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Shanghai Mental Health Center

In research, Shanghai Mental Health Center stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,936 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#3,074 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,367 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroscience — Psychiatry and Mental health is 18.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#3,724
of 28,054 · #7,116 all time
Rank in China
#877
of 3,058
Research works
1.8k
▲ 31% vs 2013–17
Citations
28k
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is Shanghai Mental Health Center 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 #1,936 of 7,800 19.9%186 #3770
Health SciencesDomain #3,074 of 11,982 21.5%184 #4756
MedicineField #3,367 of 10,443 20.6%168 #4191
Social SciencesDomain #3,963 of 10,521 34.4%135 #5667
PsychologyField #1,076 of 2,181 32.6%112 #1866
NeuroscienceField #583 of 1,168 19.5%126 #1367
Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield #414 of 530 19.4%62 #920

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai Mental Health Center 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#3,770 #1,936
  2. Health Sciences#4,756 #3,074
  3. Medicine#4,191 #3,367
  4. Social Sciences#5,667 #3,963
  5. Psychology#1,866 #1,076
  6. Neuroscience#1,367 #583
  7. Cognitive Neuroscience#920 #414
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 Mental Health Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Psychiatry and Mental health takes 18.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 48.6 works18×
  2. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 62.2 works16×
  3. NeuroscienceField · 126.4 works15×
  4. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 34.0 works14×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.65× its world share, 47 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.07× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 14.71× its world share, 126 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.25× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.25× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.76× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.65× its world share, 168 worksMedicineNursing: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.85× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 6.95× its world share, 112 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 14.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Mental Health Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Min Zhao, Lihua Xu and Chunbo Li lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Mental Health Center.

  1. 1 Min Zhao China · #55,147 worldwide 340 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Lihua Xu China · #60,304 worldwide 428 citations · 56 works
  3. 3 Chunbo Li China · #106,302 worldwide 207 citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Yanling He China · #180,161 worldwide 184 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Huafang Li China · #428,458 worldwide 90 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Jijun Wang China · #461,735 worldwide 164 citations · 70 works
  7. 7 Ti‐Fei Yuan China · #496,076 worldwide 124 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Tianhong Zhang China · #580,167 worldwide 116 citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Yingying Tang China · #675,572 worldwide 94 citations · 45 works
  10. 10 Shunying Yu China · #776,213 worldwide 43 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Mental Health Center

Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Mental Health Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Neurological Disorders, Emotion Regulation, Functional Connectivity, Neuroimaging, Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation 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. Depression66▲ 14×18 topics
  2. Epidemiology39▲ 1.86×65 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress36▲ 4.2×36 topics
  4. Neurological Disorders33▲ 11×17 topics
  5. Metabolic Syndrome29▲ 6.7×16 topics
  6. Inflammation28▲ 2.5×61 topics
  7. Emotion Regulation28▲ 17×7 topics
  8. Functional Connectivity28▲ 40×3 topics
  9. Mental Health27▲ 3.5×25 topics
  10. Neuroimaging27▲ 19×8 topics
  11. Neuroinflammation27▲ 18×6 topics
  12. Social Cognition24▲ 27×7 topics
  13. Psychopathology24▲ 25×3 topics
  14. Neurobiology24▲ 17×9 topics
  15. Cognitive Therapy23▲ 41×3 topics
  16. Prevalence23▲ 11×11 topics
  17. Cytokines22▲ 15×5 topics
  18. Schizophrenia22▲ 39×4 topics
  19. Microglia22▲ 37×2 topics
  20. Anxiety21▲ 8.5×10 topics
  21. Genetics21▲ 5.7×14 topics
  22. Antipsychotic Drugs20▲ 99×1 topic
  23. Neurocognitive Deficits20▲ 99×1 topic
  24. Mental Disorders20▲ 33×3 topics
  25. Default Mode Network19▲ 50×1 topic
  26. Resting-State fMRI19▲ 50×1 topic
  27. Biomarkers19▲ 5.2×12 topics
  28. Immune Activation19▲ 44×1 topic
  29. Tryptophan Metabolism19▲ 64×1 topic
  30. Adolescents17▲ 8.8×7 topics
  31. Prefrontal Cortex16▲ 38×3 topics
  32. Neural Plasticity16▲ 17×5 topics
  33. Alzheimer's Disease15▲ 10×8 topics
  34. Stress15▲ 7.7×8 topics
  35. Synaptic Plasticity15▲ 13×5 topics
  36. Psychological Distress14▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy14▲ 20×2 topics
  38. Neurobiological Correlates14▲ 27×3 topics
  39. Network Analysis13▲ 21×2 topics
  40. Depression Symptoms13▲ 47×1 topic

Which research topics does Shanghai Mental Health Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Schizophrenia research and treatment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Tryptophan and brain disorders and Mental Health Research Topics.

Schizophrenia research and treatment: 20 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies: 19 fractional worksTryptophan and brain dis…19Tryptophan and brain disorders: 19 fractional worksMental Health Research T…13Mental Health Research Topics: 13 fractional worksDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 10 fractional worksTreatment of Major Depression: 9 fractional worksTranscranial Magnetic St…8Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies: 8 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 8 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 8 fractional worksNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies: 7 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthCognitive NeuroscienceBiological PsychiatryExperimental and Cognitive Psychology2 others

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

  1. 1 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 20 works
  2. 2 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 19 works
  3. 3 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 19 works
  4. 4 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 13 works
  5. 5 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 10 works
  6. 6 Treatment of Major Depression Pharmacology 9 works
  7. 7 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies Neurology 8 works
  8. 8 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 8 works
  9. 9 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 8 works
  10. 10 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 7 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 available44.5%not open55.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.0%domestic only80.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Mental Health Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 31% higher 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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