Hospital rankings,
in context.

Official 2023 STEM covers research output, academic influence and research conditions. The study evaluates 2,943 tertiary hospitals and publishes comprehensive results plus results for 34 clinical subjects. This file selects comprehensive annual STEM only; the official JSON table supplies the original positions and total scores.

Limits: A ranking is not evidence of international-patient access, an English-speaking clinical team, appointment availability, treatment suitability or clinical outcomes. Check the exact hospital, department, campus and access route separately. STEM assesses research activity, not an overall patient-care league table. The selection omits positions 21-100, specialty tables and the separate five-year ASTEM results.

Comprehensive results combine specialty reputation and research-related assessment. Starting with the 2023 edition, 100 hospitals are placed in five bands of 20. Hospitals within a band are not ranked against each other; publisher ordering uses administrative codes and Chinese character strokes. Specialty reputation lists remain separate numbered results.

Limits: A ranking is not evidence of international-patient access, an English-speaking clinical team, appointment availability, treatment suitability or clinical outcomes. Check the exact hospital, department, campus and access route separately. The edition label is 2023, not 2024; a release in 2024 does not make this a 2024-data ranking. The English names here are editorial translations.

Sector=healthcare; subject=health sciences; geographic source table=global. Positions are ordered by Share, a fractional contribution measure for research publications in the Nature Index dataset; Count is a separate article measure. The 2026 release expanded the tracked publication set and uses article-level subject classification. Institutional units may combine a school and hospital or cover a health system.

Limits: A ranking is not evidence of international-patient access, an English-speaking clinical team, appointment availability, treatment suitability or clinical outcomes. Check the exact hospital, department, campus and access route separately. These are global positions in the healthcare/health-sciences table, not China-only positions, all-subject healthcare ranks or rankings of all Chinese hospitals. Nature Index advises against using its metrics alone to assess institutions. Annual tables may be revised.