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Xiangya Hospital Central South University

In research, Xiangya Hospital Central South University stands highest in Life Sciences (#112 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#187 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#241 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Immunology and Immunology and Microbiology — Cancer Research is 9.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#472
of 28,054 · #1,642 all time
Rank in China
#162
of 3,058
Research works
9.8k
▲ 86% vs 2013–17
Citations
189k
19.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Xiangya Hospital Central South University 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
Life SciencesDomain #112 of 7,800 29.8%1,033 #624
MedicineField #187 of 10,443 27.3%1,645 #790
Health SciencesDomain #241 of 11,982 27.5%1,737 #930
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #149 of 3,579 30.2%708 #686
Molecular BiologySubfield #92 of 2,175 29.9%429 #486
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #59 of 1,144 29.3%201 #394
OncologySubfield #70 of 772 30.9%159 #347
Cancer ResearchSubfield #24 of 237 32.5%126 #94
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #75 of 682 31.7%159 #470
SurgerySubfield #206 of 1,816 21.4%203 #738

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Xiangya Hospital Central South University 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. Life Sciences#624 #112
  2. Medicine#790 #187
  3. Health Sciences#930 #241
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#686 #149
  5. Molecular Biology#486 #92
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#394 #59
  7. Oncology#347 #70
  8. Cancer Research#94 #24
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#470 #75
  10. Surgery#738 #206
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 Xiangya Hospital Central South University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 9.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 126.4 works9.5×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 145.4 works6.9×
  3. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 158.6 works5.1×
  4. RheumatologySubfield · 71.5 works5.1×
  5. DermatologySubfield · 39.6 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: 0.11× its world share, 16 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.33× its world share, 708 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.14× its world share, 159 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.60× its world share, 130 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.88× its world share, 20 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.36× its world share, 18 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.18× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 88 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.18× its world share, 27 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.41× its world share, 44 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.75× its world share, 26 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.50× its world share, 41 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.79× its world share, 1,645 worksMedicineNursing: 1.59× its world share, 24 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.43× its world share, 40 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 5.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Xiangya Hospital Central South University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Tumor Microenvironment, Oxidative Stress, Epidemiology, Gene Expression, Cell Death and Biomarkers.

▲ 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. Inflammation350▲ 5.5×82 topics
  2. Cancer346▲ 8.4×54 topics
  3. Epidemiology272▲ 2.2×123 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress207▲ 4.1×59 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment154▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Gene Expression139▲ 7.4×18 topics
  7. Biomarkers117▲ 5.6×16 topics
  8. Immunotherapy114▲ 5.2×18 topics
  9. Cell Death107▲ 15×6 topics
  10. Treatment101▲ 2.7×47 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease90▲ 2.6×37 topics
  12. Metastasis80▲ 7.7×12 topics
  13. Immunity79▲ 6.4×10 topics
  14. Chemotherapy79▲ 3.7×24 topics
  15. Regulation77▲ 4.7×11 topics
  16. Biogenesis76▲ 14×3 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome75▲ 3.0×22 topics
  18. Cancer Therapy75▲ 4.3×19 topics
  19. Epigenetic Regulation74▲ 11×6 topics
  20. Cancer Progression68▲ 12×8 topics
  21. Metabolism65▲ 4.1×27 topics
  22. Neurodegeneration64▲ 7.0×11 topics
  23. Angiogenesis64▲ 6.4×16 topics
  24. Lipid Peroxidation64▲ 20×3 topics
  25. Immune Response64▲ 3.7×23 topics
  26. Ferroptosis63▲ 27×1 topic
  27. GPX463▲ 27×1 topic
  28. Neurological Disorders61▲ 3.5×19 topics
  29. Innate Immunity60▲ 6.2×11 topics
  30. Apoptosis59▲ 6.3×21 topics
  31. Genetic Mutations59▲ 4.4×23 topics
  32. Gene Expression Regulation53▲ 16×3 topics
  33. Cell Differentiation53▲ 19×2 topics
  34. Mitochondrial Dysfunction52▲ 5.7×12 topics
  35. Neuroinflammation51▲ 5.8×6 topics
  36. RNA Regulation50▲ 16×2 topics
  37. Long Noncoding RNAs50▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Transcriptional Landscape50▲ 19×1 topic
  39. RNA methylation48▲ 17×1 topic
  40. m6A-seq48▲ 17×1 topic

Which research topics does Xiangya Hospital Central South University publish most on?

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

Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 63 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 50 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…48RNA modifications and cancer: 48 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…38Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 38 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 31 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 27 fractional worksCircular RNAs in diseases24Circular RNAs in diseases: 24 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 24 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 22 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles in disease: 21 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineCancer ResearchMolecular BiologyOncology1 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 63 works
  2. 2 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 50 works
  3. 3 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 48 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 38 works
  5. 5 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 31 works
  6. 6 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 27 works
  7. 7 Circular RNAs in diseases Molecular Biology 24 works
  8. 8 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 24 works
  9. 9 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 22 works
  10. 10 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 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 available51.8%not open48.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.1%domestic only83.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Xiangya Hospital Central South University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 86% 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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