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Xijing Hospital

In research, Xijing Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#430 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#695 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#886 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Dermatology and Cancer Research — Hepatology is 8.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,294
of 28,054 · #3,161 all time
Rank in China
#387
of 3,058
Research works
9k
▼ 9% vs 2013–17
Citations
131k
14.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Xijing 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
Life SciencesDomain #430 of 7,800 27.7%524 #1248
MedicineField #695 of 10,443 21.6%974 #1466
Health SciencesDomain #886 of 11,982 21.6%1,009 #1794
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #670 of 3,579 28.2%327 #1371
Molecular BiologySubfield #448 of 2,175 29.8%188 #1071
SurgerySubfield #426 of 1,816 16.1%154 #942
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #343 of 1,144 19.4%112 #987
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #259 of 682 32.7%74 #793
NeuroscienceField #505 of 1,168 21.8%102 #960
OncologySubfield #363 of 772 21.6%90 #848

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Xijing 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. Life Sciences#1,248 #430
  2. Medicine#1,466 #695
  3. Health Sciences#1,794 #886
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,371 #670
  5. Molecular Biology#1,071 #448
  6. Surgery#942 #426
  7. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#987 #343
  8. Immunology and Microbiology#793 #259
  9. Neuroscience#960 #505
  10. Oncology#848 #363
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 Xijing Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 8.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 26.5 works8.2×
  2. DermatologySubfield · 33.9 works7.7×
  3. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 56.0 works7.7×
  4. NeurologySubfield · 29.8 works6.4×
  5. Cell BiologySubfield · 31.3 works6.1×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.67× its world share, 327 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.42× its world share, 74 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.75× its world share, 102 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.49× its world share, 9 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 17 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 49 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 19 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.12× its world share, 9 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.03× its world share, 974 worksMedicineNursing: 1.09× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.40× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Xijing Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Guohong Han, Liu Yang and Zhou Yu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Xijing Hospital.

  1. 1 Guohong Han China · #39,545 worldwide 703 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Liu Yang China · #57,373 worldwide 293 citations · 48 works
  3. 3 Zhou Yu China · #70,341 worldwide 326 citations · 56 works
  4. 4 Zhihong Lu China · #174,667 worldwide 118 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Lize Xiong China · #297,879 worldwide 106 citations · 58 works
  6. 6 Yanglin Pan China · #331,501 worldwide 90 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Xiangping Wang China · #337,178 worldwide 78 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Daiming Fan China · #349,927 worldwide 127 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Fuquan Chen China · #425,007 worldwide 67 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Jian Yang China · #544,071 worldwide 58 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Xijing Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Xijing Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation183▲ 5.2×79 topics
  2. Cancer165▲ 7.3×52 topics
  3. Epidemiology134▲ 2.0×116 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress114▲ 4.2×57 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment70▲ 9.5×8 topics
  6. Chemotherapy61▲ 5.2×22 topics
  7. Gene Expression60▲ 5.9×18 topics
  8. Biomarkers54▲ 4.8×15 topics
  9. Treatment52▲ 2.6×45 topics
  10. Clinical Practice Guidelines49▲ 5.4×14 topics
  11. Cell Death48▲ 12×6 topics
  12. Immunotherapy47▲ 4.0×19 topics
  13. Angiogenesis44▲ 8.1×15 topics
  14. Diagnosis44▲ 2.8×37 topics
  15. Regulation41▲ 4.5×9 topics
  16. Immunity40▲ 6.0×10 topics
  17. Metastasis38▲ 6.7×12 topics
  18. Management37▲ 2.8×25 topics
  19. Neurological Disorders37▲ 3.9×18 topics
  20. Wound Healing36▲ 8.4×10 topics
  21. Cytokines36▲ 7.6×8 topics
  22. Complications36▲ 4.3×17 topics
  23. Biogenesis36▲ 12×3 topics
  24. Neuroinflammation35▲ 7.3×6 topics
  25. Radiotherapy35▲ 5.4×13 topics
  26. Genetic Mutations34▲ 4.7×22 topics
  27. Prognostic Factors33▲ 4.5×14 topics
  28. Apoptosis33▲ 6.4×20 topics
  29. Metabolism32▲ 3.8×26 topics
  30. Innate Immunity32▲ 6.0×11 topics
  31. Macrophages31▲ 11×7 topics
  32. Survival Analysis31▲ 6.7×6 topics
  33. Regeneration30▲ 9.3×6 topics
  34. Neurodegeneration28▲ 5.5×11 topics
  35. Cancer Progression27▲ 8.9×8 topics
  36. Lipid Peroxidation26▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Neoadjuvant Therapy25▲ 6.5×5 topics
  38. Ferroptosis25▲ 20×1 topic
  39. GPX425▲ 20×1 topic
  40. Molecular Characterization24▲ 8.1×5 topics

Which research topics does Xijing Hospital publish most on?

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

Ferroptosis and cancer p…25Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 25 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles i…16Extracellular vesicles in disease: 16 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 16 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 14 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 14 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 13 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatments: 13 fractional worksmelanin and skin pigment…13melanin and skin pigmentation: 13 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer: 12 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regulation: 12 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMolecular BiologyOncologyCancer Research3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 25 works
  2. 2 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 16 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 16 works
  4. 4 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 14 works
  5. 5 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 14 works
  6. 6 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 13 works
  7. 7 Wound Healing and Treatments Rehabilitation 13 works
  8. 8 melanin and skin pigmentation Cell Biology 13 works
  9. 9 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 12 works
  10. 10 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 12 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 available33.4%not open66.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.9%domestic only92.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Xijing Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 9% 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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.