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Aflac (United States)

In research, Aflac (United States) stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,269 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,290 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,636
of 22,385 · #10,470 all time
Rank in United States
#1,913
of 3,332
Research works
272
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.5k
16.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Aflac (United States)

What is Aflac (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #2,269 of 9,902 16.6%66 #2430
MedicineField #2,290 of 8,541 16.7%63 #2628

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Aflac (United States) 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Aflac (United States) work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Aflac (United States) is in Health Sciences, 14% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (72%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 71 fractional works · 75.5% of its workMedicine: 68 fractional works · 71.9% of its workHematology: 12 fractional works · 12.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 9 fractional works · 9.2% of its workGenetics: 8 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 6 fractional works · 6.8% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workTransplantation: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 14.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 9.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 4.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workImmunology: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAflac (UnitedStates)94fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6871.9%
    2. Health Professions33.5%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology89.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology44.8%
    3. Neuroscience00.4%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Social Sciences22.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.5%
    3. Psychology11.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting11.1%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
    1. Engineering21.9%
    2. Computer Science21.6%
    3. Environmental Science10.6%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    5. Materials Science00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.69× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.74× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.31× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.74× its world share, 68 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology4.74×4 works
  2. Medicine3.74×68 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.69×8 works
  4. Health Professions1.31×3 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.69×1 works
  6. Psychology0.41×1 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.33×1 works
  8. Neuroscience0.24×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.21×2 works
  10. Social Sciences0.16×2 works
  11. Nursing0.14×0 works
  12. Engineering0.13×2 works
  13. Environmental Science0.12×0 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.10×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.06×0 works
  16. Decision Sciences0.06×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.02×0 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.01×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Aflac (United States)?

The most cited paper from Aflac (United States) is "Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program" (Daniel Taliun et al., 2021), with 2,381 citations. Next come "Cardiac outcomes in a cohort of adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: retrospective analysis of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort" (1,177) and "Transplantation Outcomes for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, 2000–2009" (786).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program Daniel Taliun et al. · Nature Open access427 authors 10 Feb 2021 2,381
2 Cardiac outcomes in a cohort of adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: retrospective analysis of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort Daniel A. Mulrooney, Mark W. Yeazel, Toana I. Kawashima et al. · BMJ Open access 8 Dec 2009 1,177
3 Transplantation Outcomes for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, 2000–2009 Sung‐Yun Pai et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 Jul 2014 786
4 Genetic mechanisms of target antigen loss in CAR19 therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia Elena J. Orlando et al. · Nature Medicine 27 Sep 2018 589
5 ASH ISTH NHF WFH 2021 guidelines on the diagnosis of von Willebrand disease Paula James, Nathan T. Connell, Barbara Ameer et al. · Blood Advances Open access 12 Jan 2021 582
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Which keywords describe research at Aflac (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Health-related Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Prognostic Factors, Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, Pulmonary Hypertension, Epidemiology and Sickle-cell Disease.

▲ 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-now 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. Epidemiology9▲ 2.4×36 topics
  2. Health-related Quality of Life7▲ 32×3 topics
  3. Immunotherapy6▲ 9.5×12 topics
  4. Prognostic Factors6▲ 15×11 topics
  5. Inflammation6▲ 2.8×24 topics
  6. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study6▲ 137×1 topic
  7. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory6▲ 137×1 topic
  8. Pulmonary Hypertension5▲ 39×3 topics
  9. Sickle-cell Disease5▲ 124×1 topic
  10. Thalassemia5▲ 124×1 topic
  11. Hematopoietic Stem Cells5▲ 57×3 topics
  12. Cancer4▲ 3.2×24 topics
  13. Genetic Mutations4▲ 9.7×11 topics
  14. Anemia4▲ 43×4 topics
  15. Chemotherapy4▲ 5.6×18 topics
  16. Adolescents3▲ 9.2×5 topics
  17. Genetic Alterations3▲ 41×2 topics
  18. Hemostasis3▲ 32×3 topics
  19. Mesenchymal Stem Cells3▲ 30×2 topics
  20. Minimal Residual Disease3▲ 48×2 topics
  21. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia3▲ 91×1 topic
  22. Childhood Cancer3▲ 91×1 topic
  23. Thrombosis3▲ 11×6 topics
  24. Bone Marrow Niche3▲ 117×1 topic
  25. Graft-versus-Host Disease3▲ 117×1 topic
  26. Pancreatic Cancer2▲ 25×3 topics
  27. Alloimmunization2▲ 98×1 topic
  28. Blood Groups2▲ 98×1 topic
  29. Prognosis2▲ 7.2×6 topics
  30. Lymphoma2▲ 14×2 topics
  31. Radiotherapy2▲ 5.9×6 topics
  32. Erythropoiesis2▲ 37×2 topics
  33. Molecular Classification2▲ 14×2 topics
  34. Staging System2▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Therapy2▲ 11×3 topics
  36. Cancer Immunotherapy2▲ 14×3 topics
  37. Glioblastoma2▲ 31×1 topic
  38. Temozolomide2▲ 31×1 topic
  39. Vascular Biology2▲ 49×2 topics
  40. ALK2▲ 81×1 topic

Which research topics does Aflac (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Childhood Cancer Survivo…6Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 6 fractional worksHemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders: 5 fractional worksAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research: 3 fractional worksHematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: 3 fractional worksBlood groups and transfusion: 2 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksPlatelet Disorders and T…2Platelet Disorders and Treatments: 2 fractional worksNeuroblastoma Research and Treatments: 2 fractional worksAcute Myeloid Leukemia Research: 2 fractional worksComplement system in diseases: 2 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthGeneticsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHematology2 others

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

  1. 1 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  2. 2 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 5 works
  3. 3 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  4. 4 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Hematology 3 works
  5. 5 Blood groups and transfusion Hematology 2 works
  6. 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 2 works
  7. 7 Platelet Disorders and Treatments Hematology 2 works
  8. 8 Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments Neurology 2 works
  9. 9 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 2 works
  10. 10 Complement system in diseases Immunology 2 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 available51.6%not open48.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.9%domestic only87.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Aflac (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Aflac (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00032% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Aflac (United States)0.00035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aflac (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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