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Dutch Cancer Society

In research, Dutch Cancer Society stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,254 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,154 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oncology (Oncology is 14.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,262
of 22,385 · #7,852 all time
Rank in Netherlands
#93
of 197
Research works
467
▲ 88% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
27.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
33%
world 18%
Dutch Cancer Society

What is Dutch Cancer Society 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 #2,254 of 9,902 20.1%100 #2743
MedicineField #2,154 of 8,541 20.4%96 #2644

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

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Dutch Cancer Society is in Health Sciences, 19% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (62%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Immunology and Microbiology (3%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 119 fractional works · 65.1% of its workMedicine: 114 fractional works · 62.3% of its workOncology: 29 fractional works · 15.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 18 fractional works · 9.6% of its workSurgery: 16 fractional works · 8.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 11 fractional works · 6.1% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHematology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 35 fractional works · 19.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 24 fractional works · 13.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 6.2% of its workCancer Research: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workImmunology: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 9.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiation: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKDutch CancerSociety183fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences65%Social Sciences9%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine11462.3%
    2. Health Professions42.1%
    3. Dentistry10.6%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2413.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology63.0%
    3. Neuroscience31.8%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences63.0%
    2. Psychology52.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    5. Decision Sciences10.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.4%
    1. Engineering42.4%
    2. Computer Science31.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy21.0%
    4. Environmental Science10.6%
    5. Mathematics10.4%
    6. Materials Science10.3%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Dutch Cancer Society specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oncology takes 14.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OncologySubfield · 28.9 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: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.51× its world share, 24 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.02× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.10× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.14× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.24× its world share, 114 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.75× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.89× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 6 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.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.24×114 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.02×6 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.51×24 works
  4. Dentistry1.14×1 works
  5. Neuroscience1.10×3 works
  6. Psychology0.89×5 works
  7. Health Professions0.81×4 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.75×3 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.54×1 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.43×2 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.42×0 works
  12. Mathematics0.33×1 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.27×2 works
  14. Social Sciences0.24×6 works
  15. Computer Science0.22×3 works
  16. Chemistry0.16×0 works
  17. Engineering0.16×4 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.14×1 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.14×1 works
  20. Environmental Science0.13×1 works
  21. Nursing0.13×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.10×1 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.07×0 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Dutch Cancer Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Allison Lang and 石川 達也 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dutch Cancer Society.

  1. 1 Allison Lang Netherlands · #4,088,720 worldwide 3 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 石川 達也 Netherlands · #4,628,813 worldwide 1 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Dutch Cancer Society

What are the most cited papers from Dutch Cancer Society?

The most cited paper from Dutch Cancer Society is "A Gene-Expression Signature as a Predictor of Survival in Breast Cancer" (Marc J. van de Vijver et al., 2002), with 6,562 citations. Next come "International network of cancer genome projects" (2,439) and "Defining ‘T cell exhaustion’" (1,669).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Gene-Expression Signature as a Predictor of Survival in Breast Cancer Marc J. van de Vijver et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 18 Dec 2002 6,562
2 International network of cancer genome projects Jennifer L. Jennings et al. · Nature Open access256 authors 13 Apr 2010 2,439
3 Defining ‘T cell exhaustion’ Christian U. Blank, W. Nicholas Haining, Werner Held et al. · Nature reviews. Immunology ReviewOpen access 30 Sep 2019 1,669
4 Pembrolizumab versus investigator-choice chemotherapy for ipilimumab-refractory melanoma (KEYNOTE-002): a randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial Antoni Ribas et al. · The Lancet Oncology Open access 24 Jun 2015 1,581
5 Neoadjuvant immunotherapy leads to pathological responses in MMR-proficient and MMR-deficient early-stage colon cancers Myriam Chalabi et al. · Nature Medicine Open access Apr 2020 1,437
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Dutch Cancer Society?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Neoadjuvant Therapy, Radiotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Tumor Microenvironment, 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-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. Chemotherapy20▲ 16×22 topics
  2. Immunotherapy16▲ 12×16 topics
  3. Neoadjuvant Therapy12▲ 29×5 topics
  4. Epidemiology12▲ 1.65×52 topics
  5. Clinical Practice Guidelines10▲ 10×11 topics
  6. Radiotherapy10▲ 14×11 topics
  7. Cancer10▲ 4.1×33 topics
  8. Quality of Life10▲ 3.8×30 topics
  9. Tumor Microenvironment10▲ 12×7 topics
  10. Survival Analysis8▲ 16×6 topics
  11. Prognostic Factors8▲ 9.7×14 topics
  12. Breast Cancer7▲ 15×10 topics
  13. Targeted Therapy7▲ 17×4 topics
  14. Gene Expression6▲ 5.5×11 topics
  15. Molecular Characterization6▲ 18×4 topics
  16. Precision Medicine6▲ 6.5×7 topics
  17. Clinical Trials6▲ 4.5×11 topics
  18. Health-related Quality of Life5▲ 12×4 topics
  19. Immune Checkpoint Blockade5▲ 23×1 topic
  20. PD-1 and PD-L15▲ 23×1 topic
  21. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy4▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Cancer Immunotherapy4▲ 16×3 topics
  23. Endoscopic Resection4▲ 24×2 topics
  24. Genetic Mutations4▲ 5.5×15 topics
  25. Survival4▲ 17×4 topics
  26. Human Papillomavirus4▲ 19×3 topics
  27. Molecular Subtypes4▲ 27×3 topics
  28. Cancer Survivorship4▲ 30×2 topics
  29. Cancer Incidence4▲ 16×4 topics
  30. Clinical Guidelines4▲ 7.2×7 topics
  31. Genomic Instability4▲ 18×3 topics
  32. Prognostic Markers4▲ 19×3 topics
  33. Chemoradiation4▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Lymphoma4▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Radiation Therapy4▲ 15×5 topics
  36. Fatigue4▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Molecular Classification4▲ 12×4 topics
  38. Adjuvant Chemotherapy3▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Adjuvant Therapy3▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Pancreatic Cancer3▲ 17×3 topics

Which research topics does Dutch Cancer Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Cancer survivorship and care, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.

Cancer Immunotherapy and…5Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 5 fractional worksCancer survivorship and …3Cancer survivorship and care: 3 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 3 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…3Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 3 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…3Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 3 fractional worksBreast Cancer Treatment Studies: 3 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 3 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…2CAR-T cell therapy research: 2 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 2 fractional works
OncologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingCancer ResearchSurgery2 others

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

  1. 1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 5 works
  2. 2 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 3 works
  3. 3 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 3 works
  4. 4 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 3 works
  5. 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 3 works
  6. 6 Breast Cancer Treatment Studies Cancer Research 3 works
  7. 7 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 3 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 2 works
  9. 9 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 2 works
  10. 10 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 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 available53.2%not open46.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.9%domestic only67.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Dutch Cancer Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 88% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Dutch Cancer Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00064% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Dutch Cancer Society0.00098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dutch Cancer Society 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%Dutch Cancer Society13.8% 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 23.1% in 2019.

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