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Humanitas University

In research, Humanitas University stands highest in Medicine (#224 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#301 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#629 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hepatology, Oncology and Surgery — Hepatology is 10.0× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,264
of 28,054 · #2,042 all time
Rank in Italy
#46
of 618
Research works
4.1k
▲ 111% vs 2013–17
Citations
101k
24.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Humanitas University 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 #224 of 10,443 24.6%1,188 #717
Health SciencesDomain #301 of 11,982 24.5%1,232 #886
Life SciencesDomain #629 of 7,800 28.7%208 #796
SurgerySubfield #168 of 1,816 24.0%220 #553
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #240 of 1,144 21.9%141 #536
OncologySubfield #238 of 772 25.0%117 #436
EpidemiologySubfield #403 of 976 28.4%74 #906
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #354 of 738 23.0%65 #985
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,898 of 3,579 27.8%116 #3321
Physical SciencesDomain #7,617 of 12,888 20.3%72 #8846

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Humanitas University 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#717 #224
  2. Health Sciences#886 #301
  3. Life Sciences#796 #629
  4. Surgery#553 #168
  5. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#536 #240
  6. Oncology#436 #238
  7. Epidemiology#906 #403
  8. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine#985 #354
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#3,321 #1,898
  10. Physical Sciences#8,846 #7,617
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 Humanitas University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hepatology takes 10.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HepatologySubfield · 30.5 works10×
  2. OncologySubfield · 116.9 works6.6×
  3. SurgerySubfield · 220.1 works6.0×
  4. Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 141.3 works5.8×
  5. RheumatologySubfield · 39.9 works5.5×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.37× its world share, 116 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.59× its world share, 57 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.20× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.15× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 30 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.24× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.53× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.82× its world share, 34 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.91× its world share, 1,188 worksMedicineNursing: 0.78× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.41× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 27 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Humanitas University?

Ranked on the composite score, Armando Santoro, Gionata Fiorino and Cecília Garlanda lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Humanitas University.

  1. 1 Armando Santoro · #3,247 worldwide 2.4k citations · 247 works
  2. 2 Gionata Fiorino · #16,044 worldwide 615 citations · 69 works
  3. 3 Cecília Garlanda · #26,347 worldwide 475 citations · 56 works
  4. 4 Antonino Spinelli · #31,624 worldwide 447 citations · 106 works
  5. 5 Stefanos Bonovas · #34,309 worldwide 379 citations · 45 works
  6. 6 Luigi Laghi · #42,413 worldwide 267 citations · 50 works
  7. 7 Fabio Grizzi · #52,181 worldwide 309 citations · 62 works
  8. 8 Enrico Heffler · #68,540 worldwide 227 citations · 76 works
  9. 9 Maria De Santis · #75,308 worldwide 347 citations · 62 works
  10. 10 Marco Alloisio · #77,638 worldwide 154 citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Humanitas University

Which keywords describe research at Humanitas University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy, Treatment, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Inflammation, Diagnosis 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. Epidemiology204▲ 3.3×113 topics
  2. Inflammation98▲ 3.0×76 topics
  3. Treatment96▲ 5.0×44 topics
  4. Chemotherapy91▲ 8.2×24 topics
  5. Immunotherapy82▲ 7.3×19 topics
  6. Diagnosis73▲ 5.0×37 topics
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines69▲ 8.0×14 topics
  8. Quality of Life65▲ 2.8×44 topics
  9. Management61▲ 5.0×28 topics
  10. Prognostic Factors56▲ 8.1×14 topics
  11. Neoadjuvant Therapy54▲ 15×5 topics
  12. Guidelines52▲ 7.0×13 topics
  13. Radiotherapy51▲ 8.3×13 topics
  14. Complications46▲ 5.8×17 topics
  15. Tumor Microenvironment45▲ 6.5×8 topics
  16. Cancer45▲ 2.1×45 topics
  17. Genetic Mutations45▲ 6.6×22 topics
  18. Surgical Management42▲ 6.5×20 topics
  19. Risk Factors41▲ 2.4×31 topics
  20. Genetics40▲ 3.6×18 topics
  21. Survival Analysis39▲ 9.2×7 topics
  22. Precision Medicine36▲ 4.9×7 topics
  23. Mortality36▲ 4.0×13 topics
  24. Pathogenesis33▲ 4.1×19 topics
  25. Molecular Characterization32▲ 12×6 topics
  26. Medical Imaging32▲ 4.0×6 topics
  27. Immunology32▲ 19×2 topics
  28. Autoantibodies30▲ 8.2×8 topics
  29. Inflammatory Bowel Disease30▲ 17×5 topics
  30. Prevention28▲ 4.2×14 topics
  31. Prognosis28▲ 5.4×9 topics
  32. Hepatocellular Carcinoma27▲ 8.2×3 topics
  33. Survival27▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Asthma26▲ 17×3 topics
  35. Screening25▲ 17×3 topics
  36. Breast Cancer25▲ 6.6×11 topics
  37. Prostate Cancer24▲ 12×5 topics
  38. Endoscopic Resection23▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Adjuvant Therapy21▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Radiofrequency Ablation21▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Humanitas University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Pancreatic and Hepatic O…20Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 20 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma…18Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 18 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 18 fractional worksInflammatory Bowel Disease16Inflammatory Bowel Disease: 16 fractional worksAsthma and respiratory d…16Asthma and respiratory diseases: 16 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 14 fractional worksGastric Cancer Management and Outcomes: 14 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screen…14Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 14 fractional worksProstate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: 12 fractional worksCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies: 11 fractional works
OncologyHepatologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchOncology 20 works
  2. 2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisHepatology 18 works
  3. 3 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 18 works
  4. 4 Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseGenetics 16 works
  5. 5 Asthma and respiratory diseasesPhysiology 16 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 14 works
  7. 7 Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 14 works
  8. 8 Colorectal Cancer Screening and DetectionOncology 14 works
  9. 9 Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 12 works
  10. 10 Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer StudiesSurgery 11 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 available54.3%not open45.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.2%domestic only64.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Humanitas University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 111% higher 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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