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Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

In research, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University stands highest in Life Sciences (#362 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#537 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#639 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Immunology and Molecular Biology — Cancer Research is 9.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#914
of 28,054 · #2,684 all time
Rank in China
#294
of 3,058
Research works
5k
▲ 82% vs 2013–17
Citations
131k
26.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
53%
world 28%

What is Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan 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 #362 of 7,800 34.1%600 #1355
MedicineField #537 of 10,443 27.8%872 #1500
Health SciencesDomain #639 of 11,982 28.1%914 #1666
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #374 of 3,579 34.9%425 #1449
Molecular BiologySubfield #265 of 2,175 34.0%279 #995
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #199 of 1,144 26.9%114 #658
Physical SciencesDomain #2,630 of 12,888 35.1%232 #5995
Biomedical EngineeringSubfield #421 of 1,568 38.4%70 #1494
EngineeringField #1,816 of 6,636 40.9%97 #5178
SurgerySubfield #513 of 1,816 24.5%97 #1356

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan 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#1,355 #362
  2. Medicine#1,500 #537
  3. Health Sciences#1,666 #639
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,449 #374
  5. Molecular Biology#995 #265
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#658 #199
  7. Physical Sciences#5,995 #2,630
  8. Biomedical Engineering#1,494 #421
  9. Engineering#5,178 #1,816
  10. Surgery#1,356 #513
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 Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 9.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 70.5 works9.1×
  2. ImmunologySubfield · 77.0 works6.3×
  3. Molecular BiologySubfield · 278.5 works5.2×
  4. OncologySubfield · 99.1 works4.9×
  5. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 87.8 works4.9×
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField · 424.6 works4.5×
  7. NeurologySubfield · 21.2 works4.3×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4.47× its world share, 425 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.90× its world share, 88 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.17× its world share, 63 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.85× its world share, 12 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.52× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.93× its world share, 26 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.36× its world share, 97 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 23 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.86× its world share, 54 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.16× its world share, 10 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.42× its world share, 20 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.55× its world share, 872 worksMedicineNursing: 1.24× its world share, 11 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University?

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

▲ 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. Cancer192▲ 8.0×53 topics
  2. Inflammation173▲ 4.7×82 topics
  3. Epidemiology119▲ 1.69×114 topics
  4. Oxidative Stress118▲ 4.1×55 topics
  5. Tumor Microenvironment86▲ 11×8 topics
  6. Gene Expression75▲ 6.9×18 topics
  7. Immunotherapy72▲ 5.7×17 topics
  8. Biomarkers62▲ 5.1×17 topics
  9. Nanoparticles60▲ 2.7×22 topics
  10. Cell Death57▲ 14×6 topics
  11. Cancer Therapy51▲ 5.0×19 topics
  12. Immunity50▲ 7.0×11 topics
  13. Chemotherapy50▲ 4.0×22 topics
  14. Angiogenesis49▲ 8.3×16 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease48▲ 2.5×37 topics
  16. Metastasis48▲ 7.8×12 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome45▲ 3.1×22 topics
  18. Cancer Progression44▲ 14×8 topics
  19. Reactive Oxygen Species44▲ 6.1×12 topics
  20. Drug Delivery42▲ 4.4×15 topics
  21. Metabolism41▲ 4.5×28 topics
  22. Epigenetic Regulation41▲ 11×6 topics
  23. Innate Immunity41▲ 7.2×11 topics
  24. Immune Response39▲ 3.9×20 topics
  25. Apoptosis36▲ 6.7×21 topics
  26. Lipid Peroxidation35▲ 19×3 topics
  27. Tumor Targeting35▲ 11×3 topics
  28. Ferroptosis34▲ 25×1 topic
  29. GPX434▲ 25×1 topic
  30. Gene Expression Regulation34▲ 18×3 topics
  31. Photodynamic Therapy33▲ 8.3×6 topics
  32. Biogenesis32▲ 10×3 topics
  33. RNA methylation31▲ 20×1 topic
  34. m6A-seq31▲ 20×1 topic
  35. Cell Differentiation28▲ 17×2 topics
  36. RNA Regulation28▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Long Noncoding RNAs27▲ 17×1 topic
  38. Transcriptional Landscape27▲ 17×1 topic
  39. Macrophages26▲ 8.6×7 topics
  40. Transcriptional Regulation26▲ 9.1×9 topics

Which research topics does Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University publish most on?

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

Ferroptosis and cancer p…34Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 34 fractional worksRNA modifications and ca…31RNA modifications and cancer: 31 fractional worksCancer-related molecular…27Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research: 27 fractional worksNanoplatforms for cancer…25Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics: 25 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 18 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 18 fractional worksAdvanced biosensing and …18Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 18 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer18Immune cells in cancer: 18 fractional worksMicroRNA in disease regu…14MicroRNA in disease regulation: 14 fractional worksWound Healing and Treatm…12Wound Healing and Treatments: 12 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMolecular BiologyCancer ResearchBiomedical Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 34 works
  2. 2 RNA modifications and cancer Molecular Biology 31 works
  3. 3 Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research Cancer Research 27 works
  4. 4 Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics Biomedical Engineering 25 works
  5. 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 18 works
  6. 6 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 18 works
  7. 7 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 18 works
  8. 8 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 18 works
  9. 9 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 14 works
  10. 10 Wound Healing and Treatments Rehabilitation 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 available53.0%not open47.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.9%domestic only89.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 82% 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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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.