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Cancer Council Victoria

In research, Cancer Council Victoria stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,594 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,124 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology (Oncology is 13.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,952
of 22,385 · #3,876 all time
Rank in Australia
#139
of 270
Research works
1.1k
▼ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
46k
42.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.10×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Cancer Council Victoria

What is Cancer Council Victoria 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 #2,594 of 9,902 12.0%76 #1458
MedicineField #3,124 of 8,541 12.1%65 #1710

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Cancer Council Victoria 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 Cancer Council Victoria work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Cancer Council Victoria is in Health Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (55%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Health Professions (8%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 85 fractional works · 64.8% of its workMedicine: 72 fractional works · 55.3% of its workOncology: 20 fractional works · 15.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 fractional works · 10.8% of its workPhysiology: 9 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 7.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 17.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 4.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 14.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 10.4% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCancer CouncilVictoria131fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences65%Social Sciences17%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7255.3%
    2. Health Professions107.8%
    3. Nursing21.3%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    5. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Social Sciences75.3%
    2. Psychology64.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting43.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.6%
    6. Decision Sciences10.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1410.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology21.4%
    4. Neuroscience10.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    1. Environmental Science21.7%
    2. Engineering10.6%
    3. Computer Science10.4%
    4. Energy00.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    6. Materials Science00.0%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    8. Mathematics00.0%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Cancer Council Victoria specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 13.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 20.0 works14×
← 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: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.94× its world share, 14 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.39× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.95× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.88× its world share, 72 worksMedicineNursing: 2.64× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.25× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.95× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.34× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.59× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions2.95×10 works
  2. Medicine2.88×72 works
  3. Nursing2.64×2 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.94×14 works
  5. Psychology1.59×6 works
  6. Immunology and Microbiology1.39×2 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.34×4 works
  8. Veterinary1.25×0 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.95×4 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.55×0 works
  11. Dentistry0.48×0 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.46×1 works
  13. Neuroscience0.45×1 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.43×3 works
  15. Energy0.42×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.42×7 works
  17. Environmental Science0.34×2 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.19×1 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.09×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.05×0 works
  21. Engineering0.04×1 works
  22. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.01×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Cancer Council Victoria?

Ranked on the quality score, Roger Laughlin Milne, Graham G. Giles and Laura Baglietto lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Cancer Council Victoria.

  1. 1 Roger Laughlin Milne Australia · #20,830 worldwide 59k citations · 1,393 works
  2. 2 Graham G. Giles Australia · #26,028 worldwide 125k citations · 2,361 works
  3. 3 Laura Baglietto Australia · #65,255 worldwide 24k citations · 408 works
  4. 4 Dallas R. English Australia · #68,766 worldwide 45k citations · 1,111 works
  5. 5 Julie K. Bassett Australia · #111,150 worldwide 4.5k citations · 140 works
  6. 6 Brigid Mary Lynch Australia · #129,066 worldwide 10k citations · 918 works
  7. 7 Pierre‐Antoine Dugué Australia · #140,481 worldwide 8.1k citations · 254 works
  8. 8 Allison M. Hodge Australia · #145,517 worldwide 19k citations · 447 works
  9. 9 Fiona Bruinsma Australia · #321,431 worldwide 7.9k citations · 157 works
  10. 10 Melanie A Wakefield Australia · #682,322 worldwide 21k citations · 476 works
All ranked researchers at Cancer Council Victoria

What are the most cited papers from Cancer Council Victoria?

The most cited paper from Cancer Council Victoria is "REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants" (Nilah M. Ioannidis et al., 2016), with 3,120 citations. Next come "Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers" (2,963) and "Use of mass media campaigns to change health behaviour" (2,522).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 REVEL: An Ensemble Method for Predicting the Pathogenicity of Rare Missense Variants Nilah M. Ioannidis et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics Open access 22 Sep 2016 3,120
2 Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker et al. · JAMA Open access 20 Jun 2017 2,963
3 Use of mass media campaigns to change health behaviour Melanie A Wakefield, Barbara Loken, Robert C Hornik · The Lancet Open access Oct 2010 2,522
4 Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci Douglas F. Easton et al. · Nature Open access239 authors 27 May 2007 2,342
5 Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults Amy Berrington de González et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access Dec 2010 2,341
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Cancer Council Victoria?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Factors, Obesity, Public Health, Physical Activity, Health Disparities, Cancer Incidence, Cancer Risk and Preventive Services.

▲ 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. Epidemiology13▲ 2.5×44 topics
  2. Risk Factors12▲ 8.6×12 topics
  3. Public Health12▲ 6.2×23 topics
  4. Obesity12▲ 12×16 topics
  5. Physical Activity10▲ 16×8 topics
  6. Health Disparities10▲ 28×6 topics
  7. Cancer Incidence9▲ 52×4 topics
  8. Cancer Risk9▲ 29×7 topics
  9. Inflammation8▲ 2.9×30 topics
  10. Metabolic Syndrome8▲ 7.5×14 topics
  11. Preventive Services8▲ 99×2 topics
  12. Population-Based Study8▲ 89×2 topics
  13. Global Surveillance7▲ 120×1 topic
  14. Mortality Rates7▲ 58×1 topic
  15. Cardiovascular Disease7▲ 4.7×19 topics
  16. Psychiatric Disorders7▲ 39×2 topics
  17. Prevalence6▲ 12×6 topics
  18. Quality of Life6▲ 3.5×22 topics
  19. Adolescents6▲ 13×5 topics
  20. Health Effects6▲ 7.8×8 topics
  21. Health Consequences6▲ 15×2 topics
  22. Mortality6▲ 7.6×6 topics
  23. Chronic Diseases6▲ 17×6 topics
  24. Cancer5▲ 3.0×20 topics
  25. Smoking Cessation5▲ 134×1 topic
  26. Tobacco Use5▲ 134×1 topic
  27. Childhood5▲ 57×1 topic
  28. Overweight5▲ 60×1 topic
  29. Chemotherapy5▲ 5.1×18 topics
  30. Screening5▲ 37×2 topics
  31. Prevention4▲ 8.2×6 topics
  32. Consumer Perception4▲ 14×5 topics
  33. Guidelines4▲ 6.4×4 topics
  34. Meta-Analysis4▲ 5.2×6 topics
  35. Colorectal Cancer4▲ 38×3 topics
  36. Breast Cancer4▲ 12×9 topics
  37. Colonoscopy4▲ 67×1 topic
  38. Health-related Quality of Life4▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Polyps4▲ 67×1 topic
  40. Cancer Survivorship3▲ 34×2 topics

Which research topics does Cancer Council Victoria publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection.

Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 7 fractional worksSmoking Behavior and Cessation: 5 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activi…5Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 5 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screen…4Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 4 fractional worksConsumer Attitudes and Food Labeling: 3 fractional worksCancer survivorship and care: 3 fractional worksNutritional Studies and …3Nutritional Studies and Diet: 3 fractional worksGlobal Public Health Policies and Epidemiology: 2 fractional worksEpigenetics and DNA Methylation: 2 fractional worksBehavioral Health and Interventions: 2 fractional works
OncologyPhysiologyPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management2 others

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

  1. 1 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 7 works
  2. 2 Smoking Behavior and Cessation Physiology 5 works
  3. 3 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5 works
  4. 4 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 4 works
  5. 5 Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  6. 6 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 3 works
  7. 7 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  8. 8 Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2 works
  9. 9 Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 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 available53.5%not open46.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.7%domestic only74.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cancer Council Victoria's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Cancer Council Victoria as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00060% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Cancer Council Victoria0.00043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cancer Council Victoria 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%30%Cancer Council Victoria13.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.7% in 2008.

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