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Sun Yat-sen University

In research, Sun Yat-sen University stands highest in Life Sciences (#7 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#14 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#14 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology and Hepatology — Otorhinolaryngology is 4.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15
of 28,054 · #140 all time
Rank in China
#10
of 3,058
Research works
108k
▲ 63% vs 2013–17
Citations
2.1M
19.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

What is Sun Yat-sen University 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 #7 of 7,800 28.2%5,200 #138
Health SciencesDomain #14 of 11,982 23.5%8,193 #147
MedicineField #14 of 10,443 23.2%7,716 #123
Physical SciencesDomain #26 of 12,888 24.6%16,518 #142
Molecular BiologySubfield #7 of 2,175 27.7%2,047 #106
SurgerySubfield #6 of 1,816 21.5%908 #116
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #12 of 3,579 27.4%3,251 #151
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #4 of 1,144 22.0%811 #68
Cancer ResearchSubfield #1 of 237 27.8%462 #17
Business, Management and AccountingField #14 of 2,578 42.3%415 #99

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sun Yat-sen University 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#138 #7
  2. Health Sciences#147 #14
  3. Medicine#123 #14
  4. Physical Sciences#142 #26
  5. Molecular Biology#106 #7
  6. Surgery#116 #6
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#151 #12
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#68 #4
  9. Cancer Research#17 #1
  10. Business, Management and Accounting#99 #14
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 Sun Yat-sen University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Otorhinolaryngology takes 4.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OtorhinolaryngologySubfield · 128.2 works4.0×
  2. OphthalmologySubfield · 329.5 works3.8×
  3. HepatologySubfield · 226.0 works3.6×
  4. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 461.8 works3.3×
  5. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 1,046.2 works2.6×
  6. ImmunologySubfield · 557.8 works2.5×
  7. OncologySubfield · 871.8 works2.4×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 556 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.88× its world share, 3,251 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.94× its world share, 635 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.23× its world share, 650 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.95× its world share, 108 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.25× its world share, 142 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.49× its world share, 762 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.39× its world share, 3,509 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 784 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.18× its world share, 353 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.22× its world share, 5,956 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.03× its world share, 1,654 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.50× its world share, 1,699 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.01× its world share, 384 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.76× its world share, 1,274 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.74× its world share, 117 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 244 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.24× its world share, 7,716 worksMedicineNursing: 0.63× its world share, 100 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.38× its world share, 17 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.21× its world share, 200 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 415 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 182 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.50× its world share, 346 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 393 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 1,033 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Sun Yat-sen University?

Ranked on the composite score, Jingyun Fang, Hua‐Bin Li and Zibin Zheng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sun Yat-sen University.

  1. 1 Jingyun Fang China · #9,258 worldwide 1.2k citations · 58 works
  2. 2 Hua‐Bin Li China · #11,269 worldwide 974 citations · 53 works
  3. 3 Zibin Zheng China · #13,470 worldwide 1.7k citations · 151 works
  4. 4 Yexiang Tong China · #13,750 worldwide 1.9k citations · 80 works
  5. 5 Yuantao Hao China · #23,276 worldwide 3.1k citations · 36 works
  6. 6 Mingqiang Li China · #27,513 worldwide 506 citations · 61 works
  7. 7 Ling Huang China · #29,002 worldwide 457 citations · 51 works
  8. 8 Zhiqi Huang China · #29,265 worldwide 924 citations · 44 works
  9. 9 Xiaoping Liu China · #30,403 worldwide 434 citations · 56 works
  10. 10 Di Wu China · #35,659 worldwide 557 citations · 74 works
All ranked researchers at Sun Yat-sen University

Which keywords describe research at Sun Yat-sen University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Cancer, Inflammation, Tumor Microenvironment, Neural Networks, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology and Machine Learning.

▲ 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. Deep Learning2,054▲ 1.85×83 topics
  2. Epidemiology1,260◆ 0.98×130 topics
  3. Inflammation1,251▲ 1.85×83 topics
  4. Cancer1,187▲ 2.7×59 topics
  5. Machine Learning1,080◆ 1.02×91 topics
  6. Neural Networks926▲ 1.85×37 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress897▲ 1.69×61 topics
  8. Climate Change798◆ 0.91×102 topics
  9. Tumor Microenvironment629▲ 4.4×8 topics
  10. Remote Sensing593▲ 1.48×40 topics
  11. Chemotherapy584▲ 2.6×25 topics
  12. Nanoparticles561▲ 1.37×43 topics
  13. Gene Expression523▲ 2.6×20 topics
  14. Immunotherapy514▲ 2.2×19 topics
  15. Biomedical Applications505▲ 1.31×35 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease486▲ 1.35×38 topics
  17. Convolutional Neural Networks486▲ 2.0×14 topics
  18. Nanomaterials480▲ 1.40×20 topics
  19. Treatment473▲ 1.20×51 topics
  20. Catalysis424▲ 1.96×28 topics
  21. Biomarkers422▲ 1.90×18 topics
  22. Clinical Practice Guidelines402▲ 2.3×14 topics
  23. Biosensors361▲ 2.2×12 topics
  24. Immunity344▲ 2.6×11 topics
  25. Drug Delivery342▲ 1.95×16 topics
  26. Prognostic Factors317▲ 2.2×14 topics
  27. Cell Death316▲ 4.2×6 topics
  28. Metal-Organic Frameworks313▲ 2.3×6 topics
  29. Metastasis307▲ 2.8×12 topics
  30. Radiotherapy295▲ 2.4×13 topics
  31. Cathode Materials290▲ 2.3×3 topics
  32. Innate Immunity273▲ 2.6×11 topics
  33. Cancer Progression249▲ 4.2×8 topics
  34. Hepatocellular Carcinoma245▲ 3.6×3 topics
  35. Survival241▲ 5.5×4 topics
  36. Epigenetic Regulation236▲ 3.4×6 topics
  37. Biogenesis219▲ 3.8×3 topics
  38. Lipid Peroxidation194▲ 5.7×3 topics
  39. Ferroptosis183▲ 7.3×1 topic
  40. GPX4183▲ 7.3×1 topic

Which research topics does Sun Yat-sen University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, RNA modifications and cancer and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…184Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 184 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…183Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 183 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 160 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 134 fractional worksAdvanced Photocatalysis Techniques: 133 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 130 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 125 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…115Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 115 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 112 fractional worksAdvancements in Battery Materials: 108 fractional works
OncologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMolecular BiologyCancer Research6 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 184 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 183 works
  3. 3 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 160 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 134 works
  5. 5 Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 133 works
  6. 6 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 130 works
  7. 7 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 125 works
  8. 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 115 works
  9. 9 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 112 works
  10. 10 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 108 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 available35.0%not open65.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.0%domestic only84.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sun Yat-sen University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 63% higher than in 2013–2017.

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