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European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

In research, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer stands highest in Medicine (#2,560 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#3,471 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#19,653
of 28,054 · #11,489 all time
Rank in Belgium
#103
of 138
Research works
681
◆ 2% vs 2013–17
Citations
55k
80.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
28%
world 28%

What is European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #2,560 of 17,978 31.0%442
Health SciencesDomain #3,471 of 20,462 30.6%458

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer 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).

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: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.68× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.16× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.47× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.93× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.91× its world share, 43 worksMedicineNursing: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.33× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer?

Ranked on the composite score, Laurence Collette, Richard Sylvester and Thierry Gorlia lead among researchers whose main affiliation is European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer.

  1. 1 Laurence Collette Belgium · #9,635 worldwide 699 citations · 80 works
  2. 2 Richard Sylvester Belgium · #14,846 worldwide 631 citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Thierry Gorlia Belgium · #17,029 worldwide 1.1k citations · 41 works
  4. 4 Jan Bogaerts Belgium · #39,796 worldwide 3.4k citations · 30 works
  5. 5 Stefan Suciu Belgium · #58,415 worldwide 263 citations · 66 works
  6. 6 Corneel Coens Belgium · #65,541 worldwide 195 citations · 53 works
  7. 7 Denis Lacombe Belgium · #66,133 worldwide 3.4k citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Sandrine Marréaud Belgium · #75,590 worldwide 204 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 Sandra Collette Belgium · #76,821 worldwide 305 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 M. van Glabbeke Belgium · #79,101 worldwide 261 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

Which keywords describe research at European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quality of Life, Clinical Trials, Immunotherapy, Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, Targeted Therapy, Precision Medicine and Gene Expression.

▲ 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. Quality of Life8▲ 7.2×12 topics
  2. Clinical Trials7▲ 14×10 topics
  3. Immunotherapy6▲ 12×14 topics
  4. Chemotherapy6▲ 11×20 topics
  5. Radiotherapy6▲ 20×11 topics
  6. Targeted Therapy5▲ 28×4 topics
  7. Gene Expression4▲ 7.9×10 topics
  8. Precision Medicine4▲ 10×7 topics
  9. Biomarkers4▲ 6.9×11 topics
  10. Cost-effectiveness Analysis4▲ 54×1 topic
  11. Health Utility Measures4▲ 54×1 topic
  12. Prognostic Factors4▲ 10×12 topics
  13. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 8.2×10 topics
  14. Cancer Survivorship3▲ 59×2 topics
  15. Health-related Quality of Life3▲ 18×4 topics
  16. Cancer3▲ 3.1×21 topics
  17. Cost of Care3▲ 132×1 topic
  18. Financial Toxicity3▲ 132×1 topic
  19. Anxiety3▲ 8.2×4 topics
  20. Depression3▲ 4.3×3 topics
  21. Breast Cancer3▲ 15×9 topics
  22. Patient-Reported Outcomes3▲ 68×1 topic
  23. Physical Activity3▲ 7.4×1 topic
  24. Genomic Profiling3▲ 34×2 topics
  25. Medical Imaging3▲ 6.5×4 topics
  26. Molecular Classification2▲ 20×4 topics
  27. Dosimetry2▲ 42×2 topics
  28. Genomic Instability2▲ 26×3 topics
  29. Survival Analysis2▲ 11×7 topics
  30. Tumor Microenvironment2▲ 6.2×6 topics
  31. Cancer Genomics2▲ 36×1 topic
  32. Glioblastoma2▲ 38×1 topic
  33. Mutational Signatures2▲ 36×1 topic
  34. Temozolomide2▲ 38×1 topic
  35. Metastasis2▲ 7.4×9 topics
  36. Ethical Issues2▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Patient Safety2▲ 16×1 topic
  38. Quality Assurance2▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Regulatory Challenges2▲ 26×2 topics
  40. Stem Cell Regulation2▲ 101×1 topic

Which research topics does European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Cancer survivorship and care and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Health Systems, Economic…4Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 4 fractional worksEconomic and Financial I…3Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 3 fractional worksCancer survivorship and …3Cancer survivorship and care: 3 fractional worksCancer Genomics and Diag…2Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics: 2 fractional worksGlioma Diagnosis and Treatment: 2 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Regulation: 2 fractional worksEthics in Clinical Resea…2Ethics in Clinical Research: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 2 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 2 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Le…2Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsOncologyCancer ResearchGenetics5 others

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

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  2. 2 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  3. 3 Cancer survivorship and care Oncology 3 works
  4. 4 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 2 works
  5. 5 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 2 works
  6. 6 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 2 works
  7. 7 Ethics in Clinical Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  8. 8 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 2 works
  9. 9 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 2 works
  10. 10 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 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 available28.4%not open71.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors62.9%domestic only37.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 2% 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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