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Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital

In research, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#7,774 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#9,396 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,251
of 28,054 · #22,461 all time
Rank in Japan
#541
of 1,070
Research works
754
▼ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
10k
13.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Tsukuba Medical Center 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 #7,774 of 10,443 10.4%76 #10572
Health SciencesDomain #9,396 of 11,982 10.4%81 #13499

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Tsukuba Medical Center 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: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.02× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.34× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.83× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 3.49× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.03× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.46× its world share, 76 worksMedicineNursing: 1.07× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.95× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.57× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Hidetaka Nishina, Yuichi Noguchi and Yasuo Shima lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital.

  1. 1 Hidetaka Nishina Japan · #320,519 worldwide 80 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Yuichi Noguchi Japan · #581,934 worldwide 76 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Yasuo Shima Japan · #584,953 worldwide 91 citations · 51 works
  4. 4 Hiroichi Ishikawa Japan · #910,868 worldwide 26 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Seiji Shiotani Japan · #1,325,301 worldwide 14 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Tomoya Kobayashi Japan · #1,509,910 worldwide 2 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Isamu Morishima Japan · #1,515,815 worldwide 10 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Kanji Matsuzaki Japan · #1,601,473 worldwide 1 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Quality of Life, Inflammation, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Chemotherapy and Genetic Mutations.

▲ 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. Epidemiology14▲ 3.2×71 topics
  2. Diagnosis6▲ 5.7×24 topics
  3. Treatment6▲ 4.5×25 topics
  4. Quality of Life6▲ 3.6×26 topics
  5. Inflammation6▲ 2.4×39 topics
  6. Chemotherapy4▲ 4.4×19 topics
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 5.6×11 topics
  8. Management3▲ 3.7×19 topics
  9. Risk Factors3▲ 2.6×14 topics
  10. Immunotherapy3▲ 4.0×14 topics
  11. Complications3▲ 5.1×10 topics
  12. Genetic Mutations3▲ 5.6×13 topics
  13. Heart Failure3▲ 5.3×11 topics
  14. Surgical Management3▲ 5.6×11 topics
  15. Echocardiography2▲ 7.3×5 topics
  16. SARS-CoV-22▲ 6.3×4 topics
  17. Atherosclerosis2▲ 7.0×5 topics
  18. Palliative Care2▲ 12×2 topics
  19. Ethical Considerations2▲ 5.4×3 topics
  20. Pathophysiology2▲ 6.2×7 topics
  21. Tumor Microenvironment2▲ 4.1×6 topics
  22. Advance Care Planning2▲ 30×1 topic
  23. End-of-Life2▲ 19×1 topic
  24. Health Care Costs2▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Myocardial Infarction2▲ 7.4×5 topics
  26. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention2▲ 13×4 topics
  27. Radiotherapy2▲ 4.6×8 topics
  28. Cardiac Imaging2▲ 14×3 topics
  29. Thrombosis2▲ 6.0×4 topics
  30. Molecular Classification2▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Stem Cells2▲ 6.4×9 topics
  32. ACE2 Receptor2▲ 6.2×2 topics
  33. Health-related Quality of Life2▲ 6.6×4 topics
  34. Clinical Applications2▲ 23×2 topics
  35. Clinical Management2▲ 7.9×4 topics
  36. Elderly Patients2▲ 8.4×4 topics
  37. Particle Therapy2▲ 56×1 topic
  38. Proton Therapy2▲ 56×1 topic
  39. Revascularization2▲ 9.2×3 topics
  40. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment2▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities.

Palliative Care and End-…2Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 2 fractional worksRadiation Therapy and Do…2Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry: 2 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…1Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 1 fractional worksGenetic and Clinical Asp…1Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities: 1 fractional worksAdrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors: 1 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksCardiac tumors and thrombi1Cardiac tumors and thrombi: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 1 fractional worksCardiac Structural Anoma…1Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair: 1 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  2. 2 Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  4. 4 Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities Genetics 1 works
  5. 5 Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors Surgery 1 works
  6. 6 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 1 works
  7. 7 Cardiac tumors and thrombi Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 1 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 1 works
  10. 10 Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Surgery 1 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 available52.2%not open47.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.7%domestic only91.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% lower 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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