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Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen

In research, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen stands highest in Health Sciences (#1,495 of 9,902 worldwide), Medicine (#1,410 of 8,541 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#2,581 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology (Oncology is 11.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,912
of 22,385 · #5,249 all time
Rank in Germany
#234
of 795
Research works
566
▲ 113% vs 2018-21
Citations
11k
19.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.21×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
66%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen

What is Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen 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 #1,495 of 9,902 18.8%186 #1682
MedicineField #1,410 of 8,541 18.8%176 #1563
Life SciencesDomain #2,581 of 6,403 13.5%64 #2305

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,682 #1,495
  2. Medicine#1,563 #1,410
  3. Life Sciences#2,305 #2,581
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen is in Health Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (63%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 219 fractional works · 66.3% of its workMedicine: 208 fractional works · 62.8% of its workOncology: 43 fractional works · 13.0% of its workSurgery: 27 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 24 fractional works · 7.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 17 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEpidemiology: 11 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRheumatology: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDermatology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPeriodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 80 fractional works · 24.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 53 fractional works · 16.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 7.2% of its workCancer Research: 15 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCell Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 18 fractional works · 5.4% of its workImmunology: 17 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 23 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiation: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKComprehensiveCancer Center…331fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences66%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. Medicine20862.8%
    2. Health Professions61.9%
    3. Dentistry30.9%
    4. Nursing20.5%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5316.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology185.4%
    3. Neuroscience72.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy82.3%
    2. Computer Science61.8%
    3. Engineering61.7%
    4. Materials Science10.4%
    5. Environmental Science10.3%
    6. Chemistry10.3%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Psychology31.0%
    2. Social Sciences31.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    5. Decision Sciences00.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 11.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 42.9 works12×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.02× its world share, 53 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.39× its world share, 18 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.36× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.23× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.12× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.02× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.92× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.72× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.27× its world share, 208 worksMedicineNursing: 1.04× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 5.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology5.39×18 works
  2. Medicine3.27×208 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.02×53 works
  4. Dentistry1.92×3 works
  5. Neuroscience1.36×7 works
  6. Nursing1.04×2 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy1.02×8 works
  8. Veterinary0.78×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.72×6 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.33×0 works
  11. Psychology0.33×3 works
  12. Computer Science0.23×6 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.21×2 works
  14. Chemistry0.16×1 works
  15. Decision Sciences0.15×0 works
  16. Engineering0.12×6 works
  17. Mathematics0.12×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  19. Social Sciences0.08×3 works
  20. Environmental Science0.07×1 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.06×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×1 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen?

Ranked on the quality score, Anne Petzold, Peter A. Fasching and Niklas Amann lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen.

  1. 1 Anne Petzold Germany · #752,174 worldwide 762 citations · 43 works
  2. 2 Peter A. Fasching Germany · #920,507 worldwide 153 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Niklas Amann Germany · #1,103,336 worldwide 309 citations · 51 works
  4. 4 Sabrina Uhrig Germany · #1,217,219 worldwide 304 citations · 41 works
  5. 5 Annika Krückel Germany · #1,799,061 worldwide 88 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Bernhard Volz Germany · #2,031,559 worldwide 811 citations · 59 works
  7. 7 Martin C. Koch Germany · #2,069,542 worldwide 657 citations · 49 works
  8. 8 Anna‐Katharin Theuser Germany · #2,548,823 worldwide 141 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Lothar Häberle Germany · #2,622,460 worldwide 61 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Carolin C. Hack Germany · #3,026,320 worldwide 2.2k citations · 171 works
All ranked researchers at Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen

What are the most cited papers from Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen?

The most cited paper from Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen is "Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer" (Peter Schmid et al., 2020), with 3,298 citations. Next come "Dabrafenib in BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma: a multicentre, open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial" (3,009) and "Trastuzumab Emtansine for Residual Invasive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer" (2,689).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Peter Schmid et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 26 Feb 2020 3,298
2 Dabrafenib in BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma: a multicentre, open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial Axel Hauschild et al. · The Lancet 25 Jun 2012 3,009
3 Trastuzumab Emtansine for Residual Invasive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Gϋnter von Minckwitz et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 5 Dec 2018 2,689
4 Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and prognosis in different subtypes of breast cancer: a pooled analysis of 3771 patients treated with neoadjuvant therapy Carsten Denkert et al. · The Lancet Oncology 8 Dec 2017 2,205
5 Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci Kyriaki Michailidou et al. · Nature Open access362 authors 20 Oct 2017 1,602
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Radiotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Survival Analysis, Neoadjuvant Therapy, Cancer and Prognostic Factors.

▲ 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. Chemotherapy24▲ 10×23 topics
  2. Immunotherapy24▲ 10.0×17 topics
  3. Radiotherapy24▲ 18×12 topics
  4. Epidemiology23▲ 1.73×74 topics
  5. Cancer19▲ 4.4×39 topics
  6. Clinical Practice Guidelines18▲ 9.9×12 topics
  7. Inflammation18▲ 2.5×64 topics
  8. Survival Analysis16▲ 18×6 topics
  9. Neoadjuvant Therapy16▲ 20×5 topics
  10. Prognostic Factors15▲ 10×14 topics
  11. Tumor Microenvironment14▲ 9.4×8 topics
  12. Quality of Life13▲ 2.6×27 topics
  13. Breast Cancer12▲ 15×11 topics
  14. Gene Expression12▲ 5.8×12 topics
  15. Metastasis11▲ 9.7×11 topics
  16. Cancer Therapy9▲ 5.0×17 topics
  17. Immunity9▲ 6.9×8 topics
  18. Radiation Therapy9▲ 21×4 topics
  19. Squamous Cell Carcinoma9▲ 30×3 topics
  20. Genetic Mutations9▲ 6.1×17 topics
  21. Molecular Characterization9▲ 15×4 topics
  22. Cancer Immunotherapy9▲ 17×3 topics
  23. Prognostic Markers8▲ 23×3 topics
  24. Precision Medicine8▲ 5.0×7 topics
  25. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy8▲ 29×2 topics
  26. Molecular Classification8▲ 16×3 topics
  27. Dosimetry8▲ 34×2 topics
  28. Human Papillomavirus8▲ 19×3 topics
  29. Genomic Instability8▲ 21×3 topics
  30. Molecular Subtypes8▲ 27×3 topics
  31. Monte Carlo Simulation8▲ 11×2 topics
  32. Immune Checkpoint Blockade7▲ 20×1 topic
  33. PD-1 and PD-L17▲ 20×1 topic
  34. Clinical Guidelines7▲ 7.5×7 topics
  35. Image-Guided Radiotherapy7▲ 51×1 topic
  36. Radiotherapy Physics7▲ 51×1 topic
  37. Breast Tumours7▲ 42×1 topic
  38. Cervical Cancer7▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Treatment Response7▲ 42×1 topic
  40. Targeted Therapy7▲ 9.2×5 topics

Which research topics does Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Breast Cancer Treatment Studies and Head and Neck Cancer Studies.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…7Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Te…7Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 7 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment …7Breast Cancer Treatment Studies: 7 fractional worksHead and Neck Cancer Stu…5Head and Neck Cancer Studies: 5 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 4 fractional worksImmunotherapy and Immune Responses: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Breast Cancer T…4Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies: 4 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 4 fractional worksBladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments: 4 fractional worksCutaneous Melanoma Detec…4Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management: 4 fractional works
OncologyRadiationCancer ResearchOtorhinolaryngology5 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 7 works
  2. 2 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 7 works
  3. 3 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 7 works
  4. 4 Head and Neck Cancer Studies Otorhinolaryngology 5 works
  5. 5 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  6. 6 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 4 works
  7. 7 Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 4 works
  8. 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 4 works
  9. 9 Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments Surgery 4 works
  10. 10 Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management 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 available65.7%not open34.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.2%domestic only73.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 113% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen0.0015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen 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%Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen18.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.5% in 2021.

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