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Union Hospital

In research, Union Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#456 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#408 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#529 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hepatology and Immunology (Cancer Research is 8.5× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#964
of 22,385 · #1,547 all time
Rank in China
#233
of 2,481
Research works
8.8k
▲ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
176k
20.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.46×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
50%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%

What is Union 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
Health SciencesDomain #456 of 9,902 19.6%1,554 #780
MedicineField #408 of 8,541 19.4%1,500 #678
Life SciencesDomain #529 of 6,403 18.5%777 #967
Physical SciencesDomain #1,308 of 10,670 19.1%275 #1921
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #477 of 2,964 17.4%508 #855
SurgerySubfield #304 of 1,532 19.3%209 #502
Molecular BiologySubfield #456 of 1,880 17.1%315 #820
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #284 of 1,037 16.0%184 #470
Materials ScienceField #663 of 2,276 19.2%74 #1093
EpidemiologySubfield #287 of 927 20.4%107 #559

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Union 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. Health Sciences#780 #456
  2. Medicine#678 #408
  3. Life Sciences#967 #529
  4. Physical Sciences#1,921 #1,308
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#855 #477
  6. Surgery#502 #304
  7. Molecular Biology#820 #456
  8. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#470 #284
  9. Materials Science#1,093 #663
  10. Epidemiology#559 #287
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 Union Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Union Hospital is in Health Sciences, 30% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (57%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (19%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 1,692 fractional works · 58.6% of its workMedicine: 1,634 fractional works · 56.6% of its workSurgery: 229 fractional works · 7.9% of its workOncology: 199 fractional works · 6.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 198 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEpidemiology: 116 fractional works · 4.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 83 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 70 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 59 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysiology: 58 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 49 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeurology: 48 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHepatology: 42 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRheumatology: 42 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 41 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 33 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 31 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNephrology: 30 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 29 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 25 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGastroenterology: 21 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInternal Medicine: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 26 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 852 fractional works · 29.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 556 fractional works · 19.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 342 fractional works · 11.9% of its workCancer Research: 107 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 37 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 27 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 143 fractional works · 5.0% of its workImmunology: 133 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 112 fractional works · 3.9% of its workNeurology: 39 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSensory Systems: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 21 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 304 fractional works · 10.5% of its workEngineering: 139 fractional works · 4.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 110 fractional works · 3.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 84 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 40 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomaterials: 33 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 24 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiation: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 39 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychology: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKUnion Hospital2,887fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences30%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences59%Social Sciences1%

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. Health Sciences1,69258.6%
    1. Medicine1,63456.6%
    2. Health Professions260.9%
    3. Nursing180.6%
    4. Dentistry130.4%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology55619.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology1435.0%
    3. Neuroscience1123.9%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences210.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics200.7%
    1. Engineering1394.8%
    2. Materials Science842.9%
    3. Computer Science240.8%
    4. Chemistry230.8%
    5. Environmental Science160.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy100.4%
    7. Energy50.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.1%
    9. Mathematics10.0%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Psychology200.7%
    2. Social Sciences110.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.1%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    5. Decision Sciences10.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Union Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 107.1 works8.5×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 42.5 works7.6×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 132.5 works6.7×
  4. OncologySubfield · 198.7 works6.1×
  5. GastroenterologySubfield · 20.7 works6.1×
  6. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 143.3 works4.9×
← 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: 0.16× its world share, 21 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.61× its world share, 556 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.93× its world share, 143 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.40× its world share, 112 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.95× its world share, 20 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.50× its world share, 23 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 24 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.19× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 139 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.83× its world share, 84 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.16× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.91× its world share, 13 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 26 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.94× its world share, 1,634 worksMedicineNursing: 1.28× its world share, 18 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology4.93×143 works
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.61×556 works
  3. Medicine2.94×1,634 works
  4. Neuroscience2.40×112 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.95×20 works
  6. Nursing1.28×18 works
  7. Dentistry0.91×13 works
  8. Materials Science0.83×84 works
  9. Chemistry0.50×23 works
  10. Health Professions0.34×26 works
  11. Engineering0.32×139 works
  12. Veterinary0.32×1 works
  13. Psychology0.23×20 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.22×2 works
  15. Energy0.19×5 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×21 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.16×10 works
  18. Computer Science0.11×24 works
  19. Environmental Science0.11×16 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.07×4 works
  21. Mathematics0.04×1 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.03×1 works
  23. Social Sciences0.03×11 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×2 works
  25. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.01×0 works
  26. Arts and Humanities0.01×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Union Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Tao Jiang, Lingyun Xiong and Zhe Wang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Union Hospital.

  1. 1 Tao Jiang China · #663,907 worldwide 1.5k citations · 57 works
  2. 2 Lingyun Xiong China · #842,037 worldwide 1.7k citations · 90 works
  3. 3 Zhe Wang China · #918,738 worldwide 784 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Fei Li China · #926,425 worldwide 1.2k citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Dong Zheng China · #1,021,253 worldwide 1.5k citations · 28 works
  6. 6 Xiaoxiang Mao China · #1,109,536 worldwide 1.2k citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Libo Chen China · #1,159,806 worldwide 3.2k citations · 120 works
  8. 8 Xukai Wang China · #1,194,700 worldwide 383 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Wei Peng China · #1,375,644 worldwide 2k citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Chi He China · #1,410,146 worldwide 887 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Union Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Union Hospital?

The most cited paper from Union Hospital is "Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study" (Xiaobo Yang, Yu Lai Yuan, Jiqian Xu et al., 2020), with 10,739 citations. Next come "Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China" (7,427) and "Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study" (3,853).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a single-centered, retrospective, observational study Xiaobo Yang, Yu Lai Yuan, Jiqian Xu et al. · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Open access 24 Feb 2020 10,739
2 Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China Ling Mao, Huijuan Jin, Mengdie Wang et al. · JAMA Neurology Open access 10 Apr 2020 7,427
3 Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study Heshui Shi, Xiaoyu Han, Nanchuan Jiang et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access 24 Feb 2020 3,853
4 COVID-19 and Thrombotic or Thromboembolic Disease: Implications for Prevention, Antithrombotic Therapy, and Follow-Up Behnood Bikdeli et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access 17 Apr 2020 2,956
5 Gender Differences in Patients With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Mortality Jianmin Jin, Peng Bai, Wei He et al. · Frontiers in Public Health Open access 29 Apr 2020 2,341
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Union Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Tumor Microenvironment, Oxidative Stress, Immunotherapy, Epidemiology, Chemotherapy and Gene Expression.

▲ 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. Inflammation295▲ 4.8×83 topics
  2. Cancer287▲ 7.4×57 topics
  3. Epidemiology206▲ 1.79×122 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress165▲ 3.5×57 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment138▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Immunotherapy126▲ 6.0×18 topics
  7. Chemotherapy107▲ 5.2×24 topics
  8. Gene Expression101▲ 5.6×17 topics
  9. Biomarkers99▲ 4.9×18 topics
  10. Treatment94▲ 2.7×47 topics
  11. Immunity84▲ 7.2×10 topics
  12. Clinical Practice Guidelines80▲ 5.0×14 topics
  13. Cell Death80▲ 11×6 topics
  14. Nanoparticles79▲ 2.2×30 topics
  15. Biomedical Applications77▲ 2.3×31 topics
  16. Drug Delivery75▲ 4.7×14 topics
  17. Prognostic Factors75▲ 6.0×14 topics
  18. Diagnosis74▲ 2.8×39 topics
  19. Cancer Therapy74▲ 4.5×20 topics
  20. Metastasis72▲ 7.3×12 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome70▲ 3.0×23 topics
  22. Angiogenesis70▲ 7.3×16 topics
  23. Biogenesis67▲ 14×3 topics
  24. Immune Response67▲ 4.1×20 topics
  25. Management66▲ 2.9×27 topics
  26. Reactive Oxygen Species66▲ 5.5×12 topics
  27. Metabolism65▲ 4.3×29 topics
  28. Regulation58▲ 3.8×15 topics
  29. Tumor Targeting57▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Innate Immunity56▲ 6.0×11 topics
  31. Apoptosis51▲ 5.7×20 topics
  32. Photodynamic Therapy48▲ 7.3×6 topics
  33. Hepatocellular Carcinoma48▲ 8.1×3 topics
  34. Cancer Progression47▲ 9.0×8 topics
  35. Epigenetic Regulation47▲ 7.7×6 topics
  36. Macrophages46▲ 8.6×7 topics
  37. Lipid Peroxidation46▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Cancer Immunotherapy44▲ 10.0×3 topics
  39. Ferroptosis44▲ 19×1 topic
  40. GPX444▲ 19×1 topic

Which research topics does Union Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 44 works
  2. 2 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 38 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 36 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 31 works
  5. 5 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 28 works
  6. 6 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 27 works
  7. 7 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 25 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 24 works
  9. 9 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 22 works
  10. 10 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 22 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 available50.4%not open49.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.0%domestic only88.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Union Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Union Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Union Hospital0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Union 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 counting10%20%30%Union Hospital20.3% 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 20.3% in 2025.

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