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Yueyang Hospital

In research, Yueyang Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,576 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#2,710 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,488 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Complementary and alternative medicine — Complementary and alternative medicine is 25.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,200
of 28,054 · #10,938 all time
Rank in China
#961
of 3,058
Research works
1.3k
▲ 74% vs 2013–17
Citations
13k
9.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

What is Yueyang 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 #1,576 of 7,800 23.3%182 #4330
MedicineField #2,710 of 10,443 22.4%327 #6441
Health SciencesDomain #3,488 of 11,982 22.5%335 #8049
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,996 of 3,579 23.2%94 #5274

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Yueyang 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#4,330 #1,576
  2. Medicine#6,441 #2,710
  3. Health Sciences#8,049 #3,488
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#5,274 #1,996
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 Yueyang Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Complementary and alternative medicine takes 25.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Complementary and alternative medicineSubfield · 41.1 works26×
← 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: 0.28× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.20× its world share, 94 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.78× its world share, 26 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 5.01× its world share, 45 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5.21× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.08× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.10× its world share, 327 worksMedicineNursing: 0.84× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.53× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Yueyang Hospital?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Depression, Acupuncture, Oxidative Stress, Pain Relief and Osteoarthritis.

▲ 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. Inflammation64▲ 5.6×74 topics
  2. Cancer48▲ 6.5×51 topics
  3. Epidemiology47▲ 2.2×91 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress36▲ 4.0×48 topics
  5. Clinical Trials32▲ 8.8×14 topics
  6. Depression32▲ 6.7×18 topics
  7. Acupuncture27▲ 86×3 topics
  8. Pain Relief25▲ 117×2 topics
  9. Osteoarthritis25▲ 36×5 topics
  10. Adverse Events22▲ 62×2 topics
  11. Brain Imaging21▲ 50×2 topics
  12. Neurological Effects21▲ 59×3 topics
  13. Cancer Care21▲ 177×1 topic
  14. Fibroblast Response21▲ 177×1 topic
  15. Cardiovascular Disease21▲ 3.4×30 topics
  16. Quality of Life18▲ 2.2×34 topics
  17. Anti-inflammatory17▲ 11×24 topics
  18. Tumor Microenvironment17▲ 6.9×8 topics
  19. Antioxidant17▲ 4.5×33 topics
  20. Treatment17▲ 2.5×33 topics
  21. Traditional Chinese Medicine16▲ 24×5 topics
  22. Gene Expression15▲ 4.5×13 topics
  23. Herbal Medicine15▲ 9.5×6 topics
  24. Metabolic Syndrome15▲ 3.3×20 topics
  25. Neuroprotective Effects14▲ 17×7 topics
  26. Metabolism14▲ 5.0×22 topics
  27. Biomarkers14▲ 3.6×14 topics
  28. Neurological Disorders14▲ 4.4×16 topics
  29. Precision Medicine13▲ 5.0×8 topics
  30. Global Burden12▲ 4.1×9 topics
  31. Immunity12▲ 5.4×8 topics
  32. Neural Plasticity12▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Cell Death11▲ 8.9×6 topics
  34. TGF-ß11▲ 13×4 topics
  35. Metastasis11▲ 6.0×12 topics
  36. Neuroinflammation11▲ 6.9×6 topics
  37. Regulatory T Cells10▲ 16×4 topics
  38. Functional Connectivity10▲ 14×3 topics
  39. Integrative Medicine9▲ 28×2 topics
  40. Anticancer9▲ 10×14 topics

Which research topics does Yueyang Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies, Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research and Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies.

Acupuncture Treatment Re…21Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies: 21 fractional worksPsoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis: 7 fractional worksCancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 6 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medi…6Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies: 6 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer prognosis: 6 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 5 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Dis…5Dermatology and Skin Diseases: 5 fractional worksTraditional Chinese Medicine Analysis: 4 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies: 4 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 4 fractional works
Complementary and alternative medicineImmunologyCancer ResearchPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 21 works
  2. 2 Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis Immunology 7 works
  3. 3 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 6 works
  4. 4 Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies Complementary and alternative medicine 6 works
  5. 5 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  6. 6 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 5 works
  7. 7 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 5 works
  8. 8 Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine 4 works
  9. 9 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 4 works
  10. 10 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 4 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 available49.1%not open50.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.3%domestic only92.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Yueyang Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 74% 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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