Science Explorer Interactive view Map
Hospital / health system · Shenzhen · China

Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital

In research, Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,507 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,498 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,238 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research and Rheumatology — Cancer Research is 8.0× its share of world research.

smuszh.com/enROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022–2025
#2,604
of 28,054 · #7,729 all time
Rank in China
#671
of 3,058
Research works
1.3k
▲ 332% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
10.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
66%
world 28%

What is Southern Medical University Shenzhen 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
Health SciencesDomain #1,507 of 11,982 22.6%417 #4291
MedicineField #1,498 of 10,443 22.0%381 #3998
Life SciencesDomain #1,238 of 7,800 26.7%187 #3791
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,389 of 3,579 26.0%132 #3964
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,154 of 2,175 28.1%77 #3086

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Southern Medical University Shenzhen 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. Health Sciences#4,291 #1,507
  2. Medicine#3,998 #1,498
  3. Life Sciences#3,791 #1,238
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,964 #1,389
  5. Molecular Biology#3,086 #1,154
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 Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 23.3 works8.0×
  2. RheumatologySubfield · 20.2 works6.6×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.70× its world share, 132 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.02× its world share, 27 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.87× its world share, 20 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.64× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.58× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 22 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.41× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 4.87× its world share, 16 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.76× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.97× its world share, 381 worksMedicineNursing: 1.85× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.94× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.28× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Yiwen Zhou and Fan Yu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital.

  1. 1 Yiwen Zhou China · #1,025,019 worldwide 8 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Fan Yu China · #1,229,406 worldwide 14 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology77▲ 2.9×106 topics
  2. Inflammation67▲ 4.8×80 topics
  3. Cancer58▲ 6.5×52 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress35▲ 3.2×53 topics
  5. Cardiovascular Disease27▲ 3.6×35 topics
  6. Tumor Microenvironment24▲ 8.3×8 topics
  7. Quality of Life23▲ 2.4×37 topics
  8. Treatment22▲ 2.7×38 topics
  9. Biomarkers22▲ 4.8×15 topics
  10. Gene Expression22▲ 5.4×16 topics
  11. Insulin Resistance18▲ 5.8×10 topics
  12. Cell Death17▲ 11×6 topics
  13. Chemotherapy17▲ 3.7×23 topics
  14. Management17▲ 3.2×26 topics
  15. Immunotherapy16▲ 3.4×17 topics
  16. Angiogenesis15▲ 7.0×16 topics
  17. Diagnosis15▲ 2.4×33 topics
  18. Immunity14▲ 5.1×9 topics
  19. Biogenesis14▲ 12×3 topics
  20. Clinical Practice Guidelines13▲ 3.6×14 topics
  21. Rehabilitation13▲ 4.9×11 topics
  22. Hypertension13▲ 6.7×12 topics
  23. Epigenetic Regulation12▲ 8.6×6 topics
  24. Cancer Progression12▲ 9.8×8 topics
  25. Prognostic Factors12▲ 4.1×13 topics
  26. Pathogenesis12▲ 3.5×20 topics
  27. Metastasis12▲ 5.1×12 topics
  28. Apoptosis11▲ 5.5×20 topics
  29. Regeneration10▲ 8.1×6 topics
  30. Lipid Peroxidation10▲ 15×3 topics
  31. Cell Differentiation10▲ 16×2 topics
  32. Ferroptosis10▲ 20×1 topic
  33. GPX410▲ 20×1 topic
  34. Urinary Incontinence10▲ 18×2 topics
  35. Inflammatory Diseases9▲ 7.7×4 topics
  36. RNA Regulation9▲ 13×2 topics
  37. Long Noncoding RNAs9▲ 16×1 topic
  38. Transcriptional Landscape9▲ 16×1 topic
  39. Surgical Treatment9▲ 6.9×5 topics
  40. Immune Responses8▲ 8.8×3 topics

Which research topics does Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research and Gut microbiota and health.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…10Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 10 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…9Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 9 fractional worksObstructive Sleep Apnea …8Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research: 8 fractional worksGut microbiota and health7Gut microbiota and health: 7 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 7 fractional worksPelvic floor disorders treatments: 6 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regu…6MicroRNA in disease regulation: 6 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles i…5Extracellular vesicles in disease: 5 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…5Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 5 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer…4Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 4 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchPhysiologyMolecular Biology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 10 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 9 works
  3. 3 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Physiology 8 works
  4. 4 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 7 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 7 works
  6. 6 Pelvic floor disorders treatments Rheumatology 6 works
  7. 7 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 6 works
  8. 8 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 5 works
  9. 9 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 5 works
  10. 10 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 4 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 available65.5%not open34.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.7%domestic only87.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Southern Medical University Shenzhen Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 332% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
grewheldshrank

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

Other research institutions in Shenzhen

All research institutions in Shenzhen

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.