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American Association For Cancer Research

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World rank, all time
#15,045
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#3,289
of 8,685
Research works
217
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
13k
60.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
37.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
24%
world 28%

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.98× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.68× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMathematics: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.12× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.08× its world share, 12 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.20× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at American Association For Cancer Research?

Ranked on the composite score, Karen Honey lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Association For Cancer Research.

  1. 1 Karen Honey United States · #1,473,262 worldwide 11 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at American Association For Cancer Research

Which keywords describe research at American Association For Cancer Research?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cost of Care, Financial Toxicity, Cancer Treatment, Radiotherapy, Medical Education, Academic Medicine, Ethical Considerations and Medical Research.

▲ 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 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Cost of Care2▲ 334×1 topic
  2. Financial Toxicity2▲ 334×1 topic
  3. Cancer Treatment2▲ 35×3 topics
  4. Radiotherapy2▲ 21×5 topics
  5. Medical Education2▲ 30×4 topics
  6. Academic Medicine2▲ 96×2 topics
  7. Ethical Considerations2▲ 22×3 topics
  8. Genomic Studies2▲ 106×2 topics
  9. Global Access2▲ 83×1 topic
  10. Health Economics2▲ 146×1 topic
  11. Medical Research2▲ 254×1 topic
  12. Physician-Scientist2▲ 254×1 topic
  13. Public Health2▲ 5.0×2 topics
  14. Biomedical Science1▲ 358×1 topic
  15. Data Mining1▲ 8.9×2 topics
  16. Health Research1▲ 67×1 topic
  17. Machine Learning1▲ 2.1×4 topics
  18. Risk Factors1▲ 6.0×2 topics
  19. Cancer Incidence1▲ 45×3 topics
  20. Heart Failure1▲ 13×4 topics
  21. Population-Based Study1▲ 89×2 topics
  22. Quality of Life1▲ 4.0×3 topics
  23. Cost-effectiveness Analysis1▲ 63×1 topic
  24. Health Utility Measures1▲ 63×1 topic
  25. Targeted Therapy1▲ 23×4 topics
  26. Clinical Trials1▲ 7.6×7 topics
  27. Differential Privacy1▲ 70×1 topic
  28. Federated Learning1▲ 70×1 topic
  29. Global Surveillance1▲ 108×1 topic
  30. Mortality Rates1▲ 52×1 topic

Which research topics does American Association For Cancer Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Health and Medical Research Impacts, Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy and Science, Research, and Medicine.

Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 2 fractional worksHealth and Medical Research Impacts: 2 fractional worksAdvances in Oncology and…2Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy: 2 fractional worksScience, Research, and M…1Science, Research, and Medicine: 1 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 1 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Techn…1Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 1 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 0 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingReproductive Medicine4 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  2. 2 Health and Medical Research Impacts Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  3. 3 Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  4. 4 Science, Research, and Medicine Reproductive Medicine 1 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  6. 6 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 1 works
  7. 7 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 1 works
  9. 9 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Health Information Management 0 works
  10. 10 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 0 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 available24.3%not open75.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.7%domestic only85.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has American Association For Cancer Research's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower than in 2013–2017.

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