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Wan Fang Hospital

In research, Wan Fang Hospital stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,901 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#1,857 of 10,443 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,579 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,027
of 28,054 · #7,322 all time
Rank in Taiwan
#62
of 221
Research works
7k
▼ 8% vs 2013–17
Citations
43k
6.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
13%
world 28%

What is Wan Fang 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 #1,901 of 11,982 20.8%294 #3026
MedicineField #1,857 of 10,443 19.9%264 #2794
Life SciencesDomain #4,579 of 7,800 18.9%81 #5301

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Wan Fang 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#3,026 #1,901
  2. Medicine#2,794 #1,857
  3. Life Sciences#5,301 #4,579
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.

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: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.02× its world share, 48 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.22× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.24× its world share, 16 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.64× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.42× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.23× its world share, 15 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.47× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 5.28× its world share, 11 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.30× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.08× its world share, 264 worksMedicineNursing: 1.16× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.17× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.00× 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: Dentistry, 5.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Wan Fang Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Szu‐Yuan Wu and Gao Yong lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wan Fang Hospital.

  1. 1 Szu‐Yuan Wu Taiwan · #539,086 worldwide 173 citations · 80 works
  2. 2 Gao Yong Taiwan · #1,453,144 worldwide 7 citations · 37 works
All ranked researchers at Wan Fang Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Wan Fang Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Cardiovascular Disease, Treatment, Cancer, Oxidative Stress and Diagnosis.

▲ 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. Epidemiology49▲ 2.8×103 topics
  2. Inflammation37▲ 4.0×79 topics
  3. Quality of Life21▲ 3.3×43 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress19▲ 2.6×53 topics
  5. Cancer19▲ 3.1×46 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease18▲ 3.7×35 topics
  7. Treatment18▲ 3.4×39 topics
  8. Diagnosis16▲ 3.8×31 topics
  9. Management14▲ 4.0×24 topics
  10. Chemotherapy14▲ 4.4×20 topics
  11. Metabolic Syndrome14▲ 3.8×22 topics
  12. Mortality12▲ 4.7×12 topics
  13. Risk Factors11▲ 2.3×27 topics
  14. Rehabilitation11▲ 6.1×11 topics
  15. Biomarkers11▲ 3.5×16 topics
  16. Global Burden10▲ 4.3×12 topics
  17. Aging10▲ 4.3×13 topics
  18. Depression10▲ 2.5×20 topics
  19. Clinical Trials10▲ 3.3×16 topics
  20. Cancer Therapy10▲ 3.8×16 topics
  21. Guidelines9▲ 4.5×13 topics
  22. Complications9▲ 4.0×16 topics
  23. Immune Response9▲ 3.4×19 topics
  24. Immunotherapy8▲ 2.7×16 topics
  25. Clinical Practice Guidelines8▲ 3.4×14 topics
  26. Prognosis8▲ 5.5×9 topics
  27. Radiotherapy8▲ 4.5×12 topics
  28. Tumor Microenvironment8▲ 3.9×8 topics
  29. Diabetes7▲ 3.3×18 topics
  30. Insulin Resistance7▲ 3.6×10 topics
  31. Prevention7▲ 3.9×16 topics
  32. Heart Failure7▲ 3.6×13 topics
  33. Regeneration7▲ 7.9×6 topics
  34. Angiogenesis7▲ 4.7×15 topics
  35. Pain Management7▲ 6.6×9 topics
  36. Metastasis6▲ 4.1×12 topics
  37. Elderly Patients6▲ 8.3×4 topics
  38. Chronic Pain6▲ 5.8×5 topics
  39. Stem Cells6▲ 5.0×12 topics
  40. Growth Factors5▲ 9.1×3 topics

Which research topics does Wan Fang Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Nutrition and Health in Aging, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Shoulder Injury and Treatment and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Nutrition and Health in …3Nutrition and Health in Aging: 3 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulm…3Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 3 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 3 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 3 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 3 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 2 fractional worksTendon Structure and Treatment: 2 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Mana…2Anesthesia and Pain Management: 2 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 2 fractional worksCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes: 2 fractional works
PhysiologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSurgeryHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis5 others

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

  1. 1 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 3 works
  2. 2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 3 works
  4. 4 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 works
  5. 5 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 3 works
  6. 6 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Tendon Structure and Treatment Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Anesthesia and Pain Management Surgery 2 works
  9. 9 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 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 available13.4%not open86.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.4%domestic only91.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Wan Fang Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 8% lower than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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