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Cancer Australia

In research, Cancer Australia stands highest in Health Sciences (#11,770 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#10,637 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,911
of 28,054 · #25,514 all time
Rank in Australia
#327
of 391
Research works
324
▲ 20% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.5k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

What is Cancer Australia known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #11,770 of 20,462 17.9%217
MedicineField #10,637 of 17,978 17.5%193

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Cancer Australia 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).

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: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.87× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.67× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.56× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.72× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.23× its world share, 39 worksMedicineNursing: 1.26× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.72× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Cancer Australia?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Quality of Life, Radiotherapy, Health-related Quality of Life, Immunotherapy, Anxiety, Depression and Cancer Survivorship.

▲ 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. Chemotherapy6▲ 14×18 topics
  2. Quality of Life6▲ 6.4×20 topics
  3. Radiotherapy5▲ 21×10 topics
  4. Health-related Quality of Life4▲ 29×2 topics
  5. Immunotherapy4▲ 8.8×12 topics
  6. Depression4▲ 6.6×6 topics
  7. Anxiety4▲ 12×5 topics
  8. Cancer Survivorship3▲ 71×2 topics
  9. Physical Activity3▲ 10×3 topics
  10. Patient-Reported Outcomes3▲ 93×1 topic
  11. Psychosocial Interventions3▲ 93×1 topic
  12. Clinical Trials3▲ 7.0×8 topics
  13. Cancer3▲ 3.4×18 topics
  14. Breast Cancer2▲ 17×9 topics
  15. Clinical Practice Guidelines2▲ 7.2×10 topics
  16. Survival2▲ 28×4 topics
  17. Precision Medicine2▲ 8.0×5 topics
  18. Dosimetry2▲ 51×2 topics
  19. Image-Guided Radiotherapy2▲ 82×1 topic
  20. Prostate Cancer2▲ 27×3 topics
  21. Radiotherapy Physics2▲ 82×1 topic
  22. Tumor Microenvironment2▲ 8.1×7 topics
  23. Cancer Incidence2▲ 22×3 topics
  24. Prognostic Factors2▲ 7.0×12 topics
  25. Radiation Therapy2▲ 23×3 topics
  26. Cetuximab2▲ 35×2 topics
  27. Human Papillomavirus2▲ 24×3 topics
  28. Metastasis2▲ 8.6×7 topics
  29. Prognosis2▲ 8.5×4 topics
  30. Screening2▲ 30×2 topics
  31. Targeted Therapy2▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Biopsy2▲ 45×2 topics
  33. Genetic Variants2▲ 16×3 topics
  34. Health Disparities2▲ 10×4 topics
  35. Squamous Cell Carcinoma2▲ 31×3 topics
  36. Genomic Instability2▲ 22×3 topics
  37. Cancer Risk2▲ 11×5 topics
  38. MRI Imaging2▲ 29×2 topics
  39. Mortality Rates2▲ 25×2 topics
  40. Survival Analysis2▲ 8.8×6 topics

Which research topics does Cancer Australia publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer survivorship and care, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment and Head and Neck Cancer Studies.

Cancer survivorship and …3Cancer survivorship and care: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 2 fractional worksProstate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksHead and Neck Cancer Studies: 1 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 1 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…1Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 1 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in cancer: 1 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 1 fractional works
OncologyRadiationPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOtorhinolaryngology4 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 3 works
  2. 2 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 2 works
  3. 3 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 1 works
  5. 5 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 1 works
  6. 6 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 1 works
  7. 7 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 1 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 1 works
  9. 9 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 1 works
  10. 10 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 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 available49.2%not open50.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.0%domestic only72.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Cancer Australia's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 20% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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