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Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center

In research, Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center stands highest in Medicine (#993 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,486 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#3,591 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Cancer Research, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine — Cancer Research is 15.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,257
of 28,054 · #2,038 all time
Rank in United States
#593
of 4,192
Research works
2.2k
▼ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
133k
60.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
23.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #993 of 10,443 23.0%270 #499
Health SciencesDomain #1,486 of 11,982 22.9%279 #658
Life SciencesDomain #3,591 of 7,800 26.8%62 #1265
OncologySubfield #372 of 772 28.7%62 #173

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#499 #993
  2. Health Sciences#658 #1,486
  3. Life Sciences#1,265 #3,591
  4. Oncology#173 #372
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Cancer Research takes 15.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Cancer ResearchSubfield · 25.1 works15×
  2. OncologySubfield · 61.7 works14×
  3. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 51.9 works8.8×
  4. Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSubfield · 27.6 works8.0×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.53× its world share, 52 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.05× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.09× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.37× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.94× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.63× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.65× its world share, 270 worksMedicineNursing: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.08× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.37× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center?

Ranked on the composite score, Daniel Cagney, Nils D. Arvold and Jeremy S. Bredfeldt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center.

  1. 1 Daniel Cagney United States · #210,850 worldwide 264 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Nils D. Arvold United States · #443,007 worldwide 67 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Jeremy S. Bredfeldt United States · #598,689 worldwide 69 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Monica Krishnan United States · #641,197 worldwide 37 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Miranda B. Lam United States · #701,096 worldwide 37 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Peter F. Orio United States · #1,266,134 worldwide 19 citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Antonio L. Damato United States · #1,296,092 worldwide 8 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Alissa Minkovsky United States · #1,422,535 worldwide 60 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 Martin T. King United States · #1,483,877 worldwide 3 citations · 40 works
  10. 10 Thomas C. Harris United States · #1,534,691 worldwide 2 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center

Which keywords describe research at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Breast Cancer, Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis 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 2022–2025 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. Radiotherapy47▲ 32×13 topics
  2. Chemotherapy45▲ 17×22 topics
  3. Immunotherapy42▲ 15×16 topics
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines26▲ 12×11 topics
  5. Breast Cancer22▲ 25×9 topics
  6. Clinical Trials22▲ 8.7×14 topics
  7. Survival Analysis21▲ 20×6 topics
  8. Prognostic Factors21▲ 12×14 topics
  9. Quality of Life20▲ 3.6×26 topics
  10. Neoadjuvant Therapy20▲ 22×5 topics
  11. Cancer19▲ 3.7×37 topics
  12. Targeted Therapy19▲ 22×5 topics
  13. Gene Expression19▲ 8.0×11 topics
  14. Tumor Microenvironment18▲ 11×8 topics
  15. Biomarkers17▲ 6.4×12 topics
  16. Molecular Subtypes16▲ 50×3 topics
  17. Precision Medicine15▲ 8.5×7 topics
  18. Prostate Cancer15▲ 30×5 topics
  19. Prognostic Markers15▲ 36×3 topics
  20. Metastasis15▲ 11×11 topics
  21. Genetic Mutations14▲ 8.4×14 topics
  22. Breast Tumours14▲ 76×1 topic
  23. Treatment Response14▲ 76×1 topic
  24. Genomic Profiling12▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Dosimetry12▲ 45×2 topics
  26. Molecular Classification12▲ 21×4 topics
  27. Biopsy11▲ 49×2 topics
  28. Radiation Therapy11▲ 22×5 topics
  29. Clinical Guidelines11▲ 10×7 topics
  30. Immune Checkpoint Blockade11▲ 26×1 topic
  31. PD-1 and PD-L111▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Medical Imaging11▲ 5.5×6 topics
  33. Monte Carlo Simulation10▲ 13×2 topics
  34. Image-Guided Radiotherapy10▲ 62×1 topic
  35. Radiotherapy Physics10▲ 62×1 topic
  36. Prognosis9▲ 7.3×8 topics
  37. Genomic Instability9▲ 22×3 topics
  38. Molecular Characterization9▲ 13×5 topics
  39. Metastatic Breast Cancer9▲ 40×2 topics
  40. Survival9▲ 17×4 topics

Which research topics does Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.

Breast Cancer Treatment …14Breast Cancer Treatment Studies: 14 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…11Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 11 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Te…10Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 10 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…8Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 8 fractional worksProstate Cancer Treatment and Research: 7 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 7 fractional worksProstate Cancer Diagnosi…7Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 7 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…7Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Breast Cancer T…6Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies: 6 fractional worksLung Cancer Diagnosis an…5Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 5 fractional works
Cancer ResearchOncologyRadiationRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging2 others

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

  1. 1 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 14 works
  2. 2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 11 works
  3. 3 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 10 works
  4. 4 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 8 works
  5. 5 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  6. 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 7 works
  7. 7 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 7 works
  8. 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 7 works
  9. 9 Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 6 works
  10. 10 Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 5 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 available38.6%not open61.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.2%domestic only82.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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