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Vietnam National Children's Hospital

In research, Vietnam National Children's Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#6,545 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#5,834 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#6,362 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Surgery and Oncology — Surgery is 5.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#13,976
of 28,054 · #18,387 all time
Rank in Vietnam
#64
of 161
Research works
1.3k
▲ 127% vs 2013–17
Citations
15k
12.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
62%
world 28%

What is Vietnam National Children's 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
Health SciencesDomain #6,545 of 11,982 6.5%338 #8705
MedicineField #5,834 of 10,443 6.5%310 #8001
Life SciencesDomain #6,362 of 7,800 6.6%67 #9331

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vietnam National Children'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 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. Health Sciences#8,705 #6,545
  2. Medicine#8,001 #5,834
  3. Life Sciences#9,331 #6,362
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 Vietnam National Children's Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Surgery takes 5.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SurgerySubfield · 56.8 works5.3×
  2. OncologySubfield · 26.1 works5.1×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.79× its world share, 44 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.74× its world share, 13 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.14× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.55× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 3.30× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.32× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.53× its world share, 310 worksMedicineNursing: 1.54× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.38× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.97× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

Who are the top researchers at Vietnam National Children's Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Vũ Chí Dũng, Dũng Chí Vũ and Nguyễn Ngọc Khánh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vietnam National Children's Hospital.

  1. 1 Vũ Chí Dũng Vietnam · #527,992 worldwide 64 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Dũng Chí Vũ Vietnam · #814,132 worldwide 46 citations · 26 works
  3. 3 Nguyễn Ngọc Khánh Vietnam · #1,617,972 worldwide 2 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Bùi Phương Thảo Vietnam · #1,619,550 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Vietnam National Children's Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Vietnam National Children's Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology57▲ 3.2×105 topics
  2. Inflammation29▲ 3.0×61 topics
  3. Chemotherapy21▲ 6.5×22 topics
  4. Quality of Life20▲ 3.0×38 topics
  5. Treatment19▲ 3.4×39 topics
  6. Diagnosis16▲ 3.7×32 topics
  7. Immunotherapy14▲ 4.4×17 topics
  8. Clinical Trials14▲ 4.5×15 topics
  9. Radiotherapy14▲ 7.9×12 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines14▲ 5.5×13 topics
  11. Surgical Management13▲ 6.7×18 topics
  12. Complications12▲ 5.2×15 topics
  13. Prognostic Factors12▲ 5.9×14 topics
  14. Management12▲ 3.3×27 topics
  15. Genetics12▲ 3.6×17 topics
  16. Cancer12▲ 1.89×37 topics
  17. Risk Assessment11▲ 3.6×6 topics
  18. Breast Cancer11▲ 10×9 topics
  19. Genetic Mutations11▲ 5.6×22 topics
  20. Risk Factors11▲ 2.2×26 topics
  21. Cancer Treatment10▲ 9.7×7 topics
  22. Biomarkers10▲ 3.2×14 topics
  23. Metastasis10▲ 6.5×10 topics
  24. Fuzzy Mathematics10▲ 103×1 topic
  25. Set Pair Analysis10▲ 103×1 topic
  26. Survival Analysis10▲ 8.0×6 topics
  27. Herbal Medicine10▲ 7.3×7 topics
  28. Traditional Chinese Medicine9▲ 17×3 topics
  29. Integrative Medicine9▲ 34×2 topics
  30. Aging9▲ 3.8×13 topics
  31. Chinese Medicinal Prescription9▲ 55×1 topic
  32. Neuroendocrine Immunomodulation Network9▲ 55×1 topic
  33. Autoantibodies7▲ 6.9×8 topics
  34. Prognosis7▲ 4.8×9 topics
  35. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes7▲ 7.8×6 topics
  36. Molecular Classification7▲ 9.6×4 topics
  37. Robotic Surgery6▲ 9.9×5 topics
  38. Targeted Therapy6▲ 6.4×5 topics
  39. Prognostic Markers6▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Ultrasound6▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Vietnam National Children's Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Research studies in Vietnam, Medical Research and Treatments, Nutrition and Health in Aging and Congenital Heart Disease Studies.

Research studies in Viet…10Research studies in Vietnam: 10 fractional worksMedical Research and Treatments: 9 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 4 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease Studies: 4 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 4 fractional worksThyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksThyroid and Parathyroid …3Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: 3 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 3 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksReconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques: 3 fractional works
EcologyComplementary and alternative medicinePhysiologyEpidemiology5 others

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

  1. 1 Research studies in Vietnam Ecology 10 works
  2. 2 Medical Research and Treatments Complementary and alternative medicine 9 works
  3. 3 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 4 works
  4. 4 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 4 works
  5. 5 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  6. 6 Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 3 works
  7. 7 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Surgery 3 works
  8. 8 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 3 works
  9. 9 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 3 works
  10. 10 Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques 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 available61.9%not open38.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.0%domestic only63.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Vietnam National Children's Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 127% 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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