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Hospital / health system · Shantou · China

Shantou Central Hospital

In research, Shantou Central Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#5,038 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#6,664 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,511
of 28,054 · #20,366 all time
Rank in China
#2,035
of 3,058
Research works
1.1k
▼ 44% vs 2013–17
Citations
5.4k
4.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
23%
world 28%

What is Shantou Central 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 #5,038 of 10,443 22.1%95 #8062
Health SciencesDomain #6,664 of 11,982 21.7%99 #10449

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shantou Central 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).

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, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.99× its world share, 26 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.15× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.28× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.39× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.81× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.41× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.00× its world share, 95 worksMedicineNursing: 2.20× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shantou Central Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Yuanfeng Zhang and Zhi‐Yong Wu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shantou Central Hospital.

  1. 1 Yuanfeng Zhang China · #1,077,099 worldwide 12 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Zhi‐Yong Wu China · #1,221,080 worldwide 36 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Shantou Central Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Shantou Central Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment, Epidemiology, Oxidative Stress, Gene Expression, Chemotherapy and Neoadjuvant 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. Inflammation18▲ 5.4×61 topics
  2. Cancer16▲ 7.2×33 topics
  3. Epidemiology15▲ 2.2×53 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress10▲ 3.8×37 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment10▲ 14×8 topics
  6. Deep Learning10▲ 1.69×34 topics
  7. Chemotherapy7▲ 6.3×19 topics
  8. Gene Expression7▲ 7.1×6 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease7▲ 3.8×22 topics
  10. Immunotherapy6▲ 5.5×14 topics
  11. Neoadjuvant Therapy6▲ 16×5 topics
  12. Metabolic Syndrome6▲ 4.4×18 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines5▲ 5.9×13 topics
  14. Treatment5▲ 2.6×20 topics
  15. Biomarkers5▲ 4.5×13 topics
  16. Quality of Life5▲ 2.0×18 topics
  17. Cell Death5▲ 12×6 topics
  18. Radiotherapy5▲ 7.2×11 topics
  19. Lipid Peroxidation4▲ 24×2 topics
  20. Ferroptosis4▲ 29×1 topic
  21. GPX44▲ 29×1 topic
  22. Metastasis4▲ 6.6×7 topics
  23. Immunity4▲ 5.5×8 topics
  24. Obesity4▲ 2.9×13 topics
  25. Angiogenesis3▲ 6.4×13 topics
  26. Meta-Analysis3▲ 3.5×6 topics
  27. Guidelines3▲ 4.2×8 topics
  28. Prognosis3▲ 6.1×8 topics
  29. Texture Analysis3▲ 8.6×3 topics
  30. Insulin Resistance3▲ 4.1×7 topics
  31. Precision Medicine3▲ 4.0×7 topics
  32. Prognostic Markers3▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Survival Analysis3▲ 6.2×4 topics
  34. Endoscopic Resection3▲ 16×2 topics
  35. Biogenesis2▲ 8.4×3 topics
  36. Breast Cancer2▲ 6.3×9 topics
  37. Chemoradiation2▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy2▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Macrophages2▲ 8.2×5 topics
  40. Molecular Characterization2▲ 8.0×4 topics

Which research topics does Shantou Central Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment.

Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 4 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 2 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…2Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 2 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Resear…2Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 2 fractional worksBladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments: 2 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 1 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regu…1MicroRNA in disease regulation: 1 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 1 fractional worksInflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis: 1 fractional worksHead and Neck Cancer Stu…1Head and Neck Cancer Studies: 1 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 2 works
  3. 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  4. 4 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 2 works
  5. 5 Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments Surgery 2 works
  6. 6 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 1 works
  7. 7 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 1 works
  8. 8 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 1 works
  9. 9 Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis Oncology 1 works
  10. 10 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 1 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 available22.6%not open77.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.0%domestic only96.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shantou Central Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 44% 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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