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Illinois CancerCare

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Research works
107
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.9k
27.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Illinois CancerCare

Not ranked overall: Illinois CancerCare is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Illinois CancerCare work in?

In all years, 75% of research at Illinois CancerCare is in Health Sciences, 20% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (70%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Health Professions (5%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 80 fractional works · 75.0% of its workMedicine: 74 fractional works · 69.6% of its workOncology: 16 fractional works · 15.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 13 fractional works · 11.9% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 5.1% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 19.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 14.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workCancer Research: 5 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKIllinoisCancerCare107fractional works, all years
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7469.6%
    2. Health Professions54.7%
    3. Nursing10.6%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1514.4%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology32.8%
    3. Neuroscience21.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.6%
    2. Psychology10.6%
    3. Social Sciences00.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Computer Science10.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    3. Engineering00.4%
    4. Mathematics00.3%
    5. Chemistry00.2%
    6. Environmental Science00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.86× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.31× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.83× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.52× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.18× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.52×13 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology3.31×1 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.18×1 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.86×3 works
  5. Nursing0.97×0 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.83×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.58×0 works
  8. Health Professions0.36×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.17×0 works
  10. Environmental Science0.12×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.11×0 works
  12. Engineering0.07×0 works
  13. Computer Science0.05×0 works
  14. Psychology0.04×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Illinois CancerCare?

Ranked on the quality score, Pankaj Kumar, Sachdev P. Thomas and Jane Jijun Liu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Illinois CancerCare.

  1. 1 Pankaj Kumar United States · #254,324 worldwide 1.4k citations · 109 works
  2. 2 Sachdev P. Thomas United States · #579,508 worldwide 1.9k citations · 213 works
  3. 3 Jane Jijun Liu United States · #662,429 worldwide 1k citations · 43 works
  4. 4 Gregory James Gerstner United States · #848,817 worldwide 666 citations · 60 works
  5. 5 Madhuri Bajaj United States · #928,089 worldwide 2.3k citations · 22 works
  6. 6 DeQuincy Andrew Lewis United States · #1,086,010 worldwide 655 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Paul A. S. Fishkin United States · #1,165,296 worldwide 1.3k citations · 38 works
  8. 8 Francois J. Geoffroy United States · #1,181,890 worldwide 1.8k citations · 23 works
  9. 9 James A. Knost United States · #1,185,537 worldwide 2.3k citations · 63 works
  10. 10 Laura M. Miller United States · #3,115,490 worldwide 766 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Illinois CancerCare

What are the most cited papers from Illinois CancerCare?

The most cited paper from Illinois CancerCare is "Sentinel-lymph-node resection compared with conventional axillary-lymph-node dissection in clinically node-negative patients with breast cancer: overall survival findings from the NSABP B-32 randomised phase 3 trial" (David N. Krag, Stewart Anderson, Thomas B. Julian et al., 2010), with 1,949 citations. Next come "Efficacy of romiplostim in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a double-blind randomised controlled trial" (872) and "Safety and efficacy of denosumab for adults and skeletally mature adolescents with giant cell tumour of bone: interim analysis of an open-label, parallel-group, phase 2 study" (589).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sentinel-lymph-node resection compared with conventional axillary-lymph-node dissection in clinically node-negative patients with breast cancer: overall survival findings from the NSABP B-32 randomised phase 3 trial David N. Krag, Stewart Anderson, Thomas B. Julian et al. · The Lancet Oncology Open access Oct 2010 1,949
2 Efficacy of romiplostim in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a double-blind randomised controlled trial David J. Kuter et al. · The Lancet Feb 2008 872
3 Safety and efficacy of denosumab for adults and skeletally mature adolescents with giant cell tumour of bone: interim analysis of an open-label, parallel-group, phase 2 study Sant P. Chawla, Robert Mikael Henshaw, Leanne L. Seeger et al. · The Lancet Oncology 15 Jul 2013 589
4 First results on survival from a large Phase 3 clinical trial of an autologous dendritic cell vaccine in newly diagnosed glioblastoma Linda M. Liau et al. · Journal of Translational Medicine Open access 25 May 2018 547
5 Role of toll-like receptor signalling in A uptake and clearance Keishiro Tahara, Hong-Duck Kim, Jipeng Jin et al. · Brain Open access 19 Sep 2006 496
All 56 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Illinois CancerCare?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chemotherapy, Clinical Trials, Prognostic Factors, Targeted Therapy, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life, Angiogenesis and Metastasis.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Chemotherapy11▲ 15×23 topics
  2. Quality of Life8▲ 5.5×14 topics
  3. Clinical Trials8▲ 12×13 topics
  4. Prognostic Factors8▲ 16×11 topics
  5. Targeted Therapy8▲ 33×5 topics
  6. Inflammation7▲ 3.0×35 topics
  7. Epidemiology7▲ 1.66×32 topics
  8. Immunotherapy7▲ 10×14 topics
  9. Cancer6▲ 4.0×32 topics
  10. Angiogenesis5▲ 12×10 topics
  11. Metastasis5▲ 13×11 topics
  12. Genomic Profiling5▲ 44×2 topics
  13. Radiotherapy4▲ 11×11 topics
  14. Treatment Guidelines4▲ 19×3 topics
  15. Tumor Microenvironment4▲ 11×7 topics
  16. Breast Cancer4▲ 14×10 topics
  17. Clinical Practice Guidelines4▲ 7.1×10 topics
  18. ALK Inhibitors4▲ 68×1 topic
  19. EGFR Mutations4▲ 68×1 topic
  20. Rituximab4▲ 22×2 topics
  21. Metastatic Breast Cancer4▲ 52×2 topics
  22. PET Imaging4▲ 15×4 topics
  23. Surgical Treatment4▲ 16×6 topics
  24. Cancer Therapy3▲ 4.5×11 topics
  25. Molecular Subtypes3▲ 32×2 topics
  26. Neurotoxicity3▲ 15×2 topics
  27. Rehabilitation3▲ 7.5×3 topics
  28. Urinary Incontinence3▲ 30×2 topics
  29. Cancer Progression3▲ 12×6 topics
  30. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy3▲ 53×1 topic
  31. Extracellular Matrix3▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Taxanes3▲ 53×1 topic
  33. Cetuximab3▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Clinical Guidelines3▲ 8.2×5 topics
  35. Lymphoma3▲ 17×4 topics
  36. Pelvic Floor Dysfunction3▲ 49×1 topic
  37. Pelvic Organ Prolapse3▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Precision Medicine3▲ 8.0×5 topics
  39. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 10×5 topics
  40. Prostate Cancer2▲ 15×4 topics

Which research topics does Illinois CancerCare publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research.

Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 1 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 1 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…0Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 0 fractional worksChronic Lymphocytic Leuk…0Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research: 0 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksLymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksAcute Myeloid Leukemia R…0Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research: 0 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Studies: 0 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy research: 0 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Regulation: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineOncologyGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  2. 2 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  3. 3 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 0 works
  4. 4 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Genetics 0 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  7. 7 Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Hematology 0 works
  8. 8 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 0 works
  9. 9 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 0 works
  10. 10 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 0 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 available34.9%not open65.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.7%domestic only86.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Illinois CancerCare's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% 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 Illinois CancerCare as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000057% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Illinois CancerCare0.000095% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Illinois CancerCare over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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