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Zhongshan Hospital

In research, Zhongshan Hospital stands highest in Life Sciences (#238 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#367 of 10,443 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#490 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Cancer Research — Hepatology is 11.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#760
of 28,054 · #2,165 all time
Rank in China
#253
of 3,058
Research works
12k
▲ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
150k
12.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
34%
world 28%

What is Zhongshan 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 #238 of 7,800 28.8%645 #923
MedicineField #367 of 10,443 21.0%1,379 #1069
Health SciencesDomain #490 of 11,982 21.3%1,432 #1297
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #333 of 3,579 29.1%438 #1068
Molecular BiologySubfield #225 of 2,175 29.0%274 #800
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #120 of 1,144 21.5%218 #439
SurgerySubfield #241 of 1,816 18.4%204 #595
OncologySubfield #125 of 772 25.3%153 #390
Immunology and MicrobiologyField #135 of 682 31.8%105 #588
Physical SciencesDomain #2,916 of 12,888 18.3%411 #5082

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Zhongshan 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#923 #238
  2. Medicine#1,069 #367
  3. Health Sciences#1,297 #490
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,068 #333
  5. Molecular Biology#800 #225
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#439 #120
  7. Surgery#595 #241
  8. Oncology#390 #125
  9. Immunology and Microbiology#588 #135
  10. Physical Sciences#5,082 #2,916
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 Zhongshan Hospital specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 11.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 56.0 works11×
  2. GastroenterologySubfield · 22.3 works7.4×
  3. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 79.2 works7.1×
  4. ImmunologySubfield · 99.0 works5.6×
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 217.9 works5.5×
  6. OncologySubfield · 152.7 works5.3×
  7. NephrologySubfield · 25.5 works4.6×
  8. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 121.2 works4.5×
← 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: 0.23× its world share, 28 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.21× its world share, 438 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.06× its world share, 105 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.52× its world share, 63 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.26× its world share, 11 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.51× its world share, 20 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.40× its world share, 80 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 190 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 31 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.66× its world share, 59 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.17× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 14 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.90× its world share, 11 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.80× its world share, 1,378 worksMedicineNursing: 1.02× its world share, 13 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.11× its world share, 9 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.25× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Zhongshan Hospital?

Ranked on the composite score, Tianshu Liu, Shengxiang Rao and Chunxue Bai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Zhongshan Hospital.

  1. 1 Tianshu Liu · #44,037 worldwide 351 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Shengxiang Rao · #209,653 worldwide 115 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Chunxue Bai · #251,957 worldwide 198 citations · 69 works
  4. 4 Xiangdong Wang · #271,330 worldwide 135 citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Chen Xu · #340,189 worldwide 76 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Yingyong Hou · #361,077 worldwide 106 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Junbo Ge · #421,130 worldwide 103 citations · 52 works
  8. 8 Yunshi Zhong · #471,077 worldwide 68 citations · 45 works
  9. 9 Zhi-Quan Wu · #472,377 worldwide 59 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Yi Dong · #507,581 worldwide 120 citations · 56 works
All ranked researchers at Zhongshan Hospital

Which keywords describe research at Zhongshan Hospital?

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

▲ 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. Inflammation228▲ 4.3×82 topics
  2. Cancer223▲ 6.5×55 topics
  3. Epidemiology173▲ 1.71×115 topics
  4. Tumor Microenvironment132▲ 12×8 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress130▲ 3.1×58 topics
  6. Chemotherapy104▲ 5.8×25 topics
  7. Treatment103▲ 3.3×46 topics
  8. Diagnosis94▲ 4.0×38 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines91▲ 6.5×14 topics
  10. Gene Expression86▲ 5.5×19 topics
  11. Immunotherapy80▲ 4.4×19 topics
  12. Management78▲ 3.9×30 topics
  13. Biomarkers77▲ 4.4×17 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease72▲ 2.5×37 topics
  15. Prognostic Factors69▲ 6.2×14 topics
  16. Immunity68▲ 6.6×10 topics
  17. Cell Death62▲ 10×6 topics
  18. Hepatocellular Carcinoma62▲ 12×4 topics
  19. Metastasis59▲ 6.8×12 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome58▲ 2.8×23 topics
  21. Obesity58▲ 3.0×25 topics
  22. Metabolism55▲ 4.2×30 topics
  23. Angiogenesis52▲ 6.2×16 topics
  24. Precision Medicine49▲ 4.1×8 topics
  25. Surgical Management49▲ 4.7×20 topics
  26. Heart Failure47▲ 4.3×14 topics
  27. Atherosclerosis47▲ 6.5×13 topics
  28. Echocardiography47▲ 6.8×8 topics
  29. Survival44▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Neoadjuvant Therapy42▲ 7.1×5 topics
  31. Radiofrequency Ablation42▲ 16×2 topics
  32. Biogenesis41▲ 9.1×3 topics
  33. Cancer Progression39▲ 8.3×8 topics
  34. Lipid Peroxidation38▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Liver Cancer38▲ 27×1 topic
  36. Sorafenib38▲ 27×1 topic
  37. Ferroptosis37▲ 19×1 topic
  38. GPX437▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Immune Checkpoint Blockade36▲ 13×1 topic
  40. PD-1 and PD-L136▲ 13×1 topic

Which research topics does Zhongshan Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Immune cells in cancer.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma…38Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 38 fractional worksFerroptosis and cancer p…37Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis: 37 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…36Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 36 fractional worksImmune cells in cancer26Immune cells in cancer: 26 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 24 fractional worksRNA modifications and cancer: 22 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases a…22Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 22 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 21 fractional worksLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment: 20 fractional worksGastric Cancer Managemen…20Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 20 fractional works
HepatologyPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyImmunology5 others

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

  1. 1 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisHepatology 38 works
  2. 2 Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 37 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 36 works
  4. 4 Immune cells in cancerImmunology 26 works
  5. 5 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 24 works
  6. 6 RNA modifications and cancerMolecular Biology 22 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 22 works
  8. 8 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer StudiesSurgery 21 works
  9. 9 Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentEpidemiology 20 works
  10. 10 Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 20 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 available33.6%not open66.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.9%domestic only90.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Zhongshan Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% 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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