9.3×25 topics
  15. Metabolism27▲ 6.5×27 topics
  16. Tumor Microenvironment27▲ 7.5×8 topics
  17. Reactive Oxygen Species26▲ 7.9×13 topics
  18. Immunotherapy25▲ 4.4×13 topics
  19. Transcriptional Regulation25▲ 19×9 topics
  20. Pharmacokinetics24▲ 11×11 topics
  21. Traditional Chinese Medicine23▲ 23×4 topics
  22. Antiviral23▲ 35×4 topics
  23. Phytochemistry22▲ 22×7 topics
  24. Tumor Targeting22▲ 15×3 topics
  25. Antioxidant Activity22▲ 4.2×23 topics
  26. Cell Signaling21▲ 17×12 topics
  27. Cytotoxicity21▲ 19×10 topics
  28. Immunity20▲ 6.2×10 topics
  29. Photodynamic Therapy20▲ 11×4 topics
  30. Innate Immunity20▲ 7.6×11 topics
  31. Angiogenesis20▲ 7.3×13 topics
  32. Anticancer19▲ 15×17 topics
  33. Glycosylation19▲ 21×3 topics
  34. Pharmacological Effects18▲ 36×6 topics
  35. Natural Products18▲ 15×8 topics
  36. Flavonoids16▲ 7.7×11 topics
  37. Ethnopharmacology16▲ 38×4 topics
  38. Marine Natural Products16▲ 47×2 topics
  39. Metal-Catalyzed Reactions16▲ 32×3 topics
  40. Triterpenoids16▲ 29×3 topics

Which research topics does Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Natural product bioactivities and synthesis, Computational Drug Discovery Methods and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors.

Nanoplatforms for cancer…14Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 14 fractional worksNatural product bioactiv…14Natural product bioactivities and synthesis: 14 fractional worksComputational Drug Discovery Methods: 12 fractional worksProtein Degradation and …12Protein Degradation and Inhibitors: 12 fractional worksUbiquitin and proteasome…12Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways: 12 fractional worksCatalytic C–H Functionalization Methods: 11 fractional worksGlycosylation and Glycoproteins Research: 9 fractional worksPhytochemistry and Biolo…9Phytochemistry and Biological Activities: 9 fractional worksMonoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research: 9 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Analysis: 9 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringMolecular BiologyComputational Theory and MathematicsOrganic Chemistry3 others

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

  1. 1 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 14 works
  2. 2 Natural product bioactivities and synthesis Molecular Biology 14 works
  3. 3 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 12 works
  4. 4 Protein Degradation and Inhibitors Molecular Biology 12 works
  5. 5 Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways Molecular Biology 12 works
  6. 6 Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods Organic Chemistry 11 works
  7. 7 Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research Molecular Biology 9 works
  8. 8 Phytochemistry and Biological Activities Plant Science 9 works
  9. 9 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 9 works
  10. 10 Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis Complementary and alternative 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 available30.6%not open69.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% lower 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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