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Tongji Hospital

In research, Tongji Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#86 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#203 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#181 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Cancer Research and Immunology — Hepatology is 8.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#404
of 28,054 · #1,353 all time
Rank in China
#142
of 3,058
Research works
14k
▲ 54% vs 2013–17
Citations
256k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
45%
world 28%

What is Tongji 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
Life SciencesDomain #86 of 7,800 31.4%1,170 #551
Health SciencesDomain #203 of 11,982 26.9%2,433 #595
MedicineField #181 of 10,443 26.6%2,334 #528
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #151 of 3,579 30.6%759 #714
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #55 of 1,144 26.8%272 #305
Molecular BiologySubfield #111 of 2,175 31.1%466 #573
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #48 of 682 32.5%210 #322
OncologySubfield #59 of 772 27.1%242 #238
NeuroscienceField #105 of 1,168 32.1%164 #593
ImmunologySubfield #41 of 455 33.5%195 #260

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Tongji 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. Life Sciences#551 #86
  2. Health Sciences#595 #203
  3. Medicine#528 #181
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#714 #151
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#305 #55
  6. Molecular Biology#573 #111
  7. Immunology and Microbiology#322 #48
  8. Oncology#238 #59
  9. Neuroscience#593 #105
  10. Immunology#260 #41
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 Tongji Hospital specialise in?

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

  1. HepatologySubfield · 60.8 works8.0×
  2. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 132.3 works7.7×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 195.3 works7.2×
  4. NephrologySubfield · 52.9 works6.2×
  5. Reproductive MedicineSubfield · 49.8 works5.6×
  6. OncologySubfield · 242.3 works5.5×
← 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: 0.09× its world share, 18 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.61× its world share, 759 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.29× its world share, 210 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.56× its world share, 164 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.38× its world share, 19 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.26× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 114 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 36 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.35× its world share, 48 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.87× its world share, 17 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.46× its world share, 48 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.08× its world share, 2,334 worksMedicineNursing: 1.72× its world share, 33 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.35× its world share, 42 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Tongji Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Suming Zhang, Xiaoping Chen and Sainan Shu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tongji Hospital.

  1. 1 Suming Zhang China · #150,138 worldwide 228 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Xiaoping Chen China · #247,569 worldwide 130 citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Sainan Shu China · #263,107 worldwide 113 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Qian Chu China · #318,007 worldwide 108 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Hong Qiu China · #383,970 worldwide 109 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Ke Ma China · #440,668 worldwide 29 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Shun Zhang China · #451,250 worldwide 63 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Dean Tian China · #611,136 worldwide 82 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Zhangqun Ye China · #727,373 worldwide 37 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Dongsheng Guo China · #778,422 worldwide 17 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Tongji Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Tongji Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Tumor Microenvironment, Epidemiology, Immunotherapy, 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. Inflammation416▲ 5.1×83 topics
  2. Cancer383▲ 7.2×54 topics
  3. Epidemiology334▲ 2.1×126 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress254▲ 3.9×61 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment180▲ 10×8 topics
  6. Immunotherapy170▲ 6.1×18 topics
  7. Treatment149▲ 3.1×48 topics
  8. Gene Expression145▲ 6.0×18 topics
  9. Biomarkers141▲ 5.2×18 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease135▲ 3.1×37 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome131▲ 4.1×23 topics
  12. Chemotherapy114▲ 4.1×24 topics
  13. Diagnosis111▲ 3.0×40 topics
  14. Cell Death110▲ 12×6 topics
  15. Management106▲ 3.4×30 topics
  16. Immunity103▲ 6.5×11 topics
  17. Metastasis92▲ 6.8×12 topics
  18. Clinical Practice Guidelines88▲ 4.1×14 topics
  19. Obesity87▲ 2.9×24 topics
  20. Prognostic Factors87▲ 5.0×14 topics
  21. Metabolism86▲ 4.3×29 topics
  22. Cancer Therapy85▲ 3.8×19 topics
  23. Biogenesis80▲ 11×3 topics
  24. Insulin Resistance80▲ 4.5×10 topics
  25. Angiogenesis78▲ 6.0×16 topics
  26. Innate Immunity78▲ 6.2×11 topics
  27. Regulation76▲ 3.6×12 topics
  28. Neuroinflammation74▲ 6.6×6 topics
  29. Cancer Immunotherapy67▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Lymphoma66▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Epigenetic Regulation66▲ 7.7×6 topics
  32. Lipid Peroxidation66▲ 16×3 topics
  33. Apoptosis65▲ 5.5×21 topics
  34. Cytokines65▲ 5.8×8 topics
  35. Cancer Progression65▲ 8.9×8 topics
  36. Neurodegeneration64▲ 5.4×11 topics
  37. Ferroptosis63▲ 21×1 topic
  38. GPX463▲ 21×1 topic
  39. Hepatocellular Carcinoma62▲ 7.5×3 topics
  40. Transcriptional Regulation52▲ 8.2×9 topics

Which research topics does Tongji Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy research and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…63Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 63 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…46Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 46 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…43CAR-T cell therapy research: 43 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…42Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 42 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 38 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 36 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles i…30Extracellular vesicles in disease: 30 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 30 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 30 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis …27Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 27 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyCancer ResearchMolecular Biology3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 63 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 46 works
  3. 3 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 43 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 42 works
  5. 5 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 38 works
  6. 6 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 36 works
  7. 7 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 30 works
  8. 8 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 30 works
  9. 9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 30 works
  10. 10 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 27 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 available45.4%not open54.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.3%domestic only89.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Tongji Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 54% 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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