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Southern Tohoku General Hospital

In research, Southern Tohoku General Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#6,200 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#7,329 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#17,615
of 28,054 · #25,568 all time
Rank in Japan
#477
of 1,070
Research works
577
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
6k
10.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
61%
world 28%

What is Southern Tohoku General 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 #6,200 of 10,443 10.8%93 #9293
Health SciencesDomain #7,329 of 11,982 11.2%98 #11306

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Southern Tohoku General 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: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.28× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.73× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 3.41× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 4.02× its world share, 93 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× 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, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Southern Tohoku General Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Takashi Takano and Hirofumi Midorikawa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Southern Tohoku General Hospital.

  1. 1 Yasuhiro Kikuchi Japan · #735,056 worldwide 20 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Takashi Takano Japan · #1,011,843 worldwide 34 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Hirofumi Midorikawa Japan · #1,076,134 worldwide 33 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Kazuo Watanabe Japan · #1,177,276 worldwide 30 citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Hideo Sakuma Japan · #1,272,309 worldwide 4 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Yoshitomo Kashiki Japan · #1,369,442 worldwide 12 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Takahiro Katō Japan · #1,447,467 worldwide 11 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Southern Tohoku General Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Southern Tohoku General Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Surgical Management, Radiotherapy, Cancer Treatment, Epidemiology, Prognostic Factors 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. Chemotherapy12▲ 14×15 topics
  2. Epidemiology10▲ 2.2×44 topics
  3. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 15×12 topics
  4. Quality of Life6▲ 3.4×21 topics
  5. Surgical Management6▲ 12×13 topics
  6. Cancer Treatment6▲ 20×5 topics
  7. Radiotherapy6▲ 12×11 topics
  8. Treatment5▲ 3.6×20 topics
  9. Prognostic Factors5▲ 9.9×10 topics
  10. Dosimetry5▲ 59×2 topics
  11. Neoadjuvant Therapy5▲ 18×5 topics
  12. Survival Analysis5▲ 15×5 topics
  13. Endoscopic Resection5▲ 38×2 topics
  14. Endovascular Repair4▲ 44×3 topics
  15. Adjuvant Therapy4▲ 29×2 topics
  16. Molecular Characterization4▲ 19×4 topics
  17. Risk Factors4▲ 3.1×11 topics
  18. PET Imaging4▲ 18×2 topics
  19. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy4▲ 39×2 topics
  20. Particle Therapy4▲ 121×1 topic
  21. Proton Therapy4▲ 121×1 topic
  22. Gastric Cancer4▲ 26×2 topics
  23. Image-Guided Radiotherapy4▲ 69×1 topic
  24. Management4▲ 3.7×13 topics
  25. Radiotherapy Physics4▲ 69×1 topic
  26. Chemoradiation3▲ 42×2 topics
  27. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy3▲ 31×2 topics
  28. Rehabilitation3▲ 6.5×9 topics
  29. Lymph Node Dissection3▲ 42×1 topic
  30. Metastatic Gastric Cancer3▲ 42×1 topic
  31. Prognosis3▲ 7.6×6 topics
  32. Adjuvant Chemotherapy3▲ 35×2 topics
  33. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy3▲ 288×1 topic
  34. Carboranes3▲ 288×1 topic
  35. Neuroimaging3▲ 8.7×6 topics
  36. Biomechanics3▲ 7.3×5 topics
  37. Diagnostic Criteria3▲ 10.0×7 topics
  38. Laparoscopic Surgery3▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Genetic Susceptibility2▲ 22×3 topics
  40. Radiation Therapy2▲ 16×4 topics

Which research topics does Southern Tohoku General Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes and Boron Compounds in Chemistry.

Radiation Therapy and Do…4Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Te…4Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 4 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…3Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 3 fractional worksBoron Compounds in Chemi…3Boron Compounds in Chemistry: 3 fractional worksGastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment: 2 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments: 2 fractional worksAortic Disease and Treat…2Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches: 2 fractional worksAortic aneurysm repair t…2Aortic aneurysm repair treatments: 2 fractional worksColorectal and Anal Carc…2Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas: 2 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Resear…2Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 2 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineRadiationRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingGastroenterology2 others

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

  1. 1 Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  2. 2 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 4 works
  3. 3 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Boron Compounds in Chemistry Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  5. 5 Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment Gastroenterology 2 works
  6. 6 Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Oncology 2 works
  7. 7 Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  9. 9 Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas Surgery 2 works
  10. 10 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 2 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 available61.2%not open38.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.6%domestic only91.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Southern Tohoku General Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% 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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