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Union Hospital

In research, Union Hospital stands highest in Medicine (#256 of 10,443 worldwide), Life Sciences (#228 of 7,800 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#353 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Hepatology and Immunology — Cancer Research is 8.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#664
of 28,054 · #1,955 all time
Rank in China
#219
of 3,058
Research works
8.8k
▲ 98% vs 2013–17
Citations
176k
20.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
30.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Union 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 #256 of 10,443 27.4%1,500 #816
Life SciencesDomain #228 of 7,800 34.0%777 #916
Health SciencesDomain #353 of 11,982 27.5%1,554 #1001
SurgerySubfield #163 of 1,816 24.0%209 #662
Molecular BiologySubfield #222 of 2,175 33.5%315 #824
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #366 of 3,579 33.5%508 #1199
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #155 of 1,144 25.7%184 #562
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #128 of 682 36.6%130 #552
Physical SciencesDomain #2,440 of 12,888 32.6%275 #5134
OncologySubfield #160 of 772 25.4%184 #526

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 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#816 #256
  2. Life Sciences#916 #228
  3. Health Sciences#1,001 #353
  4. Surgery#662 #163
  5. Molecular Biology#824 #222
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,199 #366
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#562 #155
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#552 #128
  9. Physical Sciences#5,134 #2,440
  10. Oncology#526 #160
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 Union Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 8.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 100.1 works8.7×
  2. HepatologySubfield · 37.8 works7.4×
  3. ImmunologySubfield · 120.8 works6.6×
  4. OncologySubfield · 184.4 works6.2×
  5. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 129.6 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: 0.15× its world share, 19 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.61× its world share, 508 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.88× its world share, 130 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.39× its world share, 103 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.93× its world share, 18 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.51× its world share, 21 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.10× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 127 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 15 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.81× its world share, 74 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.98× its world share, 13 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.96× its world share, 1,500 worksMedicineNursing: 1.30× its world share, 17 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 10 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.

Who are the top researchers at Union Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Jichao Sha, Guohui Liu and Dongdong Zhu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Union Hospital.

  1. 1 Jichao Sha China · #538,519 worldwide 19 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Guohui Liu China · #580,880 worldwide 97 citations · 43 works
  3. 3 Dongdong Zhu China · #599,970 worldwide 26 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Zhen Dong China · #684,665 worldwide 7 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Jun Wang China · #951,153 worldwide 57 citations · 23 works
  6. 6 Zhen Dong China · #964,397 worldwide 15 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Weihua Xu China · #1,056,800 worldwide 24 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Libo Chen China · #1,117,305 worldwide 36 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 Zhijian Chen China · #1,172,749 worldwide 18 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Shuhua Zhang China · #1,305,580 worldwide 20 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Union Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Union Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 2022–2025 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. Inflammation268▲ 4.9×82 topics
  2. Cancer266▲ 7.5×56 topics
  3. Epidemiology187▲ 1.79×120 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress152▲ 3.5×57 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment126▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Immunotherapy115▲ 6.1×18 topics
  7. Chemotherapy98▲ 5.3×24 topics
  8. Biomarkers93▲ 5.1×17 topics
  9. Gene Expression92▲ 5.7×17 topics
  10. Treatment86▲ 2.7×46 topics
  11. Immunity77▲ 7.2×10 topics
  12. Cell Death73▲ 12×6 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines73▲ 5.1×14 topics
  14. Nanoparticles71▲ 2.1×30 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors70▲ 6.0×14 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease68▲ 2.3×37 topics
  17. Metastasis68▲ 7.5×12 topics
  18. Diagnosis67▲ 2.7×39 topics
  19. Drug Delivery67▲ 4.7×13 topics
  20. Cancer Therapy66▲ 4.4×20 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome66▲ 3.0×23 topics
  22. Biogenesis64▲ 14×3 topics
  23. Immune Response62▲ 4.2×20 topics
  24. Angiogenesis62▲ 7.2×16 topics
  25. Reactive Oxygen Species59▲ 5.6×12 topics
  26. Metabolism57▲ 4.2×29 topics
  27. Regulation55▲ 3.9×14 topics
  28. Innate Immunity51▲ 6.0×11 topics
  29. Insulin Resistance51▲ 4.2×10 topics
  30. Tumor Targeting50▲ 11×3 topics
  31. Apoptosis46▲ 5.7×19 topics
  32. Epigenetic Regulation45▲ 8.0×6 topics
  33. Cancer Progression44▲ 9.1×8 topics
  34. Hepatocellular Carcinoma44▲ 8.0×3 topics
  35. Photodynamic Therapy43▲ 7.3×6 topics
  36. Lipid Peroxidation42▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Cancer Immunotherapy42▲ 10×3 topics
  38. Macrophages41▲ 9.0×7 topics
  39. Ferroptosis40▲ 20×1 topic
  40. GPX440▲ 20×1 topic

Which research topics does Union Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

Ferroptosis and cancer p…40Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 40 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…33Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 33 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 33 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 30 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 25 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 24 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 24 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…23CAR-T cell therapy research: 23 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 22 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 21 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyBiomedical EngineeringCancer Research3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 40 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 33 works
  3. 3 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 33 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 30 works
  5. 5 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 25 works
  6. 6 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 24 works
  7. 7 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 24 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 23 works
  9. 9 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 22 works
  10. 10 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 21 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Union Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 98% 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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