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Shanxi Eye Hospital

In research, Shanxi Eye Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,786 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#7,225 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Medicine (Ophthalmology is 104.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,049
of 22,385 · #29,706 all time
Rank in China
#2,367
of 2,481
Research works
360
▲ 37% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.6k
4.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Shanxi Eye Hospital

What is Shanxi Eye Hospital known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #6,786 of 9,902 8.1%81 #11126
MedicineField #7,225 of 8,541 8.1%80 #11340

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanxi Eye 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Shanxi Eye Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Shanxi Eye Hospital is in Health Sciences, 18% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (73%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Neuroscience (3%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 96 fractional works · 74.0% of its workMedicine: 95 fractional works · 73.0% of its workOphthalmology: 36 fractional works · 28.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 25 fractional works · 19.5% of its workEpidemiology: 12 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 24 fractional works · 18.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 fractional works · 13.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKShanxi EyeHospital130fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences74%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine9573.0%
    2. Health Professions10.5%
    3. Dentistry00.3%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1813.6%
    2. Neuroscience42.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology21.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Engineering32.5%
    2. Computer Science21.9%
    3. Environmental Science11.0%
    4. Materials Science10.7%
    5. Chemistry10.4%
    6. Energy00.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Psychology10.5%
    2. Social Sciences00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Shanxi Eye Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ophthalmology takes 104.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OphthalmologySubfield · 36.5 works105×
  2. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield · 25.3 works22×
  3. MedicineField · 95.2 works3.8×
  4. Health SciencesDomain · 96.5 works3.2×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.56× its world share, 18 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.33× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.80× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.80× its world share, 95 worksMedicineNursing: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.94× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryPsychology: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.80×95 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.56×18 works
  3. Neuroscience1.80×4 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.33×2 works
  5. Veterinary0.94×0 works
  6. Dentistry0.69×0 works
  7. Energy0.28×0 works
  8. Chemistry0.27×1 works
  9. Computer Science0.24×2 works
  10. Materials Science0.20×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.19×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.18×1 works
  13. Nursing0.18×0 works
  14. Psychology0.17×1 works
  15. Engineering0.16×3 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.15×0 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.10×0 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Shanxi Eye Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Xiaogang Wang, Yanyun Shi and Xueliang Feng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanxi Eye Hospital.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China · #1,390,375 worldwide 3.1k citations · 124 works
  2. 2 Yanyun Shi China · #1,499,235 worldwide 1.2k citations · 47 works
  3. 3 Xueliang Feng China · #1,535,932 worldwide 346 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Bin Sun China · #2,387,466 worldwide 1.8k citations · 121 works
  5. 5 Zhao Qin Gao China · #2,575,810 worldwide 308 citations · 25 works
  6. 6 Han Yuping China · #2,990,044 worldwide 65 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Xiaofen Zheng China · #3,040,478 worldwide 1.1k citations · 34 works
  8. 8 Yunda Zhang China · #3,093,637 worldwide 749 citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Jihong Yang China · #3,693,517 worldwide 1.7k citations · 80 works
  10. 10 Guohong Zhou China · #3,715,826 worldwide 347 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Shanxi Eye Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Shanxi Eye Hospital?

The most cited paper from Shanxi Eye Hospital is "Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease" (Peizeng Yang et al., 2018), with 150 citations. Next come "Genome editing abrogates angiogenesis in vivo" (149) and "Fabrication and Repair of Cartilage Defects with a Novel Acellular Cartilage Matrix Scaffold" (148).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease Peizeng Yang et al. · JAMA Ophthalmology Open access 6 Jul 2018 150
2 Genome editing abrogates angiogenesis in vivo Xionggao Huang, Guohong Zhou, Wenyi Wu et al. · Nature Communications Open access 17 Jul 2017 149
3 Fabrication and Repair of Cartilage Defects with a Novel Acellular Cartilage Matrix Scaffold Ziquan Yang, Yanyun Shi, Xiaochun Wei et al. · Tissue Engineering Part C Methods 5 Nov 2009 148
4 Reprogramming metabolism by targeting sirtuin 6 attenuates retinal degeneration Lijuan Zhang, Jianhai Du, Sally Justus et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access 13 Nov 2016 111
5 Current Developments in Corneal Topography and Tomography Piotr Kanclerz, Ramin Khoramnia, Xiaogang Wang · Diagnostics Open access 13 Aug 2021 107
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Shanxi Eye Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Glaucoma, Intraocular Pressure, Myopia, Macular Degeneration, Epidemiology, Optic Nerve, Optical Coherence Tomography and Diabetic Retinopathy.

▲ 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-now 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. Glaucoma22▲ 112×4 topics
  2. Epidemiology20▲ 3.9×26 topics
  3. Intraocular Pressure20▲ 172×2 topics
  4. Myopia18▲ 211×2 topics
  5. Macular Degeneration15▲ 91×3 topics
  6. Inflammation14▲ 5.2×26 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress13▲ 6.2×18 topics
  8. Optic Nerve13▲ 103×2 topics
  9. Optical Coherence Tomography13▲ 99×3 topics
  10. Diabetic Retinopathy13▲ 99×2 topics
  11. Intravitreal Injection11▲ 117×2 topics
  12. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor11▲ 93×3 topics
  13. Refractive Error10▲ 186×1 topic
  14. Visual Impairment10▲ 148×1 topic
  15. Neurodegeneration10▲ 26×4 topics
  16. Corneal Biomechanics10▲ 210×1 topic
  17. Keratoconus10▲ 210×1 topic
  18. Risk Factors10▲ 7.0×5 topics
  19. Retinal Ganglion Cells10▲ 69×2 topics
  20. Ocular Hypertension10▲ 144×1 topic
  21. Visual Field Progression10▲ 144×1 topic
  22. Choroidal Thickness10▲ 134×1 topic
  23. Retinal Pigment Epithelium10▲ 134×1 topic
  24. Femtosecond Laser9▲ 124×1 topic
  25. Intraocular Lens Implantation9▲ 217×1 topic
  26. Macular Hole8▲ 256×1 topic
  27. OCT Imaging8▲ 207×2 topics
  28. Vitreoretinal Surgery8▲ 256×1 topic
  29. Inflammatory Cytokines4▲ 35×2 topics
  30. Dry Eye Disease4▲ 86×1 topic
  31. Ocular Surface4▲ 86×1 topic
  32. Autoimmunity4▲ 20×4 topics
  33. Cardiovascular Risk4▲ 8.6×2 topics
  34. Retinal Disease3▲ 53×1 topic
  35. Vessel Segmentation3▲ 57×1 topic
  36. Graves' Ophthalmopathy3▲ 132×1 topic
  37. Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy3▲ 132×1 topic
  38. Genetic Mutations3▲ 5.3×5 topics
  39. Immunosuppressive Therapy3▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis3▲ 40×2 topics

Which research topics does Shanxi Eye Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies, Corneal surgery and disorders, Glaucoma and retinal disorders and Retinal Diseases and Treatments.

Ophthalmology and Visual…10Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies: 10 fractional worksCorneal surgery and diso…10Corneal surgery and disorders: 10 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal dis…10Glaucoma and retinal disorders: 10 fractional worksRetinal Diseases and Tre…10Retinal Diseases and Treatments: 10 fractional worksIntraocular Surgery and …9Intraocular Surgery and Lenses: 9 fractional worksRetinal and Macular Surg…8Retinal and Macular Surgery: 8 fractional worksOcular Surface and Contact Lens: 4 fractional worksRetinal Imaging and Analysis: 3 fractional worksOphthalmology and Eye Disorders: 3 fractional worksOcular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome: 3 fractional works
EpidemiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingOphthalmologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1 others

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

  1. 1 Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies Epidemiology 10 works
  2. 2 Corneal surgery and disorders Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 10 works
  3. 3 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 10 works
  4. 4 Retinal Diseases and Treatments Ophthalmology 10 works
  5. 5 Intraocular Surgery and Lenses Ophthalmology 9 works
  6. 6 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 8 works
  7. 7 Ocular Surface and Contact Lens Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  8. 8 Retinal Imaging and Analysis Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  9. 9 Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders Pathology and Forensic Medicine 3 works
  10. 10 Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome Ophthalmology 3 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 available44.0%not open56.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shanxi Eye Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Shanxi Eye Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00054% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Shanxi Eye Hospital0.00056% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Shanxi Eye Hospital over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Shanxi Eye Hospital5.5% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.8% in 2024.

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