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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center

bcm.edu/academic-centers/dan-l-duncan-comprehensive-cancer-centerROR OpenAlex
Research works
64
▲ 15% vs 2013–17
Citations
3.2k
49.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
55%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 4.85× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.01× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.28× its world share, 9 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Cancer, Prognostic Factors, Transcriptional Regulation, Targeted Therapy and Clinical Trials.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Breast Cancer6▲ 34×8 topics
  2. Chemotherapy6▲ 13×17 topics
  3. Immunotherapy6▲ 14×12 topics
  4. Cancer6▲ 6.5×30 topics
  5. Inflammation4▲ 2.5×28 topics
  6. Prognostic Factors4▲ 12×10 topics
  7. Transcriptional Regulation3▲ 21×8 topics
  8. Clinical Trials3▲ 7.5×9 topics
  9. Targeted Therapy3▲ 22×4 topics
  10. Biomarkers3▲ 7.1×8 topics
  11. Tumor Microenvironment3▲ 12×6 topics
  12. Nuclear Receptors3▲ 23×5 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 7.1×8 topics
  14. Gene Expression3▲ 6.6×11 topics
  15. Signaling2▲ 34×3 topics
  16. Genetic Mutations2▲ 7.2×7 topics
  17. Metastasis2▲ 11×11 topics
  18. Survival Analysis2▲ 13×5 topics
  19. Receptor2▲ 47×2 topics
  20. Cancer Immunotherapy2▲ 23×3 topics
  21. Estrogen2▲ 43×1 topic
  22. Glucocorticoids2▲ 58×1 topic
  23. Radiotherapy2▲ 8.4×6 topics
  24. Precision Medicine2▲ 10×5 topics
  25. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 13×4 topics
  26. Genomic Instability2▲ 22×2 topics
  27. Molecular Characterization2▲ 15×5 topics
  28. Genomic Profiling2▲ 26×2 topics
  29. DNA Methylation2▲ 22×3 topics
  30. Somatic Mutations2▲ 38×2 topics
  31. Cancer Genomics2▲ 43×1 topic
  32. Cancer Risk2▲ 8.8×4 topics
  33. Immunity2▲ 7.0×5 topics
  34. Metastatic Breast Cancer2▲ 34×2 topics
  35. Mutational Signatures2▲ 43×1 topic
  36. Tumor Regression2▲ 26×2 topics
  37. Epigenetic Reprogramming1▲ 28×2 topics
  38. Lymphoma1▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Metastatic1▲ 34×2 topics
  40. Molecular Subtypes1▲ 25×3 topics

Which research topics does Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research.

Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 1 fractional worksNutrition and Health in Aging: 1 fractional worksChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research: 0 fractional worksBRCA gene mutations in cancer: 0 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 0 fractional worksAortic Thrombus and Embo…0Aortic Thrombus and Embolism: 0 fractional worksEndometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments: 0 fractional worksCancer Cells and Metastasis: 0 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…0CAR-T cell therapy research: 0 fractional works
Cancer ResearchPhysiologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 1 works
  2. 2 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 1 works
  3. 3 Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  4. 4 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  5. 5 BRCA gene mutations in cancer Genetics 0 works
  6. 6 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 0 works
  7. 7 Aortic Thrombus and Embolism Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  8. 8 Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 0 works
  9. 9 Cancer Cells and Metastasis Oncology 0 works
  10. 10 CAR-T cell therapy research 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 available54.9%not open45.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.7%domestic only77.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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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