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Breast Center

In research, Breast Center stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,809 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,677 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Oncology and Surgery (Cancer Research is 29.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,457
of 22,385 · #10,945 all time
Rank in Switzerland
#114
of 186
Research works
989
▼ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
22k
22.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
60%
world 18%
Breast Center

What is Breast Center 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 #3,809 of 9,902 8.6%106 #3920
MedicineField #3,677 of 8,541 8.8%102 #3893

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Breast Center 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 Breast Center work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at Breast Center is in Health Sciences, 22% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (67%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%), Computer Science (2%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 135 fractional works · 69.2% of its workMedicine: 131 fractional works · 67.1% of its workSurgery: 28 fractional works · 14.6% of its workOncology: 27 fractional works · 14.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 16 fractional works · 8.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 14 fractional works · 7.0% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workDermatology: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 43 fractional works · 22.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 39 fractional works · 20.0% of its workCancer Research: 24 fractional works · 12.6% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.1% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBreast Center194fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences22%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences69%Social Sciences3%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine13167.1%
    2. Health Professions41.8%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3920.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology31.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    4. Neuroscience10.3%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    1. Computer Science42.1%
    2. Engineering31.7%
    3. Materials Science10.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    5. Chemistry00.1%
    6. Environmental Science00.1%
    7. Energy00.0%
    1. Psychology21.0%
    2. Social Sciences20.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Breast Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 29.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 24.4 works29×
  2. OncologySubfield · 27.4 works13×
  3. SurgerySubfield · 28.5 works6.2×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.76× its world share, 39 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.33× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.69× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.49× its world share, 131 worksMedicineNursing: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.76×39 works
  2. Medicine3.49×131 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.33×3 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.93×1 works
  5. Health Professions0.69×4 works
  6. Veterinary0.42×0 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×2 works
  8. Psychology0.31×2 works
  9. Nursing0.29×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.26×4 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.23×1 works
  12. Materials Science0.22×2 works
  13. Neuroscience0.19×1 works
  14. Engineering0.12×3 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  16. Chemistry0.09×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.07×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×1 works
  19. Energy0.03×0 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works
  21. Environmental Science0.02×0 works
  22. Dentistry0.02×0 works
  23. Decision Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Breast Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Christoph Tausch, Parvis Gamagami and Eugene D. Gierson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Breast Center.

  1. 1 Christoph Tausch Switzerland · #233,953 worldwide 6.4k citations · 88 works
  2. 2 Parvis Gamagami Switzerland · #503,848 worldwide 3.7k citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Eugene D. Gierson Switzerland · #590,579 worldwide 3k citations · 35 works
  4. 4 Bernard S. Lewinsky Switzerland · #671,037 worldwide 3.8k citations · 42 works
  5. 5 William J. Colburn Switzerland · #715,456 worldwide 3.2k citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Christoph J. Rageth Switzerland · #1,326,196 worldwide 2.1k citations · 60 works
  7. 7 Bärbel Papassotiropoulos Switzerland · #1,565,108 worldwide 509 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Christoph Heitmann Switzerland · #1,579,204 worldwide 1.3k citations · 60 works
  9. 9 Gabriel J. Kaufman Switzerland · #1,816,208 worldwide 1.1k citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Radhakrishna Selvi Switzerland · #1,949,664 worldwide 392 citations · 66 works
All ranked researchers at Breast Center

What are the most cited papers from Breast Center?

The most cited paper from Breast Center is "Strategies for subtypes—dealing with the diversity of breast cancer: highlights of the St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2011" (Aron Goldhirsch, W. C. Wood, Alan Stuart Coates et al., 2011), with 3,932 citations. Next come "Personalizing the treatment of women with early breast cancer: highlights of the St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2013" (3,776) and "Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer" (3,298).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Strategies for subtypes—dealing with the diversity of breast cancer: highlights of the St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2011 Aron Goldhirsch, W. C. Wood, Alan Stuart Coates et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 28 Jun 2011 3,932
2 Personalizing the treatment of women with early breast cancer: highlights of the St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2013 Aron Goldhirsch et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 6 Aug 2013 3,776
3 Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Peter Schmid et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 Feb 2020 3,298
4 Breast cancer Nadia Harbeck, Frederique Madeleine Penault-Llorca, Javier Cortés et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers ReviewOpen access 23 Sep 2019 3,056
5 3rd ESO–ESMO International Consensus Guidelines for Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC 3) Fátima Cardoso et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 11 Oct 2016 2,075
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Breast Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Radiotherapy, Breast Cancer, Molecular Subtypes, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Gene Expression, Quality of Life, Prognostic Markers and Neoadjuvant Therapy.

▲ 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. Radiotherapy35▲ 46×10 topics
  2. Breast Cancer33▲ 68×11 topics
  3. Molecular Subtypes23▲ 135×3 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines23▲ 21×11 topics
  5. Gene Expression22▲ 18×9 topics
  6. Quality of Life22▲ 7.8×19 topics
  7. Prognostic Markers21▲ 99×3 topics
  8. Neoadjuvant Therapy21▲ 46×5 topics
  9. Survival Analysis21▲ 39×5 topics
  10. Complications20▲ 21×11 topics
  11. Breast Tumours20▲ 211×1 topic
  12. Treatment Response20▲ 211×1 topic
  13. Breast Reconstruction17▲ 145×2 topics
  14. Ultrasound15▲ 70×3 topics
  15. Biopsy14▲ 113×2 topics
  16. Mammography14▲ 308×1 topic
  17. Pathology14▲ 308×1 topic
  18. Cancer12▲ 4.8×30 topics
  19. Acellular Dermal Matrix12▲ 292×1 topic
  20. Patient-Reported Outcome Measure12▲ 292×1 topic
  21. Chemotherapy11▲ 8.2×20 topics
  22. Risk Factors10▲ 4.6×15 topics
  23. Precision Medicine8▲ 8.4×6 topics
  24. Metastatic Breast Cancer6▲ 53×2 topics
  25. Health Disparities6▲ 12×3 topics
  26. Cancer Incidence6▲ 22×3 topics
  27. Immunohistochemistry6▲ 43×4 topics
  28. Cancer Risk6▲ 13×5 topics
  29. Population-Based Study6▲ 45×2 topics
  30. Survival6▲ 20×3 topics
  31. Preventive Services5▲ 46×2 topics
  32. Global Surveillance5▲ 58×1 topic
  33. Health-related Quality of Life5▲ 11×4 topics
  34. Mortality Rates5▲ 28×1 topic
  35. Ovarian Cancer5▲ 29×3 topics
  36. Free Flap5▲ 65×1 topic
  37. Microsurgical Reconstruction5▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Genetic Testing5▲ 22×2 topics
  39. CDK4/6 Inhibitors4▲ 79×1 topic
  40. Palbociclib4▲ 79×1 topic

Which research topics does Breast Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Breast Lesions and Carcinomas, Breast Implant and Reconstruction and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening.

Breast Cancer Treatment …20Breast Cancer Treatment Studies: 20 fractional worksBreast Lesions and Carcinomas: 14 fractional worksBreast Implant and Reconstruction: 12 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 5 fractional worksReconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques: 5 fractional worksAdvanced Breast Cancer Therapies: 4 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in cancer: 4 fractional worksCancer and Skin Lesions: 4 fractional worksCancer survivorship and care: 4 fractional worksHER2/EGFR in Cancer Research: 4 fractional works
Cancer ResearchPathology and Forensic MedicineSurgeryOncology3 others

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

  1. 1 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 20 works
  2. 2 Breast Lesions and Carcinomas Pathology and Forensic Medicine 14 works
  3. 3 Breast Implant and Reconstruction Surgery 12 works
  4. 4 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 5 works
  5. 5 Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques Surgery 5 works
  6. 6 Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  7. 7 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 4 works
  8. 8 Cancer and Skin Lesions Dermatology 4 works
  9. 9 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 4 works
  10. 10 HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research Oncology 4 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 available40.4%not open59.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors59.5%domestic only40.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Breast Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Breast Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00063% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Breast Center0.00078% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Breast Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Breast Center7.9% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.1% in 2015.

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