Question 1

What is IFOM known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, IFOM stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,468 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Molecular Biology is 8.9× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does IFOM rank in research?

Accepted Answer

IFOM ranks #8,610 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#2,128 all time), and #182 of 475 in Italy.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at IFOM?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna, Paolo Peterlongo and Monica Corada lead among researchers whose main affiliation is IFOM.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from IFOM?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from IFOM is "Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)" (Daniel J. Klionsky et al., 2016), with 6,023 citations. Next come "Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Early- and Late-Stage Human Malignancies" (5,211) and "Cellular senescence: when bad things happen to good cells" (4,475).

Question 5

Which research topics does IFOM publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: DNA Repair Mechanisms, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at IFOM?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cancer, Inflammation, Cancer Therapy, Genomic Instability, Stem Cells, Aging, Homologous Recombination and Chromatin.

Question 7

Which fields of science does IFOM work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 54% of research at IFOM is in Life Sciences, 41% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (46%), Medicine (40%), Immunology and Microbiology (5%). It does 3.7× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 8

Is IFOM's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021.