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The Fourth People's Hospital

In research, The Fourth People's Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#3,456 of 8,541 worldwide), Health Sciences (#4,512 of 9,902 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,869 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,463
of 22,385 · #16,265 all time
Rank in China
#1,443
of 2,481
Research works
1.9k
▲ 76% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
7.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
The Fourth People's Hospital

What is The Fourth People's 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
MedicineField #3,456 of 8,541 11.4%236 #7396
Health SciencesDomain #4,512 of 9,902 11.4%250 #9258
Life SciencesDomain #4,869 of 6,403 7.5%101 #7287

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where The Fourth People's 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#7,396 #3,456
  2. Health Sciences#9,258 #4,512
  3. Life Sciences#7,287 #4,869
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does The Fourth People's Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 61% of research at The Fourth People's Hospital is in Health Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (57%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Neuroscience (6%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 320 fractional works · 60.5% of its workMedicine: 304 fractional works · 57.5% of its workSurgery: 38 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEpidemiology: 33 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 26 fractional works · 4.9% of its workOncology: 19 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 19 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 15 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 14 fractional works · 2.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 13 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhysiology: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 8 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOphthalmology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRheumatology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHepatology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHematology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNephrology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 128 fractional works · 24.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 70 fractional works · 13.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 45 fractional works · 8.5% of its workCancer Research: 10 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeuroscience: 31 fractional works · 5.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNeurology: 7 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 fractional works · 3.4% of its workImmunology: 13 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVirology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 43 fractional works · 8.1% of its workEngineering: 21 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 38 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPsychology: 24 fractional works · 4.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 13 fractional works · 2.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKThe FourthPeople's Hospital529fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences61%Social Sciences7%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine30457.5%
    2. Health Professions112.1%
    3. Nursing30.6%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
    5. Dentistry10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7013.3%
    2. Neuroscience315.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology183.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.9%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.7%
    1. Engineering214.0%
    2. Materials Science61.2%
    3. Environmental Science50.9%
    4. Computer Science50.9%
    5. Chemistry20.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    7. Mathematics10.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    9. Energy10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Psychology244.6%
    2. Social Sciences91.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting30.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.50× its world share, 70 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.36× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.62× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.42× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.12× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.26× its world share, 21 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.80× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.99× its world share, 304 worksMedicineNursing: 1.28× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.45× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.50× its world share, 24 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Neuroscience3.62×31 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.36×18 works
  3. Medicine2.99×304 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.50×70 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.42×4 works
  6. Psychology1.50×24 works
  7. Veterinary1.45×1 works
  8. Nursing1.28×3 works
  9. Health Professions0.80×11 works
  10. Materials Science0.33×6 works
  11. Chemistry0.29×2 works
  12. Engineering0.26×21 works
  13. Dentistry0.26×1 works
  14. Environmental Science0.19×5 works
  15. Mathematics0.16×1 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.16×3 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×4 works
  18. Social Sciences0.13×9 works
  19. Computer Science0.12×5 works
  20. Energy0.11×0 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.10×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×1 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.10×1 works
  24. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×1 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.07×1 works
  26. Decision Sciences0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at The Fourth People's Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Yibo Lu, Yu Xiao and Na Du lead among researchers whose main affiliation is The Fourth People's Hospital.

  1. 1 Yibo Lu China · #732,818 worldwide 690 citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Yu Xiao China · #1,803,754 worldwide 615 citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Na Du China · #2,133,271 worldwide 417 citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Huan Lu China · #2,784,474 worldwide 488 citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Fengyao Wu China · #2,925,920 worldwide 473 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Mary E. Reilly China · #3,327,633 worldwide 842 citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Zhilong Wu China · #3,676,075 worldwide 419 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Shulin Song China · #4,206,465 worldwide 198 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Yanrong Lin China · #4,622,571 worldwide 77 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Hongmei Zu China · #4,667,248 worldwide 152 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at The Fourth People's Hospital

What are the most cited papers from The Fourth People's Hospital?

The most cited paper from The Fourth People's Hospital is "Prevalence of mental disorders in China: a cross-sectional epidemiological study" (Yueqin Huang et al., 2019), with 2,429 citations. Next come "Prevalence of depressive disorders and treatment in China: a cross-sectional epidemiological study" (871) and "Genome sequencing of 161 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from China identifies genes and intergenic regions associated with drug resistance" (455).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prevalence of mental disorders in China: a cross-sectional epidemiological study Yueqin Huang et al. · The Lancet Psychiatry 18 Feb 2019 2,429
2 Prevalence of depressive disorders and treatment in China: a cross-sectional epidemiological study Jin Gui Lu et al. · The Lancet Psychiatry 21 Sep 2021 871
3 Genome sequencing of 161 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from China identifies genes and intergenic regions associated with drug resistance Hongtai Zhang et al. · Nature Genetics Sep 2013 455
4 Tumor-released exosomal circular RNA PDE8A promotes invasive growth via the miR-338/MACC1/MET pathway in pancreatic cancer Zhonghu Li, Yanfang Wu, Jie Li et al. · Cancer Letters 28 Apr 2018 378
5 Covid-19 classification by FGCNet with deep feature fusion from graph convolutional network and convolutional neural network Shuihua Wang‎, Vishnuvarthanan Govindaraj, J. M. Górriz et al. · Information Fusion Open access 9 Oct 2020 357
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at The Fourth People's Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Cancer, Treatment, Diagnosis, Depression and Immune Response.

▲ 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. Epidemiology64▲ 3.0×105 topics
  2. Inflammation47▲ 4.2×77 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress35▲ 4.0×56 topics
  4. Cancer32▲ 4.5×41 topics
  5. Treatment27▲ 4.2×42 topics
  6. Diagnosis24▲ 4.8×35 topics
  7. Depression23▲ 5.0×18 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome20▲ 4.6×22 topics
  9. Cardiovascular Disease19▲ 3.1×34 topics
  10. Immune Response18▲ 5.9×19 topics
  11. Biomarkers15▲ 4.0×16 topics
  12. Gene Expression14▲ 4.1×15 topics
  13. Tumor Microenvironment13▲ 5.5×8 topics
  14. Vaccine13▲ 6.1×11 topics
  15. Risk Factors12▲ 2.1×27 topics
  16. Chemotherapy12▲ 3.3×22 topics
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines12▲ 4.2×14 topics
  18. Management12▲ 2.9×23 topics
  19. Insulin Resistance12▲ 4.8×9 topics
  20. Antiretroviral Therapy11▲ 12×6 topics
  21. Immunity11▲ 5.0×10 topics
  22. Metastasis11▲ 5.8×11 topics
  23. Neuroinflammation10▲ 6.6×6 topics
  24. Neurological Disorders10▲ 3.3×18 topics
  25. Cell Death10▲ 7.8×6 topics
  26. Cytokines10▲ 6.2×7 topics
  27. Drug Resistance8▲ 5.6×6 topics
  28. Apoptosis8▲ 4.7×15 topics
  29. Immune Activation8▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Schizophrenia8▲ 13×4 topics
  31. Cognitive Therapy7▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Microglia7▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Mycobacterium tuberculosis7▲ 23×2 topics
  34. Functional Connectivity7▲ 9.5×3 topics
  35. Host-Pathogen Interaction7▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Tuberculosis7▲ 24×1 topic
  37. Antifungal Therapy6▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Biogenesis6▲ 7.2×3 topics
  39. Lipid Peroxidation6▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Maternal Immune Activation6▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does The Fourth People's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis and Schizophrenia research and treatment.

Tuberculosis Research an…7Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 7 fractional worksTryptophan and brain dis…6Tryptophan and brain disorders: 6 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…6Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 6 fractional worksSchizophrenia research a…6Schizophrenia research and treatment: 6 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies: 5 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 4 fractional worksFungal Infections and St…3Fungal Infections and Studies: 3 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health: 3 fractional worksInfectious Diseases and Tuberculosis: 3 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesBiological PsychiatryPulmonary and Respiratory MedicinePsychiatry and Mental health5 others

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

  1. 1 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 7 works
  2. 2 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 6 works
  3. 3 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  4. 4 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 6 works
  5. 5 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  6. 6 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 4 works
  7. 7 Fungal Infections and Studies Epidemiology 3 works
  8. 8 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 3 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 3 works
  10. 10 Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Surgery 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 available35.9%not open64.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.9%domestic only91.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Fourth People's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is The Fourth People's Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%The Fourth People's Hospital0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of The Fourth People's 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%The Fourth People's Hospital10.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 11.3% in 2022.

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