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Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

In research, Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#4,592 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#5,813 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,244 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,212
of 28,054 · #19,636 all time
Rank in China
#1,743
of 3,058
Research works
698
▲ 47% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.4k
6.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine 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 #4,592 of 10,443 16.6%161 #9985
Health SciencesDomain #5,813 of 11,982 16.4%174 #11444
Life SciencesDomain #4,244 of 7,800 15.6%88 #8848

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine 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. Medicine#9,985 #4,592
  2. Health Sciences#11,444 #5,813
  3. Life Sciences#8,848 #4,244
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.

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: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.62× its world share, 55 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.91× its world share, 14 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.95× its world share, 14 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.69× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 6.35× its world share, 9 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.97× its world share, 161 worksMedicineNursing: 1.17× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Lurong Zhang and Guoqiang Liang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

  1. 1 Lurong Zhang China · #589,102 worldwide 80 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Guoqiang Liang China · #1,288,605 worldwide 49 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology, Gene Expression, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Surgical Treatment and Tumor Microenvironment.

▲ 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. Inflammation38▲ 6.5×68 topics
  2. Cancer30▲ 7.8×39 topics
  3. Epidemiology26▲ 2.3×71 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress22▲ 4.7×44 topics
  5. Gene Expression11▲ 6.5×9 topics
  6. Quality of Life10▲ 2.5×27 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease10▲ 3.3×25 topics
  8. Traditional Chinese Medicine10▲ 28×5 topics
  9. Risk Factors10▲ 3.1×17 topics
  10. Diagnosis9▲ 3.5×19 topics
  11. Biomarkers9▲ 4.7×15 topics
  12. Tumor Microenvironment9▲ 7.1×7 topics
  13. Surgical Treatment9▲ 16×6 topics
  14. Metabolism8▲ 5.8×21 topics
  15. Antioxidant8▲ 4.1×29 topics
  16. Management8▲ 3.6×16 topics
  17. Cell Death8▲ 12×6 topics
  18. Metabolic Syndrome8▲ 3.3×17 topics
  19. Clinical Trials7▲ 3.9×11 topics
  20. Herbal Medicine7▲ 8.9×7 topics
  21. Immunity7▲ 6.1×8 topics
  22. Regulation7▲ 4.6×9 topics
  23. Immune Response7▲ 4.3×13 topics
  24. Global Burden7▲ 4.5×11 topics
  25. Angiogenesis7▲ 7.2×13 topics
  26. Epigenetic Regulation7▲ 11×4 topics
  27. Clinical Outcomes7▲ 11×3 topics
  28. Integrative Medicine7▲ 39×2 topics
  29. Degenerative Disc Disease6▲ 25×2 topics
  30. Neuroinflammation6▲ 8.0×6 topics
  31. Anti-inflammatory6▲ 8.1×19 topics
  32. Metastasis6▲ 6.6×9 topics
  33. Precision Medicine6▲ 4.7×7 topics
  34. Biogenesis6▲ 12×3 topics
  35. Low Back Pain6▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Apoptosis6▲ 6.3×16 topics
  37. Macrophages6▲ 11×6 topics
  38. Spinal Fusion6▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Neuroprotective Effects5▲ 11×7 topics
  40. Mitochondria5▲ 13×5 topics

Which research topics does Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research and Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies.

Spine and Intervertebral…5Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology: 5 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…4Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 4 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 4 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Studies: 3 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 3 fractional worksMedical Research and Treatments: 3 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 3 fractional worksAcupuncture Treatment Re…3Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies: 3 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 2 fractional worksDental Implant Techniques and Outcomes: 2 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchComplementary and alternative medicine2 others

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

  1. 1 Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology Pathology and Forensic Medicine 5 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  3. 3 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 4 works
  4. 4 Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 3 works
  5. 5 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 3 works
  6. 6 Medical Research and Treatments Complementary and alternative medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 3 works
  8. 8 Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 3 works
  9. 9 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes Oral 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 available50.5%not open49.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.1%domestic only94.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% 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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